Build stable societies.
But be prepared for the society you live in to vote for an obviously, significantly destabilising leader...
Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
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Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, don't leave us hanging. What did they say?
LOL sorry, here's the list: Generator 5kw - you want something with a higher duty cycle than you need so it can run for extended periods Diesel storage for back of a truck - 330 Gallon (nice to have, after a week or two supply lines got fixed) Diesel - for said tank Medical supplies - IFAK kit (NAR is a good vendor). Bleeding control & dexamethasone. Solar power - 1-5kwh. We still get 10-15 hrs a day on the grid, but…
I was thinking the other day that ALL drones SHOULD be considered LIVE explosives. It's probably never a good idea to handle one if you're not trained.
Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#23Build stable societies.
Some societies can be stable for a while, but all of them eventually become unstable, collapse, and make room for new ones.
Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#24Build stable societies.
Care to name any examples?
Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, don't leave us hanging. What did they say?
Smartest thing would've been - move out of Ukraine. Shit went sideways long before borders got closed. There were plenty of red flags.
The world we're headed for there is no "other place" to escape to. Many people's view of survival during collapse ultimately assumes the existence of a fairly large "safe haven" space for which they just need to survive until they get there.
Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
LOL sorry, here's the list: Generator 5kw - you want something with a higher duty cycle than you need so it can run for extended periods Diesel storage for back of a truck - 330 Gallon (nice to have, after a week or two supply lines got fixed) Diesel - for said tank Medical supplies - IFAK kit (NAR is a good vendor). Bleeding control & dexamethasone. Solar power - 1-5kwh. We still get 10-15 hrs a day on the grid, but…
I was thinking the other day that ALL drones SHOULD be considered LIVE explosives. It's probably never a good idea to handle one if you're not trained.
Last march i was at SxSw and the police drones over head were a first for me. I was in this large crowd of people, and thought "yeah i dont like this". How do i know they're not just some bad actors drone with red and blue lights?
I think my exposure to casual discussions of how to arm drones with my Ukrainian friend, and the videos we've all seen on Reddit about drones in Ukraine, have really made their presence feel unwelcome.
Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#27I've got a few high tech friends (and myself) that have slowly become more and more of the mindset to be self sufficient. Two things probably have made me initially think more about it. First, the predictions of a major subduction earthquake here in Oregon, and knowing I'd be somewhat on my own for a while after that. And the other thing is Burning Man, which has taught me about self sufficiency and how one can actua…
One of those things that I have trouble mentally placing in the correct time period is the standardization of the cartridges that we still use today. When they were developed, tractors were still using metal tires and blood type testing for transfusions didn't exist yet. Living on the West coast usually meant that you had to be self sufficient. Some of my ancestors at the time lived in Idaho in a hole they dug in the ground, that they put a roof over. They had another similar dugout that they filled with ice blocks during the winter, to sell in the summer for some income. Most of them were sustenance farmers. One of my great grandparents had multiple acres in Van Nuys to grow enough food and raise enough rabbits to live off of. That land would be worth millions now, but back then it was what you needed to get by. Being rich would mean you had nicer clothes and a bigger house and servants and didn't have to grow your own food, but even the rich rarely had electric power, and when they did it was only routed to lamp sockets.
Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#28Build stable societies.
Stable societies fundamentally require increasingly large energy inputs.
What we're seeing happening right now, in a large part, is due to a system whose complexity has exceed the available energy required to sustain it.
The idea that what we're seeing is because "too many people voted for the wrong guy" fails to recognize the larger condition for which all of this is merely emergent phenomena. We no longer have the resources to sustain the society we life in so it begins to uncomfortably revert to lower energy states in ways we haven't seen in a long time.
Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#29Build stable societies.
But be prepared for the society you live in to vote for an obviously, significantly destabilising leader...
Trump and his acute destabilizing actions are the symptoms of the chronic, broad, deep destabilization of our society in the form of differing perceived realities, caused by....the internet and its exploitation by sick, greedy social media founders, investors/owners, and, yes, employees.
Re: Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was thinking the other day that ALL drones SHOULD be considered LIVE explosives. It's probably never a good idea to handle one if you're not trained.
Last march i was at SxSw and the police drones over head were a first for me. I was in this large crowd of people, and thought "yeah i dont like this". How do i know they're not just some bad actors drone with red and blue lights? I think my exposure to casual discussions of how to arm drones with my Ukrainian friend, and the videos we've all seen on Reddit about drones in Ukraine, have really made their presence fee…
I think in the US legally they have to have a beacon while flying now, but my thought the other day was about them being parked/down.