The main issue is the fact that the wiki just does not have enough resources to support having more than just the English language. It would be nice to support having more languages and thus covering more anti-consumer incidents in non-English parts of the world.
Realistically speaking, it would be unfair to run a wiki with additional languages where the volunteer staff are unable to actually moderate the content because they can't understand the language.
The European Council of Engineers Chambers is seeking to standardise training programmes, beginning with the civil engineering sector: https://www.ecec.net/what-we-do/common-training-framework/.
Hopefully, this convergence will extend to other engineering professions.
It's closed source right now while we're rapidly iterating on the beta and working through early feedback. However, we're definitely open to open-sourcing parts of it down the road as the project matures or if you have any questions about it!
My family had to evacuate a few times due to fires. One of them, the National Guard was outside my neighborhood helping to coordinate the chaos. I'll never forget seeing Humvees right outside my neighborhood while the sky was blood red and full of smoke. It was like a disaster scene out of a movie, except real life. Not fun as a kid...
We barely were able to find a hotel to go to.
Afterwards, my dad kept 4-6 duffel bags full of water, first aid, clothes, MREs/dry meals, and other gear so if we ever need to get out of the place, we'd be ready.
So yes, it's a good idea to have some supplies ready because you never know.
It seems like a good thing to have in general. A few days of food? Good if society collapses… or also if you have a real bad storm. Having it in a bag, eh, well why not, right?
Earthquakes are a thing in California too, a very real threat. Flooding in Southern California is something that could happen too especially with climate change, and we live right next to a major waterway. We have our emergency kit in a very large thick rubber waterproof bag. We also have water filtration devices in there. Nobody I know is prepared as well as we are, not even a little bit prepared.
If society collapses, a few days of food is not going to do too much for you except maybe delay the suffering by a few days. If that's your intent for the bug out bag, you might want to reconsider. If it's for getting out to allow a natural disaster to subside, it's more than probably a good idea
We have prepared for disasters. 3 to 6 months of food fuel and water for every member of the house and livestock.
Everyone should have a week or two of supplies just in case. Look at what happens during large scale natural disasters. Prices go way up and supply goes way down. Why bother with that?
But in a real society collapse situation, our plan is much, much shorter term and much darker. That's just the reality of the situation. Why starve and suffer when you can just happily exit as a family in a way if your own choosing?
That’s true. I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but based on multiple responses it didn’t really go through. So, unclear communication on my part.
Society collapsing was supposed to be the unlikely and somewhat comical (in that it is a bit over-the-top) motivator for people to do something prep that we should do anyway.
there are all sorts of levels of society collapsing, probably the only ones where surviving the collapse means delaying the inevitable by a few days are fictional collapses, like Zombie apocalypse or similar.
A few days food is a normal kitchen cupboard — singular cupboard, not the whole kitchen.
A few weeks was what I kept ready during the pandemic, just in case I got ill and didn't want to go shopping for a fortnight. Plenty of natural disasters are in that kind of range, even outside the pandemic.
Civilisation collapsing needs a stockpile of about however many months it would take for you to turn your garden into a residential farm and get to harvest season, plus a bit for if that doesn't work… or if raccoons steal in the night everything the ravens didn't steal in the day.
> Civilisation collapsing needs a stockpile of about however many months it would take for you to turn your garden into a residential farm and get to harvest season, plus a bit for if that doesn't work
What I haven't even considered is that although there's a few cases where your immediate community can work together on stuff like this, an actual collapse leads to a power vacuum and breakdown of supply chains, so your immediate community needs to not only be self-sufficient for food but also defence from looting, and yet somehow also not important enough for to the original government to try to keep running, nor for any warlords who spring up in the vacuum to try to pillage, and also not for any foreign powers to peace-keep or annex.
Hmm, I wonder: if the USA suddenly collapsed as hard as the USSR, would Mexico and the Texas region start fighting? Or Cuba and the Florida region?
> I will keep my X months of food, water, and warm shelter even it makes me a "target"
As you should. For all of the things that can happen between normal life and full societal collapse. The point is, X months of anything is useless in that last case. The only precedented way of evading death or poverty in the wake of societal collapse is to get out.
> you don't talk about being prepared
You're thinking of a zombie apocalypse film. Picture, instead, the warlords and their armies in Sudan or Ethiopia. Whether you talk about it is irrelevant. Your home will be torn apart, and your body pressed into service, irrespectively.
Have you personally been through a major disaster? Talking federal state of emergency declared, electrical grid is down for weeks, data networks overcrowded, shipments bottlenecked?
I ask because I see so much resistence to good prep online but never from people who've been through disasters.
That’s disaster prep. It’s rational. Preparing for society’s collapse is not. (If you want to prepare for society’s collapse, what this article’s protagonist trains for is closer to what you want to master than kitting out a glorified man cave.)
You might if you were already in the habit of taking them. Or if you were more worried about the quality of your future food than having any. They don't take much space or weight, so it's not that hard to include them.
This URL has been blocked by the Italian authorities:
> Your browser is attempting to reach an Internet site containing child pornography images and videos. Inhibition of access to this site is provided by law 38/2006.
This Internet browsing protection service is prepared thanks to the collaboration between the "National Center for Combating Online Child Pornography" and the Italian Internet Service Providers.
Intentional display, dissemination, possession, disposal, production and marketing of this type of material is punishable by law as a crime.
That’s actually crazy. Any internet archive is bound to also contain less savory parts of it which could be removed on request. Such a blanket ban doesn’t do anything to solve the issue while simultaneously making people’s lives worse
Chat groups, instant messaging and other ephemeral communication channels are eating emails, and this isn't good.
Among other advantages, emails are persistent and you can easily found old messages in your mailbox.
But, actually, how much old?
And here is the scratchpad where anyone can post his record.
The dataset reminds me a mural from the Middle Ages depicting a tree covered with phalluses, found at the communal fountain in the Tuscan town of Massa Marittima (Italy).
I find it interesting that no scholars seem to entertain the idea that maybe Medieval graffiti artisans enjoyed painting dicks on things just like we do in the modern day.
Like, the way the phalluses (phalli? Huh, apparently "phalli" is the one Firefox's spellcheck recognizes) look like they're thinly painted on top of what look like normal fruit, with a different paint that appears to have faded faster than the original, strongly suggests the fresco was not originally painted with such phallic abundance. Seems like some prankster took some paint and "improved" it, possibly with his medieval buddies for a laugh.
Another tell-tale sign of this being ancient vandalism is the missing spots (both in the boughs and among the women on the ground), as if a caretaker desperately tried to scrub off the penises until, realizing such efforts were scrubbing away the original, gave up in frustration.
It's a pity that pages cannot be created in other languages, given that anti-consumer practices also occur outside the English-speaking world.