That'd be pretty rad. Hell, I'd be down to be Canadian at this point. I just want to live a quiet, peaceful life dammit. I'm not looking forward to the next few years.
Fuck that, let's round up all the obscenely wealth and our "democratic leaders," ship them all to Mars so they can play world domination with rocks and martians, and maybe then we can live in peace.
Ultimately the everyday citizens will feel the biggest pinch in higher prices, fewer jobs, and shortages, and the fed will just raise taxes to make up the shortfall, further fucking the rest of us over. Never do these policies hamper the top of the food chain, despite them playing with our livelihoods as political fodder.
Where to start.. my ideas are focused on being located in a small remote town, so this may not be directly applicable. I've been friendly with most everyone I've met here since I moved here, and as such have coincidentally made friends in areas of key importance. I'm fairly certain that this wave of bullshit cannot be fought right from the outset, and so my initial plain is one of wait. We locally have a plan to first and foremost keep our water sources available. Our town is entirely dependent on wells, and we have contingency power apparatus ready to supplant a loss of utility power. We've have a number of 2nd homes up here that have solar systems in place, and my buddies in the local power company and I have the necessary inverter/charger equipment ready to make regular 12v car batteries for a storage system with the local grid ready to keep a basic electrical system functional should we need to isolate the system. There is an abundance of wildlife up here that we don't need to worry about food supply, and many people are already growing their own veggie gardens via hydro. We are geographically benefitted in that we can withstand a ground assault from unfriendly forces. In the event that were lit on fire or bombed, my close group and I have escape routes both to the both and south that do not depend on mapped highway systems (with the military at the southern border, north will likely be the better option, we just better hope that we don't have to make an escape.ove in winter). The rest, I dunno.
I mean it makes sense. Both M$ and Apple (and Google with vanilla Android) are quite surveillance-centric, it only makes sense to try to keep the population under a watchful eye to stay ahead of any potential challenges to their authority. They hate the thought of people doing anything digitally that they can't keep tabs on.
It's definitely a downspout. That fitting on the bottom is a receiver for pipes under the concrete.