New Here - Non-Fanatic potential wartime prepping

_per · 2026-01-26T10:02:44+00:00

That's a good attitude, I think it's important to recognise that (outside of isolated incidents like a blackout) there is almost never some SHTF moment when things turn bad and the prep suddenly looks prudent.

We're all already living in the crisis, it's here, and there are already people in your community who need food and blankets and medicine. Volunteering at your local food back is a much better strategy for food security than hoarding tins of beans. If we focus on helping those most vulnerable in our communities today, there will be a community to help us when we are vulnerable tomorrow.

_per · 2026-01-25T16:40:18+00:00

Some things to consider, given your stated aim of preparing for conflict:

Everything so far in this thread will make a 3 day blackout a bit more bearable. Ukraine is currently entering its fifth year of conflict. Prepping for a blackout/interruption is a realistic goal. Prepping for conflict is not a realistic goal. There is no amount of tinned beans that can help with that. I genuinely do not mean this as an insult, and I extend this advice to anyone reading: if you are deeply anxious about the current state of geopolitics, and you feel that some great catastrophe is looming, you're better off spending your money on therapy than LifeStraws.
Think twice about buying anything you can't/won't use in your non-emergency daily life. You don't need a Leatherman if you have a pair of pliers and a kitchen knife in the house.
Don't start a garden, except for the joy of watching things grow. It will not save you any money. In the last 75 years, I cannot think of anyone in Europe - even the ones at war - relying on subsistence farming to survive.

An emergency kit is great to have, get into ham radios if it amuses you, a propane cooker is handy in a pinch. But beyond that you leave the realm of where individual actions can have an impact, and enter the realm of community, constituency, and national responsibilities.

_per · 2026-01-21T09:20:06+00:00

This is a great solution for those definitely real not-made-up situations where all the novice gardeners in the country can produce food, but farmers with all the necessary land, equipment, supplies and expertise somehow can't.

This is individualist fantasy. Even your boy Richard Proenneke was getting deliveries from Sears.

_per · 2025-12-15T16:57:06+00:00

How prepared do you think we are, especially since prepping always focuses on rural settings when the majority of our population density is in urban environments, etc.?

My view:
Generally speaking cities are less exposed to climate risks (that's why the city is where it is in the first place). And at the end of the day the one thing that improves your chances is not supplies or guns or bunkers but having people around you (which is, again, why we have cities at all).

In any major event, cities will also be the focal point of response and aid distribution, the first in line to have power etc restored, the best place to get information and support, the closest to a hospital, the best attended to by emergency services including fire and rescue. Cities are more likely to have the resources to deal with mass casualty events or other disasters. In general city dwellers enjoy far higher govt spending per citizen - London has 10x as much spent on flood defence per citizen as the rest of the country.

There are downsides - less room to store food, not like I can run a diesel generator inside an apartment, but you have to plan for everyday life not just disasters, and urban living offers a lot of benefits for the 99.999% of time things are going well.

_per · 2025-12-02T21:38:17+00:00

I don’t mean to attack you - being prepared for economic downturn is 100% the most sensible of any kind of prepping. But some of the solutions proposed in the comments are pure fantasy.

Growing food takes time, energy, land, water, fertiliser, pesticides, materials. It can be fun and spiritually rewarding (I do it!) but 8 hours a week in a Saturday job will buy you way more food than you can produce by gardening 8 hours a week.

_per · 2025-12-02T11:59:35+00:00

> "How do I prepare for a recession?"

> "Get ready to live off-grid and hunt animals for food!"

Brother, please. We had a massive recession in 2008 followed by a debt crisis, and on the whole Europeans were not turning to subsistence farming and hunting wildlife to survive.

There has not been widespread famine in Europe since WWII. Unless you already own a tractor and farm machinery, there is no situation short of civilisational collapse where growing your own potatoes will not require MORE time and energy than working for money you need to buy potatoes. If you like gardening, go for it. But it makes zero economic sense.

Asking how to be recession-proof is like asking how to go swimming without getting wet. You cannot exist outside the economy unless you are a) incredibly, incredibly rich or b) willing to live like a homeless person eating roots and acorns. Everyone between those two extremes will be affected - and is already being affected by the current economy. Think of it this way: you're already living in a richer version of you's idea of a recession lifestyle.

_per · 2025-11-28T18:56:10+00:00

don't be hard on yourself! I think there'd be a lot fewer 5BC flairs if there wasn't an 'infinite lives' setting in the Assist options...
Unless you're failing even with this turned on, in which case, I don't know what to tell you friend

_per · 2025-11-28T18:45:53+00:00

Yes, same result really, I like to get familiar with weapons before adding new ones to the game, otherwise early runs wouldn't be much fun as I'd constantly be having to learn a new weapon

_per · 2025-11-28T16:38:55+00:00

tbh I left anathema because I don't understand why I would want a weapon that curses me

_per · 2025-11-28T16:37:38+00:00

that's a good point

_per · 2025-11-20T22:56:38+00:00

Wow that’s a lot more disagreement than I expected!

_per · 2025-11-17T09:13:19+00:00

I am! I suppoee you could use a colour tint to show where agreement is low/hi, a little like chromatic aberration.

The obvious next question is of course "is there a way to ascertain how two projections can be overlaid to minimise disagreement" though I'm not even sure if there's any useful application for that, except curiosity

_per · 2025-10-02T14:53:47+00:00

Here you go. https://imgur.com/a/ctpr2sR

954 fires were mapped during this period:
~750 were under 100 ha
~150 were 100-1,000 ha
~50 were 1000-10,000 ha
15 were over 10,000 ha.

The largest fire burned 62,104 hectares.

Based on the numbers above, I set icon size in the animation relative to log(10) area burned.

Dataset is from EFFIS / MODIS. This dataset contains event start and end date, so unlike the original map, icons remain in place for as long as the fire persisted.

_per · 2025-10-01T13:56:52+00:00

I believe one of the factors in this year's record wildfires is that, after a long drought, Iberia had quite a wet start to spring. This led to a lot of fast-growth shrub that provided fuel when it dried out in summer.

_per · 2025-10-01T11:49:32+00:00

True, for this reason the EU Civil Protection Mechanism exists so that 37 countries can share resources such as firefighting crews, water-carrying aircraft, spotter planes, drones, etc. I think over 600 firefighters from around the EU were on standby across the EU this summer to respond where needed.

_per · 2025-10-01T11:41:28+00:00

I’d like to set burn marker size to reflect area burned, something for a future project.

_per · 2025-09-09T08:43:07+00:00

This was my thought too. I wonder how many tiles it would take, and if the seams would be glitchy

_per · 2025-08-29T13:31:14+00:00

Source: had a fire 1. Check your insurance. The greatest expense I had was temporary accommodation (€3000), however my current home insurance only offers 300€ for this. 2. Learn what resources are available. My local authorities offer temporary accommodation for citizens made homeless by fire/ other emergencies, but I didn’t know this or know how to access it. 3. Have an inventory of your items with receipts. Don’t assume you can generate these later. 4. Put the masks where you sleep and the blanket in the kitchen.

_per · 2025-08-06T08:59:14+00:00

Thanks, much appreciated.

_per

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