KevonLooney

Well these questions are mostly for people to LARP about how tough and self-sufficient they are. No, society wouldn't collapse because we didn't have electricity for 99% of our time on Earth. Electricity was a luxury as recently as 100 years ago.

Number one issue is, can electronics be fixed? If yes, temporary issue. If not, and we are literally without power (for some magical reason) we just need a million more horses to cart food around. There wouldn't be much looting. The new iPhone won't work and how are you going to get away with anything bigger? Guns and locks still work without electricity.

I personally would start buying up property from people ignorantly fleeing cities. Most major cities are built on great harbors or waterways for sail and steam ships. People will try to farm, fail at it, and just buy from farmers like before. Food will move by boat first to major ports. Every prepper in the middle of nowhere will sit in a bunker eating canned vegetables while the rest of the world goes on with their lives.

You don't actually need Facebook and Tik Tok. You won't die without it. You'll just read the same gossip in a magazine.

Why don't you just go to Target first? You can get all your crap ahead of time and just pickup the order. Their prices are super low to compete with Walmart and they price match. Right now it's basically Walmart with better customers.

Economics doesn't work like that. Prices are already as high as the market will bear. Few people intentionally leave money on the table.

More likely:

1. Some owners will eat the tax increase
2. Others try to raise prices
3. They can't get higher prices immediately because supply and demand are the same as before the tax increase
4. They consider eating the cost or selling the property
5. Property prices decrease due to greater supply
6. Former renters and investors who are ok paying the tax buy the properties

End result: more owner-occupied property, some of the tax is paid by the remaining investors and renters.

California real estate is stupid. There is literal farm land right next to expensive ass homes. Building homes is like printing money.

The weather isn't good enough to justify it, considering recent fires and the fact that you have to live in the Central Valley. Homes in hot-ass methlandia should not be that expensive.

You definitely should have done it for the resume and networking boost. San Francisco is expensive but you can definitely find deals the more you look for them. Plus the Bay Area is bigger than just San Francisco.

And regarding the other comment, $200K in SF is definitely better than $100K in Sacramento. More money is always better, unless it's like a 10% bump. First of all, San Francisco is just more beautiful than Sacramento. Food is better. There's more to do.

Second of all, Sacramento is getting more expensive because people are moving there from the Bay Area. It's still cheaper, but prices are growing and you don't live in a major city. People are paying $500K to live next to a cornfield.

Even wiser people will notice that catastrophe has always been a part of society. Climate change is clearly real and the cause of many different problems, but signs of the "end of the world" have actually been around since the beginning. The Roman empire collapsing was clearly one, as were both World Wars.

"Civilization" never collapsed entirely.

That's meaningless if you don't use their equipment to do it. If you make a sandwich, do they own it? A table? A child? A novel? A painting?

Then filter only those messages that you need to respond to. Not everything is urgent. Check the non-urgent things manually every 15 minutes and you will still be fine.

Turn sounds and vibrate off. Then you can keep it in your pocket and enjoy silence.

The least secure part of the sign-in process is the person. It doesn't matter what the 2FA method is.

You can be using a one time pin and someone can look at your paper and see the next one. Someone can trick your grandma into giving out the Google authenticator pin over the phone because "they're from Google". Someone can trick you into making the financial transfer yourself because "you're getting a deal".