How to make fire
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How to get rid of hiccoughs. No one knows this trick! All you need to do is hold the flaps of your ears closed and drink a little water. It works every time!
This can't be true, as the real method is to plug your nose, look at the ceiling and drink out of the left side of a cup.
Another one is a small spoonful of peanut butter. π€·ββοΈ
Please spell it as hiccup. The spelling hiccough gives me a headache.
Never!
A book on the ethics of care
Honestly though, it doesn't matter. We had religions based on ethical treatment of people along with a bunch of other recommendations to keep the population safe. Things like don't eat meats that were more likely to get people sick. Yet all of those books created cult like following, like any good media, a cult pops up around it. A lot of the time that cult perverses and changes the message of the media to fit what they want.
A good example of this is... Bluey, have you seen this show? A lot of people think it's an example of the perfect parents with normal kids but really it's not at all like that. The kids are unrealistic most of the time. The challenges the parents face are mundane compared to real life. It's just a media that points you in the general direction but doesn't answer any of the real challenges of parenting. You ever talk to the cultists on /r/bluey, you can tell they miss the point of the show entirely yet will completely make up their own points to each episode and set by them.
Is there a book called "Living off the Land for Dummies"?
I would write an overview of extended mind theory, an introduction to human cumulative culture, knowledge engineering and TRIZ.
The history of human civilization is riddled with challenging problems, solving which takes more than multiple human lifespans worth of effort. Having a good learning resource about the most advanced methods and tools for navigating these problems would be a huge help, I think.
It's hard to choose "one piece" of knowledge, so I would try to persuade whoever is writing the book to include the time traveler's cheat sheet. https://i.imgur.com/O6vSrvq.jpg
I didn't make it, but includes a lot of information that didn't have an intuitive path to discovery, but a lot of practical benefits for humanity. If I were to add to it I would try to include at least descriptions of a few other things:
- batteries
- engines
- simple computers (although this may be more involved than the earlier parts combined, so perhaps just simple logic gate diagrams)
- genes
- a guttenberg press
- lenscrafting
- a world map
- calculus
- special and general relativity (also complicated certainly, but could be useful later)
- and basically as many physics equations as I can think of
Iβd put the National Electrical Code out there. It doesnβt tell you how to do everything with electricity, like generating it, but it does give a lot of details of how to wire things safely.
I'd explain LGBTQIA issues, personal and community acceptance of those born different.
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Paper making and double entry accounting
A constructed language, or method of language, that balances minimalism with maximum effectiveness.
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Explain the concept of a train and tram.
The bible.
I want to watch the world burn again. Humanity doesn't deserve a second chance.
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