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AI opponents will spend their last hours manually slogging through 250GB of content rather than let a hallucination potentially misguide them.

It sounds like you can connect with your phone, which reduces the energy footprint quite a bit.

A single rooftop solar panel can do that, and charge a battery for a little after dark use while you're at it.

A true prepper will get an eInk monitor and resist the urge to scroll until they read all the way to the bottom of the page, but even a normal monitor uses a small fraction of a solar panel. Keyboard? Near zero. Mouse? Near zero x10 but still near zero when compared with 200W. RasPi? less than a normal monitor.

That doesn't take much power, a solar panel or two should be more than sufficient, or you can rig something up w/ a defunct ebike (just run the motor backwards to generate electricity).

the under valuing on steps we could just take to not have this future in the first place.

They feel helpless to change the current course of events, and they're not far wrong as individuals.

What they also underestimate is how quickly they're gonna die when somebody decides they should after TSHTF. All the prepping in the world isn't gonna make living after a 20MT strike 20 miles away any fun at all. Living out in the boonies growing your own food? Whatever arsenal you have to protect it, all it takes is a band of yahoos with twice your numbers and firepower and your toast becomes their toast.

live in a fricking farming commune in the first place

Surprisingly difficult to do... we had a farming commune as neighbors for a couple of years, they never did reach food self sufficiency with 80 acres of fertile land and 16 people to work it. The Amish come close to making it work, but any Amish I have ever gotten to know tend to cheat, a lot.

Or, you know, voting for politicians who listen to scientists.

Yeah, they trust the "scientists" even less than you trust their politicians - and they're not 100% wrong, just mostly wrong.

Don't get me wrong: true science is the way to make progress, and we have built a lot on science in the past 200 years or so, but we have also got a lot of bought and paid for business tools running around in lab coats fooling the science community that they are just like them.

Anything beyond being self sufficient for a month is overkill in my opinion.

Disasters of my lifetime have been hurricanes. If you can hunker down for the storm and retain your ability to drive out of the devastation zone after the roads are cleared (usually in a couple of days), you're good. Keep enough gas to run the generators until you can get more gas, keep enough food to last until you can get to a source of more. I've never had to abandon home, even with some pretty hard direct hits, but when it's bad enough that's what you do. Go somewhere that hasn't been whacked.

If we politically screw up the whole planet, that's harder to prep for than a mild nuclear winter.

I think you're overlooking a more likely (and more reasonable) approach preppers take; become skilled in various survival-oriented skills and then if things go south you can go to one of those farms and offer to help out in exchange for some of the food. The lone rambo raider types aren't going to last long, humans are social animals that do best in tribes and for the most part want to form tribes.

Preemptively apocalypsing yourself by forcing yourself to live in some sort of self-sufficient compound right now isn't reasonable for most people, but having some plans and resources in your back pocket in case of disaster is not at all unreasonable.

If nothing else, it makes camping more fun and lets you ride out a power outage or local disaster in style.

I love seeing all the tacticool "operators" with their tricked out ARs, bulletproof vests and helmets, flexicuffs, and other shit but look like they get gassed slowly ascending the stairs from their mother's basement. Rule #1 in the zombie apocalypse is Cardio.

Also society isn't going to collapse overnight. If it does it will be a slow crawl until going full Gravy Seal is warranted. They need to survive until then.

The overlap between climate crisis deniers and preppers is so large it‘s truly baffling. If you ask me most of them are just hobbyists who act a little too seriously about their little passion. It‘s a lot of make believe and very little obtaining practical skills.

Wrap em in foil. Boom protected. But kinda moot if there's no power.

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