I asked each of them - does your candidate support the banning of Covid vaccines?
Um... uh... DUH.... no (while thinking - who is this fucking retard).
Well then... I won't be voting for your candidate.
Silence.
Completely pissed off having to make my way past these morons --- with the final one --- I said I don't vote because all politicians are liars ... the woman said 'Tom whatever is not'... yes yes ... of course not... and I walked across the street and returned home thinking ... why don't those fellas who open fire on folks in the cinemas instead target folks who deserve a good machine gunning....
I'm looking at upgrading from a swag tent to a roof tent for The Big Adventure in June... need to say within my 3465 GVM vehicle weight ... and that is proving a bit of a challenge... I might have to ditch my exercise weight plates
Thanks to load-shedding in South Africa, the populace is well educated on how to handle power cuts. Most have back-up lamps, UPS systems, solar, and during a black-out most systems remain functional. My Magneto Lithium-ion Led Lantern - https://www.incredible.co.za/magneto-lithium-ion-led-lantern runs for 60 hours but takes days to fully charge from zero, so I keep it topped up
In UK my annual kWh requires 12k, whereas in SA it's only 3k. Suggestion: move south Brits before it happens!
Hope this helps your readers - preparation is the key to survival, and as a life-long yachtsman, I am always fully prepped. Although you are a maximum of only 20 days sailing to the nearest land, our water comes free from the sky and our food from the ocean. We are comfortable to sail to the nearest land. Our towed desalinated fills in the gaps, and of course our towed fishing line never fails. Solar panels provide the power (and gas for cooking) - no engine required - and at night the wind generator provides a trickle charge to our multiple-bank batteries.
The last situation I'd want to be in when collapse arrives is a white minority man in a country that was colonized... the atrocities that will be committed against whitey ... will be unspeakable....
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.
Ha Ha - according to Bhudists suffering is cause by desire - if you can let go of desire, suffering will disappear! It works for me old friend. No avoidance required!
"load shedding" reminds me of power-cut hour in India, where everyone fires up their backup generator, turning the (already polluted) air into a choking fog of fumes..
Excellent reading, Fast Eddy. Your thorough exposition inspires conjectures - I even checked out the ramifications of 'normalcy bias' on Copilot, thinking of those trusting Jews who hung around the Fatherland, confident they could make a deal with the Nazis but whose offers went unappreciated. Kristallnacht in late 1938 was a decisive impediment to getting the hell out; as the Reich was teetering on insolvency, a 'guns or butter' choice became academic. On the cheery side, the impending digital dictatorship which our wise overlords plan to clamp down on humanity will be but a fond fantasy when there is no mains power to run it - while the aspiring Masters of the Planet must have thought of that inconvenience, certain physical constraints are simply immovable, even if old sol does not decide to fling sunsnot and burn out all the circuitry. I would conclude that it is better most likely to live in a remote, rambunctious region of a third-world society in the event of collapse, since 'high-trust' ones (think Sweden, Germany or Empire of Lies) will resist the suspicion that their stalwart institutions, governments, utilities and social harmony will go on the blink - until there is general paralysis, at which point you may assume a bewildered, messy, angry panic will ensue. Too late, Jake: bring the rake.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964.
Arendt's subtitle famously introduced the phrase "the banality of evil." In part the phrase refers to Eichmann's deportment at the trial as the man displayed neither guilt for his actions nor hatred for those trying him, claiming he bore no responsibility because he was simply "doing his job." ("He did his 'duty'...; he not only obeyed 'orders,' he also obeyed the 'law.'").
Arendt assures us that the Germans who marched the Jews to the gas chambers were mindless zombies with no motive other than following orders. She insists that the millions of Germans who cheered as the Jews were piled into box cars and delivered to the death camps were brainless twats akin to Swifties, caught up in the moment.
Arendt’s celebrity is a product of her inventing the phrase ‘the banality of evil.’ The assumption that she is promulgating is that the evil that was inflicted on the Jews in Germany involved no instigation, or perceived instigation. She’d have us believe that the Germans suddenly decided to take anti-Semitism to new heights and roar with approval the extermination of the Jews.
As someone who is fond of asking questions, when a country gets behind a pogrom with the goal being the total extermination of a group of people, I ask the question ‘why would they want to do that?’.
Great article, but the author is either omitting or not anticipating the gigantic energy demand drop that is coming and Europe and UK may not even need renewables anymore.
Five Minutes of Joy...
So ... it's voting season in WA ...I had to run the gauntlet of fucktards trying to convince me to participate in the election aka this https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/what-if-488/
I asked each of them - does your candidate support the banning of Covid vaccines?
Um... uh... DUH.... no (while thinking - who is this fucking retard).
Well then... I won't be voting for your candidate.
Silence.
Completely pissed off having to make my way past these morons --- with the final one --- I said I don't vote because all politicians are liars ... the woman said 'Tom whatever is not'... yes yes ... of course not... and I walked across the street and returned home thinking ... why don't those fellas who open fire on folks in the cinemas instead target folks who deserve a good machine gunning....
Congratulations on the work around. The Seneca effect or Seneca cliff is going to be a bitch. Working on that bucket list like you advised.
I'm looking at upgrading from a swag tent to a roof tent for The Big Adventure in June... need to say within my 3465 GVM vehicle weight ... and that is proving a bit of a challenge... I might have to ditch my exercise weight plates
Intro to fragile complexity from 1978:
https://youtu.be/XetplHcM7aQ
What Happens When the Power Goes Out?
Case Study - New York City 1977
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-the-power-goes
Thanks to load-shedding in South Africa, the populace is well educated on how to handle power cuts. Most have back-up lamps, UPS systems, solar, and during a black-out most systems remain functional. My Magneto Lithium-ion Led Lantern - https://www.incredible.co.za/magneto-lithium-ion-led-lantern runs for 60 hours but takes days to fully charge from zero, so I keep it topped up
My portable soler generator: https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/g37295464/best-solar-powered-generators/ gives me four hours of off-line work if at night. But with 300 days of sun in the Cape - no worries here: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/focus-on-cape-town-budget-2025-wine?r=hhrlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
In UK my annual kWh requires 12k, whereas in SA it's only 3k. Suggestion: move south Brits before it happens!
Hope this helps your readers - preparation is the key to survival, and as a life-long yachtsman, I am always fully prepped. Although you are a maximum of only 20 days sailing to the nearest land, our water comes free from the sky and our food from the ocean. We are comfortable to sail to the nearest land. Our towed desalinated fills in the gaps, and of course our towed fishing line never fails. Solar panels provide the power (and gas for cooking) - no engine required - and at night the wind generator provides a trickle charge to our multiple-bank batteries.
Happy sailing guys :-)
AP
The last situation I'd want to be in when collapse arrives is a white minority man in a country that was colonized... the atrocities that will be committed against whitey ... will be unspeakable....
Shoot the Boer ... and cook the fucker in a pot... https://youtu.be/VL-sbov3vUE
Don't worry FE, I can sail away at 6 hours notice, max, long before the barbarians are at the gate! History is a great teacher IMHO: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/boers-and-blood-no-ww3-dispossession?r=hhrlz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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.
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-utter-futility-of-doomsday-prepping
At my age FE, why should I worry? https://www.sciencealert.com/the-best-simulation-we-have-says-the-threat-of-a-nuclear-winter-is-all-too-real
If you can get your hands on some Fentanyl... that's a pleasant way to avoid the suffering...
Ha Ha - according to Bhudists suffering is cause by desire - if you can let go of desire, suffering will disappear! It works for me old friend. No avoidance required!
"load shedding" reminds me of power-cut hour in India, where everyone fires up their backup generator, turning the (already polluted) air into a choking fog of fumes..
Excellent reading, Fast Eddy. Your thorough exposition inspires conjectures - I even checked out the ramifications of 'normalcy bias' on Copilot, thinking of those trusting Jews who hung around the Fatherland, confident they could make a deal with the Nazis but whose offers went unappreciated. Kristallnacht in late 1938 was a decisive impediment to getting the hell out; as the Reich was teetering on insolvency, a 'guns or butter' choice became academic. On the cheery side, the impending digital dictatorship which our wise overlords plan to clamp down on humanity will be but a fond fantasy when there is no mains power to run it - while the aspiring Masters of the Planet must have thought of that inconvenience, certain physical constraints are simply immovable, even if old sol does not decide to fling sunsnot and burn out all the circuitry. I would conclude that it is better most likely to live in a remote, rambunctious region of a third-world society in the event of collapse, since 'high-trust' ones (think Sweden, Germany or Empire of Lies) will resist the suspicion that their stalwart institutions, governments, utilities and social harmony will go on the blink - until there is general paralysis, at which point you may assume a bewildered, messy, angry panic will ensue. Too late, Jake: bring the rake.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was published in 1964.
Arendt's subtitle famously introduced the phrase "the banality of evil." In part the phrase refers to Eichmann's deportment at the trial as the man displayed neither guilt for his actions nor hatred for those trying him, claiming he bore no responsibility because he was simply "doing his job." ("He did his 'duty'...; he not only obeyed 'orders,' he also obeyed the 'law.'").
Arendt assures us that the Germans who marched the Jews to the gas chambers were mindless zombies with no motive other than following orders. She insists that the millions of Germans who cheered as the Jews were piled into box cars and delivered to the death camps were brainless twats akin to Swifties, caught up in the moment.
Arendt’s celebrity is a product of her inventing the phrase ‘the banality of evil.’ The assumption that she is promulgating is that the evil that was inflicted on the Jews in Germany involved no instigation, or perceived instigation. She’d have us believe that the Germans suddenly decided to take anti-Semitism to new heights and roar with approval the extermination of the Jews.
As someone who is fond of asking questions, when a country gets behind a pogrom with the goal being the total extermination of a group of people, I ask the question ‘why would they want to do that?’.
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/should-we-forgive-the-vaxxers
Yes, we here, south of the equator are few: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-african-century-brics-sa-at-g20?sd=pf
Great article, but the author is either omitting or not anticipating the gigantic energy demand drop that is coming and Europe and UK may not even need renewables anymore.
There will be zero energy https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/financial-system-supply-chain-cross
Arising from depop?