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1. Without can openers: Young people who have no food at home? Darwin was so ahead of his time, anyone have a recipe on how to cook a new $1000 I phone or all the little Alexa pucks around the house? All I can think about lately is that the world is getting set for a major reset. Which will of course end the arguments about man made global warming in a couple of months or less. Will it be a better world or just one with a heck of a lot less people? Someone once posed the question ” Am I mad or is it all the people around me?” When I contemplate things like this I realize how close together the emotions laughing and crying are.

   1. How to cook a $1000 IPhone? Easy, throw in microwave and push the button for popcorn. Nothing tastes as good as fried circuit boards. Hehe

2. I could see it´s uses if you could loose your child in a mall for example, on a School hike in the Woods or a Museum. if your kid isn´t coming home late or such i don´t see anything homeschooling should make a difference.

   Many cans don´t Need a can opener and Fresh Food from the store every other day doesn´t Need to´ve anything to do with having Nothing at home.

   Canned fish takes a hit in Europe, especially with the Younger generations because of Health issues .

   1. Those pull-top cans are great… until the pull tab pulls loose of the lid. …Then what?…

      1. Army Cutlery, SAK,

3. ” I’m aware of young couples who make a standard trip to the grocery store every day on their way home from work because they have no food at home in their pantry.”

   My family and I lived that way for awhile when we were stationed in (West) Germany in the early 80s.
   Because of (WWII) wartime, and post-war economy and social conditioning, most families then and there did their shopping daily to have dinner. But there were open markets with good fresh foods, as well as the usual mom-&-pop and “super” markets.

   1. I´m very sorry, that we Germans are socially conditioned to prefer fresh Food over Food from a tin can.

      1. The issue isn’t one of “fresh vs canned” but instead how that fresh is obtained. JIT is a disaster just waiting to happen. One family I know made the daily trips to the grocery store right up until a three day ice storm trapped them in their home with no food. Now they still do “fresh” but they have canned food as well

         1. IIRC in my kin there was no Family who wouldn´t ´ve at least a week worth of Food in the house more likely 2 or more in the 80s.

            But Things like Bread, Meat/Sausage etc. was usually bought every few days Fresh.

            JIT isn´t a disaster waiting to happen, it´s a disaster that has , is and will be Happening.
            When the iron loses a nail, it´s verhy Handy to´ve the correct nail at Hand.

      2. ‘Nothing wrong with that… until food isn’t available… all of a sudden…

4. Many “canned” foods from the store now have pull tabs on them. I still have a P-38 in my wallet.

5. I suppose that the 5oz cans of tuna will become 4oz pouches, but the price will remain the same.

   1. If there is not such much water in the pouches wouldn´t that at least a fair deal?

      1. It would be, except that it’s usually the other way around…

6. Canned tuna is great. But expansion of fresh market small farms is the ideal way to establish small but vital segments of a resilient society, enabling families to raise children with work ethic.

   Support your local roadside stands and small operation animal producers. Buy a few good organic items like pork, chicken, beef, vegetables…..even if they cost more than grocery stores. You’ll be voting with your wallet.

7. Who needs a can opener! Just take the can and grind the end on a flat piece of concrete till the seal breaks.

   It’d be hilarious to watch someone dragging a spam can behind their car to get their ammo out! 😛

   1. Be careful. If you drag more than one can behind the car, people might think you just got married

8. On the topic of Irish doctors being forced to perform abortions, I recall that following World War II, at the war crimes trials in Nuremberg, doctors who performed abortions on unwilling women were convicted of atrocities and war crimes. Forcing doctors to murder unborn babies against their will IS ALSO a war crime. The war ? The war on Christ and Christians.

   1. Yeah, what happened to be fruitful and multiply?

9. 80% of our societal problems were created by allowing women to leave the homes. It is a man’s job to provide and a woman’s job to be that man’s helpmate.

   There was a couple a few months back writing to the extent of moving to the redoubt due to feminism. When women leave their God given role to procure her man’s God given role there’s no space for men anymore with women harassing them there.

   There’s too many abortions, lawsuits, divorces, male job terminations and male incarcerations when women are taught to fight against the goads of society to be something they were never created to be- men.

   I agree with the comment above that us women staying home and raising the children. Society runs much smoother and you reap God’s blessings and not his curses in being the man and woman in a relationship

   Women need to go back to their families immediately to see a turn around in our culture.

   1. That’s the most politically incorrect thing I’ve heard in a long time and I LOVE IT! Very well said. But unfortunately the trend is still leaning towards women placing their utmost importance on their careers and then putting their families and God somewhere else way down on the list.

10. Amazing, Antipoo waving around AR15’s. Can you imagine what would happen if a conservative group did something like that? It would be non-stop news on CNN and MSNBC for the next month. They would analyze the thing to death such as ‘some members looked like they had high capacity magazines or certain pistol grips’. Along with conjuring up some lady that was supposedly threatened by a person in the group. Of course conservatives wouldn’t do something like that of waving around weapons. Only lunatics do that.

11. Re: A World Without Can Openers

    No app. No tuna fish.

    Home Depot went so far to create a video for Millennials, ‘How to use a tape measure’. Americans have become American’ts.

12. I remember just in time (JIT) back in the late 80,s I worked in a machine shop
    I would set up a CNC lathe put in the programs and tooling took a few hours to do
    Then only run 2 parts sometimes one yes it took a few hours to finish each part
    Then take out all the tooling and do it all over again for a different part
    A few days later they would need the same part again So wash and repeat
    I did ask why Boss said do not want to stock them I did get faster each time I had to set the machine up Still did not make sense to me

13. I see my neighbors- unemployed neighbors — driving around in $50,000 new trucks. And I’m fairly sure, based on what I see, that most of my neighbors and friends have made no preps at all — no stored food, no water, no nothing.

    And I read that 50 % of Americans have no retirement savings — nada, zip. And yesterday my pension plan contacted me telling me that, in their view, I needed to have 70% of my retirement in equities rather than the majority in what amounts to an annuity. I told them to stuff it.

    The fact people can’t open cans doesn’t surprise me. We can’t even get the important things right. It’s not an issue of if my friends — it’s just a question of when.

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