> Articles like this, however, make me wonder if there is a strategy that will leave me more prepared than the average person
Just buy some canned food(that you like) and few packs of bottled water. You're now more prepared than 90% of people.
If you expect to evacuate from a local event, make some backpacking gear fitted with necessities and important stuff you need - tools,drugs/first-aid, documents,high-density foods. Like preparing an unexpected camping trip.
Bomb shelters and bunkers are for truly paranoid expecting doomsday scenarios occurring right on top on them, but basic preparedness is not particularly costly, unless you hoard tons of supplies that you can't use.
Most of reddit content is facebook-tier entertaiment,
I have to create a filter script to block thousands of irrelevant subreddits to increase signal-to-noise ratio.
(filter script in question: http://void.wikidot.com/code:reddit-contentfilter-user-js )
I'm not afraid of what Toki Pona is now, its the whole reductionist attitude("one picture worth a thousand words") that strips semantic load from communication, restricting the communication to "just fundamentals" as if we meant to be a primitive culture that can't express complex ideas. You can see this attitude with emojis and SMS-speech, which both reduce the intellectual effort to level of pre-school chat, which feels less of a cognitive load than full communication of adults. Its like a mind-virus that makes you less inclined to form complex thoughts, or anything more expressive than a pair of emojis.
Toki Pona is essentially a set of about a hundred emojis in text form. When there is semantic gap, Toki Pona users have to juggle around and combine their emoji-words to get a generic feel of the idea, just like emoji-users have to deal with limited conceptual space by composition.
The idea isn't new, 1984 explores what such restricted language become: a tool for restricting thought(Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) by limiting the conceptual space of language speakers("Double-plus-ungood").
Toki Pona is a form of Newspeak, not some mind-expanding tool. By replacing signified concepts with primitive composition and generic fit-all 'thought-idea' it removes all abstract meaning to what is essentially emotional picture of a concept(e.g. "belly-feel" of 1984).
Just buy some canned food(that you like) and few packs of bottled water. You're now more prepared than 90% of people. If you expect to evacuate from a local event, make some backpacking gear fitted with necessities and important stuff you need - tools,drugs/first-aid, documents,high-density foods. Like preparing an unexpected camping trip.
Bomb shelters and bunkers are for truly paranoid expecting doomsday scenarios occurring right on top on them, but basic preparedness is not particularly costly, unless you hoard tons of supplies that you can't use.