4 Tier Survival

4 Tier Survival

4-Tier Survival. The tiers are as follows:

Before I go any farther in this article I want to give you a great piece of advice:Develop and hone your knowledge, ability and skills over the knives, tools and kits. A vast amount of knowledge and skills with a minimum amount of tools will keep you and your family alive a lot longer than a vast amount of tools and minimum amount knowledge and skills will.This may seem contradictory to what this article is about. But, do not lose sight of this advice. Everyone knows someone who has the newest, best whatever it is but no clue how to use it. This makes them look like a fool. Don’t be a fool. When creating the tiers, I kept in mind the basic needs of a survival situation, shelter, water, fire, food and I am going to add protection. In a the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI) situation, protecting yourself, your family, home, supplies and gear could be a paramount priority. The first three tiers will enable you to get to your fourth tier. We all find ourselves away from  Now, let’s discuss the tools and supplies I feel are needed for each tier. This is by no means the end all, be all list of what is needed. This is what I have come up with for my kits. Feel free to add or take away as you feel necessary. This is based off of my skill set and my family needs. I wanted to condense a lot of information into a single article and basically get you thinking about what you will need. I want you to come up with your own kits. I also wanted to show you that all of the tiers are possible. They will take some time, energy and money, but anyone can do this. Note: I will not get very technical in the types/brands of items to carry. Use your own judgment; remember, most times you get what you pay for. Also, I go by the mantra, “Two is one, one is none.” TIER ONE: On-person EDC

Some people I have seen carry as much as possible on their keychain. The only thing with that is if you lose your keys, you have lost a lot of your gear. I carry some stuff on my belt, some in pockets and some on a keychain. I have even seen and thought about carrying some items around my neck. Whatever you feel comfortable with and what works for you is best.

TIER TWO: EDC Bag Tier two is going to contain pretty much everything from tier one except bigger and better.

Now, bear in mind, my EDC bag is not for long-term survival. I feel like I could sustain myself for several days if I needed to with the contents of my pack. However, that is not its intended use. All of the tiers are designed to sustain you until you can “make it” to the next tier.

My EDC bag is the same bag I use for school every day. Granted I cannot carry a weapon or ammunition into the school building. My point is you don’t want all of your Tier Two items to be so big and bulky that you can’t comfortably carry them. All of this stuff is in addition to my school books and papers and tablet. For those of you that are curious, I prefer a messenger style bag. But, again, whatever works for you and is the most comfortable.

TIER THREE: Larger rucksack or backpack

A lot of people would call this the 72 hour kit. I feel that this is a bit of a misnomer. Granted, 72 hours is a good figure for most people to shoot for. However, I feel that in this stage of the game, you should be able to carry enough to survive indefinitely.

This depends on the type of situation you are in. I will list the types of firearms I would have, not necessarily carry, and reasons why. If this is a true bug out situation obviously the adults in your party could carry at least one, more than likely two, long guns.

TIER FOUR: Long term preparedness. Even though this is the largest of all the tiers, I will probably go into the least amount of detail. There are many great sources of information concerning long term preparedness, SurvivalBlog.com being one of the best, if not the best, in my opinion.

Again, I have very briefly touched on long term preparedness. There are numerous articles and books on long term preparedness. Read them. This is meant merely as a primer to get you thinking about long term survival.

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

it’s never too early to teach children about the devaluation of labor!

(from an American Girls book)

Babie’s first entitled commissioner

As a fiber artist, it BREAKS MY HEART when creators post in one of the fiber art Facebook groups I’m in that “I made this, I’m charging X, is that too much?” and the picture will be a stunning queen size afghan and the price they’re worried is too high is 50$. i just want to shout “PRICE OF MATERIALS + TIME IT TOOK TO MAKE @ MINIMUM WAGE” at the minimum.

people undervalue art so drastically that artists end up undervaluing their hard work.

Me: Spends half an hour doing research and putting together links to argue back against someone screaming stuff that is 1) easily disprovable and 2) super incendiary in its claims. 

Me right before posting: You know, I just don’t fucking want to. ::deletes it all::

Okay but after seeing this I started doing it too and it’s amazing how many men I’ve run into bc they expected me to move

Gotta try it

I work (and walk) on a college campus. I’ve lost count of how many men I’ve smacked shoulders with.

Recently, I was standing outside my son’s classroom waiting to talk to his teacher. I stood on one side of the hallway, not even close to the center. At some point, a man came walking along. I was standing right in his path, but the hallway was empty, so I logically expected him to swerve around me. Instead he kept walking right toward me, got to me, and stopped, as if waiting for me to get out of his way. I didn’t; I just smiled politely at him. He finally walked around me, clearly annoyed that I hadn’t leapt out of his manly path.

Now I’m wishing I’d leapt aside, taken off my jacket and laid it on the floor before him, then bowed deeply and said, “My Liege!”

I also work at a college campus. I smack shoulders sometimes, but I find that if I stare straight ahead and follow the advice below, people get the heck out of the way.

Honestly this post changed how I carry myself when walking alone in public, or in a situation where I’m the one leading. People definitely move for the murder gaze.

Confirmed. I once had to rush back inside a convention hall as the con was closing in order to a retrieve a sick friend’s medication, and I didn’t understand why people in the crowd were jumping out of my way (literally—one guy vaulted a table) until I realized I was dressed as the Winter Soldier and doing the Murder Walk because that’s just how I walk in those boots. I got the meds, got out, and made a mental note.

I repeated the experiment later, wearing the boots but otherwise my usual clothing and mimicking the expression I thought I’d had at that moment. People parted like I was Charlton Heston.

I now wear that style of boots whenever possible. I recently had a man do a double-take as I walked by and ask me, politely, where I had served because I “looked like a soldier.” I’m not current or former military. I was wearing a flowy purple peasant top and looked as un-soldierlike as possible.

Moral of the story: wear comfortable shoes, square your shoulders, and walk like you’ve been sent to murder Captain America.

WALK LIKE YOU’VE BEEN SENT TO MURDER CAPTAIN AMERICA

It’s called the Murder Strut.

IT’S BACK!!!!!! I was searching for this to show my daughter the other day and couldn’t find it. I’m so glad IT’S BACK!! I will always reblog the Murder Strut!!

A guy on a bike went around me because he could tell I had no intention of moving. Thanks to this post.

One day and I bumped into a guy while doing the Murder Strut and he apologized to me even though I was the one who had bumped into him.

It works wonders.

In case you were wondering, yes you can do this in a wheelchair. Same look in your eyes and let ‘em know you will run them down. Just picture yourself in a sports car accelerating towards someone with the intention of flattening them.

If there’s anything more satisfying than watching Abled men leap out of my way when they realize I’m not moving for them, I can’t think of it atm.

Walk like you’ve been sent to murder Captain America.

Wheel like you’re gonna win the Indy 500 and don’t care how.

Your crutches are short swords; walk like you can see them buried in the bodies of anyone who crosses (in front of) you.

Tumblr: teaching women how to be Moses and part the fucking Red Sea with the power of their minds.

I had never seen these updates to the Patriarchy Chicken Game before and they are all a goddam DELIGHT

Patriarchy Chicken and The Murder Strut, dance names for the new millenium. 

OH MY GOD I HAD BARELY SCROLLED DOWN THIS POST AND WAS GONNA SAY “JUST TAKE SOME ADVICE FROM ME THAT I LEARNT FROM AN OLD TUMBLR POST ABOUT WALKING LIKE THE WINTER SOLDIER FROM YEARS AGO” BUT THEN IT TURNED OUT TO BE THIS POST

I first discovered this a few years ago when I was an insecure 14-year-old, and since then I indeed do the “murder strut” and staunch everywhere I go, literally works wonders

murder strut works wonders in the airport and school.

Back in HS, other kids would kinda stream behind me like the tail of a comet because I was several inches taller than most of the student population and the Murder Strut was just…how I walked. Amazingly effective.

In case you have forgotten. The Murder Strut works!

Patriarchy Chicken Game

Here’s our lovely @lady-feral

what the FUCK. this changes the statistics of what we know about covid cases, it fucks them right up.

jesus christ these people are irresponsible and selfish and vile.

I hate it here so much.

Transcript:

With covid on the rise and the vaccine readily available, more and more businesses are requiring their employees be vaccinated, and to prove that, they need a vaccination card.

Now, this is a problem for people who don’t want to be vaccinated, and there’s some people out there who are turning this into a business opportunity.

Meet “5starjazzii.” She has over 300,000 followers on Instagram and quite a few hustles. You’ll notice in her description “founder of antivaxmomma2.”

Yeah, that’s because “antivaxmomma,” her original account, got deleted, and I suspect it’s because she posted stuff like this, advertising that she’s selling fake covid 19 vaccine cards for 200 bucks a pop, but they’ll have real lot numbers on them. Now she’s been continuing this from her new account and even from her main account. She posted this the other day, explaining that she has a backlog of messages, and also that she’s looking to expand her team, so if you have computer access at hospitals or CVS, “DM me ASAP.”

Now that led me to believe that she’s either stealing existing lot numbers and putting them on the cards or she’s getting someone to enter people into the system that haven’t been vaccinated to generate their own lot numbers. But I didn’t want to make assumptions so I decided to message her and ask.

I told her I worked at a Walgreens. She said to text her ASAP. She asked if I had access to enter the vaccine information into the system and then asked, because I’m in Florida, how do people here verify they’re in the system, because in New York they have an app. And the person she has in New York doing this can provide the numbers that the people can check in the app. I explained that in Florida you have a site you can do that on and asked what exactly she needed. She told me she provides the person’s name, date of birth, address, the vaccination date, asked if I can backdate them, and then has me enter them into the system to generate lot numbers. So I would enter them into the system as if they had just received the vaccine, WHICH THEY HAVE NOT, but the system would believe that they have, and if someone checked those lot numbers, it would say their name. That made me curious how many people were doing this. She told me the woman in New York that’s doing it for her, she’s given 100 bucks a person, she’s doing at least 30 people a day, and that woman’s making 10,000 dollars a week. Do the math on that. On how many people are walking around with legal documents saying they’re vaccinated, and they are not. She’s also asked if I could provide her covid 19 cards.

Now you may ask, why would someone take the risk and do something like this? Well, it seems in her case that it’s at least due in part to the fact that she believes that the vaccines are sterilizing children as part of the Gay Agenda. Now, she’s not going to be doing this any longer, the FBI’s already been involved, but when I hear people say things like, “why bother getting the vaccine, people are getting covid who are fully vaccinated?” I have to wonder, are they?

Transcript ends.

Fucking kudos to him for actively involving himself and getting this information. Jesus christ, this is genuinely so upsetting.

FUCK

The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | 1964

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Rod Steiger

And notice the tone the scientists researching this.

“What do you mean the fatties live longer? This CANNOT BE RIGHT DO THE STUDIES 15 MORE TIMES!”

And when they can’t figure it out, they simply say “it’s not worth reading” to keep anything POSITIVE about fat bodies from getting out into the public eye.

Because then folks might not but into the billion dollar industry for diet fads and weight loss scams that all of these obesity doctors line their pockets with.

Because then theyd actually have to start treating their fat patients like PEOPLE.

“Willett’s complaints are starting to look less credible, however, because no one has been able to make the paradox go away. One of the most popular explanations is that fat people get more aggressive treatment than thin people, because their weight raises red flags at the doctor’s office. This seems questionable: studies show that overweight and obese people tend to avoid doctors, get fewer preventive screenings, and receive worse treatment because they’re often misdiagnosed as “fat” rather than with a specific medical condition” 

Emphasis mine

Also, notice the phrasing.

“No one has been able to make the paradox go away”

They wanna get rid of that shit SO BAD. Because if fat people aren’t as OMG OBESITY CRISIS as folks love to scream, that means their fad diet scams and weight loss surgeries can’t make them millions anymore!

Fuck these obesity doctors. They outchea selling snake oil.

Oh wow

Wasting time.

Aka. I just wanted to draw kitty cat.

#pascalcampion

The cat’s right though

What a funny way to say “cops blew up neighborhood”

It’s been really hilarious to watch the LAPD try to dodge any responsibility for this while the media tries desperately to help them by publishing the most confusing fucking headlines but what really happened is that the cops found and confiscated thousands of pounds of “illegal” fireworks in LA and then decided to take 10 pounds of that, call the press, and make a show of using their new expensive toy, the “total containment” truck that is supposed to be able to take explosions of up to 15 pounds.

So they took the 10 pounds of explosives and their toy truck to a poor Black neighborhood, got reporters there, stuck the explosives inside, and set them off intentionally instead of just defusing them like they did with the other 4,990 pounds of fireworks.

For some reason, likely because something went wrong with their truck which I bet cost the city a shit ton of money, the containment completely failed and the explosion destroyed cars, homes, and injured 17-19 people (I’ve seen different reports with different numbers), a couple of whom were in critical condition but it sounds like everyone survived.

The LAPD then had the audacity to tweet that they didn’t know what caused the explosion when it was them who caused the explosion, intentionally, and we know because they called the media so that everybody could see them do it.

In summary, the LAPD wanted to show off/justify their ridiculous budget but their expensive toy was a dud and so they ended up bombing a poor Black neighborhood (because they would never risk this in a white neighborhood) and don’t want to admit it.

you can expect literally the worst of cops and still be caught off guard

Fuck yes

i just found out merriam webster has a time traveler feature that tells you some of the words that were “born” the same year as you. it’s pretty neat yall should do this

new tag yourself game: pick 3 words “born” in ur year that describe u. im geocaching, dark web and abandonware

Hi, I’m Bleeding-edge Cyberpunk Cryptid and I will not be taking questions.

I guess I'm a Designated Driver with an Escape Key as my Concealed-Carry.

Why does criticizing shitty opinions somehow mean that you “can’t handle different opinions than your own” and you’re “attacking free speech”? like criticism /is/ free speech, it’s the exercise of it what the fuck is the deal with that?

It’s part of Stormfront’s forum invasion instructions, if I recall.

Explain

Stormfront used to circulate a document through its forum membership, specifically its subforum for indoctrinating the membership of other websites, no clue if they still do. This was 2010 or so? It was a list of talking points, key phrases, strategies, and methods for invading other forums and bringing them around to a more receptive environment for their rhetoric. 

It had instructions on how to make it look like there were a lot more people agreeing with you than there actually were, in order to make it seem as if the fight was already over and the website was only safe for white supremacists and fascists; on how to shut down dissenters of the new status quo, usually with spam or key phrases like the ones you mentioned; how to become a moderation staff member and who to target and how from there. 

I’m not saying at all that they invented any of this chatter, that would be patently ridiculous. But I do think this activity had a huge effect on how it’s become a lot more common on the internet and especially with the sub-30 crowd. Stormfront has made no secret about how they’ve taken over 4chan, for example, which was the breeding ground and organization point for the “alt-right.” They didn’t just implement the rhetoric there, they taught it to others memetically. 

4chan has a userbase that goes disturbingly young in many cases, so the kids that thought it was fresh six or seven years ago are young adults now. And those that were young adults then are now comfortably situated and camping out in more mainstream venues with these fringe ideas and fringe talking points, and from YouTube comment fields and Twitter diatribes and so on you see those Stormfront techniques passed knowingly or unknowingly to a much wider audience, who are willing to readily accept it as just how things are. 

I don’t have a bird’s eye view of any of this. But every time I see those phrases from young people like me, I immediately remember that invasion document. 

*blink*

*blink*

*blink*

Well. This certainly explains some things.

So using ‘Muh Free Speech!’ to silence others free speech was a Neo-Nazi trick.

Are u saying there was a time when 4chan wasn’t 100% white supremacists

yeah, at least around 2006-2007 they were a shitty minority that kept to themselves. Like, in 2008 when Obama was elected, the whole site autoplayed the victory music from Gurren Lagann and all posts were autocorrected to “ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER” for like, a day. After that, neonazis settled on 4chan as a target and the whole site gradually became more and more of a /pol/ cesspit.

We should take back /pol/ from the nazis tbh

This is why we don’t engage nazis. They don’t argue in good faith ever. It’s about force and visibility and shouting down opponents or deceiving the audience.

That’s why we beat the shit out of them instead. No chance for that snake tongue to work while your face is being bashed in.

Taking /pol/ back will fail. We fought hard back in 2008 to try to keep the neo-Nazis from taking over 4chan and just failed badly.  The fight for reddit is following the same exact trajectory, and it pretty much lost, which is why I’ve written off the entire site at this point.  Tumblr is bad, but they haven’t targeted it in the same way, partially because they’d get more pushback from the much less white userbase, but they do have outposts here.

Well, this is existentuiially terrifying on multiple levels…

Welp I had a bunch of randos show up on my twitter mentions. Sudenly this makes a lot more sense. 

During my time in the Socialist party I learnt something very interesting. See, members of the party were very much given to debate; talking was the first approach to everything. Trying to show Capitalists and conservatives through persuasion what we believed to be wrong and why.

Except when encountering fascists.

All the stories of triumph over fascists were through, lesser or greater, acts of violence.

I realised that it’s because you can’t reason with a fascist. They don’t listen, they see debate as a weapon. People who use debate as a tool for understanding will only be frustrated.

So if you meet a fascist, just punch them.

It’s better in the long run.

Bringing this back to add that HuffPo has the entire 17 page Stormfront style guide: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_us_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2?m3a From the article:  “The constant line-toeing and the deliberate muddying of intentions and meaning can have a dizzying effect, especially for media outlets that aren’t used to grappling with such bad actors. Anglin knows this, and he is doing everything in his power to exploit it.”

“Remember this style guide the next time an alt-righter says something so hammily outrageous that you begin to doubt its sincerity. This is by design. The Daily Stormer and other groups like it want you to be unsure if you should take them seriously. Andrew Anglin wants you to think he’s just a troll, that he’s spouting incendiary crap for no other reason than to get a rise out of you. Remember that the irony and the coy misdirection are all in service of tricking people into following him on his path toward a white supremacist state. This is what he believes.”

I wish there was a way to sticky this somehow

Tallow Candles

Today I turned this

[Five jars of fat drippings drained off of ground beef on a kitchen countertop]

into this

[A lit jar candle on a kitchen countertop]

The first thing I did was turn on my slow cooker, and put as many jars as would fit into it with their lids off, then filled the space around them with water and waited for everything to heat up

[Jars of fat drippings inside a slow cooker]

Next I got a jar with a nice lip for pouring, a funnel, a mesh sieve, and some cheesecloth. I put the funnel in the jar, and the sieve in the funnel, and the cheesecloth in the sieve

[Cheesecloth inside a sieve, inside a funnel, inside a canning jar]

Once the contents of the jars in the slow cooker are all liquid, the tallow will separate from the water and other stuff and will float on top, making it easy to pour off through the cheesecloth (etc.) and into the jar

[A jar full of golden liquid tallow]

You might be wondering why I didn't pour it directly into my candle jar. Well, this is just a precaution to make sure the tallow is separated and pure. What if I accidentally poured in some of the water or bits of food? That wouldn't make for a very nice candle. This way I can ensure only tallow makes it into my candle.

Next I'm going to get my candle jar ready. You'll of course need a jar, but you'll also need these

[A container of wax adhesive and a spool of cotton wick]

You'll also need a pen/pencil/stick for the top of the wick. The wick's purpose is obvious, and the wax adhesive will keep your wick stuck to the bottom of the jar. So, I took the end of my wick and rubbed it in the adhesive to make it sticky, then planted it in the center of the bottom of the jar. Then I wrapped the other end around a pen to keep the wick centered (more or less) while the tallow was being poured and was cooling

[An empty candle jar with a wick inside it suspended by a purple pen resting across the top of the jar]

At this point it's time to pour the tallow into the candle jar!

[A candle jar filled with golden tallow with a wick suspended by a purple pen resting across the top of the jar]

At this point, you just wait for the tallow to cool. I put them in the fridge to speed this up, but found out after the fact that this can cause condensation in your candle, which will cause lots of sputtering and flickering. But it went away after a little while.

Once the tallow is solid, trim the wick to about 1/4 inch and enjoy!

[Two pictures of a golden jar candle on a kitchen counter, the right one is lit, the left one is not]

I was surprised, these candles (I ended up making eight total in various sizes) didn't have any scent to them. I was half expecting a burger scented candle! But since they don't really smell, you could probably add your choice of oils/fragrances to make scented candles if you want to. I may do so in the future.

Today is a beautiful day to punch a Nazi.