Imagine you had 72 hours before everything collapses. How would you spend that time? Would you stockpile supplies? Would you focus on warning as many people as possible? Would you try to preserve knowledge, like books, hard drives, download internet archives, etc.? Would you collect music or history?

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 hours ago

    Ok so, you’re vague on what the apocalypse is, but you did say “before everything collapses”, and talk about preserving knowledge. So I’m thinking big solar flare that destroys technology as we know it.

    For an apocalypse, this is easy mode. Basically going back to like what, the 50s level of tech for most people. A lot of the world would also not even notice.

    Get myself and all the people I care about to withdraw everything they can in cash, even taking out cash loans if possible. Build fereday (sp?) cages for all our stuff. Stock up on a few months worth of groceries and water, and we could probably ride that wave till things get fixed.

    • FoxAlive@lemmy.zip
      2·
      3 hours ago

      What’s funny is most of the tech we use today peaked at around 1950s or in some instances much sooner. If we lost the internet, or majority of modern computers due to some disaster we wouldnt nessisarly go back to the stone ages.

      We kind of already figured out how to make the best design for most technology that actually improves our lives. For fidges, dishwashers, radios, sewing machines, etc. Any little device you can think of has thousands of patents and been designed many many times over.

      The only difference sense then is we learned how to manufacture things cheaper and with outsourced labor to be able to spread that technology to everyone. So that means is instead of a product that used to be made by professionals, all metal gears and parts; it now all gets made by the cheapest poccess possible. Arguably things are much worse.

      Even computers, like for fuck sake it only took kilobytes of data to go to the moon. A 10 dollar esp 32 can take you to the moon if you knew what you where doing. Yet instead of making good products now we expected Moores law to carry us through bloatware like windows. Software as a service kept creeping in and consuming more power than nessisary. Most people only need to run a web browser, but windows needs 16gigs of ram to run 24/7 spyware on a device thats meant to only last 2-4 years.

      Even noncomputer devices need computers in them for either the sake of DRM, SAaS, or planned obsolescence these days. So sadly in a event like a solar flare majority of the people would be sitting ducks.

      I have always preached removing any internet of service device from your life as much as possible. Including cars. Sadly half the time that means you also have to learn how to repair or replace these things. Over the past 5-10 years ive been teaching myself on YouTube how to fix my own car, my own dishwasher, my phones, everything really. Mainly due to lack of expendable cash, but now it gives me some deeper meaning in some regards.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Faraday. 😋

      It would be catastrophic around densly populated areas, and be easier but still hard for rural residents. It would be a while before the lights came back on.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 hours ago

    Depends on the apocalypse.

    Nuclear? Get a nice tan in the radiation (or Ideally blast zone).

    Zombie or a virus? Probably just die. No way I want to live through a zombie apocalypse and the virus would probably be painful.

    I don’t know why anyone would want to live through an apocalypse. It’s bound to be hell.

    • deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Speak for yourself, I play fallout I’m gonna be the leader of the most cool and based faction and we have the right idea of how to run the wastelands!

  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    8 hours ago

    Time for a nap, make something nice to eat, find an interesting book to read. After, have a wander through the garden. Maybe an extra nap, just to stock up. Spend some time with my loved ones. Probably another nap. Rinse and repeat until the end.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    I would probably try out heroin. Been saving it for the end because if I need painkillers for health reasons, they would be more effective.

    But that is assuming an apocalypse means collapse of “civilization”. Imagine if you were a 1%er, and you had all the power and wealth in the world. wouldn’t losing all that unearned power be an apocalypse for you, even though it would make everyone’s lives better?

    One person’s apocalypse could very well be everyone’s salvation.

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 days ago

    I mean, it depends heavily on the type of apocalypse.

    Meteor strike? I’ll just enjoy the next three days. It’ll likely wipe out any chance anyone has of survival.

    Zombies? Yeah, I’d probably try and survive and group up with some of my better equipped friends.

    Global nuclear war? I’ll just off myself. I don’t want to even exist in that scenario.

  • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    I’m disabled and lack community. I would do art until I succumb to the fate the eugenicists who designed my environment and society have arranged for me.

  • Arcden@lemmy.zip
    13·
    2 days ago

    Rent an isolated cabin far out in the woods, buy anything I can think of that would help me last indefinitely out there, get enough supplies for the short term, then pack it all in the truck and gtfo with my cat in the passenger seat.

  • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    sorry I’m already fully booked on Thursday. Friday is really a no and I have a bbq during the weekend. Can we move to early next week? Happy to touch base to find common ground and unleash synergies.