other ammo 1 of 2

OTHER AMMO 1 of 2

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Alrighty then.  Here’s that article on stocking the other kind of ammo.  Not what you need but what you might need.  Not the caliber you have but that which will be useful in all those cheap guns their owners no longer have ammunition for.  For example, I refuse to use more than three calibers, and I would be okay with two.  Of course, 303 British.  Rimfire.  And the third optional 357/38.  I only own one gun in the last caliber, and past a few boxes of 357 I only have one case of 38.  This is my nice to have but not critical handgun.  But I also have a rimfire revolver, which is both my rimfire rifle back-up and my 2 is 1 handgun.

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The reason I would buy OTHER calibers is not because I plan on replacing my current arsenal.  It would be so that post-apocalypse I would have fodder for other weapons should they become available.  Now me, personally, I see little need to do this on my limited budget.  But if I had an uncontrollable urge to go buy another firearm, instead of doing that I would just buy cases of ammunition for the future perceived weapon.  You cannot go too far wrong buying 5.56 for everyone’s poodle shooter.  That will most likely be the guns littering the landscape.

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Because the AR is a nice little friend who is actually from Lucifer, who whispers sweet nothings into your ear.  “Shoot me!  Look how sexy I am!  I’m semi-automatic!  Oohh, big boy!  That’s it!  Fire!”.  Because in today’s paramilitary manuals, you must master three things.  Carrying enough equipment so as to embarrass the laziness of a mule.  Suppressive fire.  Any other tactic that uses copious amounts of ammunition.  You might as well just condense them all into one all encumbering natural law: firepower.  We started out in the trenches with submachineguns and shotguns, topped out in thirty cal rifles for the second war, then settled down into a round between the two as a compromise.  The important thing always remains, however, Firepower.

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Does this remind you of anything?  How about the birth of American Empire, the War Of Northern Aggression.  Industrial merchants churning out copious amounts of everything, to deliver walls of lead on the battlefield ( emulating the power of the day, the English, who started out filling the air with arrows and then went on to filling the air with lead.  Hey, it is only poor people in the ranks, right? ).  This solves two problems at once.  It enriches the secondary power structure ( industrialists-the primary are of course the bankers who daren’t soil their hands with anything other than money ) and it channels societies aggressive trouble makers into the military where they learn how to fight the wrong way.

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Much is made of all the returning veterans being a force for good in the upcoming Freedom Army ( such as when you read “and they’re pissing off all the folks they trained to fight” or similar ).  And vets are great.  They have OJT.  But did they learn to fight as a Industrial Army soldier or as an insurgent?  An infantryman’s job is to hold ground and protect the heavy weapons.  An insurgents job is make sure it becomes too costly for the invader to stay.  Do these two jobs sound anything alike?  I’m certainly not discounting the experience of combat.  That can only be learned the hard way, and my hat is off to the folks that have.  But you need the right tactics to go along with that.

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Most of the vets, and all of the posers, will be employing Civil War tactics and strategy.  Almost nobody is going to be fighting like a guerrilla, despite being taught the lesson from the Philippines, Vietnam and Afghanistan ( setting a few IED‘s, when just a replacement for heavy weapons, doesn‘t make you an insurgent if you are still fighting second generational warfare ).  Meaning all their shiny AR’s and 9 mils are going to be out of ammunition oh so very quickly.  And while a few folks actually deep larder ammunition, most are too busy buying more guns. 

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I know how sexy guns are.  I’d own a lot more than I do, if I hadn’t been forced to choose between them and food and food accessories.  I’ve bought plenty of guns, just because.  But a Pretty Pony Prepper allows himself to fall to the Siren call of Just Because Guns.  A serious survivalist minimizes his arsenal to bare bones.  If you have back-up duplicates, that is one thing.  But just having lots of guns because they are cool, well, that is fine and dandy if you have the extra cash, but certainly NOT cool if your primary post-apocalypse guns lack enough ammunition because you bought extra guns instead of extra ammo. 

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So, you buy your primary PA guns, and stock the crap out of ammo.  Then you duplicate those primaries.  If not the same weapon, the same caliber ( for instance, no need to buy extra AR’s if your back-up rifles are bolt action using the same ammo ).  Then, you stock even more ammo.  Ammunition is far more important than guns.  This is so self evident that I cannot believe it even needs to be said.  Stocking guns rather than ammo is like stocking MRE’s instead of wheat.  You are only focused on short term.  Even if you aren’t a survivalist, you stock the crap out of ammo just in case the government gets a bit uppity. 

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Even if you aren’t a survivalist, you stock the crap out of ammunition because the price will seriously rise again, completely independent of politics.  With that teaser, I’ll continue tomorrow.

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RWTF 2 of 2

ROTTEN WHORING TWAT FACES 2

Now, as I said, I am certainly NOT happy about this robbery at the B-POD.  But I’m oddly hardly stressed at all at the same time.  I knew this was going to happen, or very well could happen, for many years.  I’ve had in-laws steal my stuff while getting a free place to live.  I’m used to ex-wives, the government, friends, and employers screwing me over, constantly.  This is why I hate people.  I don’t get righteous over it, like “those bastards have violated me and have no right”.  You cannot have any other attitude except “might makes right”, when it comes to others screwing you.  If they can, they will. 

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My initial reaction was to swear loud and long enough to make a sailor blush, then inventory, followed by clean up.  As the day went on, I just couldn’t really stay too upset.  I kept dwelling on it, and then came to the decision that rather than letting this consume my time, I needed to make a Grand Futile Gesture.  That’s the ticket!  I just needed to eat more to have more calories to make a random selected day bike ride back up there once a week, regardless of how often or how little I drove up there ( see how a car makes you a lazy slacking ho?  And it isn’t even my car ).

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So I’m upping my wheat calories.  Since living in town and having a toaster, I cheat a bit and eat store bought whole wheat bread for breakfast.  The mid morning snack was whole wheat nuke bread.  Then lunch was dinner leftovers.  Well, this was easy enough, wasn’t it?  Just add another nuke bread.  Just double the yummy home ground wheat.  Adding an egg or a bit more cheese or meat doesn’t seem to deliver all that much extra energy, but adding just another 100 calories of wheat sure does.  I’m eating that extra wheat the other six days of the week, then biking out.

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And the day after biking out I’m skipping the next days hour on the exercise bike.  This should not JUST give me a calorie surplus, even after working on my place for an hour before returning, but also give me BETTER calories.  My metabolism is still stupid fast even after it slowed down considerably in middle age, and I need to have a stored surplus prior to exercise, some calories during and extra after.  I think I was eating, easy, four thousand calories while working the Food Bank at the end ( when I first started, I was able to last all day just on wheat-it was much less manual labor then ). 

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Most people worry about being too fat.  I worry I’ll wait too long between eating and get really weak and lethargic.  There were a few times I ran out of juice riding home and almost not making it, I got so weak.  Like, getting nauseous from not eating.  It doesn’t help I can’t eat all the processed fat like I used to ( due to heartburn ), so the time between meals is shrinking.  Before, a high fat diet was just fuel for work.  Now it turns to poison.  Far more carbs, less meat and almost no fat like I used to eat.

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I imagine getting old has some part in this.  Perhaps now I can’t effectively process fat or junk food easily ( that, plus they are using far, far less wholesome food substitutes than ever ), but I can carbohydrates.  White flour bloats me up like Chinese food, but whole wheat is still smooth as a babies ass on my stomach.  You just have no friggin idea how special and wonderful whole wheat is, do you?  It was what fueled me through twenty years of working harder for child support and is once again saving my sorry ass.  Biking up to my place will solve exactly nothing except to give me something to do other than sitting around worrying.  But it must be done just for that reason.

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In a small way, I’m even glad the robbery happened.  This is yet once again a reminder how people are Rotten Whoring Twat Faces.  Once one set of fingers on one hand are used up, you’ll probably never find any more folks you can count as absolutely trustworthy.  Being reminded in such an expensive way blows, but you don’t get to pick and choose life lessons, do you?  And it was nice to understand that one benefit of knowing bad will happen is that after the initial burst of hatred and adrenaline and stress, when bad things do occur they quickly fade in importance.  You weren’t surprised.  That is always a blessing.

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The worst part of something is when it is an unknown.  Once it becomes a known it loses 90% of its fear factor.  You don’t know what a shot is going to feel like as a child going to the doctor.  Once you find out it doesn’t hurt all that much, it is far less of a Pitch A Fit.  It is important to know the end is nigh, not MERELY to prepare for it-because realistically few of us really know how it will be or are realistic about preps-but also because we won’t be surprised.  You know, the level of stress that can literally impair your health, that kind of stress, is gone.  Once you expect something bad to happen, when it does it turns into a mere problem rather than a panic inducing life altering occasion. 

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So even if you are ill prepared ( I need a clever play on “1 is None” for food storage.  “Six Months Ain’t Crappidy Crap” doesn’t flow smoothly.  How about “One Year Is Just The Start”.  Hmmm.  Still nothing.  Okay, what about “Three Years Or Screwed Like Queers”?  Come on!  That’s not so bad.  It is offensive and non-PC, and catchy!  Anyone? ), just being in a position where you don’t panic because the collapse isn’t a surprise should go a long way giving you a small added advantage.  Not that the lack of surprise adds anything to an empty stomach, just that your reactions and improvisations and decisions might be improved and that could make enough of a difference.
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RWTF 1 of 2

ROTTEN WHORING TWAT FACES

Today, let’s talk about How I Learned To Stop Worrying About The Apocalypse.  Acceptance, real honest acceptance to the point you are only mildly stressed upon its arrival.  Now, for me to get to that point, I first have to talk about Rotten Whoring Twat Faces.  The B-POD was robbed.  I’m actually surprised it took so long, which is not to say I’m happy about it.  There just wasn’t a whole lot you can do about such things.  If you have rural property, you cannot protect it completely.

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Not that you can protect urban property, either.  Those idiots ringing your doorbell at 4:30 in the afternoon trying to use Fear Porn to sell you those home alarm systems?  Why?  Buy a good enough safe securely anchored and you’ve pretty much saved money over an alarm.  Well, that and not making a fashion statement past Thrift Store & Wal-Mart Pressed Board Furniture.  Does anyone even steal TV’s anymore?  They are nearly disposable items.  I don’t know if urban or rural homes are in more danger.  One lets a thief go unnoticed, the other has more thieves per square mile.  Not all desperate thieves even have cars, right?

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I wasn’t fatalistic, I didn’t just ignore the danger.  I had, mostly, a very poor looking property ( it looks poor because I buy poor ).  I had close enough neighbors, or so I thought.  It is an issue I’ve been worried about since 2014 full time, part time worried prior to that.  Prior, the ex-wife would get a bug up her ass and leave me from two to six months to go live with her asswhore of a daughter.  While I was gone eleven hours to work, I had to worry about the place being left unattended.

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In 2014 the ex left again for six months, and then I met the NOL, who I moved in with in town early 2015.  The place has been unprotected for three years.  I visit as often as I can, which is less often as the bike ride out there can kick my ass if I’m not shoveling a lot of extra food down my gullet ( I consume minimum calories compared to when I worked at the Food Bank ).  And of course it isn’t just a question of going out there extra.  Really, the only thing that accomplishes is knowing I’ve been robbed sooner.  An interesting side note, one wheat bucket was emptied, which I guess is good since they left the others alone-even though now I have to worry about the humper knowing I have food-but what was interesting was it only filled half way back up.  The mice had a feast, and this took place less than a month ago.

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(  Yes, ONCE again I got “lazy” and stopped biking out there regularly.  And the last month was crazy wet.  At the same time we were having Spring Showers [ all the better to deny us snow on the mountains, damn you Gore Warming! ] we had the coldest two weeks of temperatures the entire winter.  In March!  So, needless to say, because of the muddy road issue out there I put off visiting.  Again, not sure if that would have made a difference of not ).

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And actually, these were probably crack heads.  They should be dead by the time the collapse comes.  My wheat secret might be safe.  The main items stolen were propane tanks and solar panels.  By no means is this a trivial amount they stole, but they did pretty much take anything of resale value and hopefully won’t be back.  They didn’t break any windows, just took what was handy ( and mostly what was inside was books-only valuable to me ).  They did have time to unscrew the brackets on the panels from the pallets they rested on, so I wonder if it was the neighbors, or visitors during work hours or at night. 

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My solar panels had been in use for ten years.  They cost a lot, about $350 for 75 watts, but I can replace them with a $150 100 watt unit.  They will last many more years, but they won’t get the bastards much money because of the acquisition price drop.  They stole every propane tank not locked away, four 5 gallon tanks and one that was a seven or ten gallon tank ( I never paid attention to the capacity-it came with the trailer and I just topped it off and forgot it ).  Call that about $250.

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$40 for a propane hose with regulator, a propane heater for $100, a $40 inverter and a $150 TV ( my trucker 12v unit-replaceable for about $80 ).  Even my 12v LED light bulb.  And a few canned goods that must have looked yummy ( they left 90% of them-this is what makes me think they were tweakers.  That type get excited over weird food items, I imagine their decaying bodies craving certain nutrients.  Strangely, they took two totes full of VERY old dry food.  Stuff just kept out of reach of the mice such as crackers, Minute Rice, that kind of thing.  They didn’t dump out all that crap, just took it totes and all.  They must have really felt under time pressure ).  Call it about a thousand bucks my cost, replacement value at around $700.

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I have no plans to replace much except the propane hose.  I have here-in-town locked up back-up solar panels.  They only got half my tanks ( the others locked up ), and I don’t need a TV unless I move back out there, then I may or may not get another.  I have another inverter, but that was my back-up ( you buy an inverter from Wal-Mart, ALWAYS have another ready to go.  No rhyme or rhythm when they fail ).  I can also wait on that for it is mostly for my writing.  If the collapse comes and I don’t buy another, I can live with what’s on hand as it won’t be used much past cutting my hair.  But I probably should buy one anyway, through Amazon ( 30% cheaper than Wally ).  So, a hose and an inverter.  Maybe $70 total.

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should I stay?

SHOULD I STAY?

Should I stay, or should I go now?  If you stay there will be trouble…( okay, sorry, no more Clash ).  The problem you have is that mobility is good, as far as avoiding trouble.  But you can’t have too many luxury items like, you know, food, if you stay mobile.  But if you stay in place you have to defend all your food.  And before you say, Tribe Up, yes obviously this is the only solution.  It isn’t like we are very smart figuring out that a stationary plot of land needs defending.  A bunch of half naked grunting barbarians figured that out eight thousand years ago. 

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But, let’s face it, lice scratching morons with bones through their noses were highly motivated to cooperate and get along with others as everyone figured out this new thing called agriculture.  Soft and gooey Americans with their central heat, two hundred channels of TV and two SUV’s in the driveway have no interest in getting together and actually sacrificing anything in a cooperative venture.  Survivalist groups seem to be about as successful as South American religious cults serving Kool-Aid as the refreshing beverage of choice. 

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So the average bear prepping is probably on their own, and faced with the age old conundrum of indefensible dwellings verses mobility.  To stay mobile, you cannot stockpile many supplies.  Now, granted, a lot of preppers are silly and are protecting a McMansion which becomes a molding pile of sheetrock and warped wood the moment the power grid fails, or if not displaying an unnatural sexual attraction for an extremely overpriced piece of suburbia they still follow the usual practice of getting their supplies close by in whatever dwelling they do inhabit.

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And here is the issue.  You can’t count on anyone else, because finding someone with their head out of their ass is near impossible.  So folks go loner.  They keep supplies in the only spot they can watch over and defend.  If they are attacked, they lose their supplies.  If they are smart, they have a nearby cache that will keep them alive.  But were they smart?  Is that cache big enough?  If you leave your home with your supplies there, you have in effect been killed and you just don’t know it yet.  Should you die slowly after the cache runs out and you starve, or should you die quickly defending your place?

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There is really only one answer, and that is to hide your supplies.  It can be at your home, or it can be a cache ( which, after a certain size, just becomes a Bug Out Location ), but you need to forget about the two standard supplies storage solutions of Making Furniture or Warehousing.  I’m just as guilty as the next person, although I am half way towards caching only because I ran out of room inside.  You can excuse the warehousing by claiming “rotation and package care”, and there is nothing wrong with that.  But the food isn’t secure ( or the ammo, or whatever ). 

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The ideal is that when you are attacked, you tactically retreat a safe distance away.  After a few days of camping and using a small supply cache, you snipe or ambush or firebomb at the intruder.  As there is only enough food inside for those few days and a few days he can stuff in a backpack, he should in theory be happy enough to leave rather than be killed.  It is the same principle of a throw away gun for a cop or a bait gun for a gun confiscation.  He might know you have more food but he can’t find it.  Now, that brings us to both where to hide supplies and your shelter itself.

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Your shelter can either be a hovel or it can be a castle.  A castle is a strong shelter meant to last generations and must be defended at all cost.  A hovel is disposable shelter.  It is meant to  be used and abandoned as needed.  A McMansion is ( mistakenly ) perceived as a castle, a travel trailer or old enough mobile home to have zero value is a disposable hovel.  Most guys, if successful dragging along the wife off grid, must build a castle for their queen.  If you are lucky, you get a good redneck wife that understands that disposable housing can still make a good home, but isn’t worth dying over.  The Scots-Irish came over with a strong culture of disposable housing, whereas most other cultures-English, German, etc., never were able to appreciate the value therein.

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You see, if you are too attached to a home, you do stupid crap to keep it.  You take a far worse job to keep up the mortgage, you allow the ghetto to creep closer and closer every year until you are the only one on your block who sunburns.  You risk your life defending it from hordes.  You then risk your life again by trying to shoot it out with a squatter rather than just torching the place to drive him out.  This strategy probably means you need a nonattached buried room for your supplies, rather than false walls or hidden rooms.  Unless you can figure out how to light the flammable stuff inside a fireproof outer structure, with no risk to the hidden supply room.  It seems easier to just bury a room in the back yard.  It contains supplies and is also an underground shelter if the main one burns ( good to have anyway, invaders or not ).

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You can figure out other methods such as a buried root cellar on another property or such.  A septic tank full of buckets.  A pit with a big food grade tote ( and shored up walls ) full of wheat.  It shouldn’t be hard or too expensive.  Yes, there is a risk in this.  It is a hard sell to yourself to surrender your hard won stash to the ravages of nature and entropy.  No matter how much axle grease you slop on your buried gun, you worry about rust.  But the easier it is to access your goods, the easier they are to be captured.  It is also going to be dangerous to be constantly going back and forth to the hidden room for more supplies, when you start using them. 

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Now, once you become a farmer, you then have a group helping protect the land.  Then, you have a much larger supply on display, because no one will believe it if you don’t.  But then you’ll also have an organized method of retreat and return to attack, a grain silo hidden to feed the village after a raid or a famine, a way to shelter up in the hills as marauders attack, etc.  This is your initial strategy, for when you are alone and trying to survive the die-off.  You need to think alone the lines, metaphorically, of keeping the cash in the bank rather than under the mattress.

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4x screwed

4X SCREWED

I’d like to expand on a comment I made about purchasing power.  I said I had watched a video stating that in 1960 the average house price cost 3.5 times the average annual wage whereas today it was 12 times.  Think about that for a second.  Between our real purchasing power wages falling and overpopulation and taxes rising housing costs ( plus rising rentier class shenanigans PLUS falling EROI energy ), our cost of living has risen four times higher.  And yet, we seem to just find it easier to blame people themselves for any financial hardships ( the are weak and lazy and shouldn’t be in debt ).

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If you are anywhere close to being like me ( sheesh-you wish! ), you look at two hundred or one hundred or fifty year old prices and translate that into today’s dollars.  And while bad, they are still grossly understated.  Because today you are paying around double for everything, even without inflation factored in ( with some exceptions, obviously, such as electronics ).  Between taxes and other hidden costs such as granted monopolies or built in litigation costs, stuff in general costs more.  So when they say that A or B cost $100 in today’s dollars in 1904, they don’t tell you that $100 today should buy you $200 worth of goods if all the hidden taxes were gone.

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Inflation is one tax, falling wages another, automating all jobs factors in, quadrupling taxes are another aspect.  Also, think about that earlier date.  1960 was prior to the industrial economy failing, was before our empire failing militarily and was at the apex of our low cost high volume oil supply.  It isn’t just that the government and elite are greedy humping whorebags that desperately need to be number one on the lamppost list-although, duh, right?-but also that in a lot of ways this situation had to come about just because resources are running out.

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And of course, with falling resources, it is no longer a political or economic problem to be solved but a situation that must be endured.  The point here today is that no matter what else makes things worse, and they will get that way, we are looking at a fundamental fact in that we only now possess 25% of the purchasing power as when we were born ( or, if you are young, when your parents were born-just prior to our military loss of empire ).  But wait Jim, you excitable hump with erect nipples from your own doom porn, that is just housing and you can’t say how much other prices are rising merely from one of several factors.

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Well, I don’t know about you all, but when I do choose to pay rent, or when I have been forced to in the past, I pretty consistently paid half of my take home pay for it, over thirty years in various locations or jobs.  No other expense is really going to skew my wages like rent does.  Perhaps food has gone down a bit over the decades.  Or has it?  You aren’t getting wholesome foods anymore.  Even convenience/frozen/junk food was made with higher quality ingredients way back in the day.  Even if you buy zero processed foods, the meat is full of hormones and the grain is full of pesticides and everything is grown in dead soil lacking micro or even macro nutrients. 

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You aren’t buying the same quality of food, so dropping real prices aren’t the great thing they appear.  You are paying for industrial food rather than natural.  Poison rather than substance.  It isn’t just eating at McCrapholes that will send you to the hospital eventually.  So will eating from the whole foods section of the grocery store.  There have been many people who beat me by decades understanding this, as I at first suspected hyperbole from the health food experts.  And it was-they exaggerated from fear and zeal, but they were merely ahead of their time.  Now there is no mistaking the fake food no one tries to hide anymore.  Evidently Pink Slime just means Cheaper NumNum, anymore.

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75% less purchasing power explains a LOT.  It explains Bitches Lib ho’s stealing and sacrificing their offspring at the alter of Mammon.  It explains why debt is mostly accepted as a necessary evil ( if you are paying forty years on a mortgage-ten years savings on the down and thirty for mortgage payments-what is a few short term credit cards or a six year car loan in comparison? ).  It explains the mass exodus to the cities as even higher costs with a job beat low costs with no jobs.  It explains why we all hate each other and screw each other over.  It explains the Hate Speech push, as now anyone can get you fired merely from allegations, and they move up into your position ( like Music Majors running computer security or “designing” pedestrian overpasses ).

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I’ve constantly used the term “because of the pie shrinking”.  Does this give you a better appreciation as to how much it has shrank?  There is far less shrinking from “the water was cold!”.  I am even amazed at this figure.  I had assumed about a doubling in prices since I started working, with frugal workarounds taking off the worst edges of the phenomenon.  This makes that thought a bit of an overly optimistic self lie, doesn’t it?  It explains why now two jobs plus four times as much debt STILL aren’t enough to recapture a lost time of luxurious living.

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Then, most of our perceptions are based on the old reality of ten years ago.  You know, BEFORE the economic meltdown that would have literally been an overnight implosion ( “this sucker is going down” ) if we didn’t hyperinflate.  Most of the last decades economic distortions aren’t even factored into our understandings.  We still think of medical insurance as both affordable and necessary.  We still think there will be time to pay down our debt, that we will still have a job to pay for it.  We don’t REALLY believe that the end is nigh, based on our actions.

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But the thing about the last decade is that it has been a HUGE cut into our purchasing power, by all metrics.  Would you like to bet a jelly filled donut that we’ve actually lost MORE than 75% of our purchasing power?  Anyone?  Bueller?

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stupid safety

STUPID SAFETY

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Remember the Age Of The Lawyers?  A time of mass litigation, where anything and everything which had any liquefiable assets would be sued.  As a nation, we have a surplus of lawyers.  China has a surplus of engineers.  Can you guess which nation builds everything for everyone and which nation gathers around a stagnant black hole of an economy and argues over the rules of which rich bitch gets more money?

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From this Age Of Lawyers came Stupid Safety, from wherein everything was labeled dangerous ( danger, this toy, a small rock in your yard, a button your child saws off his clothing with his teeth and any bug he catches constitutes a chocking hazard ), everything that was obviously dangerous STILL needed a safety warning ( warning, falling off this tall ass ladder might pose a danger.  Warning, putting smoke in your lungs might be considered by some to be dangerous ), and from then on all activities had to have safety classes ( warning, sitting in this chair all day will give you hemorrhoids.  Or cause a blood clot.  Or atrophy your muscles-so exercise.  But don’t exercise in an unapproved manner because you might get cramps!  And if you get a cramp, please go see a doctor.  In fact, if you ever feel the slightest bit bad, go see one.  But only one officially approved ).

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From Stupid Safety there then emerged the quite natural reaction of pretty much ignoring any and all Stupid Safety Rules because they were, well, pretty humping stupid.  When there is a sign every three and a half feet in a huge room, you pretty much stop reading signs, or if you do read them you cannot remember 90% of them ( talking to you, Post Office ).  When everything can harm you, well, then you can’t remember what is dangerous and what is not.  By purposely ignoring Stupid Safety Rules,  not only do we regain our slipping sanity, we also flip off the Nanny State.  I’ll live like those bad boys in the movie Jackass, so there!

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I’m not stating that a proliferation of stupid safety warning leads to abandoning common sense, but I do worry that the reaction to them might cause problems in the future.  We are so used to Uncle Sam and his fifty retarded dysfunctional cousins on the local state level nagging us incessantly on behalf of the bygone era of ravenous lawyers cashing in their law degrees for several pieces of silver, that we are tone deaf to worrying about all the small dangers life will provide after health care and medicines are no longer available. 

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Not that I’m blaming the lawyers and PC Brigades and Nanny State officials for everything ( just most things ).  We have gotten used to the cheap antibiotics that are supposed to smooth out any accident prone activities we might have, like humping a skeevy crack whore without a raincoat on, skipping gaily through a field of scrape lumber with rusty nails attached, using power tools with reckless abandon,  eating twenty three slices of extra meat lovers pizza at the buffet then exploding afterwards with a gallon of fecal soup after which you emerge from the bathroom somehow forgetting to wash your damn hands, or any number of other such activities.

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After the collapse, or even before the collapse as our medical industry implodes and just walking into a hospital sees you being attacked by Super Germs which laugh mirthfully at the puny earthling antibiotics, out inattention to basic safety rules is going to get some of us killed.  And while that wouldn’t be a bad thing, since the Darwin Awards will continue through time immemorial, dumb ass behavior tends to bite innocent bystanders on the ass.  Now, to be clear, I am NOT playing that Badly Written Post Apocalypse Novel trope of “one cut on his finger killed him by infection”. 

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That has some relevance, although the odds of a healthy person dying that way is small as long as there is basic sanitation.  I’m speaking of institutionalizing safety.  Not like we do today, such as safety campaigns everyone ignores because they are insultingly stupid, such as insisting one washes their hands should you touch anything at all, even your exposed skin.  What was that retarded movie with all the top stars about some pandemic, that essentially propagandized that merely washing your hands fifty-three times a day would stop all diseases in its tracks?

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What we need to relearn is how to slow down and do things the proper way, rather than the quick or easy way.  At a time when we should have far more leisure time than ever ( isn’t essentially every human activity commercialized, luxuriated and robotized? ) in the history of forever, why do we bounce around unrelentingly?  Go, go, go without pause or stop.  We are always rushing about accomplishing absolutely nothing.  We want to do everything and so everything is multitasked poorly and incompletely. 

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Perhaps we are so overfed, so stuffed with extra fats and sugars, that we are over stimulated with excess energy and in effect act like a tweaker sitting down and bouncing up and down in his seat.  The only time we are not bursting with energy is when we sit down to shovel more sweetened fat down our gullet.  Even when we sit in our car, we burst with energy, getting ourselves worked up with road rage, gunning the engine to be the first at the stop light, bobbing and weaving about the lanes.  And if we went to Starbucks first, or drank a Red Bull, that gets added to the sugar and deep fried calories.

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We need to learn to be slow and methodical.  Almost anal compulsive.  Don’t just throw in the dishes and scramble to wash them as quickly as possible.  First wash all the sharp knives and get them out of the way safely.  Then take the time to put on gloves so the water can be as hot as possible.  Don’t slam out of the bathroom ready for your next adventure, take your time to wash your ass and hands properly.  Don’t try to attack an entire forest, taking chances getting cut or maimed.  Take the time to sharpen dulled tools.  Take the time to NOT get hurt.  Don’t rush so you become winded or fatigued and make mistakes.

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Slow and steady wins the race.  And you use common sense.  Don’t wash your hands all day long and don’t over bathe.  Your body needs to build up its own immunity, and past washing your hands after dropping a duce or cutting raw meat, as far as washing to sterilize, let your damn body be exposed to minor unsanitary items.  It is just like parents today to immunize against minor disease, when they should be letting the kids body build up its own immune system by being exposed.  But the same parents deathly afraid of any germ will engage in plenty of other dangerous activities since they are in such all fired hurries.  Most parents drive like idiots, then worry Junior has a boo-boo on his hand and bury it under a gallon of anti-bacterial soap ( I thought all soap was anti-bacterial, but what do I know? ).

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Remember, follow the money.  If a fear pays someone, it is usually irrational.

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snowflakes

SNOWFLAKES

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A hat tip to the commenting minion for this article idea.  The willingness to kill, and the general unwillingness to acknowledge this necessity.  This ties in with other articles on aggressiveness and offensive verses defensive mindsets.  The minion was noting that he had watched a video of two Brits discussing the movie “The Survivalist” ( not the cheesy 80’s movie available online that made TV movies look good in comparison, the new 2015 foreign film ).  One opined that the movie seemed to offer the lesson that “anyone surviving up to that point had to be willing to kill”.

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Simple enough, right?  Well, like all theories it is indeed simple but also like all theories it never survives a collision with reality unchanged.  People SAY they understand, but that is like saying you understand how you must behave in a marriage.  The fact so many of those unions end in divorce tell me that no one really does in fact understand.  Granted, 75% or so of all marriages that end in divorce because the female wanted one, but let’s leave aside the financial reasons at this point as I’m trying to illustrate a point.  If 75% of 50% of marriages are a female cashing out, that means really that only a smidge over a third of marriages end from greed. 

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The rest of the marriages are unions wherein the male is miserable and stuck or divorced from mutual agreement because of incompatibility.  We don’t understand bitches.  And we don’t understand the need to kill.  Why would you be willing to kill?  To save yourself, of course.  So why is it so complicated?  Because stasis is normal, and die-off is not.  Even now, fifty years into our energy collapse ( which is really more descriptive than an economic collapse ), we mostly seek stasis.  We do everything in our power to avoid change, even as preppers, even as we know the fracking oil is nearly at its end as a viable industry ( either financially or available resources to mine ), even as Peak Oil is over a decade in our rear view mirror.

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Even during pre-dieoff systemic collapse, we all desperately cling to normalcy, and that includes the cultural agreement that killing is abnormal.  There are many rules and restrictions on killing.  The norm, 99.9% of the time, is to condone killing.  It is an aberration.  But during the time between the initial die-off’s and the restoration of order when a monopoly on force is once again granted, you need to be able to suspend the normal prohibition and be not just able but willing to kill. 

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Humans do very well in denying themselves permission for behaviors that are too disruptive.  Even on a deserted island, regardless of the normal perception to repopulate that disasters bring on, we don’t practice incest.  Even if we are forced to resort to cannibalism which itself is a hard taboo to ever break, even then we have rules governing its behavior, to minimize the negative impact ( no eating family members, no “helping them along” so we can eat earlier, etc ).  But killing is so natural and necessary that the behavior is never banned.  It is only regulated.  The “natural and necessary” part is what you need to keep in mind.

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Leaving aside the obvious freaks that unbelievably still breed ( the Pacific islanders who make cannibalism ritualistic, the Amish that don’t believe in killing ), killing is as natural and necessary as breathing.  Without the ability, the species would not survive.  How else do we protect ourselves from our apex predator, other humans?  Just as we need to breed, but not so much we breed with close family members, we also need to kill but cannot be indiscriminate about it.  Breeding needs to be consensual for the benefit of a harmonious parent bond necessary to raising a child for over a decade to maturity.  And killing needs to be within agreed upon bounds. 

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Killing is all fine and dandy, indiscriminate killing is not.  Until it is, sort of.  Group governance dictates the rules of killing, which balances the positive and negative consequences, which is dictated by local conditions.  Once there is no longer a group, as in during complete disruption during a 99% die-off, the monopoly of force is by necessity conferred on the individual or small family.  Killing is NOT bad, as long as the rules are followed.  And when you are all alone, you still have your own rules to follow.  But the first rule is, first you need to kill.

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You need to give yourself permission to kill.  Because any hesitation and you yourself are killed.  Let me try an analogy.  Let’s say you belong to a Church that preaches everlasting love.  To hate is to sin.  This is of course understandable, since you can’t be hating a official Church member who diddles your son, or kills him after a war the Church declared to be just and proper, in conjunction with the wishes of the State they are granted their power from ( yes, Papists, talking to you ).  In this case, you don’t have permission to hate.  But hating is good and it is proper and just incidentally it is a bit fun.  Hating keeps you alive because you are untrusting and cautious.

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It is actually quite the ordeal going through self-deprogramming.  You must give yourself permission to hate, and to do that you must discard the authority of your church.  To be willing to kill, you merely need to give yourself permission, because your government who has been trying to kill you ( through either action or inaction insofar as the collapse ) no longer has the authority to grant or withhold permission.  It has lost the monopoly on force through its loss of legitimacy.  That is why I spend in inordinate amount of time highlighting the abuses of our state in the last century plus.  I’m trying to show you the loss of legitimacy.  Remember, everything has a very simple solution, although the devil is in the details.

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