tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post5767768671294020747..comments2023-08-15T06:33:53.114-07:00Comments on Bison Prepper: enron schoolJames M Dakinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-43231816375191474792017-10-22T18:16:56.245-07:002017-10-22T18:16:56.245-07:00Cali is bizarre with their official eco-terrorism,...Cali is bizarre with their official eco-terrorism, but from the home of Hara Krisna and Charles Manson, what can you expect?James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-82359644883370822102017-10-22T18:15:32.935-07:002017-10-22T18:15:32.935-07:00UN peacekeepers. As efficient as everywhere else ...UN peacekeepers. As efficient as everywhere else they went? But, yep, with a nice bioweapon...Course, the bastards would refugee to both our abodes and screw up the colony states even worse.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-20965177024906659422017-10-22T18:13:09.712-07:002017-10-22T18:13:09.712-07:00I wouldn't call the land "the most produc...I wouldn't call the land "the most productive" any more. Fruit in the 80's used to have flavor and nutrients. Now? Cardboard. Mexican produce is just as nasty, but probably less polluted. 100 feet is crazy. As an extra bonus.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-50747421996541504492017-10-22T18:10:18.733-07:002017-10-22T18:10:18.733-07:00"Get theirs before it's all gone"
T..."Get theirs before it's all gone"<br /><br />That makes perfect sense to me.Dingonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-66020694554772824292017-10-22T17:32:29.116-07:002017-10-22T17:32:29.116-07:00Speaking of wells in CA...The Central Valley of CA...Speaking of wells in CA...The Central Valley of CA, which is the most productive farmland in the world, is undergoing subsidence. I think the current figure is around 6" of drop per year. This is related to the pumping of water from wells. I found an old photo on the internet, maybe from the 70's, with an old timer in the Central Valley with a story stick showing where the ground level was over the years starting in the 1920's I think. Anyhow, the Central Valley has dropped around 100 feet or so since they started farming it. It used to have a lot of wetlands back in the day.<br />Peace outAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-49093255888795887142017-10-22T17:18:54.259-07:002017-10-22T17:18:54.259-07:00California is actually rich, if it had a populatio...California is actually rich, if it had a population of less than 3M. There are lots of natural resources left, well within technical extraction capability at positive EROI, but the rulers have made the physical wealth mostly off-limits. <br /><br />pdxr13Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-11492141006267834462017-10-22T16:45:25.464-07:002017-10-22T16:45:25.464-07:00Fiat money always does this. It can't ever be ...Fiat money always does this. It can't ever be different this time, since we are still people. <br /><br />Wells over about 33' deep can't be "sucked" from the surface, you have to drop a pump down there and 240v power or a very-stiff rod to operate the pump to push the water up. Deep wells are expensive to drill, expensive to use, expensive to maintain, and sometimes the water is contaminated with toxic/cancer-causing chemicals. Sacramento ground water causes cancer far and wide (in addition to the glorious added fluoride). Prepare to distill (and depart), with the huge fuel expense associated with that. Surface water/catchment water is solar distilled naturally with just airborne contamination (cheap filter only). <br /><br />SoCal needs an earthquake, with well-timed terrorists to cut off power and water to the region, then add UN "peacekeepers" with cholera-XDRTB-AIDS, to meet the level of population determined by "sustainable Earth" freaks to be correct. Serious not-good times to be avoided, like Haiti. <br /><br />pdxr13Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-38282519665883277642017-10-22T15:22:39.735-07:002017-10-22T15:22:39.735-07:00The rush to EXCEED carrying capacity is to Get The...The rush to EXCEED carrying capacity is to Get Theirs before it is all gone. Not that they even think that far ahead. As long as you believe in the magic of infinite growth, all is good. Look at California and their insane water system. But Cali is rich, right? Ninth largest "country" in the world ( those stats have to be twenty/thirty plus years old, but keep being thrown about ). Everyone wants to be them, including yours truly elites in your neck of the woods. Cali is going so far down in wells they are mining centuries of water. Every year. Flaming idiots. Multiple by the rest of the world. No one can be sustainable so no one is.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-43317800656755438392017-10-22T14:05:15.481-07:002017-10-22T14:05:15.481-07:00Lord Bison - I think that the abundant resources h...Lord Bison - I think that the abundant resources had a lot to do with the reason things lasted as long as they did. Chris Mastersons crash course had a bit about the easy access to resources that the continent of the US provided for early settlers. Life is far easier when you can literally bend over and pick up a gold nugget. <br /><br />I guess that relates to R/K theory. We're rapidly approaching resource depletion. Where are the rabbits going to go when the food runs out? <br /><br />Just this weekend I went off on a tirade covering my favourite hobby horse. I was pointing out that all the growth in my area is a cause for alarm because no-one has built a new damn & last drought we nearly ran out. Next drought we have more thirsty people to worry about. <br /><br />Even if my area *could* support more people. Whats the rush to reach carrying capacity? Whats the plan once we get there? Deportations? One child policies? Civil war? Dingonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-66002448389918172242017-10-22T09:18:41.748-07:002017-10-22T09:18:41.748-07:00It is frankly astounding things lasted as long as ...It is frankly astounding things lasted as long as they did. And yet, once this bitch crashed down we will STILL be surprised at its speed and velocity. And then the best laid plans of mice and men...James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-76362651816693334532017-10-22T09:16:35.320-07:002017-10-22T09:16:35.320-07:00Lack of trust is endemic is any large group, unles...Lack of trust is endemic is any large group, unless it is counteracted by cultural mores backed by law. Get your group down below the max of 150 and it becomes largely self-policing.James M Dakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01382139289994087931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-57923807011467163022017-10-22T07:56:52.486-07:002017-10-22T07:56:52.486-07:00"...sanctioned theft..."
===============..."...sanctioned theft..."<br />========================<br /><br />There ya go, right on the dot.<br />It's been an immoral device from the very beginning, remember ol' wooden teefs spifs over whiskey? If you base your enterprise in theft you are doomed from the beginning.<br /><br />"There is no systematic salvation, only hope for individuals."<br />==============================================================<br /><br />There ya go again. The one-two knock out, in a nutshell.<br />Everything now is about stealing and killing and the best thing anyone can do is recognize that the world is primarily populated by criminals or potentials (will your wife confess to made up crimes about you if they threaten to take her kids? dam right she will.) and stay the hell away from everybody. Detach from everything the best you can and brace for impact. There is no way in hell this thing can last forever and frankly I don't know how it still exists today except through some sort of financial inertia. Maybe there IS a lucifer afterall, and therefore a god?<br />ghostsniperhttp://www.deadcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686829448547770092.post-58041333806360561342017-10-22T07:14:22.192-07:002017-10-22T07:14:22.192-07:00I absolutely agree on this.
The worrying aspect i...I absolutely agree on this.<br /><br />The worrying aspect is not the collapse though. It is that these people, and those they educated either directly or through example, will still be present after the collapse. You can't build anything at all with these people around, because at the heart of any production there is trust.<br /><br />This is actually the primary cause for collapse : trust has ceased to exist. <br /><br />If a society somehow resumes, the importance of keeping one's word will be absolutely paramount. I see no future for these types but one where they don't have a say in anything, because they broke their word at some time. Pure execution jobs (if they're lucky)Avehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06508223217305671728noreply@blogger.com