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We currently live in just about the most fragile society mankind has ever lived in.

We are totally dependent on a very complex power grid system running on old infrastruture. If anything major happens to that, millions of people will die.

Also, an high-altitude EMP attack would instantly destroy most electronic devices, catapulting everyone back into the Stone Age—again, millions of people will die.

This is some of many reasons why you should learn about #prepping. It's a huge rabbit hole, just like #bitcoin.

You can start small, by stockpiling water and foods that last decades—and work your way up until you are able to grow your own food, harvest your own water, generate your own eletricity and so on.

Whatever the world throws at you, you should be prepared, so that your family can survive.

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DRE 6mo ago

Do we? Have you ever been to a third world country or the Middle East?

We can adapt quite well. The doomsday porn prepping hysterics are always from the west. You never see people in a shithole towns in LATAM that gets running water between 3-5pm on odd days shilling a doomsday bucket.

Skipper 6mo ago

Our lives are already too dependent on eletronics and having energy, unlike third world countrys.

I doupt the U.S. and Europe would adapt fast enough to prevent the complete caos and death that would come after an huge EMP attack or grid failure.

Spain and Portugal recently had their power grid down for a whole day, the supermarkets were closed, people were already in panic, almost no one had food stockpiled for more than a week.

DRE 6mo ago

The US is a big country. Highly unlikely the whole grid will be affected by one of these attacks. It will be isolated to cities and you can have trucks bring supplies to these areas.

Real life is not Hollywood. We get hit by Hurricanes all the time. Just look at what happened in NC last year with the flooding. Sure prepping helps, but the benefit of living in a highly developed civilization is that we have the tools to overcome adversity.

vinney...axkl 6mo ago

this doesn't apply to GMD from solar flares. an unlucky one could affect a massive portion of the country at once.

DRE 6mo ago

Lots of hypotheticals

Really mean aliens could come and take us out too.

vinney...axkl 6mo ago

there's only one hypothetical there: the potential of a big GMD that hits the US - everything else is a given after that.

I'll let you do your own research on how often these occur and at what magnitudes.

I'm sorry to say it's not in the same ballpark as aliens. but the good news is there are defensive measures possible to put in place beforehand that almost entirely mitigate the danger and they don't even cost that much. but there's only political will in thus country to do partisan, divisive shit. and if you talk about solar flares people look at you like you're crazy

YODL 6mo ago

Any individual measures in your list? Not really worried about it, just curious if it's gov-level measures only you had in mind.

DRE 6mo ago

Put your HWW in EMP proof bags. Double bag them just in case.

There is a device you can put on your car to shield it as well.

YODL 6mo ago

That's kinda along the lines of what I was thinking. Good on that front.

vinney...axkl 6mo ago

yea I've only looked into the grid-scale problems, not individual level. probably easier to find remediations for personal scale (looks like you got a suggestion already)

vinney...axkl 6mo ago

have you heard of Fukushima?

DRE 6mo ago

Have you?

Kayne 6mo ago

You are missing the fact that every government has known about this since the 1800s.

They have replacement parts ready to go, key infrastructure has been insulated already.

In most countries they are relatively well prepared.

It's like Y2K, nothing happened because all the computer engineers and shit were already working on the fix before the problem arose.

vinney...axkl 6mo ago

Transformer stockpiles are not sufficient (transformers are fried in sufficient GMD/solar flare or EMP), ordering additional units takes a long time (and relies on international trade working well), and in the meantime nuclear plants require lots of diesel to be trucked around keeping the backup generators running to prevent meltdown - all that in the context of widespread blackouts and likely societal chaos.

I've researched this topic thoroughly

vinney...axkl 6mo ago

Fukushima was ONE plant. its backup diesel generators were flooded with seawater and couldn't run, leading to the failure of the cooling system. you know the rest of that story.

a wider region with more nuclear plants (say, a quarter of the US. we have around 120 plants total) being hit with a GMD would imply keeping all those backup generators running for at least 9 months while the grid is disconnected and repaired. that entire region would be in a blackout the whole time.

even if we DID have the "spare parts lying around", that's the context within which they'd have to be "slapped back in place".

semisol 6mo ago

It would have to be enough time to safely handle the fuel and shut it down, not 9 months I’d think.

vinney...axkl 6mo ago

the 9 months was about the time needed to repair the wider grid in the event of a broad problem.

Kayne 6mo ago

Take one look at Gaza.

Electricity grid gone, no fuel, food is restricted, all civilian infrastructure has been bombed, every school and hospital bombed.

The Zionist pedos constantly killing children.

Meanwhile, people are still growing vegetables in their gardens (that's where most of the food in Gaza comes from)

Volunteers are still working in what's left of the schools and hospitals.

Humans are extremely resilient.

If the entire new world order is fighting against a civilian population who have had everything restricted for decades and can't win they aren't going to win against people who actually had the money and time to prepare

db 6mo ago

Yes, yes and yes.

Prepping and Bitcoin should go hand in hand. Both are for the safety and security of family.

frphank 6mo ago

Totally Bitcoin is known to work well where there is no electricity, internet or computer chips.

db 6mo ago

That’s when all the other prepping stuff comes into play for survival and sovereignty.

sumsur 6mo ago

Sun farts in our general direction and the porn spammer is toasted.

Sparrow 6mo ago

Building #networks of all kinds should be a part of this. Mesh networks of mutually supportive families, food growers, builders, skilled engineers and parts makers. We need all kinds. 🙌🏼