Hey there, welcome to life noggin!
Welcome to another episode of Dear Blocko!
This is the show where I answer your questions about your world and my world - for instance,
why is Triangle Bob on fire right now?
New Year.
Same Bob.
Anyways, first question up!
Carlin asks: Dear Blocko, can you truly disappear and get “off the grid"?
huh, i hope you're not talking about me specifically!
I bet Triangle Bob is thinking the same thing right now!
The answer is sure!
Some people even claim to have gone off the grid, at least to some extent.
One option is to build a tiny home off the grid, without public power, water, natural
gas, or telephone lines.
By installing solar panels, digging wells and using septic tanks, you can be almost
entirely self-sufficient, although in many places zoning regulations and building codes
can make this quite difficult, if not illegal.
To truly disappear and not be found, you’d have to give up your wifi and geolocation
services and go live in the wilderness somewhere.
Although if that’s too extreme, you could simply use an alter ego to hide from the all-seeing
eyes of the government and the free market.
In the US and many other countries, however, it’s a felony to use false identification.
So some people have created companies as their second identity, hiding their old one in the
process - something you can only do in some states, like Nevada, Wyoming and New Mexico.
Under this fresh identity you could have new bank accounts, phone numbers, mail boxes,
home addresses, and credit cards, although using cash and throw-away phones is probably
still the best way to remain fully anonymous.
I hope you’ve got some gold stashed somewhere too, cause staying off the grid sounds awfully
expensive.
Okay, the next question from Ella J asks: Dear Blocko, what happens when we hold in
a sneeze?
Well, it depends how unlucky you are, and you’d have to be pretty unlucky for something
bad to happen.
Even still, doctors say the safest option is to let your sneeze go.
Otherwise, you’ll be holding in a projection of mucous up to 100 miles or 160 kilometers
per hour - and news flash: that pressurized air has to go somewhere!
While issues almost never arise from suppressing a sneeze, there’s a very slim chance of
serious damage.
In 2018, a young man actually ruptured the back of his throat by closing off a sneeze,
leaving him unable to speak or swallow until the injury healed.
And it could have been much worse!
Experts say suppressing a sneeze can lead to numerous other complications, like trapped
air in the chest, a perforated eardrum or blood vessel, broken ribs, and maybe even
a middle ear infection.
Sure, any of these outcomes is exceedingly rare, but unless you’re in a tight spot,
like a deadly game of hide-and-seek with a pack of robotic hyenas, a tissue or an elbow
seems like the better option.
Just let that sneeze go!
And now it’s time for questions about me and my world!
Sundar asks Dear Blocko - How are you and Circlia doing?
Great actually!
Circlia has moved in to the Blocko House!
So that’s exciting!
We even started a rock band.
Circlia and the Blockheads.
Her voice.
My electric tambourine.
Triangle Bob on the...whatever that instrument is.
I also have something VERY SPECIAL planned soon.
I’m winking but you can’t tell because i have no face.
Second question.
Big Ernie asks Are you ever gonna go on more adventures to
any new places?
Well actually we got wind of a new place called “New Jersey”
We going on a cool adventure soon to visit “the knowledgeable one” I thought that
was me, but legend has it, it’s a giant brain located deep in a cave and contains
some answers to life’s biggest questions!
I’ll keep ya updated!
So do you have any questions about your world and my world!
Let me know if the comment section below and make sure you use the hashtag dear blocko
so i can find it.
I'll be looking for those Q's
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