argumate:

There is an amusing progression that you see sometimes, when people are discussing possible disaster situations, and A says well I’m not worried, I’ve got some money in the bank, and B says oh you sweet summer child, as if banks will be accessible in a disaster, I keep cash under my mattress, and C says cash isn’t worth the paper its printed on, I have gold in my basement! before D shouts who are you going to trade your gold with?? what you really need is arable land and a fresh water source! and E screams how are you going to defend that land against me and my GUNS! and everyone mutters under their breath and glares.

the F solution is to assemble a larger force, what you really need is leadership.

One of my old roommates grew crops in the yard and was proud like “if civilization collapses, at least *I* can provide for myself” and I was like

• First off, we are on a busy street and that shit would get stolen immediately and we don’t have enough cropland to support a dedicated guard.
  
• Second off, you have diabetes and insulin doesn’t grow on trees.

So you grew up with a bunch of pot farmers who are used to the production and trading challenges of grey market farming, go offer yourself to one of them and make sure it’s one in a trading relationship with the biotech companies over the west hills.

(i should specify that i merely thought this, to hurry the process of pretending each other didn’t exist)