Re: Musk is having a bad week

On 10 Aug 2024 01:52:23 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> writes:
 

In <eli$2408092036@qaz.wtf> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
writes:
 
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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.

 
Nails were _high value_ back then, so reusing them was quite common.

 
I've heard it said that some "forty-niners" in rural New England burned
their houses to retrieve the nails before leaving for California and the
promised gold.

Nails back then were not those mass produced things we have nowadays, they
were all hand-wrought by blacksmiths. Only with the introduction of wire
nails in the 1860s did that slowly change. Nails used to be an investment
into the future.