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?

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[–] 30 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Plan a hostile takeover of a Costco

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    everyone and their brother has this plan in mind so i hope for your sake that you have better luck than most. lol

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Fingers crosses nobody else got a 72 hour heads up

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Considering their placements are mostly in the suburbs, maybe it's best not to be the first ro a place where others w more guns also planning on going. Lol

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Day 1: The Battles of the CostCos

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Uhh get my boyfriend pregnant

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Try to get invited to some cool end of the world parties

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Op, do you know something???

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'd go fishing with my dog.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I mean, people seem to think the apocalypse would be survivable, but that's not how I understand it.

    But for an impending survivable disaster, I'd get supplies and weapons and head to somewhere remote.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    To me, to even qualify as an apocalypse, it has to take out 99.9%+ of the population, and make extendedly staying alive stupidly difficult (and maybe even impossible) for anyone who "lucked into" surviving whatever it was that killed almost everyone else.

    So it's one of those things that is going to be hard to prep for with months and months of notice, let alone three measly days.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I'd just go out to a pub every day and night, and just drink. What else are you gonna do

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Sex. Drugs. Also hug my family or whatever. But you don't even know them so that's probably not high on your list.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Without knowing what kind of apocalypse that may be a waste plenty of them where humans are extinct or even the whole planet destroyed.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Depends entirely on the kind of collapse

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I'd get really excited, like what I'm going to wear?

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  • I have an interview that day. I just need the cell tower to work until the afternoon and we're good to go.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'd go see my closest family and open up the vintage wines we'd been saving for later

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yep. Friends, family, elderly and child community members. Recalling, "And poppie, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better then thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?" Make the most of comforting each other.

    "I'm gon' love you I'm gon' love you When the world ends I'm gon' hold you, when the world is over."

    The rest of the works that are quoted are the readers' options. This is what's relevant for me.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    See yall tomorrow

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    If it’s one where people would still be alive but without infra, network like crazy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Call in sick and go fishing, spend time with my family at the creek.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Of that 72 hours I'm not wasting a minute to call in sick.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Apocalypse by default isn't survivable.

    Probably I would try to enjoy the last 3 days and at the end I would repent because it would not hurt to cover all the bases.

    If it would be survivable: I would not last long. Medical / vision / dental coverage is in short supply during the end of days.
    Find a good fortress/ship with water and solar panels, download Wikipedia (annas archive), gather seeds and growing supplies, tools to fix stuff, duct tape: Realistically not happening.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The movie These Final Hours did a pretty good job of painting this picture.(spoiler: asteroid shockwave imminent)

    And most comments here have covered the key plot ideas.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    'revelation, disclosure'

    It is "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling".

    New shit?

    Nah same shit.

    Nothing new under the sun.

    or Same shit different day.

    Also faster, louder and dumber.

    Peak pedo creep I guess...

    I will go scatch my balls until the peeps have had enough.

    Chirp Chirppin

    This is it....

    nah you will be gone in the blink of a eye...

    Thank gawd all men die

    That tired old song plays on and on.

    0h n0 n0+ dUh f0mO

    Yah got me πŸͺ¦

    I got a coupon for a dollar off

    Nah that is a call to action and I call your bluff.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I'd fill that 72 hours with drugs and hookers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Fuck me, I have to pay rent soon.

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