It was a joke but thanks for the very detailed answer which I wholeheartedly agree with.

Closed source systems suck, they just allow for vulnerabilities to go unchecked. I’m a big proponent for open source solutions.

Otoh physical items with loads of people involved are indeed harder to tamper with. A viable electronic solution should imho still include those people and physical trails as a backup.

Never fully trust a treacherous computer :p

stuffs ballot box

iirc we are empathetic but we have a hard time figuring out what we’re feeling.

So credit goes to Ryan North then.

Thanks for the info, I might even get the book \o

lmao this is gold.

No way in hell.

Good content deserves credit.

Who’s that Luigi Mangione?

Have you heard about my best pal Louis Bigeater?

This is awesome, thanks for putting in the effort!

Quick edit: do I credit you as /u/klear or do you prefer another handle?

Copper is very ductile and has a low melting point. Making a crude wire isn’t that hard. Oiled fabric is good enough to insulate it.

Finding a permanent magnet would be hard but you don’t need one. A simple salt/acid battery is enough to make a temporary one and use it as your generator’s rotor.

Depending on what metals you have at hand, a lead/acid battery is quite easy to make. It would require some light chemistry skills to make an acid that’s strong enough though. My best bet would be concentrating ethanoic acid.

Your battery only needs to act as an exciter. Once the generator is running you can use some of the current it produces to keep the rotor excited.

Once you got your generator assembled you can just hook it up on a water mill which the greeks knew about. You could maybe even fiddle around using late ancient Greek knowledge about steam engines (see aeolipile) and make yourself a very simple steam turbine.

With a bit of metallurgy know how you can make a DC generator like the ones used in the late 19th and early 20th century. All the materials you would need have been available since antiquity.

An AC generator would be a tad harder to make but not by a huge margin.

It wouldn’t be efficient at all but imho it would be a good PoC and you could then pool up some knowledge and brain power from people around you.

The hardest part might be convincing folks around you that it’s actually more than a party trick.

I currently have three practical ideas that are quite easy to set up:

• lighting with a simple air filled carbon filament light bulb.
• metallurgy with an induction heater.
• fumeless heating with a crude convection heater although this one might be more of a stretch.

edit: I wrote this without consulting any external ressources as it would be cheating.

I agree that xenophobia and racism are different albeit related concepts. And I appreciate you reminding me of it. I’m not sure it makes a real difference for the conversation at hand.

After your first paragraph you’re just ranting about stuff I didn’t say or intend to imply.

You might have gotten your replies mixed because I’m the OP that shared the joke xD

Well afaik the last in date were your country :p

Imho discriminating against a nationality is still racism. e.g. WW2 anti-japanese racism in the US.

Russia has a very colonial attitude toward its non slavic citizens.

I really don’t see what’s racist about Russia in that joke. If someone’s the butt of that joke it’s the Polish who’s willing to hurt themselve just to get back at Russia.

And there are loads of Polish jokes about Germans.

“An unlucky position” that’s putting it mildly.

It’s more of a Polish grudge funny though.

Poland has a bit of a history with Russia too.

It reminds me of an old Polish joke:

A Pole finds a magic lamp, strokes it, and a genie comes out.

“I will grant you three wishes. They can be anything your heart desire.”

"I wish for the Mongols to invade Poland!’

“Ok? It is done”

The Mongol hordes sweep through Poland, ransack the country, then go back the way they came.

“I am ready for my second wish. I want the Mongols to invade Poland again!”

“Are you sure? I can give you anything your heart wishes.”

“Yes. I am sure”

The Mongols come again, do some more pillaging, and return home.

“And now for my third wish. I want the Mongol hordes to invade Poland a third time.”

“Are you really sure?”

“Yes.”

“Okay. Before I grant you your wish, would you mind explaining me why you would want that not once but thrice?”

“It’s very simple: Whenever the Mongols come to Poland they have to cross Russia twice!”

So if lower frequencies are dominant through bone they should make your voice sound deeper to you, not higher pitched.

Did you mean to say higher frequencies?