Everyone in here should have backup plans, I'm not talking about another job.
Have a place in a rural area, have ways to protect yourself, not just martial arts something with reach. Have some knowledge of how to provide such as basic cooking or even how to grow food.
These people are so incompetent and rather than admit their plans have failed, let it all burn. It wouldn't surprise me if all the useful idiots die first and their enforcers abandon posts to look after themselves.
It's also important to get to know your neighbors well. If they live responsibly and think like you, they will be a vital asset. If they sport purple hair and they're telecommuting for work in California while flying a pride flag out front, make sure your dogs scare them.
And make time to go to town hall and PTA meetings...make it clear to everyone emigrating from the cities to rural America that their bullshit is not going to be tolerated, so if they want to stay they'd better learn English, throw away their Satanic literature and put their work boots on.
One of James Lindsey's recent podcasts mention the AMA (American Medical association) going full commy and pledging bullshit. This is Lysenkoism and will cause us to lose medicine. Or at least set it back decades as ideology trumps medicine.
Fucking with food and medical care is what gets the marxist kill counts into the 10's of millions.
This is Lysenkoism and will cause us to lose medicine. Or at least set it back decades as ideology trumps medicine.
Honestly, there's not much to lose IMO. Sure, there are some really cool, cutting edge things which are not doable without massive medical infrastructures (cancer treatments, non-invasive surgery robots, stuff like that), but the biggest things that modern medicine have found out - or rediscovered in a number of cases - are mostly going to survive a collapse unless it is truly massive.
If we can get rid of most heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and substance abuse that will solve a huge proportion of western medical issues and if a massive collapse hits it will forcibly get rid of those (one way or another) pretty quickly.
And a lot of the knowledge we've gained (hygiene, nutrition, antibiotics, how the body works, etc.) all that should survive. Sure, you won't be able to just pop down to the drug store to pick up a prescription when SHTF but just having a few extra tubes of topical antibiotic in a first aid kit will help a ton and hopefully last a bit - at least for immediate family - until things stabilize.
Anaesthetic and access to basic medical supplies will be the biggest loss for 80% of non lethal things I'd say.
Just having something dry, sterile and wrapped for a wound is pretty helpful and not easily replaced, especially if infection is a larger threat too.
For anything major accident related, losing Xrays and MRI's will be a problem too. We're already losing them you're just probably not aware. Most reports are very subjective based on the person writing the report.
For unprepared people, especially in cities, yes. (And MRIs may well be hard to get back). But, doing a little study and/or preparation now, sterile bandages, painkillers and limited anesthetics are quite doable. I'd say it's probably better (and certainly easier) to stock up now (it's not like bandages or gauze goes bad) but if you want to make a sterile bandage take a section of cloth, wash it, and then either have it under a hot iron for a few minutes or wrap it in foil and put it in an oven at lower heat for a bit.
Painkillers and anesthetics are a bit harder (especially general anesthetics), but asprin and nitrous oxide were developed in the mid-1800s (not to mention a wide range of less effective but still better than nothing alternatives depending on your local area), and medical xrays in the late 1800s. Is it possible that things get bad enough that we regress 100+ years? Maybe in certain areas but I don't see it happening universally and it's not hard to stock up now so that even if things do go horribly you and yours are set for a couple years. At my local grocery store, I can pick up gauze at 50 cents a yard, a box of bandaids for $8, and (depending on your preferred dosage and brand) painkillers at <$10 per hundred.
If those things are available, remember they rely on a complex system to get to your local store, will the quality remain the same? what use is buying a non sterile bandage?
Someone will likely steal your supplies too if they get into that short supply.
Hispanics can be a mixed bag. The main issue though is how totally unfiltered it is because the propaganda and policy push by Democrats to give illegals as wide of a berth as they can muster. The sheer numbers are staggering, and they end up reproducing like crazy once they're over the border.
Which ends up playing out like Trump's infamous line "They're not sending us their best."
I haven't been able to put any credit card into Delta from Android for years. Get some bizarre error message on each one even though they are all valid.
Oftentimes, I'll be in an online shop, I'll go to checkout, and it will ask me to login. After figuring out login, it blows away my entire cart (I guess substituting whatever data my account had which was an empty cart, versus the session they had going with my pseudonymously which contained items). You know that costs them money. You never want to take a cart away from a customer who is about to buy.
It could be. I have to have all kinds of stuff in my normal browser so I'm not tracked. Although when you are making transactions, there's little that you can hide.
I've done it before.
Another website that didn't work is eBay. It wouldn't let me place any bids. But their app, for some reason, does. I even contacted eBay about this saying it didn't work in Edge or Brave or Chrome. They said to use the app.
Aye. In general, some websites just don't want to cooperate at all with anything except for Chrome and maybe Edge. I think usually it's because of certain automated privacy settings that conflict with whatever half-assed implementation a site's using for certain functionality.
NHS was always a pile of shit but it is impossible to get a doctor's appointment anymore so that's definitely going to start costing lives and major health issues, you're always directed to go to their website like it's tech support instead of ever being able to talk to a real person. Only a retard would claim that mass migration didn't cause this and mean it
If they have not yet outsourced it to AI that will be the next step, and modern medicine is tech support, you just can't turn people on an off again xD
In some ways it might be better than a lot of the clueless shit tier doctors that patients have to put up with. Although at least with a doctor you can yell at them or get them into trouble for their fuck ups.
You're just scratching the surface here unfortunately.
DIE is racing us towards a competency catastrophe.
You think it's annoying that call center reps can't pronounce English, ok, but that's the least of your worries.
Panes are going to start falling from the skies. Infrastructure is going to fail. Power grids will shut. The state systems will turn openly corrupt. Everything everywhere is going to get worse and more dangerous. Your town will increasingly resemble cities south of Sahara.
And you'll have the abandonment of meritocratic standards to thank for it.
I suppose there's a chance AI will advance in time to save us from the worst, but that's assuming the AI doesn't kill us itself. And anyway, woke programming won't allow AI to do anything about the crime, nor stop you from becoming an untouchable caste, so either way you're fucked.
Everyone in here should have backup plans, I'm not talking about another job.
Have a place in a rural area, have ways to protect yourself, not just martial arts something with reach. Have some knowledge of how to provide such as basic cooking or even how to grow food.
These people are so incompetent and rather than admit their plans have failed, let it all burn. It wouldn't surprise me if all the useful idiots die first and their enforcers abandon posts to look after themselves.
It's also important to get to know your neighbors well. If they live responsibly and think like you, they will be a vital asset. If they sport purple hair and they're telecommuting for work in California while flying a pride flag out front, make sure your dogs scare them.
And make time to go to town hall and PTA meetings...make it clear to everyone emigrating from the cities to rural America that their bullshit is not going to be tolerated, so if they want to stay they'd better learn English, throw away their Satanic literature and put their work boots on.
One of James Lindsey's recent podcasts mention the AMA (American Medical association) going full commy and pledging bullshit. This is Lysenkoism and will cause us to lose medicine. Or at least set it back decades as ideology trumps medicine.
Fucking with food and medical care is what gets the marxist kill counts into the 10's of millions.
Honestly, there's not much to lose IMO. Sure, there are some really cool, cutting edge things which are not doable without massive medical infrastructures (cancer treatments, non-invasive surgery robots, stuff like that), but the biggest things that modern medicine have found out - or rediscovered in a number of cases - are mostly going to survive a collapse unless it is truly massive.
If we can get rid of most heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and substance abuse that will solve a huge proportion of western medical issues and if a massive collapse hits it will forcibly get rid of those (one way or another) pretty quickly.
And a lot of the knowledge we've gained (hygiene, nutrition, antibiotics, how the body works, etc.) all that should survive. Sure, you won't be able to just pop down to the drug store to pick up a prescription when SHTF but just having a few extra tubes of topical antibiotic in a first aid kit will help a ton and hopefully last a bit - at least for immediate family - until things stabilize.
Anaesthetic and access to basic medical supplies will be the biggest loss for 80% of non lethal things I'd say.
Just having something dry, sterile and wrapped for a wound is pretty helpful and not easily replaced, especially if infection is a larger threat too.
For anything major accident related, losing Xrays and MRI's will be a problem too. We're already losing them you're just probably not aware. Most reports are very subjective based on the person writing the report.
For unprepared people, especially in cities, yes. (And MRIs may well be hard to get back). But, doing a little study and/or preparation now, sterile bandages, painkillers and limited anesthetics are quite doable. I'd say it's probably better (and certainly easier) to stock up now (it's not like bandages or gauze goes bad) but if you want to make a sterile bandage take a section of cloth, wash it, and then either have it under a hot iron for a few minutes or wrap it in foil and put it in an oven at lower heat for a bit.
Painkillers and anesthetics are a bit harder (especially general anesthetics), but asprin and nitrous oxide were developed in the mid-1800s (not to mention a wide range of less effective but still better than nothing alternatives depending on your local area), and medical xrays in the late 1800s. Is it possible that things get bad enough that we regress 100+ years? Maybe in certain areas but I don't see it happening universally and it's not hard to stock up now so that even if things do go horribly you and yours are set for a couple years. At my local grocery store, I can pick up gauze at 50 cents a yard, a box of bandaids for $8, and (depending on your preferred dosage and brand) painkillers at <$10 per hundred.
If those things are available, remember they rely on a complex system to get to your local store, will the quality remain the same? what use is buying a non sterile bandage?
Someone will likely steal your supplies too if they get into that short supply.
Hispanics can be a mixed bag. The main issue though is how totally unfiltered it is because the propaganda and policy push by Democrats to give illegals as wide of a berth as they can muster. The sheer numbers are staggering, and they end up reproducing like crazy once they're over the border.
Which ends up playing out like Trump's infamous line "They're not sending us their best."
Websites don't work any more.
I haven't been able to put any credit card into Delta from Android for years. Get some bizarre error message on each one even though they are all valid.
Oftentimes, I'll be in an online shop, I'll go to checkout, and it will ask me to login. After figuring out login, it blows away my entire cart (I guess substituting whatever data my account had which was an empty cart, versus the session they had going with my pseudonymously which contained items). You know that costs them money. You never want to take a cart away from a customer who is about to buy.
The lack of specificity in error messages too, instead of specific errors it's always "unknown error please try again later"
"Oops, something broke. Here's a picture of a dog." - Amazon
It could be. I have to have all kinds of stuff in my normal browser so I'm not tracked. Although when you are making transactions, there's little that you can hide.
I've done it before.
Another website that didn't work is eBay. It wouldn't let me place any bids. But their app, for some reason, does. I even contacted eBay about this saying it didn't work in Edge or Brave or Chrome. They said to use the app.
Aye. In general, some websites just don't want to cooperate at all with anything except for Chrome and maybe Edge. I think usually it's because of certain automated privacy settings that conflict with whatever half-assed implementation a site's using for certain functionality.
If they have not yet outsourced it to AI that will be the next step, and modern medicine is tech support, you just can't turn people on an off again xD
In some ways it might be better than a lot of the clueless shit tier doctors that patients have to put up with. Although at least with a doctor you can yell at them or get them into trouble for their fuck ups.
No need to imagine it, I read the white papers (was while back so the amount of errors could have changed, but it was fun :D)
OP will like this article:
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/
Whoops.
Smart people around here.
You're just scratching the surface here unfortunately.
DIE is racing us towards a competency catastrophe.
You think it's annoying that call center reps can't pronounce English, ok, but that's the least of your worries.
Panes are going to start falling from the skies. Infrastructure is going to fail. Power grids will shut. The state systems will turn openly corrupt. Everything everywhere is going to get worse and more dangerous. Your town will increasingly resemble cities south of Sahara.
And you'll have the abandonment of meritocratic standards to thank for it.
I suppose there's a chance AI will advance in time to save us from the worst, but that's assuming the AI doesn't kill us itself. And anyway, woke programming won't allow AI to do anything about the crime, nor stop you from becoming an untouchable caste, so either way you're fucked.