Time flies when you are having fun, and I’ve been enjoying posting here on 3BY for a full year now, making this post my first anniversary post! When I first introduced myself here, it was as a person who had… Continue Reading
What do I mean by “It’s time to move beyond Thunderdome?” Admit it We all do it… we sit around and envision The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI)… and the overwhelming, crushing concern over what would… Continue Reading
Train like you want to react in an emergency, because it could save your (and other people’s) life. Train like you want to react – an example When a bad guy charged the prepper, the prepper pulled out his handgun… Continue Reading
Depression afflicts more than 10% of the population at some point in their life. Throw a lot of upheaval into people’s lives, and there’s likely to be a whole lot more. We here at 3BY are all about helping people… Continue Reading
Calm. The thing about emergencies is that they’re made even worse when people lose their cool and are too distraught to function well. We are human though, and it will happen to some of us. Knowing how to help someone… Continue Reading
Remember the Dr. Pepper advertisement jingle? It works especially well for preppers. “I’m a prepper, you’re a prepper, he’s a prepper, she’s a prepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a prepper too!” Who would enjoy prepping? Here’s a small list:… Continue Reading
It’s no secret to any prepper that the bulk of society does not share our commitment to self-sufficiency in times of crisis – making us to some degree ‘nutty’. Some of that seems unavoidable if we are to open up… Continue Reading
Humans are naturally terrible at risk assessment. The situations in which our native intuitions developed are not the situations in which we now live; so our intuition no longer serves us very well. We have two very strong and… Continue Reading
We wouldn’t be preppers if we didn’t believe that we might meet a Black Swan. Black swans are so uncommon that statisticians use the term to refer to very rare events. We prep for black swans … EMPs, pandemics, etc.… Continue Reading
Being a Lone Wolf prepper is an extra risky business. Practically, you can only really attend to one thing at a time, and no things for about a third of each day. Sleep must happen. You also have trouble with… Continue Reading
It was a dark and stormy night. Some loser drunk had collided with a power pole and left its debris in the road. Salty and I hit at highway speed a cable that was stretched across the road. The front… Continue Reading
In some ways humans are unique among living things; but when we get scared enough those special things bolt off into a hole somewhere and we’re left with responses common to many animals. This is what physiologists call the sympathetic… Continue Reading
You’re laughing with a friend and having a great dinner when she gets a startled/alarmed look and reaches for her throat. She makes a few vigorous spasms with her torso, starts to turn odd colors, and slumps over without having… Continue Reading
“I should, but I don’t wanna mess with it today.” We’ve all been there. We decided doing a thing is worthwhile when we committed to it, and that hasn’t changed. But we’re tired of messing with it and would rather… Continue Reading
“I am a scientist. In my field, it’s considered to be a good thing to change one’s ideas based on evidence.” This quote has been attributed to Albert Einstein. In his youth, Einstein was an extremely committed and vocal pacifist.… Continue Reading