The Founding Fathers called Democracy mob rule and came up with the much better idea of a Constitutional Republic. But as the people running things much prefer mobs 'cos they are so easy to control, America is now the world's best Democracy.
Socrates,who of course came up with the idea, didn't think it was a goer either.
When they come, they'll come armed. They'll know where you are from your lights or smoke or smell of cooking, but you won't know where they are. Not until they are very close.
Then, well, that really depends what mood they're in and what kind of attitude you have. You're going to end up dead, but that could take quite some time on a bad day.
Some places will be prepared for this, have a watch out, etc. It's not like these people will be ninjas, most of them will be morons, cos that's what we mostly are today, morons, children in adult-suits. Plenty of them will end up with three or four new navels and worse. But yeah, if you're skillful, raider will be a pretty good survival ploy for the short term. Then there will be nothing left to raid and you can try cannibal for a while. Then you too can die an ugly death. None of it will last terribly long at any scale, i don't imagine. Most of us will die pretty early on.
Freud despised and feared the barnyard animals...that is why he - then his nephew Bernays were more than happy to help with controlling the dumb beasts...
It doesn't work like that. Once enough humans are dead, it will be possible to survive by hunting. There'll be no more sewage flowing into rivers and seas either or coal being burned on a large scale (no more mercury pollution) so fish and shellfish populations will recover and be safe to eat. And of course forests will grow back, everywhere.
I am with you 100% there. Us decimating one another will be the best thing to happen for every other lifeform on earth and the biosphere in general. What are the odds for any individual amongst us to make it through collapse? I ran a trapline in my teens, i'm an avid hunter/expert marksman/handloader, i raise my own livestock, i work land with teams of horses. I rate my own odds should i be around still for the worst of it as low. I rate the standard issue human of today that makes up 95% of the population or more as having odds of survival of zip.
1. I realized there would be no coffee after BAU collapsed
2. I realized that none of my neighbours were even close to self sufficient (nor was I - I was fooling myself)
3. I understood that the hordes would come for me if I had food. They would find me
4. Who the fuck wants to live without modern conveniences... no electricity ...no washing machine... no car... just dusk till dawn harsh living .... fuck that... I'd rather be dead
I don't rate my chances highly, but i'll give surviving a shot if and when circumstances catch me out, i think some of it would be quite fun. I've been carrying a firearm in the bush since about age ten, for instance. But i don't fear death, either. If someone told i was to die this very night amongst the emotions i would feel would be a strong component of relief.
Not fun as such but you would feel very alive and you certainly wouldnt be bored.
What people should do is undetectably poison one of their packages of food so it can't be noticed. Then if the raiders do get them they'll die later when they eat it.
If you don’t cool the spent fuel, the temperature will rise and there may be a swift chain reaction that leads to spontaneous combustion–an explosion and fire of the spent fuel assemblies. Such a scenario would emit radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Pick your poison. Fresh fuel is hotter and more radioactive, but is only one fuel assembly. A pool of spent fuel will have dozens of assemblies.
One report from Sankei News said that there are over 700 fuel assemblies stored in one pool at Fukushima. If they all caught fire, radioactive particles—including those lasting for as long as a decade—would be released into the air and eventually contaminate the land or, worse, be inhaled by people. “To me, the spent fuel is scarier. All those spent fuel assemblies are still extremely radioactive,” Dalnoki-Veress says.
It has been known for more than two decades that, in case of a loss of water in the pool, convective air cooling would be relatively ineffective in such a “dense-packed” pool. Spent fuel recently discharged from a reactor could heat up relatively rapidly to temperatures at which the zircaloy fuel cladding could catch fire and the fuel’s volatile fission product, including 30-year half-life Cs, would be released. The fire could well spread to older spent fuel. The long-term land-contamination consequences of such an event could be significantly worse than those from Chernobyl. Source
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary called it “the devil’s scenario.” Two weeks after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear reactors to melt down and release radioactive plumes, officials were bracing for even worse. They feared that spent fuel stored in pools in the reactor halls would catch fire and send radioactive smoke across a much wider swath of eastern Japan, including Tokyo. Source
Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident Source (Note: The Chernobyl accident was relatively minor, involved no spent fuel ponds, and was controlled by pouring cement onto the reactor. This was breaking down so a few years back they re-entombed.)
“However, many of the radioactive elements in spent fuel have long half-lives. For example, plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years, and plutonium-240 has a half-life of 6,800 years. Because it contains these long half-lived radioactive elements, spent fuel must be isolated and controlled for thousands of years.” Source
It does not matter how remote you are, the jet stream and ocean currents will circulate these toxic cancer-causing substances around the globe. They will be picked up by convection and pour deadly rain on your crop and water supply.
Nobody survives the collapse of civilization. This will be an extinction event.
Without any supporting facts that this is doable...
I am thinking dumping them in the ocean would poison the oceans... kill everything in them... then with convection and evaporation ... we get rain that contains the cancer causing toxins... and that spreads this shit everywhere
Half life is like thousands of years right? Now that's some very nasty recycling... you eat eat it... you shit it out ... it gets into the soil ... into the plants... you eat it again .. and again hahaha
Ah they require an active grid to stop them melting down. It takes 50 years to safely decommission one and you still have the radioactive waste problem.
If you don’t cool the spent fuel, the temperature will rise and there may be a swift chain reaction that leads to spontaneous combustion–an explosion and fire of the spent fuel assemblies. Such a scenario would emit radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Pick your poison. Fresh fuel is hotter and more radioactive, but is only one fuel assembly. A pool of spent fuel will have dozens of assemblies.
One report from Sankei News said that there are over 700 fuel assemblies stored in one pool at Fukushima. If they all caught fire, radioactive particles—including those lasting for as long as a decade—would be released into the air and eventually contaminate the land or, worse, be inhaled by people. “To me, the spent fuel is scarier. All those spent fuel assemblies are still extremely radioactive,” Dalnoki-Veress says.
It has been known for more than two decades that, in case of a loss of water in the pool, convective air cooling would be relatively ineffective in such a “dense-packed” pool. Spent fuel recently discharged from a reactor could heat up relatively rapidly to temperatures at which the zircaloy fuel cladding could catch fire and the fuel’s volatile fission product, including 30-year half-life Cs, would be released. The fire could well spread to older spent fuel. The long-term land-contamination consequences of such an event could be significantly worse than those from Chernobyl. Source
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary called it “the devil’s scenario.” Two weeks after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear reactors to melt down and release radioactive plumes, officials were bracing for even worse. They feared that spent fuel stored in pools in the reactor halls would catch fire and send radioactive smoke across a much wider swath of eastern Japan, including Tokyo. Source
Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident Source (Note: The Chernobyl accident was relatively minor, involved no spent fuel ponds, and was controlled by pouring cement onto the reactor. This was breaking down so a few years back they re-entombed.)
“However, many of the radioactive elements in spent fuel have long half-lives. For example, plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years, and plutonium-240 has a half-life of 6,800 years. Because it contains these long half-lived radioactive elements, spent fuel must be isolated and controlled for thousands of years.” Source
It does not matter how remote you are, the jet stream and ocean currents will circulate these toxic cancer-causing substances around the globe. They will be picked up by convection and pour deadly rain on your crop and water supply.
Nobody survives the collapse of civilization. This will be an extinction event.
Oh yes, most of us will die ugly deaths. In the most peaceful of times, most people die ugly deaths. Maybe even uglier in peaceful times. Which is uglier, instant lights-out from a bullet to the head, or succumbing to lung cancer over a period of weeks during which you drown in your own fluids surrounded by your family, your ever more desperate breathing coming to sound more and more like an old-fashioned coffee perculator?
I hold out hope that they will distribute Fentanyl... when the end arrives...
People will insist they will fight to the death ... but when they see what collapse looks like... they will be thankful they'd didn't flush the pills down the toilet
How fitting if they couriered Purple Kook Aid Fentanyl powder to everyone...
Or how about they just drop millions of packets from aircraft hahaha!!! Yes... I like it.. Purple Rain
Those nice neighbours with the kids. Can't believe they just axe murdered an old lady for a couple of cans of Heinz beans. That sort of thing could get depressing.
Matthew Stanley is on Substack and said “The US and the world-system are dependent on California’s Central Valley. California is the world’s fifth largest supplier of food, and for many specific items, the number one source — 75% of the world’s global supply of walnuts comes from California, and amongst US states it produces 99% of the almonds, artichokes, dates, dried plums, figs, garlic, kiwifruit, olives and olive oil, pistachios, raisins, and table grapes. These California farms provide 1/4 of the entire nation’s food, including 40% of all fruits and nuts.
Our current rate of production is completely reckless and short-sighted. We’ve been using up California’s most precious resource at an alarming rate. As this aquifer approaches non-usable levels of emptiness, we’ll begin to experience water prices shooting to astronomical levels, which will likely precipitate drastic rationing measures, crop loss, and food shortages. In short, this economic engine is burning its fuel faster than it can replenish its source.
The systems we take for granted everyday are all built on many such phenomena — I mentally refer to them as “bubbles.”
California must be on the food radar these days, i just saw a note proclaiming that California "feeds everyone." Interesting statement. None of those items you listed are a staple of our diet here. I slaughter a couple of hogs annually and eat a lot of oatmeal, both of which can be raised readily here seven or eight hundred miles from California. Also, to look at the bodies of today's people? These walruses ain't eating almonds and kiwifruit.
The Central Valley of CA has dropped 30 feet in some places due to water extraction. Sharon, it can't be just you and me and a few others who have noticed. Heck, I live 6,000 miles away in the UK and it's come up on my radar.
And on the other side of the Rockies you have the Ogallala which provided, at one time, water to irrigate crops which provided 16% of the world's carbs. Perhaps a couple of decades left in it, tops.
The same is true for the two main aquifers in Asia, under the North China Plain and the North Indian Plain. Not forgetting Asia's Water Tower, the Himalayas, the source of all of Asia's great rivers disappearing as the glaciers disappear.
No, putting a bit of food aside or even "starting a garden" isn't going to cut it. Oh dear.
Thousands of women across the UK live in dread of their husband's football team losing on a Saturday afternoon 'cos they know only too well who they will take it out on when they get home.
At school I could never see the point of running back and forth chasing a heavy leather ball, I'm told it takes all sorts.
In Canada there has been this French English divide and most will be aware.
My uncle who was 6ft... 220lbs... heavy boozer... hard rock miner... married a former convent girl - French Canadian... (odd given he despised the French... not sure why) would literally kill a bottle of 5 star whisky while watching Saturday Night Hockey ... if Montreal won... get the fuck out of the way - the war was on.... We were there as kids more than once and saw the mayhem....
He'd beat the shit out of her ... put her in the hospital many times... she would have been half his size...
In NZ -- there are ads urging husbands not to pound the shit out of their wives... when the All Blacks lose.
That’s why the likes of Zuckerberg, Gates and the rest of the parasites have bunkers and remote facilities! Oh and by the way they’ll have their private jets to get them there….
peter with all due respect, the king had tons of slaves. i bet he was also seen as a parasite. when are humans just not going to let go and just accept some humans like gaining power and getting resources for ordering others?? like we repeat this discussion 191291200 times already. the reason 8 billion humans don't do anything is because they love comfort and bread and circus and they don't have the balls to start up a military or do whatever it takes to get power. dont you know every nation was born out of violence and wars???? its in the genes dude. humans are hierarchical get over it. the next guy will slit an elite and also do the same shit and order other people around and be condescending towards them when will you just learn to understand that nothing in reality changed. you become an elite and then the retards below you ask why you don't give them resources or do favours for them or channel resources into their fucking mouths like entitled first worlders just give me a break man
There is already great resentment festering across societies... the barnyard animals are very dangerous wicked beasts... remove the police and security ... and they'll skin these fuckers alive
Of course you are correct. I get cross and don’t focus on the big picture. Yes the king and a multitude of others all acting out their elite over proletariat thing, on and on throughout history. Nothing has changed except we eat more ‘cake’ now and feel satisfied whilst being screwed over; same shit, same chaos, different approach. I get it and understand fully. Sometimes need to ‘vent my spleen’, (wherever that crap came from), purely for my own satisfaction. Interestingly, if you are interested in ancient history (like him or not, Graham Hancock has some interesting insights) some 13,000 years ago something cataclysmic happened that changed the course of the world and humanity! I suppose shit just happens……
We've been through this many times. They'll be smoked out of their bunkers and tortured to death by raiders. Post collapse the new elite are the strongest and most brutal fighters, not tech nerds because there will be no more tech.
Yes, what a pack of rank imbeciles those hockey fans.
There will be a great escalating deal of nastiness moving forward now for sure. The classic "too many rodents in the cage and we're now reducing the resources to boot" experiment. However, i don't think chaos and carnage will be the only thing we'll see. I think we'll see the human gamut, a return of real caring/community as well. It's gonna be the whole meal-deal writ extreme and primal.
I actually don't really care much about who wins a game in any sport... I'd rather just see a close exciting game
It's kinda hard to give fucks about who wins... unless you are 12 yrs old...
One other thing... I would NEVER get an autograph of any player any sport... nor would I take a selfie.... unless one of the players asked me to sign a napkin or take a photo.... it would be rude not to...
Once upon a time in Nagano (small town) when I played hockey in Asia - a bunch of guys on our team went to watch the Olympics... we ran into team Canada at a restaurant after their lose and had a few beers with them... someone had a jersey from our league... we all signed it and gave it to their captain... :)
And the best thing is that these rioters performed in front of hundreds of cameras... and were later identified... and jailed.
hahaha... fucking DUMB MORONS
Oh and these fellas vote... throw in the Swifty vote and you can see why democracy would be a very bad idea
The Founding Fathers called Democracy mob rule and came up with the much better idea of a Constitutional Republic. But as the people running things much prefer mobs 'cos they are so easy to control, America is now the world's best Democracy.
Socrates,who of course came up with the idea, didn't think it was a goer either.
I'll take these guys https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/who-runs-the-world over the barnyard animals any day!!!
When they come, they'll come armed. They'll know where you are from your lights or smoke or smell of cooking, but you won't know where they are. Not until they are very close.
Then, well, that really depends what mood they're in and what kind of attitude you have. You're going to end up dead, but that could take quite some time on a bad day.
Some places will be prepared for this, have a watch out, etc. It's not like these people will be ninjas, most of them will be morons, cos that's what we mostly are today, morons, children in adult-suits. Plenty of them will end up with three or four new navels and worse. But yeah, if you're skillful, raider will be a pretty good survival ploy for the short term. Then there will be nothing left to raid and you can try cannibal for a while. Then you too can die an ugly death. None of it will last terribly long at any scale, i don't imagine. Most of us will die pretty early on.
Freud despised and feared the barnyard animals...that is why he - then his nephew Bernays were more than happy to help with controlling the dumb beasts...
First 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
Then you too can die an ugly death.
It doesn't work like that. Once enough humans are dead, it will be possible to survive by hunting. There'll be no more sewage flowing into rivers and seas either or coal being burned on a large scale (no more mercury pollution) so fish and shellfish populations will recover and be safe to eat. And of course forests will grow back, everywhere.
I am with you 100% there. Us decimating one another will be the best thing to happen for every other lifeform on earth and the biosphere in general. What are the odds for any individual amongst us to make it through collapse? I ran a trapline in my teens, i'm an avid hunter/expert marksman/handloader, i raise my own livestock, i work land with teams of horses. I rate my own odds should i be around still for the worst of it as low. I rate the standard issue human of today that makes up 95% of the population or more as having odds of survival of zip.
I gave up on surviving for these reasons:
1. I realized there would be no coffee after BAU collapsed
2. I realized that none of my neighbours were even close to self sufficient (nor was I - I was fooling myself)
3. I understood that the hordes would come for me if I had food. They would find me
4. Who the fuck wants to live without modern conveniences... no electricity ...no washing machine... no car... just dusk till dawn harsh living .... fuck that... I'd rather be dead
5. Spent fuel ponds
I don't rate my chances highly, but i'll give surviving a shot if and when circumstances catch me out, i think some of it would be quite fun. I've been carrying a firearm in the bush since about age ten, for instance. But i don't fear death, either. If someone told i was to die this very night amongst the emotions i would feel would be a strong component of relief.
Not fun as such but you would feel very alive and you certainly wouldnt be bored.
What people should do is undetectably poison one of their packages of food so it can't be noticed. Then if the raiders do get them they'll die later when they eat it.
you might want to factor in the melting down of 465+ reactors and 2000+ spent fuel ponds...
not sure you'll be doin much fishin
There are 4000 Spent Fuel Ponds Around the Globe…
If you don’t cool the spent fuel, the temperature will rise and there may be a swift chain reaction that leads to spontaneous combustion–an explosion and fire of the spent fuel assemblies. Such a scenario would emit radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Pick your poison. Fresh fuel is hotter and more radioactive, but is only one fuel assembly. A pool of spent fuel will have dozens of assemblies.
One report from Sankei News said that there are over 700 fuel assemblies stored in one pool at Fukushima. If they all caught fire, radioactive particles—including those lasting for as long as a decade—would be released into the air and eventually contaminate the land or, worse, be inhaled by people. “To me, the spent fuel is scarier. All those spent fuel assemblies are still extremely radioactive,” Dalnoki-Veress says.
It has been known for more than two decades that, in case of a loss of water in the pool, convective air cooling would be relatively ineffective in such a “dense-packed” pool. Spent fuel recently discharged from a reactor could heat up relatively rapidly to temperatures at which the zircaloy fuel cladding could catch fire and the fuel’s volatile fission product, including 30-year half-life Cs, would be released. The fire could well spread to older spent fuel. The long-term land-contamination consequences of such an event could be significantly worse than those from Chernobyl. Source
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary called it “the devil’s scenario.” Two weeks after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear reactors to melt down and release radioactive plumes, officials were bracing for even worse. They feared that spent fuel stored in pools in the reactor halls would catch fire and send radioactive smoke across a much wider swath of eastern Japan, including Tokyo. Source
Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident Source (Note: The Chernobyl accident was relatively minor, involved no spent fuel ponds, and was controlled by pouring cement onto the reactor. This was breaking down so a few years back they re-entombed.)
“However, many of the radioactive elements in spent fuel have long half-lives. For example, plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years, and plutonium-240 has a half-life of 6,800 years. Because it contains these long half-lived radioactive elements, spent fuel must be isolated and controlled for thousands of years.” Source
It does not matter how remote you are, the jet stream and ocean currents will circulate these toxic cancer-causing substances around the globe. They will be picked up by convection and pour deadly rain on your crop and water supply.
Nobody survives the collapse of civilization. This will be an extinction event.
4000 ponds.... https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-utter-futility-of-doomsday-prepping
The reactors will already be shut down due to lack of fuel. The spent fuel rods can just be dumped in the Mariana Trench. The sea is very big.
I like how you just made that up....
Without any supporting facts that this is doable...
I am thinking dumping them in the ocean would poison the oceans... kill everything in them... then with convection and evaporation ... we get rain that contains the cancer causing toxins... and that spreads this shit everywhere
Half life is like thousands of years right? Now that's some very nasty recycling... you eat eat it... you shit it out ... it gets into the soil ... into the plants... you eat it again .. and again hahaha
Ah they require an active grid to stop them melting down. It takes 50 years to safely decommission one and you still have the radioactive waste problem.
Oh i have, trust me. I am not optimistic.
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-utter-futility-of-doomsday-prepping
There are 4000 Spent Fuel Ponds Around the Globe…
If you don’t cool the spent fuel, the temperature will rise and there may be a swift chain reaction that leads to spontaneous combustion–an explosion and fire of the spent fuel assemblies. Such a scenario would emit radioactive particles into the atmosphere. Pick your poison. Fresh fuel is hotter and more radioactive, but is only one fuel assembly. A pool of spent fuel will have dozens of assemblies.
One report from Sankei News said that there are over 700 fuel assemblies stored in one pool at Fukushima. If they all caught fire, radioactive particles—including those lasting for as long as a decade—would be released into the air and eventually contaminate the land or, worse, be inhaled by people. “To me, the spent fuel is scarier. All those spent fuel assemblies are still extremely radioactive,” Dalnoki-Veress says.
It has been known for more than two decades that, in case of a loss of water in the pool, convective air cooling would be relatively ineffective in such a “dense-packed” pool. Spent fuel recently discharged from a reactor could heat up relatively rapidly to temperatures at which the zircaloy fuel cladding could catch fire and the fuel’s volatile fission product, including 30-year half-life Cs, would be released. The fire could well spread to older spent fuel. The long-term land-contamination consequences of such an event could be significantly worse than those from Chernobyl. Source
Japan’s chief cabinet secretary called it “the devil’s scenario.” Two weeks after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear reactors to melt down and release radioactive plumes, officials were bracing for even worse. They feared that spent fuel stored in pools in the reactor halls would catch fire and send radioactive smoke across a much wider swath of eastern Japan, including Tokyo. Source
Estimates of the cancer burden in Europe from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident Source (Note: The Chernobyl accident was relatively minor, involved no spent fuel ponds, and was controlled by pouring cement onto the reactor. This was breaking down so a few years back they re-entombed.)
“However, many of the radioactive elements in spent fuel have long half-lives. For example, plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years, and plutonium-240 has a half-life of 6,800 years. Because it contains these long half-lived radioactive elements, spent fuel must be isolated and controlled for thousands of years.” Source
It does not matter how remote you are, the jet stream and ocean currents will circulate these toxic cancer-causing substances around the globe. They will be picked up by convection and pour deadly rain on your crop and water supply.
Nobody survives the collapse of civilization. This will be an extinction event.
You and Hideaway should collaborate on an article at Undenial to end the prepare, raider, lone survivor meme once and for all.
Oh yes, most of us will die ugly deaths. In the most peaceful of times, most people die ugly deaths. Maybe even uglier in peaceful times. Which is uglier, instant lights-out from a bullet to the head, or succumbing to lung cancer over a period of weeks during which you drown in your own fluids surrounded by your family, your ever more desperate breathing coming to sound more and more like an old-fashioned coffee perculator?
It's vile, Ive seen it many times now. Better to be shot. We have voluntary euthanasia now in the UK though.
I hope when they try to do a military shut down or something, there are enough physicians to let you die peacefully.
I hold out hope that they will distribute Fentanyl... when the end arrives...
People will insist they will fight to the death ... but when they see what collapse looks like... they will be thankful they'd didn't flush the pills down the toilet
How fitting if they couriered Purple Kook Aid Fentanyl powder to everyone...
Or how about they just drop millions of packets from aircraft hahaha!!! Yes... I like it.. Purple Rain
Those nice neighbours with the kids. Can't believe they just axe murdered an old lady for a couple of cans of Heinz beans. That sort of thing could get depressing.
Matthew Stanley is on Substack and said “The US and the world-system are dependent on California’s Central Valley. California is the world’s fifth largest supplier of food, and for many specific items, the number one source — 75% of the world’s global supply of walnuts comes from California, and amongst US states it produces 99% of the almonds, artichokes, dates, dried plums, figs, garlic, kiwifruit, olives and olive oil, pistachios, raisins, and table grapes. These California farms provide 1/4 of the entire nation’s food, including 40% of all fruits and nuts.
Our current rate of production is completely reckless and short-sighted. We’ve been using up California’s most precious resource at an alarming rate. As this aquifer approaches non-usable levels of emptiness, we’ll begin to experience water prices shooting to astronomical levels, which will likely precipitate drastic rationing measures, crop loss, and food shortages. In short, this economic engine is burning its fuel faster than it can replenish its source.
The systems we take for granted everyday are all built on many such phenomena — I mentally refer to them as “bubbles.”
It's not going to be a problem long term because there will be no fertiliser so nothing will grow. Or any trucks, or diesel fuel, or roads.
California must be on the food radar these days, i just saw a note proclaiming that California "feeds everyone." Interesting statement. None of those items you listed are a staple of our diet here. I slaughter a couple of hogs annually and eat a lot of oatmeal, both of which can be raised readily here seven or eight hundred miles from California. Also, to look at the bodies of today's people? These walruses ain't eating almonds and kiwifruit.
The Central Valley of CA has dropped 30 feet in some places due to water extraction. Sharon, it can't be just you and me and a few others who have noticed. Heck, I live 6,000 miles away in the UK and it's come up on my radar.
And on the other side of the Rockies you have the Ogallala which provided, at one time, water to irrigate crops which provided 16% of the world's carbs. Perhaps a couple of decades left in it, tops.
The same is true for the two main aquifers in Asia, under the North China Plain and the North Indian Plain. Not forgetting Asia's Water Tower, the Himalayas, the source of all of Asia's great rivers disappearing as the glaciers disappear.
No, putting a bit of food aside or even "starting a garden" isn't going to cut it. Oh dear.
Every time I see photos of Lake Mead nearly drained https://s.w-x.co/31fbf48f-cbe9-4ca1-b6a3-2d169ab1c59a.jpg
I find myself hoping it won't refill... so far no luck
DOOMED indeed we are!!!
Thousands of women across the UK live in dread of their husband's football team losing on a Saturday afternoon 'cos they know only too well who they will take it out on when they get home.
At school I could never see the point of running back and forth chasing a heavy leather ball, I'm told it takes all sorts.
In Canada there has been this French English divide and most will be aware.
My uncle who was 6ft... 220lbs... heavy boozer... hard rock miner... married a former convent girl - French Canadian... (odd given he despised the French... not sure why) would literally kill a bottle of 5 star whisky while watching Saturday Night Hockey ... if Montreal won... get the fuck out of the way - the war was on.... We were there as kids more than once and saw the mayhem....
He'd beat the shit out of her ... put her in the hospital many times... she would have been half his size...
In NZ -- there are ads urging husbands not to pound the shit out of their wives... when the All Blacks lose.
Explosions lead to implosion. The center cannot hold because was being eaten away slowly but surely, and now is gnawed on by TPTB.
Remember the Uber driver - oil and gas engineer... driving part time as he looks for a new job... 3 years now without a job....
Oil giant Chevron to lay off thousands in bid to cut up to 20% of global workforce
No 2 US oil firm aims for $3bn in cost cuts through 2026 and seeks to simplify business after production challenges https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/12/chevron-global-layoffs
If you can find this it's worth watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Just_Here_for_the_Riot
As the top cop says - what were they angry at? Society?
I've got it here but it's paid https://kayosports.com.au/shows/show-30-for-30-i-m-just-here-for-the-riot!137766
That’s why the likes of Zuckerberg, Gates and the rest of the parasites have bunkers and remote facilities! Oh and by the way they’ll have their private jets to get them there….
peter with all due respect, the king had tons of slaves. i bet he was also seen as a parasite. when are humans just not going to let go and just accept some humans like gaining power and getting resources for ordering others?? like we repeat this discussion 191291200 times already. the reason 8 billion humans don't do anything is because they love comfort and bread and circus and they don't have the balls to start up a military or do whatever it takes to get power. dont you know every nation was born out of violence and wars???? its in the genes dude. humans are hierarchical get over it. the next guy will slit an elite and also do the same shit and order other people around and be condescending towards them when will you just learn to understand that nothing in reality changed. you become an elite and then the retards below you ask why you don't give them resources or do favours for them or channel resources into their fucking mouths like entitled first worlders just give me a break man
There is already great resentment festering across societies... the barnyard animals are very dangerous wicked beasts... remove the police and security ... and they'll skin these fuckers alive
Roast Zuckerberg for dinnah
Of course you are correct. I get cross and don’t focus on the big picture. Yes the king and a multitude of others all acting out their elite over proletariat thing, on and on throughout history. Nothing has changed except we eat more ‘cake’ now and feel satisfied whilst being screwed over; same shit, same chaos, different approach. I get it and understand fully. Sometimes need to ‘vent my spleen’, (wherever that crap came from), purely for my own satisfaction. Interestingly, if you are interested in ancient history (like him or not, Graham Hancock has some interesting insights) some 13,000 years ago something cataclysmic happened that changed the course of the world and humanity! I suppose shit just happens……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
We've been through this many times. They'll be smoked out of their bunkers and tortured to death by raiders. Post collapse the new elite are the strongest and most brutal fighters, not tech nerds because there will be no more tech.
Absolutely
And in a special bonus segment today, the US Navy carrier Harry s Truman has collided with a cargo ship in the Mediterranean. No injuries reported.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqRe-ouavjw
Yes, what a pack of rank imbeciles those hockey fans.
There will be a great escalating deal of nastiness moving forward now for sure. The classic "too many rodents in the cage and we're now reducing the resources to boot" experiment. However, i don't think chaos and carnage will be the only thing we'll see. I think we'll see the human gamut, a return of real caring/community as well. It's gonna be the whole meal-deal writ extreme and primal.
More evidence the civilization is a thin veneer -- just below the surface is barbarism
I think these idiots assumed that if thousands participated... the police could not stop or catch them...
Fast forward to collapse ....when the police disband and say fuck this I'm headed home to my family....
The Gates of Hell WILL open... absolutely
I hear that Fast Eddy is a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.
I actually don't really care much about who wins a game in any sport... I'd rather just see a close exciting game
It's kinda hard to give fucks about who wins... unless you are 12 yrs old...
One other thing... I would NEVER get an autograph of any player any sport... nor would I take a selfie.... unless one of the players asked me to sign a napkin or take a photo.... it would be rude not to...
Once upon a time in Nagano (small town) when I played hockey in Asia - a bunch of guys on our team went to watch the Olympics... we ran into team Canada at a restaurant after their lose and had a few beers with them... someone had a jersey from our league... we all signed it and gave it to their captain... :)