Now besides social media, there’s a lot more you could do.
For example: monitor a basket of goods on Amazon for stock-outs. People already do this to track sales/discounts. Why not crisis early warning?
State of the art: walk to local supermarket and check toilet paper level 
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Pre-enacting the coming gradually darkening ages for fun and profit. Buy my teachable course “stack survivalism 101”
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There’s also similarities to a cold war condition between you and the world. It’s a backdrop of tension that may get to you anytime, but if it not, you can continue in surreal normalcy. Like the Cold War was just normalcy with a side of polonium-tip umbrella assassinations.
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There’s surprising similarities between stack survivalism and gig economy career management. Pragmatic prepping is a series of life gigs rather than work gigs. Transition from ordinary life to continuous partial collapse life is a bit like transition from paycheck to gig life.
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In the gig economy, you see surge pricing coming, and you go live. In stack survivalist living you see a toilet paper outage coming and you stock up.
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I wonder how many people with bunkers are pissed that things are bad but not bad enough to retreat to bunkers. If I had a bunker I think I’d unconsciously be hoping for a chance to use it. And kinda hoping for the Real Thing™ instead of just a bunch of stock-outs and slow mail.
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