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I am concerned about the state we will be in over the next few years. I am planting 15 nut & fruit trees next month and I have 2 roosters and 40 egg-laying chickens so that when the price of food skyrockets, I will be prepared. I'm also thinking about getting a dairy goat, but I'm not sure if I can handle milking it everyday. Next spring, I will be planting a vegetable garden, too.
I am concerned about the state we will be in over the next few years. I am planting 15 nut & fruit trees next month and I have 2 roosters and 40 egg-laying chickens so that when the price of food skyrockets, I will be prepared. I'm also thinking about getting a dairy goat, but I'm not sure if I can handle milking it everyday. Next spring, I will be planting a vegetable garden, too.
thats awesome.
but you need some kune kune too. They eat grass, but not sheep -- and grass is always cheap, even in a depression.
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I am concerned about the state we will be in over the next few years. I am planting 15 nut & fruit trees next month and I have 2 roosters and 40 egg-laying chickens so that when the price of food skyrockets, I will be prepared. I'm also thinking about getting a dairy goat, but I'm not sure if I can handle milking it everyday. Next spring, I will be planting a vegetable garden, too.
That's really great, practical, and forward thinking. However, if the shit really hits the fan, aren't you worried the hungry folks out there will just wind up stealing from people like you? Just curious...
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That's really great, practical, and forward thinking. However, if the shit really hits the fan, aren't you worried the hungry folks like me will just wind up stealing from people like you? Just curious...
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That's really great, practical, and forward thinking. However, if the shit really hits the fan, aren't you worried the hungry folks out there will just wind up stealing from people like you? Just curious...
I have thought about that, but I live so far out in the middle of nowhere with no neighbors, so I don't think it'll happen.
In the meantime, I will be selling my eggs for $5/dozen. They are free-range and organic.
hahaha. I should have said - How do you plan on stopping thieves like me from stealing all your food and belongings? My brother in Alaska was telling me once about how he planned on stocking up food and gear for the eventual societal collapse, and I was like great, now I know who to rob.
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thats awesome.
but you need some kune kune too. They eat grass, but not sheep -- and grass is always cheap, even in a depression.
I have dial-up. so can't check out the youtube. Are those pigs? I would love to raise pigs, but how much would it cost to butcher them?! If I could sell a pig to a local restaurant, and get some meat for myself it might be worth it.
I have thought about that, but I live so far out in the middle of nowhere with no neighbors, so I don't think it'll happen.
In the meantime, I will be selling my eggs for $5/dozen. They are free-range and organic.
Actually, living in the middle of nowhere might increase your chances of being robbed as people will be leaving the cities in a mass exodus and they'll be looking for food.
Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it. Sounds like you have a kick-ass place. I'm jealous.
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That's really great, practical, and forward thinking. However, if the shit really hits the fan, aren't you worried the hungry folks out there will just wind up stealing from people like you? Just curious...
I think this goes back to something AJ has been harping on endlessly with callers who have similar sentiments to your across the board.
YOU CAN ONLY DO WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PREPARE!
If they drop bombs on us tomorrow, or throw us in camps, or confiscate our gold, or if riots and looters run amuck ... YOU CAN ONLY DO WHAT MAKES BEST SENSE and at the end of the day, MAN MUST DEFEND HIS RIGHTS.
Even if the zombie apocalypse comes,
all you can do is stock up on guns, and essentials... and pray to god!
I know yours is an innocent questions, but you touched a nerve with a sentiment i get tired of hearing all around me. If it isn't callers on the radio, or friends of mine, it is my own goddamn parents who never listened to my pleas to pull their money out of the market, and who now are stuck in paralysis, with thoughts like, "but if the market never comes back, what does it even matter?"
GET YOUR FUCKING DUCKS IN A ROW, FOLKS.
This is no goddamn bullshit!
I know (or at least i FEEL) like i have been VERY tame as of late.
I have just felt deflated over the whole thing.
But its time to look at your shit, and figure out what you NEED, what you don't, and what makes you REALLY happy, and what the fuck you are gonna do to survive in lean times ... cause things REALLY could get FUBAR.
Have HOPE for Obama,
but have some sense of self preservation too!
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
I have dial-up. so can't check out the youtube. Are those pigs? I would love to raise pigs, but how much would it cost to butcher them?! If I could sell a pig to a local restaurant, and get some meat for myself it might be worth it.
Butcher them yourself for free!
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I think this goes back to something AJ has been harping on endlessly with callers who have similar sentiments to your across the board.
YOU CAN ONLY DO WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PREPARE!
If they drop bombs on us tomorrow, or throw us in camps, or confiscate our gold, or if riots and looters run amuck ... YOU CAN ONLY DO WHAT MAKES BEST SENSE and at the end of the day, MAN MUST DEFEND HIS RIGHTS.
Even if the zombie apocalypse comes,
all you can do is stock up on guns, and essentials... and pray to god!
I know yours is an innocent questions, but you touched a nerve with a sentiment i get tired of hearing all around me. If it isn't callers on the radio, or friends of mine, it is my own goddamn parents who never listened to my pleas to pull their money out of the market, and who now are stuck in paralysis, with thoughts like, "but if the market never comes back, what does it even matter?"
GET YOUR FUCKING DUCKS IN A ROW, FOLKS.
This is no goddamn bullshit!
I know (or at least i FEEL) like i have been VERY tame as of late.
I have just felt deflated over the whole thing.
But its time to look at your shit, and figure out what you NEED, what you don't, and what makes you REALLY happy, and what the fuck you are gonna do to survive in lean times ... cause things REALLY could get FUBAR.
Have HOPE for Obama,
but have some sense of self preservation too!
Don't worry about me, Drifting. I was just curious as to what others think and do. I know exactly where I'm going and what I'm taking. I'm an outdoor survivalist type dude who lives on the doorstep of the lower 48's biggest roadless wilderness and it's like my backyard.
I eat bugs on hiking trips. I'm ready!
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Actually, living in the middle of nowhere might increase your chances of being robbed as people will be leaving the cities in a mass exodus and they'll be looking for food.
Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it. Sounds like you have a kick-ass place. I'm jealous.
oh yeah! And I have a private 4-acre lake with bass and blue gill, so I can eat fish, too!
oh yeah! And I have a private 4-acre lake with bass and blue gill, so I can eat fish, too!
So, are you like filthy rich or what? I want a private lake! Could a forest ninja live on your property without you even knowing? Bear in mind, I am very sneaky...
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Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
I enjoyed the spoils of my first organic backyard crop this summer, lettuce, carrots, beets, tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, and bucket loads of raspberries. Like to add some smokable herb varieties to the mix
<sigh> wouldn't we all?
standin above the crowd
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i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
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someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
You know what's really bizarre about this entire thread? It is this exact type of fear-mongering in the wake of 9/11 that led to Americans as a group believing that the unthinkable is not only possible, but will happen, which led to the American people basically signing off on a long list of policies that curtailed our civil liberties, resulted in two ill-advised wars on foreign soil and helped bring us to where we are today. And now this economic fear mongering is doing the same thing. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees - yeah, the mortgage market went bad, and yeah, huge, successful banks lost tons of money because of the securities they had that were tied to it. But over the long haul, those banks have actually been enormously successful and over the course of more years, probably would have continued to be. But suddenly everyone decides the end is nigh, pulls all their money out of said bank stocks and said banks, and decides that because we've hit a rough spot their money would be better served under their mattress. It's the same thing as all the real estate speculation. It's one thing - a smart thing - to anticipate that baby boomers are getting ready to retire and buy a bunch of condos in Florida and HOLD THEM until the actual demand arrives. It's another to try to flip those properties in 2 weeks like you're trading stocks. But that's why everyone's dumping it all now. And then it all becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Aside from that, though, I find these "end of the world" threads a riot because usually the people who start them have a decidedly liberal slant on life and yet their tactics are no better - worse, in fact - than the conservatives who turned 9/11 into a reason to alter the fundamental structure of our international relations and personal freedoms. I recognize this is an economic crisis and you can rail all you want that the end is nigh and I don't see it and am therefore ignorant. But just recognize exactly what it is you're doing.
You know what's really bizarre about this entire thread? It is this exact type of fear-mongering in the wake of 9/11 that led to Americans as a group believing that the unthinkable is not only possible, but will happen, which led to the American people basically signing off on a long list of policies that curtailed our civil liberties, resulted in two ill-advised wars on foreign soil and helped bring us to where we are today. And now this economic fear mongering is doing the same thing. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees - yeah, the mortgage market went bad, and yeah, huge, successful banks lost tons of money because of the securities they had that were tied to it. But over the long haul, those banks have actually been enormously successful and over the course of more years, probably would have continued to be. But suddenly everyone decides the end is nigh, pulls all their money out of said bank stocks and said banks, and decides that because we've hit a rough spot their money would be better served under their mattress. It's the same thing as all the real estate speculation. It's one thing - a smart thing - to anticipate that baby boomers are getting ready to retire and buy a bunch of condos in Florida and HOLD THEM until the actual demand arrives. It's another to try to flip those properties in 2 weeks like you're trading stocks. But that's why everyone's dumping it all now. And then it all becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Aside from that, though, I find these "end of the world" threads a riot because usually the people who start them have a decidedly liberal slant on life and yet their tactics are no better - worse, in fact - than the conservatives who turned 9/11 into a reason to alter the fundamental structure of our international relations and personal freedoms. I recognize this is an economic crisis and you can rail all you want that the end is nigh and I don't see it and am therefore ignorant. But just recognize exactly what it is you're doing.
I don't see it as an apocalyptic scenario, but more or less a failure of our banking and financial system, mainly the Fed. For years people have been warning us on how our economic policy and the FEd will end up hurting us in the long run and we failed to listen. Now that their prediction have come true, instead of realizing the mistakes that where made our government and the Fed continue to act in the same manner which got us here. So while this economic downturn may not be the end of the world, the manner in which it is being handled will only prop it back up temporarily till the next collapse which may be even worse. We need to stop manipulating the market to always provide favorable results and just let it run through it's natural cycles.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
I don't see it as an apocalyptic scenario, but more or less a failure of our banking and financial system, mainly the Fed. For years people have been warning us on how our economic policy and the FEd will end up hurting us in the long run and we failed to listen. Now that their prediction have come true, instead of realizing the mistakes that where made our government and the Fed continue to act in the same manner which got us here. So while this economic downturn may not be the end of the world, the manner in which it is being handled will only prop it back up temporarily till the next collapse which may be even worse. We need to stop manipulating the market to always provide favorable results and just let it run through it's natural cycles.
I think a lot of people would agree with that but our government walks hand-in-hand with corporate America and let's face it corporations call the shots in Washington. They don't spend millions upon millions of dollars on lobbyists and not get exactly what they want. So the government is never going to stop interfering with the market and you can't tell me that they don't realize the damage that their meddling is inflicting. Had we allowed a recession to take place, and run it's course, after the dot com bubble burst and 9/11 we wouldn't be in this eye ball high pile of shit. So while people's dooms day scenarios may be a bit over reacting, this time, there is no saying that 10 years from now we will not repeat history but it will be even worse. So I do eventually see a financial collapse some where down the road, it may not even be in my lifetime, because financial institutions and governments don't want to make the tough decisions that have to be made in order to truly remedy the situation. They will just keep placing a band aid here and there that will stop the bleeding temporarily and pray that it hold until they are out of office and leave the next guy to deal with it. The next person will do the same thing until finally a day comes when there aren't enough band aids to stop the bleeding anymore and that's when we are truly fucked.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
if shit really does go to hell really soon and really fast, as many of your fear mongers would have us believe, before I eat bugs, or rob my neighbor, or any other crazy shit, i will organize a neighborhood meeting where we all discuss how we can help each other out. not my whole city, not my entire half of town, my neighborhood.
its going to take some mad max like shit for that to happen, but if it does, wouldnt sharing and caring be the better option to robbing other or locking your doors?
anyway, govt backed consolidation loans. the answer to all the problems.
All that's sacred, comes from youth....dedications, naive and true.
hopefully we can awake to the dawn of another meaning
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
if shit really does go to hell really soon and really fast, as many of your fear mongers would have us believe, before I eat bugs, or rob my neighbor, or any other crazy shit, i will organize a neighborhood meeting where we all discuss how we can help each other out. not my whole city, not my entire half of town, my neighborhood.
its going to take some mad max like shit for that to happen, but if it does, wouldnt sharing and caring be the better option to robbing other or locking your doors?
anyway, govt backed consolidation loans. the answer to all the problems.
Great Idea! While you guys are at the meeting, I will get my sack with the large dollar sign on it and go door to door robbing everyone!!!
I am concerned about the state we will be in over the next few years. I am planting 15 nut & fruit trees next month and I have 2 roosters and 40 egg-laying chickens so that when the price of food skyrockets, I will be prepared. I'm also thinking about getting a dairy goat, but I'm not sure if I can handle milking it everyday. Next spring, I will be planting a vegetable garden, too.
We are putting our plans into action also. Be sure and get your seeds NOW while you can still afford to purchase them. We thought about stockpiling dry beans, but wondering if the water supply is poisoned, where will all that water come from for cooking. Canned tuna, canned veggies, granola bars, peanut butter, stuff like that that won't need to be soaked or cooked in alot of water.
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me...GUARANTEED!
We are putting our plans into action also. Be sure and get your seeds NOW while you can still afford to purchase them. We thought about stockpiling dry beans, but wondering if the water supply is poisoned, where will all that water come from for cooking. Canned tuna, canned veggies, granola bars, peanut butter, stuff like that that won't need to be soaked or cooked in alot of water.
actually, they've done studies on water supplies and it's impossible to filter our all the pharmaceutical drugs ppl take for 'depression' out of the water supply
'A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics , anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.'
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
hopefully we can awake to the dawn of another meaning
If you go back and listen to the full interview that Gerald Celente did with AJ, you will hear that this IS the "hope" that he promised towards the beginning.
He doesn't see this as an avoidable collapse, but the hope he sees is in the failing of a toxic paradigm, and the rise of a new outlook.
He spoke briefly about how the giant corporate model of "growth" is simply not perpetually viable, and that the nature of such an organization is counterproductive to innovation.
He said that the great promise that lies ahead is the possibility that the market will recognize this failure, and that capital will shift to smaller, LOCAL producers.
He put great emphasis on the notion of LOCAL.
Suppliers of ALL things on a small scale would thrive in a post-credit-apocalypse world ... where lenders are dubious of business with large capital requirements and broad market exposure, and where small local providers have a very real competitive advantage.
THAT part of his interview did inspire me greatly.
A notion that i have held for a long time now is that things will not truly get better until things fail catastrophically. The system will try to perpetuate itself until it fails outright. At that point, the real cultural creatives may have a chance to step in and fill the void.
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If I opened it now would you not understand?
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thats awesome.
but you need some kune kune too. They eat grass, but not sheep -- and grass is always cheap, even in a depression.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
That's really great, practical, and forward thinking. However, if the shit really hits the fan, aren't you worried the hungry folks out there will just wind up stealing from people like you? Just curious...
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I have thought about that, but I live so far out in the middle of nowhere with no neighbors, so I don't think it'll happen.
In the meantime, I will be selling my eggs for $5/dozen. They are free-range and organic.
hahaha. I should have said - How do you plan on stopping thieves like me from stealing all your food and belongings? My brother in Alaska was telling me once about how he planned on stocking up food and gear for the eventual societal collapse, and I was like great, now I know who to rob.
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I have dial-up. so can't check out the youtube. Are those pigs? I would love to raise pigs, but how much would it cost to butcher them?! If I could sell a pig to a local restaurant, and get some meat for myself it might be worth it.
Actually, living in the middle of nowhere might increase your chances of being robbed as people will be leaving the cities in a mass exodus and they'll be looking for food.
Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it. Sounds like you have a kick-ass place. I'm jealous.
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I think this goes back to something AJ has been harping on endlessly with callers who have similar sentiments to your across the board.
YOU CAN ONLY DO WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PREPARE!
If they drop bombs on us tomorrow, or throw us in camps, or confiscate our gold, or if riots and looters run amuck ... YOU CAN ONLY DO WHAT MAKES BEST SENSE and at the end of the day, MAN MUST DEFEND HIS RIGHTS.
Even if the zombie apocalypse comes,
all you can do is stock up on guns, and essentials... and pray to god!
I know yours is an innocent questions, but you touched a nerve with a sentiment i get tired of hearing all around me. If it isn't callers on the radio, or friends of mine, it is my own goddamn parents who never listened to my pleas to pull their money out of the market, and who now are stuck in paralysis, with thoughts like, "but if the market never comes back, what does it even matter?"
GET YOUR FUCKING DUCKS IN A ROW, FOLKS.
This is no goddamn bullshit!
I know (or at least i FEEL) like i have been VERY tame as of late.
I have just felt deflated over the whole thing.
But its time to look at your shit, and figure out what you NEED, what you don't, and what makes you REALLY happy, and what the fuck you are gonna do to survive in lean times ... cause things REALLY could get FUBAR.
Have HOPE for Obama,
but have some sense of self preservation too!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Butcher them yourself for free!
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Don't worry about me, Drifting. I was just curious as to what others think and do. I know exactly where I'm going and what I'm taking. I'm an outdoor survivalist type dude who lives on the doorstep of the lower 48's biggest roadless wilderness and it's like my backyard.
I eat bugs on hiking trips. I'm ready!
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oh yeah! And I have a private 4-acre lake with bass and blue gill, so I can eat fish, too!
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
So, are you like filthy rich or what? I want a private lake! Could a forest ninja live on your property without you even knowing? Bear in mind, I am very sneaky...
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<sigh> wouldn't we all?
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
Aside from that, though, I find these "end of the world" threads a riot because usually the people who start them have a decidedly liberal slant on life and yet their tactics are no better - worse, in fact - than the conservatives who turned 9/11 into a reason to alter the fundamental structure of our international relations and personal freedoms. I recognize this is an economic crisis and you can rail all you want that the end is nigh and I don't see it and am therefore ignorant. But just recognize exactly what it is you're doing.
I don't see it as an apocalyptic scenario, but more or less a failure of our banking and financial system, mainly the Fed. For years people have been warning us on how our economic policy and the FEd will end up hurting us in the long run and we failed to listen. Now that their prediction have come true, instead of realizing the mistakes that where made our government and the Fed continue to act in the same manner which got us here. So while this economic downturn may not be the end of the world, the manner in which it is being handled will only prop it back up temporarily till the next collapse which may be even worse. We need to stop manipulating the market to always provide favorable results and just let it run through it's natural cycles.
I would tend to agree with that.
I think a lot of people would agree with that but our government walks hand-in-hand with corporate America and let's face it corporations call the shots in Washington. They don't spend millions upon millions of dollars on lobbyists and not get exactly what they want. So the government is never going to stop interfering with the market and you can't tell me that they don't realize the damage that their meddling is inflicting. Had we allowed a recession to take place, and run it's course, after the dot com bubble burst and 9/11 we wouldn't be in this eye ball high pile of shit. So while people's dooms day scenarios may be a bit over reacting, this time, there is no saying that 10 years from now we will not repeat history but it will be even worse. So I do eventually see a financial collapse some where down the road, it may not even be in my lifetime, because financial institutions and governments don't want to make the tough decisions that have to be made in order to truly remedy the situation. They will just keep placing a band aid here and there that will stop the bleeding temporarily and pray that it hold until they are out of office and leave the next guy to deal with it. The next person will do the same thing until finally a day comes when there aren't enough band aids to stop the bleeding anymore and that's when we are truly fucked.
its going to take some mad max like shit for that to happen, but if it does, wouldnt sharing and caring be the better option to robbing other or locking your doors?
anyway, govt backed consolidation loans. the answer to all the problems.
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
Great Idea! While you guys are at the meeting, I will get my sack with the large dollar sign on it and go door to door robbing everyone!!!
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I don't need to worry about it, I'm on a well.
actually, they've done studies on water supplies and it's impossible to filter our all the pharmaceutical drugs ppl take for 'depression' out of the water supply
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23503485/
'A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics , anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.'
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
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someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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He doesn't see this as an avoidable collapse, but the hope he sees is in the failing of a toxic paradigm, and the rise of a new outlook.
He spoke briefly about how the giant corporate model of "growth" is simply not perpetually viable, and that the nature of such an organization is counterproductive to innovation.
He said that the great promise that lies ahead is the possibility that the market will recognize this failure, and that capital will shift to smaller, LOCAL producers.
He put great emphasis on the notion of LOCAL.
Suppliers of ALL things on a small scale would thrive in a post-credit-apocalypse world ... where lenders are dubious of business with large capital requirements and broad market exposure, and where small local providers have a very real competitive advantage.
THAT part of his interview did inspire me greatly.
A notion that i have held for a long time now is that things will not truly get better until things fail catastrophically. The system will try to perpetuate itself until it fails outright. At that point, the real cultural creatives may have a chance to step in and fill the void.
If I opened it now would you not understand?