Posted on 05/28/2023 2:43:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If you’re looking for a reason the world will suddenly end, it’s not hard to find one—especially if your job is to convince people they need to buy things to prepare for the apocalypse. “World War III, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Joe Biden—you know, everything that’s messed up in the world,” Ron Hubbard, the CEO of Atlas Survival Shelters, told me. His Texas-based company sells bunkers with bulletproof doors and concrete walls to people willing to shell out several thousand—and up to millions—of dollars for peace of mind about potential catastrophic events. Lately, interest in his underground bunkers has been booming. “When the war broke out in Ukraine, my phone was ringing every 45 seconds for about two weeks,” he said.
Many of his clients work in tech: Although the prepper movement in America spans the upper and middle classes, the left and the right, Silicon Valley has in recent years become its epicenter. In his book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, Douglas Rushkoff delves into what he calls “The Mindset”—the idea among Silicon Valley doomsday preppers that “winning” means earning enough money to escape the damage that befalls everyone else. In 2018, Bloomberg reported that seven tech entrepreneurs had purchased bunkers in New Zealand. And a 2016 New Yorker profile of Sam Altman quoted the OpenAI CEO as saying he had “guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to” in the event of super-contagious viruses, nuclear war, and AI “that attacks us.”
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The Atlantic strikes again...
>“The Mindset”—the idea among Silicon Valley doomsday preppers that “winning” means earning enough money to escape the damage that befalls everyone else.
Yet no one will tell us why billionaires all have remote getaways in new Zealand
why billionaires all have remote getaways in new Zealand
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Won’t New Zealand tip over?
“The world is a mess, and I just need to rule it.” - Dr. Horrible.
Many bunker manufactures say they are on a 3 year back order and more after Biden and stooges are in charge.
My neighbor is a big time prepper but when I see what she’s doing I think..ok she’ll maybe be able to live a couple weeks, a month longer than the rest of us and then what. I am reading a book she gave me called One Second After about that sort of thing happening. Scary stuff.
Indeed.
No targets in New Zealand. Rich farmland and mutton. Far south so a northern hemisphere radiation event likely stays north (On The Beach was wrong).
Squirrel Haggis and Japanese Knotweed Reach UK Menus as Invasive Species Trend Grows
The Guardian ^ | Sat 27 May 2023 | Tomé Morrissy-Swan
Posted on 5/28/2023, 2:47:21 PM by nickcarraway
The rise of ‘invasivorism’ has introduced a range of unusual eating choices as diners strive for a more ethical diet
It can be grilled like asparagus, mixed into a sweet-sour ripple ice-cream or even turned into a beer. When guests arrive at Silo, a “zero-waste” restaurant in east London, next month they’ll be treated to a series of dishes from an unlikely source. It is more famous as the scourge of homeowners, but for some, the solution to the Japanese knotweed crisis is to serve it for dinner.
Eating invasive species – called “invasivorism” – is increasingly fashionable as people search for ethical diets. In London, at The Ninth in Fitzrovia, three-cornered leek, a milder version of wild garlic, has been whipped into aioli, while at Native in Mayfair it is used alongside asparagus. At Seasonality in Maidenhead you can tuck into muntjac deer tartare, while Edinburgh’s The Palmerston uses sika deer extensively.
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The second book is a must read too. Called one year after
And Jacinda…
I do not envision Big Sur as an ideal location for bunkers. When the earthquake hits, they will be under the ocean.
I would think somewhere closer to Idaho Falls, or even Caribou Maine would suffice.
New Zealand is basically like the Falkland Islands or Patagonia Argentina.
***New Zealand is basically like the Falkland Islands or Patagonia Argentina.***
I remember reading of people moving to the Falklands as it appeared to be the best area to avoid war. Then Argentina attacked.
Let them sneer and smirk. Let’s see how these arrogant bastards are come Day 5 of the Non-flushing Toilets.
There are 3 books in the series. Great read.
The warmageddonists are the ones doing that.
Around here there are multiple guns in every home, and newborns often come from the hospital wrapped in camo. Among the many wonderful friends I've made, some are Mennonites who grow and process their own cattle. And there are countless gardeners and small farmers.
Nope, one does not need to be a millionaire to find their own personal Galt's Gulch.
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