Why do people keep food stockpiles? Are they planning for the apocalypse or something?
Because if there's going to be any apocalypse, it's either going to be a nuclear apocalypse, wherein said people are forced to stay inside their personal bunkers long after their food supplies run out (by thousands of years); or else it will be something like a supervolcano (like Yellowstone National Park) erupting and choking all life on the planet to death... which results in the same thing: No more food for a very long time.
Suffice it to say I find the whole prospect of storing food for such an occasion rather silly and pointless.
Why do people keep food stockpiles? Are they planning for the apocalypse or something?
Because if there's going to be any apocalypse, it's either going to be a nuclear apocalypse, wherein said people are forced to stay inside their personal bunkers long after their food supplies run out (by thousands of years); or else it will be something like a supervolcano (like Yellowstone National Park) erupting and choking all life on the planet to death... which results in the same thing: No more food for a very long time.
Suffice it to say I find the whole prospect of storing food for such an occasion rather silly and pointless.
I live in a hurricane region. Or used to. Food stockpiles are a must. You can get stuck indoors for a week sometimes. My school got used as an emergecy shelter on multiple occasions.
Don't know much about automail, but as a random fact, I used be an expert(difficulty) at chainmaille. o.O ...Hey it helped keep my hands busy while watching movies with adhd and ocd. Before that(like over a decade), it was knitting, so it's a step up right? lol
I could see stockpiling food in a storm shelter to use while weathering out such as a tornado or hurricane, but those events won't keep you holed up in said storm shelter for months without access to external food supplies.
I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is in an area called Tornado Alley. A strong enough tornado is likely to damage, destroy or remove your house, but said tornado may be here and gone in a matter of minutes. Keeping six months worth of food stored seems ridiculous.
You never know when an emergency will occur. Hurricane Katrina comes to mind. If you have the means to be as prepared as you can, by all means, it's better to be such than not.
You never know when an emergency will occur. Hurricane Katrina comes to mind. If you have the means to be as prepared as you can, by all means, it's better to be such than not.
Yeah, you never know when it will take the next inept president weeks to help you -.- ....as someone who was no way affected by it, that was still fucking stupid.
You never know when an emergency will occur. Hurricane Katrina comes to mind. If you have the means to be as prepared as you can, by all means, it's better to be such than not.
Yes, but six months worth of food means... 3*30*6=540 meals worth of food per person stored. Where does one keep all that?
And yes, there was Katrina. Katrina, however, flooded all the homes where said food would have been. Also, these people were told way in advance that it was coming and didn't leave. It's not that I don't feel for them, but I don't think that stockpiling six months worth of dehydrated food in their case is the best answer.
Yes, but six months worth of food means... 3*30*6=540 meals worth of food per person stored. Where does one keep all that?
And yes, there was Katrina. Katrina, however, flooded all the homes where said food would have been. Also, these people were told way in advance that it was coming and didn't leave. It's not that I don't feel for them, but I don't think that stockpiling six months worth of dehydrated food in their case is the best answer.
Usually in a closet. Takes up less space than you think.
What I don't think you realize is that when one has food storage, they often rotate stock. For example, forget to pick up sugar from the store? Good thing you have some backup! Just replace it later. Our family would often use our stuff on camping trips.
And again, I have no idea why you're gettin all up in arms about people wanting to be prepared for an emergency however way they can.
Formatted my laptop this morning. Spent the rest of the day trying to get it set up again. I think I'm mostly there, but I'm sure there's programs I'm forgetting.
That reminds me of a conversation between my dad's old boss and his Mormon employee. When he found out the guy had six months supply of food in his garage, he asked, "Do you have any guns?"
The guy replied, "No, I don't believe in guns."
My dad's boss thought about this a moment and then said, "Well, I don't have six months of food... but I do have guns."
This is why I regard anyone without a firearm as not really all that prepared.
I live in Oklahoma, where the governor has recently signed an open-carry gun law.
My brother in law says that if someone openly carries a gun, guess who a criminal with a gun is going to shoot at first?
lol
Open carriers just crave attention IRL. Anyone seriously defense minded concealed carries. I CC all day every day, son. Well, when I leave the house, at least. And also, when it's legal. Anyway, I also never talk about my CC when I'm in public, because that kind of ruins the point.
My vote for next emergency in my area is tornadoes. Georgia gets a surprising amount of them. Anyway, the most likely collapse I see in our lifetime? Societal collapse brought on by debt induced capital failure and/or a general resource crunch. I promise you all that if I ever become a leader of a band of bandits, just tell them you're from Telltale and you're golden.
Anyway, the most likely collapse I see in our lifetime? Societal collapse brought on by debt induced capital failure and/or a general resource crunch.
With an ever-expanding world population (and increasing standards of living in the areas of highest growth), I see a resource-related crisis as a probability rather than possibility.
In fact recently China has been interested in buying up Australian land for food production. I desperately hope that never eventuates... selling off your means of production to a foreign interest is complete and utter madness.
It's not the storing of food for an emergency that confuses me. It's the storing of six months or so worth of food.
There are still people alive today who suffered through prolonged food shortages during the Great Depression and rationing during World War II. Do you really find it beyond the realm of possibility that hardships like that could happen again?
There are still people alive today who suffered through prolonged food shortages during the Great Depression and rationing during World War II. Do you really find it beyond the realm of possibility that hardships like that could happen again?
Yes. Wars are fought differently now than they were 70 years ago. Our technology and tactics are different. We also no longer have a draft-based military, even during the recent wars fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Causes of the Great Depression are still around today, but they don't now have as wide-reaching and dramatic an effect as those of the Great Depression did. We do have economic problems, but they're not that bad. Even with the economic problems we've recently had, many people (not just the rich) still have their iPhones and iPads, and various other wildly unnecessary luxuries.
I don't foresee the need to stockpile months worth of food (a few weeks perhaps, but not months). If such a need arose as to warrant months worth of food, I suspect the cause of this need would be so great that there would be little to no way to survive it.
...I do know someone that had a whole family(two kids), where the wife was unable to work,and he was laid off during the recession. Even with government support, they were living pay cheque to pay cheque, so all of a sudden, they were broke and he was having great difficulty getting a job(and I mean ANY job that could pay the bills, just $10/hr+). They ended up losing TV, internet, phone....and even, briefly, power, and eventually the place they were renting, before getting another job(they split up to live with relatives). So yes, the recession got bad enough in some places that people lost everything. I do see reasoning, but yeah, 6 months might be a bit excessive. If something happens that you require 6 months of food, you're probably fucked in some other form first, with our growing need of electricity, gas, money, it's just not the same as it was back then. I would say that 2-3 months is a respectable amount.
I hope all this work on this assignment is not rendered nulled.
Else I'm going to be really. REALLY. fucking pissed if it is.
(Considering I've spent most of a week working on it!)
Well. It was a fail referred in coursework, (by two marks...), so I thought I'd do the reffered work, but then my grades were updated the other day and now it says "ABSENT".
What does that even mean? Really...
Well I sent a message to the module leader (we on a sort of 1 to 1 basis, but the guy never messages me back) and hopefully he will explain it to me.
(Since nothing in the guide actually says anything about it...)
In the meantime, I'm going to finish this assignment off today.
Its mostly done, and I'm moderately proud of it.
Just have to fill in the side bits of the report. But I need to finish off the analysis first.
But if it doesn't get marked, then I actually will be gutted.
The Daily Show's bit about 16 oz+ soda fines vs Pot fines is really starting to annoy me. I understand that The Daily Show is a comedy program and not a news one, but for better or worse there's an entire age bracket and political leaning that has started to use it as the latter. It's even more frustrating because John Stewart keeps bringing it up in interviews and discussions, and nobody points out the massive, glaring flaw in his $100 vs $200 fine joke.
He's directly comparing a distribution fine to a possession fine.
The 16 oz.+ soda fine is applicable to companies that SELL 16 oz.+ sodas, not to people who possess them. The consequences for SELLING the amount of marijuana he displays on his show is $1,000, a good ten times the fine he's joking about on his program.
With an ever-expanding world population (and increasing standards of living in the areas of highest growth), I see a resource-related crisis as a probability rather than possibility.
In fact recently China has been interested in buying up Australian land for food production. I desperately hope that never eventuates... selling off your means of production to a foreign interest is complete and utter madness.
I've been saying this for years. However, my brother - usually far sighted and reasonably intelligent - seems to believe it'll all "even out." I guess it will after a fuckton of bloodshed, but this I think is emblematic of the sort of thought process we have to deal with to prevent this.
I've been saying this for years. However, my brother - usually far sighted and reasonably intelligent - seems to believe it'll all "even out." I guess it will after a fuckton of bloodshed, but this I think is emblematic of the sort of thought process we have to deal with to prevent this.
You obviously don't understand, Chris. "It'll all even out" is the motto of the universe's irreversible hurtle toward entropy. Your brother is taking on the entirely nihilistic viewpoint that human concerns ultimately do not matter because, in the end, even the Universe and time itself will die.
You obviously don't understand, Chris. "It'll all even out" is the motto of the universe's irreversible hurtle toward entropy. Your brother is taking on the entirely nihilistic viewpoint that human concerns ultimately do not matter because, in the end, even the Universe and time itself will die.
The Daily Show's bit about 16 oz+ soda fines vs Pot fines is really starting to annoy me. I understand that The Daily Show is a comedy program and not a news one, but for better or worse there's an entire age bracket and political leaning that has started to use it as the latter. It's even more frustrating because John Stewart keeps bringing it up in interviews and discussions, and nobody points out the massive, glaring flaw in his $100 vs $200 fine joke.
He's directly comparing a distribution fine to a possession fine.
The 16 oz.+ soda fine is applicable to companies that SELL 16 oz.+ sodas, not to people who possess them. The consequences for SELLING the amount of marijuana he displays on his show is $1,000, a good ten times the fine he's joking about on his program.
The proper comparison:
Possession:
Pot - $100
Soda - $0
Distribution:
Pot - $1,000
Soda - $200
I like Jon well enough but he's shown in the past that, while politically interested, he's not serious about being political. He really does boil down to being a comedian in the end, and has no real interest in being a leader or 'seriously' tackling issues. So stuff like this will fly with him.
Haha. I was too engrossed in the story to mess around like that! Having watched that 'let's play', I wish that I had a video camera, so that I could recreate that scene at my local shopping centre and freak people out! Seriously, I'd do it if I had the equipment.
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Just wait until he finds out it's all Creamed Corn and Relish.
Time to order more fiberglass and resin!
Now?
Growing up with a mormon food stash, I can tell you what it likely contains is the following:
dehydrated onions
dehydrated carrots
dehydrated milk
dehydrated apple slices
tins of various vegtables
spaghetti
oats
flour
sugar
Likely mostly from the local church cannery.
Plenty.
Because if there's going to be any apocalypse, it's either going to be a nuclear apocalypse, wherein said people are forced to stay inside their personal bunkers long after their food supplies run out (by thousands of years); or else it will be something like a supervolcano (like Yellowstone National Park) erupting and choking all life on the planet to death... which results in the same thing: No more food for a very long time.
Suffice it to say I find the whole prospect of storing food for such an occasion rather silly and pointless.
I live in a hurricane region. Or used to. Food stockpiles are a must. You can get stuck indoors for a week sometimes. My school got used as an emergecy shelter on multiple occasions.
Stuff like this happens.
And this:
Don't know much about automail, but as a random fact, I used be an expert(difficulty) at chainmaille. o.O ...Hey it helped keep my hands busy while watching movies with adhd and ocd. Before that(like over a decade), it was knitting, so it's a step up right? lol
I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is in an area called Tornado Alley. A strong enough tornado is likely to damage, destroy or remove your house, but said tornado may be here and gone in a matter of minutes. Keeping six months worth of food stored seems ridiculous.
Yeah, you never know when it will take the next inept president weeks to help you -.- ....as someone who was no way affected by it, that was still fucking stupid.
Yes, but six months worth of food means... 3*30*6=540 meals worth of food per person stored. Where does one keep all that?
And yes, there was Katrina. Katrina, however, flooded all the homes where said food would have been. Also, these people were told way in advance that it was coming and didn't leave. It's not that I don't feel for them, but I don't think that stockpiling six months worth of dehydrated food in their case is the best answer.
There could be Viral. Natural Disasters...so making sure you have the edge to survive is always a good thing.
I enjoyed reading this article and I couldn't agree more.http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-06-14-warren-spector-the-ultraviolence-has-to-stop?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=european-daily
Usually in a closet. Takes up less space than you think.
What I don't think you realize is that when one has food storage, they often rotate stock. For example, forget to pick up sugar from the store? Good thing you have some backup! Just replace it later. Our family would often use our stuff on camping trips.
And again, I have no idea why you're gettin all up in arms about people wanting to be prepared for an emergency however way they can.
This is why I regard anyone without a firearm as not really all that prepared.
lol
Open carriers just crave attention IRL. Anyone seriously defense minded concealed carries. I CC all day every day, son. Well, when I leave the house, at least. And also, when it's legal. Anyway, I also never talk about my CC when I'm in public, because that kind of ruins the point.
Ultimate fistbump
My vote for next emergency in my area is tornadoes. Georgia gets a surprising amount of them. Anyway, the most likely collapse I see in our lifetime? Societal collapse brought on by debt induced capital failure and/or a general resource crunch. I promise you all that if I ever become a leader of a band of bandits, just tell them you're from Telltale and you're golden.
Shame I don't have any money for it...
With an ever-expanding world population (and increasing standards of living in the areas of highest growth), I see a resource-related crisis as a probability rather than possibility.
In fact recently China has been interested in buying up Australian land for food production. I desperately hope that never eventuates... selling off your means of production to a foreign interest is complete and utter madness.
It's not the storing of food for an emergency that confuses me. It's the storing of six months or so worth of food.
(same shape and serial number, chips inside look similar)
Appears to work just fine like the other one.
Hopefully I'll get those Micro SD cards to use with it soon!
There are still people alive today who suffered through prolonged food shortages during the Great Depression and rationing during World War II. Do you really find it beyond the realm of possibility that hardships like that could happen again?
Yes. Wars are fought differently now than they were 70 years ago. Our technology and tactics are different. We also no longer have a draft-based military, even during the recent wars fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Causes of the Great Depression are still around today, but they don't now have as wide-reaching and dramatic an effect as those of the Great Depression did. We do have economic problems, but they're not that bad. Even with the economic problems we've recently had, many people (not just the rich) still have their iPhones and iPads, and various other wildly unnecessary luxuries.
I don't foresee the need to stockpile months worth of food (a few weeks perhaps, but not months). If such a need arose as to warrant months worth of food, I suspect the cause of this need would be so great that there would be little to no way to survive it.
Else I'm going to be really. REALLY. fucking pissed if it is.
(Considering I've spent most of a week working on it!)
Well. It was a fail referred in coursework, (by two marks...), so I thought I'd do the reffered work, but then my grades were updated the other day and now it says "ABSENT".
What does that even mean? Really...
Well I sent a message to the module leader (we on a sort of 1 to 1 basis, but the guy never messages me back) and hopefully he will explain it to me.
(Since nothing in the guide actually says anything about it...)
In the meantime, I'm going to finish this assignment off today.
Its mostly done, and I'm moderately proud of it.
Just have to fill in the side bits of the report. But I need to finish off the analysis first.
But if it doesn't get marked, then I actually will be gutted.
He's directly comparing a distribution fine to a possession fine.
The 16 oz.+ soda fine is applicable to companies that SELL 16 oz.+ sodas, not to people who possess them. The consequences for SELLING the amount of marijuana he displays on his show is $1,000, a good ten times the fine he's joking about on his program.
The proper comparison:
Possession:
Pot - $100
Soda - $0
Distribution:
Pot - $1,000
Soda - $200
Have you even met Parker?
....I don't connect to people well.
You see, my sister broke one of my sonic screwdrivers and I need a new one. Very hard to find, as someone replaced the plant with a banana plantation.
I like Jon well enough but he's shown in the past that, while politically interested, he's not serious about being political. He really does boil down to being a comedian in the end, and has no real interest in being a leader or 'seriously' tackling issues. So stuff like this will fly with him.
This is something of an understatesment.
Haha. I was too engrossed in the story to mess around like that! Having watched that 'let's play', I wish that I had a video camera, so that I could recreate that scene at my local shopping centre and freak people out! Seriously, I'd do it if I had the equipment.