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MoonSong · Monday at 7:42 PM

trappedslider said:
today i learned about this Zone of Death (Yellowstone) - Wikipedia

My first thought was of the Silent Zone, but that is a very different kind of zone.

Zardnaar · Monday at 11:02 PM

MoonSong said:
My first thought was of the Silent Zone, but that is a very different kind of zone.

My first thought was like those volcanic gas areas in Kamchatka.

Dannyalcatraz · 2026-03-10T02:32:54+0000

trappedslider said:
today i learned about this Zone of Death (Yellowstone) - Wikipedia

The law of unintended consequences meets the consequences of unintended law.

Aeson · 2026-03-10T08:23:26+0000

Sovereign citizens must love this loophole.

DrunkonDuty · 2026-03-10T21:34:52+0000

They could all gather there and shoot one another.

Aeson · 2026-03-10T21:39:52+0000

DrunkonDuty said:
They could all gather there and shoot one another.

They call it "The Redoubt"
American Redoubt - Wikipedia American Redoubt - Wikipedia

DrunkonDuty · 2026-03-10T22:53:10+0000

TIL about the American Redoubt. Kinda sorry I clicked on that link.

Bohandas · 2026-03-11T00:12:46+0000

Aeson said:
They call it "The Redoubt"
American Redoubt - Wikipedia American Redoubt - Wikipedia

Cults like that are going to be one of the biggest impediments to restoring service if there's ever a large scale disaster

edit: unless the disaster is Yellowstone erupting

Dannyalcatraz · 2026-03-11T01:12:26+0000

DrunkonDuty said:
TIL about the American Redoubt. Kinda sorry I clicked on that link.

Forewarned is forearmed.

DrunkonDuty · 2026-03-11T01:27:27+0000

I'd like to say that it's not info I need, on account of living a very long way away. But <redacted> is reaching nasty tendrils even here in relatively secular Australia.