chrissnell

In a true lights-out situation, there are a few things that would be useful to a suburban neighborhood trying to defend itself from looters. Namely, ambush tactics. I think it's good to have in there, especially in the context of a SHTF LLM where people are asking questions that are pressing to them.

But yes, I agree, teaching neighborhood civilians how to cross a danger area as a squad is big LARP.

I hope you move your fab to somewhere in the middle of the country. Part of the appeal of your concept to me is speed, but now I'm looking at cross-country FedEx, which is so expensive that it makes your service unpalatable. A plant in, say, Kansas, is a couple of days of UPS Ground from a huge portion of the country.

From what I can tell: - zero firearms or bowhunting content

- no books on hunting or fishing

- no instructions on field dressing animals

- no FM 7-8 or ATP 3-21.8

- no info on reloading ammunition or flint knapping

This feels more like a tool for city dwellers than a serious survival tool.

A hedge against civilization-destroying events. Meteors, global war, disease.

My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops that I got from BYU Surplus and added some RAM (before RAM price went totally bananas) and SSDs to. I spent less than the cost of one of these Pis to acquire all of them together.

I later added a large machine that I used to use as a Linux desktop, with a GPU and 64GB RAM, which I use for generating OpenStreetMap tiles.

> There are no school age children currently on Pitcairn.

Yeah, I'll pass. Can you imagine how hopeless it must feel for kids here?

Can we get a "Kubernetes" added to the technologies filter?

You're 100% wrong about this. My mother is a mentally ill drug addict who has been homeless. We forced her into care when it was clear that she could no longer take care of herself. It took help from Adult Protective Services and lots of attempts before they were finally able to make it happen. She would hide from them when they showed up. Finally, she got kicked out of the place she was living and APS saw the conditions and committed her.

It's partisan but only because of the state of the parties. Democrat-run Austin Texas used to be heaven in the 1970s and 80s. Then radicals took over and somehow got elected and now you have a total sh*tshow.

Homelessness in the US is not a housing issue. Simply walk through a typical homeless encampment or walk through the Financial District of San Francisco and it will be clear as day: it is a drugs and mental illness issue, and ultimately, a family issue. Good families will take care of their mentally ill members and get them the care that they need. If you don't have a family, it's easy to end up out in the street on drugs. Nobody wants to talk about families, though.

I'm willing to bet that I've been to more cities, states, and countries in my time than you have but, whatever, keep it up with the ad hominem quips.

This became a "right" thing when the Democratic Party--or more succinctly, the people they put on the ballots in liberal cities--have moved so hard to the left that they are unrecognizable to normal classically liberal Americans like myself. When these folks are running in the general election, they say all the right things to keep the votes from normal traditional Democrats who appear to have no idea who they're actually voting for. Once they're in, they go completely radical and do so relentlessly. Some of these DAs appear to be the worst, most evil, least-caring public officials I've ever observed in my life.