The lights that sit in vehicles aren’t cycled with any regularity and I need the standby life / tolerance for temperature swings.
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I have a few brands of lights that can take 2x CR123s in the ‘collection’ so I’ve put those in the cars with two pairs of back-ups.
Aren’t Eneloops remarkably tolerant of temp swings? My car standby light has an Eneloop in it for exactly that reason…
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Perhaps. Standby life is the main consideration as one vehicle is occasional use.
Pockets, it’s truly that simple.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve tried all sorts of other ways (slings, packs, pouches… you name it) and I’d love to be able to carry more, but I carry what I can comfortably and safely fit in my pockets. By safely i mean not adding so much that i could potentially damage my phone or prevent myself access to my gun should i need it.
My carry setup…
Front left: phone, keys, single knuck
Front right: gun, knife
Rear left: hank
Rear right: wallet
Yes i know, there’s no flashlight. I just don’t find any use whatsoever, literally ever, for a flashlight as EDC. Don’t get me wrong, i collect them, but in the same way i collect other things i never use, and just because i find them fascinating and cool. I also don’t carry a prybar like it seems so many do. I mean, my phone has a flashlight function built in that would suffice for the majority of situations i would need one. And most my knives are way overbuilt and can easily be used as a prybar in a pinch, as a last resort if needed. So… yeah, i don’t bother.
Still doing the murse thing because I never know how many pockets (if any) my sweats, fleeces, pantaloons, shorts, etc., will have, and I can’t get arsed enough to do the juggling act transferring all my shiite from one to another.
I still can just grab’n’go, knowing my Bat Utility Bag has whatever I carry.
If you swap/charge the battery at least every 10-15 years, you’re fine 
Domke F-2 holds most of what I need. I’ve got too many hobbies, and photography takes up a big portion of it. As a result, most of the space is taken up with a Nikon D3S, a prime lens trio, a small on-camera flash, some cleaning supplies, and spare batteries. However, adding to that, I’ve also got charging cables, an XTAR PB2S, a hat, headlamp, Sofirn LT1 Mini, water bottle, various keychain sized tools in an Altoids tin, hand sanitizer, a pull-up and wipes, a ziploc with panty liners and pads, and keys.
Yeah, not sure how long I’ll be able to keep it up, but until I hear the word from the doctor, just gonna keep at it.
I’ve tried going over-the-shoulder several times and always eventually found myself hating the way it swung around whenever walking or bending over for something etc. It’s either around-the-hips or backpack for me. I might try a sling someday.
Strap over right shoulder, bag at left hip. Never swings around on me.
And then I can just take it off and carry it by the top handle if need be, eg, to toss it into the car. Big benny is that with the strap extended like that, I can loop the strap around the headrest on the front seat.
That keeps freelance socialists doing personal redistribution of wealth from just reaching in an open window and grabbing it off the seat, as it’ll still be hooked around the headrest.
Wordy but well described
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Eh, in my experience LSD NiMH - even genuine Eneloops - are good for a ~year of standby then all bets are off as to how much capacity is left.
Theft is not social… it’s antisocial. The social approach is to act in the interest of the group instead of the interest of the individual, like caring about other people and trying to do what benefits them… but stealing someone’s bag off their car seat is the opposite of that.
I think perhaps the freelancer in that scenario could be better described as a freelance profiteer or free-market enthusiast, a free thinker unburdened by pesky regulations or concern for others.
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That’s actually the primary definition of “antisocial” in some languages that share roots with English, “antisocial” = “criminal”, and only in a secondary more modern anglicized sense does it mean “somebody who doesn’t like to be around others”.
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Like “social distancing” is staying as far away from others as possible. 
Yep, which is why bottom-up socialism only works in small groups (family, friends, etc., possibly up to the small-town level) where you know and care about others in the group, but consistently fails in larger groups, where you usually don’t know nor particularly care about strangers. That kind of top-down socialism is coercive, and only “works” when brutally enforced.
Human nature, and common sense, actually. You’d likely be all broken up at the death of someone close to you, someone you know and care about, but not feel more than “aw, man, that sucks” reading about a planeload of people that crashed into the side of a mountain.
I guess Norway would disagree. Spent 2 years in Norway, weird how similar but different it is to the UK.
The Norwegians I spoke to were fairly happy to pay their taxes as they felt they were getting good value for money from “the system”. I felt like I couldn’t even fart without the government knowing 
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Interestingly, apparently they’ve a system where you can look up anyone’s tax return - the individual will be notified a bit like LinkedIn “who’s viewed your profile”, but it helps with transpancy.
Anyway, back to the thread topic, I’ve acquired a helikon bandicoot waist pack fairly recently, it was on 10% discount sale. I don’t EDC gear other than in my pockets, but for a “gear grab bag”, it’s good.
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I suppose I’m glad to have someone coercing corporations into not running child labor sweatshops with 80+ hour work weeks any more, and coercing rich people into paying for roads and schools and stuff.
The implementation of a social system may require coercion to get bad actors to behave, but that doesn’t seem like a terrible thing. The overall function is to ensure a decent quality of life, giving people the foundations they need to live as they please, as long as they don’t take that foundation away from others.
There’s a saying somewhere about how, if a poor person steals on the street, they get locked in prison… but if a rich person steals from the comfort of a board room, they get a promotion or a raise or a bonus. And that second scenario is where the vast majority of all theft occurs. But that’s a symptom of a broken system. The rich thief causes a lot more damage than the poor thief, and should be treated accordingly… with an extra-long time in lockup.
Anyway, at home in the winter, I find a nice warm soft bathrobe is great for staying warm and carrying a couple EDC items. Pajamas and a bathrobe are perfectly fine attire for working at home, and it gives me something I wouldn’t normally have – pockets!
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Strangely enough, one of the few companies that usually offers pockets on dresses is Old Navy. Doesn’t mean that their pants will have the most functional pockets, but at the very least, you’re more likely to find a dress with pockets here than at some other places.
True enough, but one feature of especially Scandinavian countries is that they’re pretty homogeneous. They all share the same background, heritage, language, everything, and have a strong sense of obligation to their countrymen.
Just thinking of the neighbors immediately surrounding me, they’re Irish, Hispanical, Italian, dunno, German(?), Hispanical, Indian, and Polish. NYC is the “melting pot” of the northeast. And you can find variants of Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Havana, etc., in each borough. Even storefronts have signage in only Choinese, Spanish, etc., which is a pretty blatant no-no in NYC yet is rarely enforced. They’re enclaves, insular, and often make zero concessions to “outsiders”.
Go up yonder, and everyone’s an Andersson, Christiansdottir, Mortenson, etc. and in the quite many small towns, people don’t often move cities just for a job, etc. You can be born, live, and die, all in the same town. Dunno what it might be like in Oslo, if there are similar enclaves that have parochial attitudes.
And another difference is that politicians revel in and play on dividing people: rich vs poor, blue vs red, yes vs no on abortion/immigration/you-name-it, and so on. They thrive on the Us vs Them.
So maybe Norway might be considered an extremely large “small town” where it might work, but definitely not here.
Just sayin’…
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