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I'm currently living in Japan. So obviously I have a plan for nuclear war. First, I'm going to press send on the doomsday draft which is sitting in my e-mail.
by IIAOPSW 9y ago
I'm currently living in Japan. So obviously I have a plan for nuclear war.
First, I'm going to press send on the doomsday draft which is sitting in my e-mail.
Second, I'm going to go to youtube and play "We all go together" by Tom Leher.
Third, I got a bottle sitting in my desk that I'm going to pop open. Presumably I'll be in the office at the time so one final round with the coworkers.
The people in this article seem much more stressed and have not yet come to terms with the fact that sometimes life ends abruptly (nuclear or otherwise). If you actually get a nuclear war warning for real, my plan is just as good as any other. At least I didn't spend my last moments frantically running a bathtub and panicking.
- salmonfamine 9y agoYou should probably get an MP3 of that song, in case YouTube happens to be down at the time of the nuclear blast. That would suck.
- IIAOPSW 9y agoMy actual level of preparedness goes up in proportion to geopolitical tension.
- Parcissons 9y agoBut this is PiracHeresy! You wouldnt steel a box of food if its the end of the world. Downloading music is stealing. Looters will be shot!
- 0xdada 9y agoI don't think it's as bad as you think. Check out this thread: https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/952265416289632256 https://twitter.com/lcamtuf/status/952265416289632256. If shit hits the fan and you end up surviving, your help in the aftermath can be crucial.
- matte_black 9y agoWhat software development skills will be most useful in a post-apocalyptic world?
- cloudwalking 9y agoThose skills which led you to master programming will enable you solve countless problems the apocalypse will bring.
- Swizec 9y agoSo problem solving? That does seem pretty useful, yep. Management skills could be crucial too. But there’s prob gonna be people around who are better at it. Hopefully survival in the post apocalypse doesn’t hinge on time estimates. Then we’re all doomed.
- bonesss 9y ago> Hopefully survival in the post apocalypse doesn’t hinge on time estimates. Don't worry, we're implementing Survival KANBAN. Challenges and allocations will happen naturally on a board, while management tracks concurrent Survival In Progress to make sure we're not creating more survivors than we can handle.
- pault 9y agoI would think basic knowledge of electrical engineering, solar & battery technology, radio, and mesh networking would make you pretty handy. Front end developers will be the first ones in the stew pot.
- booleandilemma 9y agoFor most developers there is no overlap with what they know about software and the things listed above.
- jonnycomputer 9y agoI'm guessing that you don't have children. And no, your plan isn't as good as any other; its just one that suits your own fatalistic attitude toward the risks involved.
- cantrip 9y agoYeah I think it's one of the worst reactions you could have. Without any indication of how bad the attack actually is, you should really assume the best and set yourself up to be able to survive. What if it's a conventional bombing, or you're not directly in the blast zone? Or if the nuke fails to detonate? The immediate aftermath if the most important time. While he's futzing around with Youtube and getting drunk the more intelligent people are coming up with a plan to live. Whether it's getting the fuck out of there or stockpiling water or climbing into a storm drain, almost anything is better than sending emails and jamming away to cliche songs.
- cookiecaper 9y ago>What if it's a conventional bombing, or you're not directly in the blast zone? Or if the nuke fails to detonate? Yeah, this has been the most frustrating thing reading all of these accounts. A "ballistic missile" does not necessarily have a nuclear warhead. I don't see anyone correcting this and it seems like an important thing to know.
- joejerryronnie 9y agoYes, but in the minutes you have between warning and impact, how do you make this assessment? I think most people's immediate thoughts after the warning was North Korea and Nuke.
- cookiecaper 9y agoIt's not that you need to know definitively, you just need to understand that there is a strong possibility that the warhead is non-nuclear and therefore a strong possibility that the worst-case doomsday scenario won't happen even if the attack is real. This is apparently really important for people to understand, since so many commenters are saying they'd just wait to die since they assume a nuclear attack is not survivable. Few people would make this assumption about non-nuclear weaponry, so they should know that missile attack is not necessarily synonymous with nuclear weapon.
- warent 9y agoI don't know about you but filling the bathtub is my instinctual reaction to anything that goes wrong. Job going badly? Fill the bathtub. Medical emergency? Fill the bathtub. Lost my house key? FILL THE BATHTUB.
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- akerro 9y agoChased by wolfs? That's right, BUTHTUB
- sudhirj 9y agoAh. I actually thought filling the bathtub was a measure to mitigate the effects of the heat wave and maybe the radiation as well.
- jngreenlee 9y agoActually I read as to conserve water, predicting a possible water outage after infrastructure is taken out
- komali2 9y agoI think it's so if you survive, you have clean drinking water for when the infrastructure has failed and you're waiting for rescue.
- torstenvl 9y agoThis is exactly the thought. Water is the #1 survival necessity but an enormously fragile resource. Electricity can go out, pipes can burst, water supplies can be tainted. Some people keep years worth of canned food around but almost nobody has a year's supply of water.
- ourmandave 9y agoFourth, wash down potassium iodide pills with the wine. https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/ki.asp https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/ki.asp
- delbel 9y agoDoes wine do anything to increase the effective method of action of potassium iodide pill? Or just because? (My just because is to make pancakes in an emergency sit-tight scenario, when the power goes out for 3 days or I'm snowed in) But being serious another nutrient you could take is Turmeric/Curcumin as an anti-rad supplement. However it isn't easily absorbed. There's a version called BCM-95 that is better. But better then that there's a Liposomal version that you can make at home with a ultrasonic cleaner. The idea is to buy 100% organic tumeric for $11 on amazon, and make the liposomal version. Take massive dosage if you are or about to be exposed to radiation. Sorry I don't have sources, because I'm not in the medical field, you'll have to source them and vet them yourself. If you are in the medical field I'd be interest in your input
- IncRnd 9y ago> But being serious another nutrient you could take is Turmeric/Curcumin as an anti-rad supplement. However it isn't easily absorbed. You need to take black pepper with it for absorption of Curcumin. Some of the curcumin supplements already have piperine for absorption, so there is no need to make artificial delivery mechanisms for Turmeric off of Amazon. Plus, the amount in Tumeric is very low compared to just purchasing the supplement with piperine in it. You'd spend all your emergency cash making some drug delivery system that wouldn't deliver much of anything.
- tomalpha 9y ago> I'm currently living in Japan. So obviously I have a plan for nuclear war. I can't tell whether this is meant seriously or not, but assuming it's serious, I'm genuinely curious as to why this is "obvious"? Is this historical (Hiroshima/Nagasaki) or due to current political tensions?
- sdrothrock 9y agoI'm also in Japan, and I have a pretty serious go-bag for this kind of thing. It's because of political tensions for me; we're in spitting distance of North Korea.
- tomalpha 9y agoThanks for the reply. Living on the (sort of) other side of the world, in the UK, I don't feel under immediate or direct threat from current tensions. I am truly thankful that, for my generation at least, that this is the case. It's easy to forget, or minimise the experiences of people much closer to current political tensions and IMHO healthy to be reminded of them periodically.
- JBlue42 9y agoWe worry about the big, less likely risks than the common, more likely. In a major UK city you might become a victim of a terrorist attack - limited in scope but played out far more in the media - vs getting hit as a pedestrian by a car or a car accident. In the US, we've completely gone down the way of sucking on the fear teat vs the actual dangers in our reality (cars, guns, heart disease, etc) and pay a pretty penny for it, whether security theater at the airport or our current political environment.
- hugozap 9y agoWhat surprises me is that the foreigners in Japan are the ones who are scared about that situation, Japanese people don't care that much.
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- harryh 9y agoWhat's in your doomsday draft? "I love you" and such to friends and family or also more practical concerns?
- trumpsamerica 9y agoYou know it's one of the things that comes from heart. If you don't have one then no need to force
- SilasX 9y agoI’m not sure if you were trying to be funny, but you can’t expect YouTube to work through doomsday.
- sdenton4 9y agoHave you ever met a YouTube SRE? If YouTube goes down in the apocalypse, you can bet there will be a postmortem, and steps to avoid downtime the next time the world ends.
- wbl 9y agoYou can survive a nuclear war. People survived very close to the hyoocenter of Hiroshima, even without warning or knowing about fallout.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoYou can survive a single small nuclear explosion if you're a comfortable distance from it and/or happen to be underground and protected. Your odds of still being alive five years after a full scale war are tiny, unless you have your own concrete bunker a long way from any likely targets, and it's conveniently equipped with a near-infinite supply of water, food, livestock, seeds, farming equipment, and fuel.
- wbl 9y agoThere is not going to be a full scale war with NK: they don't have enough nukes.
- shrimp_emoji 9y ago>I'm going to go to youtube and play "We all go together" by Tom Leher Aw, c'mon. I like Fallout too, but it's gotta be https://youtu.be/lIVgxFabzdE https://youtu.be/lIVgxFabzdE !
- newfoundglory 9y agoBut if you get a nuclear war warning that isn’t real...I’m curious if there’s anything damaging in that doomsday email you have?
- khazhoux 9y ago""" Dear Boss: Fuck you. Dear Girlfriend: I'm sleeping with your sister. Sorry. Dear Neighbor: I was being sarcastic every time I said 'Have a nice day.' Peace out, IIAOPSW """ EDIT: Please ignore my previous email! My phone seems to have a virus, and I am going to sue the phone company for allowing such a thing! Boss, can I have my job back? Stacy, will you please answer my texts??? Neighbor: Well that one was true, I was in fact being sarcastic when I said "have a nice day"
- Ccecil 9y agoP.S. I was the one who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.
- bahmboo 9y agoYah I hear ya, but if it's dprk launching a "low yield" device that lands a distance away you aren't going to be too happy with thousands of shards of glass in you because you didn't take some simple precautions.
- Blazespinnaker 9y agoIt depends if you have kids or not that you are responsible for. We can all make that choice for ourselves, but when you have kids most of us have a moral code to protect them from ‘sudden death’.
- fapjacks 9y agoYes, exactly, thank you. The world has sharp corners and it appears that tourists and people who recently moved to Hawaii apparently have no idea that Hawaii's a fucking target. It's the center of the universe in the Pacific. There is an entire division of troops there, and carriers, and planes, and missiles, and nukes and nuke subs. Hawaii is the most tunneled piece of American soil. All of these people crying on the floor in the fetal position seem to have successfully lived out their lives inside a fantasy bubble where nothing goes wrong. I wonder how they would feel if they knew how dangerous it was to drive on the highway. It was actually less dangerous to go to Iraq than it was to drive on American highways. It's clear these fragile souls have no idea what's out there waiting for them.