Re: Musk is having a bad week

In misc.news.internet.discuss, JAB  <here@is.invalid> wrote:

Musk needs a year long retreat in "Thoreau's cabin on Walden Pond" to
reflect upon this/that.

Thoreau bought a house (but not the underlying property), borrowed some
tools, disassembled the house and then used the materials to build his
cabin on Waldin Pond. He was reusing *nails* even. Musk has no fucking
clue how to be that resourceful.

Search for "James Collins":
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/205/pg205-images.html

Table of costs:

    I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house, ten feet wide by
    fifteen long, and eight-feet posts, with a garret and a closet, a
    large window on each side, two trap doors, one door at the end, and
    a brick fireplace opposite. The exact cost of my house, paying the
    usual price for such materials as I used, but not counting the work,
    all of which was done by myself, was as follows; and I give the
    details because very few are able to tell exactly what their houses
    cost, and fewer still, if any, the separate cost of the various
    materials which compose them:—

    Boards.......................... $ 8.03½, mostly shanty boards.
    Refuse shingles for roof sides,..  4.00
    Laths,...........................  1.25
    Two second-hand windows
       with glass,...................  2.43
    One thousand old brick,..........  4.00
    Two casks of lime,...............  2.40  That was high.
    Hair,............................  0.31  More than I needed.
    Mantle-tree iron,................  0.15
    Nails,...........................  3.90
    Hinges and screws,...............  0.14
    Latch,...........................  0.10
    Chalk,...........................  0.01
    Transportation,..................  1.40  I carried a good part
                                       ————  on my back.
        In all,..................... $28.12½

Elijah
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ten by fifteen isn't enough space to park a Cybertruck (size 8' x 18')