[quote]RSGZ wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Charlie Horse wrote:
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
[quote]angry chicken wrote:
Personally, I think it is prudent to stock up on food and other necessities and HAVE A PLAN in the event that the shit hits the fan. I have several friends who have homesteads in rural Virginia who are completely self sufficient. I hooked up solar panels, batteries, generators and other redundant power supply systems for them. They have YEARS of food, water purifiers, guns and thousand of rounds of ammunition (some of which is cached secretly on their property). They have HAM radios and GIGS of reference material on hard drives stored inside insulated Faraday cages.
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You’re fucking serious? Shit, I dunno but maybe your friends have been watching too many fucking zombie movies. Thousands of rounds of ammunition? The space used to hold those guns and rounds could probably be put to better use, if in fact you were thinking about storage of survival necessities. Maybe they think the world will turn into some post-apocalyptic wasteland and they’ll have to fend off savages. Or maybe they’re just paranoid about the Chinese… [/quote]
I’m not concerned with the apocalyptic stuff but it is a good idea to have extra food, water, med supplies etc. Should something like a natural disaster hit. Clearly you can’t always rely on the government to swoop in and take care of people. What if your city or state is cut off from the outside(including electricity and clean water) for a week or two? These kinds of situations happen.[/quote]
…and people underestimate the general public’s capacity to lose their heads in a crisis. Most people wouldn’t have a clue on how to act if something happened to disrupt the normal flow of their lives. The ensuing panic would actually escalate things pretty rapidly.
There was a fuel shortage in the U.K. a few years back and stores totally sold out on bread and milk because people were hoarding them in the belief that they wouldn’t be able to get to the store to top up. They created the shortage of bread and milk, not the fuel crisis.
Don’t ask why it was specifically bread and milk, presumably it was herd mentality at work.
This behaviour really isn’t the stuff of Hollywood. Look at how people conduct themselves in supermarket sales. [/quote]
Ergo, people are idiots.[/quote]
…which segues very nicely back into why people believe crackpot predictions in the first place.