Modern retelling of that Lloyd Bridges Twilight Zone episode. “Time Enough,” I think it was? Simpsons did it too!
I think you mean Burgess Meredith and it was Time Enough at Last.
Wow I really butchered that one! Thanks for the correction.
Wasn’t aware of the Simpsons doing it, but I thought the Family Guy reference to it was really funny.
When did Simpsons do it? There was a Futurama Scary Door episode that parodied it.
Hey, if you’ve got the bunker and supplies, what’s the point in waiting for n the apocalypse?
taxes, bills
That’s not fair. There was time now…
Oof. Still too soon.
In my heart, he later finds someone else’s glasses, and sits reading happily on their makeshift grave.
Wasn’t the whole world outside nuked?
Well, I can still read large print.
Call me crazy, but I would miss my League of Legends.
You’re crazy.
Call me crazy, but they sound crazy.
In addition to the carbon monoxide problem, is there also not the issue that fuel last only for half a year (a bit more with some additives) ?
Btw, anyone know how entities (e.g. hospitals) with fuel-based emergency generators manage their fuel supply?
They use diesel
Diesel will last a while (way longer than 6mo) but it’ll get pretty nasty after a few years. As the other commenter pointed out you technically can still run it but it will ruin your shit and eventually things will just seize up and at best will need to be completely torn down and thoroughly cleaned, at worst scrapped
Not a hospital but I have a generator on my house. Runs on liquid propane. I live in an area with terrible infrastructure. I lost power twice today (only 20 minutes each time, thankfully) because it rained. It typically runs about 3-400 hours a year and we typically have at least 1 >6hr outage every 2 months or so and at least one outage longer than 4 days a year during snow season, two if there’s a nasty hurricane season in the northeast.
We have no services available to our house aside from internet (eg no gas, no sewer, no water, etc) so we just have a large tank for the liquid propane. We originally just had them come twice a year but that was insufficient. We then had them come after serious run times but that was a pain to remember to call. I now have an ultrasonic tank monitor on there, it was like $50 and connects via Ethernet to home assistant, uses some magic ultrasonic nonsense to detect the level of the tank, once the tank drops below 40% I have it ping me and I call them, repeats at 35%, 30, etc just in case I forget then more rapidly like 28, 26 because it’s really bad for the generator to run out of gas (so it’s also a reminder to just shut it off if I truly drag my feet). I wish I could send them an automated request but the companies around here are pretty “phone only” situations for the most part
I imagine the industrial solutions are fairly similar except they’re probably using the $350 generac (or equivalent) tank monitors
Someday I’ll have the money to just convert to solar. The house came with this setup and it works for now
Seems multiple times more annoying than solar with a big lifepo. Hope you can switch to solar sooner than later!
Sounds like you can do the battery conversion now and wait with adding solar panels. Should be cheaper than your generator pretty quickly considering how much you use it.
Wait, so what happens if you try to run a car that’s been sitting there for more than half a year? Does the gas just not work? Or does it explode or something?
I bought a gasoline powered motor home that had been sitting for about 5 years unused.
I tried to fill the tank with fresh gas and hope it would offset the bad gas.
Although I did drive it some, it was hard to start and ran poorly. Eventually I just had to replace the
dieselfuel pumps and get the injectors cleaned. Lot of work. In the end I wished I had just drained the tank and put fresh gas in before anything else.In the end I wished I had just drained the tank and put fresh gas in before anything else.
Thanks for the info… I don’t think I can drain the tank myself, so… is that the sort of thing they can do on site, or would it need to be towed somewhere?
Depends on the site and the people you’ve hired to do it. Also I’m forgetting what vehicle we were talking about here, but I didn’t need to jack up the motorhome to work under it and remove the tanks. That could be an issue with a lower vehicle.
In general, gasoline and diesel can be stored for 6 months to 1 year without significant degradation if they are stored in a clean, sealed, and dry container or tank, away from sunlight, heat, and sources of ignition. However, fuel that is exposed to oxygen, moisture, or contaminants can deteriorate more quickly, resulting in reduced quality, lower octane rating, and increased levels of sediments or sludge.
So yeah, the trope of hopping in an abandoned car after the zombie apocalypse does not work 😂
There are ways to store fuel for a very long time, preserving additives you can put in, and filtration systems intended to preserve diesel for a long time. Also, apparently kerosene has an incredible shelf life.
It’s not necessarily gasoline could be a diesel generator which would last significantly longer. I bought an RV that had been sitting for 8 years with a full tank of diesel and it fired right up. Smokey and smelly but it still functioned.
We had our apocalypse in March ‘20 to summer ‘22, and we had to stay indoors with an internet connection,and you all suggest you didn’t clear your backlogs?This has been a public service callout.My backlog… was too strong…
YOU may have had that experience, but that’s far from universal - remember all the “brave heroes” we were “thanking” by making them work (and burn themselves out) while everyone else stayed home? Medical professionals, emergency response personnel, delivery services, truck drivers, etc.?
You’re right, I am an absolute shit with that comment and I failed to understand the world that happened around me in that moment.
I apologize.
I’d never build a well stocked emergency bunker because I don’t think I could live with the constant temptation to just go in, close the door and live in it.
I mean, arguably at that point it would stop being your emergency bunker and just be your home, right? So… I see no downside to any of this
single player minecraft FTW!
*Luanti
oh yeah i meant to try it, is it any good?
This is why you get yourself some sixth gen consoles.
be sure to switch to offline mode when the world ends
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Do you know when or why they blocked it?
It feels like every day I’m finding new annoyances with lemmy.world.
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They’d have to be significantly involved with the community to be held responsible in any way - there’s been a long-standing law that protects service providers from culpability for what their users actually do with their services.
Poker has all-in rules, which basically say if a player bets all their chips the other players can’t force them to bet more chips by raising their own bets. This is crucial for the balance of the game - without it, the moment a player gets a lead they could simply force all the other players to fold and automatically win every single hand - not matter what the cards are.
The legal system does not work that way.
Yes, but on the other hand, lemmy.world are weenies
Also a good option: [email protected]
Cracking your Switch is extremely easy if you have one from 2017/18 that is in the right serial number range ^^
Meh - there’s plenty of decent handheld gaming PCs that are far better choices at this point - you can use emulators to run Switch games, and a virtually endless range of games from other platforms as well.
And you can play Steam games offline without any issue.
windows xp?!
The Mayan calendar was right! The world did end in 2012.
But with the windows 95 my computer icon
Solitaire and Mines it is then! Well, maybe a bit of Mahjong too.
Edit: Hey wait a minute! I got FreeDoom too! An eternity of gaming!
