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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I say that when the billionaires retreat into their bunkers we should all cover the entrances and vents with a couple hundred layers of concrete.

[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

They're just building latrines for future civilizations.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are things called bunker busters too

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Those are too fast. I prefer to let them rot.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

The rich would rather live in an apocalypse than let workers have some more of the wealth that the workers themselves have created.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Electric motorcycles? Do preppers have an understanding of how gasoline absorbs water from the air and is substantially worse within a matter of months? Even with stabilizer, you get a few years out of it, tops. What are you going to use for the rest of your life?

To be fair, the writers of post-apocalyptic Hollywood movies don't understand it, either.

[–] hello@retrolemmy.com 6 points 5 days ago

Create your own gasoline refining plant in your bunker and crank out fuel as you need it? Should be fine because motorcycles don't use a lot of gas. But you would think if you had tons of money you might put some solar panel stuff in storage as well just in case

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Could always set up a refinery of sorts.

And while gas absorbs water from the air, I'm sure there is an expensive way to if not outright prevent it, than slow it down way more than current mass adopted storage.

Off the top of my head i imagine some sort of giant glass tank involving vaccums and check valves would at least extend the usable life by a fair amount.

And while there are a lot of popular motorcycles whose gas mileage is little better than a car there are also a good amount with amazing gas mileage.

There's also the possibility of converting the motorcycles to alternate fuel sources like propane or natural gas.

Or as these people are just rich assholes indulging in their fantasies they may really take their cue from movies.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I always find it funny that people imagibe that in an apocalypse a modern fossil fuel vehicle would be any good. Unless you know how to modify the engine to use realistically self-producable fuel you will be able to run it for only a few months before all the fuel in the world degrades and starts destroying/not running the engine. Better off getting electric vehicles as electricity is actually easy to produce.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

A bicycle isn't a bad thing to have in an apocalypse. Not difficult to maintain, considerably faster and more efficient than walking, basically no infrastructure required.

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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I would like for them to find out the hard way that the characteristics to be a leader in a Neo-liberal capitalistic society are not the same in an apocalyptic wasteland.

And by hard way, I mean that they would be made the fucksock of charismatic warlord.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

This is my new favorite image

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[–] Generic_Idiot@lemm.ee 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Just collecting shit for badder men really. Dumb.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Hilarious and sad considering those techbros are creating the conditions for a possible economic collapse, such as playing with creepto.

Oh yes, kinda reminds me of reading a chapter in World War Z (the book with its dark comedy is still more entertaining than the humorless movie), like how one character found himself on an island full of rich people... Guess what happened next?

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly their bodyguards turn on them and kill them in their bunkers.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago

A parallel, similar would be ghandis govt in the 70s, was murdered by their own bodyguards because the pm was targeting sikh people for persecution.

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

at least we know who to rob.

[–] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Would rich people want to live in a world where there is no one else to enslave?

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (10 children)

They will always find someone to enslave

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Waiting for robot slaves, assuming they don't follow the path of cylons

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Self fulfilling prophecy

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

That would be a nice vault to loot.

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

It's ok, they're gathering supplies for the people. Once things start it'll all be in one convient place to take.

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

People are crazy and we are ruled by the crazy

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bunker boy should be the first to go into hole

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

thiel, musk, bezos, altman, they have thier palaces, complexes much like putin does.

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty good at the motorcycle stockpiling myself. Just ask my wife lol

[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

If you're in a bunker how many places can you ride your guns? Realistically.

They’re just preppers who happen to be wealthy. They’re no different than the poorer preppers who blame a CME or some nefarious plot that will catastrophically disrupt the world.

The only difference in their echo chambers is money.

[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 3 points 5 days ago

The crappy thing, is that while they plan on a possible collapse of soceity, they could just as easily plan on what to do about all the displaced workers created, by all their technical solutions seeking problems.

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