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Saturday Tweets: Ascension K-Mart Choppers

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Saturday Linkages
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...erPhD) May 2, 2019 Because of electric cars and smart tech, we are hitting peak copper and the industry is “working feverishly to develop new mines” which are carbon intensive and toxic. Episode 375 in why electric cars won’t save us. https://t.co/p3PIPV58Sj — Lloyd Alter (@lloydalter) May 3, 2019 Strange codes from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems https://t.co/BZ6NsDMYEd — Root Simple (@rootsimp...

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Happy Mayan Apocalypse!

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Thoughtstylings
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...whole 2012 deal? I’m hoping the uneventful passing of this day will mark a peak in interest in apocalyptic scenarios. While I could opinionate about the Apocalypse meme, as John Michael Greer calls doomsday thinking, I think it would be best just to quote Greer from his book Apocalypse Not: there’s at least a chance that the upcoming failure of the 2012 prophecy might encourage people to take a hard and skeptical look at the apocalypse meme itself...

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Essential System #5 – First Aid Kit

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Preparedness
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...e hospital emergency rooms of Los Angeles or any big city, even during non-peak hours, knows that your sorry ass often ends up on a stretcher parked in a forlorn hallway waiting for hours for a distracted and overworked doctor. Which is why, once again, we’ve relied on the world of mountaineering to inform our choice of first aid supplies. The assumption with a first aid kit in the wilderness is that it will be quite a while before you can be reac...

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