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What if you knew the apocalypse was three days away?

Imagine you had 72 hours before everything collapses. How would you spend that time? Would you stockpile supplies? Would you focus on warning as many people as possible? Would you try to preserve knowledge, like books, hard drives, download internet archives, etc.? Would you collect music or history?

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Replying to @⁨original_reader@lemmy.zip⁩

Really, it’s a question that’s too sad for me to answer: I don’t know. I’d probably panic, like anyone would. Also, it depends whether there is anything after the apocalypse. If the world is ending and explodes, I am not in a position to preserve things anymore. (I probably wouldn’t be if it didn’t, either.) If it’s just a setback in civilization, and I have a chance of survival, maybe a few of my favorite media on various types of storage. Ideally, maybe hints to check Svalbard once civilization has been rebuilt. (The World Seed Archive and Arctic Code Vault are there.) But, if we want to joke about it: I’ll check if anyone’s live from Harmageddon.

Replying to @⁨original_reader@lemmy.zip⁩

What do you know?

WHAT DO TOU KNOW?

Also, I already have my own little library so I’m set on that end. I probably would just get get blitzed and enjoy myself with my husband those last three days.

I have books on everything from “doctoring where there is no doctor” to scavenging the local area to encyclopedias, etc.

My library is for the survivors. I harbor no delusion that I am likely to be among them. (And, in the mean time, I just like books.)

Replying to @⁨Diddlydee@feddit.uk⁩

To me, to even qualify as an apocalypse, it has to take out 99.9%+ of the population, and make extendedly staying alive stupidly difficult (and maybe even impossible) for anyone who “lucked into” surviving whatever it was that killed almost everyone else.

So it’s one of those things that is going to be hard to prep for with months and months of notice, let alone three measly days.

Replying to @⁨monovergent@lemmy.ml⁩

Yep. Friends, family, elderly and child community members. Recalling, "And poppie, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better then thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?" Make the most of comforting each other.

"I'm gon' love you
I'm gon' love you
When the world ends
I'm gon' hold you, when the world is over."

The rest of the works that are quoted are the readers' options. This is what's relevant for me.

Replying to @⁨original_reader@lemmy.zip⁩

Apocalypse by default isn’t survivable.

Probably I would try to enjoy the last 3 days and at the end I would repent because it would not hurt to cover all the bases.

If it would be survivable: I would not last long. Medical / vision / dental coverage is in short supply during the end of days.
Find a good fortress/ship with water and solar panels, download Wikipedia (annas archive), gather seeds and growing supplies, tools to fix stuff, duct tape: Realistically not happening.

Replying to @⁨original_reader@lemmy.zip⁩

I would probably try out heroin. Been saving it for the end because if I need painkillers for health reasons, they would be more effective.

But that is assuming an apocalypse means collapse of “civilization”. Imagine if you were a 1%er, and you had all the power and wealth in the world. wouldn’t losing all that unearned power be an apocalypse for you, even though it would make everyone’s lives better?

One person’s apocalypse could very well be everyone’s salvation.

Replying to @⁨original_reader@lemmy.zip⁩

Ok so, you’re vague on what the apocalypse is, but you did say “before everything collapses”, and talk about preserving knowledge. So I’m thinking big solar flare that destroys technology as we know it.

For an apocalypse, this is easy mode. Basically going back to like what, the 50s level of tech for most people. A lot of the world would also not even notice.

Get myself and all the people I care about to withdraw everything they can in cash, even taking out cash loans if possible. Build fereday (sp?) cages for all our stuff. Stock up on a few months worth of groceries and water, and we could probably ride that wave till things get fixed.

Replying to @⁨agent_nycto@lemmy.world⁩

What’s funny is most of the tech we use today peaked at around 1950s or in some instances much sooner. If we lost the internet, or majority of modern computers due to some disaster we wouldnt nessisarly go back to the stone ages.

We kind of already figured out how to make the best design for most technology that actually improves our lives. For fidges, dishwashers, radios, sewing machines, etc. Any little device you can think of has thousands of patents and been designed many many times over.

The only difference sense then is we learned how to manufacture things cheaper and with outsourced labor to be able to spread that technology to everyone. So that means is instead of a product that used to be made by professionals, all metal gears and parts; it now all gets made by the cheapest poccess possible. Arguably things are much worse.

Even computers, like for fuck sake it only took kilobytes of data to go to the moon. A 10 dollar esp 32 can take you to the moon if you knew what you where doing. Yet instead of making good products now we expected Moores law to carry us through bloatware like windows. Software as a service kept creeping in and consuming more power than nessisary. Most people only need to run a web browser, but windows needs 16gigs of ram to run 24/7 spyware on a device thats meant to only last 2-4 years.

Even noncomputer devices need computers in them for either the sake of DRM, SAaS, or planned obsolescence these days. So sadly in a event like a solar flare majority of the people would be sitting ducks.

I have always preached removing any internet of service device from your life as much as possible. Including cars. Sadly half the time that means you also have to learn how to repair or replace these things. Over the past 5-10 years ive been teaching myself on YouTube how to fix my own car, my own dishwasher, my phones, everything really. Mainly due to lack of expendable cash, but now it gives me some deeper meaning in some regards.

Replying to @⁨original_reader@lemmy.zip⁩

‘revelation, disclosure’

It is “an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling”.

New shit?

Nah same shit.

Nothing new under the sun.

or Same shit different day.

Also faster, louder and dumber.

Peak pedo creep I guess…

I will go scatch my balls until the peeps have had enough.

Chirp Chirppin

This is it…

nah you will be gone in the blink of a eye…

Thank gawd all men die

That tired old song plays on and on.

0h n0 n0+ dUh f0mO

Yah got me 🪦

I got a coupon for a dollar off

Nah that is a call to action and I call your bluff.