Kamlorn on 9/3/2024 at 22:56
Quote Posted by Tocky
Without electricity, safe water supply, food, etc you and those around you would not survive more than a week.
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[video=youtube_share;J8ekcTmj9SI]https://youtu.be/J8ekcTmj9SI?si=6AqaERSFyumUk0F5[/video]
Welp, at least we will have to learn how to be among real people, you know, just by being among them. Not by YouTube. Like the good old days.
Speaking honestly, the simple fact of the existence of such videos scares me. What it will be in the next 10 years? "How to find the entrance door", " Bipedalism in a nutshell"?!
Tocky on 10/3/2024 at 01:22
Oh you people in the city are going to die. Mad Max gangs will pillage, rapes and robbery and wholesale murder will be the order of the day, when an EMP wave hits. Sorry.
I actually don't know how it's going to be. I assume some martial law situation will prevail until workmen put on their tool belts and things get back in order.
DuatDweller on 10/3/2024 at 13:26
We Italians always did our own canned foods, onions, beans, peas, whatever, including home made Marmalade.
My grand parents always had a garden with their own tomatoes and what not, home grown food, which included farm animals to eat.
If there is someone who is gonna die is gonna be the guys glued to their cellphones.
"I can't find an active Internet connection to watch a video on how to cultivate food at home!"
Aja on 11/3/2024 at 14:48
I can bake sourdough from flour and water, and I can build simple furniture with a basic kit of hand tools (axe, plane, brace, saw, chisel), but that's about it. I figure we don't all have to be Tockys for the apocalypse as long as we each have one or two skills to contribute.
heywood on 11/3/2024 at 15:22
I'm handy and learned survival skills when I was younger, but I'm a couple of decades out of practice. It doesn't matter anyway, because no matter what our skills are, none of us are any match for a gang of marauders.
And it's a pointless hypothetical to argue about since technology doesn't vanish, it simply stops working until we repair it. We have multiple examples of tropical cyclones causing widespread and long lasting electricity and communications outages e.g. Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands in 2017 and the Philippines in 2013. There was looting and minor lawlessness immediately afterward, but civilization didn't collapse. Preppers are just stroking their egos.
DuatDweller on 17/3/2024 at 17:54
Another story, this happened in the summer of 1980 in Italy.
I know I cannot be a reliable witness with this schizophrenia thing-am-a-bob, but this happened way before the on set of symptoms and there was another witness.
Fabrizzio and me were playing in the grass in the yard between 4 apartment buildings, which were built from the end of the 60s and the early 80s, they were all of the same style, 5 habitable floors and a ground floor entrance supported by several columns.
It was early noon a day of June when from behind a small mountain to the east passes a flying saucer, going west, crossing over an even larger mountain 2200 meters high (7217 feet) so it was going at least 2500-2700 meters (8202-8858 feet) high, and emitted no sounds, it had no decorations or symbols or ID or any cuts in the fuselage. (no, no lights either)
We were a bit dazzled by the view. Not to mention the emotional status was very much altered.
Next week, on a "Famiglia Cristiana" magazine a report mentioned the flying saucer going far away up to Lombardia, Milano (Milan), being followed a jet fighter from the Italian air force which never reached or matched its speed and lost sight of the craft.
mxleader on 18/3/2024 at 00:47
One of my favorite bits from that old James Burke show Connections is the Trigger Effect one where he goes deep into what it would be like if there were widespread system outages and what it would look like for anyone thinking about surviving. It starts about about minute 23:30 - (
https://youtu.be/XetplHcM7aQ?si=gYGz1XBZsb16Ee5z)