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From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss
Subject: Re: Musk is having a bad week
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:38:59 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Some absurd concept
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In misc.news.internet.discuss, danny burstein  <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
> In <eli$2408092036@qaz.wtf> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
>> 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 understand the why, buy it's a much different philosophy. (And a plank
previously nailed has small holes in it that are very tempting for the
wee beasties[*].)

Elijah
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[*] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse-56d222ab36e33