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[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

This feels kind of overblown. It wasn't an apocalypse scenario where people needed to stock up on food and stuff. Honestly if the Internet hadn't filled up with memes I probably wouldn't have known about the outage. My company was fine. Everyone in my family's company's were fine. All the places I shopped today were fine. A few of our vendors were mildly affected. It certainly seems widespread, but not nearly to the point of validating a prepper lifestyle.