found a prepper forum for women and it's hilarious how much more practical it is. the men are all stockpiling guns and this group is like crowdsourcing ideas for keeping a CPAP running to take care of an elderly parent in an extended power outage
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Ironically there was a recent evangelical Christian propaganda movie about a doomsday scenario with exactly this moral
The army guy who wanted to shoot the neighbors before letting them into the compound were proven wrong and the day was saved by his wife opening the gate and working as a community
I think this is interesting because it shows that even parts of the far right is tired of these people. Violent anti social fantasies don’t actually help their political project very much either.
there's a "what will your job be on the commune" thread and instead of "warrior poet" this person just put "sanitary wound care" are you kidding me lol
people underestimate how much work goes into inventory *with* computers- without them it will be an enormous undertaking. making sure perishable materials get used up, trading and knowing what went where… good skill and good role
brian reminds me that if you're interested in this specific sort of prepping you should check out the books of sharon astyk particularly making home and independence days
i've always said a big part of my prepping is just the knowledge that i don't need to hoard guns and buckets of beans because the guys who did that will all shit upstream of their water source within six months and if i wait i can just go take theirs
well, *you* don’t need to *deliberately* hoard buckets of beans because you live with @billhookunion.beanyear.com, noted purveyor of fine legumes, so just keep some water filters handy. you’ll be (non-fatally) gassy but outlast the botulism bros by decades nevertheless
I read an article where an actual expert was interviewed and her advice was that people should knock it off with their “bug out” set ups and instead meet their neighbors and seed their yards with dandelions.
The right wing macho version of prepping was never actually about surviving a realistic disaster or societal downturn. It was based on surviving some kind of coup or revolution, with “zombie apocalypse” as a proxy for civil unrest.
Probably because it was created by paranoid War on Terror veterans.
I think the horror trope is built of fear of “the mob” like your saying, and fear of communicable diseases. Everyone around you becoming a threat because they could infect you.
Some zombie stories lean more into one side than the other, but I think they’re both inseparable parts of the trope.
In case anyone reading this has the same problem: Jackery/Goal Zero portable battery is what I use. Works great. Get the cigarette plug adapter for the CPAP machine so it can drink DC from the battery directly (rather than losing on DC -> AC -> DC conversion) and it'll 2.5x the runtime.
I mean, at 12v I think it also turns off the humidifier heater, which doubles the runtime on its own. But making clean 120v 60hz in something a person can lift is pretty lossy, yeah
Knowing the difference between watts, volts, & amps & what AC & DC stand for is pretty much the sum total of my knowledge about electrical current. I did not know there was any power-consuming conversion going on.
america’s test kitchen had a podcast for a while (not sure if it’s still running) and one of my fav episodes was about the origins of prepping culture and how a lot of it sources to one mormon mom
ran november 2019; i remember thinking about it in early 2020 and the position it takes of “it’s normal and sane to want to prepare your family for the worst” was really genuinely comforting and helpful
after her last horse died a year or two ago, my mom fully converted her pasture and barn into a food forest. She was telling me last week that she needs to go and find the artichokes she planted 3 years ago (while old Pierrot was still kickin')
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https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/
You mean I don’t have to be the cook, nurse, doctor, educator, farmer, and accountant myself?
Cool
The army guy who wanted to shoot the neighbors before letting them into the compound were proven wrong and the day was saved by his wife opening the gate and working as a community
Orders of magnitude less, I bet.
Probably because it was created by paranoid War on Terror veterans.
Some zombie stories lean more into one side than the other, but I think they’re both inseparable parts of the trope.
(And now I've spent several years mad that I can't buy a large-enough DC ATX power supply to run my workstation off DC direct from the UPS.)
ran november 2019; i remember thinking about it in early 2020 and the position it takes of “it’s normal and sane to want to prepare your family for the worst” was really genuinely comforting and helpful
YouTuber is male? Go straight to jail.