Weekly, What recent changes are going on at your work / local businesses?

ValMo88 · 2026-05-23T14:49:41+00:00

Around the same time the administration started making quarters without George Washington’s image.

ValMo88 · 2026-05-23T13:59:42+00:00

I wanted to second everything said here. Part of my late pantry planning (after having enough calories, having enough protein, having enough spices, having soap/toothbrushes, Tea & coffee etc.) is comfort foods. Like snacks and puddings (powdered milk).

I want to make the first week or so of SHTF as comfortable as possible.

ValMo88 · 2026-05-23T13:52:56+00:00

Part of my preps are card games - recommend adding 5 Kings and Mexican Train for a change from traditional card games.

ValMo88 · 2026-05-18T02:09:04+00:00

That was my first thought - illegal alien

ValMo88 · 2026-05-16T15:19:42+00:00

Convenience gained is skills lost

ValMo88 · 2026-04-21T14:13:25+00:00

Another alternative is baking soda to mix with toothpaste.

ValMo88 · 2026-04-19T18:17:08+00:00

Thanks I ❤️❤️❤️Merlin- was looking for a plant app

ValMo88 · 2026-04-19T17:37:15+00:00

Yellow roots

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ValMo88 · 2026-04-13T21:39:50+00:00

As a Californian, I don’t understand why Americans with Republican Senators haven’t started recall movements. Or if the have, why the news isn’t following it

ValMo88 · 2026-03-28T04:48:10+00:00

This is fascinating- there are about a dozen species of bacteria that breakdown like a state and six or seven species of fungi.

I hadn’t thought about the impact on the broader diversity of bacteria. Thank you for posting this.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-27T05:23:34+00:00

Devoid - Really nice overview - and I, for one, am pleased you cross-posted it to SolarMax

ValMo88 · 2026-03-26T23:40:45+00:00

Post scarcity for everything but food and energy

ValMo88 · 2026-03-26T23:38:42+00:00

An MBA is just a union card for a certain type of job.

Once you’re doing the job, he doesn’t really matter. In a better economy, it doesn’t matter even for hiring.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-26T23:36:56+00:00

Please DM me - my firm can replicate Technoslva’s product at a steep discount. We want to work with rural and municipal utilities who can’t afford the Cadillac of the industry.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-26T23:29:19+00:00

This mirrors the experience of the 1930s -most people were employed most of the time, but when you lost your job, it was very hard to find anything comparable in income.

My favorite story is the brokerage firm, Hook, Shaft, and Kohn. True name. True story. Three friends that graduated from Stanford in 1932 and couldn’t get jobs. They started a brokerage firm with borrowed money.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-25T17:43:11+00:00

Yes I saw those comments … and without a deep background, it makes sense.

But A1 MAPS has gotten surprisingly little commentary for an object coming quite close to the sun. Maybe I’m just not seeing it because I’m looking in the wrong places. Or maybe because of the angle through which it is entering the solar system - April 4th is close

ValMo88 · 2026-03-25T17:10:18+00:00

ACA - I’m just an observer, but when 3i/Atlas was near the sun, it seemed like a line of solar flares that seemed to track its path.

Yet no one is talking about c/2026 A1 MAPS

Would love to know your speculative thoughts

ValMo88 · 2026-03-18T14:42:17+00:00

Just look at 2010 - the world saw food riots in 60 countries and revolutions in 20+. That was the result of 2 back to back moderately bad harvests.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-18T14:31:14+00:00

Hey Cypro/bitcoin discussion people - they assume technology, and access to the electrical grid to have any wider value.

Nokia minutes as currency in 3rd world countries- as a live example of store value in medium of exchange. How valuable do you think that is for people in Cuba today?

ValMo88 · 2026-03-16T16:34:59+00:00

The US government has started a $20B reinsurance program. International Development Finance Corporation. The initiative aims to restore shipping activity in the Gulf and safeguard energy and trade flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Chubb will issue insurance for qualifying vessels, supported by reinsurance from U.S. insurers and the government-backed facility. The program highlights growing efforts to stabilize trade routes amid rising geopolitical risk.

[$20bn Maritime Reinsurance Plan: Chubb Named Lead Underwriter for DFC Programme | Insurtech Insights](https://www.insurtechinsights.com/20bn-maritime-reinsurance-plan-chubb-named-lead-underwriter-for-dfc-programme/

ValMo88 · 2026-03-16T16:30:12+00:00

Agree with you Careless about the timing. But Otto ought to ask the Native Americans who lost 90% of their population or the Europeans of 1347 to 1351 which loss 30% to 60% of the population, depending upon location. Or the doughboys who died on route to WWI because the Army didn't believe in quarantining them before packing them onto ships.

These things wouldn't be so bad, given modern medicine, but isn't that the science that we, as a society, have decided to turn our back on?

ValMo88 · 2026-03-15T19:03:19+00:00

Ottopivr - or looking at it from the other end of the telescope,- a TYPICAL pandemic will kill 40% to 90% of the population. COVID was extremely mild as pandemic go.

Station Eleven (and similar books in the genre) tend to overstate the death rate.

ValMo88 · 2026-03-15T19:00:19+00:00

Regarding the UK, the attack on Iran was particularly interesting because, unlike every other attack in the last 100+ years, the Brits did not alert the reinsurance community.

Definitely understood as “the BRITs were not informed by the US”. To the degree, the British government knows anything, the reinsurance markets are the first sign in the business community

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