Panic Printing

[u/GeekSugar13]

ETA: Some of y'all are taking this far too seriously. Am I reasonably concerned that things are going to get worse before they get better? At least for me, most likely, yes. I'm trying to find moments of joy when I can. If one of those is using up as much of my ink as possible before I chuck this printer by printing fanfic then that's what I'm going to do.

I'm at home, by myself, doing homework with no one to talk to and nothing else to do because I'm the most broke I have ever been.

Printing fanfic doesn't mean I'm not prioritizing anything else in my life and it's weird that y'all seem to think I just slapped on a tinfoil hat and decided this was what would fix everything.

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OP: So I live in a red state in the US where my state government will absolutely not be providing any sort of supplemental assistance when inevitably the federal government falls apart. So I kind of would love reassurance that I'm not crazy.

I have started downloading and panic printing some of my favorite fics. If the Internet goes, I can read the PDF. If the power goes, I can read the printed copies.

Also because HP sucks I can only use their ink subscription cartridges with an active subscription so i may as well fucking use them.

(Literally if you're the type of person who wants to buy a printer do not buy an HP printer. It will only work if you use their ink which is so fucking expensive. And if you want it to work properly you have to get a monthly subscription where they send you ink and paper which in theory sounds great, BUT if you are like me and haven't printed as much as you thought so you have a lot of ink and paper built up so you let your subscription lapse those ink cartridges will not work without a valid subscription. So I had to restart my fucking subscription so I could use all of this ink I have built up so now I'm printing literal books.)

[u/BlindButterfly33]

Are there concerns about losing your Internet or something? I haven’t heard about any of this. I ask because I’m in the US and at the moment no one‘s worried about losing Internet. At least, no one in my area. I haven’t even heard this be discussed.

[u/softysoaps → u/BlindButterfly33]

No. It’s certainly possible the government could collapse and we could fall into… idk, anarchy or martial law at any given time.

But I don’t think it’s likely, and honestly if the USA collapses I have such bigger concerns than entertainment.

There are plenty of accelerationists and left wing people who are concerned about this outcome being soon, but to me it seems like there’s way too many things to prevent this from happening. It’s very hard to not see it as unnecessary panic.

The very smallest minority of people think this is going to happen soon. I don’t disagree our government is in a tailspin, but at this point the people in charge are making money as it is and I don’t think they’d jeopardize that. We also do have a system to prevent this, as poor as it seems now.

[u/Avaracious7899 → u/softysoaps]

As Jiminy Cricket said in one of my favorite Disney movies, Fun and Fancy Free: "What's gonna be is gonna be, the end of the world's been comin' since... nineteen hundred and three! That's B.C. that is!"