"You are not a pie. You are never done."

[brainwane]

"My Mother In Law is queen of 'that sounds hard, so you shouldn't even try.'" On the connections among fixed mindset, conservatism, and unconstructive survivalist prepping. From the same author: on survivalism and prepping and silver and gold.

So yeah this may be an issue of me out-crazying you because I’m not coming at this from a perspective of “fiat currency is good” I’m coming at this from a perspective of “precious metals are actually pretty worthless as a survival strategy if you’re anticipating a society in which people will shoot you to take your diesel so start a compost pile, learn how to mend clothes, keep chickens, grow vegetables, and load ammo if that’s the society you’re worried about.”

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[naomikritzer]

FWIW, I read Human Pet Guy's post as a straight-up joke about accidental time travel (pay attention to your MIL! You NEVER KNOW when you might find yourself magically transported to ancient Babylon!) but other people in the conversation may have context I'm missing.

Anyway, yeah, my advice for years to anyone who wants to survive an apocalypse is to learn bike repair. You can't eat metal; your storehouse of coffee or cigarettes or Z-Pacs can be taken from you by force; if you have a genuinely useful skill, someone will feed you.