How would you survive if the internet went out for 6 months?

spejic · Oct 7, 2024 at 11:21 AM

roadkit said: ↑

It's full of food -- much of which is perishable.
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Yeah, we'll eat that first.

roadkit said: ↑

Likely the shelves will be picked clean by looters within a week or two.
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You may not know this, but we actually have anti-riot protocols including methods of making it very hard to get inside the store, and I don't just mean locking the doors.

soccernutter · Oct 7, 2024 at 11:27 AM

Smurfquake said: ↑

Food would really be the main problem.
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See my first post.

soccernutter · Oct 7, 2024 at 11:32 AM

Smurfquake said: ↑

The only way it works out is if a strongman seizes power and forces people to keep working with some kind of alternative payment that doesn't rely on the internet. A magnanimous strongman who only wants what's good for the people, but has enough muscle to get everyone to cooperate. A far more likely outcome is petty warlords who gather weapons and fight amongst themselves for scraps of the remaining society.
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Unimane · Oct 7, 2024 at 1:06 PM

Sounders78 said: ↑

Near Butaritari then?

I'm guessing your name means something in i-Kiribati (if I had to guess I'd go with "old man" or something like that based on some gender terms I'm familiar with for Butaritari).
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A few islands down from Butaritari, on an island called Abemama. And, yes, good call on my name. It means like a wise village elder, female form is Uniane. Congrats on being the first person I ever came across to know this stuff. Those islands are a world away from everything.