I was sitting at the neurology office. As the doctor starts to scroll through the pictures of the inside of my head I see a huge blob. Well, this is it, I thought. It’s finally happening…
But then I remembered that scene from the Breaking Bad. These pictures can be decieving if you don’t know how to read them.
“Looks clear” the doctor says. “That thing? Probably just some calcificate…”
But now I know. I’m not ready.
edit: I’ve never told this to anybody, and now I realized the first person I shared this traumatic moment with is a fucking communist. I hate the internet sometimes!
i will simply not care once i left this world. No need to make preparations. I can get an aneurism while gaming, get hit by a car, rot inside from cancer or die in my sleep when i’m an old hag. But as soon as i passed into the unknown (although for me it’s certainly nonexistence) it won’t matter if i am ready or not. It kind of gives me peace. It’ll happen someday anyway.
(although for me it’s certainly nonexistence) I believe it’s like being in a deep state of sleep when you’re not dreaming and your brain is not aware that it’s alive, or like unplugging a tv.
Do you remember this scene in the admittedly pretty weird movie Waterworld?
That. Bring it.
If there were an alien craft hovering in a corn field I’d sprint to it with my thumb up screaming GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE
Heheh good one, made me laugh.
If we’re lucky it’s that quick and easy.
I exist in a costantly worsening state of existential dread caused by the omnipresent boot of fascism and corporatism oppressing us. I am always ready for this bitch to blow.
Honestly, I live in a tiny town none of you have ever heard of, faaar away from anything worth nuking. On top of that, it’s shielded by mountains on most sides. Hell, there’s a 15km long tunnell 5 minute walk from my house in case we need to shelter somewhere. Me and mine will probably be fine, but my livelihood will disappear.
But I’m a pretty handy guy who can probably build a decent power source from scrap I have in my basement considering there’s a river nearby, so even if the rest of the world goes to hell, we’ll manage to keep some sort of society running.
And I grew up on a farm, and could run one if needed. And there are quite a few farms in the area, so I guess being a farmhand will be my new career. I wouldn’t like it, but I’d manage.
Sucks that I wouldn’t be able to shitpost about it, though.
EDIT: Come to think of it, I have considered buying an emergency generator for unrelated reasons. I guess that could come in handy.
Watching this might help raise your anxiety
Are you really ready to farm enough food for your community without globalization?
Hope you like potatoes
Yeah, seriously. I recommend everyone check out the following sites to see how prepared they really are.
The original commenter added an edit suggesting they will buy a back-up generator, but I should remind those reading, that this would require petroleum refinement, storage methods, and possibly even obtaining shipping routes to sustain power generation.
Those who want to eat better help out in some form or another.
Sucks that I wouldn’t be able to shitpost about it, though.
That’s what mesh networking is for
LongFast for shitposts babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
You can send out messenger pigeons. Godspeed.
Sounds like Whittier, Alaska
Wrong continent, but almost as far north, more mountainous, and fewer fishing boats. And slightly more people, based on how the town looks.
Shit post with cows. They’re furry, and cute, and empathetic. Just go up to one and say MOOOOOOO and he’ll look at you like “I’m sorry, I think something got lost in translation…”
I thought I was going to get drafted just after 2001-09-11 as a young man in the US and nothing has really felt quite at that level since. I did buy a dosimeter when Ukraine was invaded. I don’t know what the future holds. I’m glad I don’t live near any US military bases nor in the US anymore.
I just want to point out the most important thing here: Thank you for using the superior date format.
Maintaining our dignity is so important in the coming times.
If our faces melt from the nuclear fallout, it shall be a smug face of superiority
I recently bought a car battery jump box, that has a full sized USB-A port on it. So yeah, I’m prepared.
We are gonna learn how easy and how damaging a dirty bomb is. And it will have been our fault.
its all downward and been way to real already for my tastes. computer. end program. computer. arch. computer. exit. computer. COMPUTER!
I’m ready to start smoking again.
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I guess I’m dead lol
Depression is gonna go downhill if civillization collapses, I rather just reincarnate pls, to somewhere NOT EARTH, Type 3 Alien Civilization pls.
I hope I will keep my general knowledge and intelligence but be isekaied to a world with magic because fuck this whole science bullshit.
What do you mean I’m stuck on this planet?
What do you mean if I’m lucky I get 90 years, the last 30 of which suck? The first 30 have also sucked. And from what it looks like the middle 30 is also going to suck.
What do you mean I have to work in a cubicle for like 45 years of my life, which already sucks, but sucks more because of the cubicle?
Fuck this shit, give me some magic, tell science to go suck a fat one.
Tbf I’m too addicted to the internet, idk if I can survive the withdrawl without it…
Like maybe if the gods gave me an indestructible phone (cuz these things only normally last like 5 years tops) with internet access (like a magical wormhole beaming the signals across realms)… sure… I can do a magical fantasy world and watch anime in my personal time…
So basically In Another World with my Smartphone?
I’m ok with it. I would never end my own life prematurely, because I wouldn’t want to cause my loved ones any unnecessary suffering. But I’m not afraid of death.
Never give up.
Indeed. There is still so much good in the world, and you never know what might change for the better in the next months/days/hours.
Try moving somewhere really different to break the cycle.
I was afraid my comment might come across this way, and it appears it has to some. I have not given up at all. I’m actually enjoying life right now more than I have in a very long time, despite all the chaos around us.
When I say “I wouldn’t mind it,” I don’t mean it like “just go ahead and end the misery,” I mean I’m just not super attached to this life. I believe in reincarnation, and that when we die we have a life review and then return to being one with the universe/god/source until our next life. I’m excited to see what the next step is like.
Alright that’s much better.
The process of dying scares me but not death itself, so fuck it, whatever lets do this
Ready enough. Plan and prep for self-reliance but never forget we are social creatures and history has shown that in hard times most of us unite for survival rather than turn into post-apocalyptic war bands and cannibal biker gangs. Most people aren’t going to care that they had opposing views on Facebook a year prior when they’re sheltering from drones under the same husk of Walmart. And for the minority that are so truly, deeply, totally immersed in their bigotry that co-survival in the face of annihilation is not an option? That’s why I’m glad I stockpile in a state with incredibly lax gun laws.
Not at all.
