in a grid down situation,
what happens to a generation whose only survival skills are playing video games, crafting ai prompts, and ordering door dash?
Discussion
Arent most people living in cities and towns in the same dependency boat regardless of age or background?
we take care of them
No. We let them suffer.
they might be your family and friends
Yes. And? Should they not suffer of they were not heeding of warnings?
depends what kind of family man and friend you are I suppose.
I guess this is why people say "choose your friends wisely, because if one of them is better than you at something that becomes important later on he might be totally fine with you suffering and telling you 'told ya so' "
Sure, but that is not the scenario being described in the OP.
These are people that have been told and warned for years. I'm beyond pity for any of them except my closest relatives, and even then, I have other people closer to me that I would do more for than the family I've got that has turned their back on me.
this is not the stuff of antifragile communities and families. sometimes you need to drag the "dead weight" along with you, kicking and screaming - especially if you love them - so that they might finally wake up.
Natural selection
They go hungry and get impotently angry then get shot if they try to take from me and mine.
The strong survive.
They get to play survivor sim in real life
Another reason I homeschool my kids and don't live in the city, enough said ....
Necessity is the mother of invention
"Survival of the fittest" theory will get tested.
I asked my self-hosted LLM about this and it said, "Shoot them and feed them to the livestock on day one or they will outnumber and kill those who were prepared."
Ooooooh!!!! oooooh!!!!
…..I know this one🤓
….what are “tears of victimhood”?🤔😂😂😂⭕️
Are you saying it's going to happen? Is that what I'm getting at?
Also, in terms of our skills, we've been unparented on that front as GenZ.
It might be inevitable because of Carrington events, big solar flare EMPs that just happen about every 100 years
We actually had a Carrington event last year, which was the May flare of 2024. It had the exact same sunspot as the Carrington event, and guess what... our grid was fine then.
Also, one of these events will happen every 50 or so years in conjunction to a solar eclipse, like the one we had in April of last year in America (which thankfully, I did NOT watch).
Source?
Look at a picture of the May sunspot from 2024 and compare it to the sunspot found in the Carrington observations. These are the exact same. A Carrington event will occur every 50 years in conjunction with a solar eclipse, as I had said.
Proof is here: https://cosmoquest.org/x/evsn/2024/05/22/closer-look-the-2024-carrington-event/
Not convincing on either point
This is not how sun spots work. You can't compare visuals. Magnetic complexity is most important along with size of the CME or flare and the "directness" of the event towards Earth.
This also completely ignores the severity of the flare. The Carrington flare was likely an X60+ event as best we can tell. May 2024 didn't even reach X10.
Probably bring back carrier pigeons for Door Dash orders.
You deal with the acute problems first, then work to build the decentralized infrastructure necessary to prevent that kind of situation in the future.
That's when us, the irresponsible gen xers rule!
Death by starvation/dehydration unless they get desperate and eat/drink less than sanitary options then death by digestive stressors and illnesses (one of the most common reasons contestants fail out of reality survivalist shows).