I just want to work, read books that don’t suck, get a house, meet a halfway decent member of the opposite sex and maybe have a kid or two. Is that too much to ask? Apparently it is.
It's not just people are not smart but a lot of people don't want to work for stupid little money that the gov will give more. I worked extremely hard last year and when doing 7 days a week made only 200 bucks more than guys who just got Work comp because of the government extra bonus. I really just get why some people just said "I'm out. I can play games and not have stress and get PAID MORE."
I was about to write a whole thing about the grocery stockpiling before Nicole brought it up. I was reading about it the other night. Meat Packing companies are hording meat, and claiming its because a shortage of drivers.. Which might be part of the equation, but.. Them like the stores, likely know that another rush on stores is coming, and they're stockpiling at low prices, so they can make bank at higher prices. I don't know if they see a bubble or not, but they see an opportunity.
I'm glad my family has quite a bit of acreage between all of us, enough to raise cattle, and pork, I won't confirm not deny that some of us have freezers full of home grown pork and beef. Need to get back to gardening too. Best advice I can give anyone? Get out of the big cities, even if its in a red state, get out. Get into the hills. I just had a family from Oregon buy a place near me, they ((in my mind)) paid waaay too much, but I'm sure they sold out up there, paid cash, and have money left over. They wanted out before the coming crash. Arkansas real estate is booming, our local remax agent just bought a defunk grocery store building, shes moving in and expanding her business.
They're trying to scare us here with the Delta Variant, and unfortunately a lot of people are rushing back to masks, small business owners are going back to lockdown procedures, and while we have a spike in new cases, hospitalizations and deaths are pretty stable. But those generic news reports are running hard here.
And there are other personal credit lending companies that have shut down in recent months as well. Lot of weird stuff is happening. Get to higher ground while you can.
Go with Joy! With pride! And remember, they want you to curse them, that makes them internally justified in stomping on you. They are afraid you will laugh at them.
So it has been decided, we shall tell them YO MOMMA jokes until our dying breath as we mock them relentlessly. Of course, this also calls for me to brush up on my Monty Python jokes as well.
The supply chain is not a chain anymore. It is hard to explain, but logistics is a big part of my company, and getting loads to places is impossible at times. A lot of drivers hung up their keys and retired, and the new ones are walking away.
The food commodities are going to spike. Packing plants are looking at a major shortage (a lot of herds and flocks were slaughtered back in 2020. That takes time to regrow. As in years). That and while a cattle farmer used to be ok with signing an exclusive contract with say, Tyson, they sure and he$$ aren't now. So stores are renting warehouse space in freezer warehouses (kind of cool to tour if you have a chance), and stockpiling goods. Not sure how much they can store, but local stores are getting regular shipments of goods and not stocking the shelves. My loggy friends have been telling me to buy Christmas presents now, as the stuff won't be on the shelves.
Our HSE contacts (Health, Safety, Environment) are quietly telling us to expect a much more restrictive lock down by the end of summer or early fall. When I look at the "delta and lambda" variants, they are evading the vaccines. When you see reports of the jab bein "60% effective", that is close to baseline. Reports are already leaking out that the covid seems to target certain DNA profiles. Which is why my family (long line of muts) seems to have weathered the covid with very mild symptoms while others get slammed.
I have a freezer full of meat, a way to get more (had to dust off old butchering knowledge that I thought I would NEVER have to do again after college), and a small garden. Our grandparents did this, or at least our great grandparents. The just in time supply chain is broken. It may never come back the same way.
Remember, no one is coming, plan to self rescue. And the uplifted are about as clueless as everyone else at the end of the day.
It is a tough time for someone to not have the funds to prepare better. I am shouting it at friends and family to prep too but they think I am "a crazy prepper." I do what I can, but there is always more month at the end of the money. And yeah, it will be chaotic when it finally comes apart.
The easiest way to prepare is mental. I grew up in a wonderful place and time, in the back roads of the midwest. Summers were hard, winters were harder. So I learned how to deal with loss, disappointment, and keep going on. We got hit with a disease that destroyed our herd the same time my Dad was injured and couldn't walk. At age 14, I had to run the farm in the midst of an outbreak of disease that was quite horrible. I, in the end, failed. But kept on going because my family depended on me to. I remember yearning for summer to end because I could go back to school so I could rest during the day, even if it meant I was getting up at 3AM instead of 5AM.
Learn to be like our forefathers who went through the great depression. Find a way. Adapt. Overcome. Plan for the event.
Yes, I have a garden, a canning larder, and multiple freezers. That is more because of when and how I grew up. You didn't buy food if you could grow it. Not because we were poor, but because it is better to have what you need then expect the store to do so. Yes, I have skills and supplies, but they only go so far. If we go to the grim dark, no one has the stuff to survive in isolation forever.
What I have is faith. Either I will survive or die trying. My life and my family are gifts that I hold in trust, and such things will not be surrendered. It is ok to crawl, as the T shirt says, but not ok to give up.
Be of Joy brother. Either we win, or we go to glory. Remember that scene with Gandalf saying that even if we lose the day, it is not the end
That is all I have... that I'm either too dumb or to stubborn to give up. In the end, that trait has carried me over the finish line when those with more muscles and/or more smarts than me gave up. But I will keep doing what I can, buying a little extra at each grocery trip. I am up to a month of food I think? I need to look at longer term storage goods and dry foods.
Get stable food you will eat and enjoy. My kids love mac and cheese, so I have a lot of it. I also have Ramon (judge me if you will) and canned pasta (the taste of College!)
But remember, if the event goes up, it may not matter. I have about three months or so of food, but we are farm kids and that was how we lived. If a collapse happens, all that becomes a loot box.
Never toured a full-on freezer warehouse, but back in '15-'16 we (co-advisors of the campus APQC chapter) took a group of students to the DHL Logistics (at the time Exel Logistics) facility outside Hershey: 1.6 million square feet of climate-controlled storage for everything Hershey produced, including the stuff that turned right around and headed back to Chocolate World and HersheyPark. Pretty impressive, and pretty efficient to boot, if their claims are to be believed.
I had a job where we used pork skins to make gelatin. A rather interesting process, but we would store totes of pig skin in frozen warehouses. The temperature there was -10F, and in a blast freezer. To see aisles and aisles of frozen pizza going off for a few hundred feet. Crates of hamburger, frozen veggies, and raw meat stacked to the top of a 30 foot ceiling.
We are a few hundred miles from Chicago, and some of that warehouse was to supply them. Ever wonder why food tastes different in big cities than in smaller ones? It is because the storage areas are often hundred of miles away from the end user.
And that was our small warehouse. These are scattered around the nation and world, and keep civilization running. It is good to know the threads that keep things together. At night, I like to think about "If something like interstellar travel existed, how would a galaxy wide civilization be supplied?" Not the sexy side of sci fi, but I really love how Doc Spears has it in his books.
Your analogy of pushing on people too hard forced some outside the weight to bounce back up reminded me of my time in Iraq. Several of the Joes I served with were angry that they were there. They took it out on the locals and for every Hey Joe little kid they smacked around, I knew there was another grunt for ISIS in a few years. We saw some of the indigs we captured were still mad at us for the First Gulf War. They fought because they hated us, not because they loved Saddam. So there is a danger of cornering animals, they sometimes respawn as freedom fighters.
The history nerd in me is screaming that the Troubles might be an... interesting... thing to study. Nothing more, nothing less. Go do some reading, you just might thank me later.
You guys are awesome… anyone listening to your podcasts wouldn’t be sure whether you’re prescient or conspiracy theorists and that’s what makes for awesome fodder for future novels.
You two need to start writing edgy thrillers using this stuff.
Nick, when you talk intelligence you're missing the biggest factor. It's like they say, a person is smart but people are dumb, panicky and dangerous animals. Tommy Lee said that in Men-in-Black and he was spot on.
Next, thank you for stating the obvious about the suckage of the craptastic donut known as Krispie Kreme.
As for databases of vax/shot data, well we know the military and government keep it of their employees. This includes the Veteran's Administration.
Gonna stick out the madness and become warlord of socal with me? Or are you gonna get out while the gettin's good? I originally wanted to get out a while back but various things have conspired such that I know God's plan is for me to be stuck here a while longer.
Here's a question for you Nick. Why are you still in California? It's going to be very bad there. When will it be time to go someplace where you will have more allies? Where your neighbors won't attack you for you being you?
Also about prepping. OPSEC. If you are prepping. Keep it secret. Even here. Don't trust people listening to not be a spy. I've seen many videos of guys making fun of others saying that by showing the bunker and stockpile, they know who to attack. In a societal down situation, you don't have to farm, you just need to control the farmers. Same thing with looting preppers. Don't need to prep, just attack them.
With OPSEC in mind, I also think it may be time to adopt the gray man mentality. Time to blend into society and not make waves. Go under peoples radar.
I just want to work, read books that don’t suck, get a house, meet a halfway decent member of the opposite sex and maybe have a kid or two. Is that too much to ask? Apparently it is.
It's not just people are not smart but a lot of people don't want to work for stupid little money that the gov will give more. I worked extremely hard last year and when doing 7 days a week made only 200 bucks more than guys who just got Work comp because of the government extra bonus. I really just get why some people just said "I'm out. I can play games and not have stress and get PAID MORE."
That is by design, they're trying to destroy our work ethic so we're more docile.
Wait, am I more paranoid than the Nickster?
As always, the question is: Are you paranoid _enough_?
I guess the answer is no, it'll never be enough.
$200 more per Week by the way.
I was about to write a whole thing about the grocery stockpiling before Nicole brought it up. I was reading about it the other night. Meat Packing companies are hording meat, and claiming its because a shortage of drivers.. Which might be part of the equation, but.. Them like the stores, likely know that another rush on stores is coming, and they're stockpiling at low prices, so they can make bank at higher prices. I don't know if they see a bubble or not, but they see an opportunity.
I'm glad my family has quite a bit of acreage between all of us, enough to raise cattle, and pork, I won't confirm not deny that some of us have freezers full of home grown pork and beef. Need to get back to gardening too. Best advice I can give anyone? Get out of the big cities, even if its in a red state, get out. Get into the hills. I just had a family from Oregon buy a place near me, they ((in my mind)) paid waaay too much, but I'm sure they sold out up there, paid cash, and have money left over. They wanted out before the coming crash. Arkansas real estate is booming, our local remax agent just bought a defunk grocery store building, shes moving in and expanding her business.
They're trying to scare us here with the Delta Variant, and unfortunately a lot of people are rushing back to masks, small business owners are going back to lockdown procedures, and while we have a spike in new cases, hospitalizations and deaths are pretty stable. But those generic news reports are running hard here.
And there are other personal credit lending companies that have shut down in recent months as well. Lot of weird stuff is happening. Get to higher ground while you can.
One hundred percent agree.
Wish I could. Just know that my last breath will be defiantly cursing them! ;) Or telling Yo Momma Jokes? Can't decide!
Go with Joy! With pride! And remember, they want you to curse them, that makes them internally justified in stomping on you. They are afraid you will laugh at them.
Mock the devil. Cursing only makes them stronger.
So it has been decided, we shall tell them YO MOMMA jokes until our dying breath as we mock them relentlessly. Of course, this also calls for me to brush up on my Monty Python jokes as well.
The classics always work. St Augustine and St Jerome had some good ones, as does Churchill.
Don't worry JR, we'll keep a tent ready for you. And if we must? We'll mount a rescue operation.
New episodes are the highlight of my day. Listening tonight while son-in-law and I break in my new Remington 7mm magnum.
Niiiiice!!!! Thank you Brother
What rifle? I have a CA Mesa Long Range that I am enjoying
In our biz, here is what I am seeing.
The supply chain is not a chain anymore. It is hard to explain, but logistics is a big part of my company, and getting loads to places is impossible at times. A lot of drivers hung up their keys and retired, and the new ones are walking away.
The food commodities are going to spike. Packing plants are looking at a major shortage (a lot of herds and flocks were slaughtered back in 2020. That takes time to regrow. As in years). That and while a cattle farmer used to be ok with signing an exclusive contract with say, Tyson, they sure and he$$ aren't now. So stores are renting warehouse space in freezer warehouses (kind of cool to tour if you have a chance), and stockpiling goods. Not sure how much they can store, but local stores are getting regular shipments of goods and not stocking the shelves. My loggy friends have been telling me to buy Christmas presents now, as the stuff won't be on the shelves.
Our HSE contacts (Health, Safety, Environment) are quietly telling us to expect a much more restrictive lock down by the end of summer or early fall. When I look at the "delta and lambda" variants, they are evading the vaccines. When you see reports of the jab bein "60% effective", that is close to baseline. Reports are already leaking out that the covid seems to target certain DNA profiles. Which is why my family (long line of muts) seems to have weathered the covid with very mild symptoms while others get slammed.
I have a freezer full of meat, a way to get more (had to dust off old butchering knowledge that I thought I would NEVER have to do again after college), and a small garden. Our grandparents did this, or at least our great grandparents. The just in time supply chain is broken. It may never come back the same way.
Remember, no one is coming, plan to self rescue. And the uplifted are about as clueless as everyone else at the end of the day.
This: Remember, no one is coming, plan to self rescue. And the uplifted are about as clueless as everyone else at the end of the day.
It is a tough time for someone to not have the funds to prepare better. I am shouting it at friends and family to prep too but they think I am "a crazy prepper." I do what I can, but there is always more month at the end of the money. And yeah, it will be chaotic when it finally comes apart.
The easiest way to prepare is mental. I grew up in a wonderful place and time, in the back roads of the midwest. Summers were hard, winters were harder. So I learned how to deal with loss, disappointment, and keep going on. We got hit with a disease that destroyed our herd the same time my Dad was injured and couldn't walk. At age 14, I had to run the farm in the midst of an outbreak of disease that was quite horrible. I, in the end, failed. But kept on going because my family depended on me to. I remember yearning for summer to end because I could go back to school so I could rest during the day, even if it meant I was getting up at 3AM instead of 5AM.
Learn to be like our forefathers who went through the great depression. Find a way. Adapt. Overcome. Plan for the event.
Yes, I have a garden, a canning larder, and multiple freezers. That is more because of when and how I grew up. You didn't buy food if you could grow it. Not because we were poor, but because it is better to have what you need then expect the store to do so. Yes, I have skills and supplies, but they only go so far. If we go to the grim dark, no one has the stuff to survive in isolation forever.
What I have is faith. Either I will survive or die trying. My life and my family are gifts that I hold in trust, and such things will not be surrendered. It is ok to crawl, as the T shirt says, but not ok to give up.
Be of Joy brother. Either we win, or we go to glory. Remember that scene with Gandalf saying that even if we lose the day, it is not the end
That is all I have... that I'm either too dumb or to stubborn to give up. In the end, that trait has carried me over the finish line when those with more muscles and/or more smarts than me gave up. But I will keep doing what I can, buying a little extra at each grocery trip. I am up to a month of food I think? I need to look at longer term storage goods and dry foods.
Get stable food you will eat and enjoy. My kids love mac and cheese, so I have a lot of it. I also have Ramon (judge me if you will) and canned pasta (the taste of College!)
But remember, if the event goes up, it may not matter. I have about three months or so of food, but we are farm kids and that was how we lived. If a collapse happens, all that becomes a loot box.
True, but preparing with a hopeful heart beats wallowing in gloom and doom. So I will do what I can to hedge.
100% agree! My point is don't go so far the other way that you go into despair.
Never toured a full-on freezer warehouse, but back in '15-'16 we (co-advisors of the campus APQC chapter) took a group of students to the DHL Logistics (at the time Exel Logistics) facility outside Hershey: 1.6 million square feet of climate-controlled storage for everything Hershey produced, including the stuff that turned right around and headed back to Chocolate World and HersheyPark. Pretty impressive, and pretty efficient to boot, if their claims are to be believed.
I had a job where we used pork skins to make gelatin. A rather interesting process, but we would store totes of pig skin in frozen warehouses. The temperature there was -10F, and in a blast freezer. To see aisles and aisles of frozen pizza going off for a few hundred feet. Crates of hamburger, frozen veggies, and raw meat stacked to the top of a 30 foot ceiling.
We are a few hundred miles from Chicago, and some of that warehouse was to supply them. Ever wonder why food tastes different in big cities than in smaller ones? It is because the storage areas are often hundred of miles away from the end user.
And that was our small warehouse. These are scattered around the nation and world, and keep civilization running. It is good to know the threads that keep things together. At night, I like to think about "If something like interstellar travel existed, how would a galaxy wide civilization be supplied?" Not the sexy side of sci fi, but I really love how Doc Spears has it in his books.
But all engineers are at heart, odd.
Half the world is below average…
Your analogy of pushing on people too hard forced some outside the weight to bounce back up reminded me of my time in Iraq. Several of the Joes I served with were angry that they were there. They took it out on the locals and for every Hey Joe little kid they smacked around, I knew there was another grunt for ISIS in a few years. We saw some of the indigs we captured were still mad at us for the First Gulf War. They fought because they hated us, not because they loved Saddam. So there is a danger of cornering animals, they sometimes respawn as freedom fighters.
The history nerd in me is screaming that the Troubles might be an... interesting... thing to study. Nothing more, nothing less. Go do some reading, you just might thank me later.
You guys are awesome… anyone listening to your podcasts wouldn’t be sure whether you’re prescient or conspiracy theorists and that’s what makes for awesome fodder for future novels.
You two need to start writing edgy thrillers using this stuff.
Nicole Cole and Nick Cole authors…
That would be epic!
Nick, when you talk intelligence you're missing the biggest factor. It's like they say, a person is smart but people are dumb, panicky and dangerous animals. Tommy Lee said that in Men-in-Black and he was spot on.
Next, thank you for stating the obvious about the suckage of the craptastic donut known as Krispie Kreme.
As for databases of vax/shot data, well we know the military and government keep it of their employees. This includes the Veteran's Administration.
Gonna stick out the madness and become warlord of socal with me? Or are you gonna get out while the gettin's good? I originally wanted to get out a while back but various things have conspired such that I know God's plan is for me to be stuck here a while longer.
Game plan in play
Here's a question for you Nick. Why are you still in California? It's going to be very bad there. When will it be time to go someplace where you will have more allies? Where your neighbors won't attack you for you being you?
Also about prepping. OPSEC. If you are prepping. Keep it secret. Even here. Don't trust people listening to not be a spy. I've seen many videos of guys making fun of others saying that by showing the bunker and stockpile, they know who to attack. In a societal down situation, you don't have to farm, you just need to control the farmers. Same thing with looting preppers. Don't need to prep, just attack them.
With OPSEC in mind, I also think it may be time to adopt the gray man mentality. Time to blend into society and not make waves. Go under peoples radar.