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Need clean laundry in the apocalypse

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨phudgins@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I saw this during the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York city

    We’re in northern Ontario in Canada and I was with my wife and her mother. My mother in law was a great lady, tiny, Irish Canadian completely and with a heart of gold. She had lived through the second world War where she lost her husband, her husband’s brother, three other of her husband’s brothers who were in the war and a long list of friends she saw leave school to take part in the war and don’t of them not come back, some completely psychologically destroyed and others just surviving life.

    She was making chili that morning when we got up. I turned on the TV and couldn’t believe what we were watching. It was like a movie. We watched live the first burning building and then soon after watched the second plane crash on live TV. It was surreal.

    My mother in law came in and watched with us for a while. We were glued to the TV and waited for more … all day! My mother in law got up after five minutes and went back to her chili.

    We told her this was historic. You can’t miss it.

    She said she’s already lived through wars, near wars, threatened nuclear war, end of the world predictions, fall of the Soviet Union and a whole bunch more.

    She said she felt bad for everyone but we can’t do anything right now.

    She went back to cooking her chili.

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  • bran_buckler@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s something called hypernormalization that I just read about.

    Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help Here’s the Guardian article.

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The world has always been crumbling and always will. That’s basically the definition of life, the fight against entropy

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    • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      fight against entropy

      And the US military.

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  • lath@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Definitely.

    Contrary to movie belief, it’s the little things that get you during the apocalypse. Hygiene can be considered the most important survival skill of day-to-day life.

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    • cattywampas@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you read The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, it’s like 5% zombie combat strategy and 95% general survival knowledge. A very good read.

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      • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        For an effective demonstration, check out Project Zomboid.

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      • ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s still wild to me that Mel Brooks is his dad.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Rule #1 : Cardio

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its never been a better time for real netrunning. The data fortresses or more insecure than you picking your first icon. Get them files, choom.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    what really bums me out is having to.work so hard.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      i didn’t think things through when I chose a job that would be needed through the end of the world.

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      • grumpasaurusrex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        On the other hand, I would rather have a job that continues to be needed than no job at all. I think I’d prefer having some resources to help myself and my loved ones during the societal collapse.

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I’m playing among us and I’m pretty sure I’m the last living crewmate

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All my life Spring has always been a happy time for me. This one has just sucked, though, even though the weather has been near-perfect.

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  • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not me. I’m doing GREAT tasks, as the world crumbles.

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