I just got home from food shop, intending to restock up on pasta & peanut butter. A couple weeks ago, Supermarket brand whole wheat spaghetti was holding steady at $1.25/lb. Today: $2.00/lb.
Luckily, tucked away behind a poorly placed promotion stand, I found a closeout sale on imported organic whole wheat spaghetti for $1.29/lb, so I bought all 13 boxes of it.
Last week meats were on sale. It spurred me to quickly de-ice my deep chest freezer & stuff it with an additional 15# or so of chicken, burger & pork chops.
Food shopping is getting weird. I just cruise aisles looking for specials.
I have a local group of friends, and we are all working on prepping together; pressure canning meat, pickling eggs etc. I got all the basics a year ago, I will add to that stock. I just contacted my stepsons today to see if they wanted to prep together. I hope they say yes. We planned for it last year, but they didn't get anything. They are in their 30s and sometimes at that age you don't want to see what's coming, or you can't.
One of my local grain suppliers told me many local wheat farmers aren't planting right now because California won't supply water. Instead they're dumping water in the ocean. This keeps profits high for water resellers with political connections
He initially posted the UEP below in response to my post, with the following beginning:
Fast Eddy replied to your comment
Hate to pour cold water on your prepping ... but when the supply chains snap ... and the power goes off... there will be not restocking of the super markets --- civilization will be over. And it's gonna get ugly. How do you intent to cook the pasta? BTW - I am leaking the plan:
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Here is my reply:
Winter: wood stove
Summer: charcoal grill, solar hot pot
I live in "organic garden" capital of US. We already supply 80% of our own food without trying. We also have multiple Amish communities + generational farmers who still farm with horses.
We have plenty of seafood here as well. I'll be keeping -- and probably raising -- icelandic chickens.
I plan to move further out, looking now. Realtor & broker said my mini-farm could be self-sustainable. Current market is it will sell in a week, so I have to find new place 1st.
My stocking up is to tide me through transition. I have 2 horses for future transportation. The foundation bred morgan mare is the prototype of the horse that built America. I've heard of arabs twitching logs too.
Failing all that, I have means to exit painlessly.
I'm not a "prepper." 🙄. Carly Fiorini gutted our pensions, I lost my career when I was targeted & driven out of town by a sex offender & his gang of thugs, was defrauded when I bought my minifarm & defrauded again when I went back to school to start over.
As a result of these robberies I am living on social security. The price of oil & food staples skyrocketing mean I will freeze & starve next winter. If it was just me I wouldn't care. But I have critters that depend on me. I don't want to watch them freeze & starve before I freeze & starve.
The problem is not what you are posting, or your rhetoric, it is posting the same thing over, and over, and over again. Nihilism is boring, thinking we are going extinct is boring, and old as everything else.
Yeah, a lot of people will die. What is new ? Lots of people die all the time throughout history.
You "hordes will come for you" hypothesis also has massive holes in it, but disproving that misconception would take me using my mathematical models, and if I CHOSE to be poor so nobody could have access to them, it won't be to win some random argument on the internet that will do it.
Post whatever you like, but not the same thing over and over and over again, otherwise I will delete it. Simple.
John Paul, I would like to respectfully request FastEddy be reinstated. For the purpose of allowing free-speech and facilitating the flow of diverse opinions which can contribute to a robust and informative discussion. Sometimes people with different experiences say things we don't want to hear, but may very well be accurate prognostications of things to come? As long as the free-speech content is not hate-filled or encourages violence.
Yes he was. He kept insisting, I rarely even delete comments, but when I warn people and they not only insist but taunt you, yeah, you get a ban. Also a bunch of subscribers complained.
And I won't put up with people who welcome the extinction of the human race. That is a short street to a ban. You can think about it, just don't post it here.
I didn't know about the taunting. Saddened to hear this. I'm not sure he was welcoming extinction. Perhaps he is jaded from seeing too much of man's inhumanity to man. Sometimes past hurts can contribute to jadedness. Or perhaps he has tunnel-vision within his own analysis of how the system works. Sometimes very intelligent people fall into a rut. My view is that we are all in this together on this Big Blue Marble, if not just from a biological perspective, certainly on a spiritual level.
To address the "inevitability" of this impending mass extinction event, I would like to submit a wild-card that may save humanity from this self-destruction. What's the possibility that alien intelligences may intercede, perhaps at our request, to provide advanced technology that could sequester carbon, find a substitute for fossil fuels such as zero-point energy, and find a way to safely dispose of radioactive wastes? Within the context of the twilight of dwindling oil reserves, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is descriptive. The movement of energy toward entropy cannot be altered within the "closed system". Continuing with this analogy, the system would no longer be closed if an alien intelligence breaches the system. By the introduction of a new form of consciousness, the movement toward entropy could be stabilized or even reversed?
Fast Eddy: Curious what is your educational/certification background? Do you have inside info or just connecting the dots and presenting your personal theory?
I just got home from food shop, intending to restock up on pasta & peanut butter. A couple weeks ago, Supermarket brand whole wheat spaghetti was holding steady at $1.25/lb. Today: $2.00/lb.
Luckily, tucked away behind a poorly placed promotion stand, I found a closeout sale on imported organic whole wheat spaghetti for $1.29/lb, so I bought all 13 boxes of it.
Last week meats were on sale. It spurred me to quickly de-ice my deep chest freezer & stuff it with an additional 15# or so of chicken, burger & pork chops.
Food shopping is getting weird. I just cruise aisles looking for specials.
I have a local group of friends, and we are all working on prepping together; pressure canning meat, pickling eggs etc. I got all the basics a year ago, I will add to that stock. I just contacted my stepsons today to see if they wanted to prep together. I hope they say yes. We planned for it last year, but they didn't get anything. They are in their 30s and sometimes at that age you don't want to see what's coming, or you can't.
One of my local grain suppliers told me many local wheat farmers aren't planting right now because California won't supply water. Instead they're dumping water in the ocean. This keeps profits high for water resellers with political connections
Hmm, that reminds me of what I read the other day - failure is their superpower https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1525968375951699968.html
I think you made your point across posting almost the same message in almost every post.
He initially posted the UEP below in response to my post, with the following beginning:
Fast Eddy replied to your comment
Hate to pour cold water on your prepping ... but when the supply chains snap ... and the power goes off... there will be not restocking of the super markets --- civilization will be over. And it's gonna get ugly. How do you intent to cook the pasta? BTW - I am leaking the plan:
†***********************
Here is my reply:
Winter: wood stove
Summer: charcoal grill, solar hot pot
I live in "organic garden" capital of US. We already supply 80% of our own food without trying. We also have multiple Amish communities + generational farmers who still farm with horses.
We have plenty of seafood here as well. I'll be keeping -- and probably raising -- icelandic chickens.
I plan to move further out, looking now. Realtor & broker said my mini-farm could be self-sustainable. Current market is it will sell in a week, so I have to find new place 1st.
My stocking up is to tide me through transition. I have 2 horses for future transportation. The foundation bred morgan mare is the prototype of the horse that built America. I've heard of arabs twitching logs too.
Failing all that, I have means to exit painlessly.
I'm not a "prepper." 🙄. Carly Fiorini gutted our pensions, I lost my career when I was targeted & driven out of town by a sex offender & his gang of thugs, was defrauded when I bought my minifarm & defrauded again when I went back to school to start over.
As a result of these robberies I am living on social security. The price of oil & food staples skyrocketing mean I will freeze & starve next winter. If it was just me I wouldn't care. But I have critters that depend on me. I don't want to watch them freeze & starve before I freeze & starve.
I am simply enjoying my "golden years." 🙄
Btw, you are another example of why I suggested to Substack management that they include an "ignore" feature.
The problem is not what you are posting, or your rhetoric, it is posting the same thing over, and over, and over again. Nihilism is boring, thinking we are going extinct is boring, and old as everything else.
Yeah, a lot of people will die. What is new ? Lots of people die all the time throughout history.
You "hordes will come for you" hypothesis also has massive holes in it, but disproving that misconception would take me using my mathematical models, and if I CHOSE to be poor so nobody could have access to them, it won't be to win some random argument on the internet that will do it.
Post whatever you like, but not the same thing over and over and over again, otherwise I will delete it. Simple.
John Paul, I would like to respectfully request FastEddy be reinstated. For the purpose of allowing free-speech and facilitating the flow of diverse opinions which can contribute to a robust and informative discussion. Sometimes people with different experiences say things we don't want to hear, but may very well be accurate prognostications of things to come? As long as the free-speech content is not hate-filled or encourages violence.
No. I don't ban people, anyone can write anything, unless you annoy me enough. Perpetually banned.
I don't even paywall comments or content unlike many others, everything is free. I just want to help people and not be annoyed.
He can create his own Substack and post his asinine observations if he wants. It's free too.
Maybe you could provide us with a date when we're all going to die, since you think starvation is imminent. 🤦♂️
Since I'm already 68, I'm likely to collapse before then.
What's it going to be, a techno world or a subsistence farming world.
Or does it depend on one's status which one one gets.
Fast Eddy was banned? I thought his analysis was interesting and had some merit.
Yes he was. He kept insisting, I rarely even delete comments, but when I warn people and they not only insist but taunt you, yeah, you get a ban. Also a bunch of subscribers complained.
And I won't put up with people who welcome the extinction of the human race. That is a short street to a ban. You can think about it, just don't post it here.
It was also the first ban, the only other time I had a problem, took just ONE deleted commented, and a warning.
I didn't know about the taunting. Saddened to hear this. I'm not sure he was welcoming extinction. Perhaps he is jaded from seeing too much of man's inhumanity to man. Sometimes past hurts can contribute to jadedness. Or perhaps he has tunnel-vision within his own analysis of how the system works. Sometimes very intelligent people fall into a rut. My view is that we are all in this together on this Big Blue Marble, if not just from a biological perspective, certainly on a spiritual level.
To address the "inevitability" of this impending mass extinction event, I would like to submit a wild-card that may save humanity from this self-destruction. What's the possibility that alien intelligences may intercede, perhaps at our request, to provide advanced technology that could sequester carbon, find a substitute for fossil fuels such as zero-point energy, and find a way to safely dispose of radioactive wastes? Within the context of the twilight of dwindling oil reserves, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is descriptive. The movement of energy toward entropy cannot be altered within the "closed system". Continuing with this analogy, the system would no longer be closed if an alien intelligence breaches the system. By the introduction of a new form of consciousness, the movement toward entropy could be stabilized or even reversed?
Fast Eddy: Curious what is your educational/certification background? Do you have inside info or just connecting the dots and presenting your personal theory?