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Post by spinifex on Apr 20, 2024 12:55:01 GMT 10
Perth mint has stopped selling bullion. That is meaningful. I’m going to prep-con 3 settings. I’m off to top up my fuel reserves and get some extra groceries of the luxury kind. Potential for upheaval much higher than it’s been since 2008. Is that because they got caught selling diluted gold? Not sure. cant find when they stopped selling. Theres a lot happening in the world right now. And people are flocking to it as security. It seems like average folks are being denied access to that security so that big dogs overseas can take huge amounts from the worlds biggest distributor of new gold.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 20, 2024 8:26:17 GMT 10
Perth mint has stopped selling bullion. That is meaningful. I’m going to prep-con 3 settings. I’m off to top up my fuel reserves and get some extra groceries of the luxury kind. Potential for upheaval much higher than it’s been since 2008.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 19, 2024 8:16:45 GMT 10
We are in a bizzarro twilight state: :Land of the free" now land of fee to loot and steel - in South Africa they called it democratic shopping. Who would of thought such a thing even comprehensible try and force businesses to stay open.... Crime-Ridden San Francisco Seeks To Allow Lawsuits Against Grocery Stores Fleeing The City As Mass Corporate Exodus Continuesfinance.yahoo.com/news/crime-ridden-san-francisco-seeks-151304061.html#:~:text=Dean%20Preston%2C%20another%20member%20of,for%20the%20location%20it's%20vacating. San Francisco has long been feared to be falling into a doom loop, a situation where taxpayers leaving the crime-ridden city results in lower tax revenues leading to cuts in services and rising taxes, making it even less desirable to live in. It can be especially devastating when a community's essential businesses, such as grocery stores, decide to leave. San Francisco experienced this last year when Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)-owned Whole Foods Market Inc. shut down its flagship store in the city after being open for just over a year, citing employee safety concerns. Yep. The city that most pushed the Rainbow Diversity Agenda is seeing the realisation of the effects of their policies. Good luck finding a Safe Space anywhere in that city in a few years time Wokies! ! !
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Post by spinifex on Apr 19, 2024 8:10:27 GMT 10
I think this is a case of someone falling through the mental health gaps. You could run the opera house through those gaps. We used to put these people in institutions, there used to be at least one of these in the towns I grew up in. They have closed them all. We try and medicate them while out in the public space now and a mass murder every year or two is cheaper than opening them up again.
I'd prefer to see institutions for child criminals to be more prolific. They pose a more consistent problem to society. Places like Alice Springs would be quite nice if child crime was properly dealt with.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 18, 2024 16:16:33 GMT 10
It’s set in the us. Bit nuts that main characters aren’t all toting firearms. Given the “bad guys” all are AND acting like Pol Pots death squads. What the motive is for death squad mentality is beyond me. Folks will have better things to do post apocalypse than hunt runts.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 18, 2024 16:01:15 GMT 10
To Survive is worth a look. It is currently free on poo tube.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 18, 2024 15:51:27 GMT 10
I reckon this is just a fantasy of the lower classes. It's pretty rare in history that rich folks get rolled by people below them on the ladder.
Normally they get rolled by up-and-comers who sometimes uses discontented average folks to to their bidding. Those up-and-comers then get to become Top-Dogs.
The French Revolution was followed by the Reign of Terror, hardly the utopia the working class had envisioned. Ditto communist revolutions. out with the exploitive aristocracy and in with the exploitive polit bureau’s. same, same.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 18, 2024 8:32:31 GMT 10
The rich will be in deep doggie do do when the 'poor' and 'middle' classes wake up to the fact they are being used and call a halt to it. No more servants, that's gonna hurt 'em. "When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” I reckon this is just a fantasy of the lower classes. It's pretty rare in history that rich folks get rolled by people below them on the ladder.
Normally they get rolled by up-and-comers who sometimes uses discontented average folks to to their bidding. Those up-and-comers then get to become Top-Dogs.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 18, 2024 8:25:46 GMT 10
I saw a short paragraph embedded in some other info that the US is now the worlds leading oil exporter.. Both Russia and the middle east reducing production.. My thinking being this is the cause of the high fuel prices in North America.. Facts, details, experience, thoughts ?? North America doesn't have high fuel prices.
We're paying about $8 a gallon here. Its worse in Europe. A bit over 1/3 of that pump price we pay here is actually taxes. Excise + Gst
Interestingly there is no excise on aviation fuels.
Because Airlines would go bust if they had to pay the same as everyone else.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 18, 2024 8:17:49 GMT 10
I believe the only impact we will see here is higher prices for fuel and any items that are, or can claimed to be, higher due to higher oil price. I have no doubt the supermarket duopoly here will raise prices on a range of items and blame it erroneously on higher oil prices. The poor will get poorer, the middle class will get poor and the rich will continue to profit. Yep. "business" as usual.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 12, 2024 14:30:02 GMT 10
Moved into our new place early December - snuck in a few plants before we moved - tomatoes, chilli, lots of herbs. Had my best crop of tomatoes in the last 10 years - very happy, but sad it's over. Lots of chilis too - yay. Just planted out beetroot, cabbage & broccoli seedlings, as well as onions and radish. Snow Peas and Broad Beans are next. Envious SAH !
I miss the growing environment of Lower Eyre. So many more pest and disease pressures where I am now. And the hard frosts here stuff a lot of crops up through the winter. I miss being able to grow pineapples and outstanding eggplant and tomato crops.
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Post by spinifex on Apr 5, 2024 18:56:28 GMT 10
From Quora Good points. If an apocalyptic event occurred that wiped out most of humanity and put us back into the Stone Age, would humanity eventually come back to the modern age or would it be stuck in the Stone age? It is entirely possible that if civilization falls, it will never rise again. On the one hand, a shallow, superficial analysis would be something like “we rise from the Stibe Age to the Information Age once before, we could certainly do it again!” But consider this: The world’s supplies of surface copper and tin ores, accessible without advanced technology, are gone. The world’s supplies of surface deposits of iron ore, accessible without advanced technology, are gone. The world’s supplies of easily reachable oil and coal, that can be mined without sophisticated deep drilling and large-scale mountaintop removal, are mostly gone. The vast temperate rainforests that once covered Europe and provided fuel for forging and blacksmithing are gone. It doesn’t matter if you have the knowledge if the resources are gone. How can you get from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age without copper and tin that a Stone Age civilization can reach? How can you get from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age without iron ores accessible to a Bronze Age society? How can you get from the Iron Age to the Industrial Age without fuel and resources an Iron Age society can obtain? We have done an incredibly efficient job of stripping the planet of all the low-hanging resources a simpler technology can use. Those resources just aren’t there any more. If all the iron ore left on the planet requires advanced technology to reach, and you’re knocked back to the Stone Age, it might as well be on the moon for all the good it does you. Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Back in the 80s was the last time we could reset current style civilisation after a huge catastrophe. There were enough durable and good quality tools to be able to reestablish manufacture of key products. After that time computerisation, miniaturisation, automation has blotted out skilled workers and modern tools and equipment have been designed to have short service lives and be unrepairable. This lack of skilled labour and lack of quality tools will be a gap we can’t easily bridge. For example, how many people these days could cut a cog to put in a gearbox?
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Post by spinifex on Mar 30, 2024 17:33:19 GMT 10
No consequences for the protected species. Correct. But there will be serious consequences for anyone who dares to protect themselves and their property from them.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 29, 2024 12:33:51 GMT 10
The people most pissed off with the criminal miscreants are the large sector of their race who are hard working and decent folks. This doesn’t reflect well on them and they know it. Be nice if more of them could step up and push the rest into line. But it’ll never happen.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 28, 2024 15:13:18 GMT 10
People are scared to build now. It has caused the price of any house that is new or looks new to shoot up. Yep. I'm one of those scared to engage a home builder company. Consequently ... doing a self-build. Way less risky.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 28, 2024 15:04:10 GMT 10
Alice is a good place for a prepper to go to experience living in a WROL scenario.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 28, 2024 14:57:23 GMT 10
I lived in Alice for 4 years back in the early 2000's when there was already a well known problem.
Curfew is Yet another bullshit "blanket" solution that penalizes lots of perfectly good kids for the deeds of a VERY EASILY IDENTIFIABLE sector of trouble-makers. I bet you dollars to dog-biscuits that the only curfew breakers locked up are NOT from the group of VERY EASILY IDENTIFIABLE trouble makers. If NT Police don't have resources to collect and lock up those doing actual crime ... why the hell extend their list of jobs? Another example of a senior knob-jockey letting loose a brain-fart.
I remember NT Police Commissioner saying "We cannot arrest our way out of this problem". I beg to differ. It would be literal childs play arresting that problem away.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 22, 2024 12:22:48 GMT 10
This is why we are self-building a new home. Paying others to take this task on is now quite risky. Have had that discussion with a few people. They just, don't, get it. Appointing a builder is a massive risk. You hand over your money and hope that in 2 years your house is done. We are adding 600,000 people per year and at the same time builders are regularly going broke. The price of materials has not backed down from it's covid peak either. Right now builders are giving crazy quotes to cover themselves, because they know someone will get stuck and have to pay. If you can do it yourself, then do it yourself. Have you seen that Oz Lebanese guy on YT that goes around inspecting shonky builds? That show should be enough to put the wind up anyone when it comes to trusting builders. Some of these shonky construction jobs are on quite expensive houses too. And it makes you wonder what the hell the council building inspectors are getting paid for if they can't pick up these faults during the build.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 21, 2024 15:30:25 GMT 10
"to me if survival came down to a tin it would mean all my preps and decision making had failed" Or in other words, its all turned to s..t. If we have to leave here, a pocket sized 'survival' tin isn't gonna do much as its all gone 'legs up' and the situation is almost hopeless. But I too am the sort of person who when given 5 minutes to solve a problem upon which my life depends, thinks about it for 4 1/2 minutes and then does what's needed in the last 30 seconds. There will always be 'stuff' around to use from abandoned cars and so on, so minimal carry. But until you get to the extra 'stuff', such a tin may well be useful. We've concentrated on making our farm our BOL. We know what's here, what grows, what supplies and skills we have for survival. A good many years back there were scavenging kits on YT. Crow bar and hacksaw blade, big bag and few tools for gathering supplies in an urban area -yip the Mad Max scenario. Haiti is now Mad max with 80% of urban areas controlled by gangs. Survival tin is a backup of a backup. Read the short book "an island to oneself", Neal goes to a small abandoned pacific island and lives there for 6 years. The first thing he did was put together a small survival kit and bury it incase everything got lost (Tsunami/fire/raiders) - he had no way to get of the island. His survival was fishing/ chickens that he feed with coconuts and veg garden. Luckily for him he discovered by accident that he had to self pollinate the veg as there were no bees, after reading some book by Darwin. Good SHORT read. www.scribd.com/document/196166202/TOM-NEALE-an-Island-to-Oneself I've read that book. It is really good. Although he does some dumb things as well which don't make sense.
Another good one is wrecked on a reef by francois Raynal. About survival for a year and a half on Auckland islands and self-rescue by sailing a small boat back to New Zealand.
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Post by spinifex on Mar 20, 2024 8:14:19 GMT 10
I always find it comical when "survival" includes a band-aid.
The rest is good though.
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