Train on HAM Radio and find trusted independent alternate media sources and follow CBC and open source social media for news and organizing.
Fitness of all kinds including self defense.
Survival or wilderness experience.
Learn to drive a standard transmission or a large truck or operate a piece of heavy equipment or large farm equipment.
Small engine repair or basic construction skills.
Those with medical training update your trauma training.
Consider joining the reserves.
Learn how to operate a chainsaw.
Rescue training.
High angle and confined space training.
Swimming lessons, diving lessons, boating course.
Computer programming, design and 3D printing.
Classes on the manipulation tactics of social media.
Create permanent personal media backups of important information including Wikipedia, entertainment, and Foss based software that can operate free of internet connections or obscure your location and personal information to the best of your ability.
Volunteer at a local mutual aid org (food banks, search and rescue, volunteer fire or ambulance, community gardens, drop in centers, youth training programs, libraries, municipal rec departments etc.)
Contact your MLA, MP, Mayor and Council about starting a civil defense League and leaving social media sites from American oligarchs.
And most of all organize. Talk to your neighbors and friends about what they are doing to prepare. Help one another. There are so many things we can do to educate ourselves and find like minded community members to start organizing. The organizing and meeting people is what makes us stronger. The rest is just a bonus.
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Support communication infrastructure outside of AWS : that can be as simple as showing up on Lemmy regularly, visiting CBC website and a variety of Canadian information sources all the way to having a computer offline with a copy of early 2025 Wikipedia and various open sources software and decent local LLM.
Community involvement will be for two objectives: increasing preparedness is evident but also your own mental health that will be way more stable with you actively doing something tangible + the support network.
Same. I basically just detailed my life in a list. I did leave out how to make hockey ice but maybe that should be included as well. Seems strange to be old and realize you can do so many things. Also mostly due to unchecked ADHD and PTSD in my circumstance.
Today was a good example. Source Canadian beta-Amylase for oat milk (actually failed though), operate on a chicken foot, hang housing for mason bees, sharpen a chainsaw; replace a laptop battery, convert EDE database files to .vcf, troubleshoot bluetooth DRM bugs; casual cabinetry and a curry feast. Technopeasant reality.
Oh and download 40GB of family data in preparation for deleting Amazon Prime. We’re going with Syncthing and Immich. Divest and Deny!
First aid.
Drone operation or building
PAL for firearms.
Cooking classes.
How to grow, forage, harvest foods.
Food storage. Canning, dehydrating, fermenting, curing, root cellars, refrigeration.
Train on HAM Radio and find trusted independent alternate media sources and follow CBC and open source social media for news and organizing.
Fitness of all kinds including self defense.
Survival or wilderness experience.
Learn to drive a standard transmission or a large truck or operate a piece of heavy equipment or large farm equipment.
Small engine repair or basic construction skills.
Those with medical training update your trauma training.
Consider joining the reserves.
Learn how to operate a chainsaw.
Rescue training.
High angle and confined space training.
Swimming lessons, diving lessons, boating course.
Computer programming, design and 3D printing.
Classes on the manipulation tactics of social media.
Create permanent personal media backups of important information including Wikipedia, entertainment, and Foss based software that can operate free of internet connections or obscure your location and personal information to the best of your ability.
Volunteer at a local mutual aid org (food banks, search and rescue, volunteer fire or ambulance, community gardens, drop in centers, youth training programs, libraries, municipal rec departments etc.)
Contact your MLA, MP, Mayor and Council about starting a civil defense League and leaving social media sites from American oligarchs.
And most of all organize. Talk to your neighbors and friends about what they are doing to prepare. Help one another. There are so many things we can do to educate ourselves and find like minded community members to start organizing. The organizing and meeting people is what makes us stronger. The rest is just a bonus.
To add : Support communication infrastructure outside of AWS : that can be as simple as showing up on Lemmy regularly, visiting CBC website and a variety of Canadian information sources all the way to having a computer offline with a copy of early 2025 Wikipedia and various open sources software and decent local LLM.
Community involvement will be for two objectives: increasing preparedness is evident but also your own mental health that will be way more stable with you actively doing something tangible + the support network.
Add HAM radio to the list!
Good one. Will do.
Wow this is epic!!! Thanks for sharing. Every Canadian needs to step up with this stuff.
This is a great list, and considering I am approaching old, happy to report that it’s almost like my non-work CV. Feeling nearly prepped, never fully.
ADHD has been good for gathering a basic set of skills in a wide range of situations.
Next is to play with community mesh networks and work on the Ham radio experience.
Same. I basically just detailed my life in a list. I did leave out how to make hockey ice but maybe that should be included as well. Seems strange to be old and realize you can do so many things. Also mostly due to unchecked ADHD and PTSD in my circumstance.
Today was a good example. Source Canadian beta-Amylase for oat milk (actually failed though), operate on a chicken foot, hang housing for mason bees, sharpen a chainsaw; replace a laptop battery, convert EDE database files to .vcf, troubleshoot bluetooth DRM bugs; casual cabinetry and a curry feast. Technopeasant reality.
Oh and download 40GB of family data in preparation for deleting Amazon Prime. We’re going with Syncthing and Immich. Divest and Deny!
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Yea I know it’s a sketch situation there. The entire military is. Until there are other training options available I guess that’s what we have.