Ugh. How far through the thread do I have to scroll before something interesting shows up? I only just now got to the first php file. Everything else is cancer like picrel.
they have also grown up watching videos of nigs being blasted by cops (usually deserving it but still), endless videos of people saying "DO NOT TALK TO COPS EVER" and with the other two cops standing there I don't blame her for clamming up
My point is that kids have been primed, through many sources, to NOT chill when cops are talking with them. It's like being given PTSD for something they've never experienced themselves.
Kids watch a hundred bodycam videos of cops shooting people before ever actually interacting with one, and they just assume the cop's job is to talk for a while and then slam people on the ground or start shooting. So that's what she's subconsciously expecting next.
Is it a reasonable fear? Probably not. But the guy does have reinforcements and he's getting increasingly irritated as she gets increasingly nervous. He's just trying to get her info and be on his way, and she's preparing to go to jail or die.
What else is anyone supposed to invest in aside from the obvious food/water/ammo?
Bitcoin??
PMs have a historical track record of keeping their real value. You're not going to get rich from them, but you just might be less poor than those who didn't stock up on PMs.
The trick is knowing how to use/trade them, and it remains to be seen how that would work in modern times. The government would almost certainly ban them as it has done in past hard times, and the art of counterfeiting has advanced since the 1930s, making real PMs harder to verify. But I think in a "US dollar is going to shit" situation, quietly bartering with silver at a local farmer's market could actually happen.