April Fool’s Day would be a good date for them.
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It had only been six years since the event. I don’t know how long vitamin C tablets remain effective, but I’m guessing that whatever was stocked on the shelf in various supermarkets and pharmacies (and in houses, etc.) at the time of the event would have been sufficient for the survivors.
She ate all kinds of apocalyptic food. After watching her videos I noticed you can have a full course meal made with these kind of canned food.
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It’s a wonderful hope but people have trying since at least Socrates and it’s still not really caught on.
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This will be the year, I think. 
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Surviving the Apocalypse and living in a dystopia would be very sad.
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If they can fake the facts, then we can stage their coming true in a way that drives them underground, and then we can weld the lids shut and stuff a rag into the air vent.
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Ohhh, saw that in a movie once. Or twice.
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Of all the magical thinking, this is the most magical.
Humans’ reliance on symbols and storytelling will forever render us vulnerable to seeing patterns where none exists; it’s literally hardwired.
It’s just kind of hard to exploit at scale; good thing we didn’t invent entire systems for social virality throughout our entire species … oh whoops, Dawkins and Drawin strike again …
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Its a way of life in my neck of the woods, enough so that it was a main target of organized crime here a couple of years ago. Other than the added sodium (chloride and nitrite) it is not less healthy than other fatty pork products.
It is kind of a miracle for parts of the world where food preservation is an important issue. Every can in a prepper’s hoard is a can that could instead be feeding hungry people in hot climates.
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I think canned food deserves more credit than it gets for contributing to the liberation of women. They were a minor miracle in a time when grocery shopping was very time consuming and a second-wave-feminist mother was expected to work at least one job while raising kids, cooking dinner every nigh, and keeping a spotless house- all with minimal help from dad. Canned food saved a lot of effort on grocery shopping and cooking.
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No problem so long as they make a satisfying hiss when you open the can!
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A little cement too. We wouldn’t want the Magalocks to escape later.
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This is the thing I find hardest to understand!?
Why not just pick one or two? There seems to be an urge for many folk I’ve come across (not a scientific sample) to embrace multiple con theories in the face of any “evidence” to the contrary.
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The first one in makes a hole in the critical thinking defenses, and then the rest walk right in.
As much as I like weirdos, I’d worry if a conspiracy kook was in a lives-on-the-line job that depended on a working critical thinking ability.
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“Alright let’s get this out onto a tray… Nice”
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The crazy thing is, often times these conspiracy theories contradict each other. It’s much like religion- internal consistency and falsifiability are totally irrelevant. It’s a different way of thinking in which those traits don’t matter. Whatever you feel is true and want to be true is true.
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Yes, this is the frustration in a post-truth world… as much credible and well sourced ‘evidence’ you can produce to deconstruct a fraudulent belief system the believer seems comfortable with slipping over to another conspiracy without any sense of the consequences to their friends and family or self awareness.
Kinda like engaging in a political conversation with T***p… what’s the point??
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