• mcz@lemmy.world
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    tinfoil hat wearing doomsday preppers: what if there’s a disease outbreak? we should learn how to be independent and how to take care of our health

    scientists: well, there is

    tinfoil hat wearing doomsday preppers: no zombies? must be fake news :(

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      There are doomsday prepper magazines, which seems like it would be a poor business model if they were right, what with it relying on future issues coming out to sell advertising.

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        I dunno, sounds pretty good to me. If you’re wrong, there’s always the mystery of what the future could bring to sell your magazines. If you’re right, you’ve suddenly got a huge list of addresses for people you know are probably well stocked with pretty much whatever you told them they needed.

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      God, that pissed me off so much about the “tough as nails” types. They act like they’re so self sufficient, but the moment a slight inconvenience happened to their entitled lives, they expected the world to bend over backwards for them. Mean while, when I heard that we could have regular, week long power outages because the pole workers might end up hospitalized, I was setting up my generator with a hundred days of fuel.

      It was so disappointing when AvE came out in support of the trucker’s protest. Up until that point, he always seemed smarter then that.

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      I mean basically this: They expect something like a Movie but when something happens in reality they turn around and are like “nope”.