Machinist

Sounds like your grandfather was a wise man. That's a great story!

Luckily, I've never ended up in a survival situation. However, I have a few habits. I keep a fire source or two in my truck, zippo in my jeans. Feel naked without a pocket knife and keep a knife or two in my truck. I also keep a piece of pine heart in my truck bed. Has come in handy many times and I've built fires in southern February thunderstorms.

Taught my kids how to build a one match fire with just a knife and a match when they were in elementary school.

Also taught them to never go in the woods without a knife, fire, and water. Taught them how to find pine heart. Probably time for a refresher course for my son on fire building.

I've been trying to teach my son how to sharpen knives, but it requires a level of stubbornness that he doesn't have yet. (I don't see the point in all those fancy angled sharpeners.) Use a flat stone, diamond preferred for speed and sharpness. You can make any sort of edge you want. Get good, and in a pinch you can sharpen a knife or other piece of metal with a brick or flat rock.

When you have shitty insurance and you're working 60hrs a week to barely make ends meet. Then, you hurt your back or fuck up a joint.

You can't stop working because you can barely afford to live. Workman's comp is a joke and you'll get fired if you try and get your job to pay for your work related injury.

However, there for a while, they were handing out oxycontin like it was candy. You can kill the pain and keep working. Until they won't give you anymore pills. Then you buy pills from a buddy or a friend of a friend. They're fake, the fentanyl in them hits different. Pain is still mostly killed. You can still keep working, keep food on the table for your kids.

But yeah, it's a rich white people thing because of something in our food.

Unless you've been in it, you don't understand the suffering built into the system. Lots of people that are suffering don't have the time, energy, or resources to do anything but tread water to keep them or their family from drowning.

Recently moved from the south to North East. Didn't know what good Italian food was.

FreeCAD's UI is the CAD equivalent of masturbating with steel wool.

Nah, this is pretty funny, especially gobbling the sleeping pills.

Now, dead baby jokes rely mostly on the shock factor. I'm still immature enough to think they're funny as well.

Very nice. Never owned a Benchmade, can't justify spending that on myself. 😁 I carry Chinese Kershaws, easy to sharpen and I can beat the hell out of them without guilt. I'm a cheap knife person, other than the Victorinox Swiss Champ I also always carry (on my fifth or so). Like Dexter Russell and Mora for fixed blades.

Any chance you'd share the survival stories?

Here are our kitchen knives, mostly carbon Dexter Russell:

It's called black humor. It's funny because it's dark, shared suffering. Hospice nurses and grade school teachers, for instance, tend to have great black humor.

Either you're looking for something to be offended about or you're lucky and haven't suffered much in your life.

Those tanks were based on amphibian genetic engineering. You're just repeating Missionaria Protectiva superstition.

What kind of knife? Also, just like cats, got a pic?

I've seen pawb around enough to recognize the name. Detached from reality or trolling. IDK. I'm totally guilty of rapping the glass.

I went with 3M 6900 (Large) as it is what I have experience with and before I saw your message Amazon was low stock and MSC was really high. Most of my mask use has been in industrial process and only for short periods.

I will absolutely look into the Scott AV-3000. I only got a couple pair of the full face.

Will do. You have machinery and tooling questions lemme know.

Sounds like your risk assessment is similar to ours on bird flu.

As for prepping, I think it comes down to being realistic about actual threats. I'm a lot more worried about Lyme disease and other tick carried disease than I am being bit by a water moccasin so I treat my clothing with permethrin. I'm a lot more worried about a house fire than a home invasion so I have CO and smoke detectors. Just added an emergency fire ladder to our second floor. Real life isn't a Mad Max movie.

My girl keeps a well stocked pantry and deep freezers. She's experienced food insecurity before, and she manages our food. We stock up on things we already eat when they go on sale. She's read some alarming things about the coffee harvest this year so we now have a year supply of coffee. It will all get used and we are insulated from a big price hike.

Longer term, we hope to raise or hunt all our own meat. Our "prepping" isn't really anything we wouldn't do anyhow. We love venison, rabbit, and now have land to raise a couple of steers.

We have soaps and sanitizers. Keep a good supply on hand, super long shelf life.

With COVID, I got us all half face respirators. I spoke with my girl, I think I'm going to look at getting a couple of full face. Our house is old and has a lot of asbestos in the walls and shingles, so I use the respirator when cutting into a wall along with a HEPA shop vac. Also use my respirator when dealing with moldy hay or bad allergans. So, it's not like I'm wasting money. Thanks for getting me thinking about it. P100 is great for peace of mind.

As far as guns and such, you can't eat ammo or rifles. We have farm and hunting firearms. Thinking a bunch of weapons will be what makes a difference if things got really bad is foolish.

Mostly, we just try and pay attention and anticipate big price changes. We are slowly working towards having less dependance on supply chain disruption. True supply chain independence is a pipe dream and would be a brutal existence.