Funny story: I was messaged by a dude on a dating app who had like “looking for a partner to survive the apocalypse” so I humoured him. I asked “what actual survival skills do you have?”

Can you grow and preserve food? Do you know first aid? Do you know how to maintain a vehicle? Are you good at logistics? Mediation? Engineering? What do you bring to the table?

He said “well I own a lot of knives”—oh so cool, you just want a legitimate excuse to be violent.

Anyone who thinks their most valuable skill in a post apocalypse is the ability to do harm has already told you everything you need to know about them, I’d steer clear, personally.

Like, dudes, I hate to break it to you, that does not make you Mad Max, it makes you Lord Humungus