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This is exactly the 'not worth trying' cliché that I have a bugbear about.
You mean I should move house to get out of the fireball radius?
Start stocking up on bottled water and shotgun shells?
This is exactly the 'not worth trying' cliché that I have a bugbear about.
If you're sure you live close enough to a definite enemy target to be fatally injured in the initial assault then you should have an idea of where you should run to when Putin drops one on Kyiv.You mean I should move house to get out of the fireball radius?
Start stocking up on bottled water and shotgun shells?
If you're sure you live close enough to a definite enemy target to be fatally injured in the initial assault then you should have an idea of where you should run to when Putin drops one on Kyiv.
They keep going on about decision making centres and as far as I can see it would be fuck all use in the field; but I am not a Russian general.You think first strike will be Kyiv with a tactical? I would have expected somewhere further East.
Fair enough, I just have a bugbear about the attitude towards civil defense in this country. Even the yanks are dusting off their shelters.
They keep going on about decision making centres and as far as I can see it would be fuck all use in the field; but I am not a Russian general.
An earlier John Sweeney 'serious nuclear conversations are being conducted'
I'd like to be the grizzled old dude with stringy long grey hair, the one the younguns all call 'doc' and ask for stories of the before times
Nah, stay at home, much better option usually.
We're getting a few extra stores in. If a nuke gets used by Russia we'll do a huge stockpiling shop asap (have a list already), build a shelter in the central room of the house, fill water containers, etc. and then see what comes next. We're on the edges of a small city, unlikely to be a major target but a few places (cities and an important base) nearby would be in a full nuclear exchange, but unless caught outside would likely survive the initial blasts.
This is exactly the 'not worth trying' cliché that I have a bugbear about.
Would I need planning permission to build a bunker in my garden?
For years pub bores have been telling us how they'll be standing outside naked or on top of a roof or whatever to ensure that they die in the initial blast. That sounds like a really fucking stupid idea to me unless you fancy dying of burns over the course of a couple of days.I'm also not a fan. Fatalism is one of those self-fulfilling prophecies and it's a mindset I genuinely have trouble understanding. Of course you're gonna perish if you decide to do nothing and just let the doom come.
For years pub bores have been telling us how they'll be standing outside naked or on top of a roof or whatever to ensure that they die in the initial blast. That sounds like a really fucking stupid idea to me unless you fancy dying of burns over the course of a couple of days.
Given we might have blackouts etc. this winter (plus you know that pandemic recently...) getting a few extra supplies and things like a LED lantern and gas stove in are a sensible investment if you can afford it. It makes you less of a burden on wider society if things do go to shit, and you have stuff to share for those that can't afford or haven't been able to prepare a bit.
hitmouse mentioned this Podcast somewhere else, but it's a nice and mostly decent take on prepping from a more collective social perspective. (The episodes are a bit hit and miss and very US-centric, but plenty are worth a listen.)
Podcast Episodes, Live Like the World is Dying
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Thinking about this some more, I think it was this Guardian article about Grey Swans and super rich preppers that caused me to stress the thread -
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequenceswww.theguardian.com
These people once showered the world with madly optimistic business plans for how technology might benefit human society. Now they’ve reduced technological progress to a video game that one of them wins by finding the escape hatch. Will it be Jeff Bezos migrating to space, Thiel to his New Zealand compound, or Mark Zuckerberg to his virtual metaverse? And these catastrophising billionaires are the presumptive winners of the digital economy – the supposed champions of the survival-of-the-fittest business landscape that’s fuelling most of this speculation to begin with.
Good firewood though.This sums up the modern world in one paragraph:
The tech bros are building a world they don't even want to live in themselves.
Phew - thats a relief.The chaos will be the days after Russia uses a nuclear weapon, but before the NATO+ response which I will suspect take a bit (days?). I think the time between that response and then Russia's response will be shorter. Can't see how it won't escalate into some wider nuclear exchange tbh, albeit maybe less than a full on global nuclear exchange. I would bet it'll be limited to Europe.
He's certainly rolling double sixes now.As mentioned, he’s a LibDem and should be hung for that. However, he has rolled the dice over the years.