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> Waaaay too much of off grid information is focused on preppers and I’ve even been accused of being one.

I feel your pain, every US "prepper" related material I've read or watched leaves me with a hanging "and ...?" or "so... ?"

I'm 60, my father, still alive and splitting wood, was born in 1935 - we're both from the remote corners of western australia, a state 3x the size of Texas with a 2023 population of ~ 2 million most of whom are concentrated about the single large city.

In the mid 1980s a group of people came in from the western desert and were suprised to find that Europeans had landed in Australia and over run the continent ... it was the first they'd heard of such a thing although they had wondered about the contrails across the sky.

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=4.77&lat=-24.5320&l...

Vs: https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=3.87&lat=37.8390&lo...



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