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Post by JuniperMesos »

armenarmen wrote: post #146
bee_rider wrote: post #113

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I don’t think we have a term for people who quietly keep a well stocked pantry, have a water setup, garden, have hobbies like canning, etc. That’s just being a bit rustic/prudent I guess. So then, the “prepper” derogatory label is only applied to the people who do it in the action movie/silly way. But, the question of how prevalent they are is a good one…

Mormons?

Mormons have a widespread cultural practice of prepping, which I understand is mostly the sensible kind where you keep stocks of food and water onhand in case of a natural disaster (rather than the generally-less-sensible rifle militia LARPing). This is something that the institutional Church of Latter-Day Saints encourages among its members, and it strikes me as a pretty good thing to do. Nonetheless, there's no reason why you need to accept the other religious tenets of the LDS church in order to do sensible emergency preparedness, and I'm not sure that not every Mormon community or household is equally diligent about preparedness.

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Post by komali2 »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #190
komali2 wrote: post #148

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The most important aspect of Burning Man and why it works is the thing most preppers/American Libertarians ignore: the community. Burning Man isn't interesting because a bunch of individuals pitch tents in the desert, it's interesting because a society is built in the middle of the desert, spontaneously.

The "preppers" I encounter are on ham radio, and I'd say they are more community conscious then the average person. Many of them work in public services (EMTs and the like) or are retired and formerly did. Most have stocked pantries, gardens are common. Most are willing to help out when there's a power outage or a fire. The anti-social picture that popular culture paints of preparedness-minded people is entirely not…

Right, I agree, basically my experience with preppers and libertarians is, the ones disgusted when you ask them if they're "leftist" are the ones with too many guns and not enough neighbors, and vice versa for those who embrace the label or don't care.

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Post by andrepd »

TyrunDemeg101 wrote: post #199
pickleglitch wrote: post #185

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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.

"This is like the HN dropbox post" is now a whole class off low-effort comment in itself.

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Post by shrubby »

jmuguy wrote: post #203
tristor wrote: post #200

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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 d…

Well for one thing - you'd get by a lot better with beans and rice and a functioning garden than overpriced dehydrated meals. And what I'm referring to by buckets (that is a lot/years supplies) of dehydrated food and who is being targeted are companies like this https://www.mypatriotsupply.com/pages/about-us "We’re taking steps for survival for what we all know is coming. Today." I mean, come on. Maybe I'm just beati…

Sorry about this, but buckets. Buckets. Wow. https://youtu.be/rOH37W0jPpA?si=eIa_dcA9JLPvXRNK

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Post by bigfishrunning »

komali2 wrote: post #224
bigfishrunning wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "preppers" I encounter are on ham radio, and I'd say they are more community conscious then the average person. Many of them work in public services (EMTs and the like) or are retired and formerly did. Most have stocked pantries, gardens are common. Most are willing to help out when there's a power outage or a fire. The anti-social picture that popular culture paints of preparedness-minded people is entirely not…

Right, I agree, basically my experience with preppers and libertarians is, the ones disgusted when you ask them if they're "leftist" are the ones with too many guns and not enough neighbors, and vice versa for those who embrace the label or don't care.

So you go around asking people if they're "Leftist"? Why? Either you get a non-answer or you start a fight with somebody for no reason -- what a strange thing to do

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Post by komali2 »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #227
komali2 wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, I agree, basically my experience with preppers and libertarians is, the ones disgusted when you ask them if they're "leftist" are the ones with too many guns and not enough neighbors, and vice versa for those who embrace the label or don't care.

So you go around asking people if they're "Leftist"? Why? Either you get a non-answer or you start a fight with somebody for no reason -- what a strange thing to do

Discussing philosophy and politics is very normal in the prepper community.

I'm not just waking up to strangers and doing it. This is at meetups, dinners, that sort of thing. "Oh you're a libertarian? Is that more Kropotkin or Rothbard?"

At the gun range I'm just as likely to see a thin blue lives flag, punisher skull, or "don't tread on me" emblem on a gun or gun case as I am to see a hammer and sickle or trans flag. It's just part of the territory.

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Post by Yokohiii »

pickleglitch wrote: post #184
Yokohiii wrote: post #168

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They sell pi's with the names PrepperDisk and Doom Box. They probably thought it is funny. The general Idea of having knowledge backups / offline access is reasonable to me, the doomsday framing is seeding the idea that it's about collapse and that takes away from a something that is generally more useful.

This site isn't selling anything. It also doesn't say anything about doomsday, or system collapse, or anything sensational.

On the front page is a table with those descriptions and a "Price". Now that you point that out, I have no clue what "Price" means, it's not explained either. I guess the whole communication on the page is rather confusing. If I got anything wrong, I don't see it as _my_ mistake.
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