This is like the wholesome flipside of prepperism.
What’s wrong with preppers?
A LOT of them are right wing nutjobs hoping for a nuclear apocalypse to stop the gays from defiling their precious bodily fluids.
Nothing wrong with being prepared for a disaster, but hoping for the chance to remake society in your image isn’t exactly healthy.
- As Tar_Alcaran said, most of them are really really right wing.
- …and neck deep in 7 conspiracy theories and get-rich-quick schemes of the week.
- As Cory Doctorow puts it, “Prepping is a way of playing out a fantasy in which you are elevated to savior status, not an exercise in disaster-mitigation.”
- The prepper market is absolutely rife with grifts.
Prepperism is a rabbit hole that your uncle falls down that makes Thanksgiving awkward and makes the whole rest of the family worry about them. Not a benign hobby. And certainly not effective disaster preparedness.
There’s of course nothing wrong with having a kerosene heater in your garage or owning a generator in case your power goes out for a few days. But luxury bunkers full of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of MREs bought from Alex Jones’ online store? That’s someone who thinks the government is all disguised extraterrestrials who drink child adrenal fluid to stay young and and inebriated. Except Trump who is prophesized to throw them all in jail.
I dunno, hopeing for a power outtage, just so he can flex his equipment is kinda prepperism.
It’s like the guys who carry expensive pocket knives everywhere hoping someone will need to cut something.
You haven’t lived until some needs a knife to open something on christmas and 5 of the 6 adult males in your family are just standing there holding their pockets knives for you to choose from.
And then the guys look around & start geeking out over each other’s knives.
I always go out with my HP 50g in case someone needs to solve a numerical integration and I’m the only one with a graphical calculator.
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I’m not like a full prepper but I have a rechargeable flashlight in every room of the house in case the power goes out…
Not because it does often but because I stub my toes on shit even with the lights on and I’m not going through the gauntlet in the dark.
Headlamp master race
I value having good tools. I bring a small flashlight when I travel. How often have I needed it? Not often, but when your in some hotel and the power goes out, it’s my time to shine!
Hell yes, it’s good to be prepared!
I get so aggravated by video games with weak flashlights. Like, we live in an age where my keychain flashlight can light up the nearest mountain.
This is like the r/edc guys whipping out their knives at every opportunity or r/guns hoping some day they can justify shooting someone
One of these things is not like the others.
Where the heck y’all live where the power goes out so often?
I’m in the middle of the frozen tundra in Canada, we’re powered entirely by renewable energy, we’ve got snow storms, blizzards, floods and some serious thunder storms and I can’t even recall the last time we lost power for any noticeable amount of time. If anything having to reset the clock on the microwave is the only reason I’d know it went out. There’s talk of moving to a smart grid system because ours is dated, so wtf are you people working with?
I do love me a good flashlight though, I’ve got a couple around the house just in case and one in my bag at all times.
In Florida we lose power during storms very regularly. After one particularly bad hurricane we lost power for weeks.
Weeks? That’s fucking insane. A neighbourhood might lose power for a few hours during a major storm up here but I can’t think of the last time it was a day. I was probably a kid, 30 years ago.
I am also in Canada. Our province runs the power grid on coal and sold the utility to a private company that doesn’t bother with the expense of upkeep on infrastructure. They built a sweet skating rink though.
Energy in Canada should be a crown corp. I’ll fight you over that one!
Uh, I agree?
Damn straight you do!
Energy distribution in Canada should be a crown corp. I’ll fight you over that one.
Where the heck y’all live where the power goes out so often?
we’re powered entirely by renewable energy
That’s probably why. For example, Hydro One uses old equipment and doesn’t give a fuck about maintaining their aging equipment so it all just breaks catastrophically eventually, especially during bad weather. Transformers blow fairly often in bad weather tbh.
Likely Texas, they have a private grid(as far as I last checked) and are prone to rolling blackouts.
Looking back at the last two years, the causes of power outages lasting long enough to do something about were caused by drivers hitting and damaging power poles, the annual winter ice storm, severe thunderstorms sending trees down on the line, and those idiots who shot out the substation last year.
Power interruptions for a fraction of a second are a weekly to daily occurrence. Lights slightly dim and the stove forgets what time it is and that’s about it.
I have solar panels and a backup battery. I was actually disappointed when the power didn’t go out when it got cold here in Texas last week.
Something so satisfying about the frantic beeping of the UPSes all over the house being silenced by the big “katschoonk” of the switchover relay followed by the faint hum of the inverter. It’s the house saying “I got you buddy, you go ahead and worry about other stuff”.
Replace a flashlight with a dick\vag in this picture, and you can probably cover half of the most commenting nerds, me included. They visually light up once they feel THAT is coming and shine bright a long time after. That’s just cute.
I have three niblings (2 nephews, 1 niece). Each one is getting a flashlight and a tiny Nitecore whistles when they get to a certain birthday, not sure which age yet. I know their parents would never forgive me if I gave them the whistles now.
The power was off for a little over two days, so we used our flashlights and other lights a lot. It really doesn’t take much money to prepare. A lot of the gooseneck lamps these days use USB, so you can combine a lamp and a power bank to create a task light away from the backup battery.
I can tell you from experience of being a boy scout camp counselor: Do NOT give whistles to minors!
Tho tbh, would’ve probably helped with what was happening in scouts in the 80s.
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Theres also one on lemmy c/flashlight
I love the small but powerful LED lights that can light up an entire room. Was able to impress a few people in just the right moment with those and always have one with me.
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I guess it was…
His time to shine.
C/memes was doing so well for awhile and now all the sudden it’s back to a catch-all garbage dump. Lovely.
Oh my god I recognized this picture right away but no way did he say something that dumb… Rewatched the diablo immortal announcement and holy shit
Your phone can’t put out 4000 lumens
Is that a challenge ?
Galaxy note 7 has entered the chat
It was the Galaxy S3 mini for me. It was twice as bright as my friends S5.
I think the joke is the Note 7 blows up.
And it never needs to.
