Scatty
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Trust me I tried. I had the idea of using automilkers to stimulate lactation and then sell the milk to flat mothers in need, turning my wife into a literal cash cow. She was very against the idea.
Finding Like Minded Individuals IRL (Frens) - You're not going to make it alone.
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ChefBourgeoisie
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Real friends of the kind we're talking about aren't very common. We've got so much cultural baggage going on... most of us here grew up watching hundreds of hours of television and movies where the normies all have a posse of a dozen as-close-as-brothers friends. We've been acclimatized to feel this is the normal amount. Those movies where the protagonist only has the one friend (maybe two), they're always weirdos, am I wrong?
But then, what kind of life did we lead? Were we born into some vibrant society, full of well-adjusted people looking out for each other? Or were we dumped in the free government daycare and indoctrination center, with the fetal alcohol syndrome brats of people who only managed to stay out of county for an average of 9 months out of any given 24? Not exactly fertile ground for lasting friendships or for high quality friendships either. And it only got worse after graduation. We were taught that this is easy, that we should have many (double digit) friends, and then we were dropped into some prison-adjacent institution where it was all but impossible.
I think that for someone to truly be your friend in a meaningful way, they have to be going the same direction in life that you're going yourself. And that there has to be room for you in their journey, and vice versa. You may come across preppers who seem like they are doing just that, but inside their own skulls they're assessing you for how much meat is on your bones if they have to cannibalize you later. Everything else is just a performance so you don't wander away too far to be convenient to butcher. If you squint really closely, you might even see them scoping out their spouse or children in the same way. Wolves that just happen to be human-shaped. There's no room in their journey for anyone but themselves.
My family only knows one other family that we think of as true friends. I had taken my kid to some karate classes when she turned 8, at the community center. This little blond girl marched over to me where I had set, she was 3, and told me her name and asked mine. "That's the same name as my daddy!" and she rushed back to report to her mama. My girl and her older brother became friends, and we started celebrating birthdays together. Then just holidays in general. All of us, we're trying to raise our kids, we want them to be healthy and decent, we want them to marry well. They have an older boy and two girls, we just have the older girl and her younger brother... but the mother looked at me once and just out of the blue said she wishes we had one more, another boy. They're good kids, I would be pretty flattered if they ended up in-laws. In none of this was I actively trying to find friends.
They homeschool, like we do. They want to be farmers, but you know how difficult that is in any age, but especially today. We're all about the same age. Just alot in common I guess. Similar politics, similar outlooks on life. If the cops came around asking about them, I think I'd be trying to figure out how to give them an alibi.
I might suggest for those of you that don't have families yet, that you start that first. If you start that after you've found your "friends", you might just discover how they're friends not so much... your life will veer off in a new direction, but they're not going the same way as you.
But then, what kind of life did we lead? Were we born into some vibrant society, full of well-adjusted people looking out for each other? Or were we dumped in the free government daycare and indoctrination center, with the fetal alcohol syndrome brats of people who only managed to stay out of county for an average of 9 months out of any given 24? Not exactly fertile ground for lasting friendships or for high quality friendships either. And it only got worse after graduation. We were taught that this is easy, that we should have many (double digit) friends, and then we were dropped into some prison-adjacent institution where it was all but impossible.
I think that for someone to truly be your friend in a meaningful way, they have to be going the same direction in life that you're going yourself. And that there has to be room for you in their journey, and vice versa. You may come across preppers who seem like they are doing just that, but inside their own skulls they're assessing you for how much meat is on your bones if they have to cannibalize you later. Everything else is just a performance so you don't wander away too far to be convenient to butcher. If you squint really closely, you might even see them scoping out their spouse or children in the same way. Wolves that just happen to be human-shaped. There's no room in their journey for anyone but themselves.
My family only knows one other family that we think of as true friends. I had taken my kid to some karate classes when she turned 8, at the community center. This little blond girl marched over to me where I had set, she was 3, and told me her name and asked mine. "That's the same name as my daddy!" and she rushed back to report to her mama. My girl and her older brother became friends, and we started celebrating birthdays together. Then just holidays in general. All of us, we're trying to raise our kids, we want them to be healthy and decent, we want them to marry well. They have an older boy and two girls, we just have the older girl and her younger brother... but the mother looked at me once and just out of the blue said she wishes we had one more, another boy. They're good kids, I would be pretty flattered if they ended up in-laws. In none of this was I actively trying to find friends.
They homeschool, like we do. They want to be farmers, but you know how difficult that is in any age, but especially today. We're all about the same age. Just alot in common I guess. Similar politics, similar outlooks on life. If the cops came around asking about them, I think I'd be trying to figure out how to give them an alibi.
I might suggest for those of you that don't have families yet, that you start that first. If you start that after you've found your "friends", you might just discover how they're friends not so much... your life will veer off in a new direction, but they're not going the same way as you.
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In the context of shit hitting the fan, know your neighbours. Not just knowing who they are, but really chat to them. Some of them might need help, some might be able to help, some you might need to avoid. That's important even now if there's something like severe weather or illness or whatever unforeseen circumstances. Just watching them isn't always enough to work out who's cool or not. Most importantly, try to stay in all their good graces, even if you think they're shitty, their high opinions of you can go a long way in an emergency. If you have kids, this all goes double, quadruple, septuple.