a friend of mine was talking about how things are going to collapse as if there will be some flash point where everything just burns down. And i told them no that's not going to be the case. Things will just continue to get worse. They told me that's a bleak perspective.
there will be some flash point where everything just burns down
Many people live in treatworld, so they get all their notions of history and politics from entertainment
I get the sentiment. Feels like ripping the bandaid off would be better at times.
They're ironically right because their definition is just infantile day draming while your prophesizing is actually realistic.
as if there will be some flash point where everything just burns down
"everything burns down" is a bit hyperbolic, but national supply chains will either get fixed/replaced in a matter of days/weeks, or they didn't really matter, or they'll start to fall like dominos and then suddenly if it doesn't exist within 25 miles of your home you better accept it or packup and move.
things get bad really fast or really slow
heh, yeah, only ONE of those is bleak lol
This reminds me of a former coworker. Our workplace had optional earthquake preparedness kit inspection, where you get a gift card or something for showing earthquake prep supplies (it was discontinued before I worked there) . The first year, this coworker had a serious set of supplies, canned food, water, etc. But the following years he started presenting fake supplies as a joke, the first year it was several bottles of vodka and wine, saying that "after society collapsed, we would be back to bartering and alcohol should be a shelf-stable, portable form of value". And this eventually worked up to the last year of the program where he just had a handful of rubber bands, paper clips, and a picture of MacGyver.
He just had a handful of rubber bands, paper clips, and a picture of MacGyver.
That sounds like the perfect opening to a dystopia comedy.
potatoes. have a billion potatoes. its how my family got through ww2 in the middle of nowhere. infinite potatoes. become obsessed with potatoes. dream of potatoes. have 50 buckets of potatoes growing at any given time. collect rainwater and become so obsessed/PTSD-d with it that you need every container you have filled with water in every room for the rest of your life. showering? baths? toilets? cleanliness? nah forget it, thats some place you could be storing water.
oh and IEDs. have a lot of those. put them near a nazi base and fuck off to your gremlin hideout in the mountains
msn, like many of the mainstream trad publishers, are really into spamming content sludge articles as they die.
Yeah, MSN pushes out the types of articles that you see in the spam section of the Weather Channel ads. Shit like, an unflattering picture of an old celebrity and it says, "You won't BELIEVE what Jennifer Coolidge Looks like now!"
Let's be real. The ones surviving won't be the upper crust who have never stepped outside their sheltered bubble.
Yeah because I'll have hoarded concrete to pour into the air ducts of their billion dollar doomsday bunkers.
I love telling the pepper weirdos that my plan for the apocalypse is to make a list of local people hoarding items, get 10 of my friends together and kilm them and have enough supplies and ammo for all of us.
Nothing pisses off chud gun owners more then telling them having 50 guns is pointless for self defense because you can only physically use one of them at a time. Then when they start tlaking about how they'll have them all pre loaded just genuinely ask them if they think they're smart enough to keep track of them during game time.
I fucking love looking at prepper stuff once in a while. I'd been considering making a small emergency kit/go bag for actual climate disasters that could occur (such as major weather event knocking power out for weeks at a time, which did occur recently), and fucking everywhere has people playing up LARP fantasies about going out to camp in the middle of the woods at the first sign of trouble, only wearing nondescript grey clothing so you can blend into the crowd, and not an ounce of useful advice
The only bit of useful advice I ever saw for disaster survival was to buy a silcock key to access potable water from buildings, and it came from an old homeless dude on a forum. Fuck these LARPers with their hundred ARs and buried stashes
Yea you're way better off just watching bushcraft or camping videos.
The biggest difference is they actually regularly use the techniques and equipment as opposed to the peppers who are just adult loot craters showing off their shiny new toys TALKING about all the stuff they could do with it.
I am going with bottle caps, it's statistically likely that some wretched basement dwelling g*mers will survive the bottleneck and it'd be very funny to watch them soyface as they trade away their beans for 10 years worth of High-life caps.
I would let my trade deals wait until fire has stopped raining from the sky. No matter how valuable my hoarded sticks of butter will be people in that picture will be too busy dealing with a vengeful God.
Alright here's my list:
Cigarettes x90
unironically feel like that was written by a bot. i checked because it seemed like an april fool's premise but it isn't funny, plus the list is intensely generic & foolish
Doesn't take specialized knowledge to figure out valuable things. But it does unfortunately seem take some actual intelligence to understand that you want things you can distribute to your neighbors and community to help it become self sustaining.
Tomato seeds, potatoes, 🅱️eans, other seeds, salt, yeast. A spool of narrow gauge copper pipe...
