So I’m not trying to dunk on this specific person, but people have such weird ideas of what emergencies will look like, and they’re largely based on idealized movies and prepper fantasies.
They imagine a world where 98% of the population dies and you can pick and choose what you want.
They imagine a world where 98% of the population dies and you can pick and choose what you want.
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Military survival kits almost always come with needles for a reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpOkrxxpTcE&t=395s
More than likely you will be out and about in everyday life when things happen, not at home with a horde.
Even the most basic of things like purifying water or building fire is out of reach for many once you remove matches/lighters.
3 hours after it snows, they run out of Bud Lite and cigarettes and loose their shit.
(There's more but it's unprintable; as in my keyboard would burst into flame from the fury of it.)
https://bsky.app/profile/duendeonfuego.bsky.social/post/3lcfs3vtipc2f
If society collapsed, you’re basically left with maintaining the home: sewing, cooking, food preservation, gardening, cleaning, storing, etc which are usually coded as feminine activities (wrongly, of course). That leaves hunting and “protecting.”
If it gets bad, it won't be empty store shelves. What will ruin you will be the lack of normal everyday stuff: new socks, candy, cinema, Starbucks, Xmas presents, take out food...
Been around the gun world for a LONG time. Lost track of the dudes with 30+ semi-auto rifles and handguns and 5k+ rounds (IMHO, 1-2k is NOT a lot) "for protection."
No domestic skills or gear (or hunting shotguns). Not even for reloading.
John Wick won't survive the apocalypse.
Though it certainly helped in the past 4.5 years that I work from home now. My bare tootsies go into slippers.
So you should probably make sure you have a couple of plain beeswax or unscented ones, because you can use pillar candles to heat up basic food but you do NOT want Warm Vanilla Instant Chicken Soup.
Karma finds a way.
At that other place, I can't imagine how bad it would have almost immediately become...
I'm reading Kehnel's /The Green Ages/ right now, and it's shocking how sustainable the world was before the 19th century!
Most of our cities are stocked under just-in-time principles, and any disruption to stocking will result in shocking, immediate underresourcing.
It’s being part of a community that tries to meet people’s needs.
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/
People forget simple biology when romanticising the fantasy.
Vampires have no pumping blood, therefore... no elections
Zombies are literally on power save mode and being attacked by every scavenger animal
Aliens... probes.
For prolonged shortages, clothing will be a problem.
I mean, most clothes out there will come in handy for ripping up and stuffing in the walls where your builder quarter-assed the insulation bc your HVAC would keep up fine, but you'll still need to keep the sun off.
Capitalism is gone it’s down to people doing what they’re good at and stuff that actually lasts anchored by simple barter instead of wage theft in increments of time.
Sucks that it comes with sharing the world with literal monsters.
* water
* food supplies (healthy)
*appropriate clothing and portable beading.
*Bike (and bike repair kit with instructions-I am so crap when I get a puncture)
*glasses. basic medical kit (possibly to include darning needle? (but if so – I need instructions)
*Family. Nice people.
Or what skills will be necessary.
Most likely we will rediscover cooperation and communal living with time.
I can keep animals and slaughter anything up to but excluding a full grown cow single-handedly.
I can grow some stuff.
I can punch and kick.
My blood kills malaria parasites by starving them (but also me) of oxygen.
I’m surprisingly handy with a needle and thread.
I can actually make fire.
I know how to build a dry shelter.
1. I already had a bread machine and knew how to use it, not to mention what flour to buy (many people unused to baking went for self-raising);
2. I knew to grab flour in bulk before it vanished;
3. I was stocked up on cat food and loo roll.
See: blackout of 2003, various ice storms…
I would have liked a darning needle. I’m glad you brought it up now.
I ordered a case of those giant rolls online for $70, and I was giving them away.
Now, I return control of this thread back to you...
I feel like home ec class robbed me of not knowing what different needles are used for.
For me, this would've been back when having a sewing machine at home was uncommon due to the cost.
I'm going to have to learn more, I've always used small needles of some sort.
If the ferries here don't go for a few days because of bad weather the shelves at supermarkets look apocalyptic.
My second was “ha, ha, ha Brexit shortages, ha ha.” That we were assured were not Brexit but just supply chain issues the whole world had. As Brits in France took photos of supermarkets with full shelves. Ha. Ha. (The laughs get gradually more hollow.)
I live in new England so I'm prepped for winter and power outages and I have a little extra for my family who never seem to prepare.
I hope all the people who learned bread making during Covid will trade for socks or patching their jeans. We all have something useful to give.
Renfaires are an underrated source of useful skills!
Inkle looming is also fun, and transitions nicely into card weaving. The looms are also easy to build
"I will shoot all danger!" is weirdly less stressful than "I will practice empathy"
Like, I have a big pear tree, but I don’t share fruit with neighbors who are jerks.
The guns 'n' ammo survivalists need to start friending with their local knitting circle, cosplay convention goers, and eco-hippies. They can make stuff and grow food.
It shouldn’t take much imagination to suppose what happens if the supply chain remains broken!
I began with a canvas bag to hold …
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*cooling towel (the blue thing)
*mini flashlight
*utility knife (and extra blades)
*bandanna
*safety goggles
*mini sewing kit
*mini first-aid kit
*mini screwdriver
*duct tape
*Life Straw
*leather work gloves
*baggie of zip ties of various lengths
A good starter kit!
Need to do some cable management behind your computer? Go-to bag!
Need duct tape to do virtually anything? Go-to bag!
(I’ve decided to call duct tape the original 3D printer.)
The fact people have been conditioned to think it’s a cinematic event is part of the problem.
There will also be a lot of people who deny it is happening at all.
With climate change I fear we’re already in it.
(genuinely curious)
It’s also useful in boring apocalypses where clothing resources simply become expensive and food is a higher-priority expense.