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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • Expect prices to continue getting crazier, weather to get shittier, and people to get more desperate: Do everything you can to become self sufficient and be prepared for a variety of outcomes.

    Invest time into into learning the ability to make or get food (think gardening, foraging, hunting, trapping, fishing, raising animals for food, etc.), have a long term plan for obtaining safe water, learn whatever medical care you can (first aid, stop the bleed, etc.), learn how to defend yourself if you don’t already know (and if you do, keep up on your training, if you don’t use it, your skills will weaken), learn to cook if you haven’t, learn to sew if you haven’t, all those skills one might consider “old fashioned” by some will become more important the worse things get.

    If you’ve got the funds for it, battery banks, solar panels, and similar can help make things like extended (or even permanent) power outages a lot more bearable (plus they could save your food from spoiling, your house from flooding, etc.). I’ve only spent a few hundred so far but I already have a battery bank that functions as a UPS to power the pumps that keep my house dry and the refrigerators running. It charges to 80% in 50 minutes off a standard plug and charges to full off the panels in under a day - it’s a huge game changer for my family and we’re only getting started.

    Some sort of vehicle you can fuel independent of gas stations is also a very good idea: EVs are great, but if you can’t afford one, there’s nothing wrong with e-bikes or even bicycles! Hell, my preferred commuter is a bike most days anyways. Another alternative is converting a traditional vehicle to run off used cooking oil (which is far easier than it sounds): Many restaurants will happily give you the used oil they have to pay someone else to come pick up and dispose of. If the power goes out, gas stations can’t pump fuel, so even if you can afford it, you’re still screwed. Find a reasonably fast way to get around without relying on this and you’ll be much more disaster resistant.

    Finally, make friends! Our greatest strength as humans is when we band together for the benefit of everybody, be careful who you trust but don’t be afraid to be part of your local community either because as people, we are far more vulnerable when we are totally alone and unsupported. You can go it alone, but it’ll be a lot rougher in pretty much every situation.



  • So, the Teams instance you’re connecting to and all of the data therein is owned by the company you work for: Their IT/security team or teams are still obligated to protect that data and allowing the use of any and every app could potentially cause problems or exfil proprietary company data.

    Whether the phone is owned by you or them is irrelevant, the data is still compromised either way, so I doubt they enacted that policy by mistake, however, you may be able to talk them into adding more options to their allow list.