"World Economic Forum Director Predicts "Catastrophic Cyber Event" in the Next Two Years."
They spelled "schedules" wrong.
I can't say that 15 years ago I saw the specifics coming, because 2020 was an eye-opener even for me. But I knew bad things were going to happen. I moved to Texas, as the state most likely to secede. I've run out of closets for storing toilet paper, paper towels, deodorant, toothpaste, and pet food. I have three years'-worth of freeze-dried food in buckets. We have cattle, chickens, wood-burning stoves, solar panels, and 160 acres. We network and trade (already) with neighbors, who also raise cattle. It would be easier to live in a high-rise condo on the beach in Alabama with nothing to do but write novels all day. But I'm homesteading, because doing anything else would require evasion that's beyond me. Are we doing the right thing? Is this the way to prepare? I don't know. But at least we're doing *something,* instead of sitting around going, "La, la, la People Magazine and sportsball."
That’s a good setup you have there. We also have farmland through my wife’s family outside Bangkok - which is part of the escape plan once this place becomes a MEGA SMART CITY or there are renewed (climate) lockdowns, or whatever other ‘emergency’ is declared. Another good thing about Thailand are the ‘water bum guns’ in the toilets - negating the need for excessive amounts of toilet paper! My friend had one installed in his family home in UK. So much more hygienic. Never understood why western countries do not have these water guns in toilets - hence why we saw mad footage of people literally fighting over toilet paper in the supermarkets during the scamdemic!!
Lol. "Bum guns." Americans are *extremely* squeamish about bidets. The consensus is that they're what people use when they haven't evolved as far as inventing toilet paper. In all the 35 years I spent reading architecture and design magazines and fantasizing over how my own house would be built, I never saw an American home designed with a bidet, never saw an ad for one, never coveted one, never knew anyone who had one, and never heard of anyone aspiring to own one. I never saw a house hunting/home improvement show that included one.
Everything you say about their advantages is absolutely true--and news to Americans. It's not rational. I can't explain why they seem *less* hygienic than toilet paper. I mean, they seem kind of fruity and French, but that's not really it; it doesn't explain the visceral disgust at the idea of sitting on a water fountain. But there it is. And if I'd really been thinking ahead I'd have installed at least one in the forever house, instead of caching TP.
It's smart to have the farmland escape hatch. One thing "covid" showed was how convenient cities make it for the kakistocracy when it decides to throw a net over people.
"World Economic Forum Director Predicts "Catastrophic Cyber Event" in the Next Two Years."
They spelled "schedules" wrong.
I can't say that 15 years ago I saw the specifics coming, because 2020 was an eye-opener even for me. But I knew bad things were going to happen. I moved to Texas, as the state most likely to secede. I've run out of closets for storing toilet paper, paper towels, deodorant, toothpaste, and pet food. I have three years'-worth of freeze-dried food in buckets. We have cattle, chickens, wood-burning stoves, solar panels, and 160 acres. We network and trade (already) with neighbors, who also raise cattle. It would be easier to live in a high-rise condo on the beach in Alabama with nothing to do but write novels all day. But I'm homesteading, because doing anything else would require evasion that's beyond me. Are we doing the right thing? Is this the way to prepare? I don't know. But at least we're doing *something,* instead of sitting around going, "La, la, la People Magazine and sportsball."
That’s a good setup you have there. We also have farmland through my wife’s family outside Bangkok - which is part of the escape plan once this place becomes a MEGA SMART CITY or there are renewed (climate) lockdowns, or whatever other ‘emergency’ is declared. Another good thing about Thailand are the ‘water bum guns’ in the toilets - negating the need for excessive amounts of toilet paper! My friend had one installed in his family home in UK. So much more hygienic. Never understood why western countries do not have these water guns in toilets - hence why we saw mad footage of people literally fighting over toilet paper in the supermarkets during the scamdemic!!
Lol. "Bum guns." Americans are *extremely* squeamish about bidets. The consensus is that they're what people use when they haven't evolved as far as inventing toilet paper. In all the 35 years I spent reading architecture and design magazines and fantasizing over how my own house would be built, I never saw an American home designed with a bidet, never saw an ad for one, never coveted one, never knew anyone who had one, and never heard of anyone aspiring to own one. I never saw a house hunting/home improvement show that included one.
Everything you say about their advantages is absolutely true--and news to Americans. It's not rational. I can't explain why they seem *less* hygienic than toilet paper. I mean, they seem kind of fruity and French, but that's not really it; it doesn't explain the visceral disgust at the idea of sitting on a water fountain. But there it is. And if I'd really been thinking ahead I'd have installed at least one in the forever house, instead of caching TP.
It's smart to have the farmland escape hatch. One thing "covid" showed was how convenient cities make it for the kakistocracy when it decides to throw a net over people.