Foraging for wild plants is a skill you need fully established before having to rely on it for survival, it’s just like hunting, dressing an animal, and meat preservation. Do it wrong and at best you’ll get a little sick, at worst it will kill you quickly.

Also, in a hypothetical apocalyptic situation, you’ll be competing with millions of people who will be eating anything they can. I can’t remember the stats, but I think the Appalachian deer population took something like 40-50 years to fully recover from the Great Depression. A lot of hungry people will do a lot of damage.

Shittier rulers have lasted longer.

They really don’t have a clue. They just assume they can take whatever they need by threat or violence and whoever else has guns will be on their side. Plenty of those guns will be aimed at them to take what they have, too.

And then?

Next to none will have a clue about “after.” Civilization is a community full of skilled trades. From the blacksmith to the tanner to the farmer and the miller. Think any of the preppers will be out in the field, day in, day out, planting, harvesting, storing, cutting wood, prepping food for winter? Got any draft animals? Got a place to care for and feed them all winter? How about getting sick or hurt and being unable to work? They ate up this “American Self Reliance” BS with a shovel, and it’s complete trash. Their personal chauvinism will see them just as dead as everyone else.

Just got an induction stove. Sound level depends on the power setting and the pot/pan, and maybe even on the stove manufacturer.

I’ve never heard a “squeal”, but there is a faint “buzz-click” as the power cycles in the coils. If you need high power the buzz is slightly louder and steady, if low power it’s fainter but you get the “click” of the relays as it cycles. Some cookware seems to make the buzz a little louder.

Overall IMO it’s not loud, and the sounds of cooking pretty much drown it out - boiling, searing, whatever.

I’ve cooked with all three (gas, electric, induction) and while a good gas stove is still my favorite, induction IMO is really the best of both worlds. I absolutely would not go back to standard electric after using induction.

Bunker building idiots. Bet they’re selfish as fuck and have nothing but items for their own survival saved up instead of maybe a hoard of books, seeds, tools and the like.

One of two outcomes:

1. If you actually truly need the bunker, the world has gone to absolute shit and there will be nothing worth living for except hand-to-mouth subsistence farming. I don’t think anyone has a clue as to what actual collapse would look like. Congrats, you’ll just starve last.

2. If you’ve got hundreds of thousands of hungry and starving people and any small percentage know you have a bunker with food and medicine, they will get in or burn you out with fire trying. They literally have nothing else to do and nothing else to lose.

If he didn’t actually cheat he absolutely openly tried. Fake electors, calling State governors looking for “a few more votes,” the insurrection at the Capitol, etc.

Still votes for trump…

I want an EV. I also unfortunately drive longer distances than most people on average and also let my car sit for days with no access to a charge. Some EV systems use 1-2% battery per day for BMS, conditioning and telemetry, and that would make it difficult to use an EV in my case and only charge to the 80% mark to ensure battery longevity.

Nobody really makes a car that can do that for an affordable price. Yeah, I guess I’m probably a special use case, but nonetheless the cost and range limitations are prohibitive.

I can only imagine the legal stonewalling. Sue who? The company who hired the device? The manufacturer? Programmers? The leasing company? Everyone passing the legal buck around making it incredibly difficult and expensive for anyone to sue in an attempt to exhaust the victim or their family.

Anime stuff is crazy. What amounts to young girls with huge tits in a lot of cases. All kinds of products like bedding or pillows feature them, and of course there’s porn of it, and as far as I can tell it doesn’t get treated any different than a niche weird porn. Somehow these are fine, but sex dolls aren’t? I’m not advocating for one or the other, but it seems like if we call one “bad”, the other should be too.

Here you go:

https://a.co/d/0bFFUp22

You can deploy a lot of $96 semi-effective hardware and improve it vs something that might be thousands or even tens or hundreds of thousands to deploy.

Stop inconveniencing me with thoughts that have a chance of making me feel like what I’m doing may not be right.

Nope

The death of the public restroom is a tragedy.

About one week on:

$3.65

Up $1. Just over a week ago it was ~$2.70.

Been on my mind quite a bit lately. We need a “sub-net” or something, like those community mesh nets, that isn’t controlled by Big Data and infested with Big Corpo. A Fediverse of ‘nets.

However, just as we’ve discovered in the Fediverse, there are going to be size disparities, out-groups, in-groups, radicals, etc.

There is no perfect system. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be worth having, just pointing out there will be no utopia.

“General populace”?

This meme wildly overestimate that the genpop has the faintest clue about the cost of AI. In my very few discussions with people that even bother to bring it up with curiosity absolutely none of them understood how big of a resource hog data centers are. A few might’ve had a clue that AI results can be wrong, but then they went on to basically apologize for AI’s current errors by stating how much good it could do via research while not having any idea what was different between say medical AI and one they use to make their animated memes or converse with.

I wonder if the first few military personnel killed even had a clue why they got killed. Trump launched his war pretty abruptly and Iran retaliated immediately. The military compartmentalizes information pretty harshly. They could have just going about their day knowing something big was going to happen and next thing they’ve got some rockets falling on the base.

Who knows. This “war”, like everything trump touches, is another dumpster fire.

That’s the one.