I lived in Venezuela for a few years. I experienced countless, days long blackouts. It's a very humbling experience. It's one of the most demoralizing things I can imagine. Yet, the effects it had on my awareness and preparedness in life I wouldn't trade for anything else. There's value in misery. I don't want anyone to experience what I lived, but hell I wish they could learn what I learnt without living it. You should learn to live without electricity. If you simply shut off the power for a weekend and see how you get around your daily life, you will learn a lot.

Can someone tell the guy behind the gay porn spam, to add some variety? Watching the SAME video everytime of the two dudes fucking is getting old already.

We currently live in just about the most fragile society mankind has ever lived in. We are totally dependent on a very complex power grid system running on old infrastruture. If anything major happens to that, millions of people will die. Also, an high-altitude EMP attack would instantly destroy most electronic devices, catapulting everyone back into the Stone Age—again, millions of people will die. This is some of many reasons why you should learn about #prepping. It's a huge rabbit hole, just like #bitcoin. You can start small, by stockpiling water and foods that last decades—and work your way up until you are able to grow your own food, harvest your own water, generate your own eletricity and so on. Whatever the world throws at you, you should be prepared, so that your family can survive.

How many password crackers are even configured to try emojis or strange unicode characters? They increase entrophy by a LOT (compared to using upper/lowercase alphanumeric + symbols), and are way easy to remember. Using emojis for passwords on mobile devices might be a good idea.