I’ve had a couple of friends ask me if I’m prepping.

Prepping for what?

I see the UK is doing a Be Prepared campaign and Fucking Dan Bongino said something on a podcast. What’s that about?

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    44·
    преди 3 дни

    Just preppers being too twitchy as usual. The U.S. military ordered bases to prepare to be without power and now they all think it’s the apocalypse.

    • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      преди 3 дни

      There’s a difference between being a prepper and having some amount of societal resilience.

      When national governments are the ones issuing recommendations, you can assume it’s the latter and not the former.

      • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
        41·
        преди 3 дни

        These recommendations have been around for decades dude.

        The press typically doesn’t care about them. Nor does social media.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      преди 3 дни

      USA military has been doing tons of exercises like this for years now. Including stuff like hooking up an aircraft carrier to a base to use a temp power generator as a disaster backup, there is a planned test of this for the Norfolk base, maybe they are doing this test this week? The ship is in port.

      Sort of like how they are practicing dispersed airfield operations in the Pacific.