Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump

• MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  more than enough time to find or make a replacement even if society doesn’t rebuild.

  If you’re living somewhere with enough easy food, water and shelter that you’re not spending all your time just handling that. Making groceries takes a lot of time and effort.

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  • FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The average hunter gatherer only worked for about 3-6 hours a day. They had more free time than we do.

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The average hunter gatherer had food forests planted by their ancestors, wild herds of meat for the taking and a lifetime of knowledge transfer and physical training in living that lifestyle.

      You may be adaptable and intelligent and have wikipedia by your side to tell you what to do, but Wikipedia is written by people living in today’s society, not that reality. 90% of today’s people will suffer horribly getting in the physical and mental condition required to do a hunter-gatherer daily routine in 6 hours or less.

      But not you, you’re awesome and you get it done in 3, so that leaves you time to go mine copper ore, smelt it into wire and other such things - in reality, no, for the duration of your remaining life scavenging the wreckage will be more productive than DIY from the earth, but scavenging requires a lot of travel and even e-cars won’t be getting around very well.

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      • FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        90% of people would die within the first three months because they don’t know how to cook and we have a three day supply rule in stores relying on just-in-time delivery.

        If you make it past the first 90 you probably have seeds in the ground to get you to the next 90. We don’t just inherit the environment, we shape it. We can start growing our own food within weeks, not reliant on ancestors

        But let’s get back to the topic. 3000 charge cycles, your number, is a lot. All that time can be used to make hard copies of essential information. You can learn how to salvage wire and build new energy sources. An average 2100²ft empty house has almost 200 pounds of copper wire in the walls. 3000 cycles to learn.

        But thanks for telling me who I am and what skills I already have.

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