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I think we can just agree that we look at the same glass and you see it as half full whereas I see it as half empty.

I don't have a Bugout Machine anymore, but not because I don't think it's a good idea to have one.  It just became too difficult for me to maintain while moving from one place to another in the sick care housing industry.  I can't live a nomadic existence anymore either, so for me it no loger has utility.  I'd still recommend having one to people who are reasonably healthy though.

No, the malls haven't yet turned into Zombie wastelands, just the parking lots.  Yes the lights still work most of the time, at least if you don't live in Puerto Rico or Argentina.  You can still buy a house if you can afford $500K mortgage.  You can't rent a 1 bedroom in Anchorage though if you're a cripple.  You get on a waiting list where your waiting time never goes down.

Anyhow, feel free to rejoice that you still might die peacefully in your bed rather than consumed by cannibals.  I do not rejoice at the ever deteriorating state of the world.  It doesn't look very good to me from my vantage point.  Yours is different.  So it goes.

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[TDoS]

Collapse it seems, waits around the corner.

2024 looks like a Collapsalooza waiting to happen.

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Another one bites the dust. Next up....2025! Only 8 months to go!

Hey...did everyone here know that Toyota is the world's laregest auto manufacturer by volume?

Back in 2008, some folks were taking bets on their bankruptcy?! Hey, I wonder if there is a correlation? Folks claiming something in real time, doesn't work out, but doing the rinse/repeat/recycle thing? Sort of like Lucy and Charlie and the football? He was a sucker every single time and just never learned. 

[TDoS]

World peak oil happened in 2018.
https://energyskeptic.com/2022/failing-oil-and-gas-companies-a-sign-of-peak-oil/

Quick update! Turns out, Alice not only changed the title to her reference to "Well it didn't happen yet" in order to not be embarassed....again....but its Art's graph! We couldn't trust M King to get it right, and now we can't trust Art either! Newest information says global peak in 2025.

Info located here in the EIA International Stats page...see world for total. Something like 83 mmbbl/d.

Crude oil and lease condensate is the item you can look for annual totals of.

https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/petroleum-and-other-liquids/annual-petroleum-and-other-liquids-production?pd=5&p=0000000000000000000000000000000000vg&u=0&f=A&v=mapbubble&a=-&i=none&vo=value&t=C&g=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001&l=249-ruvvvvvfvtvnvv1vrvvvvfvvvvvvfvvvou20evvvvvvvvvvnvvvs0008&s=94694400000&e=1735689600000