No point tracking his private jet as a doom thermometer.  Thiel has already flown.

Looks like NJ is gonna be this year's Minneapolis.

RE

Another You Heard it Here First! 😀

Of course, coming off the keyboard of Gen. BetrayUS more people pay attention, but the fact that drones make it much more possible for smaller countries to inflict significant damage on large countries is the most significant change in the dynamics of warfare since the invention of gunpowder.  That technology spawned the whole colonial era, where a few tall ships equipped with cannon and a couple of 100 grunts with muskets could take over entire countries of people still using stone age weaponry.

I'll let you read Betrayus for the implications as far a warfare between Nation-States and you can imagine mmore for yourself.  I'm going to focus on an old problem we often discussed,Protectiing Your Doomstead🤬

We have always considered the major problem of how a few Doomers, say 2-3 families of a farm could hold off the hoards of roving Zombies.  The answer now is obvious: A SWARM of cheap Drones, each equipped to fire up to say 20 rounds of 9mm ammo and also an explosive charge of C4 about Grenade size.  Also carrying a small camera and motion sensor and range finder.  Mass produced, I'm sure you could bring the cost down to under $1000.  You have them deployed all around the perimeter of the doomstead and all controlled by an AI computer in your secure underground Panic Room.

Zombies show up in their Mad Max Pig Fart Powered SUVs and trip your alarms, the drones take off from their nests in the trees and pick off the Zombies as soon as they exit their vehicles. 😎  You don't drop the grenades on the vehicles unless absolutely necessary, since you wanna keep all that good hardware for your own use once the Zombies are exterminated.

Similarly, you can use the Drones in your Hood to pick off roving Black Cadillac Escalades filled with MIB ICE Gestapo agents as they cruise around seeking Brown People to deport.  They will start thinking twice about leaving the safety of the local DHS Office to Desapecido poor people once a few of them have their heads blown off by a blast from the short barrel 12 Gauge, also mounted on the drone. 👿

Total payload weight capacity necessary for said VTOL Drone I would estimate at about 20lbs for the hardware, ammo and explosives.  Flying time needed no more than 30 minutes per charge.  I think you could do it with 4 100 Watt 48V motors and Li-I batts weighing about 20 lbs.  I'll let Haniel work out the exact power requirements.  Definitely no more than 250W motors needed though.  My 200 lb EV wheelchair runs on 2 250W motors with me on it total 360lbs.  Runs all day on 2 35AH 12V batts.  Keep the total weight of the drone and hardware to <50lbs, you're good to fly!

Kdog can design the AI to control the swarm, identify targets aim and fire.  The system will sell like hotcakes.

This one has a 25kg payload capacity.  That's probably enough.


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Quote from: RE on May 29, 2026, 12:17 PMGlad to know we are findable via the search.  We've been around here on Kdogs Chasingthesquirrel.com URL, bur I only recently was able to buy the DooomsteadDiner.com URL and point it here.  About 2 months ago.

Eddie pretty much retired from Collapsology study, although I think he still has his Doomstead.  He may have retired by now also, I haven't spoken to him in at least 4 years.

I'm still not a huge fan of Gold, but I can't say I have any alternative much better.  Maybe balance with some Crypto, which I also am no fan of.  As we move forward, I think the real problem will be a lack of stuff to buy, and eventual Rationing for food and fuel.   Here in the FSoA though, the rationing thing is still probably a few years away.

So besides installing alarm systems, what else do you do as a Security Expert?  Sell gunz?  Design Booby-traps? lol.

RE

I don't install alarm systems --that requires an Alarm Company Operator with a different license type, my cameras are already mounted by my supplier, onto solar tow-behind trailers.   I have a PPO - a Private Patrol Operator's license.   We deploy stationary guards, mobile patrol, and mostly mobile camera systems which are watched from dispatch.  A few patrol vehicle visits each of the 1-2 dozen active sites on a predetermined schedule, checking the assets, and checking in with dispatch.

We had an arsonist torching port-a-potties for a while - those things burn! The criminally-minded homeless are an issue, I've lost a few batteries, a wheel, and recently a solar panel.  My folks Standing Orders are to treat any homeless on property as a welfare check, give them water if needed (company provided), give the the English/Spanish info sheet on local resources, and treat them as human being even if you job requires you to escort them off the property. 

We have an unhoused guy who keeps jumping fences, using port-a-potties, then occasionally gives the camera the bird, before riding off on his bike, but he's never left a port-a-pottie in a mess, and he gets the finger back just so he knows we watch.

Not all fun and games, though.  We had two homeless die in a fire in an under-a-bridge utility room earlier this month, CHP requested nearly one hundred hours of footage from our nearby systems as part of their investigation.

I don't sell guns, I don't build booby traps - although one of the local EOD folks is a friend.  What I do have is a small private security force.  Management team are all ex-military.   Newbies are cutting their teeth watching bowling alleys, school gymnasium remodels, and equipment sitting around waiting for California red tape to go through. 🤣

Moving my headquarters to Texas and building a dome compound is back on the table. Winter '26-'27 west coast floods may cause issues in some areas of California this winter, which is expected to put upward pressure on Fresno home prices, given we're a potential bedroom town with the HSR project (which is further along than most think). 
 

Thresholds passed, plans triggered... 
   

Quote from: Haniel on May 29, 2026, 08:41 AMHow did I find you guys?  Web search for Doomstead diner.  I have a business trip to Texas coming up in a few months (construction client wants mobile security camera towers on a infrastructure - project solar farm with battery storage), so was looking to see if Eddie the Dentist was still on the doomer scene, and see if he wanted to sink a few beers. 

Glad to know we are findable via the search.  We've been around here on Kdogs Chasingthesquirrel.com URL, bur I only recently was able to buy the DooomsteadDiner.com URL and point it here.  About 2 months ago.

Eddie pretty much retired from Collapsology study, although I think he still has his Doomstead.  He may have retired by now also, I haven't spoken to him in at least 4 years.

I'm still not a huge fan of Gold, but I can't say I have any alternative much better.  Maybe balance with some Crypto, which I also am no fan of.  As we move forward, I think the real problem will be a lack of stuff to buy, and eventual Rationing for food and fuel.   Here in the FSoA though, the rationing thing is still probably a few years away.

So besides installing alarm systems, what else do you do as a Security Expert?  Sell gunz?  Design Booby-traps? lol.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 28, 2026, 07:40 PM

Quote from: Haniel on May 28, 2026, 04:35 PMA decade, maybe longer. 

Still in Fresno, California.  Still waiting for TSTHTF. 

I worked for two and a half decades in Yellow pages, but they shut so now I now own a small digital advertising agency (BAU plan), a pop-up shop that sells the wife's artwork alongside inexpensive trinkets and American-made t-shirts (slow collapse plan), and a Private Security company (SHTF plan).  The latter has taken most of my time, we specialize in mobile solar-powered remote camera towers, and I have a contract with a local California High Speed Rail contractor.   

I see RE is as doomy as ever!  I expect BAU until after the mid terms, and a while beyond.   

Gr8 2 C U! 😀

I maintain a consistent level of Doominess, and have been ticking off the various predictions of how Collapse would progress we made back in the old days as they occur.  The global rise of fascism, the loss of freedoms, the rise of the ICE Gestapo, the expanding resource wars...I could go on and on.  So I am of the opinion that TS ALREADY HTF.  Has society completely broken down here inside the Belly of the Beast in the FSoA?  No, but the water in the pot has bubbles beginning to appear and the frogs are tenderizing.

If we get to the elections and they don't get cancelled, you can be pretty sure Chump will not accept losing either house in CONgress and "BAU" (such as it is) will be further eroded.  Remains to be seen how it plays out, but I do expect significant violence resulting.

Anyhow, don't be a stranger!  How did U find us?

RE

Yeah, a lot of what we discussed as likely trajectories has come to pass, a lot slower than many expected, but undeniable decline that tracks real energy costs.  The LATOC expectations would have hit a decade ago if it were not for unconventional oil, and the end of the petrodollar is finally on the cards.  The resource wars are definitely here! 

I believe the violence is inevitable, which is why I've pushed into the private security sector, the regulatory red tape is horrifying here in California, but demand increases every time the doom gets deeper.

I'm watching gold and silver closely again: if China has made a deal for trillions of investment in the US in return for Taiwan, then they'll need to avoid the Japan trap of lost decades, and their acquisition of gold reserves seems to telegraph how they plan that. It's not like America will have enough anti-missile ammo to stop them if they try to 2027-2028 timeline scenario. 

How did I find you guys?  Web search for Doomstead diner.  I have a business trip to Texas coming up in a few months (construction client wants mobile security camera towers on a infrastructure - project solar farm with battery storage), so was looking to see if Eddie the Dentist was still on the doomer scene, and see if he wanted to sink a few beers. 

Not a lot of room in those Tokyo apts for rugrats.



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Quote from: Haniel on May 28, 2026, 04:35 PM

Quote from: K-Dog on May 27, 2026, 07:08 PM

QuoteEvening dudes. Been a while.

What did I miss?

You can see there have been significant changes if you have been gone a while.  What have you missed? To answer that you'll have to say where you've been.

A decade, maybe longer. 

Still in Fresno, California.  Still waiting for TSTHTF. 

I worked for two and a half decades in Yellow pages, but they shut so now I now own a small digital advertising agency (BAU plan), a pop-up shop that sells the wife's artwork alongside inexpensive trinkets and American-made t-shirts (slow collapse plan), and a Private Security company (SHTF plan).  The latter has taken most of my time, we specialize in mobile solar-powered remote camera towers, and I have a contract with a local California High Speed Rail contractor.   

I see RE is as doomy as ever!  I expect BAU until after the mid terms, and a while beyond.   

Gr8 2 C U! 😀

I maintain a consistent level of Doominess, and have been ticking off the various predictions of how Collapse would progress we made back in the old days as they occur.  The global rise of fascism, the loss of freedoms, the rise of the ICE Gestapo, the expanding resource wars...I could go on and on.  So I am of the opinion that TS ALREADY HTF.  Has society completely broken down here inside the Belly of the Beast in the FSoA?  No, but the water in the pot has bubbles beginning to appear and the frogs are tenderizing.

If we get to the elections and they don't get cancelled, you can be pretty sure Chump will not accept losing either house in CONgress and "BAU" (such as it is) will be further eroded.  Remains to be seen how it plays out, but I do expect significant violence resulting.

Anyhow, don't be a stranger!  How did U find us?

RE

Quote from: K-Dog on May 27, 2026, 07:08 PM

QuoteEvening dudes. Been a while.

What did I miss?

You can see there have been significant changes if you have been gone a while.  What have you missed? To answer that you'll have to say where you've been.

A decade, maybe longer. 

Still in Fresno, California.  Still waiting for TSTHTF. 

I worked for two and a half decades in Yellow pages, but they shut so now I now own a small digital advertising agency (BAU plan), a pop-up shop that sells the wife's artwork alongside inexpensive trinkets and American-made t-shirts (slow collapse plan), and a Private Security company (SHTF plan).  The latter has taken most of my time, we specialize in mobile solar-powered remote camera towers, and I have a contract with a local California High Speed Rail contractor.   

I see RE is as doomy as ever!  I expect BAU until after the mid terms, and a while beyond.