Friday, July 13, 2018

less fast collapse 2 of 2


LESS FAST COLLAPSE 2
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Most survivalists are prepped for total and complete system collapse.  And that makes sense.  Because the system is so vulnerable and it is a miracle it has lasted this long.  You can prep and not understand WHY, or know the details, you will do just fine by understanding that This Suckers Going Down.  Only the timing is subject to question, so if you are smarter than a box of rocks you are already prepared for the total collapse.  Since my whole shtick is frugal preparedness, and I prepped working minimum wage supporting two wives, I have no sympathy for anyone who cannot be prepared for total collapse, yesterday.
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Oh, boo humping hoo, you have to give up your car to do so.  The car is toast anyway, BEFORE the complete collapse.  If you were alive and sentient during the 1970’s, you should have already realized this.  It is going to be difficult enough to keep your bicycle in tires ( they are not rubber but made of petroleum ), and think an auto has a viable future?  Posh!  Anyway, I won’t dwell on that.  If you can’t accept that your obsession with an automobile borders on sexual perversion and cannot make that sacrifice now, I don’t see you surviving the collapse.  YOUR decisions make an auto essential, but they were never more than a luxury and a want rather than a need.
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So, congratulations, you are now ready for the complete collapse of civilization.  You might not be able to survive a nuclear war of historically epic proportions, or an asteroid strike that ushers in a five year long “nuclear winter” event, but you are otherwise pretty well set [ as an aside, I read one of my favorite new post-apoc books, “Cannibal Reign” by Thomas Kolonair, for the third time and it finally clicked why this plot sucked-but not the story!-the nuclear winter not only ended too soon but the Oil Age was allowed to continue unhampered.  Sorry, I can’t remember if I shared that before in an article or if it was in the comments section ).
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Well, after I harassed you and vilified you for years, yes, you eventually got some wheat and more ammo and you are good for multiple years of collapse living.  And then you assumed the old prepping trope “prepare for the worst and all the little things are prepared for”.  And then I started telling you that all that hard work and sacrifice?  It wasn’t enough.  You needed to survive the extended economic collapse.  Total collapse preps weren’t going to pay your property taxes, nor would they buy gasoline or feed you enough to go to your ten hour a week underpaid job.  What a killjoy!  First I say get rid of the car ( which you didn’t, of course ) and now I’m all, like, dude, where’s the junk land and silver and ability to live in genteel poverty?
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But really, living out the extended less fast collapse on your total collapse preps isn’t completely impossible.  You cannot live out of your stockpile, but you can and should try to live off of a comparable duplicate one.  You aren’t eating your stockpiled wheat, but you are going to the feed store and buying more and eating THAT.  You aren’t hunting with stored ammo but ammo you bought now ( rotation if needed on other items-wheat and ammo will outlast you ).  You aren’t endangering your supplies for the apocalypse, because that IS coming, but you are living closer to those supplies.
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If you homestead, often there is little in the way of total collapse preps.  If you went all in on total collapse preps, you are generally not in a position to decrease your living costs by homesteading more.  I don’t really mean growing your own food.  Few homesteaders get past the garden vegetables which are vitamins rather than calories ( except potatoes which are both ).  And I’m not claiming homesteading is cheaper than grid living because it certainly is not.  Building new infrastructure can quickly get expensive if you let it.  I’m speaking of insuring against all but the worst systems disruptions, which homesteading does to a degree but on grid corporate job expensive prepping does not very well.
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On grid prepping only insulates you during a total collapse, somewhat.  Homesteading insulates you from partial systems collapse, somewhat.  The two can overlap, but even a generator to keep freezer items cold isn’t going to work well in systems collapse as you run out of fuel.  Solar power off grid will keep that system going far longer, even if at a higher price.  What I am suggesting is that you merge the two systems to gain resiliency against slow system collapse.  To supplement your Total Collapse Preps with less fast collapse preps.  Of course, the trick is to do this now voluntarily rather than wait until everyone is forced to do so against their will, because then you won’t have the resources.
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If you are only ready for complete collapse, think about what you need for less fast collapse.  If you are only ready for long slow collapse, you need to focus on total collapse preps.  Six months food supply for the apocalypse is completely nonviable.  Start at three years and go up.  Wheat only ( remember, you can mix in white flour if buying whole grain kernels in your area is expensive ) with some shortening and vitamin pills thrown in will suck as a diet, but it will keep you alive ( much better than freeze dried, I’d wager-and yes, I wager on that by my own preps ).
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In essence what you are looking at is not JUST surviving half a decade after the apocalypse, but also five years without a job or Food Stamps or Social Security mostly wiped out by hyperinflation.  Still think you can own and operate that car with $20 a gallon gas and all loans indexed to inflation, with true unemployment at 60%?  Sorry, it had to be said.  The question isn’t if the collapse will arrive.  It will.  The question is, how long must we suffer through huge declines before the collapse, and are you ready for that?
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I trust you already have that six months everyday grocery stockpile, to reduce your shopping to Sale Items ONLY.  Expand that to two years for dry goods and then can another six months of meat ( to go along with your six months frozen ).  That costs about $300 for all the jars and lids plus the pressure canner.  About the same cost as buying another freezer.  You know the brown-outs will start sometime during the Less Fast Collapse, so you might as well prep for that.  You’ll need to cash out the 401k and pay off the house ( that money would be Bail-In’ed anyway ), or get junk land or have an RV squat or something, to plan for your job going away.
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You know what needs to be done.  You may not want to, but you can’t stock the shed full of wheat buckets and buy another Spam Can full of Mosin-Nagant ammo and call your preps good.  You know that.  Here was just a friendly reminder.  You are welcome.

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42 comments:

  1. Property taxes are what make junk land shine. In some places property tax is paid monthly, and almost equals a mortgage payment.

    Eating what you store also is a good idea, most folks will have a learning curve figuring out how to prepare whole wheat and it would be nice to be able to grab a burger if you screw a meal up while learning.

    Boots and socks will definitely need to be stockpiled. I run a scooter for now, and have a bicycle for later, and even though my area of operation will be greatly reduced after a collapse, there will still be a fair amount of walking to do. Plus they should make good trade items

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    1. Even in areas with low property tax, an endangered species, in the next revenue dip event those places will go ahead and start raping you. The thing is, all the home owners won't stand for too many more increases, so as a raw land owner you will be helped by their revolt ( think California Prop 13 ), never seeing it get too stupid.

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    2. As Wrenchr2 pointed out, one of the bigger considerations will be footwear and socks. Shoes are of poor quality anymore, and once high quality boots are no more. I remember when the Herman’s Survivors were still a good brand, but one of the minions here pointed out that they’re crap now. If you’re careful, you can probably get a year out of a pair of pants/shirt.

      I like the motor scooter idea for now, in the interim, and for a long time now, I’ve wanted one. But I have a hard time getting myself to commit to one, because they’re just so damn dangerous (perhaps not the scooters so much themselves, as the idiots on the road. But the end result is that you’re equally dead just the same).

      I think my junk land was $15 for the year. I took out enough to pay it for life, assuming that my taxes increased exponentially every 5 to 10 years (don’t remember now?). Prop 13 is possibly the only sane law that Kalifornia has ever passed. So if you were lucky enough to get some land, way back when, and way out (as in at least 5 or 6 hours from the bay area) then you will be okay. It’s a huge state, and it’s not that it doesn’t have potential as a survivalist retreat, it’s just that for most, it’s not practical to even try.

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    3. The only way I'd try to prep in Cali would be the least populated areas. Around the Siskou ( sp) area. I'm not sure of the northeastern part but I know the northwestern. Either wilderness squat or get a mining claim and go mostly hermit. No point in getting your own land with the permit and zoning costs, let alone the tax. Even then I'd be sweating it with all the gov and civ criminals.

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    4. Yeah, I wouldn’t even recommend it, but it might have worked had you bought land long ago, and far away (from the masses). The thing about Kalifornia is that it is much bigger than many realize. I’ve been through parts that if you were to park, and walk off road a few hundred feet, you’ve probably been to where no man has ever walked before. The potential to stay totally hidden from everyone, exists for sure there.

      The biggest problem is the taxes, and draconian laws. But if all the guns/ammo (and anything else the commie's in Kalifornia don’t want you to have) are already in place, and the remote land was locked in under prop 13, the place has potential, for those that had the foresight way back when.

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    5. I had the foresight to just leave the place. But even at my worst paranoia, I had no idea it would get THAT damn bad. Growing up in the trees I didn't see the forest. No idea it wouldn't have stayed lily white. Or get that bad of a granny state. Of all my poorly thought out impulses, moving was my best one.

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    6. @ Anon 4:11 "Shoes are of poor quality anymore, and once high quality boots are no more"

      Don't get me started. I recently bought a pair of shoes. They weren't cheap either, they started showing signs of wear after 6 weeks. WTF am I going to be going through a pair every 6 months?

      I *have* stumbled across very pricey hand made boots. Very pricey is 3 times what I currently pay but if they last longer.....

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    7. “No idea it wouldn't have stayed lily white”


      Yeah, that seems to be a given in all leftist strongholds Jim. Feminism is the worst in such areas, so these white leftists, by and large, are not breeders. But they’re protesting to allow others in from the 3rd world, that are still breeding at replacement level, without an even basic comprehension of what this means for the future. And Gov Moonbeam is sticking by his sanctuary state designation. The entire world is well on its way to becoming one big, collectivist, 3rd world shithole.

      Regardless of one’s views on abortion, I find the phony outrage about these border children being “ripped from the arms” of their “migrant parents” coming from the left, to be hilarious! Right! The side that supports any and all forms of abortion all the way up until the end of the 3rd trimester is pro-children! Hahahaha! But of course, these are little brown children (who will grow up as citizens and steal jobs on affirmative action, from the white children of the same leftist morons that are supporting their parents sneaking into the country illegally) and this scores extra special virtue signaling points for the libtard. Boy, these folks are some special kind of fucked up!

      Sorry. It appears that I went on a bit of a rant there :D

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    8. Absolutely nothing wrong with a good rant. I'd like to do more myself but minions are all, like, dude, wisdom! Or at least as close as you can get, half formulated advice :) I suppose the leftard stupid is pretty bad. Yep, we know it is. But then, the right happily bid adue to our jobs as long as it was clocked in Randian rhetoric. So they got that on their record. Empires imploding must just have a special kind of stupid about them ( British/French trench slaughter, pretending Russia never lost in Afghanistan )

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    9. very important on the shoes and boots, and good quality comfortable socks.
      if your feet hurt you hurt all over.
      rarely see the footwear issue addressed.
      if you can, get a new pair every year and break them in. then clean them and store them in an acid free place with several pairs of good socks.
      unless you are a cobbler and have access to bull hide you will be glad you did this.
      since walking may become the prime method of travel it is priority one; feet first.
      if you can find one of the old boy scout books there are directions for several kinds of moccasins in there. useful to have that knowledge and some supplies for construction--don't forget needles, thread, good scissors, et cetera.

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    10. I definitely have my issues with what passes as the modern “right” as well Jim. The endless foreign entanglements (even though I understand why we’re involved in them) The potential to get into WW3 over Israel (Yeah, I know this is the sort of thing that gets one labeled a “Nazi” these days, but fuck Israel) The mindless defense of the modern, increasingly militarist, trigger happy police: The officers “felt threatened”, therefore they had to pump 20 rounds into the back of that fleeing black dude (this actually happened near where I live) etc, and so on.

      Yeah, the Soviet loss in Afghanistan should have been a wake up call to the US to not get involved over there. If a country of real men, that doesn’t fight PC wars, had no success, what on earth makes a country with a totally pc and feminist fucked, faggot, tranny, and fem military, think that it has a snowballs chance in hell? At this point, our military has strength only through superior technology. God forbid that we had to fight an actual conventional war up against a traditional military of strong men, because we’d get our asses kicked something fierce.

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    11. Another problem with the military ( or at least Army ), starting back when I was in so you know it is full blown retard by now, is that NCO's are no longer immune from politics by way of aptitude. Rather, they are corporate managers only. Before, career military were specialists, paid as high as officers if warranted, but not leaders unless desired. Now, to retain talent, you can only stay if you become a leader. Trying to get two for one ( professional + leader ) to cut costs, now you have the worst of both worlds. Inept talent and mediocre leadership.

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    12. DH-I'd add, thread should be "upholster" type or similar extra tough.

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    13. Boots, Hats, Gloves, Sun (and other) glasses, Underwear (especially thermals), and really most clothing. All are historically dirt cheap now, and you can buy enough to outfit your family for the rest of their lives. Clothes make barely passable shelter comfortable, and allow you to work when your ill-dressed neighbors are fighting heatstroke, hypothermia, or other environmental hazard (i.e. splinters and abrasions). There is no reason not to, and storing them properly can extend their storage life a lot (airtight vacuum pack the stuff you arent going to get to for years).

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    14. If you don't buy now, your choices later will be total crapfest Wally clothes not fit for garage sales and stained underwear. Socks and gloves will be strips of rags. Footwear will have a plastic bag insert to keep your foot dry.

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  2. Prep the best you can for total collapse. That will be OJT, fly by the seat of your pants anyway. It will be all the problems of just living daily that can trip one up, and get into a jam. Job loss(my continuous hang up) medical problems, physical injury-accidents, criminality coming your way, family or friends turning on you or causing problems. With our super-duper advanced western systems it may provide a parachute effect of slowing collapse to a crawl/drip unnoticeable or unperceived to most or all of general populace for an extended dragged out time frame. This may cause minions to burn up resources or slowly grind them down long before a full on collapse/apocalypse. It will take a martial discipline of high order to maintain fervor towards preps and one's survival contingencies. Stay on the path.

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  3. Starting to gear up and prepare for the annual month spent out at the BOL. Thinley disguised or known as archery season.
    What better reason can ya think of to camp out here in Central Florida for the hottest month of the year ?
    Cuz if you can handle tent living for a month , without AC during September. It is very good practice. Much exercise. Testing of equipment. Not to mention good for the soul.

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    1. Except for the jungle part, I'm a bit jealous. Cutting the electric teet sounds good. Course, the e-teet is better than the alternative working for Da Man. Have fun, kill stuff, be cool. Not literally, though :)

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    2. Ahh , but we have the bug out box trailer which has a pile of solar panels attached and the Honda gennie.
      It's not like you must go total primitive...got enough power for fans , lights, electronics and a small fridge.
      Shade is key to summer camping in Florida, that and some kind of breeze.
      Hope to start scouting soon for critter sign. I can walk about a mile and a half now, before the stenosis kicks in and have to take a break. Good thing stalking critters is slow motion activity eh ?

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    3. Ah, hell, tree shade and a fan is easy living! Now you're almost at Hawaii climate, with venomous snakes added for fun.

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    4. Have snake boots , will travel...

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  4. Fresh Minions need a quarterly summary to encourage them to read back issues (especially the comments!).

    Property tax without a job is a real issue in pdx. My little hovel property tax has increased from $660/year when bought to $2150 in 2017, while the City and County have done little I want or need (ripped up the road in front of the house for sewer "upgrade" not needed until density quadruples, and still fails to pave all the roads _not talking about alleys_ in SE Portland). .gov doing nothing while sucking in a small tribute from the people is acceptable, as long as they do little harm and keep the tribute small, "small" meaning 1% of the cost of housing (rich comfortable people pay more, poor uncomfortable people pay less, tent occupiers ought to pay something like the cost of a meat/cheese taco for blocking the sidewalk and killing the median grass before they are "moved along". Stop complaining, bathe occasionally, use sanitary facilities, and work!). Of course, tax-feeders feel underfunded and would like to add a 9.9% sales tax like in Washington State (but...Washington has no 9+% income tax like Oregon). They use rodent phrases like "stabilizing revenue" while I might use a phrase like "stabilizing the body temperature of sales tax proposers to ambient".

    Increasing price of housing is a natural reaction of inflationary currency looking for a place to hide. This is what bad money does: fun for a while, then destroys the nation from inside.

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    1. Damn. Your tax is crazy-and I thought ours was out of control. I do appreciate the quarterly summery idea. Very good. I was thinking of a monthly e-mail magazine. I just didn't think I'd keep up on extra content. But just summarizing and linking, that I can easily do. Thanks!

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  5. "...Netflix "Colony". We are enjoying immensely."

    Is that the multi-season series about life in walled-off Los Angeles, or the post-apocalyptic one ("The Colony") with people living under the ice?

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    1. Not showing on Dingoland netflix :-(

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    2. Last night they added "How It Ends". A surprisingly good movie onto itself, but be prepared to be disappointed on the actual apocalypse stuff. Think "2012". You guys should get that, being an Original. Did you ever have "Archer"? I was three different kinds of butt hurt when they pulled that. I had only gotten to watch the series twice. Yes, I'm gay for Archer. Phrasing!

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    3. I LOVED Archer in the beginning.
      Early on, he was always a F***up, but in between his drunken antics and everyone's baggage, Archer's superior skill carried the day.
      Then around Season 3 it changed, and they couldn't finish a mission. After that, the show became less fun, and I actually stopped enjoying, and eventually watching, the shadow of what was Archer.

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    4. Okay, the complete season about Wee Baby Shamus was a waste of sperm. And the one after that, the private eye agency in Hollywood, that was a partial return to normalicy although not as good. Other than that I didn't notice huge differences. I guess I'm just so happy when we get half assed efforts anymore, compared to none at all.

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    5. Just watched the pilot episode of Colony and can see why you like it so much - everyone is on a bicycle (I think I even saw a single speed beach cruiser in there, too) ;-)

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    6. And they all look like they are riding without a seat attached, so unnatural is the act :)

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  6. My property tax bill was six dollars on my ten acres for 2018. Water and electric at the road but I'm afraid to hook up and maybe cause the taxes to go up. They say hooking up water cost $2250.00 plus signing a agreement to install septic within two years. I guess rain catchment and a outhouse are my next step. Scared to ask about electric, but know if your a native American you get the first pole for free. I was going to build a dome but am leaning back to a camper to keep taxes low.

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    1. DG,
      how aout an underground dome? or several smaller connected ones? county cannot see, does not know about, cannot tax.
      just a thought.
      make sure tough enough not to collapse under weight of earth or during earthquake.

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  7. I’m still not convinced you actually know what a calorie is...i’m joking, but it’s not my fault you chose a semi-arid region to plant your flag. I am surrounded by corn. The same corn eaten by troops during the Civil War. They some how managed without Crisco. 🧐

    JeSteR

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    1. Was that the corn grown in topsoil that was a foot and a half taller than it is now? Ya'all will get to the bottom of that soon enough, like the California aquafers. I know you jest, my point is that even the historical best is being used up and won't last much longer, especially not with the overuse.

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  8. I added this to my keeper file. Yeah, you've said it before but I read it on my phone whilst on smoko so I couldn't cut & paste. Then I forgot to do it when I got home (in my car).

    "I trust you already have that six months everyday grocery stockpile, to reduce your shopping to Sale Items ONLY. Expand that to two years for dry goods and then can another six months of meat ( to go along with your six months frozen ). That costs about $300 for all the jars and lids plus the pressure canner. About the same cost as buying another freezer."

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    1. Today we have to go to the evil Wally World ( cherry picked cheapest items-go about every three months ). Kroger has boneless pork for 99c a pound. We'll grab that on the way home. Haven't seen this cheap of meat in 20 years. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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    2. Very-cheap meat happens when owners can't afford feed, or anticipate not being able to keep (feed) more than breeders through the winter.

      I bought nicely-discounted fancy chocolate bars at Kroger $3.59 down to $1.29each. Limit 10. With some of the ladies, nothing else works to break a frenzy of evil possession. At very least, ire is on other people who don't have chocolate to share.

      You are not kidding about DC off-grid freezer being expensive! Still, it's on the list of things before the Thermal Cam/scope.

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    3. Very cheap meat also might mean Fuki radiation, mutant cancer or Mad Pig Disease. I'm still eating it. Just makes you wonder.

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