"The Book" The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding A Civilization

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TicketDefiant7505@reddit

Here are names and faces of these scary people!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2025/04/04/renegade-publisher-hungry-minds-is-disrupting-the-status-quo-we-want-to-make-magic-artifacts/

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ScoopDogg777@reddit

The Book: The Ultimate Guide to rebuilding a civilisation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Winter-Concert139@reddit

i have received it, will come back later with my thoughts ;-)

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throwthrawtray-00@reddit

yes, it's on page 15, under the section "how to find water"

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it wasn't good beyond the illustrations, like something you would give a kid to read and have fun with, but nothing informational that's not already either common sense or too shallow to be of any use

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TheOldWoman@reddit

thank you

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HatredIncarnated@reddit

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kona_boy@reddit

Goofy pls...

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DarkWolf966@reddit

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chasonreddit@reddit

The problem with all of the books on this subject is that they tend to ignore the incredibly long supply chains and technology chains necessary for even the simplest parts.

Consider something as basic as copper wire. It requires knowledge of geology for ore, smelting and purification. Let's not get into the technology required to extract ductile wire from a hunk of copper. And what are you using for insulation? Plastic? Cloth?

You can't railroad until it's railroading time.

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Fisto66@reddit

did u even read it

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cbrooks97@reddit

Knowledge of farming practices and infectious diseases would be revolutionary, though. "Boil the water before you drink it!"

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Jeffrey-Mortimer@reddit

this they actually did know pretty far back. I think Rome and maybe Egypt got there

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katttsun@reddit

People already knew this though. Waterborne disease break outs occurred when the supply chain necessary for "small fire" broke down.

Just like they did in Sarajevo or Mariupol...

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Helpimabanana@reddit

The way that people are currently lobbying to stop pasteurizing milk before drinking it, which is basically the same as boiling but like not even as high a temperature, suggests that this comment may have aged poorly

Common knowledge doesn’t exist, everything is taught

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katttsun@reddit

Pasteurization isn't boiling. It's a bit more complex than that considering it was patented. That said it also costs money, and if you can save money by not doing it, you can start a nice grift.

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Helpimabanana@reddit

Considering there are patents for colors, it really does not have to be that complicated

But yeah the money things sucks. It’s always the answer and I hate it.

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katttsun@reddit

You can patent anything but patents were a lot more rigorous and serious back in the 1880s. It was basically an AIAA paper. I suspect we'll be seeing polio, listeria, and tuberculosis making comebacks in the 21st century. Truly a legendary time.

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308NegraArroyo@reddit

You do need to know about germs in order to know that boiling water is a good idea. In 1862 Luis Pasteur discovered that heat kills bacteria in liquid. This is what brought about the process of boiling medical instruments. He developed vaccines. This civilization produced goods amenities and the like that if completely lost and all people had was rubble and nature. You stumble upon THIS book. You have CENTURIES of knowledge packed into each thing. Like someone said you cant just have copper wire, but you can salvage copper wire, and if not you have knowledge that copper has an importance in energy conduction. There should be a book like this, but its like a book of all scientific, mathmatic, and philosophical principals. Like everything from Sumerian history to complex number theory and quantum physics discoveries, inventions diagrams something to protect our achievements for future generations books are 😎

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katttsun@reddit

That's not true at all. People have been boiling water for thousands of years and storing potable water in copperware for the antiseptic properties.

That's like saying you need a theory of gravity to fly to the Moon. It's literally backwards. You observe something that works, which is boiling water, and then examine why it works.

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Still_Suggestion1615@reddit

It's been three months but just wanted to make sure you where aware that you do in fact need to know about gravity in order to fly to the moon

You need to be able to factor in the pull of gravity on your rocket while attempting to leave the atmosphere, you need to factor it in again if you attempt to land anything back down on our planet

You also read more than just books, such as the internet; road signs, building signs, etc etc. So I wouldn't put your stock in schools no longer teaching people how to read anytime soon (btw a large part of learning to read/speak/function as a young child starts at home with the parents. If the parents aren't trying, no amount of work at school will undo that)

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katttsun@reddit

Newton's approximations of gravity are adequate to travel to the Moon. They're about as accurate to gravity as miasma theory is to cleanliness and germ theory: stinky smells make you sick actually produces reasonable health outcomes.

"(...) He did this because he found that this chlorinated solution worked best to remove the putrid smell of infected autopsy tissue, and thus perhaps destroyed the causal "poisonous" or contaminating "cadaveric" agent hypothetically being transmitted by this material. (...)"

I. Semmelweis operated on miasmatic theory simply because his institutions did not accept tiny animals live on the skin. It worked well enough for him. Shame Magyars are backwards steppe bumpkins.

Anyway literacy is easily disrupted by a sudden loss or bottleneck of early childhood education because that will affect everything downstream. Most Americans are functionally illiterate in areas like law and medicine anyway and that's with a comprehensive public education for 14-16 years at least.

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308NegraArroyo@reddit

But to know that its actually useful or necessary, idk? Just because we do things, doesnt mean we know things. Miasma theory was wrong, and plague doctors put flowers in their masks because they believed the smell is what caused it. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/plague-doctors-beaked-masks-coronavirus

This did not prevent them from getting sick. If anything the suits all covering quality did more to protect them, then miasma theory ever did. Much like epicycles in the orbit of. An understanding is useless unless it is based on experiment, and observation. Knowledge is useless, silly, and dangerous without understanding.

You do need a theory of gravity in order to know how to fly to the moon. You need to disown aristatilian physics in order to know that you CAN. to just conflate and say it doesnt matter to discover bacteria, and we would all do the same anyway with or without microbiology is inane and unscientific.

You say that you can't create a clean room. But a lot of the time its what you need.

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LazyWerewolf6993@reddit

The problem is that the line of "thinking" you are talking about has lead to things like islam not eating bacon.
Its superstition, nonsense, often used and abused to insane levels such as religious persecution.

Think of it like this: The observation that pigmeat can make you very sick, has ended up with certain governments and religions physically punishing you for eating it depending on the setting and context.

So no. Knowledge without understanding is just a free falling brick that might end up caving in a dozen heads before its finally put in its place where it belongs.

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katttsun@reddit

I know Redditors struggle with science a lot, our education system isn't great, but before the Internet existed you had to actually see something happen before asking why.

The why was never really important. Boiling water makes water safe to drink. This is literally neolithic, and probably what people used fire for, after heat and light and before cooking.

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KileiFedaykin@reddit

Germ theory stood on the shoulders of miasma theory. These are steps in progressive understanding. IE: Science!

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Secure-Airline-3206@reddit

the crazy part to me is that at the time of Luis Pasteur discovering something as simple as applying heat to something to make it safe for consumption, people were drinking mercury and stuff thinking it was helping them. humans are truly stupid without teachers. they say curiosity killed the cat but kids eat tide pods

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Albatrosson@reddit

The way that Ignaz Semmelweis was a laughing stock for telling doctors to wash their hands in the mid 1800s means yes, you do kinda need to know about germs.

They were like: let me teach in the morgue and handle all these dead bodies that almost certainly died from diseases, not wash my hands, go do medicine on my patients, totally not weird how many of my patients are dying-- even the healthy ones, okay back to the dead bodies wheeeeeeeeee.

And he was like: hey, if you just wash your hands so many fewer patients would die

And all the other doctors went: [hiss!!!]

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katttsun@reddit

Incredible claims require incredible evidence lol.

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Albatrosson@reddit

So then... which is it?

Is it obvious that dead bodies stink? Or is handwashing an incredible claim?

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Humble_Pumpkin@reddit

And ruin hundreds if not thousands of years of brewing and vintning? Boo...

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cbrooks97@reddit

lol I don't see people not making alcohol ever.

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Imakehash@reddit

We definitely gotten better at zymurgy since we learned water purification technology

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Demonyx12@reddit

Thanks learned a new word today https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zymurgy

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Okforklift@reddit

Thanks same

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Background_Fan_365@reddit

we will never forget that lol.

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First_Supermarket743@reddit

And ruin hundreds of thousands of years of building up a tolerance to such things

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Jeffrey-Mortimer@reddit

so well said brother

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subnautica_guy2@reddit

I would like to preface this by saying I am not a survival expert but in the book (yes I bought the book) it says how to mine for ores pg 112 “to find ores, take your pickaxe and canary And go down, down we go” (picture specifies how to build a quarry, large scale quarry drills on separate page) wire making is on 197 “ To make wires, you can use section-shaped rollers similar in design to a rolling mill. Roll out a copper bar and pull it to make a long copper wire - the work horse in the field of electricity. Thin wires can be twisted and joined by a common insulation into a thick but flexible sturdy wire.” for insulation boil in paraffin or paper tape soaked in gum (explained further on page 200) so to answer your question, yes it does teach you to make copper wire and while yes, everything I’ve said is a long trail of clues to make a wire, isn’t that just what life is?

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Yuki_the_Darkness@reddit

How is the medicine Part of it? Its the only reason why i would get it, i Love Infos and medicine

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

First 25% of the book, will have 100% shortly: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DlkW6utRnZ1gdk6HeohvpFcawRP2uicV/view?usp=drivesdk

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Zefrem23@reddit

Did you ever get the 100% version completed?

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

Yes

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Zefrem23@reddit

May I see it?

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

I have dm'd you

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Zefrem23@reddit

I'm sorry, I didn't receive any DM from you :(

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14uGECJpx8jRZjYbSSqgnHK4gFqoOiwYN/view?usp=drivesdk

Make sure to buy a physical copy when you can to support the creators

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Zefrem23@reddit

Thank you :)

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

No problem

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

Dm me and you should see itbt

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khellyshan@reddit

mind sharing the complete one too?

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Aurorabig@reddit

I didn't get it yet, but I did see on one of the commercials they have instructions to make penicillin, not sure about the rest

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Chevyiam@reddit

How is the actual quality of the book itself though?

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Justicevk@reddit

The book is eye candy. Artistically yummy. If you don't build anything from this book you at least have seen some amazing illustrations.

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rdgarlic@reddit

Never in your life should you ever say "artistically yummy" in reference to a complete scam, or really anything at all

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Dramatic-Initial8344@reddit

What scam is this..?

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tom_kington@reddit

£100 for a 400 page book, I guess

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Late_Succotash7549@reddit

What's the tea? You guys beefing? Because why did u come at them so hard ? Something ain't sitting right with me

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Demonyx12@reddit

Not sure if it s a numbered internet rule but there will always be haters for anything, always. Don't matter how good something is.

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Chevyiam@reddit

I'm assuming it's constructed will and doesn't feel.. cheap?

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BulletsOfCheese@reddit

Highest quality book I ever saw

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BigImpressive8896@reddit

Can you share what is on the contents page of possible?;

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CommunismDoesntWork@reddit

Does the book contain basic math?

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UpperPriestLake@reddit

That was the premise of the 1963 Twilight Zone episode “Of Late I Think of Cliffordville” Literally a wealthy oil tycoon goes back in time to make a killing scooping up cheap land where oil is at ..only to discover after the purchase is concluded that everyone knows there’s oil in the farmlands he acquired, there’s just no such technology that can access it..

This really is summed up by the TED Talk that “no one can build a basic graphite pencil from scratch.” It takes a multitude of highly specialized people trading their international knowledge, skills, and resources to make even the most basic of everyday items. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/118nj0/no_one_on_the_planet_knows_how_to_build_a/

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idrinkmilkbruh@reddit

This would be true except for a minor problem. There is no universe where the earth gets completely sent back to the stone age AND you survive. Realistically, you could scavenge for 90% of the things you learn in that book. The other 10% (renewables such as produce) you can learn to make. The book WILL prepare you by visually showing you what you can do with enough time.

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Dramatic_Current1196@reddit

If there is ever a powerful enough solar flare or electro magnetic field (natural or man-made), it can quite easily send us to the stone age, with all of us surviving.
Every person who owns a book such as this, in the hands of laymen (not necessarily THIS book), means there is one less tyranical overlord trying to take over the world with their written knowledge.

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Secure-Airline-3206@reddit

i think you are just narrow minded. there are ancient texts that have been discovered and deciphered that show processes for creating materials that were lost to time. everything from concrete that sets solid while submerged underwater to farming practices that keep the land fertile far longer than our current practices.

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Raenoke@reddit

My Factorio experience coming in clutch fr

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MrGamerBoy_@reddit

Anyone have a free PDF of this book?

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throwthrawtray-00@reddit

*cough cough*

https://download.books.ms/main/4464000/5f3c002ba80535c540b655aca1a060b1/Hungry%20Minds%20-%20The%20Book.%20The%20Ultimate%20Guide%20to%20Rebuilding%20a%20Civilization-BAD%20IDEA%20COMPANY%20LTD%20%282022%29.pdf

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Apprehensive-Air6380@reddit

I have 25% of the book as a pdf and will get 100% in the coming days. It's not the best, it's just pictures of each page, but it's about the best we can get regarding a pdf. I will link it in about an hour.

Dm me if you want it

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DifficultyNo3655@reddit

Can you please dm the pdf

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TimeRulers@reddit

You got the link?

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MissMamaMam@reddit

Hi, is this still available?

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Apprehensive-Air6380@reddit

Yes it is

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SZV-Mt2Vgfw0Lro7VKcWmZwePEirLix6/view?usp=drive_link

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ydo-i-dothis@reddit

I'm still gonna buy a physical copy but this is great

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

Good man

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Bubbles-bum@reddit

Thank you oml 🥲❤

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individual0@reddit (OP)

https://howtorebuildcivilization.com/products/the-book?variant=43738853081380

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MrGamerBoy_@reddit

I mentioned the word "free"

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JudgeFar2915@reddit

Its harder than founding one piece bro

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individual0@reddit (OP)

Why would they give their hard work away for free?

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MrGamerBoy_@reddit

I was reffering to pirated content

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VoraciousQueef@reddit

Sorry, my bad that you can’t exploit someone for their hard work! The fact bro was being snarky about it too😂😂

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whatifitried@reddit

Hope you failed!

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Im_not_da_guy@reddit

Yea some ppl don’t understand how the other side operates

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Adventurous-Leg-216@reddit

Yarrrrr

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No-Researcher7309@reddit

Can't find it anywhere

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EliasArcher@reddit

Bro you seriously thought he meant THEM giving it for free? Cmon now 🥴

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Grouchy-Drawer3212@reddit

yarrr cuz we are poor

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WarWolfRage@reddit

Warning! This is a scam owned and operated by shady Russian businessmen. They're pretending to be a small British startup, using virtual offices and a CEO for hire to register their LLC. They also used an award-winning writer's name and his credentials without his consent to raise $3.2M in crowdfunding.

It's nothing more than a compilation of basic information on random subjects with nice drawings made by board game artists.

The whole thing is run by 3 CEOs of a Russian Escape Room franchise named Claustrophobia, which has 142 locations in 6 countries. Their names are Bogdan Kravtsov, and Sergey Kuznetsov.

They teamed up with a board game publishing company Timur Kadyrov also co-founded to produce the artwork and a Chinese company to print the books. The rest of the "Team" is full of shady Russian businessmen.

Stay far away from this brand!

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Wonderful-Ad2587@reddit

But they don't accept applicants residing in Russia

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WarWolfRage@reddit

It's complicated, but essentially, they're pretending to be a British company by using Virtual Offices and they're paying a British "CEO for hire" to sign his name on all the paperwork.

I did hours of research about this company and I read dozens of bureaucratic paperwork to find who was actually running this company.

If i had to summarize my hours of research into one sentence, it would be: "This company is unbelievably shady, nobody should give them money and they definitely should be investigated by His Majesty's Revenue and Customs." (That's the British equivalent of the IRS)

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qwertyy--@reddit

all your comments scream ''Trust me bro''

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WarWolfRage@reddit

And your account screams "im a bot". Biggest question is who asked you?

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qwertyy--@reddit

because i dont use Reddit bruh 😭 better go back to your conspiracy theories about russians rather then looking at my account. Jesus you have free time

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P47r1ck-@reddit

Found Kuznetovs alt account

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qwertyy--@reddit

who the fuck is kuznetov

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P47r1ck-@reddit

So you didn’t even read the whole thread you’re responding to

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qwertyy--@reddit

i did. 1 month ago :D

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Zefrem23@reddit

Please cite your sources so the curious and interested can follow up.

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WarWolfRage@reddit

There's too many, i went through permits, tax records, LinkedIns and dozens of British and Russian legal documents and business websites. I even had to use several different browsers to find all the info. I literally spent 24h straight researching this extremely shady company.

You don't have to believe me, but please hear my warning and don waste your money on these garbage books.

I can't link it for legal reasons, but I found a free PDF of the entire book that was sent to paid journalists so they could write a positive review of the book. I can't send you the link because it would technically be piracy and im not looking to get banned or sued. I can, however, tell you that besides a couple nice drawings, the book contains zero useful information. It's basically a bunch of one paragraph summaries of the Wikipedia articles of very basic things like flintlock pistols, steam engines, lighbulbs and a bunch of other stuff that has no real world use, its just a low effort childrens book sold at ridiculous prices.

Unless you're under 7 years old, these garbage books have nothing to give you. Even then, it's gotta be a very dumb 7 yo, everything that's in the book I had already learned about in more details back in elementary school.

You don't need a book that has an entire page dedicated to explaining why hot hair balloons fly, when it can just be summarized in 4 words : Hot Air Go Up

If the price was lower, and the company wasn't so shady, maybe i would recommend it for kids who are learning to read, but as it is, you can get way better for way cheaper.

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P47r1ck-@reddit

I’m glad I found this. I saw an add for it and when I saw the pictures inside (kind of look like some of them might be all or partly AI generated) combined with the tiny paragraphs I immediately thought wow what a piece of shit. Kind of was disappointed a YouTuber I like was advertising for them.

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Perfect_Opposite2113@reddit

Nope. I’ll get it if I want commie!

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WarWolfRage@reddit

Lmao, nice burn! What are you, 40? Nobody under 45 years old would defend a scam this much. Bet you've been had before.

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Apprehensive-Air6380@reddit

Dm me

Should hopefully have a pdf copy by Feb 1st 2025

Will not be a perfect clean copy but will do the job.

Hi All, my brother will have a copy of this book soon. And at around February 1st 2025 I plan on using Google drive to scan each page of the book and turning it into a pdf. Dm me any time, and once the 1st of February 2025 hits, I will try to make sure I have a pdf copy of this book, which I will send to anyone completely for free

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adaptatio@reddit

hello

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InternalDragonfly413@reddit

Can I have it please 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Broken_Eldritch@reddit

Has anyone found a free pdf?

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WorldlinessBusy5711@reddit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SZV-Mt2Vgfw0Lro7VKcWmZwePEirLix6/view?usp=drive_link

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EmyWrath@reddit

Can you send me please

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DifficultyNo3655@reddit

Can you please send me the book

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Osher369@reddit

Not for this particular book but I found a PDF for a book called “The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch” — https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/War%20%26%20military/Lewis%20Dartnell%20-%20The%20Knowledge_%20How%20to%20Rebuild%20our%20World%20from%20Scratch-Penguin%20%282014%29.epub

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PatientIntention2876@reddit

This is one of the biggest flop jokes on the internet. It literally has NOTHING to do with rebuilding civilization and this company is just printing painting bs for 12 year olds.

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Snoo48605@reddit

It also looks AI generated... Why isn't anyone pointing this out??

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Mr-Woodtastic@reddit

It doesn't look AI generated though...

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InkJetPrinters@reddit

I have the book and the illustrations do look AI generated. Quite often they are overdone or irrelevant to thr subject (for example om page 15 with a giant serpent monster in the bottom of the well).

It takes the seriousness out of the book and kind of ruins it for me. The illustrations are also messy and cluttered, and don't actually provide any value in terms of guiding.

That said, the fact that the illustrators are listed and AI wasn't that good when it was published, there's no argument that it's hand drawn.

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P47r1ck-@reddit

Illustrators hired on the project are definitely capable of using AI and turning it in as their own art. Or even more hard to detect would be if they use some AI parts in their whole picture where some is drawn and some is AI And they put it all together

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Dear-Hovercraft5163@reddit

because it isn't.... you can literally see the list of illustrators who worked on this, and AI wasn't that good when the book was being made, even now it's not good enough to do this kind of job without making some mistakes

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InkJetPrinters@reddit

Messy drawings like this is why people think it's AI

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DryLand404@reddit

recommend - engineers handbook . Even the really old ones from the 1900's are packed with more information than this.
https://www.google.com/search?q=engineers+handbook+.pdf

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dark_coder112@reddit

who is the author?

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DryLand404@reddit

irrelevant

try this one .. should come in handy when needed
https://books.google.com.vc/books?id=Y-trH-MUxgMC&pg=PA172&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

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dark_coder112@reddit

oh ,i didnt expect anyone to respond , thanks a lot checking it out right now

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DryLand404@reddit

https://ia800707.us.archive.org/32/items/DubbelHandbookOfMechanicalEngineeringByWolfgangBeitzAndKarlHeinzKuttner/Dubbel%20Handbook%20of%20Mechanical%20Engineering%20By%20Wolfgang%20Beitz%20and%20Karl%20Heinz%20Kuttner.pdf

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DryLand404@reddit

https://archive.org/details/handbookforelect00penduoft/page/1884/mode/2up

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SirenofShadow@reddit

Or a crazy person lol

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FTvalentine@reddit

I know this is old thread, but I went ahead and bought the book and got it in with the gift box and a separate package with censored material and is the quest edition. My question is is that still a first edition or is it not as good as a first edition, etc.

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Sanguine_Templar@reddit

It's being advertised all over reddit right now, if it wasn't $119 I would consider it out of curiosity, but fuck that price tag.

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Billyisagoat@reddit

It's a coffee table book, if that's what you're into. It has no real usable information at all, and it weighs over 5 pounds. I recommend you give it a pass.

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simc-@reddit

I know that book since couple yrs ago and it was like 50-60Eur then (a bit too much for me at that moment) so I saved it for later... Last week I decided to finally get a copy... and it's f*n 120Eur now... I guess I'll save it for later again lol

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Pristine_Juice@reddit

I think Lewis Dartnell would like a word.

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FaithlessnessDry2731@reddit

I have been trying to find out if he has any connection to this at all or if it is some kind of rip off of his book. If he was credited in some way I would understand the idea of making a more image focused version of the book, but for the 130 dollar price point, i’ll just take the 15 dollar paperback 😂

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BlackBloke@reddit

He’s involved:
https://howtorebuildcivilization.com/pages/team

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CulturalImperialist@reddit

I also clicked to recommend The Knowledge.

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Falling2311@reddit

Their website has him as a scientific and tech expert

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Old-Oil422@reddit

Has anyone considered the irony of trying to rebuild a civilization when you've already just witnessed it collapsing and now have definitive proof that it's not a viable long-term mode of existence?

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Colossal_Penis_Haver@reddit

Capitalism is the unsustainable part, that is, how the technology is used, not the technology itself

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ViG701@reddit

I would not blame capitalism, I would blame corporations. If you have a limited supply of something it is worth more, that makes sense. But corporations require you to make things cheaper and sell more each quarter to make more profits, then repeat. They are not happy with making a good product or one that would last 10 or 100 years. They want cheap products that break and have to be bought again. The root of all evil in the world are corporations.

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Dangerous-History209@reddit

Commerce and capitalism aren't the same thing. The evil you're describing is capitalism

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kona_boy@reddit

Jfc "it's not capitalism, it's this thing I've just described that is exactly the same as it"

You're so close, so so close to getting it.

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Great-Hotel-7820@reddit

You literally described capitalism. That is what unregulated capitalism will always result in.

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Colossal_Penis_Haver@reddit

Nah, it's capitalism

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Intelligent_Salary35@reddit

I think it’s hilarious how so many people on here and in the Amazon reviews are taking this book so literally. It’s obviously supposed to be a fun coffee table book and not an actual blueprint for rebuilding civilization. It’s so your guests can casually flip through it for a couple of minutes and be like, “Wow, what a pretty book. That’s cool”.

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Perfect_Opposite2113@reddit

A friend of mine sent me a screenshot of a facebook post of someone calling people that read this book of low intelligence. I have it. It’s a fun book. Of course if I wanted to get more in depth with any of the processes described I’d get other information sources. People are weird.

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AnTiN00X@reddit

Fucking Dr. Stone shows you how to do that shit in better Detail.. lol

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Bureaucracyblows@reddit

its a book much more focused on the hand drawn illustrations than the actual content, which I honestly like. If i wanted actual info on how to do all this stuff I would buy a couple of standalone books on diff subjects and a 2tb ssd with videos and docs that could be accessed with a low power terminal and a solar bank. Its a coffee table book.

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AnTiN00X@reddit

Uff, thanks for elaborating what I basically already said: The book doesn't go into the details.

(Although they try to distribute it as if it does.)

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ImNotTheFather@reddit

I hate stepping into someone's comments to defend something but, you posted your opinion. The responder didn't elobrate on your original comment. He mentions that it gives more illustrations than descriptive detail, which the liked. The they go onto mention how they would purchase specific books on a topic and want a ssd with videos and documents.

What they don't do is elobrate on anything in your original comment. All they did was give their opinion. I don't see any mention of them saying Dr. Stone does it better. I wish they did elobrate on that. Because I and 90% on this thread don't know who that is. Are we talking about the Japanese Manga? If so, that's a TV Show. There is a thing called "TV magic" where time and processes are altered.

I'd take a 100 people that read the book with illustrations and brief descriptions than a 1000 who watched an animated TV show. So many other real life shows you could of mentioned. Yawn

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Freezekiel@reddit

I'd suggest giving Dr stone a shot. Yeah they mitigate time for entertainment purposes but the knowledge is true

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Mr-Woodtastic@reddit

There is salt to be taken with Dr stone though most of the time he is making stuff with very inefficient designs but they look cool, but his electric generator wouldn't be good at all, not to mention there isn't much in the ways of actually useful stuff like soap or basic antibiotics or even fiber crafts

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StandardSudden1283@reddit

I dig the write up, but to tack on "could of" at the end just kills it for me

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Archaic_1@reddit

'you told people from the Middle Ages or Ancient Egypt about a telephone, a car, or electricity, they would take you for a deity or a superhero'

Um, no - actually they would have burned you at the stake.

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MeWhenThe9999@reddit

No, you are oversimplifying the behaviour of people from the past. The reaction would have varied from person to person.

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Archaic_1@reddit

True, some of them would have preferred stoning

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MeWhenThe9999@reddit

Bro thinks everyone before the french revolution was an ape 💀

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Archaic_1@reddit

Your choice of a historical event in which 20,000 people were beheaded for "counter-revolutionary behavior" is a peculiar flex.

This happened last week:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/haiti-massacre-cite-soleil-port-au-prince-gang-violence-un-death-toll/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h

I know what I said.

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MrSprichler@reddit

Right lol. The reason we are seeing leaps and bounds now is because we realized science is beneficial. Remember when someone said "hey what if the earth went around the sun?" Then the church said "Hey what if we set you on fire"

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Heuristics@reddit

that was Copernicus and he did just fine

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AbleCryptographer6@reddit

People down voting @MrSprichler don't know Galileo was imprisoned until his death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

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grim-444@reddit

I'm glad the one and only anecdote anyone ever mentions is proof enough that apparently in the past science was shunned and nobody wanted it. Usually making an extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence. Not just one event from one point in time.

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Kiorri@reddit

So, while I can get behind the spirit of what you're saying, we have an entire section of European History we call the Dark Ages to point to, the Galileo one is just one people point to because it's funny. Several centuries worth of evidence :)

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StandardRazzmatazz28@reddit

Anyone have a free pdf for this book ?

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NoBackupCodes@reddit

Does it teach how to manage the politics? To do a lot of stuff you need manpower. In the olden days that was done by religion and slavery. So I'm asking does it tell you how to make a cult and gain followers and also the aspects of managing slaves ? If I'm going to travel back in time and build me a pyramid I'm going to need those things.

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kona_boy@reddit

Ah yes, the only forms of social and communal cooperation - slaves and religion.

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essbeenz@reddit

the Youtube adverts for this are shockingly bad. I mean, meant to be real world experience of people opening the package and they are just sooooo cringeworthy

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Souurrpuss06@reddit

Oh gosh, I'm dyslexic. I sat confused for a moment about why this sub has been named "peppers," so I clicked on the sub and read the nice description. Looking back at the name, I finally realize . Ohhh, "preppers" Iol

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chromebaloney@reddit

Hehee. I was looking for salsa recipes, searched for salsa and went straight to r/salsa. Which is all salsa dancing, all the time!

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Huge_Temperature8547@reddit

Read a few comments and realized that nobody is asking the question I'm thinking. Those with power often abuse it. Those with certain knowledge do the same. What's to say that a group isn't controlling such knowledge as to constantly control events in the world. So here's the crazy conspiracy theory: who's to say that aliens aren't us from the future influencing mankind to an already known end...or aliens from a neighboring solar system are visiting us to guide us on our multiple restarts of human civilization. I'd never post this on Instagram or Twitter. Theories start from any thoughts. The point is to put it to the test and theoretically prove it as fact or fiction. No matter how unrealistic it may seem.

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chromebaloney@reddit

Wait. Is MY universe a teenyverse?!

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All-knowing-Alfathr@reddit

I’ll bite. Here’s my theory: the universe is a hologram, but only because every single person that exists, has existed, or will exist are all just: you. The universe is nothing more than the first breath of an idea, playing its grand orchestra as it coalesces into whatever it truly is.

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Blizz33@reddit

Rebuilding civilization one honourable suicide at a time.

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Abject_Requirement71@reddit

Selling this book brand new at https://www.ebay.ie/itm/394630674173 if anyone is interested