OffGrid Survival

So you’re looking to go off the grid, or maybe you just want a backup power system that can carry your home through a long-term grid-down situation. If you’re like most people who email us, you’ve got the same handful of questions: How many solar panels will you need to power your home? How many batteries will it take to keep things running? What can you realistically power with an off-grid solar setup? And what’s this actually going to cost you?

Don’t be caught off guard. Prepare yourself by going camping. When it comes to preparedness, testing, practice, and real-world experience is everything. If you have a closet full of gear, but you’ve never really put that gear to the test, then why bother even having it? A bag full of unused equipment isn’t preparedness. It’s just stuff. It only becomes preparedness once you’ve actually proven, with your own hands, that you can use it.

Your Kid’s Phone Is the Most Dangerous Room in the House Here’s the math most parents never run: your kid has more unsupervised contact with strangers right now, tonight, in their bedroom, than they will walking through any unfamiliar city alone. A game invite, a chat request, a “friend” who just followed them back — that’s a door into your house, and most parents have no idea how many of those doors are sitting wide open. The danger isn’t a website anymore. It’s a pipeline right into your home.

You’re three days into a backcountry trip, your filter cartridge just split, and the only water source is a stagnant pond that smells like a wet bag of ass. Or maybe it’s not a trip at all — the tap ran dry after a storm took out the water treatment plant and you’re standing over a 5-gallon bucket of questionable creek water wondering what you actually know how to do about it. Iodine tablets are the answer everybody memorizes and almost nobody actually carries when it counts.

For years, the “Dead Internet Theory” was dismissed as an online conspiracy — the idea that much of the internet would eventually become a synthetic environment dominated by bots, algorithms, and machine-generated content while real human interaction faded into the background. This week, two major developments suggest that what once sounded absurd may deserve a second look.

Anthropic just dropped a bomb on the world — and they’re not even letting most people near it.

For decades the media has repeated the same number like it’s gospel: The national debt number! Today’s headline: “The national debt is about $39 trillion.” But is it really? Or are they all hiding the fact that this is all one giant fuckling ponzi scheme? The Truth is: That’s the number on the Treasury clock. That’s the number politicians argue about. That’s the number the financial media pretends is the full story.

Sam Altman Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud: “Intelligence Is a Utility” – And We’re the Cattle Who’ll Pay for It Sam Altman dropped this bomb this week at the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” Let that sink in.

Water is life – we’ve said it before, and it bears repeating. But in a time of escalating global conflicts, water isn’t just a resource; it’s becoming a prime target for disruption, sabotage, and outright weaponization. From deteriorating domestic infrastructure to international wars where dams and desalination plants are bombed, the safety of our public water supplies is more precarious than ever.

Many MAGA loyalistsd are feeling burned and scammed right now—promised a return to freedom and less government overreach during the campaign, only to see policies that expand centralized control, digitize everyday life, get us entagled in more foergin wars, and build systems for constant tracking under the “America First” label.