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MOAR STUFF: archive.org Prepper eBook jumble Survivor Library Survival PDFs link-tree (reddit) Another link-tree (ar15.com)

If you're on Linux, you can "fingerprint" your copy of a book to verify it has not changed later on -- in a terminal, type "md5sum <filename>" and it will print the MD5 checksum of that file. Store this in a text file for later reference. You can scan many such files at once, the results might look somethin glike: 791f93be6b389ee2f0918a300a9ab16b ./shtf/When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein (z-lib.org).epub b563eb59b307289c09f3617f9db4d24d ./shtf/The Survival Handbook A Practical Guide to Woodcraft and Woodlore by Ray Mears (z-lib.org).pdf b1ea6c8c15bb2ee84126227017f56310 ./shtf/project_gutenberg_dvd042010.iso 4fdfb97539377aecb3ef546481e1bc5f ./shtf/SAS Survival Guide by John Wiseman (z-lib.org).pdf 8345c951cff7b0ede2f31b836bad3d75 ./shtf/Back to Basics A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition by Abigail R. Gehring (z-lib.org).epub

Vol. 1-8 of the Foxfire series are available on archive.org.

Keeping print books on hand is a great way to keep offline content available. The challenge is that less and less data is being made available in print form, and prices are increasing. On the cheaper end of things, you can buy a mobile battery pack. I have an 80Ah mobile battery which can run my laptop for a week or two if I carefully conserve the power. I also have an inverter so I can charge up from 12V. So, even in a 100% grid-down scenario, I will have access to data for planning and other purposes for quite some time. I consider those first two weeks to be the most critical because that is when the first fires will sweep through and cause the most devastation. After a couple weeks, the smoke will likely clear somewhat and the new landscape should become a little more discernible... which areas to avoid due to roving gangs, etc. Obviously, things get worse the longer it runs, but having reference information will help you place yourself in the best position to handle whatever comes next. Data will be more valuable than gold in a mass data-outage scenario.

Springboarding off this, here are some prepping tips that folks would do well to follow, in preparation for the possibility of data-outages: - Keep paper maps on hand. You don't need to have USGS maps for the entire country, but have basic roadmaps for your area, state and the US available. Also put some aside for family/etc. who may not be aware of the importance of this issue (eg. it's not a bad idea to put a paper map of their city in your kid's trunk and tell them it's there.) - Install Kiwix, which allows you to download and browse offline copies of important reference websites. You can browse and download Kiwix packages here. For large downloads, like Wikipedia (100GB), you may want to install a Torrent client (eg utorrent, qbittorrent, etc.) and download it that way (faster, easier). Note that storage is cheap, you can get a 1TB external SSD for around $50-80. - Consider downloading the National Address Database. It's not up-to-the-minute information, but since most of us no longer have access to print phone-books, it's the best I've been able to find, in terms of offline access to address information. The file is very large, so you might need help processing it after downloading. If you have a tech-savvy friend, they might be able to help you figure out how to break up the data file to be useful (I'm on Linux, so I just used the cut command to cut the file into 70 smaller ones that are easily opened with Excel as CSV files.) - If you have a spare computer in your house, consider setting up Internet-In-A-Box. It doesn't have the whole Internet, obviously, but it has a lot of useful data. This is a little more advanced than the previous steps, but very doable for anyone with a little bit of techie know-how. You can download another package as part of IIAB called Open Street Maps, and this package has tiles that are similar to Google Maps. This will allow you to search and route, similar to using offline Google Maps without GPS.

All I'm going to say is this: "Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. But a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. "Now it happened that the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man also died and was buried. And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.' "But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things. But now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.'" LSB]

Should be subtitled, "HBO Special Feature: America 2023"

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That's the important thing... committing crimes legally...

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They also lack repentance. Every time one of their policies or agendum fails, they do any of the following three things, instead of admitting fault, asking forgiveness, and turning away from (repenting) from their error: They blame their opposition. They claim they were unable to know that it would fail, or that the policy/agendum wasn't true to its core. They ignore it and move on as if nothing happened.

Agreed on that... Derailment Tax: The Index Card of Allowable Opinion, Tom Woods

I said I agree with this criticism. We do need to stop doing that. But I think the EC is more stable than the worry-warts think it is. Maybe I'll be proved wrong, I have been many times before. I just think we need something more substantial than "stop being pro-democracy". The deeper issue, here, is that the Left has hijacked the language, and the moral high-ground. They have hijacked the language by taking over the word "liberal" itself, and by redefining "democracy" to be a synonym for "freedom", which it is not. As far as I can see, the damage is done... the previous generations of conservatives ceded that ground, and we're not getting it back. We need to think about how to repair that damage some other way than just saying, "I don't support democracy" which, in 2023-speak, translates to "I don't support freedom." Rothbard points out in one of his articles (I can't remember which one off the top of my head) that conservatives have done a lot of damage by trying to argue that the reason we should want government to be organized according to conservative principles is because it works better. But in so doing, we have ceded the moral high-ground. We have implicitly conceded that if socialism could work, then it would be preferable because more fair, or whatever. The fact is that socialism is undesirable because it is immoral (and it also doesn't work). So, we should absolutely not cede that ground, and we should be crystal-clear that the reason we oppose socialism is because it's wrong in the same sense that stealing or killing is wrong. (Note that mass democracy is inherently socialistic since everyone has a share in my property by proportion to their voting-power.) But those two paragraphs won't fit in a 160-character Tweet, so we'll have to wait for another generation or so when people recover the capacity to think thoughts that require more than 160 characters to be expressed...

I agree with the criticism of conservatives, but I think it's a premature declaration of our defeat. Two-thirds majority in polls does not equal a Constitutional amendment passing. First of all, the amendment process is double-locked, you have to have two-thirds just to propose the amendment, and three-fourths of States in order to ratify it. That's a high bar to jump, even for a mob-democracy. In addition, a lot of politico-economic forces that normally remain dormant/indifferent during these kinds of political arguments would be awakened by a Presidential popular-vote amendment proposal. We might start out with two-thirds (enough to propose the amendment) and then hit unforeseen headwinds, rather than gaining the hoped-for tail-winds. And yes, there are areas where it is appropriate to rely on "the process", and I think this is one of them. The mass of the public will always have a negative perception of the EC but then, where will they get the political focus required to overcome it? You'd need a rockstar populist to undo it, but you need to get rid of it first to put a rockstar populist in POTUS. So it's a catch-22 for its opponents. It's not bomb-proof, but it's not fragile, either. I realize there's an element of Hopium in this strategy, but the point is that we shouldn't let the Left tell us what to be scared about and that's exactly what Luntz is doing here, he's letting the Left tell us what we should be scared about. There's not enough time for there to be a change to the Constitution between now and 2024, and so that means that this line of attack is moot for the upcoming Presidential election. tl;dr -- this is a long-term threat, we know what they want, and they have most of the pieces in place to get what they want, but the short-term focus on 2024 takes priority, and we can rely on "the process" to protect the EC for the duration.

Access is part of it. Shutting you out from your own information is an even bigger part of it. And they want to own your data so they can use it for training their AI systems and, eventually, to put each of us into a Virtual Reality hamster-cage, aka the Matrix, aka Neuralink/Metaverse. This is why they love mobile devices... you do not own/control your mobile device, rather, the telecom, manufacturer and Apple/Google do. This is the model they want to impose on all computing systems and once you put those goggles on, there are no more mysteries in the various "market" trends in laptops/PCs/etc. Unfortunately for their Agenda, however, the DS are locked into a war with physics itself and, sooner or later, they're going to lose completely. They see computers as something like magic amulets that enable you to "do things", like send emails, "browse", train neural nets, run simulations, etc. They do not understand that Nature is inherently computational and, to whatever extent they do understand this, they imagine its computational power as something like a hill that can be captured and owned by themselves (eg Quantum Computing). In the end, they're trying to swallow the Sun... it's just too big to be controlled. The halting problem is infinite and anyone who thinks they can solve/encapsulate it is on a collision-course with reality...

64GB "laptop" would be better called a netbook or chromebook. The reason for such low storage is that it is possible to install OS + browser and that's "everything you need" for a netbook... no additional storage is included so they can hit the price-point. HDDs were never a great storage solution for laptops because drops/falls are death to spinning rust. Manufacturers used a million tricks to make HDDs work well enough and customers just resigned themselves to the fact that a fall would likely mean losing any storage on their laptop. So, Flash/SSD/NVMe/etc. were a boon to laptops and as prices fell, customers were willing to pay the additional sticker-price for the peace-of-mind that if they drop the laptop, the storage has a strong likelihood of surviving, even if the laptop itself becomes physically damaged/unusable from the fall. As for zero-storage systems, yes, that is something they really do want. The globalists have been pushing thin-client since the Unix days. The IBM PC was an abomination in their eyes and led to the democratization of computing resources, which is the opposite of what the Marxists need to happen, since Marxism is a kind of mass-lobotomy of society (cf Stalin's Great Purge, the purges in Mao's cultural revolution, or Pol Pot's mass slaughter of educated Cambodians in the Killing Fields, to name just a few.) The PC put a tool in the hands of the masses that, today, has enough storage capacity to hold the library of Congress many times over, has the approximate computing power of a circa-2005 super-computer, and provides instant, free access to vital data from all departments of the globe (weather, financial data, commerce information, etc.) That was a miscalculation of cosmic proportions and so they have been very, very busy behind the scenes, reworking the entire architecture of the computing industry, from the ground-up. Now you know what all those absurd "chip shortages" are really about... or one prong of it, anyway...

The topic was underestimating the Deep State. If Trump is as horrible as you say he is (it is possible), then the Q theory would be that he is just a shell or persona which is being used to combat the DS. Where you and I disagree, is that you take it as an axiom that Trump is just another puppet of the DS. Rather, he might be a puppet of something else, which is not evil. Being a puppet of the Good doesn't make you good. It just means you're useful. Is Trump good? Only God knows that. But I can see that Trump is useful. The only question is who is ultimately pulling his strings... But the Deep State opened Pandora's Box when they called into question reality itself. Clown World is open-air insanity in the public square. They thought that was a knockout punch, but it turns out it's not. AFAICT, it's the biggest "Oops" since Noah's Flood.

I'm as wary of the DS as anyone can be. But black-pilling is equally dangerous since it destroys morale, and morale is the sinews of an army. Don't underestimate the Clowns, but don't lionize them either. The stark reality is that, behind closed doors, they're a bunch of incompetent slobs. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." They are merely the man behind the curtain, not the Wizard they project themselves to be...

BINGO While only God knows Trump's heart, it appears that Trump has sinned in ways that are common (doesn't make it excusable, but makes it non-extraordinary) but is a man of faith. He would not be able to stand up to this pressure if he was not. My prayer is that he has repented of his sins and is living uprightly in all aspects of his life, as he publicly appears to be.

Even if we trust the integrity of the polls, it still doesn't show anything true about the verity of whether Trump or Biden have the best platform that would resolve many of the fiscal and monetary problems in our country.