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It’s like they think that the only way they will get to heaven is by being Raptured, and they won’t get there by dying.

“Awk! Pieces of sixty-four! Pieces of sixty-four!”

I’m worried about the people who believe the Prophecy of the Popes, because the only one remaining on the list is the final one, who is supposed to preside over the annihilation of Rome. Believers may decide that this means that the Apocalypse is nigh.

That explains why they are young women, but not why the stereotypical “French maid” costuming.

The use of “maids” may stem from viewing them as “servants”, along with a desire to avoid an outward appearance of violence. Not that Voltaire doesn’t want violence, but he wants to keep up appearances.

I think it’s more likely that he makes a corrupt bargain with them, because it would amuse him to stir up their side of the world by letting their “Royal Uryuom” plan succeed.

About half of the electric cars around here are Teslas, but the majority of those were from back before Musk took his hard right turn. I think that half of them are owned by current or former Tesla employees and their families. There are plenty of Nissan Leafs, Chevrolet Volt/Bolts, and even a few Mustang Mach-E’s and F-150 Lightnings around here. Maybe one car in five is electric, it seems.

It should be noted that under war conditions, the theft of the vehicle and supplies would be considered valid as long as they weren’t pocketing somebody’s personal effects for themselves.

I live about six miles from the Fremont, California Tesla factory. We don’t have hurricanes here, but this is earthquake country. I got the solar panels because with the subsidies, it’s actually cheaper in the long run than paying the utility company—my loan payment on the solar/battery system is $160/month, which is comparable to what I was paying for electricity. As for the coins, yeah I get that the bullion ones are super-high purity, but I was responding to Darth Fluffy’s suggestion about buying up old silver US dimes and quarters from pre-1960. Silver coins made for general circulation as legal tender at face value are usually 90-92.5% silver by weight.

I have about 60 days worth of storable food and water for my entire household hanging around, and that is the majority of my disaster prep. I also have about a cord of firewood as well as solar panels and a battery for my house. Most silver coins are sterling (11 parts out of 12 is silver, with the rest mostly copper), but US silver coins were 90% silver.

If the world has collapsed so much that even coins are no longer accepted, then people are more interested in bartering for usable goods directly than in any such thing as a universal medium of exchange.

He’s not Pennywise—he’s Poundfoolish.

I read quite a few of his books as a child, but I did not know that he died before the end of the 20th century.

As Humphrey Bogart said at the end of Casablanca, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

It would be amusing if he were to insist upon being addressed as “Uncle Kevin”.