The circling of the drain. Also hail satan.
Yeah, living entirely off of beans and rice isn't the answer (been there, done that- it's bloat city), but you can sustain yourself for a long time.
Definitely good to have a freezer full of animal proteins if that's a possibility. The local fauna population is going to be decimated before anything else once people start going hungry. It's a lot more accessible for someone with no preparations to shoot something and poorly dress it than it is to get a productive garden going.
We've been conditioned as a society to value convenience over everything--- If people aren't in control of their own food supply, they're very easy to control (and as you said- less healthy, which also makes them life-long customers for "health" care).
When I bit into the first cucumber I grew myself several years ago, I was dumfounded that it tasted so flavorful & full of life. Grocery store produce is crunchy tap water at best.
Good point. At least they'll deter other would-be offenders when they're hanging out as lawn ornaments
They sure make good fertilizer when they try to gain access to your home though.
Been gardening for a few years and while the resources for doing so are numerous (Chelsea Green Publishing is a gold mine), I think at this stage the most-pertinent information relates to keeping you sustained during the initial wave of this madness (while also reading from the above publisher and planning a longer-term strategy). There's a sizeable learning curve to gardening effectively, so if the little voice inside your head is telling you to get on it- start now.
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Even if you live in an apartment with only north-facing windows, you can grow a sustainable amount of sprouts for dirt cheap to get most of your needed nutrients in highly bio-available forms. Best method I've ever used (and currently use) is detailed in Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening by Peter Burke. Stock up on sprouting seeds while you still can. I buy my sprouting seeds from True Leaf Market.
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Most grocery stores sell rice in 20lb bags. Buy one every time you go to the store. Don't be a toilet paper Karen about it- there's still time to incrementally amass enough to keep you holed up for a while without starving. White rice has a 30-year shelf life if stored properly.
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Potatoes are perennial and grow from other potatoes-- and growing them in buckets is [in my experience] easier and more-efficient than growing them in-ground-- which means you can grow them on an apartment patio. One potato can grow something like 10lbs if done right. This guy does a great job spelling out exactly how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICHFDQGKG2k
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In addition/alternative to potatoes, sunchokes (aka Jerusalem Artichokes) are sunflowers with edible tubers that grow like weeds. They're like pretty potatoes that are borderline invasive-- but eating them will give you mad gas. Highly recommended.
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Most "weeds" that people try so hard to get rid of are not only edible, but also medicinal. Get familiar with your local flora biome- You'll be surprised by how much of your yard is edible (that is, if you don't blanket your yard with glyphosate like a clueless boomer)
Obligatory link to the most-compelling documentary debunking the moon landing I've ever come across - American Moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuKu3F0BvY
Completely dismantles the entire fraud from so many angles.
Unlike Trump, I think Elon's (or rather, the people behind him) actually playing chess. Every move he makes is nothing short of marketing brilliance, but the actions themselves pave way to plunge us further into an irrecoverable technological hellscape.
He's the perfect trojan horse. His would-be detractors are too pre-occupied with his edgy antics to see what he's actually laying the foundation for. I'd loooove to be wrong, but his track record is too long.
When asked to elaborate on something clearly asinine
"You must be a librull"
The guy who's public biography is a total fabrication & who is actively working to connect your brain to a network of low-orbit satellites was "turned"? Please, do elaborate.
This is an instance where "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" doesn't apply.
He, like Trump, is perfectly capable of driving liberal brain damage to complete madness while also marching further toward the singularity.
Bezos bought Washington Post
Elon's buying Twitter
Every billionaire has to have their own media outlets. And space agencies.
DaSsUh dEeP fAkE
It's the Trump presidency in a nutshell--- I know he's controlled oppo, but god damn if his antics aren't entertaining as we descend further into hell.
I don't remember the last time I was driving and didn't encounter at least one ambulance with lights/sirens on.
Probably just climate change.
LMFAO there are no political solutions.
M-M-M-M-MAAX HEADROOOOOM
Depop is something that can be highly profitable if it's dragged out over time. The relatively small percentage of those who've died suddenly are just fodder--- the rest will have their immune systems sold back to them as a subscription service until their bodies give out later down the line.
Women's bathrooms are all going to smell like lingering pepper spray soon enough
Stupid poors aren't supposed to comprehend such complicated concepts as "opportunity cost"
Stay in hovel. Eat bugs.
Seems doubtful that the overwhelming vast majority of these parent pincushions have the capacity for that sort of self-reflection, but it must be suicide-inducing for the few who do.
Careful now, you're going to completely scramble boomer brains with this sort of rationality. Their lives started easy, and progressively got harder- no critical thought the entire time. Now, still without critical thought, they simply want their little bubble to go back from hard to easy- and they want a savior to do it for them.
Man. Their predictive programming game is strong AF
"Can you imagine if the glove was on the other hand" should be the heading on the tombstone of conservatism.
And bombs to kill brown people on the other side of the world to make more enemies to arm and then bomb in the future.
Also, Flint's water is still full of lead. Fuck yeah we're going to get robbed to pay for this shit.
Two birds, one stone. Record profits alongside record mortality.