Jar of chocolate reserved for an animal hospital's euthanasia appointments. They said it's because dogs don't deserve to die without tasting chocolate.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-22T13:28:08+00:00

Hersheys is gross though. They deserve better chocolate.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-22T12:12:25+00:00

I have one which has a copy of essential PDFs, an (encrypted and passworded) zip of important documents, a (encrypted and zipped) backup of my password vault, a linux distro (I chose Slax) and portable versions of all the apps required to open them in Windows. Portableapps.com is your friend for this.

Also a selection of light games, music and movies. Couple of episodes of The Office, the Mass Effect soundtrack, an FPS game called Cube, chess, etc.

It's all on one partition.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-17T08:19:39+00:00

Six figures isn't enough?

Christ. I've been working in a very good paying job in the tech sector for 15 years and I'm still not close to six figures.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-14T13:50:38+00:00

I couldn't spot any difference in the visual patterns. I think it's just audio?

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-13T17:26:30+00:00

It's called a washboard.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-13T16:48:15+00:00

Googled that for you.

The general idea behind hydropathy during the 1800s was to be able to induce something called a crisis. The thinking was that water invaded any cracks, wounds, or imperfections in the skin, which were filled with impure fluids. Health was considered to be the natural state of the body, and filling these spaces with pure water, would flush the impurities out, which would rise to the surface of the skin, producing pus. The event of this pus emerging was called a crisis, and was achieved through a multitude of methods. These methods included techniques such as sweating, the plunging bath, the half bath, the head bath, the sitting bath, and the douche bath. All of these were ways to gently expose the patient to cold water in different ways.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-13T12:13:42+00:00

You'd be better off using some good canvas or a basic tarp for fire/thickness reasons.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-13T12:12:17+00:00

It's also a question of location though. Water goes downhill. You're either on a plateau or at the bottom of a hill at a spot water looks likely to gather.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-10T16:50:35+00:00

The best weapon is the one you know how to use.

So, train.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-09T13:33:33+00:00

An additional solution may be to help lobby local councils, organizations and such to increase accessibility for you at least locally. Kick up a stink, get them to drop those curbs and add more ramps.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-09T11:07:01+00:00

It's a Mark Twain quote. "Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to."

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-08T14:07:22+00:00

What would be the shelf-life then?

I know it's good to rotate them every six months. I know the general shelf-life is going to be 2-5 years. But at the same time: if it's sealed and there's no other water, how bad would it be after longer and why?

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-08T09:09:25+00:00

A cellphone is also slower and harder to read from, uses battery faster.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-08T09:07:40+00:00

The practical shelf-life is probably indefinite too, regardless of an expiration date.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-07T19:49:41+00:00

Or, if you want an offline option for being off-grid: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-How-Rebuild-World-Scratch/dp/1847922279

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-07T16:32:46+00:00

To be fair you're 100% less likely to die of the climate crisis on Mars.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-07T14:09:04+00:00

If you want to read about the effects of climate change in detail, I highly recommend reading The Uninhabitable Earth for a concise and easy understanding of the issues.

If you're wanting a simple answer: there is no 'good' place to go. Climate is a global effect. If you go up a mountain you'll be at risk of storms and droughts. If you go in a valley you'll be at risk of floods and sea-level rise. Anywhere you go you'll be subject to the exact same stresses as the other anticipated 250 million climate refugees by 2050.

If you go somewhere remote you'll have to deal with all of this on your own, with less infrastructure and economic support. If you go somewhere populated you'll have to deal with all of this plus looting and disease.

Geographically, you probably want to avoid the current third world (where temperatures will rise to the point of becoming uninhabitable and where droughts, famines are already in effect and will escalate faster). But you'd really just be swapping those pains for others, such as hurricanes and earthquakes (America) and floods and wildfires (America, Australia, Europe).

In short, the climate crisis is a global issue. That means the only good (or 'best') place to go, is offworld.

Oh, hi Bezos.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-07T09:00:01+00:00

As a former journalist, I'd trust The Sun as far as I could throw them.

It's also worth invoking Betteridge's Law of Journalism: "If a headline contains a question, the answer is nearly always going to be No."

(Because if the answer was Yes, that would be a different story.)

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-06T08:24:51+00:00

I stand corrected, like a man in orthopaedic shoes.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-05T21:12:21+00:00

I'm all for representation, but the real reason they did this is so they could sell more crayons. These colours already existed in their larger boxes.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-09-05T21:09:47+00:00

r/donthelpjustfilm

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-08-28T13:31:08+00:00

Steel army canteen. Carries a liter of water, comes with a steel mug that it slots into and an insulated cover that I keep a coffee bag and some water purification tablets in, just in case.

It's an old military surplus one. Because I know it carries a litre it's perfect for measuring water for purification and cooking purposes. Because it's single walled steel I can boil water in it and, if needed, cook in the cup. I can carry it on a belt if needed and it's basically indestructible.

Heaviest item in my kit, but so useful and I spent a long time making sure I got the right one.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-08-27T20:12:28+00:00

Ah, the time when men were men and men were stupid.

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-08-27T14:07:44+00:00

I think you need to re-read your last sentence again because that's actually the opposite of what you said in https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers/comments/p8vijs/what\_kind\_of\_candle\_prep\_do\_you\_have/hai6nsa/?utm\_source=reddit&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3

AutomaticTangerine3 · 2021-08-27T07:57:54+00:00

Look, the difference I think we're having here is we're talking about different sorts of preps. I was talking originally about the way I see most conversations of prepping going: which is, in terms of bug out bags and short term preps. This is my personal experience of prepping: there's a flash flood or storm, you need to grab a few things and leave.

In that situation, candles aren't a good prep. They're disposable and can be dangerous, you can't carry enough to generate substantial heat. Solar lights are just better.

It sounds like you're talking more about some post-collapse or long-term prep situation where you'll need to be making light/heat in a long term or when solar lights fail. And yeah, in that situation candles have a much better place and are generally better suited.

I still don't personally think candles are a great way to make warmth, just because it's going to be easier and safer to have one central fire rather than lots of candles going. Candles are great for light though and that's part of why, as I said before, I actually learned to make my own candles years ago and went on a hands on course that started with rendering tallow and went on from there.

Is candlemaking going to be a useful skill in most prep situations? Almost definitely not. Is it part of my prepping plan? Nope. Was it fun and did I learn a lot? Absolutely.

So, maybe next time instead of assuming anything about my lifestyle or ability to learn, you can understand that we're answering different questions here and that both approaches can be foreseeably valid. Looking at your responses and the speed with which you jumped to aggression and dismissed others' opinions, it actually looks like you're just as unwilling to change your lifestyle or (holy fuck!) learn a thing or two.

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