• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    You know what would be useful in a societal collapse? Electric vehicles and solar panels.

    Hopefully peppers aren’t building zombie busses because they’ll be useless in 6 months after the oil stops flowing.

    An ev with a charger panel and bicycles will be useful indefinitely.

    • P_P@lemm.eeOP
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      11 days ago

      When society collapses, upwards of around 95-100% of us die. That’s reality.

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      11 days ago

      you would get murdered for those rather quickly, i’d imagine. what would be useful is to get far away from strangers somewhere defendable near fresh water.

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        11 days ago

        That would be only one of the many competing reasons for my murder.

        I do have camping gear, woodworking hand tools, a good bike, I know how to shoot and clean fish+game and cook, and I have knowledge of some remote areas with sparse populations including their flora.

        On paper it all sounds good, but I would likely die miserably in the first Canadian winter.

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          11 days ago

          Even if you did everything right there isn’t that much wildlife to live off of. A single human requires a vast healthy wilderness to live off of foraging only.

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            10 days ago

            Yeah, I watch Alone and I’ve seen Outlast. No way are 99% of people going to be able to live like that. Even the contestants who prep and practice and research only last a few weeks in the winter.

            You would need a small community, agriculture and to store your food for winter, and livestock for reliable protein. Even then there’s a good chance you get wiped out by diseases unless you’re making soap and prepping food and water safely.

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      11 days ago

      That’s why Musk is backing Trump and Putin and trying to turn the world into Thunderdome. EVs will reign supreme.

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      11 days ago

      Don’t worry, we’ll fix climate change by reflecting sunlight before it hits the Earth’s surface. Of course this will eradicate most pests (and nature) but hey, problem solved!