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Yeah, same. Noone will care, nothing will happen. Lol. Close thread, turn off computer, walk away
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Jun 16, 2021 13:33
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Maybe I'm having a pessimistic day but afaict our options are: 1. Nothing changes till climate catastrophe kills us all 2. People actually develop solidarity and violently resist to the point that the state as we know it is overthrown and we can do cool things in our new people's republic Neither are very fun processes but we're a nation of selfish coward dumbasses and 1 is the default, so maybe move to high ground and learn to croft, lol
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Jun 16, 2021 13:38
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ThomasPaine posted:Maybe I'm having a pessimistic day but afaict our options are: Number 2 wont happen until number 1 kills a decent chunk of people.
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Jun 16, 2021 13:41
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keep punching joe posted:Number 2 wont happen until number 1 kills a decent chunk of people. Here's hoping the climate holdouts/capitalists are somehow inherently more susceptible to dying off, seems improbable tho
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Jun 16, 2021 13:42
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Failed Imagineer posted:Here's hoping the climate holdouts/capitalists are somehow inherently more susceptible to dying off, seems improbable tho The capitalists will survive the heatwaves/floods. They won't survive the mob.
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Jun 16, 2021 13:44
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Gort posted:I'm no statistician but I don't think you should be looking at individual days. If I remember right, weekends always saw depressed numbers comparatively, so the 7 day average is a much more reliable number to follow. This is absolutely true and it's odd that discussions around this are being based on random day-to-day comparisons. Btw, if you want a good information source on covid stats, the GOV.UK website is excellent, and includes all sorts of regional data, including a map where you can zoom down to individual wards: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ You can also check the vaccination rates for your local authority.
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Jun 16, 2021 13:44
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ThomasPaine posted:Neither are very fun processes but we're a nation of selfish coward dumbasses and 1 is the default, so maybe move to high ground and learn to croft, lol You can have all your food sources and your high ground and your solar generators and buggery bags and so on, but what you really need to get things going is at least 20 people and a common plan. Also some way to avoid that plan Jim Jonesing itself.
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Jun 16, 2021 13:54
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Guavanaut posted:buggery bags and so on, The apocalypse is starting to sound good
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Jun 16, 2021 14:20
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Guns and hot rods. That's what you need.
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Jun 16, 2021 14:22
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Guavanaut posted:The one thing that people always forget when prepping is people. Preppers mostly prep for a single event, and often would not do well in any other type of apocalypse. They also seem to think that humanity will act like people in films, where it's everyone for themselves, rather than what normally happens in disasters, and people work together. So in an actual doomsday event, it'll be them running off to their bunkers, then the local township raiding them for food a couple of weeks later after their mains water breaks. ThomasPaine posted:1. Nothing changes till climate catastrophe kills us all Optimist mode - we're too adaptable a species to be completely wiped out. Millions, probably billions will die, but humanity will continue on.
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Jun 16, 2021 14:34
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Can anyone recommend a good online coffee seller? It's for my parents and they're looking to buy roasted beans. Ta
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Jun 16, 2021 14:35
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Tarnop posted:Can anyone recommend a good online coffee seller? It's for my parents and they're looking to buy roasted beans. Ta https://www.deargreencoffee.com/collections/coffee-beans
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Jun 16, 2021 14:41
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Guavanaut posted:The one thing that people always forget when prepping is people. There's a really enjoyable book I read called The Knowledge which goes into this. Despite sounding like a manual for learning the streets of London, it's instead a manual for how to rebuild society after a catastrophe, and one of the first things it does is lay out that your best chance of long-term survival is getting out of the cities and into some place where a village sized group of you can gather/grow food to sustain yourselves, and makes the point that going it alone is pretty much a death sentence unless you're literally the Last Man on Earth, in which case you should just lock yourself in a supermarket; because you'll die of old age before you run out of food and liquids. The whole book is like a prep manual for non-sociopaths, and a really interesting thought experiment on how a post-apocalyptic society would actually look. Turns out there's a lot more soap than you'd think.
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Jun 16, 2021 14:58
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Tarnop posted:Can anyone recommend a good online coffee seller? It's for my parents and they're looking to buy roasted beans. Ta I've got a weekly subscription with Hasbean and it's always been good and very reasonably priced
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Jun 16, 2021 15:12
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Grey Hunter posted:Preppers mostly prep for a single event, and often would not do well in any other type of apocalypse. IIRC, stories of Argentina's social collapse pretty much bear that out. The doomsday preppers were the first to go. Even the most helpless people in cities are the first to run to their neighbours to ask what the gently caress to do, and people generally want to keep the status quo or some semblance of it going first and foremost.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:14
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Yeah if you have a local WhatsApp group for your road and people who will lend you a ladder or a flashlight when the power goes out, you're already better prepped than some bunker rear end in a top hat. Grow veggies and keep chickens if you can, and look into water reclamation and renewable power Also keep your flensing knives honed and maintain a spreadsheet of which neighborhood kids would yield the most lean meat
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Jun 16, 2021 15:18
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Pff, flensing knives, everyone knows they're better skin on.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:28
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC, stories of Argentina's social collapse pretty much bear that out. The doomsday preppers were the first to go. Even the most helpless people in cities are the first to run to their neighbours to ask what the gently caress to do, and people generally want to keep the status quo or some semblance of it going first and foremost. It's also odd that preppers tend to be very vocal about what they are doing, so everyone knows where the huge food stores are. Hell, the number of people showing TV crews around their super secret bunkers was enough to cover several series.....
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Jun 16, 2021 15:29
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Tarnop posted:Can anyone recommend a good online coffee seller? It's for my parents and they're looking to buy roasted beans. Ta I don't know how it compares price wise but I've been raving about modern standard coffee for months, their Finca San Antonio is the nicest coffee I've ever had
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Jun 16, 2021 15:30
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Because the real thing they thirst for is the moment of exquisite power where they can decide who lives and who dies, and as the apocalypse keeps on not happening the way they want, going on TV and bragging about all the poo poo they own is the closest they can come.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:31
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Jennifer Saunders is saying Ab Fab would not get made today because of wokness. I don't know if its the old rose tinted spectacles but I don't remember anything that bad about it.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:36
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bessantj posted:Jennifer Saunders is saying Ab Fab would not get made today because of wokness. I don't know if its the old rose tinted spectacles but I don't remember anything that bad about it. Apparently she didn't say it.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:38
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bessantj posted:Jennifer Saunders is saying Ab Fab would not get made today because of wokness. I don't know if its the old rose tinted spectacles but I don't remember anything that bad about it. I got a clip of talk radio advertised to me on youtube earlier where an ex-NHS consultant was complaining that the global response to the pandemic was irrational woke hysteria.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:42
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Am enjoying the euphemism BBC used for "marched shouting death to muslims in a palestinian neighbourhood":BBC posted:At Tuesday's event, hundreds of mostly young, nationalist Israelis danced, sang and waved Israeli flags in front of the Old City's Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Muslim Quarter. Very much in the vein of "hundreds of mostly unionist northern irishmen danced, sang and waved unionist flags in a nationalist neighbourhood". Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Jun 16, 2021 |
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Jun 16, 2021 15:43
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Jedit posted:Apparently she didn't say it. Good if true.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:47
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Reveilled posted:There's a really enjoyable book I read called The Knowledge which goes into this.  Reveilled posted:The whole book is like a prep manual for non-sociopaths, and a really interesting thought experiment on how a post-apocalyptic society would actually look. Turns out there's a lot more soap than you'd think. Looking at everything from intentional communities to fugitive slave groups to the pre-drainage Fenlands to 'wild' Irish families in West Ulster, I figure ~20ish is the bare minimum where you have enough labor surplus to do things like dig irrigation ditches and make permanent structures and have people making soap and bread and stuff without risking collapsing the fundamentals, so you're no longer just surviving, and 50-100 is about the point where the proto-society can start seriously investing that surplus into structural improvements. If you're not careful though eventually you reach the point where you produce Thatcherites who deny that that's how anything happens. OwlFancier posted:Because the real thing they thirst for is the moment of exquisite power where they can decide who lives and who dies, and as the apocalypse keeps on not happening the way they want, going on TV and bragging about all the poo poo they own is the closest they can come.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:52
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The article just seems to talk about how these days people are more socially aware and so they'd probably talk themselves out of edgy jokes more easily. Obviously that's been cuntified into WOKE LEFT CANCEL JOKES
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Jun 16, 2021 15:53
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Private Speech posted:Am enjoying the euphemism BBC used for "marched shouting death to muslims in a palestinian neighbourhood": This is where you need people filming this and posting it to youtube and twitter. The media will just report what Hamas are doing.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:53
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Jedit posted:Apparently she didn't say it. It's made up, or as more and more people are calling it, fake news.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:54
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Tesseraction posted:The article just seems to talk about how these days people are more socially aware and so they'd probably talk themselves out of edgy jokes more easily. Obviously that's been cuntified into WOKE LEFT CANCEL JOKES The entire Karen meme poked fun at the habits of middle-class suburban wine moms about the same as Ab Fab did, the only difference is that it's a collective of mostly retail workers and Black Twitter zoomers doing it rather than a studio and an approved writing process and oh there it is.
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Jun 16, 2021 16:02
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Latest look into the flaming shitpile that is Serenity Integrated Mentoring (cw: suicidality, self harm, abuse, the state of the UK mental heath services). I know we've talked about all services being cut and replaced with the police before, but this is such a ridiculous, terrible, and blatant example.
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Jun 16, 2021 16:28
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Thanks for the coffee recommendations, much appreciated!
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Jun 16, 2021 16:31
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Guavanaut posted:Latest look into the flaming shitpile that is Serenity Integrated Mentoring (cw: suicidality, self harm, abuse, the state of the UK mental heath services). It’s absolutely grotesque.
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Jun 16, 2021 16:33
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I think out of all the awful things described in there the bit that really just made me go  wasquote:In a rapid turn of events, the company behind the scheme, the High Intensity Network, went to ground, removing its website, leaving patients, staff and campaigners in confusion about the future of the scheme. Its social media presence had already been wiped. Small private companies can do that. They probably shouldn't, but they can. And that's why you should never let them manage vulnerable people or run prisons etc.
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Jun 16, 2021 16:41
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Big cat food recall. Let your cat-owning friends know: https://twitter.com/holly/status/1405160932779700226?s=20
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Jun 16, 2021 16:59
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WhatEvil posted:Big cat food recall. Let your cat-owning friends know: Did it get contaminated with rat poison or something?
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Jun 16, 2021 17:57
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Guavanaut posted:Latest look into the flaming shitpile that is Serenity Integrated Mentoring (cw: suicidality, self harm, abuse, the state of the UK mental heath services). That's disgusting.
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Jun 16, 2021 17:58
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OwlFancier posted:Because the real thing they thirst for is the moment of exquisite power where they can decide who lives and who dies, and as the apocalypse keeps on not happening the way they want, going on TV and bragging about all the poo poo they own is the closest they can come. this kinda happened in miniature with the pandemic. The covid threads got real bad and it was always the same people in all the different threads. Always work from home computer touchers that were basically enjoying their new world. Do a bit of work, play games, pet catte. Their life was good and they wanted everyone to know it while also telling everyone how the world was ending. I assume they think they'd wait out the apocalypse from their house. I don't know what happens when deliveroo stops answering the phone.
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Jun 16, 2021 18:00
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WhatEvil posted:Big cat food recall. Let your cat-owning friends know: This is the one thing we didn't want to happen
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Jun 16, 2021 18:01
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My medical latin is rusty as a canal bike, but doesn't pancytopenia mean something like 'all of the blood in your cat is severely hosed?' That sounds bad. Stay safe catgirls.
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