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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 143 points 9 months ago

OMFG I NEED TO BUY ALL THE TOILETTE PAPER POSTHASTE

[-] Phanlix@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

Dude for real. A cheap bidet attachment for your toilet is the way to go.

First off, a bidet is better than toilet paper. I've been using it for years, and it cleans you 100%. I use basically 1 square of TP to dry myself after, and it's always completely clean. If you had a bird shit on your arm would you just wipe it off with paper and call it a day?

I laughed at all my friends who made fun of me for getting one on all my toilets after the great TP shortage of 2021, and a few of them ended up switching over.

For the apocalypse I have a camping toilet with a foot operated bidet. I mean I already use it when car camping, and I have a hand bidet for backpacking.

Solar panels are also in play. I also bought a freeze dryer and have about 5 deers worth of freeze dried jerky, and buy and freeze dry on sale fruit and veggies pretty regularly. I try to maintain around a 1-2 year supply of on hand food. A few steel plates, ar-15 pistol, and enough ammo to hold off the upper floor for quite a while too, but that's another conversation. I'm as ready to go as I can though, let's do this.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

I’m thinking we set up our cooperative farm/compound in Anchorage. It’s gorgeous, and one of the places least likely to be affected by climate change disasters.

[-] Phanlix@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

You have no idea the temptation I have to do just that. A satellite connection and a remote job for income and I'd be good. A family member is up in Alaska already, he's got a plot of land with a natural gas deposit that wasn't large enough or near enough to a populated area for the US gov to care about. So they've got it tapped and have a pretty ideal setup. They bought my grandfather's tractor a while ago an old restored 1912 John Deere.

I do enjoy the comforts of living near everything. I'm not sure I could give up having 100s of restaurants to choose from and a dozen or more grocery stores in a 10 mile radius. Or the specialty delis, high speed gigabit, and other comforts of civilization.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Learn to cook and how to read books. I would envy that situation.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

One of my peers works in a very remote area of BC (Americans: BC is in another country and it borders Alaska's south tip) in unionized IT via starlink. Think: the major highway going past it is two-lane.

  • quiet
  • hard work
  • no commute
  • land
  • pension (50% fo life after 25)
  • biking
  • hiking
  • backyard camping is camping

But:

  • fucking prepper tourists
  • sometimes the power dumps
  • you wanna see what's outside before going out to the garage.

Remember: nature doesn't care about you and we've only been pissing her off for 50 years.

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