You get an unlimited supply of a single item to survive post-apocalypse. What are you choosing, and why?
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In the zombie variation, might want to cheat the system and ask for loaded guns. Because guns wear out and get jammed sometimes.
Smart move
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Hugs from a nice person. The apocalypse is going to be really depressing I'll need the love
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Okay, and this is why we burn heretics
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Along those lines antibiotics would be better.
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If you are going that route: Rule of 3
3 minutes without oxygen. 3 days without water. 3 weeks without food (I think it is also "3 hours without shelter" but that is a much more environmental factor and feels shoehorned in). And, depending on the apocalypse, clean air can be hard to come by.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, obviously need the first that that will kill you. We take breathable air for granted. But if you need an infinite supply of clean air, you are probably dead anyway.
An infinite supply of water has many uses beyond drinking and hygine -- irrigation, power, and cooling come to mind as very useful post-apocalypse. -
I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Insulin.
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We're putting Gatorade on the crops and they don't grow. Ground is broken!
But it's got what plants crave!
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Hugs from a nice person. The apocalypse is going to be really depressing I'll need the love
thank you for being on this platform and being so positive. I enjoy seeing your posts and they somehow give me motivation to keep my chin up and be more outgoing with someone I recently met at the dog park who's acting curiously shy and different from most people.
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thank you for being on this platform and being so positive. I enjoy seeing your posts and they somehow give me motivation to keep my chin up and be more outgoing with someone I recently met at the dog park who's acting curiously shy and different from most people.
That's a lovely thing to say Fiivemacs thanks so much
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Even modern MRE’s only provide stable nutrition for about three weeks— they don’t provide complete nutrition. After that, you need to supplement it with other nutritional sources.
I mean, they are chock full of all sorts of preservatives to extend their shelf life, but they also have things like toilet paper and wipes, spoons and forks, heating pads, and various other things, and they can be eaten cold if there's some reason not to start a fire.
That being said, you can live a very long life eating only MREs. It's not like if you only ate them for three weeks you would die. You might have some malnourishment, and you might desperately long for something else, but it wouldn't be the nutrition issue that would kill you. They are designed to keep people alive in situations where bullets are an occupational hazard.
But if I have an infinite supply of them and they are fresh, then when I encounter people that are starving I can trade it to them for bullets or knives or I can just give them away. Could probably save a lot of lives by being a food producer capable of keeping people alive.
The largest risk I would face would be growing tired of the assortment.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
AA-batteries
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Just use water.
You expect the guy who bought cases of toilet paper to worry about wasting it?
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Milk, given an unlimited supply i won't have to worry about it spoiling. Gives a decent amount of nutrients and water and can use it to make cheese or butter eventually, And is a life without cheese and butter really worth living?
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
I'm diabetic. I choose insulin.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Drinkable water.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Goats. Food, friends and defense.
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Ugh i remember
wrote last edited by [email protected]'Twas such a drag, ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ
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That's a lovely thing to say Fiivemacs thanks so much
I second the sentiment. You and other frequent posters of delightful posts help this place to feel more like a community. It's also nice because you make me reflect on my own online presence in a manner that provides a positive pressure to be the kind of person I value in my community; I see usernames like yours crop up again and again, and when I find myself noticing that organically, it makes me wonder what kinds of patterns people notice across my own comments — it's introspective, but in a good way
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
can I get them all in one lump sum or do I have to use them up before getting another?
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Enough gasoline could blow the asteroid up, preventing the whole thing. Forever blocked sun means no food but with gasoline you can power lamps for the plants. Burn gasoline to keep warm against the winter and burn vampires using gasoline. It is a christian invention after all /s
Gasoline doesn't seem like a bad choice tbh. Also good for trading if, for example, water is scarce.
Ah, but the question is "post-apocalypse" so avoiding it isn't really an option. If it were just "slightly pre-apocalypse" you might have a chance to avoid it.
