I wrote more about it a while back in this post, if you're curious. But it's more on how I got out of it, and not the specifics of all the crazy shit we believed, which would be lengthy.

a semi-auto AK and an AR are functionally identical for most practical purposes.

As for the scenario proposed: any direct long engangement would be suicide, but other tactics would be viable. The most likely scenario in the US would look something like The Troubles in Ireland.

But it's possible a significant portion the military could defect, which could make things look a little more like the Spanish Civil War.

Also, I would point to the existence of Rojava, which for years has been able to hold out against Turkey despite Turkey having access to significantly more sophisticated hardware.

I don't believe so. The only options I see in the settings is the ability to export and import lists and notes manually with a file.

1List is the best list-making app I've tried that's open source. Really polished and quick.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.lolo.io.onelist/

Along those same lines, Notally is the best note taking app I've tried.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.omgodse.notally/

And since someone else mentioned Voyager, I'll mention Eternity as well!

https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy/

Lastly, Weawow is the best weather app I've used, though Quickweather on f-droid is a close second (but requires an API key to work, so bit of a hassle to set up).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weawow&hl=en-US

It's great for making chili, since 7 minutes of pressure cooking replaces an hour of simmering, It can make quick rice based meals with the addition of a handful of ingredients like a rice cooker can, and replaces a slow cooker for any meals that require it.

It also can make yogurt, though I haven't tried that yet myself.

The OG Mafia and the Metro 2033 series are excellent linear games. Night in the Woods is a really fun little quirky game that's not too long.

If you like adventure games, I'd suggest Gemini Rue, Primordia, and Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis.

Perhaps Snatcher, if you're open to something older and different. Same with the classic cinematic platformer, Another World.

As someone who used to be one of those nutjobs many years ago; there was an extreme mistrust of FEMA, and the main conspiracy at the time was that the New World Order would someday use FEMA to begin rounding up people to be put into concentration camps, and had millions of plastic coffins waiting to be deployed for the people who resist.

We fully believed that with every fiber of our being, and if we had seen a FEMA response to a disaster, especially if communications were down, we'd probably just assume the end times were upon us and that they chose this time while we were vulnerable to strike.

Religion is a hell of a drug that can paralyze critical thinking skills beyond comprehension.

Besides upgrading to an SSD like another person said, I guess an electronic pressure cooker was a pretty sweet upgrade. It's incredibly multi purpose, cuts cooking time dramatically, allows me to walk away and forget about cooking with no consequence, and often only requires cleaning a single pot for an entire meal.

Like ya know those old TV ads for kitchen gadgets that try desperately to convince you it'll change your life, but you never actually use them? An electronic pressure cooker is one the few cooking gadgets that actually lives up to the hype.

That's extremely sad to hear, I hope they recover someday :(

There's a few areas where it's lacking, the text tool being one of them, and it also can't export to PDF for professional book cover printing. But I'm not a professional photo editer either, and almost exclusively use Krita for editing anyway, since it's so my h easier to use.

It's depressing that the must vulnerable and exploited will suffer the most, though to see food production will not become catastrophic everywhere was at least a small bit of good news. I can only hope that the areas that will see increased production can increase exports to help stave off famine in the highest impacted areas.

gimp isn't being held back by money, they have over a million in bitcoin just sitting there from an old donation that grew in value. In over a decade, no one has figured out how to pay the taxes on it if they start using it to fund developers.

I read on reddit a long time ago that a UI designer tried to help improve gimp, but the devs were hostile to it (i may be remembering that wrong though). Considering how long its been with no UI improvements, I don't think gimp will ever revamp its UI. Instead, I think Krita has a good chance of moving into photo editing with enough funding.