CowBoyDanIndie t1_jcy43wl wrote on March 20, 2023 at 1:28 PM

Reply to comment by jonesocnosis in Teachers wanted to ban calculators in 1988. Now, they want to ban ChatGPT. by redbullkongen

Humans are already domesticated. How many people do you know who would continue to function if electricity and cell phones went away for a week. Or powered transportation. Grocery stores even.

Eleganos t1_jcz7xm1 wrote on March 20, 2023 at 6:03 PM

I count myself amongst those people.

Not so much because I'm particularly special but because me and my dad brainstormed this out over our last summer vacation due to listening to the Emberverse series in audio book format while traveling between provinces in car.

We've kept on doing it for fun since and basically have a game plan ready if all of the above were to happen.

(Long story short we drive to Albert's, and since it's a food exporting province which ships a disproportionate amount out, and since another of that food couldn't be shipped out without powered transportation, it would be a prime location to easily source food.)

Honestly, probably just posting this reply since this is the only time I'll ever be able to organically bring up this game plan in any meaningful capacity online.

blueSGL t1_jczq00a wrote on March 20, 2023 at 7:59 PM

how much of that food can be sown, grown, kept. and harvested without the aid of machinery, fertilizers or anything else reliant on just-in-time trade infrastructure.

visarga t1_jd0ga1q wrote on March 20, 2023 at 10:54 PM

North Korea tries to survive without fertiliser and it's not pretty.

gangstasadvocate t1_jcyzx0c wrote on March 20, 2023 at 5:12 PM

I would just go gang gang and get some food from wherever it exists. And drug consumption that’s important.

Eleganos t1_jcz6tm6 wrote on March 20, 2023 at 5:56 PM

That works for the few weeks op stated.

Assuming your actually able to do so ans don't get instantly bumped off by your local criminals and law enforcement, congrats, you've bought yourself a couple months before the local stores of food run dry.

What're you going to do a few years into this scenario when there isn't any food left to steal (at least from groups you feasibly could steal from. A fully armed military base, rich person's bunker or prepper compound does not count. )

gangstasadvocate t1_jdh9xqh wrote on March 24, 2023 at 11:56 AM

Grow your own during those couple months of respite

StarChild413 t1_jd6ocp3 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 5:46 AM

That makes it sound like not being able to do solo survivalism makes you some kind of brainwashed sheeple slavepet of some greater intelligence