> spend tens of thousands of dollars stocking up on food and weapons because they're convinced we're on the brink of nuclear war I mean, I haven't stockpiled a

> spend tens of thousands of dollars stocking up on food and weapons because they're convinced we're on the brink of nuclear war I mean, I haven't stockpiled anything personally, but honestly that's a pretty reasonable cost-benefit analysis. The world _is_ perpetually pretty close to nuclear war, if you treated the risk like any other day to day risk. (You probably spend more on health and house insurance than they spend on food, and IMO nuclear war is more likely than a given house catching fire in a year. The unknowable question of course is whether it will manifest in a way that your preparations matter)