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OC375

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4. 3 days

Reply to SamuelTheThird (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 01:56 PM

Mar 29

We're only 3 days without power and just in time food delivery away from the bronze age. They knew how to live that way. We don't. Without other people supplying power, water and food it's every man for himself. We don't even write stuff down anymore.

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