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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Yeah preppers, despite generally being severely overweight and drinking/smoking too much, tend to worry a lot about their eyesight and hearing. He should consider himself lucky as a typical prepper would have been shot by their friend. Severe hearing loss is the lesser of two idiots.
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Devian666 posted:He should consider himself lucky as a typical prepper would have been shot by their friend. Severe hearing loss is the lesser of two idiots. Prepping that involves spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars constructing a compound and clearing fields of fire for when the "urban" types show up looking for a handout seems the height of BWM. Even putting aside the exceedingly small chance you'll ever need it, has there ever been a time in modern history when the government collapsed or a huge natural disaster happened where a small family with no local connections could have held on to years worth of food and supplies?
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Mar 25, 2019 03:04
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Pretty much no. That Argentine collapse book that preppers love to cite boils down to: work together with your neighbors, you aren’t going to make it alone in the countryside without a lot of help.
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Mar 25, 2019 03:15
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Which makes preppers even more hilarious, since the fact that you'd have to rely on  other people for security flies in the face of everything these mouthbreathing tin foil hats believe.
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Mar 25, 2019 03:49
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For most disasters more than 10-14 days of food and water is unnecessary. Usually some sort of water and food deliveries can be organised within 3 days by whatever civil emergency services or in conjunction with private companies. Worst case being a week or two if you are cut off from where ever supplies are being delivered. I've seen ones were they have 10 years of food stored. It's just a waste of money having too much with too much spent on massive storage and items, especially if your house becomes unsafe or unlivable after whatever disaster.
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Mar 25, 2019 04:07
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Did anyone else grow up in a Mormon household? We never had less than a 3 month supply of food and water, with a goal of one year. It's not for doomsday preparation so much as the ability to take care of every other family in the neighborhood in case of emergency Mormons are pretty chill other than the church service part
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Mar 25, 2019 04:16
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Very different goals when you are thinking about other people, compared with preppers who are entirely selfish.
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Mar 25, 2019 04:21
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Preppers are not prepping for disasters but for the apocalypse. After which they'll be Bad With Caps
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Mar 25, 2019 04:28
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The elders of the Mormon church have said all families are responsible for storing 1 year of food and water at all times. Of course most don't, but it's on their minds.
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Mar 25, 2019 07:34
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Doc Hawkins posted:The elders of the Mormon church have said all families are responsible for storing 1 year of food and water at all times. Of course most don't, but it's on their minds. In the show Big Love they have a passing shot of their basement and it's got shelves full of food. It's not even something they mention or related at all to the plot, but was a nice touch of realism. Also it shows Morman's love for MLM so really the show is practically a documentary. But yeah, it's always good to keep a couple of weeks worth of food and some way to purify water. But trying to store enough food to last an apocalypse just means you're going to die alone a few months after everyone else has died.
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Mar 25, 2019 13:38
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Krispy Wafer posted:ome way to purify water. This is the big one. Dehydration will get you way before malnutrition. Even just a few bottles of water can be enough to keep you from getting dysentery while you wait for the national guard to pull your rear end out of the flood waters or whatever.
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Mar 25, 2019 13:57
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I keep 55 gallons of potable water in my closet at all times and I bet most of you do too.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I keep 55 gallons of potable water in my closet at all times and I bet most of you do too. 40 
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Mar 25, 2019 17:30
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1.6 gallons in my apartment...
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Mar 25, 2019 17:36
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I keep 55 gallons of potable water in my closet at all times and I bet most of you do too. Does the water in my hot water tank count?
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Mar 25, 2019 17:38
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Congrats on your legionairres disease.
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StormDrain posted:Congrats on your legionairres disease. If you're British I guess.
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Mar 25, 2019 17:46
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You only get legionnaires if you choke on the water like a dingus. It increases risk sure, but drinking out of the water heater is smarter than dying. Also once the temperature drops below 74, the chlorine is effective at limiting its growth!
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Mar 25, 2019 17:50
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I keep 55 gallons of potable water in my closet at all times and I bet most of you do too. GoGoGadgetChris posted:You only get legionnaires if you choke on the water like a dingus. It increases risk sure, but drinking out of the water heater is smarter than dying.
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Mar 25, 2019 17:54
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Hoodwinker posted:I'm dumb and don't own a house. Is this a reference to your water heater? TraderStav posted:Does the water in my hot water tank count? Yes sir 2x Even apartments typically have hot water... Midrise/high rise buildings are more likely to have huge central water heaters than in-unit tanks, so just work closely with whomever becomes warlord of your fiefdom and get your hands on some of it.
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Mar 25, 2019 17:56
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Your hot water tank is going to go from <way too hot for legionnaires> to <too cold for legionnaires> in a few hours. There's basically no risk. There's also probably a couple gallons in the tank of your toilet. Don't go "ewww", that's clean tap water, boil it if you feel you must.
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Leperflesh posted:Your hot water tank is going to go from <way too hot for legionnaires> to <too cold for legionnaires> in a few hours. There's basically no risk. It certainly is clean before it enters the bowl... I certainly wouldn't call it clean afterwards though unless you clean your toilet bowl fastidiously. The tank water could be used as well potentially... but I've never seen a tank of a toilet I would want to drink out of.
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Mar 25, 2019 18:16
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Lol he was specifically talking about the tank. Never drink out of the bowl. The CDC recommends drinking out of the water heater and the toilet tank, outright.
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Mar 25, 2019 18:18
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Lol he was specifically talking about the tank. Never drink out of the bowl. I'm a dummy and totally read "tank" as "bowl" in his post lmao; ya in a pinch I would probably be ok with the tank even though mine looks nasty... most likely just mineral deposits tho.
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Mar 25, 2019 18:25
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TraderStav posted:Does the water in my
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Mar 25, 2019 18:48
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im gonna buy a gun and rob you of your water GWW - good with water 
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Mar 25, 2019 18:49
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I wonder how much water you could buy, for the cost of one gun
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Mar 25, 2019 18:51
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not as much as you can steal
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Did anyone else grow up in a Mormon household? We never had less than a 3 month supply of food and water, with a goal of one year. It's not for doomsday preparation so much as the ability to take care of every other family in the neighborhood in case of emergency Yeah, we had a year supply growing up and parents made it clear that it was to feed others as well if something happens. Some of the preppers ignore that. Not long ago one of the apostles of the church made it blatantly clear that the counsel is to store food and not ammo but it seems anything said to that type goes in one ear and out the other.
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It is pretty cheap to get 2 weeks of dehydrated food and a water filter/life straw/uv pen. Get a cheap stove and fuel for a couple weeks and you are set. It all can fit in a small box.
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I always wonder how many of the crazy preppers actually cycle through their supplies. Do they really eat that poo poo or are they just throwing our their pallet worth of food every 5 years and constantly re-buying it?
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Mar 25, 2019 19:52
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Based on a typical preppers weight I assume they cycle through their 5 years of food about every 6 months.
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Sirotan posted:I always wonder how many of the crazy preppers actually cycle through their supplies. Do they really eat that poo poo or are they just throwing our their pallet worth of food every 5 years and constantly re-buying it? If it's the kind of poo poo I've seen advertised for peppers they probably are throwing out that disgusting poo poo. And for the ones doing the "stock up on dry beans, etc" I'd also bet that most of them are on diets that are fundamentally incompatible with what they are storing and they'll be sick as hell if they were to just switch over to it. If they even know how to prepare it in the first place. It seems more like a fantasy roleplaying hobby mixed with collecting/hoarding.
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Mar 25, 2019 20:02
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They sell it to this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZoHuMwZwTk Seriously that guy's channel is life-changing
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https://www.chepicap.com/en/news/8397/failed-ico-for-sale-on-ebay-for-60-000.html original article is paywalled though if someone has access plz c/p https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/03/25/1553498702000/A-failed-ICO-is-trying-to-flog-itself-on-eBay-/ quote:Failed ICO for sale on eBay for $60,000 quote:The owner of a blockchain startup, named Sponsy, is turning to the e-commerce website, eBay, where he is trying to sell his failed ICO for $60,000. If you are interested, you will have to hurry up, the sale expires in less than 4 days. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sponsy-Blo...sQAAOSwJjNcj62m 
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I can't be held responsible 'Cause she was touching her face I won't be held responsible She fell in love in the first place For the life of me I cannot remember What made us think that we were wise and We'd never compromise For the life of me I cannot believe We'd ever die for these sins We were very freshman
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Motronic posted:It seems more like a fantasy roleplaying hobby mixed with collecting/hoarding. This is the conclusion that I've reached. I bet they don't even throw the old food out. Future youtubers will have a lot of expired food to try and eat.
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Mar 25, 2019 20:52
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Probably the same reason people keep tons of cash out of the market "in case things crash". We love to shoot ourselves in the foot, sometimes literally, to (ineffectively) protect ourselves from scary & unlikely scenarios.
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Alan Smithee posted:https://www.chepicap.com/en/news/8397/failed-ico-for-sale-on-ebay-for-60-000.html heh
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