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Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by nubianwarrior »

achenatx wrote: post #39
MS90 wrote: post #33

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There's also the fact that there's only about six inches of dirt here, dig any deeper than that and you hit solid limestone. That's why none of the houses here have basements.

there is no one reason why we dont have basements, but it is more likely to do with the fact that up north they have to dig deep (3-4 ft) for the frost line. If you are digging that deep anyway, you might as well go an additional 4-5 ft and build a basement. Excavating limestone isnt that hard. Instead of one day to dig a basement in soil, it would take about 14 days to dig a typical basement in limestone (based on d…

East Austinite since I was a teenager, family has had the same parcel of land since the 1880s. It's all caliche and limestone boss 6 inches down boss.

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by marcosdumay »

achenatx wrote: post #68
slfnflctd wrote: post #48

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I would wipe my ass with my own hand before I'd engage in any kind of violence over fucking toilet paper. It's absurdly stupid and ethically bankrupt. Violence against another human being should be a last resort for self defense only.

you say that from the comfort of your own fully stocked home. When your child is starving your perspective will likely change. Even if it doesnt, other people will be coming for you. If a group attacks other people, someone has to band together to step up to stop them before they come for each individual.

The thread is about toilet paper, not food.

It's a perfectly understandable reaction for lack of food and water. It's absurd for toilet paper. But if you look hard enough, you will find people doing the same for Playstations, so it shouldn't be that surprising.

(What does the US people have with toilet paper anyway? It seems to always enter the discourse of survivalists and other kinds of apocalipse dreamers, and anything that happens, it seems to disappear there. It's different on most of the world.)

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by humanistbot »

BrainVirus wrote: post #37

Instead of/in addition to reading about fictional collapse of civilization you can now visit New York, Portland or Los Angeles and see it for real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nvTgSW2L8Q https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/nyc-a-documentary-of-urb... https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-new-york-city-has-ga... https://rumble.com/vpc60g-heres-what-downtown-portland-orego... Not so fun, eh?

From one of your own links:

"Based on news reports, you’d think that the whole city was up in flames and gutted out. But it’s actually just in one small part of downtown that’s about 5 blocks long. "

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by klibertp »

slfnflctd wrote: post #48
mmmpop wrote: post #31

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Hmm I'm bothered by people hauling trailers to horde toilet paper, sure. But I'd absolutely fight you for the last roll on the shelf.

I would wipe my ass with my own hand before I'd engage in any kind of violence over fucking toilet paper. It's absurdly stupid and ethically bankrupt. Violence against another human being should be a last resort for self defense only.

> I would wipe my ass with my own hand

That's probably not the best of ideas, however the toilet paper frenzy is indeed extremely strange. If it was that crucial, humanity would collectively explode from all the stuff they could not push out of their asses before toilet paper was invented. Many times over. And it would stink to hell and back, too.

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by notahacker »

pjc50 wrote: post #10
nonrandomstring wrote: post #2

Just come to Birmingham in the UK. No need for any set building or CGI

Birmingham, city of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHVO1eSMFc "Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham", 5m, 1981. Note the use of shots of complicated motorway junctions to indicate modernity.

The fun bit about that is that most of the "state of the art" modern stuff like the railway station and shopping centres has been demolished and replaced since

Not sure Birmingham looks that post-apocalyptic despite its reputation, although the starchitecture of the Bull Ring centre that replaced the Bull Ring centre in the video has a definite aliens-have-invaded vibe to it... e.g https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article1992671...

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Post by vorpalhex »

oneoff786 wrote: post #16

Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good. My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell t…

"SHTF Survival Stories", despite it's sketch title and cover art, follows some of the Balkans war.

People do cooperate.. just not in the ways you might want.

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by mullen »

humanistbot wrote: post #73
BrainVirus wrote: post #37

Instead of/in addition to reading about fictional collapse of civilization you can now visit New York, Portland or Los Angeles and see it for real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nvTgSW2L8Q https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/nyc-a-documentary-of-urb... https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-new-york-city-has-ga... https://rumble.com/vpc60g-heres-what-downtown-portland-orego... Not so fun, eh?

From one of your own links: "Based on news reports, you’d think that the whole city was up in flames and gutted out. But it’s actually just in one small part of downtown that’s about 5 blocks long. "

And here is the really shocking part, if the local government wanted to clean it up and fix the problem, it could but it just does not have the willpower to do do. This is not the Apocalypse, it just local government sucking at its job.

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by KerrAvon »

nyolfen wrote: post #70
xbar wrote: post #60

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I see your point, but I don't agree. Don't tread on me/independence are broad American values. "Screw Federal overreach" is a common American sentiment in many US states. Texas Monthly echoed appreciation for a broadly acknowledged Texas-as-nation-state fantasy. This is different in direction than any other US state and feels troubling.

state independence or secession is routinely brought up in relation to california, idaho, and the PNW, at the very least. it has also been a constant since texas was accepted into the union. spare me the handwringing, americans are disagreeable.

There isn't a regular drumbeat of secession from the state's own politicians and political groupies in those other places, and in California when it is discussed it's a worst-case scenario to protect ourselves, not an isolationist fever dream. There was a Russian-sponsored "CalExit" thing a few years ago, but that wasn't organic. It's in the water in Texas.

edit: spelling

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Post by philjohn »

bigDinosaur wrote: post #15
6LLvveMx2koXfwn wrote: post #12

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For reference, the everlasting beauty of Spaghetti Junction [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Junction,_Birmingham

Surprisingly green for so much concrete.

More trees than Paris and more canals than Venice
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