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Cake day: February 13th, 2024

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  • If it’s truly the end of days everyone is gonna learn to trust absolutely no random person whatsoever within like 12 hours

    If other disasters and breakdowns of social order are anything to go by, not really. Communities tend to band together in those cases.

    Murdering your neighbors to eat what’s in their fridges: Extremely high risk, best possible outcome is a few days of food.

    Working with your neighbors to establish mutual defense, food production, healthcare, etc: Lower risk than anything else, possibility to replicate most of those things society had been providing.

    Although there’s definitely a cultural aspect, Hurricane Katrina had a wealthy gated community with dudes driving around in pickups murdering any “looters” from flooded areas and police ambushed and murdered a family walking by the Danziger Bridge. Even in those cases though, this was organized violence as opposed to a free-for-all.