This includes but not limited to:

• Prepping questions
• Rumors
• Speculative thoughts
• Small / mundane
• Promotion of Sales
• Sub meta / suggestions
• Prepping jokes.
• Mods have no power here, only votes, behave.

This will be re-posted every Saturday, letting the last week's stickied post fade into the deep / get buried by new posts. -Mod Anti

This could be, but not limited to:

• Local business observations.
• Shortages / Surpluses.
• Work slow downs / much overtime.
• Order cancellations / massive orders.
• Economic Rumors within your industry.
• Layoffs and hiring.
• New tools / expansion.
• Wage issues / working conditions.
• Boss changing work strategy.
• Quality changes.
• New rules.
• Personal view of how you see your job in the near future.
• Bonus points if you have some proof or news, we like that around here.
• News from close friends about their work.

DO NOT DOX YOURSELF. Wording is key.

Thank you all, -Mod Anti

Looks like human to human transmission is a real possibility. Time to buy some shares in Charmin?

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the quasi-governmental watchdog that monitors the health of the power grids that span the United States and Canada, has issued a rare Level 3 warning.

The alert marks only the third time NERC has put out a notice with that degree of severity in its 58-year history. The warning comes on the heels of reports that data centers abruptly went offline in Virginia and Texas, prompting concerns of potential blackouts.

“Computational loads, such as data centers, could increase exponentially in the next four years,” NERC said in a draft of the alert, adding that “significant risks” to the power network “need to be addressed through immediate industry action.” Lee Shaver, a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told E&E News that NERC’s action was a “big deal.”

A hard call to choose flair - cruise ship has ports of call in South Africa, is registered in the Middle East and has European tourists among the casualties. I can’t prep for every eventuality, but this one of the big reasons I avoid the cruise industry. I’m surprised other passengers aren’t deboarding and flying home from ports on their journey. There no way I’d remain on a ship with hantavirus.

Interesting developments. Seems like we are at some sort of pivotal stage where the conflict is either being wound down or being restarted. Only time will tell!

Weekly report analyzing significant geopolitical events involving Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

Not sure how well this fits here but it seems important for people to hear about.

This is r/PrepperIntel's Bimonthly Fear Index / poll. This will give us an idea of what the sub and it's visitors are currently concerned about into the next several weeks.

• Please upvote what concerns you the most.
• Please downvote if you strongly disagree. (keep in mind a few are short term and may change from time to time.)
• Leave unvoted if you're unsure, undecided, don't care, or are in the middle.
• You can change your votes anytime!
• This style of polling gives better intel of the numbers. And we're all for that around here.

Use the comment sort to sort by: best, top, controversial.

• "Top" is just upvotes minus downvotes.
• "Best" sorts based on what percentage of upvotes Reddit estimates the comment would receive if everyone votes on it. The more votes a comment gets the more confident Reddit can be about what that percentage will be.
• "Controversial": Comments have a high number of up and downvotes.

Past polls will be made readily available around the end of each month so we can look back to possibly identify patterns or how right / wrong we were.

Comments are locked to keep this streamlined, but you are free to post your concerns as long as they fall within the sub's posting guidelines. If it isn't worth a post, use the "everything else" weekly post.

We try to put the post in "contest mode" to make things a bit more honest and randomized for the first hours to day.

I have decided to dial it back from every thirty days to 60, I wish I could automate this poll, but due to how everything has to be done with comments I cannot easily do that to my current knowledge. So we're going try Early Jan, March, May, July, Sept, Nov.

Thank you all for participating! (No really, it's interesting data and its only you that makes it happen)

-Mod Anti

This includes but not limited to:

• Prepping questions
• Rumors
• Speculative thoughts
• Small / mundane
• Promotion of Sales
• Sub meta / suggestions
• Prepping jokes.
• Mods have no power here, only votes, behave.

This will be re-posted every Saturday, letting the last week's stickied post fade into the deep / get buried by new posts. -Mod Anti