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zod wrote

How to use a sewing machine. How many of us throw out our clothes when they get a little tear in them? It's so wasteful.

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dele_ted wrote

Generally, a lot of things can be fixed pretty easily with just a little bit of knowledge and some common sense.

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ziq wrote

Growing food. If you can't do that, you're at the whims of capitalists for basic nourishment.

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TheLegendaryBirdMonster wrote

scientific method

consensus decision making such as the seven thinking hats technique

learning: critical thinking, gathering relevant/true information from the web

bash scripts, vim, latex and python: makes computing efficient

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rosalique wrote

How to hold a conversation.

Negotiation.

First aid.

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not_AFX_lol wrote

The ability to use a computer, although I imagine most of you have that already.

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Cosmicsloth42 wrote

How to preform general maintenance on your car. It will save you a ton of time and keep you safe from the predatory vultures called mechanics.

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hotcool wrote

Emotional regulation.

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Tequila_Wolf wrote

Can you elaborate on this?

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hotcool wrote

Sure. It means not taking things personally. It's being able to control your emotions and not have your emotions control you. Meditation really helps in this regard.

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ziq wrote

I could use some a lot of that.

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pavlichenko wrote

  1. How to build a shelter
  2. How to grow food
  3. How to cook / prepare food
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anevilsjw wrote

Having plans for worst-case possibilities.

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NEOalquimista wrote

To operate a single engine airplane. You never know...

FlightGear is a free and open source flight simulator. There are countless pages on the net about the first steps, which are flying straight and level and reading the instruments; and the more complicated stuff, which is navigation (VOR, VOR-DME, ILS approaches and so on.)

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anevilsjw wrote

Having plans for worst-case possibilities.

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