The Siege of New Hampshire

Matt needs cash to buy plumbing parts so he drives down to the lumber mill to see if there's any work. There isn't, but when one of the forklift drivers crashes and injures himself, Jimmy asks Matt if he can drive a fork truck. Matt says yes, without thinking. He has no idea. He has until the next morning to figure it out. Stopping at the library, he watches YouTube videos and gets the general idea. While there, Erin's curvaceous room mate, Katy pours on the flirt. Matt is annoyed at the interruption. But, when he finds out that Katy already has a boyfriend, he goes ballistic.

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With all the hubbub about AI potentially "killing us all" by the end of the decade, we thought we would ask the prime suspect -- AI itself -- how that's supposed to happen. Each of the three of us asked an AI platform what would be ten ways that AI could cause the extinction of mankind. I mean, they would know, right? We compared lists for common schemes and discussed a few others. We also discussed how feasible such schemes really were. Brian end up with a different list. His "10 Ways" were more amusing than serious.

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Matt is on his way home from getting paid at the lumber mill when he spots a wrecked highway warning lights trailer. While he does not need solar power all that much, the opportunity can't be passed up. He haggles with the owner for the solar panel, battery, etc., spending almost all of his money to get it. With now very little money for groceries, and little prospect of more work at the mill, he decides to check out dumpster diving at The Painted Lady. His first foray is surprisingly successful.

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Picking up on the original Ask-A-Prepper list of 50 SHTF scenarios you should think about, Mic, Brian, and Dr. Jeff resume their review. Only a few of them rise to the level of 'should think about', but none qualify as OMG. The common shortfall amounts to the scenario being local events. Granted, if you do live in Cleveland, a toxic algae bloom in lake Erie might get your attention. But, you be the judge.

Link to the original article on Ask A Prepper

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Matt is returning home from the transfer station with a heavy load of used concrete block. The load breaks one of his truck's spring shackles. He limps in to Gus's shop. Gus takes pity on the nearly broke Matt and does the work for free. He tells Matt about the saw mill down in Wentworth that hires day laborers. Matt gets a job that next morning. He his workmate is a grizzled homeless man named Edward. He gives Matt some tips on eating cheaply – dumpster diving.

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MIc, Brian, and Jeff, review an article on Ask A Prepper's website that listed fifty SHTF scenearios that, the author said, you might not be aware of but should be. Your three self-appointed doomologists examine the first tranche of dooms, rating each one as either "Yellow" (not a big deal), "Orange" (maybe a deal) or "Red" (a big deal one ought to prep for). In many cases, they explain their 'vote' and sometimes with bits of advice about what you might do about it, if it rated an orange or red. See if you agree with their "professional" doomological opinions.

Link to the original article on Ask A Prepper

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Abi talks Matt into helping her take a big old chair to the local transfer station's Swap Shop. While there, Matt discovers an abundance of castoff building materials. Abi coaxes him into taking a tennis ball named Wilson so he'll have someone to talk to. Later, Matt shops for groceries in Lincoln and is surprised by the garish bustle of a tourist town in tourist season. After groceries, he returns to the library to find a book on wild edibles so he doesn't have to buy veggies. Erin is helpful again.

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Almost no one is born a prepper and spent their whole life being a prepper. Instead, it is usually some major disruption in a person's life that shakes them out of the complacent stupor that is modern life Mic, Brian, Jeff, and Andrew share what it was that turned them into preppers. They also share what their biggest hurdles had been, and mistakes they will they could have avoided.

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On Matt's return from the library, and his narrow escape, he comes across discarded pallets. Building material for an outhouse. Back at his hillside, Matt spade-tills his corn patch and plants his seed, but needs water with no rain in sight. While borrowing buckets from Abi for river water, she tells him of her grandfather's dried up well farther up the hillside. Matt begins digging it out, in hopes of a closer water source.

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Mic, Brian, and Jeff and joined by Andrew to continue their look at the upheaval Peter Zeihan foresees. Two more of those ramifications that will (and are already starting to) effect the average citizens are, the hourglass-shaped employment model and the potential explosion of immigration when people in the poorer regions try to get into the regions that fared better. Decreased cultural assimilation points to a balkanization of once-common cultures.

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