if you have money you can just buy black market methadone or opiates on current dark net . you could plant opium poppies and make laudanum then wean yourself. if it was me i would stockpile and grow the poppies, then be ready to be miserable for a year as you ride the edge of misery until you can quit and renormalize. you can use kratom but its also addictive and no better than just being opiate addict. do all the things, most importantly accelerate your detox as much as you can so you can handle it . save as much of your wafers as you can each dose and use it to taper if they cut you off

Depends on what you will be using the knife for and how much your budget is? i wouldn’t go thicker than 3/16th, ive found all that does is increase weight and make them less able to slice because the thickness gets in the way, and if you fuck up a knife that thick its because you are using the wrong tool for the job.

Some stunning numbers

Results We analyzed 3 392 364 deaths among the full US population aged 25-44 years from 1999 to 2023. Mortality increases across most causes of death produced substantial excess deaths compared with extrapolations of pre-2011 trends (Figure). Early adult excess mortality was 34.6% higher than expected in 2019 and then further accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, all-cause excess mortality was nearly 3 times what it had been in 2019 (116.2 vs 41.7 deaths per 100 000 population). In 2023, excess mortality decreased, but only to approximately midway between its 2019 and 2021 levels (79.1 deaths per 100 000 population). As a result, early adult mortality was 70.0% higher in 2023 than it would have been had pre-2011 trends continued, reflecting 71 124 excess deaths (Table).

The 5 causes of death that collectively accounted for almost three-quarters of the early adult excess mortality in 2023 were drug poisoning (31.8% of excess mortality), the residual natural-cause category (16.0%), transport-related deaths (14.1%), alcohol-related deaths (8.5%), and homicide (8.2%). Additionally, the combined contribution of cardiometabolic conditions, including circulatory and endocrine, metabolic, and nutritional, was substantial (9.2%).

I noticed crucible steel just went bankrupt again. They made the best particle metallurgy steel for knives so if anyone wants that ultimate survival knife better buy up that 3V and Magnacut quick while bars are still floating around. Last time crucible went bankrupt I made some money hoarding some new old stock carbon V knives which was just coldsteels marketing name for a decent but primitive Sharon steel that was just a small chromium and vanadium addition to 1095. Hopefully European company that does advanced steels will buy crucible and start it up again or take on the production of advanced formulas that depend on particle metallurgy in their own plants. Though I suspect the steel industry in Europe is going to be struggling equally or moreso if they don’t have economic energy supply.

If we lose this third generation particle metallurgy tech it will be interesting example of collapse . I had thought about just buying these steels by the ton in case of such a scenario and becoming the knife baron but it hit out of nowhere, makes more sense than hoarding gold in a crazy collapse scenario. The knife business is just a drop in the bucket so the industry won’t operate around making these things available to consumers, the fancy steel is just a side thing they do, but the meat and potatoes of their business is for automotive and other industrial applications .

China doesn’t have replacement for this as far as I know. So if USA and Europe lose the tech it’s just a lower level of complexity… if the price for the auctioning in bankruptcy goes low enough it could make sense to purchase crucible just for the specialty metal production and you would have some semi monopoly , if bohler uddelholm also succumbs to the European deindustrialization.

Worst case scenario I think we will still have 14C28N available which is a decent formula that works as a regular ingot steel, though it doesn’t have any vanadium or niobium carbides so it tops out in wear resistance earlier than the good CPM grades.

lots of the world doesnt even have the option for insurance. if anything most of the world is still catching up to the usa in the amount of insurance

it sucks if you live near these places because its polluting the fuck out of the environment every time they flood

Marxists have a horrific track record on the environment.

A nature based way of living is as alien to Marxists as it is to capitalist societies, often moreso.

Russia has some interesting thermal mass multi use oven/heater/bed combinations

See the ushanka show on YouTube

I wish they published more of the actual data they are working with . I guess i have to research which company has largest lowest cost reserves in politically stable areas and make a far OTM call LEAPS bet to be ready for summer next year. Hedging saved my financial viability in the last big inflation, fertilizer stocks paid for my food. so long as the financial system stays together .

This will likely hit in the apex of this current record breaking everything bubble , seems like the best candidate to pop the bubble.

you just described what you did in your post

nonsense. Link sources to demonstrate you aren’t just making stuff up

an extraordinary streak of 415 days above previous highs and we just crossed back to the previous year level