Norway we’re gonna stop!

A lot of people do hate Russians, especially if you ask their neighbors.

Also, in the one scenario where I would find dressing up as a nazi acceptable, which is if they’re an actor for a movie/show/play that requires nazi characters, they are not going to just put an armband on their everyday modern clothing.

They’ll wear a proper reconstruction of an actual nazi uniform, and they’re not going to just walk around in that costume, they’re going to be on or around a set, which also gives any possible passerbys the context clues needed to understand that they’re just an actor, thus saving themselves from being punched.

Yeah, gold isn’t worth anything unless a community agrees to assign a value to it, which probably won’t happen in an apocalyptic scenario. If you really want to be prepared, you need to stock up on things that are actually useful:

• non-perishable, nutritious food (preferably something that has a lot of calories in a small serving so you could carry it on you)
• drinking water!! you would have to change it every once in a while though, so you wouldn’t be drinking germ soup if a societal collapse actually happens
• durable, good quality clothing for various climates/weather conditions (due to climate change and the possibility that you would flee somewhere, you should preferably have clothing suitable for other climates than just the one you’re used to)
• miscellanous supplies, like tools for building shelters, farming, making & maintaining different items, destroying things like trees or rocks to make space for building/agriculture or more likely, obtain materials. Things to protect yourself and your loved ones from the elements, like a good tent, sleeping bags, etc. Flashlights, powerbanks, batteries, water purifiers, multitools…
• knowledge. No matter how much stuff you have, it’s no use if you don’t actually know how to do things. Learn canning, blacksmithing, sewing, gardening, fishing, carpentry, foraging, and so on.

I mean, considering the fact that numerous pre-modern cultures relied on (diluted) alcohol as their main drink since water was too dirty to drink safely without mixing it in with wine/beer/whatever, and that a lot of people would use alcohol to cope with te hard times that might actually be a good skill to have in the scenario of large amounts of infrastructure becoming unusable. (modern knowledge of germ theory & boiling drinking water would probably make it a lot more useless, but I bet you could find people willing to trade supplies with you for a nice drink.

I think they’re talking about plastic bottle caps.

Make a bunch of shiny trinkets, train a gigantic murder of crows to steal food & supplies and attack on command, profit.

But in a societal collapse owning land doesn’t matter, because land ownership is much more dependent on contracts, which don’t mean jack shit without a society and a government, and if you have to flee because of a war or a natural disaster, you can’t just stuff your forest/house/farmland/whatever in a suitcase and sell it later.

I think the main reason is that your average working class person, even if they have the money to contribute to that, doesn’t have the time and energy to get involved in politics. Looking at history, most people seem to be happy as long as they have food on the table, a roof over their heads, and some pretty basic rights, and only start to act when something big goes wrong, usually famines, but also things like plagues and cases of injustice that a lot of people hear & care about.

The reasons I think this doesn’t happen:

• most people don’t have enough interest, time, energy
• a lot of people don’t have enough money to contribute
• this would require lots of organization and connecting to others who agree with the idea
• it’d probably be easy to get caught, and a lot of the time (especially in countries where corruption is widespread) poor people will get punished harsher than the ruling class.
• even if you somehow were able to do this despite the points above, it still probably wouldn’t be enough; the gap between the average and a billionare is incomprehensibly huge. Less than ten people have more wealth than half of the world’s population.

Well, there really isn’t a canine equivalent to what lions are compared to cats. Dogs are directly descended from wolves but cats are descended from African wildcats, not big cats.

In this economy‽

I only get patterns (usually floral-ish) if I press my eyes a little. You guys are getting them for free?!

11 probably, I spent a lot of time on Wikipedia.

Also fictional spaceships tend to have a whole crew instead of 1-5 people.

A touch screen interface in a car is a TERRIBLE idea. Yeah a passenger could do it but only if there is a passenger in the car in the first place.

The value rarely is in the jewelry, but rather in the jewels themselves. So, if you had stolen, for example, a gold ring with a big diamond, you’d take out the diamond and either sell it as-is, or chop it into smaller diamonds and sell them, and probably have the gold smelted back into raw material again. From what I know, it apparently is common for gems (especially very valuable ones) to be given as gifts or traded and fitted into new settings, like rings, necklaces, crowns etc. over the course of centuries, not just stay in the same piece forever.

What I think is most likely in this case, is that some rich asshole wanted to have them for their private collection and hired someone to steal them.

Do you sleep on your back? AFAIK sleep paralysis is more common for back sleepers.

I wonder if, for a very short second there, he thought “oh shit maybe guns aren’t such a good thing”

Because sugar isn’t unhealthy in the first place, you’ll die without any sugar.

Well, I’d say that the definition of capitalism changes depending on if you’re talking about capitalism as opposed to feudalism (original/historical definition) vs capitalism as opposed to communism (modern definition).