So how are y'all preparing for the Apocalypse?

[Stray Man]

...I mean the US presidential election, taking place today. Same thing though, right?

I volunteered to help the newspaper cover the election tonight, posting live updates of what's happening. Which means I can't ignore what is happening. I'm going to hate tonight. I'm drinking right now. lol... Why did I do this to myself...

 

[N. E. White]

Silly, person. We don't need this crazy election to prepare for the Apocalypse!

Okay, I'll go first and admit, that yes, indeed, I have prepared for the Apocalypse*.

So, just how am I preparing for the Apocalypse?

• Lemons. More specifically, citrus. I have two tangerine trees and access to a Myers lemon tree.
• Wool. Yeah, there's a hell of lot of plastic around right now, but as soon as we stop manufacturing the evil stuff, there goes all our awesome synthetic clothing that keeps us relatively warm and dry. We'll have to go back to the old standby - wool.
• Charcoal. Easy, peasy water filter. I know how to create one on the fly and I've got several small charcoal filters prepared to use when the time comes - because we all know - it's a coming!

*You can chose to believe this or not.

 

[Hobbit]

Heading to bed now as it's nearly midnight here in the UK. See you on the other side.... possibly.

 

[JacenAster]

As for the election, I'm busy planning what would be the cheapest way to get to Australia. Of course, visitor's visa's only last 90 days, so then I'll go up to Japan and onward from there. I've always wanted to travel the world more(I've only been out of country twice previously, to the UK and Egypt) and the next four years seems like a fantastic time to do it!

As for the apocalypse, Solar Panels. Lots of Solar Panels. With enough vacuum sealed spare-parts and solar panels I figure I can keep all my electronics running for the remainder of my life. Possibly piece some of it together into a broadcast tower and become the DJ guy from Fallout 3. Only, you know, considerably less black.

 

[Edward M. Grant]

I'm half-seriously thinking of building a self-sufficient house somewhere out in the woods, but I'm not sure that's possible with Canadian weather. Not because of the election per se, but we're coming to the end of the Industrial Era, and there's going to be chaos everywhere over the next few decades.

As for travelling the world, that's an interesting one. On the one hand, it's good to do it while you can (I spent six months travelling around the world when I was in my 20s), on the other, VR drones are going to make 'travel' trivial in a decade or so. Just log in and rent a drone wherever you want to 'be'.

 

[Av Demeisen]

I'm learning Russian and practising the Putin salute.

 

[JacenAster]

I'm half-seriously thinking of building a self-sufficient house somewhere out in the woods, but I'm not sure that's possible with Canadian weather. Not because of the election per se, but we're coming to the end of the Industrial Era, and there's going to be chaos everywhere over the next few decades.

As for travelling the world, that's an interesting one. On the one hand, it's good to do it while you can (I spent six months travelling around the world when I was in my 20s), on the other, VR drones are going to make 'travel' trivial in a decade or so. Just log in and rent a drone wherever you want to 'be'.

I doubt the drones will ever quite replace the feel of a place. The different air, the new smells, the feel of old stone and time weathered wood. Also... I don't see 3D correctly, I have to force it to work and I end up with a migraine. I haven't tried a VR headset yet, but I suspect the issue applies there as well ^_^.

 

[Edward M. Grant]

I doubt the drones will ever quite replace the feel of a place.

Not in ten years. But, eventually, they'll plug directly into our brains, and it will be just like being there.

Interesting about the 3D: I presume you're talking about 3D TV and movies? I wonder whether your headaches are caused by the flickering image, which isn't the same in a 3D headset. My 3D TV glasses have shutters that flicker on and off many times a second, while the headset displays are on all the time.

 

[JacenAster]

Not in ten years. But, eventually, they'll plug directly into our brains, and it will be just like being there.

Interesting about the 3D: I presume you're talking about 3D TV and movies? I wonder whether your headaches are caused by the flickering image, which isn't the same in a 3D headset. My 3D TV glasses have shutters that flicker on and off many times a second, while the headset displays are on all the time.

I have a mild case of binocular vision disability(about 12% of the population have it). Effectively, both of my eyes work just fine, but they don't play well with each other. On the up side, I don't lose my depth perception even with one eye closed. On the down side, the optical trick for 3d systems doesn't really work for me. In my case I can technically see 3D images if I defocus just right, but it leaves with with a massive ache behind my eyes. In people with worse cases they actually get nausea from it.

 

[Av Demeisen]

Democratic politicians are paying the price for shunning and trying to sabotage Bernie Sanders.

 

[JacenAster]

I admit, at the moment, to wanting a 269/269 vote split. Just to see the resulting utter chaos. It would be awesome.


This probably makes me a horrible person.

 

[Av Demeisen]

Then the House could potentially split 25-25 and the Senate could elect Pence VP and he could be inagurated as caretaker president in January, right?

 

[Av Demeisen]

And if you're really looking forward to the return of Jesus, nothing would beat a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption as icing on the cake.

 

[JacenAster]

There we go! Though with the new control of the house by the republicans I doubt we'd get that 25/25 split. There would likely be a whole lot of pure chaos as everyone figured out what to do , though. Particularly as each representative group has to AGREE on their vote....

 

[Av Demeisen]

For over ten years I've been watching Real Time with Bill Maher through bittorrent. Bill kept on insisting the USA is a fundamentally stupid country. The news features on his show backed him up. Well, I can't say I'm surpised at this complete freedom Americans have given the Republican party with control of the presidency, the House of Representatives and the Senate.

 

[Stray Man]

I would be cool with any scenario in which neither of them entered the White House, but yeah.

 

[Av Demeisen]

You've got your own Mussolini/Hitler now, America. You will get what you deserve, and the rest of the world will go to hell along with you.

 

[JacenAster]

Well. Should the worst happen, at least the future archeologists sifting through our irradiated remains for clues about our history and culture will have a nice wall to look at. I can only imagine the head scratching as they try to figure out what the hell it was for.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

It's going to be interesting watching Trump - the ultimate narcissist - explode out of sheer frustration as he realises he can't do any of the things he wants to.

Enjoy the next four years!

 

[Av Demeisen]

That should read VPN. (For example.)