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wetwillie said:
The guy is right about one thing, some people are a little too complacent in taking care of themselves. Huge snow storm coming :oopsie: that might mean no power. Maybe I should fill a few large pots with H2O just in case. Only costs a few pennies. Spare case of water ain't bad either.
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And that's why there are still limits on the amount of TP you can buy in one go.
 
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Strings said:
Home economics was a class to brainwash girls into becoming domesticated housewives.
It was a class about cooking and sewing. Nothing else. Didn't even teach ya how to write out a check to the milkman.
And, if you goofed off in woodshop, they'd send ya there just to humiliate ya for the day.

Just saying. I'm sure it's better now.
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wetwillie said:
Hey, I liked that freakin class. Easy A
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I also liked Home Ec. Nothing wrong with dudes learning how to cook for themselves and mend a hole in their pocket.
Ours also included a mock household budget and balancing a checkbook.

Nowdays a lot of men and women don't really know how to cook, like from scratch, and a bunch of them living in perpetual needless debt.
Seems to me we need to bring home ec back.
 
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wetwillie said:
The guy is right about one thing, some people are a little too complacent in taking care of themselves. Huge snow storm coming :oopsie: that might mean no power. Maybe I should fill a few large pots with H2O just in case. Only costs a few pennies. Spare case of water ain't bad either.
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The guy is a dick but he is right about that.
The other side of his coin is people that choose to live wholly dependent on modern conveniences working without a hitch at their every whim.
 
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HipHugHer said:
The guy is a dick but he is right about that.
The other side of his coin is people that choose to live wholly dependent on modern conveniences working without a hitch at their every whim.
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When I pay for the convenience of having power delivered to my door, and they can't live up to their end of the deal, it seems like they're kind of on the (contractual) hook for providing it.
 
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Jehannum said:
When I pay for the convenience of having power delivered to my door, and they can't live up to their end of the deal, it seems like they're kind of on the (contractual) hook for providing it.
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They are. That's not what I was getting at. You paid for it, you're holding up your end of the deal.

Was talking about folks who don't even keep some jugs of water stored away somewhere, spare necessities, eat out or order in constantly or only shop for the next day or two meals, etc.

Basically depending on everything working all the time, not putting back anything just in case because shit happens.

Seems folks here didn't learn from the covid TP thing. After only a couple snow days they were lining up outside what few stores were open to buy stuff. They couldn't even last a week with whatever was in their house.
 
HipHugHer said:
They are. That's not what I was getting at. You paid for it, you're holding up your end of the deal.

Was talking about folks who don't even keep some jugs of water stored away somewhere, spare necessities, eat out or order in constantly or only shop for the next day or two meals, etc.

Basically depending on everything working all the time, not putting back anything just in case because shit happens.

Seems folks here didn't learn from the covid TP thing. After only a couple snow days they were lining up outside what few stores were open to buy stuff. They couldn't even last a week with whatever was in their house.
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I don't own emergency supplies beyond what I have stored for the week and whatever's in the deep freeze (in this case, about 1/3rd of a cow).

Most of the rest of the country didn't have to experience the joys of Texas' completely forseeable consequences of their own actions, because we have regulations in place to ensure that the artificial monopolies granted to utilities don't result in corners cut that affect the reliability of their service.

That's not an affirmation of your dumb prepper mentality, it's a failure of the state's exact job - ensuring "the market" can deliver the services that you've (as a state) granted a single company/cooperative a monopoly on delivering.
 
Jehannum said:
I don't own emergency supplies beyond what I have stored for the week and whatever's in the deep freeze (in this case, about 1/3rd of a cow).

Most of the rest of the country didn't have to experience the joys of Texas' completely forseeable consequences of their own actions, because we have regulations in place to ensure that the artificial monopolies granted to utilities don't result in corners cut that affect the reliability of their service.

That's not an affirmation of your dumb prepper mentality, it's a failure of the state's exact job - ensuring "the market" can deliver the services that you've (as a state) granted a single company/cooperative a monopoly on delivering.
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1. vote for the failure of the state
2. prepare for the failure of the state
3. ???
4. die because you're not the protagonist in a movie and you rely on the state far more than you realize
 
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HipHugHer said:
They are. That's not what I was getting at. You paid for it, you're holding up your end of the deal.

Was talking about folks who don't even keep some jugs of water stored away somewhere, spare necessities, eat out or order in constantly or only shop for the next day or two meals, etc.

Basically depending on everything working all the time, not putting back anything just in case because shit happens.

Seems folks here didn't learn from the covid TP thing. After only a couple snow days they were lining up outside what few stores were open to buy stuff. They couldn't even last a week with whatever was in their house.
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But bottled water leaves a carbon footprint....
 
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We usually lose power during any heavy storm. Our portion of the grid seems to be pretty susceptible to outages. I own a generator and know where my water cutoff is located. I also have a propane grill and a fireplace. I understand that not everyone is as fortunate as I am, but you have to try to be at least a little prepared.

Anyone heard from Patty aka Butt Mustard aka whatever?
 
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Ex' ange said:
We usually lose power during any heavy storm. Our portion of the grid seems to be pretty susceptible to outages. I own a generator and know where my water cutoff is located. I also have a propane grill and a fireplace. I understand that not everyone is as fortunate as I am, but you have to try to be at least a little prepared.

Anyone heard from Patty aka Butt Mustard aka whatever?
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@Percy Thrillington is probably halfway through a case of bourbon by now.
 
Jehannum said:
I don't own emergency supplies beyond what I have stored for the week and whatever's in the deep freeze (in this case, about 1/3rd of a cow).

Most of the rest of the country didn't have to experience the joys of Texas' completely forseeable consequences of their own actions, because we have regulations in place to ensure that the artificial monopolies granted to utilities don't result in corners cut that affect the reliability of their service.

That's not an affirmation of your dumb prepper mentality, it's a failure of the state's exact job - ensuring "the market" can deliver the services that you've (as a state) granted a single company/cooperative a monopoly on delivering.
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BUT WE HAVE FREEDOM!
 
HipHugHer said:
BUT WE HAVE FREEDOM!
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I have electricity and running water, but apparently that makes me a sheeple ward of the state.
 
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