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The Doomsday Thread: Are you preparing?
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Bath salts. Lots and lots of bath salts.
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It all depends on what kind of doomsday it is.
Zombies: I'd load up on weapons and supplies and get an RV.
Anarchy: Form a prostitution ring inside a bank. I'd set up the separate banker offices with beds and stuff. Have bitches working for me for food. I'd be behind the teller area with bullet proof glass. Nobody can get in or out without the 1 key I have. To bang the bitches, one has to bring in food. I'd have armed guards (a small army) guarding the place. I'd also sell weed and drugs. Medicine, food, ammo, guns and such would be locked in the vault, which only I'd have the code and keys to. I would sell the medicine, but it would be pricey as all get out. I'd have a set a Brinks trucks to pick up supplies. I'd only accept buys through the drive thru window. The guards would be there to keep people in order, but nobody would get in without paying. The meds would be bought through the drive thru. Of course I'd never leave, I'd send out guards. Anyone that even resembles a threat would be shot on site. I'd also have two whores just dedicated to me. Gotta make sure they have kids and I have my needs in check. I'd also have a button I could press to blow the whole place up if anyone ever crossed me and I was fucked.
Problem is you'd be fucked every time you needed a re-up. Supplies would run thin. A more solid plan would be somehow stealing an aircraft carrier. You could have a green house up top. Farm animals and shit down below. The key is somehow stealing it by yourself or with a few of your closest companions.
Zombies: I'd load up on weapons and supplies and get an RV.
Anarchy: Form a prostitution ring inside a bank. I'd set up the separate banker offices with beds and stuff. Have bitches working for me for food. I'd be behind the teller area with bullet proof glass. Nobody can get in or out without the 1 key I have. To bang the bitches, one has to bring in food. I'd have armed guards (a small army) guarding the place. I'd also sell weed and drugs. Medicine, food, ammo, guns and such would be locked in the vault, which only I'd have the code and keys to. I would sell the medicine, but it would be pricey as all get out. I'd have a set a Brinks trucks to pick up supplies. I'd only accept buys through the drive thru window. The guards would be there to keep people in order, but nobody would get in without paying. The meds would be bought through the drive thru. Of course I'd never leave, I'd send out guards. Anyone that even resembles a threat would be shot on site. I'd also have two whores just dedicated to me. Gotta make sure they have kids and I have my needs in check. I'd also have a button I could press to blow the whole place up if anyone ever crossed me and I was fucked.
Problem is you'd be fucked every time you needed a re-up. Supplies would run thin. A more solid plan would be somehow stealing an aircraft carrier. You could have a green house up top. Farm animals and shit down below. The key is somehow stealing it by yourself or with a few of your closest companions.
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Yes.
The most troublesome thing with an EMP-type disaster is the nature of our food system and how we, as consumers, receive our food on a daily basis. The "Just In Time" method of inventory/delivery was popularized by Wal-Mart. It basically allows Wal-Mart (and now most other large grocers/retailers) to decrease the costs associated with inefficient inventory decisions and handling by getting their products "just in time" to sell. Essentially, when you go to the grocery store to buy a non-canned food item, chances are it was delivered fairly recently.
Now imagine that an Electro-Magnetic Pulse event would take out ANY electrical systems not magnetically shielded (aka, wrapped in metallic substance) would be rendered disabled. Not only would this take out the electric power grid (a technology that is completely outdated), but it would also disable any vehicles with electric ignitions, steering systems, drive-by-wire systems, etc. In other words, we'd have no power for our freezers/storage, and no vehicles (other than some older models without electric ignition) to transport the food we did have.
Grocery stores would go empty. Societal unrest would depend heavily upon the area in which you currently reside (given the fact that most people would be unable to move locations quickly due to the lack of transportation).
I've only recently begun to really think long and hard (insert joke here) about how to at least have some sort of "preparation" for this type of scenario. Here's the best thing I can think of. I have a metal-lined fire-safe that I've had since I was a kid. Into that goes a small radio, an assortment of as many batteries as I can, and a compass. I'll be buying about $200 or so of canned food from Aldi's (best supermarket in the world) and I've already started buying one 3-gallon plastic jug of water with each trip I take to the supermarket. My goal would be to have enough food/water to last my wife/unborn daughter and I for 3/4 weeks.
I also plan on buying a firearm or two before the end of the year and taking a hand-gun training course. Our plan would be, depending on the level of unrest and estimated time until electric power can be restored, to ride out the event at our house. In the event we'd have to leave, my family has a "meeting spot"(my dad is a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but def not someone that believes everything and/or is a whacko) where my brother (in San Francisco), my sister (in Denver), and myself (in Raleigh) would meet up with them (near Oberlin, Oh). The idea is that if all communications are cut off, we could try to meet/gather in one spot, if possible.
Do I think there is some sort of impending doomsday in our lifetimes? Probably not. Although, I do have to admit that it feels like human-kind is reaching some sort of crossroads. I mean, shit... look at the chart of world population over history:
Does anyone expect that J-Curve to be sustainable? I sure as hell don't. At some point, you have to believe that, considering finite resources and "all other things being equal"... (whereas equal means the limitations of our current resources/planet) the human population will "correct itself". I think our only possibility for our saving grace would be the Technological Singularity... The moment in time when the exponential growth of technology leads humankind to learn more in one second than in all other years of human history combined. The Singularity would be the only thing to change "all other things being equal" in my statement above. If we could grow our technological capabilities fast enough, we may no longer be constrained by the limits of the earth, our own biology, and possibly even time. Until then, I expect "something" to happen to correct the world population... whether it be an EMP disaster, war, a "super-disease", an asteroid, or a polar shift.
In other words... who the hell knows whats going to happen?!
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I don't even worry about all this stuff. It's nice and all to be ready for something like that, but for me, well I'll be dead pretty quick if a collapse of civilization was to happen in the usa. I would try and see if I could have some sex with the hot chick across the street though. Not sure if a baseball bat is enough to get it done though.
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Yes.
The most troublesome thing with an EMP-type disaster is the nature of our food system and how we, as consumers, receive our food on a daily basis. The "Just In Time" method of inventory/delivery was popularized by Wal-Mart. It basically allows Wal-Mart (and now most other large grocers/retailers) to decrease the costs associated with inefficient inventory decisions and handling by getting their products "just in time" to sell. Essentially, when you go to the grocery store to buy a non-canned food item, chances are it was delivered fairly recently.
Now imagine that an Electro-Magnetic Pulse event would take out ANY electrical systems not magnetically shielded (aka, wrapped in metallic substance) would be rendered disabled. Not only would this take out the electric power grid (a technology that is completely outdated), but it would also disable any vehicles with electric ignitions, steering systems, drive-by-wire systems, etc. In other words, we'd have no power for our freezers/storage, and no vehicles (other than some older models without electric ignition) to transport the food we did have.
Grocery stores would go empty. Societal unrest would depend heavily upon the area in which you currently reside (given the fact that most people would be unable to move locations quickly due to the lack of transportation).
I've only recently begun to really think long and hard (insert joke here) about how to at least have some sort of "preparation" for this type of scenario. Here's the best thing I can think of. I have a metal-lined fire-safe that I've had since I was a kid. Into that goes a small radio, an assortment of as many batteries as I can, and a compass. I'll be buying about $200 or so of canned food from Aldi's (best supermarket in the world) and I've already started buying one 3-gallon plastic jug of water with each trip I take to the supermarket. My goal would be to have enough food/water to last my wife/unborn daughter and I for 3/4 weeks.
I also plan on buying a firearm or two before the end of the year and taking a hand-gun training course. Our plan would be, depending on the level of unrest and estimated time until electric power can be restored, to ride out the event at our house. In the event we'd have to leave, my family has a "meeting spot"(my dad is a bit of a conspiracy theorist, but def not someone that believes everything and/or is a whacko) where my brother (in San Francisco), my sister (in Denver), and myself (in Raleigh) would meet up with them (near Oberlin, Oh). The idea is that if all communications are cut off, we could try to meet/gather in one spot, if possible.
Do I think there is some sort of impending doomsday in our lifetimes? Probably not. Although, I do have to admit that it feels like human-kind is reaching some sort of crossroads. I mean, shit... look at the chart of world population over history:
Does anyone expect that J-Curve to be sustainable? I sure as hell don't. At some point, you have to believe that, considering finite resources and "all other things being equal"... (whereas equal means the limitations of our current resources/planet) the human population will "correct itself". I think our only possibility for our saving grace would be the Technological Singularity... The moment in time when the exponential growth of technology leads humankind to learn more in one second than in all other years of human history combined. The Singularity would be the only thing to change "all other things being equal" in my statement above. If we could grow our technological capabilities fast enough, we may no longer be constrained by the limits of the earth, our own biology, and possibly even time. Until then, I expect "something" to happen to correct the world population... whether it be an EMP disaster, war, a "super-disease", an asteroid, or a polar shift.
In other words... who the hell knows whats going to happen?!
Wasn't J-Curve your nickname before the surgery?
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I never actually set out to pre-pare for any world ending event, I think the way of life we live down here just has us naturally pre-pared more so than others. I am a Marine my wife is a Marine and my step dad is retired Army, we have enough survival skills to keep the family covered.
I am as prepared now as I am willing to be. I have 2.5 acres and there is 1000 open acres down the road from me. I have 4 kids 19 to 13, we all know how to fish and hunt. We live on a well that yes has an electric pump but also has a manual pump. We live on Trinity Bay so fresh fish is abundant the duck hunting and goose hunting is excellent. My parents live about a mile away and my step dad is an avid gun collector and reloads all of our ammo from shot guns to hand guns and rifles. He probably has enough 50k shells worth of reloads standing by. We have a small 1/2 acre garden of corn and several other vegetables. We have several orange trees and 2 fig trees. My step dad also has several producing bee hives. I live in hurricane country so I already have precut steel plates that are made to cover the window's of my brick home. I already have a small bio diesel production going on in the far corner of my property and we have close to 500 gallons of diesel in storage.
We have four large dogs, 3 boxers and a lab. The lab is a trained retriever and the 2 of the boxers are trained for personal protection, my wife’s son is a natural dog whisper of sorts. We also have 2 horses. The four cars and boat would become pretty useless I suppose but I do have an old diesel farm truck that is non electric that I would assume would be ok after an EMP.
I think I will go home this weekend and cut some slots in a few of those steel window plates now to be able see out of and shoot out of. It’s not a perfect plan but as I typed this out I guess I realize I am more prepared than the average Joe.
I am as prepared now as I am willing to be. I have 2.5 acres and there is 1000 open acres down the road from me. I have 4 kids 19 to 13, we all know how to fish and hunt. We live on a well that yes has an electric pump but also has a manual pump. We live on Trinity Bay so fresh fish is abundant the duck hunting and goose hunting is excellent. My parents live about a mile away and my step dad is an avid gun collector and reloads all of our ammo from shot guns to hand guns and rifles. He probably has enough 50k shells worth of reloads standing by. We have a small 1/2 acre garden of corn and several other vegetables. We have several orange trees and 2 fig trees. My step dad also has several producing bee hives. I live in hurricane country so I already have precut steel plates that are made to cover the window's of my brick home. I already have a small bio diesel production going on in the far corner of my property and we have close to 500 gallons of diesel in storage.
We have four large dogs, 3 boxers and a lab. The lab is a trained retriever and the 2 of the boxers are trained for personal protection, my wife’s son is a natural dog whisper of sorts. We also have 2 horses. The four cars and boat would become pretty useless I suppose but I do have an old diesel farm truck that is non electric that I would assume would be ok after an EMP.
I think I will go home this weekend and cut some slots in a few of those steel window plates now to be able see out of and shoot out of. It’s not a perfect plan but as I typed this out I guess I realize I am more prepared than the average Joe.
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First of all, some of you have been reading way too many Stephen King Novels. Second of all, I don't know much about EMP, so this may be a dumb comment. But if an EMP knocks out electricty in the US, I guess I'm driving as far into Canada as I can until I reach power. And third, Just In Time Inventory (JIT) was invented by the Japanesse long before Walmart came into existence.
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I'm buying 2 of these mofos today! You can take lake water, pond water, muddy water and this thing will filter EVERYTHING out. It's the same unit used by the RedCross and UNICEF. There are two filters inside the thing. If my family consumes 2 gallons a day, the filters in it will last over 8 years. So I'll keep one for personal use and the other will be used to sell jugs of water after the zombies or Chinese attack! Until that happens i'm going to throw it in our kitchen and use it instead of buying and hauling cases of bottled water from Costco each week. :spin:
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