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Post by jmuguy »

K0balt wrote: post #176
jmuguy wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well usually when people refer to someone as a prepper its the specific type of person that is buying hundreds of guns, tons of dehydrated meals but still living on city water - like they're preparing for a disaster movie but not anything real. Specifically the idea that you would be able to stay in place, with all your hoarded disaster crap, during the end of the world is kind of funny.

I think that pepper mostly exists in movies. Certainly some people probably emulate the Hollywood version, but I think that’s about it. Most “peppers” are fathers that have had the good sense to pause and think “so, what would I be able to do to serve my family if something disastrous happened? What might that look like?” Usually, a disaster go-bag of some kind with enough basic supplies to weather a day or two of di…

I agree with you on actual preparedness and getting to know your neighbors.

However, I think the derogatory prepper must exist in some number because you see so many products clearly targeting them. All the tacticool stuff, the buckets of dehydrated food, etc etc

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Post by bovermyer »

prima-facie wrote: post #98
beeburrt wrote: post #85

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> have in an offline format. I keep offline docs either in pdf or in html format of most of the programming languages and frameworks that I use. I keep the source code of various projects that are essential to me. This is such a good idea. Thanks. I'm going to start to do the same. > I keep a local wiki with notes on various things that are useful Can you recommend a good wiki software?

I would recommend Obsidian to new users. I've been using Zim Wiki for years; back then there was nothing better available and now I can't be bothered to migrate formats. Plus I've already contributed a bunch of plugins to Zim :) https://obsidian.md/ https://zim-wiki.org/

Obsidian is good, but I switched to Zettlr last year and I like it much better.

https://www.zettlr.com

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

andrepd wrote: post #181
sippeangelo wrote: post #162

I went on to install this, but it seems very US centric, which isn't apparent in anything else than the domain name. The maps only cover the US, you can only download English dumps of Wikipedia, etc. It's not the biggest deal if you're proficient in English, but I wasn't even able to download the full dump of English Wikipedia as their hardcoded link to it just seems to return 404. The Docker setup leaves much to be…

> Command center > "Military"-looking font This is larping as a prepper, not anything more.

> > Command center

> > "Military"-looking font

> This is larping as a prepper

Preppers are often not "military"-type people, but rather distrusting of authorities (which is related to why the prep), including militaries.

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Post by trvz »

pickleglitch wrote: post #185
andrepd wrote: post #181

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> Command center > "Military"-looking font This is larping as a prepper, not anything more.

This is just some guy's hobby project that he is sharing for free. I don't get why everyone is so keen to shit all over it.

They're annoyed at people shamelessly publishing low quality crap. Calling it out is a way to raise standards back up.

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Post by kstrauser »

expedition32 wrote: post #171
vetrom wrote: post #141

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It is telling that in one of the seminal works about accessibility and rural public health, "Where There Is No Doctor", by David Werner, roughly 10% of the book needs to be devoted to wound and general sanitation and exhortations to keep anything sanitation sensitive the hell away from dirt and nightsoil.

Explaining to people that invisible creatures exist that make you sick... Better pack a microscope!

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Post by philipallstar »

jmuguy wrote: post #75
iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #69

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I am not a prepper, but I always found immediate dismissal of their stance odd. If you see clouds on the horizon, reasonable people start preparing. Some preparations take longer than others so longer than others. And this does not account for the fact that one the steady lull ( in US and most of Europe ) of the past 70 or so years is not the norm in our world.

Well usually when people refer to someone as a prepper its the specific type of person that is buying hundreds of guns, tons of dehydrated meals but still living on city water - like they're preparing for a disaster movie but not anything real. Specifically the idea that you would be able to stay in place, with all your hoarded disaster crap, during the end of the world is kind of funny.

This is just a straw man, though. We all have biases of course.

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Post by sigbottle »

computably wrote: post #136
globalnode wrote: post #99

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calling someone a prepper is an adhom, just like calling a greenie a tree hugger. just another way to dismiss something that is emotionally confronting so one can continue to feel some comfort in their own bubble.

Calling somebody a racist is an "adhom," but it's not very controversial to say racists exist and it's bad to be a racist...

I feel like fallacies can always be applied to anything because unless you're doing pure math (and even then, tons of caveats - one major one being that you already bought into the framework), you can always question deeper assumptions and yes, structurally it might even fit a fallacy. I mean, is-ought is one of the famous unresolved ones.

Yet we still have arguably correct beliefs in spite of fallacies. That suggests that merely pattern matching isn't a good solution to detect what "truth" is...

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Post by goda90 »

pickleglitch wrote: post #182
ricksunny wrote: post #88

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joke’s on the survivors who have to go find sunlight in nuclear winter

Anyone who thinks they can prepare for nuclear winter is delusional.

I mean, there's got to be a spectrum of nuclear winters, just like there's a spectrum of volcanic and impact winters. Assuming a full scale nuclear war, there's still questions of how much of the arsenals actually detonate(as opposed to failures to launch, getting destroyed by other nukes first, etc), how much the fires burn, the time of year impacting fires and dust and the state of the biosphere, and how much the aerosols are limited to the northern vs southern hemisphere.

Think about all the ways you could die from nuclear war + winter. There's some worth avoiding(slow painful death from radiation, moderate burns, trapped in collapsed buildings, etc), and others that you might be willing to delay/prevent in a hope of things getting better(starvation, cancer, civil unrest, etc). There are ways you can reasonably prepare to increases your chances, if you're lucky in the critical moment of nukes dropping, to survive long enough to attempt forming communities and farming again.

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Post by TyrunDemeg101 »

pickleglitch wrote: post #185
andrepd wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Command center > "Military"-looking font This is larping as a prepper, not anything more.

This is just some guy's hobby project that he is sharing for free. I don't get why everyone is so keen to shit all over it.

That is the way of the internet unfortunately. Instead of simply appreciating something, it's important to find a criticism and voice it. That way you're 'adding' to the conversation.

I mean look back at HN classic posts like the initial Dropbox announcement and the classic: this is nothing more than a wrapper over rsync, etc.

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Post by tristor »

jmuguy wrote: post #191
K0balt wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that pepper mostly exists in movies. Certainly some people probably emulate the Hollywood version, but I think that’s about it. Most “peppers” are fathers that have had the good sense to pause and think “so, what would I be able to do to serve my family if something disastrous happened? What might that look like?” Usually, a disaster go-bag of some kind with enough basic supplies to weather a day or two of di…

I agree with you on actual preparedness and getting to know your neighbors. However, I think the derogatory prepper must exist in some number because you see so many products clearly targeting them. All the tacticool stuff, the buckets of dehydrated food, etc etc

Why is a bucket of dehydrated food specifically targeting the stereotype/strawman you are constructing? Costco sells buckets of dehydrated food, and Costco is what comes to mind when I think middle of the road middle-class America. Do you think it's unreasonable to have a bucket of dehydrated food and enough water to last a week?

As someone who lived through the "Snowpocalypse" in Texas in 2021, had no power for 11 days and no water service for 6 days, I was very thankful that I had a backup source of indoor heating, a couple of boxes of MREs, and clean water for a week as just part of having good disaster preparedness, as well as the mylar emergency blankets I hung by fishing line from my ceiling fans so to help create a warm space for my family. All that stuff is just part of a prudent approach to disaster preparedness that anyone who grew up in the middle of the country and has a house would do.

I know quite a few people who you'd write off as "preppers" that are not consumed with fantasies of a zombie apocalypse, but are instead wanting to ensure that their family is taken care of with basic necessities, vital medication, and a set of viable contingency plans when you lose power, water, etc for days or weeks.

Also, nobody but the very wealthy have "hundreds of guns". Guns are expensive. Guns hold their value. Guns are an asset in some communities. But they are expensive, and therefore even rather serious gun people have tens, but not hundreds. I'm probably more of a gun nut than the average, and I definitely do not have "hundreds of guns". To even store "hundreds of guns" safely (e.g. safe from theft, if not for other reasons) I'd need enough money to build a dedicated room in my house just to hold them. "hundreds of guns" is an armory, not a collection. I'm in the top 1% of wealth in my community in Texas and used to shoot competitively, so I'm more of "gun nut" than average, and I can't even imagine owning "hundreds of guns". That's such an outlandish fantasy strawman you have in your mind, it's nothing close to realistic.

You're really just smearing people with stereotypes in this thread that have no basis in reality, and it's clear you're completely unprepared for the reality of what life is like anywhere in the middle of America, much less in much of the rest of the world.

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