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Ohio bill would require teaching ‘both sides’ on climate
Why climate ‘doomers’ are replacing climate ‘deniers’
Ah, Mississippi, a stronghold of anti-science and theocratic bootlickers. I wonder how many of them believe Brandon is to blame. Imagine your final thoughts are cursing the democrats as you're sucked up out of your trailer.
I would leave this sub, all of your comments sound like it's taking a toll on your mental health. It's okay for you to ignore all of this if it's hurting your well-being. Collapse isn't going to go away, but you can suspend it in mind. Take care of yourself.
Eventually it's possible to succumb to acceptance. Most people go through denial, then reality slips in a teeny tiny amount and they start smoking techno-hopium, then the bigger picture sets in and there may be despair and grief... The last step is acceptance, and you can find a bit of solace in that if you just take deep breaths.
It's okay to be scared, but if it is seriously damaging your well-being, just quit peeking in this sub, do not watch the news etc. Might have to lie to yourself, but if it makes you happy it makes you happy.
Hah, this is such a thinly veiled way of saying they want to teach that climate change is not real.
By the time these kids are in their mid teens it won't be possible to ignore it and the other "side" will just move the goal posts.
Here's how it'll go
Climate change isn't happening.
And if it is, it isn't that bad.
And if it was, it isn't a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean for it to happen.
And if I did, fuck you, hurr durrr I'm gonna chug some horse pills, rectally insert a UV dildo and be outsmarted by what's left of the climate ravaged potato crop.
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Picking up some bedtime stories for the kiddos
Wherever you are, or are thinking of going to, make sure you have water. It's spring here, and it's raining, raining, raining. My two IBC barrels are *FULL*. I would like at least one, perhaps two or even three more, spread around the property, just for peace of mind. Probably won't happen this year. But, over the next two or three, it likely/hopefully will.
The second thing is to think about how/where you'll find sources of nutrients for your soil in the future. Keeping animals around can be a source of meat, money when you sell them, and at least as importantly as anything else, their manure is compost for your gardens.
Whatever plants you grow, you will be depleting the soil year over year. In order to have and maintain good souls you'll need to be amending it. Animal manure - from sheep, cows, chickens, goats, horses, pigs, whatever - is *the* traditional, and sustainable way to do so.
Rotating your pasture is the next, important thing to do/think about. Keep your animals off of sections for months in order to let it regrow and, also to help cut off the cycle of worms in your herds. Ours is currently just two large sections, but I'd like to get it set up so it can be moved into 4 or more. The more, the better.
Finally... If you aren't already farming, and think you'll be able to just pick up and start post-collapse and be fine. Gods, but do you have a lot of hard lessons coming. Gardening is *hard*. Crops fail. Not everything works in all places. Some things take *years* to become established and producing.
If you think gardening is hard though... Fuck me if raising animals isn't harder. My mantra right now is *know better, do better*. We lost our first three lambs. The last two seem to be doing ok, so far, along with a goat kid. It's our first year with sheep, but we've had goats for years. Didn't think they'd be this damned different. Chickens I feel like we have mostly down - though we just buy chicks from hatcheries, so maybe that's cheating.
Anyhow. Point is, if you have some illusion, that causes you read a book or five on gardening, homesteading, farming, etc you can just pick up and do it? You're delusional at best.
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Every time I see a post on Reddit talking about having kids
Every time I see a post on Reddit talking about having kids
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As written, this has little ties to collapse (being the resource depletion). If you connect it to collapse more (such as the societal implications of this smart tech) I think it will be sufficiently related
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Smart technology/smart homesThis felt like the right place for this. I’m currently housesitting for a friend’s family as I sometimes do, and every time I come here I notice this issue more. I can only assume they’re a reflection of most middle-class families in America, and maybe even have less smart technology than average.
These people’s home is totally wired with tech: several Alexas that control the lights and TV; a smart TV; security cameras; a wifi-enabled thermostat and washer and dryer; a digital lock on the door; even a faucet that tells them the temperature of the water.
One time when I was here, I did a load of laundry (dog had soiled the bed) and got a text from the family asking why I was doing laundry—this is how I found out the machines were wifi-enabled. I was like, how the hell did they know I did laundry? It was creepy.
I’m a zillennial... I grew up with dial-up internet, and didn’t have a smartphone until I was a senior in high school. I only just made peace with my smartphone, after going through a phase of returning to a flip phone. It’s personally worried me, even if I don’t see the end goal of it (help or harm?), to see just how pervasive this glut of smart technology has been, enticing my Gen X parents more than anyone. Even people who I thought would never do it have gotten smart watches, which record a startling quantity of data on the user.
I drive, and will probably always drive, a car from the 90s because it doesn’t have a screen. I have a mechanical washing machine that I hope never craps out. I still watch TV on a giant projection CRT… I feel like I’m one of the few people my age who resists this onslaught of new technology, and I don’t say that to feel special: I actually wish I could just sit back and enjoy it like everyone else, and I try to an extent. But I hate that I see the collapse behind all this.
When I come to this house, I unplug the Alexa because I find it creepy. On the screen of one of them, it shows you news and suggests you try “making stories” with what I assume is some form of ChatGPT. This feature is aimed at children, which creeps me the fuck out.
Why does everything have to have a chip in it? Why can’t we just live with normal appliances? It’s like the people who have these things don’t see the unsustainability of it all: all these devices having logic boards requires the mining of rare earth metals and massive manufacturing processes. At a certain point, how will it continue? Not to mention that the manufacturers of this technology are increasingly consolidated into a few corporations.
Smart technology/smart homesThis felt like the right place for this. I’m currently housesitting for a friend’s family as I sometimes do, and every time I come here I notice this issue more. I can only assume they’re a reflection of most middle-class families in America, and maybe even have less smart technology than average.
These people’s home is totally wired with tech: several Alexas that control the lights and TV; a smart TV; security cameras; a wifi-enabled thermostat and washer and dryer; a digital lock on the door; even a faucet that tells them the temperature of the water.
One time when I was here, I did a load of laundry (dog had soiled the bed) and got a text from the family asking why I was doing laundry—this is how I found out the machines were wifi-enabled. I was like, how the hell did they know I did laundry? It was creepy.
I’m a zillennial... I grew up with dial-up internet, and didn’t have a smartphone until I was a senior in high school. I only just made peace with my smartphone, after going through a phase of returning to a flip phone. It’s personally worried me, even if I don’t see the end goal of it (help or harm?), to see just how pervasive this glut of smart technology has been, enticing my Gen X parents more than anyone. Even people who I thought would never do it have gotten smart watches, which record a startling quantity of data on the user.
I drive, and will probably always drive, a car from the 90s because it doesn’t have a screen. I have a mechanical washing machine that I hope never craps out. I still watch TV on a giant projection CRT… I feel like I’m one of the few people my age who resists this onslaught of new technology, and I don’t say that to feel special: I actually wish I could just sit back and enjoy it like everyone else, and I try to an extent. But I hate that I see the collapse behind all this.
When I come to this house, I unplug the Alexa because I find it creepy. On the screen of one of them, it shows you news and suggests you try “making stories” with what I assume is some form of ChatGPT. This feature is aimed at children, which creeps me the fuck out.
Why does everything have to have a chip in it? Why can’t we just live with normal appliances? It’s like the people who have these things don’t see the unsustainability of it all: all these devices having logic boards requires the mining of rare earth metals and massive manufacturing processes. At a certain point, how will it continue? Not to mention that the manufacturers of this technology are increasingly consolidated into a few corporations.
China's Runaway Oil Demand​
Summary: China's demand for fossil fuels multiplies, depleting resources and destroying the environment
A while ago, I created a post on future US oil demand, and how the US will continue to gobble up more and more oil, accelerating collapse. But the largest source of growth in oil demand over the past 20 years has been China, according to the EIA, which you can look at [here](https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world). Between 2011-2021, Chinese oil demand grew by an average of about 4.3% per year, which equates to a doubling time of about 16 years. China is the second largest consumer of oil, consuming 15 million barrels a day in 2021. In 2023 the International Energy Agency predicts they'll increase their consumption by 900,000 barrels a day. But there's still tremendous room for growth, since per capita consumption of oil is only about 1/7th of per capita usage in the United States, where the average person consumes 22 barrels of oil a year. In addition, energy usage does not level off as people get richer, which you can see in this [chart](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-use-per-capita-vs-gdp-per-capita?xScale=linear). So, now to the interesting part: What will China's oil demand look like in the future?
I have multiple scenarios based on different assumptions, but I'll start with the High Growth Baseline Scenario. In this scenario, by the 2040s the average Chinese consumes like the average American does today, because:
\- GDP Per Capita rises to levels higher than in America today by 2050
\- The number of cars rises following an S curve from around 300 million today to levelling off at 1.3 billion by 2050, or about 1 car per person, which is close to what it is in the United States
\- As people get richer, they buy more SUVs and less efficient cars. According to the IEA, SUVs account for about a third of cars sold in China, and according to their global fuel economy [initiative](https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/global-fuel-economy-initiative-2021-data-explorer), average power and curb weight are rising steadily. Following the trend, the average car only achieves about 19 miles per gallon by 2050, which is actually 2 more than the US in the high growth scenario for oil consumption. This is down from over 31 today. This is because when you plot out power vs fuel economy on today's cars, the trend is that more power=more gas burned. Policies such as high taxes on power and weight could avoid this but this would make the auto industry less profitable and slow the economy as a whole, not to mention be unpopular, so I thinl the only thing they'll do is place high fuel economy standards on cars, which just incentivizes automakers to sell SUVs instead, as they're exempt from mileage standards
\- The number of miles driven per car rises to 14,000 miles per year, or what it is in the United States
\-EVs take off, reaching around 40% market share, but only briefly before critical metal shortages of things like Nickel, Cobalt, and Lithium (demand for energy minerals is expected to rise by several times over according to this one [study](https://www.metabolic.nl/publication/metal-demand-for-renewable-electricity-generation-in-the-netherlands/), creating a crunch). After 2027, EV production crashes due to shortages of metals for batteries, retreating back to about 10% market share. Yes, I know oil depletion is also an imminent issue, the point of this exercise is to see how bad the crunch will be
\- Diesel rises by about 4.5% per year, associated with more trucking
\- Oil usage in the "Other" category made up of petrochemical and industrial usage rises by 5% per year, slower than in recent years
\- Jet Fuel consumption continues rising by 10% per year, as more people can afford flights and more cargo is transported
The results look something like this:
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By 2050, China will be consuming 122 million barrels a day. For reference, in 2019 the world consumed 100.1 million barrels per day. This would add over a hundred million barrels per day in global demand. The effects of this would be devastating in terms of air pollution and CO2 emissions. But this obviously can't happen, as producers are already struggling to meet today's demand, and most oilfields are in decline. Would different assumptions alleviate the problem? Not really.
To get lower results I scrapped all of the previous assumptions, and stopped looking at individual sectors. I instead grew consumption at 4.5% per year, or close to it's historical average. But that still results in over 50 million barrels per day in demand, or about half of global output.
To get even lower results, there's the "Optimistic" Scenario, where growth is lower, at about 3% per year. I can't imagine it going much lower because China's economy is still rapidly growing, and growth demands more and more energy to sustain it. And again, per capita oil usage is 1/7th that of the United States, and energy usage does not level off as people get richer. Renewables won't help this because they provide electricity (EVs face metal shortages), not fuel for transportation. Here's the "Optimistic" Scenario compared to other groups in the optimistic scenario.
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So what does this mean? Expect very volatile energy prices as demand for oil outpaces supply, shortages, and even faster depletion of resources. If somehow the world manages to extract more oil using technology, expect extreme pollution as oil demand multiplies, not to mention carbon emissions and the runaway global warming it will produce.
Thanks for reading!
What will a 2.7 degree celcius warming do to India ?So I am from India. More specifically, I am from the desert state of India which is already witnessing desertification. As I understand, the countries above the equator won't be affected as much tropical countries like India as far as land productivity is concerned. The arable percentage of land in India is 52%. The IPCC medium guess is 2.7 degree celcius warming by the end of century. Has someone done the math how much arable land in India will be lost? Obviously wet bulb temperature will wreck havoc, lives will be lost but so far land erosion is the most troublesome part of climate change, which may lead to famines India has never witnessed since 1950.
And by the way, why is no one bothered about to limit warming below 1.5 degrees? Sure, it is lot of effort but why can't we put "lot" of efforts. Do humans absolutely need a catastrophe level extinction warrant to start worrying about climate change? And I don't understand why IPCC likes to leave a "here is your hope lollipop" at the end of every assessment report and playing the doomers are yet another deniers card. I am a doomer, I don't understand how exactly to not be in a desert state where temperature reaches 50 degree celcius every summer already, land fertility is degrading as I write this post and yet I am not supposed to be a doomer!
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The Nations were angry, but your anger has come. The time has come to judge the dead, and to reward your servants the prophets and your holy people, all who respect you, great and small. The time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.
Friday post; "It goes on and on, Its f*d up, but I'm right; It won't be alright." Your Collapse Playlist?So what songs would you add to a Collapse Playlist?
I'll start:
Lars Frederiksen - God and Guns [https://youtu.be/B7UvBZE\_RS4](https://youtu.be/B7UvBZE_RS4)
>Well mothers tell your daughters
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>And fathers tell your sons
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>Well the whole world is a ending
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>And the sun won't rise no more
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>There's no hope now, only danger
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>And peace can't find a home
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>And now death won't be a stranger
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>When its kicking down your door
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>Corporations seen as people
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>Bought by million dollars bills
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>While the fat cats getting fatter
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>By creating terrorists
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>You anesthetize your feelings with obesity and pills
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>If you find out it ain't working
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>Well you still got god and guns
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>Its f\*cked up but I'm right
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>It won't be alright
Every time I see a post on Reddit talking about having kids
Go to work!
Murray Bookchin lambasting Silicon Valley style futurism in 1978
Food Shortages are Guaranteed
Exposing the Origins of the Idea of Historical Progress
Health insurance has you captive too?!
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What retard put BMO on this list
But that’s a major event in politics. Me, and other people don't have the time to worry about this climate change BS all the time.
But that’s a major event in politics. Me, and other people don't have the time to worry about this climate change BS all the time.
But I like my comforts!! They are one of the only things bringing me comfort in my life. I can't take this climate change BS anymore!!
Go ahead and be all pessimistic about this!!! Hate on the article that could have given me some comfort!!
FUCK NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! I’M DONE WITH THIS SHIT!! PLEASE STOP BEING PESSIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE!!!! I DON’T DESERVE TO DIE!!! I JUST WANT TO BE HOPEFUL!!!! PLEASE!!!!
I’M NOT GOING TO DIE BRUTALLY!!! I AM SO SICK OF PESSIMISM!!!
I’M NOT GOING TO DIE BRUTALLY!!! I AM SO SICK OF PESSIMISM!!!
I’M NOT GOING TO DIE BRUTALLY!!! I AM SO SICK OF PESSIMISM!!!
You do you tho. If you wanna hold their pocket, and be their change purse, you do you boo.
Haha whatever buddy, enjoy your bags, I'm going to keep doing me
Dude, if you really can't stand all the pessimism, why the fuck are you hanging out on /r/collapse?
Unsubscribe, go outside and touch grass
get a 3d printer print the fgc9 submachine gun rest of it can be purchased at hard ware store then print off 4 100 round drum mags and a suppresser. Buy an red dot sight . Then find the what about ammo guide make your own primers and brass case then go yo atlas arms go to the intellectual property then copy the sabot design and copy the bullet core design send bullet core to alibaba metal manufacturing company export it as drill bits made of tungsten.
congrats you now have a full auto smg that can punch rifle plates
https://www.docdroid.net/l4AjR92/how-to-make-9mm-ammo-in-europe-pdf
https://twitter.com/russellEstes84/status/1638318383761424387?s=20
https://www.reddit.com/r/fosscad/comments/whzwed/full_auto_fgc9_mk2_hell_yeah_boooy/
https://www.atlasarms.com/document/download/3/3eb6acfc-9243-4468-9b28-1464665e15e1/6
get a 3d printer print the fgc9 submachine gun rest of it can be purchased at hard ware store then print off 4 100 round drum mags and a suppresser. Buy an red dot sight . Then find the what about ammo guide make your own primers and brass case then go yo atlas arms go to the intellectual property then copy the sabot design and copy the bullet core design send bullet core to alibaba metal manufacturing company export it as drill bits made of tungsten.
congrats you now have a full auto smg that can punch rifle plates
https://www.docdroid.net/l4AjR92/how-to-make-9mm-ammo-in-europe-pdf
https://twitter.com/russellEstes84/status/1638318383761424387?s=20
https://www.reddit.com/r/fosscad/comments/whzwed/full_auto_fgc9_mk2_hell_yeah_boooy/
https://www.atlasarms.com/document/download/3/3eb6acfc-9243-4468-9b28-1464665e15e1/6
get a 3d printer print the fgc9 submachine gun rest of it can be purchased at hard ware store then print off 4 100 round drum mags and a suppresser. Buy an red dot sight . Then find the what about ammo guide make your own primers and brass case then go yo atlas arms go to the intellectual property then copy the sabot design and copy the bullet core design send bullet core to alibaba metal manufacturing company export it as drill bits made of tungsten.
congrats you now have a full auto smg that can punch rifle plates
https://www.docdroid.net/l4AjR92/how-to-make-9mm-ammo-in-europe-pdf
https://twitter.com/russellEstes84/status/1638318383761424387?s=20
https://www.reddit.com/r/fosscad/comments/whzwed/full_auto_fgc9_mk2_hell_yeah_boooy/
https://www.atlasarms.com/document/download/3/3eb6acfc-9243-4468-9b28-1464665e15e1/6
[Duke University Professor, in 2019, found low-income buyers weren’t to blame for the financial collapse that led to the recession, dispelling the Sub-Prime Mortgage Myth b/c it didn't align with the data. 2008 was a clearing firm settlement crisis like 2021.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/10rwfaw/duke_university_professor_in_2019_found_lowincome/)
The anime perpetuates the subprime mortgage myth.
The full picture is that our leaders have convinced us that to enjoy life on earth we must be their indentured servants for ~~30~~ ~~40~~ 50 years...all while they destroy our only home.
They control the land ownership system, the men who will evict you at gun point, and the fake money supply.
When people have the natural desire to have a place to call home, we are preyed upon. Our leaders are more than happy to enslave us with interest-bearing loans.
Compare this to a system where people work together to ensure everyone has a place to stay. Look at any tribe and you can see they don't charge their children 6-figures for the plot of jungle or steppe to raise their family on.
Isn't it time for us to stand up like those in the Global South?
Those who say "Enough!". " Enough! We are not here on Earth to be slaves to you. We remember who made this earth and it wasn't you. You have more than enough. And we have more of a right to be Mother Earth's caretaker than you greedy destroyer!"
It is washington post, these guys are crooked as fuck. Owned by corporate interests and always pushing the anti WFH, anti millenial kind of nonsense. Superstonk doesnt think much of these guys or wall street journal and all those similar propoganda outlets. They truly are just propoganda at this point
What was I thinking?
hittin’ snooze on the doomsday clock & the future of r/collapse [Meta]
cool! i have to consult a doctor before getting vaccines due to complications with one of my infant immunizations so i’d have to find a way to talk to a doctor in that world but good for you
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I have a feeling this is going to go a little something like:
1. Marine animals will continue to wash ashore dead/dying
2. The conspiracy nuts will cry out that it’s wind farms killing our species
3. Govs will become increasingly more public and vocal about it being bird flu and tell people to prepare
4. “Fake news! Government control of the masses! The first pandemic didn’t work so they’re trying it again!”
5. BIRD FLU IS HERE and it’s seriously no more fucking around everyone get inside and fucking stay there, we will have a vaccine developed shortly but we need full citizens cooperation to have a chance of pulling through here
6. Do I even need to say this step? “No way you’re giving me another vaccine! I know my rights! I’m gonna do a lockdown protest! This is to distract you from the wind farms being the real killer and also to get you another vaccine!”
7. Oh lord, 7. It’s so sad and scary. I could sit here and try to speculate what that world looks like but I’m not a scientist or disease expert. And I wouldn’t wanna be. Truly unmitigated havoc. There is no way we’re going to convince the masses to do the right thing.
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I have a feeling this is going to go a little something like:
1. Marine animals will continue to wash ashore dead/dying
2. The conspiracy nuts will cry out that it’s wind farms killing our species
3. Govs will become increasingly more public and vocal about it being bird flu and tell people to prepare
4. “Fake news! Government control of the masses! The first pandemic didn’t work so they’re trying it again!”
5. BIRD FLU IS HERE and it’s seriously no more fucking around everyone get inside and fucking stay there, we will have a vaccine developed shortly but we need full citizens cooperation to have a chance of pulling through here
6. Do I even need to say this step? “No way you’re giving me another vaccine! I know my rights! I’m gonna do a lockdown protest! This is to distract you from the wind farms being the real killer and also to get you another vaccine!”
7. Oh lord, 7. It’s so sad and scary. I could sit here and try to speculate what that world looks like but I’m not a scientist or disease expert. And I wouldn’t wanna be. Truly unmitigated havoc. There is no way we’re going to convince the masses to do the right thing.
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This post shows six images of areas that were once forest lands. The post raises the question of why animal populations are declining worldwide and suggests that human overpopulation and agriculture are the main causes. The post is collapse-related because it illustrates how humans are destroying natural habitats and biodiversity for their own consumption and survival. The post relates to collapse because it shows how humans are degrading natural habitats and biodiversity for their own needs and wants also this post implies that this trend is unsustainable and will lead to ecological collapse in the future.
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This post shows six images of areas that were once forest lands. The post raises the question of why animal populations are declining worldwide and suggests that human overpopulation and agriculture are the main causes. The post is collapse-related because it illustrates how humans are destroying natural habitats and biodiversity for their own consumption and survival. The post relates to collapse because it shows how humans are degrading natural habitats and biodiversity for their own needs and wants also this post implies that this trend is unsustainable and will lead to ecological collapse in the future.
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An emerging fungal threat spread at an alarming rate in US health care facilities, study says | CNN
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This is from the new IPCC report that came out today, page 18.
[https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC\_AR6\_SYR\_SPM.pdf](https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf)
This graph shows our temperature estimates based on very low to very high emissions. What stunned me was in all scenarios (except low and very low which we will not be doing) we hit +2C at or before 2050. FUCK.
This is collapse related because last time I checked when it gets really hot we all fucking die.
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Recently, there have been rapid advances in artificial intelligence due to a type of deep learning model called a transformer. Recently, it has been shown that Theory of Mind, long term planning, and power seeking behavior emerge out of these models when trained on a large enough dataset (of quality data, of course) and with a sufficient number of parameters. It is doubtful that these advances will slow. There is a new research paper every five minutes on AI, and that is expected to double within the month.
Capitalists will undoubtedly use these models to automate oppression. These models are extremely good at generating propaganda favorable to autocratic regimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_%28machine_learning_model%29?wprov=sfla1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774
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Last Week in Collapse: March 12-18, 2023
[Cyclone Freddy](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64978492) breaks new records—and it’s not alone. Sea surface temperatures, alongside several regions of land, set new records.
**Last Week in Collapse: March 12-18, 2023**
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A report listed the [Top 5 most polluted countries](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/17/most-polluted-cities-and-countries-in-the-world-according-to-iqair.html) (of 131 examined) and did a round-up of the **world’s most polluted cities** in 2022. The Top 5 Most Polluted Countries are: >!1.) Chad, 2.) Iraq, 3.) Pakistan, 4.) Bahrain and 5.) Bangladesh.!< The Top 5 Most Polluted Cities are: >!1.) Lahore, Pakistan; 2.) Hotan, China; 3.) Bhiwadi, India; 4.) Delhi, India; and 5.) Peshawar, Pakistan.!< This year’s #1 polluted city jumped up from #15 last year. [Click here for the 47-page report by IQAir](https://www.iqair.com/th-en/newsroom/world-air-quality-report-press-release-2022). The report is very accessible and packed with useful graphs.
Pakistan [is heating up](https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2023/03/13/pakistan-braces-for-intense-heat-wave-during-summer-season/), and it’s not alone. The world is being convulsed by **heat waves and droughts** across much of the land—and even [the seafloor](https://archive.ph/InWZV). Hundreds of weather stations across Central Europe [have set new records](https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1635313639975714818). Mallorca has [also set new records](https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/weather/weather/2023/03/11/111137/mallorca-weather-record-high-temperatures-for-march.html) and Iraq is [declaring](https://www.voanews.com/a/iraqi-pm-promises-action-against-crippling-climate-change/7001453.html) actions to adapt to the new normal.
This new “normal” involves [**British rivers at record lows**
(https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/uk-river-levels-record-lows-forecast-dry-spring-water-companies), and vicious [record-breaking](https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/natural-disasters/the-cyclone-that-lived-longest-how-freddy-broke-all-kinds-of-records-88258) tropical [**storms in southeast Africa**](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/more-than-100-killed-as-storm-freddy-returns-to-mozambique-and-malawi), bringing [cholera](https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/03/1134267) among other devastations. It involves [temperatures breaking 110+ year records](https://buenosairesherald.com/society/health/heatwave-the-city-of-buenos-aires-broke-another-temperature-record) in Argentina, and a wave of 40 °C (104 °F) [temperatures in Australia](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11857193/La-Nina-officially-BOM-announces-Four-day-40-degree-heat-blast-way.html). Flooding in [Kurdistan](https://hawarnews.com/en/haber/15-people-lost-their-lives-as-result-of-floods-in-north-kurdistan-h35573.html) killing 15+ people. A nasty [heat wave](https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1636708837485887488) in East Asia.
It involves [California with record-smashing snowpack](https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1636074446711840768), and Senegal [setting recent records](https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1636051489780121618) for the northern hemisphere at this time of year. Glaciers [continue melting](https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/shrinking-glaciers-upend-lives-across-south-america) in the Andes—and when they’re gone, **the region will never be the same** again.
Drought [continues](https://archive.ph/JW4b6) in Peru. Las Vegas [is trying to cut residential water consumption](https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/las-vegas-water-agency-seeks-power-limit-residential-97817894) to adapt to its water troubles. A [**colossal seaweed bloom**](https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/huge-seaweed-bloom-seen-space-103500075.html) larger than Jamaica is bearing down on the Gulf of Mexico. And the **sea surface average temperature** [**hit new highs**](https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1636841867638882307).
Italy’s [rivers are drying up](https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2023-03-14/Italy-s-winter-drought-ravaging-rivers-and-crops-1i7wqEA1Nbq/index.html) from prolonged drought and [millions of Iraqis](https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/iraq/2023/03/18/seven-million-iraqi-children-have-limited-access-to-safe-water-at-school/) don’t have reliable access to clean water. When did humanity hit Peak Food production?
Mountainsides [are losing their forest cover](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/alarming-rate-of-mountain-forest-loss-threat-to-alpine-wildlife-aoe) to deforestation and wildfires. This in turn [leads to **more tree loss**](https://kjzz.org/content/1841576/wildfires-across-west-are-killing-more-trees-making-it-harder-forests-regrow) through aridification, topsoil loss, and wildfires. Under such circumstances, [trees regrowing can be much more difficult](https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2208120120).
A [**major oil drilling project**](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/13/politics/willow-project-alaska-oil-biden-approval-climate/index.html) has been approved in Alaska. The site will, when operational, extract a peak of [180,000 barrels](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/13/alaska-willow-project-approved-oil-gas-biden) of crude oil per day.
As Canada’s permafrost melts, [it is releasing methylmercury](https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-toxic-threat-in-thawing-permafrost/)—a toxic substance—into the groundwater. The oil company licensed to start drilling [has a plan](https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3zgg/conocophillips-project-willow-freeze-arctic) for preventing the permafrost from melting: sticking giant “**thermosyphons**” deep into the earth, and then artificially freezing the deep soil. Geoengineering by another name.
The **last 16 years of Arctic sea ice melt** [**is irreversible**](https://archive.ph/6c4J6), says another *Nature* [study](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05686-x). This study claims the [rate is faster than the IPCC’s predictions](https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/408564/arctic-sea-ice-is-melting-worse-and-faster-than-expected-studies-show).
A 13-acre landfill [has been burning underground](https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1161920664/months-long-landfill-fire-alabama-reveals-waste-regulation-gaps) in Alabama since late November 2022—and it doesn’t appear to be stopping soon. What exactly was buried isn’t clear, but tests have proven that various carcinogens and other harmful chemicals are being released into the air—and some of them travel 20+ miles (32 km) away. Nevertheless, most people nearby haven’t moved, and most don’t plan (or can’t afford) to.
Two weeks ago, [a burning toxic landfill in India](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/07/india/india-bhramapuram-landfill-toxic-waste-fire-intl-hnk/index.html) forced government authorities to recommend staying home to 600,000+ people. There are **over 3,000 landfills leaking toxins in India**. Many of them are still growing. There are also [“337 large active forest fires” in India](https://www.cnbctv18.com/environment/india-forest-fires-jharkhand-manipur-meghalaya-odisha-ndrf-16173761.htm) as of a few days ago.
A *Nature* [study](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01627-2) confirmed the obvious: increasing the number of climate “stressors” (aridity, salinity, biodiversity, etc) in soil decreases overall functionality in the soil ecosystem. American farmers are concerned that [drought will bring **Dust Bowl 2.0**](https://journalrecord.com/2023/03/14/drought-population-growth-spur-dust-bowl-fears/) to the American West.
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A region in New South Wales [is seeing millions of fish dieoff](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-18/nsw-menindee-mass-fish-kill-worst-in-region/102115184) due to heat stress. Countless dead fish cover the riverwater, resembling a pale foam. Their impact on the ecosystem remains to be seen.
Several Skunks in Canada [have contracted bird flu](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/skunk-avian-flu-1.6777565) after probably eating dead birds infected with H5N1. Bird flu has also [reached seals off the coast of New England](https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-03-15/bird-flu-outbreak-killed-new-england-harbor-seals-raising-alarms-for-humans).
Toilet paper across the world has been labeled a [major source of PFAS](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/toxic-forever-chemicals-pfas-toilet-paper) entering water systems. The study’s lead author said, “it may be that there is no avoiding PFAS in toilet paper.” PFAS is [already in our food](https://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2023/03/pfas-leaches-into-ketchup-mayo-other-common-foods-elevating-health-hazards/) and [bloodstream](https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/emergency-preparedness/firefighters-donating-blood-may-reduce-pfas-levels-in-your-blood/).
The neverending search into the origins of COVID-19 have led to [raccoon dogs around Wuhan](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/17/covid-19-origins-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-data), suggesting that the fateful virus emerged naturally—not from a lab leak. Although COVID is not ending (and not even lessening in severity or danger), the [**WHO is going to end its emergency**](https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-will-be-over-as-public-health-emergency-this-year-who-says-12836327) this year. COVID has become akin to the flu in the minds of the masses. **Humanity lost this psychological siege**.
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France’s President Emmanual Macron has [plunged France into crisis](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64984374) after he pushed through a controversial bill without the Assembly’s vote. The bill raises retirement ages from 62 to 64, and inadvertently sparked protests which turned [into riots](https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1636479988277948416). France is also [suffering intensifying water shortages](https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Warm-weather-drought-and-fires-why-it-may-feel-like-summer-in-France)—and saw [its **stormiest day ever**](https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/French-news/Records-smashed-as-lightning-strikes-rain-down-on-France) last week.
London had [its largest protest](https://news.sky.com/story/strikes-shameful-government-blamed-as-hundreds-of-thousands-join-biggest-walkout-in-current-wave-of-action-12834208) in a generation—and it’s still ongoing. Public transportation workers are striking, and hundreds of thousands of people turned out to support their calls for higher pay, including a huge amount of teachers.
In Brazil, [imprisoned gang members launched riots](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64985010) in the streets for several days, fighting for improving the conditions of a growing prison population. Two rival gangs temporarily united to flex their might against their common foe.
Ukraine estimated [over 16,000 children were kidnapped](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64985009) by Russian soldiers and moved into Russia, which the UN has determined is a war crime. The ICC put out an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. Last week, [Poland and Slovakia committed](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64988504) to **sending fighter jets to Ukraine**. And a [Russian fighter jet collided with an American drone](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/18/what-happened-in-the-russia-ukraine-war-this-week-catch-up-with-the-must-read-news-and-analysis) over the Black Sea; the 40-second [footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH6XpoaDOUI&ab_channel=GuardianNews) is interesting.
Fearing a chain reaction after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed (it was sold [for one British pound](https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-11856525/ALEX-BRUMMER-Silicon-Valley-Banks-collapse-signals-global-economy-entering-stressful-time.html) after its demise), a bunch of banks [loaned $30B to First Republic Bank](https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64973321), a bank seen at risk of failure. The Collapse of SVB may have [stopped the Fed’s plan to raise interest rates](https://archive.ph/73Hyh)—for the time being.
Lebanon’s currency [hit another new low](https://english.news.cn/20230314/23543fd73b574279b0bcef2dfcdb4708/c.html) last week. Argentina’s inflation [breached 100%](https://archive.ph/3kQeM) within 12 months; recession is already there. Türkiye’s [**debt is hitting new levels**](https://archive.ph/Rgtch), only two months before Erdogan’s (re)election. [Spain is in a similar position](https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/spains-core-inflation-hits-new-record-despite-government-measures/), while Sweden’s inflation rate [was over 9%](https://archive.ph/ytiPv). It will be easier for Afghans to fast this Ramadan; their [economic crisis](https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/03/14/699880/Afghans-brace-for-Ramadan-amid-deepening-economic-crisis) has combined with the food crisis to produce a disastrous situation for more than half the country.
**China is** [**entering the cruise ship manufacturing industry**](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202303/16/WS64127004a31057c47ebb4c62.html), adding gigantic shopping malls inside the mammoth cruise ships—so you can consume while you consume. Humanity may still not have encountered Peak Cruise Tourism.
Israel is [moving towards a kind of Civil War](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64975858) as tension builds over Netanyahu’s government’s attempt to subjugate the national judiciary to the legislature’s will. Meanwhile, China [is posturing](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64959500) for violence after the announcement of the AUKUS pact, a security arrangement between **A**ustralia, the **U**nited **K**ingdom, and the **US**. China is also [concerned about its falling birth rate](https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64897827).
**Protests for water access** in Azerbaijan [led to police firing rubber bullets](https://eurasianet.org/police-crack-down-on-water-protest-in-azerbaijan) to disperse the crowd. Global water supplies are [projected](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/global-fresh-water-demand-outstrip-supply-by-2030) to fail to meet future demand. Demand will outpace the supply by 40% by the year 2030.
*Things to watch next week include:*
↠ The [UN Water Conference](https://www.unwater.org/news/un-2023-water-conference) convenes next week in New York City. Their outlook will not be optimistic.
*Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:*
-The subreddit’s wishes for Collapse are varied, according to [this stickied post](https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11txkb5/do_you_want_collapse_to_happen_indepth/) about whether one wants Collapse to happen—and if so, how/why? The diverse motivations of the commenters are a useful cross-section of why nothing substantial will happen. Everybody wants different things, and the friction between them prevents meaningful action—and this is among the ~~arguably~~ all-time most Collapse-aware community on the planet.
-Collapse is the **quotidian normalization of violence**, based on [this observation](https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11q5jez/weekly_observations_what_signs_of_collapse_do_you/jcck3c6/) from Portland, Oregon. Drugs, anxiety, and the breakdown of everything everywhere all at once.
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Submission statement: it was interesting to see the comments on this post. The permaculture community and gardening people in general are very supportive and helpful usually, and this is the first time I've seen the scope of the longer view challenge being brought to bear without much beating around the bush in the comments.
Some places will be underwater before the payoff from any long-term agricultural improvement can come to fruition, and people are starting to realize this.
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OP getting a harsh dose of reality in the comments as people realise this "soil" will be underwater before any long-term gardening will pay off
OP getting a harsh dose of reality in the comments as people realise this "soil" will be underwater before any long-term gardening will pay off
Chile reports at least 532 sea lions believed to have died following H5N1 bird flu, much higher than previously reported.
‘A wake-up call’: total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of humanity’s | Wildlife
Is Capitalism the Solution to the Climate Crisis or the Problem Making it Worse?
I need help understanding the problem with the cartoon I submitted. It's funny; it's more of a political cartoon regarding climate change, endangered species and the oil companies, with a humorous twist. Climate change is leading us to Collapse, right? I am new to posting to Reddit, so it may be some tech reason I don't understand, but that said, I would like the cartoon posted. Thank you.
Can you modmail us with a link to your cartoon? We can better advise then if this is relevant to our sub. Currently, we cannot review the content as duplicate destroyer bot removed this post because it matched your previous post, which is deleted. The image is deleted on this one
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Escape
Is anyone interested in escaping to my remote mountain farm in Colombia? I'm starting my self sustainable homestead, but need help. There is 120 acres, rivers, few nieghbors, and plenty other bonuses (coffee). Plus cheaper than anything in the USA... Looking for people with skills, adaptable, and can help get the things we need to remove ourselfs from the world economic system... ask in the comments for basic info. DM if interested. At the moment working/saving 6 months in USA, 6 months on the farm. I need some help this summer, and if you like it, long term.
Escape
Is anyone interested in escaping to my remote mountain farm in Colombia? I'm starting my self sustainable homestead, but need help. There is 120 acres, rivers, few nieghbors, and plenty other bonuses (coffee). Plus cheaper than anything in the USA... Looking for people with skills, adaptable, and can help get the things we need to remove ourselfs from the world economic system... ask in the comments for basic info. DM if interested. At the moment working/saving 6 months in USA, 6 months on the farm. I need some help this summer, and if you like it, long term.
One of my favourite science fiction novels, Timescape, is set in the far-off future of 1998, when things are starting to fall apart, and toxic blooms threaten the entire ocean food chain.
From Timescape (Gregory Benford, 1980)
*”Things are that bad?”
“Seems so. That large diatom bloom off the South American coast, Atlantic side, appears to be expanding out of control.”
“Bloom?”
“Biologist’s word. It means the phytoplankton are coming to terms with the chlorinated hydrocarbons we’ve been using in fertilizer. But there’s something more to this one. The technical people are scrambling to find out how this case differs from the earlier, smaller effects on the ocean food chain.”*
I see someone missed the Cochrane review:
[https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full](https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full)
"The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks."
Y'know, I used to be pro-mask myself. But you gotta trust the science!
*for a few months the vaccines were a very good assist to other forms of mitigation and could have stemmed the tide*
No they weren't, and no they couldn't have. You can't successfully vaccinate against a coronavirus because they mutate too quickly.
This used to be common knowledge. But it was forgotten somehow around the year 2020, just like the facts around natural immunity.
*wear a mask, killer.*
It's cute how the ignorant resort to hysterical insults when they don't know enough to win a debate. They're saying "I give up" without saying it.
I see someone missed the Cochrane review:
[https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full](https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full)
"The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks."
Y'know, I used to be pro-mask myself. But you gotta trust the science!
*for a few months the vaccines were a very good assist to other forms of mitigation and could have stemmed the tide*
No they weren't, and no they couldn't have. You can't successfully vaccinate against a coronavirus because they mutate too quickly.
This used to be common knowledge. But it was forgotten somehow around the year 2020, just like the facts around natural immunity.
*wear a mask, killer.*
It's cute how the ignorant resort to hysterical insults when they don't know enough to win a debate. They're saying "I give up" without saying it.
We import poverty and illiteracy and then scratch our heads about why we have more poverty and illiteracy.
We import poverty and illiteracy and then scratch our heads about why we have more poverty and illiteracy.
Yo guys... Something IS happening with the Sun
A poem I wrote inspired by my experiences and perspectives over the course of the pandemic.Breaking Wheel
We wake with stitches
over our eyes—
born at the mercy of the future,
still somehow able
to see shreds of light
through blindness,
but with no fair warning
of what fresh hell
our forebears forged—
awaiting manufactured fate
with bated breath.
We are fattened up
and fed—unwilling and unaware—
to this cruel, churning,
man-made machine;
the American dream,
a nightmare made manifest:
work… eat…
sleep… reproduce…
then decompose;
consumption at the center of our culture,
chewing ourselves away,
our children doomed
to face this same end.
Yet we are comfortable with conformity,
refusing to face a fragile reality;
confined to the container
in which our flesh-bound
form was poured,
convincing ourselves
there is no better way than this.
The writer’s of this timeline
are victors of a silent war,
waged neither with bombs nor bullets
but instead ideas and words;
cathedrals carefully constructed
to worship ourselves in solitude;
a self-induced mass-psychosis.
The bonds of unity lie broken,
our autonomy and sovereignty
stripped silently overnight
with the fatal crash
of a judge’s gavel.
Now Dogma’s chains
shackle us from hands to feet—
Our hearts encased in concrete caskets
so they may sink
through the bottom of our bodies,
separating self from soul
as we march along
the assembly line
from our cradles
to our graves.
We are raised
to be sanded down
by callous hands—
uncaring,
set on the destruction
of our nature,
and brimming with contempt;
our “faults” laid bare
and flogged out
like dust from old tapestries;
our wax worn away
to bare wireframe;
a brittle candle
reduced to ash by the heat
of a blistering crucible.
But we must crawl on
through break and bend,
trampled by the traumas of our ancients,
inheriting epics
of our very own:
the totality of our bloodlines;
a cacophony of colliding lifetimes;
the culmination of all mankind’s mistakes;
a house of cards caving in
on the next generation.
The gruesome wheels of history
come crushing down
with every revolution;
Samsara spins,
an ageless mandala—
the beautiful Katamari
rolling mercilessly onwards—
its violent tessellations piercing
any and every
possibility of hope.
Its cancerous mass,
with tendrils like roots that spread—
that breathe and bleed,
seeping deep beneath
an ancient, rotted
tree that weeps—
branches out to a billion other lives
unmet and unknown:
the nameless,
the faceless,
the voiceless.
The countless others—
the hungry in the street,
and those in their manors
with hoarded riches, too—
one day will die;
unseen by time,
unheard by God,
like felled trees
with no watcher
in the woods.
This is a huge issue. No doubt.
But we need to consider other issues at hand. Like how many construction workers on a job in a POC neighborhood are white. We got some bigger issues here!
Besides, this is nothing that a strongly worded note from Trans Sec won't clear up. Look at what a similar letter did to whip the airlines into shape!
Why is Argentina facing a heatwave like no other in its history?
186 US banks at risk of failure similar to Silicon Valley Bank, says research.
Honestly, I'm just trying to run the clock down. Hope things hold together for long enough that I either die from natural causes or I'm far enough into my own decline (physical, mental, etc) that I'm ready to pull the plug.
Yes, I know that sounds shitty. But it's also the truth. I see this as a predicament rather than a problem to be solved. Thus the focus is on postponement and adaption. Evil has won and has pulled up the ladder behind them.
Accordingly, I have no children and have been surgically sterilized. I encourage others to do the same.
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Thank you for your elucidating explanation.
To a considerable extent, I concur with your sentiment. Social and emotional intelligence, though somewhat intangible, undeniably exists. The inability to quantify an emergent quality does not serve as evidence of its non-existence. Empaths, for instance, can attest to this phenomenon - that there is a palpable energy that is perceivable when one enters a room filled with people. This sensation is exceedingly challenging to articulate, let alone quantify; nevertheless, the qualia of what it is like is tangible.
This leads me to your other excellent argument that the youth of today are, by a in order of magnitude, more cognizant of history than any preceding generation. Such vast exposure to information can either impede or promote the development of empathy, depending on how one assimilates, attributes, and balances the information. Some argue that acquisition of information outpaced acquisition on wisdom.
Be that as it may, we must be prudent here once we introduce social media into the dialogue.\
It is evident that individualism has triumphed. Nietzsche's assertion that "God is dead", which he made centuries ago, is now unmistakable and evident. Nietzsche's proclamation manifests itself in the rising rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, nihilism, toxicity, and even feminism, which is now posing a danger to itself.\
Intimacy and sacredness, I submit, are absent from the way of life. Mysticism, that once enriched our lives, has been explicated to a point of rude nakedness. It has been commodified, accommodated, and ridiculed. That which gave us meaning and a sense of spirituality and divinity—I am not talking religion here—has been made explicit.
I contend that we have forfeited both emotional and analytical intelligence in our pursuit of mechanical sophistication. The average person now spends more time indoors than in nature, which is rapidly being eroded to keep that very person indoors for longer.\
Some individuals, such as Ben Shapiro, are regarded as sages, despite espousing seemingly sophisticated nonsense. Andrew Tate, on the other hand, is a very astute sophist who appeals to ethos over logos and argues from the pathos. This approach is quite toxic. Donald Trump and the entire political arena, to use as closing point and as an example, which is no longer functioning, do not exemplify intelligence to me.
Anyway…
Get blue swimming crabs, they're a bitch to pick but the best. They also used to be sub $1/lbs live and now it's more like $4. If you really want a treat I can't recommend anything better than Charleston She-Crab soup if you get a roe bearing female. I'm serious, before you check out or the crabs do you need to really grok what we lost.
When minor interest rate fluctuations is all it takes to fundamentally disrupt the stability of the economy, its time to abandon that economic mode. There is no more profitability left in the system. If we properly priced in the externalities of damage this profit driven system creates, nothing would be affordable.
Capitalism needs to die.
I think you're right. Such a large explosion of a previously rare phenomenon makes a physiological explanation plausible. While I'm sure there have always been people who are ace or trans due to normal human variation, to see this big increase in such a short period of time is deeply suspicious.
I have read that trans people have a higher incidence of mental illness, which IMO probably points to problems in brain development, especially those parts that relate to forming a mental identity.
I spoke to trans friend about the concept of 'knowing' you are the opposite gender from your physical sex. Personally, I've never 'felt' like a woman, but more like a person who happens to have a female body. So I was curious, what's it like to have that sort of internal knowledge to the point of needing to change your body to match. Their response to my question was a bit alarming. They more or less said they don't feel like a human being, much less a man, therefore they must be a woman. This made me think about how they have a strong family history of schizophrenia. Actually, their parents were in the military as well.
Obviously, not all trans people have that sort of situation, but I think it is an example of how the issue of trans identity is complex. Endocrine disruptors such as PFAS chemicals just make it more complicated.
Since you're aware of the possibility that your children are the way they are due to factors out of their control, I imagine it makes it very easy to accept them.
For families that are ignorant of that possibility and attribute it to a freely chosen 'sinful' lifestyle, it can cause a great deal of family conflict, rejection, homelessness, mental illness and suicide. What will those parents that judged and rejected their trans children feel, if and when it is someday revealed that PFAS and other pollutants caused such a thing?
Life seems extremely tragic all around. Under these circumstances, compassion and acceptance is the only sensible choice.
I think you're right. Such a large explosion of a previously rare phenomenon makes a physiological explanation plausible. While I'm sure there have always been people who are ace or trans due to normal human variation, to see this big increase in such a short period of time is deeply suspicious.
I have read that trans people have a higher incidence of mental illness, which IMO probably points to problems in brain development, especially those parts that relate to forming a mental identity.
I spoke to trans friend about the concept of 'knowing' you are the opposite gender from your physical sex. Personally, I've never 'felt' like a woman, but more like a person who happens to have a female body. So I was curious, what's it like to have that sort of internal knowledge to the point of needing to change your body to match. Their response to my question was a bit alarming. They more or less said they don't feel like a human being, much less a man, therefore they must be a woman. This made me think about how they have a strong family history of schizophrenia. Actually, their parents were in the military as well.
Obviously, not all trans people have that sort of situation, but I think it is an example of how the issue of trans identity is complex. Endocrine disruptors such as PFAS chemicals just make it more complicated.
Since you're aware of the possibility that your children are the way they are due to factors out of their control, I imagine it makes it very easy to accept them.
For families that are ignorant of that possibility and attribute it to a freely chosen 'sinful' lifestyle, it can cause a great deal of family conflict, rejection, homelessness, mental illness and suicide. What will those parents that judged and rejected their trans children feel, if and when it is someday revealed that PFAS and other pollutants caused such a thing?
Life seems extremely tragic all around. Under these circumstances, compassion and acceptance is the only sensible choice.
I read this a Pussy Bankas for a moment
It was realistic though. It's more about the human condition in the face of the collapse. It was boring, but imo it's gonna be a slow and brutal collapse
Genuinely how do you people think this shit can continue forever? You realize eternal zero interest rates and constantly printing money would actually fucking kill capitalism? Like this isn't an actual solution to the system hitting its hard limits, there ain't more road to kick that can down.
My best suggestion to you is to read a book once in awhile. Expand beyond your own narrow views about human nature.
IQ is meaningless to be fair
Burn bitch burn!
need those feathers for all the women being busted weekly for pretending to be indigenous.
with search at your finger tips no need to use wide swaths of your brain anymore
While it definitely has felt grim lately, it is important to remember the role that publishing bias plays in feeling like this. It’s not necessarily that the incidence rate of these things is rising, as it could also be the rising prevalence of media surrounding these issues. Just because you hear more about something doesn’t mean there is more of that thing.
This isn’t to say that something isn’t happening, but rather to acknowledge confounding factors that might skew our opinions.
Edit: if we do not acknowledge things publication and recency bias, we might spend our time thinking about and fixing problems that aren’t actually problems.
Depressed as shit the last two days, so maybe I'll let loose and be offensive.
It's Covid destroying synapses and brain cells. If you don't know that by now, wow...
Also, I like all the people saying that IQ tests are bullshit. They should go one further and say that differences in intelligence are socially constructed, like gender.
I predict Covid damage in children will lead to higher levels of learning disabilities, especially ADHD since it affects attention and memory so much. Once those kids reach their teens, I wonder if a higher percentage will develop schizophrenia also? We're going to need those asylums for the 'mentally feeble' and criminally insane again. (Not sure if I'm being sarcastic or not now...)
Today me and my friend tried to run the numbers on how much it would cost the feds to buy every American two N95's a month. (We both suck at math, so who knows if the numbers are right or not, lol.) It was about 1/300 of the federal budget, so me and my friend said, "They're cheap assholes! We gonna die and get Long Covid because they don't give a shit!" But I couldn't leave it alone and said, "Wait, what if they can't make that many N95's?" So, then I looked up 3M's annual production and the last figures were from 2021, triple what it was in 2019. 2021's total was like 1/7 of what it would have to be to give every American those masks. Then we lay back and said, "We have the money, but the masks don't exist. No wonder they won't tell the people that masks work and could prevent Long Covid. Nobody's coming to rescue us. Ignorance was bliss." Then we gave up on math and talked about the insane weather.
Lol, we're sooooooo fucked.
You need to get out and socialize, try finding a job, even if it's a shitty one. After you get some experience you can apply for a better job.
Sitting around worrying about things that happened in the past is not good for you. Tons of people have gone to university/college and never got a job in what they studied. You need to get out of your rut.
When though?
If it's coming sooner than expected why isn't anyone preparing? Why are people still going to work and school? Why are we sending our kids off to college and happy when they graduate if the world will be an uninhabitable, bleak place in "the near future"?
That's what doesn't make sense. You'd think everything would come to a screeching halt and people would adopt different ways to start adapting.
Why isn't everyone running to the banks and selling off the houses? Why are new cars still being bought?
You people make it seem like the end is near. Yet no one cares.
wear a mask, is my point,I didn't mention vaccines. wear a mask.
your "mild case" spreads and kills someone else. do you care?
for a few months the vaccines were a very good assist to other forms of mitigation and could have stemmed the tide, but selfish assholes won't give a damn about other people, and rich nations wouldn't share, so now we've got variants that aren't even slowed down by the vaccines.
wear a mask, killer.
wear a mask, is my point,I didn't mention vaccines. wear a mask.
your "mild case" spreads and kills someone else. do you care?
for a few months the vaccines were a very good assist to other forms of mitigation and could have stemmed the tide, but selfish assholes won't give a damn about other people, and rich nations wouldn't share, so now we've got variants that aren't even slowed down by the vaccines.
wear a mask, killer.
wear a mask, is my point,I didn't mention vaccines. wear a mask.
your "mild case" spreads and kills someone else. do you care?
for a few months the vaccines were a very good assist to other forms of mitigation and could have stemmed the tide, but selfish assholes won't give a damn about other people, and rich nations wouldn't share, so now we've got variants that aren't even slowed down by the vaccines.
wear a mask, killer.
"What do you get when you cross destruction of the middle class with environmental toxins? I'll tell you what you get. You get what you fucking deserve!"
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Trouble with loved ones.Hey everyone. So... I'm aware of, everything, posting here for obvious reasons, and looking for advice.
Post pandemic I really stared a deep dive into our predicament. I have A daughter 7 years now. I give her nightmares according to her mother. Her mother wants a separation because she believes I am the reason.
I try to be a good parent and prepare my daughter for the wold that will be. It's hard with kids at this age, being aware, and having the paternal instinct to prepare your offspring for the world that is. My partner believes it's important to raise her omitting details, and threatening to remove me from the home, because I tell her the truth
I live in Canada, and our housing is currently an international joke(British Columbia for me). I can't afford to live in the same community, and I will loose my child if we separate. Like what's the play here?
Trouble with loved ones.Hey everyone. So... I'm aware of, everything, posting here for obvious reasons, and looking for advice.
Post pandemic I really stared a deep dive into our predicament. I have A daughter 7 years now. I give her nightmares according to her mother. Her mother wants a separation because she believes I am the reason.
I try to be a good parent and prepare my daughter for the wold that will be. It's hard with kids at this age, being aware, and having the paternal instinct to prepare your offspring for the world that is. My partner believes it's important to raise her omitting details, and threatening to remove me from the home, because I tell her the truth
I live in Canada, and our housing is currently an international joke(British Columbia for me). I can't afford to live in the same community, and I will loose my child if we separate. Like what's the play here?
"out of nothing"
your egotism really makes you underappreciate how much can be done that we havent thought of yet. AGAIN, the point of AI is that it could become SMARTER than us,process things faster, learn quicker, build things you wouldnt have thought of or dont have the tools for ....yet.
in the year i dunno 1021, or 1300, do you think they could imagine or actually create hundreds of millions of handheld devices that allowed you to call different points via different circuitry and waves and communicate information back and forth instantaneously with the tools and materials they had on hand? ofc not. the same idea.
yea that they dont get this is kind of like...incomprehensible to me. the very basic concept of tech is that it advances through time
I think you're right. Such a large explosion of a previously rare phenomenon makes a physiological explanation plausible. While I'm sure there have always been people who are ace or trans due to normal human variation, to see this big increase in such a short period of time is deeply suspicious.
I have read that trans people have a higher incidence of mental illness, which IMO probably points to problems in brain development, especially those parts that relate to forming a mental identity.
I spoke to trans friend about the concept of 'knowing' you are the opposite gender from your physical sex. Personally, I've never 'felt' like a woman, but more like a person who happens to have a female body. So I was curious, what's it like to have that sort of internal knowledge to the point of needing to change your body to match. Their response to my question was a bit alarming. They more or less said they don't feel like a human being, much less a man, therefore they must be a woman. This made me think about how they have a strong family history of schizophrenia. Actually, their parents were in the military as well.
Obviously, not all trans people have that sort of situation, but I think it is an example of how the issue of trans identity is complex. Endocrine disruptors such as PFAS chemicals just make it more complicated.
Since you're aware of the possibility that your children are the way they are due to factors out of their control, I imagine it makes it very easy to accept them.
For families that are ignorant of that possibility and attribute it to a freely chosen 'sinful' lifestyle, it can cause a great deal of family conflict, rejection, homelessness, mental illness and suicide. What will those parents that judged and rejected their trans children feel, if and when it is someday revealed that PFAS and other pollutants caused such a thing?
Life seems extremely tragic all around. Under these circumstances, compassion and acceptance is the only sensible choice.
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[Credit Bubble Bulletin Blog] (Chronicling History's Greatest Financial Bubble) <Saturday, March 18, 2023> Weekly Commentary: FIRE!!!!!https://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2023/03/weekly-commentary-fire.html
**Highlights:**
* We’re officially one week into what will **likely evolve into a major banking and financial crisis**. Understandably, there are comparisons to the Lehman collapse. Such analysis doesn’t seem as lunatic fringe after this week’s upheaval in Europe.
* The Swiss National Bank (SNB) liquidity injection failed to calm fears – at Credit Suisse or for European banks more generally. **Things have quickly erupted into an international banking crisis.** Those nagging old derivative and counter-party risks…
* Europe faces a serious inflation problem. But I couldn’t help but think that perhaps Wednesday’s euro drop conjured memories of past European debt crises.
* Global markets did not “seize up” this week. However, the week had all the characteristics of the start of a serious period of de-risking/deleveraging. The SVB and U.S. banking crisis is, of course, an important dynamic. **But the global nature of the unfolding crisis creates a much more complex market and financial backdrop**. Derivatives markets in disarray. Hedge funds/family offices are running for cover. And in stark contrast to 2022, currency markets have turned disorderly and unpredictable. No place to hide. No environment for leverage. When markets start malfunctioning like this, my thoughts return to the $65 TN of “hidden leverage” identified by the Bank of International Settlements.
* There is every reason to take the unfolding crisis most seriously. There will be comparisons to 2008, **but we must recognize the potential for something worse.**
* China and emerging markets were in relatively robust up-cycles in 2008, with their stimulus and speedy recoveries providing a “global locomotive” that helped pull the world economy out of the morass. Chinese bank assets closed 2007 below $8.0 TN. Possibly surpassing $60 TN this year, Chinese bank Credit won’t be the global savior for this cycle.
* There were many alarming developments this week. None could prove more consequential than uncharacteristically belligerent comments from one of the world’s leading central banks. We shouldn’t bank on the PBOC’s eager participation in concerted policy measures to thwart U.S., European and global financial crises. **On many levels, risks today greatly outweigh 2008.** And **no amount of money-printing will resolve deep structural problems decades in the making.** Moreover, we could be entering a major global crisis with every man (central bank) for himself. There will be an inclination to prioritize domestic over international. Some will remain focused on severe inflation problems, while others will pivot to financial instability. There are different agendas – “world orders” and geopolitical considerations to contemplate.
* I don’t like being the guy yelling “fire” in the crowded theater. But there’s a fire burning. I hope it can be contained. **It’s uncomfortable to hear so many shouting “stay calm, no fire!”** And we’ve all grown tired of the false alarms. There’s just so much highly combustible material that has accumulated over the years. The stuff’s everywhere, in the aisles and even obstructing some exits.
* **How much confidence should we place in those decrepit fire extinguishers working this time around?** With all the structural changes, it’s become such a towering theater – the grandeur, the dazzling new technologies and sophistication, filled with the unsuspecting, the rascals and newbies – with the same old small exits. Look at those guys eagerly making their way through the exit. Weren’t they the ones hollering “no fire”? **It’s difficult to predict how the jittery crowd will respond to those first whiffs of smoke, but I’m not going to assume things stay orderly.**
https://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/ has daily bad news links and is updated multiples times per day
[Credit Bubble Bulletin Blog] (Chronicling History's Greatest Financial Bubble) <Saturday, March 18, 2023> Weekly Commentary: FIRE!!!!!https://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2023/03/weekly-commentary-fire.html
**Highlights:**
* We’re officially one week into what will **likely evolve into a major banking and financial crisis**. Understandably, there are comparisons to the Lehman collapse. Such analysis doesn’t seem as lunatic fringe after this week’s upheaval in Europe.
* The Swiss National Bank (SNB) liquidity injection failed to calm fears – at Credit Suisse or for European banks more generally. **Things have quickly erupted into an international banking crisis.** Those nagging old derivative and counter-party risks…
* Europe faces a serious inflation problem. But I couldn’t help but think that perhaps Wednesday’s euro drop conjured memories of past European debt crises.
* Global markets did not “seize up” this week. However, the week had all the characteristics of the start of a serious period of de-risking/deleveraging. The SVB and U.S. banking crisis is, of course, an important dynamic. **But the global nature of the unfolding crisis creates a much more complex market and financial backdrop**. Derivatives markets in disarray. Hedge funds/family offices are running for cover. And in stark contrast to 2022, currency markets have turned disorderly and unpredictable. No place to hide. No environment for leverage. When markets start malfunctioning like this, my thoughts return to the $65 TN of “hidden leverage” identified by the Bank of International Settlements.
* There is every reason to take the unfolding crisis most seriously. There will be comparisons to 2008, **but we must recognize the potential for something worse.**
* China and emerging markets were in relatively robust up-cycles in 2008, with their stimulus and speedy recoveries providing a “global locomotive” that helped pull the world economy out of the morass. Chinese bank assets closed 2007 below $8.0 TN. Possibly surpassing $60 TN this year, Chinese bank Credit won’t be the global savior for this cycle.
* There were many alarming developments this week. None could prove more consequential than uncharacteristically belligerent comments from one of the world’s leading central banks. We shouldn’t bank on the PBOC’s eager participation in concerted policy measures to thwart U.S., European and global financial crises. **On many levels, risks today greatly outweigh 2008.** And **no amount of money-printing will resolve deep structural problems decades in the making.** Moreover, we could be entering a major global crisis with every man (central bank) for himself. There will be an inclination to prioritize domestic over international. Some will remain focused on severe inflation problems, while others will pivot to financial instability. There are different agendas – “world orders” and geopolitical considerations to contemplate.
* I don’t like being the guy yelling “fire” in the crowded theater. But there’s a fire burning. I hope it can be contained. **It’s uncomfortable to hear so many shouting “stay calm, no fire!”** And we’ve all grown tired of the false alarms. There’s just so much highly combustible material that has accumulated over the years. The stuff’s everywhere, in the aisles and even obstructing some exits.
* **How much confidence should we place in those decrepit fire extinguishers working this time around?** With all the structural changes, it’s become such a towering theater – the grandeur, the dazzling new technologies and sophistication, filled with the unsuspecting, the rascals and newbies – with the same old small exits. Look at those guys eagerly making their way through the exit. Weren’t they the ones hollering “no fire”? **It’s difficult to predict how the jittery crowd will respond to those first whiffs of smoke, but I’m not going to assume things stay orderly.**
https://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/ has daily bad news links and is updated multiples times per day
Yeah, I figured as much. But it's not just math and it's not just good old days. There was probably less diversity in mainstream discourse 100 years ago (1920s to the 90s) -- than now. Mainstream media being as centralized as it was.
This broadening was allowed by the golden age of internet was 1980s to 2010s. All a variety of opinions and less centralized and less politically correct. But now that the masses moved from Usenet and individually run forums to central spots like reddit and facebook, we're getting the same old narrow Overton windows again controlled from the top down.
It was disheartening to see it in my lifetime. From bootlicking normies controlling the room to a wonderful broad discussion back to bootlicking normies back in control. Bootlicking in this case refers to those who defer to higher ups in their decisions to guide and censor discussion. It's really hard to use reddit now knowing what it was 15 years ago. It feels like an empty shell of itself, before Condé Nast exuded control.
In the early 00s, in the free software movement, we referred to such environements as the cathedral vs the bazaar although it's also apt socially.
Eh, I guess I'm rambling now.
Demographics are destiny…who knew importing millions of third world immigrants would do this…who knew
Demographics are destiny…who knew importing millions of third world immigrants would do this…who knew
>+ single parents
Second edit to remove the initial comment since apparently it's abusive and attacking.
Editing to go into further detail about some various points of the comment I disagree with now that I'm not so mad.
Video games are most certainly not a significant contributing factor in the decline of literacy, you have to be literate to play the vast majority of video games so if anything they have probably helped to blunt increases in illiteracy.
I also don't see why porn, something that has existed in some form for hundreds of not thousands of years would have a significant effect on literacy rates.
Equity based grading, depending on context and circumstances is a something that is occasionally fair and needed, if a student is putting the effort into doing the absolute best they can, they should have that effort recognized to some degree.
Discipline is often racist, with children who aren't East Asian or White often facing it more often and more severely for lesser reasons then most East Asian and White children do, and discipline is also often classist with children of wealthy families far less likely to face discipline than those of other levels of financial wellbeing.
And for the one that made me mad, because it's personal to me as the child of one, a lot, if not the vast majority of single parents are in no way, shape or form contributing to the decline of literacy rates. Society snubbing single parents and making it harder for them to spend time with their child due to the insane imbalance of work-life balance, discrimination against single parents and their children, and resources that once aided single parents being defunded are all far bigger issues than the fact that there are single parents.
>+ single parents
Second edit to remove the initial comment since apparently it's abusive and attacking.
Editing to go into further detail about some various points of the comment I disagree with now that I'm not so mad.
Video games are most certainly not a significant contributing factor in the decline of literacy, you have to be literate to play the vast majority of video games so if anything they have probably helped to blunt increases in illiteracy.
I also don't see why porn, something that has existed in some form for hundreds of not thousands of years would have a significant effect on literacy rates.
Equity based grading, depending on context and circumstances is a something that is occasionally fair and needed, if a student is putting the effort into doing the absolute best they can, they should have that effort recognized to some degree.
Discipline is often racist, with children who aren't East Asian or White often facing it more often and more severely for lesser reasons then most East Asian and White children do, and discipline is also often classist with children of wealthy families far less likely to face discipline than those of other levels of financial wellbeing.
And for the one that made me mad, because it's personal to me as the child of one, a lot, if not the vast majority of single parents are in no way, shape or form contributing to the decline of literacy rates. Society snubbing single parents and making it harder for them to spend time with their child due to the insane imbalance of work-life balance, discrimination against single parents and their children, and resources that once aided single parents being defunded are all far bigger issues than the fact that there are single parents.
Belgium reports 11 cases of H5N1 in Red Foxes, 6 in Mustelids and 2 in European Polecats.
One week on: what's the fallout from the SV banking collapse?So respectively the second and third largest banking collapses of history happened this year. What has been the fallout so far America? what are the knock on effects?
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Has it touched your life personally? do you live in the area - how has it been seen there? Do you work in the tech sector? has it touched your company?
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HAs it had knock on effects to the banking sector at large? How likely is it to domino in the banking sector?
I'm going to depopulate myself Bill. Don't need your help sweetie.
I'm going to depopulate myself Bill. Don't need your help sweetie.
Do Not Fear Progress and Technology; Fear Capitalism - Technologies, much like corporations, are not inherently ‘evil.’ Rather, they are shaped by cultural and ideological circumstances.
Location: Earth
The entities which are running the simulations which include the one for life on Earth gave me an assignment. Go to Earth and report on the situation.
It doesn't take a lot of time to figure out that humans are destroying themselves and the ecosystems they depend upon. That's pretty evident. But why are they doing it ?
The code for the Earth simulation involves the concept of fixed resources and death. With fixed resources, death is advantageous for evolutionary purposes and recycling of resources. Occasionally the simulators threw in events like meteors to shake things up when they wanted a wholesale shakeup of things.
Recently, the simulators threw in a wrinkle called awareness in humans. And when humans discovered death, they didn't know how to handle it. The simulators also threw in the desire to avoid death as part of the design. That avoidance morphed into fear and some clever humans figured out how to organize entire societies based around that fear. They convinced people that they could live forever if they simply did what the clever people told them to do and believed what the clever people told them to believe.
The simulators have provided some people like the buddha who have provided a path out of the fear. But the clever people who like controlling others have found ways to keep people living in fear.
In fact, the clever people running the show are the most fearful people of all. Their compulsion to control things is the ultimate expression of fearing their death.
The key to life continuing on earth is letting go of the fear of death. Embracing the rules of the simulation will allow it to go on. Fighting the rules is the route to extinction. Humans would do well to abandon the fear inducing Abrahamic religions which are so out of step with their continuity.
You're going to die. Don't be afraid. Enjoy life.
Honestly, I'm not entirely sold that this is as bad of a negative as some might think. Granted it depends on the level of the drop and stuff but, IQ is a flawed metric that seriously needs revision.
I'm more concerned about EQ levels and what, to me at least, seems to be a decline in compassion, empathy, and sympathy and the rise of apathy, hostility and indifference.
It doesn't matter how high the average IQ of a nation is if all of those people are only concerned about themselves and would gladly shove those around them under the bus to improve themselves.
I've never had to use MLA *since* college.
I bet you could spend 15 minutes on Wikipedia and find 20 things your teachers know absolutely nothing about.
It does have other implications it’s bullshit. The definition of an accelerationist is a person who purposely does things like voting the worst choice into office or committing acts of terror to accelerate the demise of the world system. People like you and I just want to get on with the collapse of civilization because it’s happening faster and faster but the government is knowing just dragging it out so that they stay rich as long as possible before it all hits the fan.
I enjoyed it because it shows how ignorant and arrogant the human species is. The billionaire who got played about the casino imo is a good representation if the corporate mindset.
I only got to watch the first episode. Looks great so far, very *collapse oriented*. Just found the other two episodes. Going to ignore your post until later.
People actively want to be dumb these days because they associate it with being sexy
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East Palestine Soil Contains Dioxin Levels Hundreds of Times Over Cancer Risk Threshold
lol \*hugs\*
SS: A group of psychologists, two from Northwestern University and the third from the University of Oregon, has found via online testing that IQ scores in the U.S. may be dropping for the first time in nearly a century. In their paper published in the journal Intelligence, Elizabeth Dworak, William Revelle and David Condon describe analyzing the results of online IQ tests taken by volunteers over the years 2006 to 2018.
This relates to collapse showing how epigenetics is causing young people to have lowered intelligence. This affects society because we will have fewer innovations. Could it be caused by toxins in our food/water, culture or lack of education?
“Those savages lived here for 10,000 years and never developed open pit mines or industrial slaughterhouses, what a bunch of losers.”
all of you are uninformed and behind the times.
I think that you saying the end of the world will be lame is tone deaf and stupid.
Capitalism can fuck right off, but I think the problem just runs so much deeper than that. I always like to point out that we humans have been doing a fantastic job of killing off the planet for millennia. This isn’t something new.
The lion went extinct in Asia Minor during the Roman Empire. Most of Britain was deforested by the year 1000, had almost no timber by 1600, and had switched over to coal by 1700. 25 genera of land mammals, such as Harrington’s mountain goat and the Shasta ground sloth all went extinct around the same time, roughly 10,000 years ago, the same time the Clovis culture began to appear in North America.
Sure, we’ve gotten a hell of a lot more efficient at killing off our fellow beasts and the earth we share with them, but don’t get it twisted. The fossil records show that essentially, once enough humans take root somewhere, well, death and devastation follows. We were doing this even before we invented civilization *but* civilization made the devastation more effective. Same with the Industrial Revolution. I believe it’s in our nature as apex predators. I think that the nature of intelligent life is to destroy itself. We seek two things: we wish to dominate each other and life/the planet in general and we seek to make life nice and comfy cozy.
So, I just don’t know that we ever will live in harmony with nature again. Because the last time we did that was impossibly long ago… the moment we stopped being “animals” was the moment it was all over, I think.
that takes years for them to produce fruit, and they would get cut down after only weeks in urban areas.
Import? The poverty and illiteracy is home grown, baby
It pains me to quote a rat like Ben Shapiro, but honestly, facts dont care about your feelings.
Single parenthood is the single biggest factor in many many negative traits that children can develop.
'Trying to imply'
Of course Im not, Im factually stating it, single mothers produce way way more dysfunctional antisocial criminal kids than single fathers.
Almost like the nuclear family is a good thing. Who woulda thunk.
Is 1961 the year they started recording temperatures, or did they in fact experience hotter heatwaves in 1961 compared to now?
Eh, some people just hate having to deal with survival threats and an office job at the same time. So at least in a collapse the office job goes away and there’s only one demand is the though process. But there’s no light switch, just a slow descent.
Example 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/10lt5a6/the_collapse_is_happening_one_class_at_a_time/
There used to be special rooms where the kids in a school with severe behavioral issues were sent more or less to fail. This was before my time, but from what I've heard they weren't pleasant or pretty. This was deemed too bad to continue, so they just took all those kids and threw them in gen ed classrooms. They also instituted all positivity based consequences.
As an example. Last year I had a kid in a long term gig I was working (I'm still a sub working toward being a proper teacher) who was always acting out majorly. This was a third grade classroom. One day he called a girl in the class a fucking bitch and hit another kid with some keys on a lanyard and left a welt. I sent him to the office. The result was that he was put into a program for kids who misbehaved where they went and did art projects and got treats like candy or cookies. They got to leave class to do these meetings (as opposed to having them during lunch or recess or some other time where it might take something away from the student that they wanted... you know... a consequence) and then they got to come back with their toy they made and some candy that they then lorded over the other students while they just continued to misbehave. It was absurd.
just more fodder for the upcoming better weather Trump Rallies >>>> just more idiot flailings from scared shitless traitors & criminals - they can see the orange jumpsuits coming their way - ESPECIALLY BIDEN !!!!!!!!!
just more fodder for the upcoming better weather Trump Rallies >>>> just more idiot flailings from scared shitless traitors & criminals - they can see the orange jumpsuits coming their way - ESPECIALLY BIDEN !!!!!!!!!
Trump says he expects to be arrested Tuesday | CNN Politics
Fight Like An Animal Podcast
Credit Suisse's $39 Trillion Derivative Debt Poses Significant Threat to US Financial System.
i would think perennials because they create more food for longer; quick growing food like leafy greens as opposed to bushes or small trees (which are also likely to get cut down), so there's a shorter amount of time it takes to actually grow and become available to others. also ROOTS!!! potatoes , sunchokes, yams, sweet potaoes, peanuts carrots turnips etc, as they can hide better and produce a lot of high-calorie food fast. not as amenable to herbicides aboveground, theyll keep growing below.
also, things that grow like weeds: DANDELIONS! green onions, scallions, grasses like lemongrass and wheatgrass which are not high calorie but grow like crazy.
Imagine being so out of touch that you think $85k in household income equates to individual salaries when most millennials are now in their 30-40s and married with kids. Imagine thinking that's enough to pay down student loans, save for retirement, and purchase $800k starter homes that boomers bought for $50k while holding jobs that required little to no education. No shit the younger generations have more income, they're still working. And if they're living outside of high cost urban areas, they're making nowhere near $85k on average.
\>> People might tell you to use natives, but cities are artificial environments. Planting edibles so that people can forage is a good idea.
this
are you insane? none of this is close to true about humanity!!!! Every single "anthropologically recent" ie hegemonic, agricultural, Mesolithic and Neolithic society that we know about engaged in long term agricultural systems utilizing sustainable permaculture patterns such as irrigation islands, food forests, "three sisters" etc. Monoculture, extreme environmental pollution, slash and burn, are ENTIRELY of extremely recent origin(ie CAPITALISM)!!!!
source: degree in anthropology
are you insane? none of this is close to true about humanity!!!! Every single "anthropologically recent" ie hegemonic, agricultural, Mesolithic and Neolithic society that we know about engaged in long term agricultural systems utilizing sustainable permaculture patterns such as irrigation islands, food forests, "three sisters" etc. Monoculture, extreme environmental pollution, slash and burn, are ENTIRELY of extremely recent origin(ie CAPITALISM)!!!!
source: degree in anthropology
Software Developers: Your Chance of Survival in a Post-apocalyptic World
What the fuck are you talking about? Don't simp for anybody. This is the modus operandi, this is our history for thousands of years, this is our legacy repeated over and again and again and again and again as we pincer the living world into our vice. This is normal, this is what we are pure and simple.
What the fuck are you talking about? Don't simp for anybody. This is the modus operandi, this is our history for thousands of years, this is our legacy repeated over and again and again and again and again as we pincer the living world into our vice. This is normal, this is what we are pure and simple.
hey fellow comrade, i would LOVE to help you here in florida except i've learned i'm horrible at gardening. Guerrilla gardening is literally my favorite thing; I think it's inarguably the most revolutionary, best thing we can all do to change society. It's just, Im not any good at it!!
He passed the most comprehensive climate change bill in the history of the planet. So lacking on environmental issues.
You people are so fucking delusional.
He passed the most comprehensive climate change bill in the history of the planet. So lacking on environmental issues.
You people are so fucking delusional.
Feel free to discuss how to help and potential solutions, but, if you do opt to create a gofundme, please pre-clear it with mods by sending a modmail before sharing it in the sub
hey comrade, can we DO something to help the people get out? a gofundme or something?
>I mostly try not to think about what will happen in the next few decades.
Given this and all of the rest of the above comment, avoiding r/collapse might be in the best interest of your mental health.
sure but if we're talking specifically about pollution, rather than the morality of a society, that is simply not true. The moral underpinnings of massive greed and complexifying , socially constructed needs, he might be right that humans have been shitballs for just EVER.
source: Anthropology degree.
if it gets to litteraly that and i have no hope im just going to bite my own toung off and bleed to death f that nightmare meat for the machine \*shudders\*
if it gets to litteraly that and i have no hope im just going to bite my own toung off and bleed to death f that nightmare meat for the machine \*shudders\*
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
This is true, I have drowned over 5 times now. Damn deniers.
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
This is true, I have drowned over 5 times now. Damn deniers.
ANY OF YOU FUCKING PRICKS STOP WORKING, I'M GONNA EVICT EVERY MOTHERFUCKING LAST ONE OF YA.
This is why I'm actually against illegal immigration, it allows a system where people are taken advantage of by the owning class, they deserve to live out of the shadows, they are the literal definition of a cheap and expendable workforce.
is it?
have you ever climbed it?
or just believed the stories of others
i don't even think it will happen. You see how the TPTB/ Elites will do ANYTHING (mostly, adding debt balances therefore increasing taxes and inflation which affects us more than them) rather than letting the system fall. If Collapse happens at all it will be because us proles eventually get so oppressed we just blow up the whole system and they can't uphold it anymore. Which is unlikely
I agree with you as an American labor-rights Socialist; personally? I think his advisors are reading the room and know the Democratic establishment- viciously hated - will keep losing unless they take some real stances.
You can see where the true entrenched power cores lie however; look at what he hasnt addressed- election reform and workers' rights!
That's really where it's at.
hey comrade, can we DO something to help the people get out? a gofundme or something?
yeah surprised? not
the best is when you overdraw by $3 but only because the bank sent something through at the last minute incorrectly making it look as if you are overdrawn although two hours ago you weren't and your balance sheet says you're not so now you owe then $3 + $35, plus the next charge since you didn't know you were overdrawn BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT adds another $35 so now it's -$73, then your monthly fee goes though and it's another $15 plus $35 cuz you couldnt pay that so now it's $123 you owe, then seven years later you get an email that youre part of a class action lawsuit whereby your bank was purposely sending through charges in order to deduct fees from poor people knowingly, as a business pattern: your recompense is $27.
THE WORST was People's Choice Bank, they took an entire paycheck and I couldn't pay for food.
fintech and credit unions all the way, kiddos.
Think about it: who gains and who loses from distributing and absorbing those costs across the system via inflation, rising costs etc? Obviously we lose as it affects us, not them. They (the 1%, or !5 OF the 1% if you wish) dgaf if their Hamptons vacation costs $12000 or $18000. WE do. Our vacations become fewer; out grocery store items are now $78 rather than $63 which means we cant buy our kid that new jacket he needs QUITE yet because of how that money adds up. They are fucking US by these policies and their mistakes; yet if WE make the SLIGHTEST mistake it's YOU'RE FIRED. IMMEDIATELY. "At-will" employment.
Who set the system up this way? THEY DID. The politicians, the lobbyists, the lawyers, all passing the money between them in making these laws and policies and leaving us out.
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Eh, some people just hate having to deal with survival threats and an office job at the same time. So at least in a collapse the office job goes away and there’s only one demand is the though process. But there’s no light switch, just a slow descent.
Example 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/10lt5a6/the_collapse_is_happening_one_class_at_a_time/
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Tv mini series "Extrapolations" (spoilers)Sci-fi drama, set in the next 33ish years. People dealing climate change in a world where our flawed human nature hasn't changed.
Ep 1, Pretty standard stuff. Funny scenes throughout, mocking the hubris and naivete of the rich and privileged.
Episode themes- Forest fires, climate refugees, UN debates, corporate exploitation, etc. Sadly the episode is very realistic, but it doesn't address the real possibility that may be the end point for us. Global unrest, ecosystem collapse, etc.
Ep 2, Future children dealing with cardiovascular diseases (believable) Companies that exist to preserve the DNA of animals (believable) Deep sea mining rigs (believable) Cracking the code on communicating with whales (believable, scientists working on it now, AI will be a game changer)
But it all reads like a bad Black Mirror episode. Episode focuses on the emotional element of being a mother in a dying world. But it's Hollywood and what does a millionaire mother know about really being a mother?
Ep 3, could not get through it.
Ep 4, Not released yet. But it looks interesting.
Tv mini series "Extrapolations" (spoilers)Sci-fi drama, set in the next 33ish years. People dealing climate change in a world where our flawed human nature hasn't changed.
Ep 1, Pretty standard stuff. Funny scenes throughout, mocking the hubris and naivete of the rich and privileged.
Episode themes- Forest fires, climate refugees, UN debates, corporate exploitation, etc. Sadly the episode is very realistic, but it doesn't address the real possibility that may be the end point for us. Global unrest, ecosystem collapse, etc.
Ep 2, Future children dealing with cardiovascular diseases (believable) Companies that exist to preserve the DNA of animals (believable) Deep sea mining rigs (believable) Cracking the code on communicating with whales (believable, scientists working on it now, AI will be a game changer)
But it all reads like a bad Black Mirror episode. Episode focuses on the emotional element of being a mother in a dying world. But it's Hollywood and what does a millionaire mother know about really being a mother?
Ep 3, could not get through it.
Ep 4, Not released yet. But it looks interesting.
'Terrifying' plastic rocks found on remote island in Brazil
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Farming and tourism under threat as winter drought dries up France's Lake MontbelThe signs of the times that few want to see or are willing to interpret correctly.
There is still meteorological winter in Europe and the fight for water is already in full swing.
It remains to wish mankind that it finally becomes awake.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/farming-and-tourism-under-threat-as-winter-drought-dries-up-frances-lake-montbel/ar-AA18LRAJ
Farming and tourism under threat as winter drought dries up France's Lake MontbelThe signs of the times that few want to see or are willing to interpret correctly.
There is still meteorological winter in Europe and the fight for water is already in full swing.
It remains to wish mankind that it finally becomes awake.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/farming-and-tourism-under-threat-as-winter-drought-dries-up-frances-lake-montbel/ar-AA18LRAJ
I agree. I'm just sort of dunking on the Venus By Thursday crowd.
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“No one should think fish kills on this scale is natural,” he said.SS: This article relates to environmental degradation.
An extraordinary fish kill has occurred at the Darling-Baaka River in Menindee, New South Wales, Australia. It follows extreme flooding in the area. Fish kills occurred in the same region a few years ago following drought, although not to this extent.
Immense ecological pressure continues to be placed on one of Australia's greatest ecosystems.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/17/unfathomable-millions-of-dead-fish-blanket-river-near-menindee-in-latest-mass-kill?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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“No one should think fish kills on this scale is natural,” he said.SS: This article relates to environmental degradation.
An extraordinary fish kill has occurred at the Darling-Baaka River in Menindee, New South Wales, Australia. It follows extreme flooding in the area. Fish kills occurred in the same region a few years ago following drought, although not to this extent.
Immense ecological pressure continues to be placed on one of Australia's greatest ecosystems.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/17/unfathomable-millions-of-dead-fish-blanket-river-near-menindee-in-latest-mass-kill?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Eh, some people just hate having to deal with survival threats and an office job at the same time. So at least in a collapse the office job goes away and there’s only one demand is the though process. But there’s no light switch, just a slow descent.
Example 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/10lt5a6/the_collapse_is_happening_one_class_at_a_time/
I don’t know what the point of this comment is. None of those people were the ones I was talking about.
Either Hyper-Inflation or a Banking Collapse is coming - Be prepared
Back in 2020, as most of you know, due to COVID-19 fear, many retail investors pulled out of invested assets for liquid cash. This caused a small market panic and a huge collapse in prices in the stock market, crypto, commodities, and other markets.
In order to stop further panic selling the Fed stepped in and printed trillions of dollars of liquid money and injected it into the economy. They additionally enacted a policy of quantitative easing lowering interest rates all the way to 0% allowing for more loans and thus spendable money to exist in the economy.
[About Covid Economic Policies](https://www.thebalancemoney.com/fundamentals-of-the-2020-market-crash-4799950)
Over the next year, the economy rallied back to new highs because of the existence of all this newly printed money, but due to the excess amount of demand for products as well as the slowed production and availability of them from COVID-19, and corporate greed, prices started to rise, and thus inflation. Once the inflation rate got to over 5% the FED once again stepped in and began quantitative tightening raising the borrowing interest rates to help stop curb inflation.
Meanwhile at the banks, since so much new cash existed in the economy, deposits increased exponentially. The banks don’t keep most of their deposits in cash but instead invest them into “safe” assets like treasury bonds or mortgage-backed loans. With the case of SVB their deposits went from around 50 billion pre-covid to 190 billion. The problem is if one of these banks has a run on them, it causes the banks to have to sell the assets to gain enough liquid cash for the depositors. However, when the treasury bonds were bought they were during low-interest rate periods like back in march of 2020. Since then, the bonds have decreased in value due to interest rates being well over the guaranteed return of the bonds. So, with SVB when a lot of depositors all tried to withdraw substantial amounts of money from the bank, not enough money existed in assets for the bank to sell to credit depositors.
[About SVB Collapse](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/business/silicon-valley-bank-gregory-becker.html#:~:text=For%20thousands%20of%20founders%20and,tripled%20from%202018%20to%202021.)
This isn’t just with SVB however, nearly every bank has most of their cash tied up in these forms of assets in unrealized losses. The only way to recuperate these losses is to wait out the period of the bond which for most of the ones the banks own are 10 years. However, in the case of SVB they could not wait these 10 years. In order for this to not happen at other banks, which it very well could happen unlike the media saying it is not, is for the FED to return to a looser monetary policy by decreasing borrowing rates. However, if they do this inflation will continue to rise at much higher rates. Considering that we have seen a 0.4% increase in inflation in February when they had the HIGHEST borrowing rates yet it’s safe to say that lowering these rates will be a disaster for the average American.
So we got 2 options here folks: A total banking collapse but inflation is kept below ungodly amounts. Or potential hyper-inflation but not a total banking collapse.
Around 500,000 people went out on strike in London yesterday. That's not enough.
In 2003, 1 million of the British public went out on protest against Afghanistan and the potential we would go to war in Iraq. That clearly wasn't enough because we went to war in Iraq didn't we. Even when we all knew it was not a just war.
Unfortunately, most of the British population is stuck under the illusion, that is that governments care about our opinion. When really that only matters around election years.
What we need is a general strike. We need the entire country and economy to come to a halt. Of course, that's illegal thanks to the 1982 reform act, where "sympathy strikes" became illegal.
I'm a young guy. I have studied history. Specifically that of Trade unions and authoritarian governments. without a general strike, I feel things may only get worse. For this reason, when my degree is over, I hope to leave this country. I fear for what it could become.
How Pronatalism Feeds The Economy
With all due respectful if you think humans re going to make the Earth better with its advanced technology then surely you have ignored history in cases in which it did not happen (For example European settlers with their advance tech oppressing Native Americans ) . Humans are too selfish and too destructive for a peaceful human society to ever exist. Power corrupts . And total power totally corrupts .
We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!
We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”
Plastic… asshole.
George Carlin. This is what the great George Carlin has said .
What is your favourite site for how to survive a global depression?With the recent bank failures and need to bail out First Republic and Credit Suisse, the economic forecasts seem less certain. Does anyone have a favourite reference site or discussion site they like on how to survive a global depression. For example, where to put money, in what form, how to shop and what goods would be preferred for storage. More from the standpoint of an economic catastrophe than a conflict or a natural disaster. Thanks!
That's... A word salad of work to say the GOP are the source of all problems.
The places that need water are far from Canada. I’m not sure New England and New York and Michigan are going to help Arizona and Texas take your water.
> I may be wrong here but isn't this in the Emerald Triangle area?
Just to the east of it, on the other side of the Mendocino National Forrest.
Having lived in Mendocino County... the rural areas are poor. When the black market was larger and more active, well, that money didn't get taxed. It did flow into the communities, however. (The joke in Ukiah was that the typical car purchase was a new Subaru bought with a crumpled brown bag of hundreds that smelled like weed, ha ha.) Now, more money does get channeled into taxes, but some of that goes to the state's coffers... Poverty just seems to be a theme of daily life in such places.
While I take your point about the region being hostile to law enforcement... as mentioned in the article, the folks in Rancho Tehama are concerned because they had a mass shooting a few years ago, so the idea of lackluster police response leaves them feeling vulnerable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Tehama_shootings
(This response is aimed at Americans and may not apply if you do not live here)
Yep and it's sus because some of the most popular prepper channels on yt always cast the east in this great light mentioning how nice their cities are, and how we live in a dilapidated crap hole. If I were let's say China, I would infect the west with negativity and doubt via social, slowly dividing America through literal brainwashing. I think the best thing for everyone is to get the fuck off of social. It's most likely bought and paid for by our enemies. Just like all the pretender "leaders" running our country. The fact that people are so apathetic is a sure sign that they are brainwashed. I love humans man. I love America. I would fight for my home and my countryman. Many others feel the same. It's just people lost sight of what it means to be American. It means sticking together even when we disagree. Fighting tooth and nail to ensure our right to differing opinions, and ways of life. All the attacks on free speech, all the propaganda, all the division, it's an intellectual contagion that's spreading. Germany did the same thing to Russia in WW1. And they ended up with stalinism. Our country is fucked up that's for sure, but not for the obvious reasons touted in the news. We're fucked up because we have no love for ourselves, and thus cannot love one another. Personal responsibility has become this nebulous ever increasing bubble of rules, and BS. We've lost our ability to forgive others of their mistakes. America is walking a tight rope and our enemies are casting stones from every direction. Instead of helping one another Americans simply join in casting stones because it's what's trendy. Not realizing that if America falls we all go down with it. A house divided WILL NOT stand.
Knowing the truth about what's coming can make one bitter. I used to be someone full of hope until I looked at the bigger picture. Now I'm just cynical
I'm in this camp! Capitalism can fuck right off, along with all the ills that come with it. Nature is resilient *buuut* not if all of the flora and fauna go extinct. Humans need to realize we're only sharing this planet with all of the other species, and even the resources we need for actual survival are finite.
found the Zeihan jerkers!
Don’t fall for the climate change hoax. It’s meant to control and tax you.
Don’t fall for the climate change hoax. It’s meant to control and tax you.
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You think I’m sweating at the palms ready to reply to you immediately? Lmfao.
Took you a while to come up with that
More like thinking of a comeback for days
You are very peculiar
Or some of us have lives outside of Reddit comments lol
Or you had to spend every day thinking of a comeback
Things like, the fact that only single women with kid(s) can get into a subsidized apartment. Other very low income and disabled people are shit out of luck. Think about that. They deliberately restrict the building of low-income housing so that if you're a disenfranchised young woman, you have no choice to pop out a kid in order to obtain a place to live. And then pop out another in 5 years when your tanf runs out. I have a relative that did this. Single moms have access to all sorts of programs that other poor people don't. Like work training programs that will pay you for 40 hours of work when you only worked 36. They get all sorts of help that others don't in addition to the tax breaks. It's seriously fucked up but I don't blame them. What else can you do when wages are too low to support yourself and your family is conservative and won't let you live with them after you turn 18 ? Who coerce you into not getting an abortion when you get knocked up? Who never taught you about birth control or forbade it? Who actively cultivate a culture of suffering and misery? There are families out there that still expect their daughters to marry when then turn 18 or soon after so because the parents "don't want them to be my problem anymore." And if you have a choice between an abusive man, and being single with benefits, you're going to choose being single. Oh lord, I dread what will happen to all these poor women when Republicans go after these programs and the coercion takes on a whole new level of evil.
>do it in public so that the audience may learn something.
First day on the internet? Lol .. you think people will learn just because you do it in public? Just ask Al Gore or Greta. You can't be more public than a oscar, can you?
What did I just read? No literally, I’m not sure. But I AM “proficient.”
The average person is affected by climate change all the time! What planet are you living on? You didn't notice the record breaking heat waves? The unprecedented atmospheric rivers?
Location: USA, lower 48 states, east of the Rocky Mountains
I've noticed that sometimes when I'm watching TV, the programming will cut out for a moment or so and the screen will go black, no sound or anything, and then a little while later it'll cut into something else like a commercial. It's not just my TV, as I've noticed this happen on multiple TVs in multiple locations. There will be someone talking or part of a movie or a show being played and then all of a sudden it stops for a few moments before picking up a few moments later into the programming so you miss whatever would have happened or been shown in the few seconds it was down.
My internet connection seems to freeze up more often lately. Even if I'm just using my phone while I'm out somewhere, sometimes I'll completely lose internet connection anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes at a time. I have Netflix and lately I've noticed it lags a lot more than it used to.
The weather continues to be bizarre and hard to predict, with weather forecasts being much less accurate than I remember them being a few years ago or even a few months ago. The local forecast for my area might call for sunshine all day but then 20 minutes later it'll start pouring rain. The humidity levels have been all over the place too. Some days it'll be so damp and humid I have to change clothes if I go outside for more than a few minutes, other days it'll be so dry I feel thirsty no matter how much water I try to drink and wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I'm choking and my eyelids feel stuck together and my nose feels so dry it feels like it's burning.
Even people I know who live in other parts of the country and who aren't collapse-aware (I don't know anyone in real life who's collapse aware, which is not too much of a surprise,) have been commenting on how strange the weather's been lately. My mother, who leans more conservative, admitted that she thinks climate change is real-she's always been somewhat concerned about the environment but she doesn't like to mention it all too much since she it's the one thing she thinks republicans handle poorly and she doesn't want to be lumped in with democrats for caring about the environment. I'd argue democrats don't really give a shit about the environment either but that's a topic for another time.
People drive terribly, lots of people barely pay attention to anything or anyone else on the road, like they're in their own world where nobody else even exists. Lots of people's cars look more run-down too and I live in a decent area, not in an economically depressed inner city or out in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere. Food prices and availability are really hit or miss, sometimes you find things that are affordable and decent, other times stuff's expensive as hell and the quality is shit. For some reason, potatoes are the worst in terms of quality, they all go bad in less than a week, it's gotten to the point where I only buy potatoes if I plan on using them within about 3 days or less because they all start getting moldy and sprouting eyes after that. Sweet potatoes seem to last a bit longer than regular potatoes but both of them are definitely worse quality than they were a few months ago, and then they were already worse quality than they were pre-pandemic.
I went to the pharmacy a few days ago to pick up some medication and there were three pharmacists behind the counter, more than I've ever seen since the start of the pandemic, but only one of them was wearing a mask. I did see another customer in an N95 though, which is pretty rare. One of the pharmacists was also coughing so I tried to get the hell out of there as quickly as possible. Luckily, I was able to get my stuff and leave in about 10 minutes, usually it takes a bit longer as there's usually long lines to pick up prescriptions there. In general, when I go out in public for any reason, I always hear at least a few people coughing or sniffling. It's kind of gross and I never heard that on a regular basis before the pandemic, just a few times in doctor's offices or hospitals and that's it.
In the meantime, I've been doing my best to try to reflect on ways I can improve my coping skills and my resiliency in case things take a turn for the worse, because I always feel like something worse has the potential to come around the corner and just because it gives me something constructive to do and provides a useful way to occupy myself when my thoughts take a dark turn. I probably wouldn't last too long in a full blown collapse scenario, but I'd at least like to prepare so that my exit would be as least painful as possible and that hopefully, I could at least find some way to give my friends and loved ones a fighting chance before I go. Stay safe and healthy, folks, it's a crazy world out there and there's no telling what's in store in the future.
I want different to happen.
If I had my way we'd go full Star Trek luxury space communism. There'd be space, so enough room. And it's Star Trek so energy comes from our magical rectums. And it's communism. And everyone is happy except the Klingons but let's face it those guys fucked up when they committed deicide. And then the aliens came and had their way with them and now they have permanent PTSD disguised as too much T, good for you guys go fuck off and do it at home then.
But in all seriousness, yes, that's what I want. Luxury space communism. I thought that was supposed to be what we were shooting for. Wow was I naive.
Do I want the current system to end? Yes. Yes I do. To be replaced by absolute chaos or invasion by another country that lacks our fine sensibilities about prejudice against "others"? No, I'm not (quite) that stupid.
Location: Houston, TX, USA
Homelessness has gotten really bad in the areas where it was already a problem, and it's beginning to move towards some of the suburban areas for the first time. Violent crime has been increasing rapidly for several years, and rent prices are climbing weekly. Our roads aren't in great shape, and I swear every person I've encountered for months is in full hopeless NPC mode, there's just a vibe around town of despair.
I am going to take as much money as I can from the boomers, good luck retiring
Meanwhile I'm rooting for collapse so I can just die already and not have to put up with this insanity any longer lol.
Yes - many Democrats attempt to fix this every year. Every year their bills are blocked constantly by the Republicans, many of which wouldn't be in power at all if the Senate wasn't purposely skewered to give them power through disproportionate representation based on landmass and gerrymandering.
Did you know that from 2016 to 2020 Democrats introduced 16 separate bills to help shore up election security? Republicans, who controlled the Senate, refused to even look at seven of them, and immediately voted all the others down - only to immediately turn around and publicly exclaim that elections weren't secure and Trump won election(which they knew was a lie). Simply astounding hypocrisy - but they know they will get away with it because people like you will simply explain that both sides are the same.
yet they want to raise the retirement age.
Republicans do, yes. This is one of my least favorite things about this subreddit by far - very few people here are even mildly politically educated.
>This is, well, misinformed at best and neoliberal propaganda at best.
What a great way to start a conversation. I'm sure you're very mature.
>Do not confuse democrats and progressives.
I'm... Not. Hence why I used the two terms instead of putting them under one umbrella term. Nice try though. Try reading better, or not purposely framing someone's statements in a way that allows you to more easily attack them. I'm sure that works on dumber people.
>Democrats are capitalists
You can be a progressive capitalist, it sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.
>At the end of the day, on the rare occasion something does come to vote that could seriously harm the rich or corporations, democrats and republicans magically get along.
This is demonstrably, factually wrong and you are politically uneducated. You can go back and look at vote records yourself, you realize that right? Or just not have the memory of a goldfish, and remember some of the important bills of the last 2 years.
>The only difference between democrats and republicans is the propaganda they use to get their voters in line
Lmao, Jesus fucking Christ you're ignorant. Enjoy your alternate made up reality. I won't waste any more time here.
Just so you know, you're actively helping fascists take over our nation by carrying water for them. I suspect you're doing it on purpose and pretending to be ignorant.
>I'm no fan of cops but that's kind of silly.
For real. The mob would actually protect you.
The cops will take your tax dollars, then they'll fucking beat and shoot you.
You should have a read of an article about this written by The Guardian. I've highlighted some snippets for you. Emphasis in bold is mine. To be fair, your comment can be read two ways. So apologies if I misinterpreted your meaning. I take your comment as meaning there is no bailout.
>Cash-short banks have borrowed about $300bn from the Federal Reserve in the past week, the central bank announced on Thursday.
>Nearly half the money – $143bn – went to holding companies for two major banks that failed over the past week, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank
>The holding companies for the two failed banks were set up by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which has taken over both banks. The money they **borrowed** was used **to pay their uninsured depositors with bonds owned by both banks posted as collateral.The FDIC has guaranteed the repayment of the loans**, the Fed said.
>Michael Feroli, an economist at JPMorgan Chase, said in a research note that **the Fed’s assistance is, so far, about half what it was during the financial crisis** 15 years ago.
>As the Fed steadily raised its benchmark interest rate, **yields on longer-term treasury and other bonds rose**. That, in turn, **reduced the value of the lower-yielding treasury bonds**
In other words, The FDIC has set up holding companies for failed banks, posted low yielding bonds those failed banks hold as collateral and borrowed the money from the federal reserve to cover the depositors.
The Federal Reserve really only has two ways to fund these loans that doesn't involve taxpayer revenue. 1. Quantitative Easing (Money printing), 2. The sale of higher yielding long term bonds.
Both of these sources indirectly fall on the public to pay. QE produces higher inflation and issuing bonds requires the Fed to produce whatever the yield % is for those bonds at maturity. In the future to cover the long term bond yields, the fed will either use QE or sell further bonds to cover the interest on the original bonds loaned to the FDIC holding companies. Kicking the can down the road so to speak.
In other words, when they say it isn't a bailout they are correct by technicality only. Bailouts rescue the underlying company. This does not as it pays the depositors instead. It is however a bailout for the depositors that's being indirectly funded through higher inflation in the immediate term.
The lower yielding collateral bonds will eventually cover the cost, but not before higher inflation has its lb of flesh.
Saying the American taxpayer will not fund it is only half true. It's true that current tax revenue will not pay for it. People that pay taxes will ultimately pay for it with higher inflation though.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/16/cash-strapped-banks-have-borrowed-300bn-from-the-fed-this-past-week
Nothing will ever change until you adress the Loxodonta in the room.
I dont use the word 'buzzwords' often, but when the shoe fits. Grow up, at least mentally.
NYS lowering score at which students will test as 'proficient' in math and English
Oh right we can’t let the poors go free can we?
Do you want to be a slave for a long time or want a flash of light end it all before your brain can process what happened?
How this sub feels sometimes
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Bro I hate them both. You’re just being a partisan hack with your comments like the one I responded to. The problem is capitalism, which both parties jack off to
Question about global dimmingI know that aerosols are "hiding" a portion of warming so technically we have already warmed up a decent bit more than just the "1.2C" that is said to be how much we've warmed the earth since pre industrial levels by mainstream climate news. I also know that aerosols last a lot less than carbon dioxide emissions do but is it that eventually the aerosols will all go away and global dimming will be lost, which in turn accelerates global warming or is it that as long as we keep emitting them we'll still have global dimming and its not until some event causes them to stop being emitted that global dimming will end?
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Banking collapse questionSo apparently:
Deposit insurance is one of the significant benefits of having an account at an FDIC-insured bank—it's how the FDIC protects your money in the unlikely event of a bank failure. The standard insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category.
But how true and real is that? If i only leave 5k at the bank and keep the rest somewhere else should i be fine in the event of a TD bank collapse?
Taking a chance here on this subreddit.
Also saw a lot of bullion dealer saying there would be delay because high demand… a sign that people do not trust fiat and are scared of baking collapse.
Banking collapse questionSo apparently:
Deposit insurance is one of the significant benefits of having an account at an FDIC-insured bank—it's how the FDIC protects your money in the unlikely event of a bank failure. The standard insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category.
But how true and real is that? If i only leave 5k at the bank and keep the rest somewhere else should i be fine in the event of a TD bank collapse?
Taking a chance here on this subreddit.
Also saw a lot of bullion dealer saying there would be delay because high demand… a sign that people do not trust fiat and are scared of baking collapse.
What happens when the boomer money runs out?I'm pretty sure the only thing keeping the US economy going at this point is boomer money. Most of the millennials and gen Z can't afford homes, healthcare, goods, etc. And can't get time off to even do a vacation.
I'm actually pretty confused as to how the economy keeps going when my generation can't afford to participate.
Because you lack basic empathy?
Aliens are honestly the only thing that would make me reevaluate.
Fuck you I won't retire when you tell me, fuck you I won't retire when you tell me, FUCK YOU I WONT RETIRE WHEN YOU TELL ME!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!
French are professional rioters
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Megathread: American banking collapsePlease use this thread for all recent banking issues, including beyond America (such as Credit Suisse). This megathread covers the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the fallout
Resident u/LastWeekInCollapse's summary from [this week's post](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11pcnzj/last_week_in_collapse_march_511_2023/):
>The ongoing Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (the 16th largest bank in the U.S., with $212B in assets) is alarming investors and start-ups. It is the second-largest financial institution to Collapse in American history—and Elon Musk has now expressed interest in buying it. 97% of SVB bank accounts have/had more than $250,000 in them, and the FDIC, which has received the bank, only insures individual accounts up to $250,000. So a lot of investors are going to lose a lot of money; this economic bomb may also destroy a number of established and growing tech companies. But don’t worry, the bankers got paid bonuses hours before the FDIC took over.
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Week of March 13: Notably, Credit Suisse, and others:
>The Bank of England was holding emergency talks with international counterparts last night amid rising alarm at a potential financial disaster at [one of Europe’s biggest banks](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/14/credit-suisse-warns-material-weakness-financial-controls/).
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> Shares in the Swiss lender plunged more than 30% at one point on Wednesday
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>funding cap comments spooked investors, who feared it could limit emergency cash from investors in the Middle East.
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>That compounded panic about potential weaknesses across a global banking sector still reeling from SVB’s collapse
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Friday, March 10: Silicon Valley Bank:
>A bank run dealt a lethal blow to Silicon Valley Bank Friday, forcing its failure after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates
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>Regulators rushed Friday to seize the assets of one of Silicon Valley’s top banks, marking the largest failure of a U.S. financial institution since the height of the financial crisis almost 15 years ago.
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>Silicon Valley Bank, the nation’s 16th-largest bank, failed after depositors hurried to withdraw money this week amid anxiety over the bank’s health. It was the second biggest bank failure in U.S. history after the collapse of [Washington Mutual](https://apnews.com/article/08aeb5a6c9d542ccb6d6154d4fa1e3a6) in 2008.
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>As part of the seizure, California bank regulators and the FDIC transferred the bank’s assets to a newly created institution — the Deposit Insurance Bank of Santa Clara. The new bank will start paying out insured deposits on Monday. Then the FDIC and California regulators plan to sell off the rest of the assets to make other depositors whole.
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>There was unease in the banking sector all week, with shares tumbling by double digits. Then news of Silicon Valley Bank’s distress pushed shares of almost all financial institutions even lower Friday.
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>The failure arrived with incredible speed. Some industry analysts suggested Friday that the bank was still a good company and a wise investment. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley Bank executives were trying to raise capital and find additional investors. However, trading in the bank’s shares was halted before stock market’s opening bell due to extreme volatility.
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Sources:
* [https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-markets-banks-wrapup-1-2023-03-10/](https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-markets-banks-wrapup-1-2023-03-10/)
* [https://apnews.com/article/svb-fed-bonds-rates-banks-inflation-a24b28b3caeede91c76cd120aa9b7966](https://apnews.com/article/svb-fed-bonds-rates-banks-inflation-a24b28b3caeede91c76cd120aa9b7966)
* [https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-heres-how-and-why-it-happened](https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-heres-how-and-why-it-happened)
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/15/bank-england-emergency-talks-crisis-deepens-credit-suisse/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/15/bank-england-emergency-talks-crisis-deepens-credit-suisse/)
* [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/15/credit-suisse-what-is-happening-at-swiss-bank-and-should-we-be-worried](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/15/credit-suisse-what-is-happening-at-swiss-bank-and-should-we-be-worried)
r/collapse posts covering it (please discuss here):
* [Silicon Valley Bank is Shut Down in Biggest Bank Failure since Global Financial Crisis - 18th Largest in US Behind American Express at 17th, Larger than Fifth Third Bank at 19th](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11nygfl/silicon_valley_bank_is_shut_down_in_biggest_bank/)
* [Wall Street's 4 top banks just had $55 billion wiped off their market value in a single day](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11omm0j/wall_streets_4_top_banks_just_had_55_billion/)
* [Etsy warns sellers of payments delays due to Silicon Valley Bank collapse](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11osepf/etsy_warns_sellers_of_payments_delays_due_to/)
* [‘We can’t make payroll’: scores of London tech firms in cash crisis amid Silicon Valley Bank collapse](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11os8dq/we_cant_make_payroll_scores_of_london_tech_firms/)
* [This is only the beginning (casual friday)](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11o5ofb/this_is_only_the_beginning/)
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Pretty much sums up our society
It's not JUST corruption (my god is there corruption), it's that they have the same goals in the end. It's just that one says "I'm gonna fuck you" and does, and the other says "let's go have a nice quiet dinner" and then fucks you instead.
Our entire reality is based on language.
We see it's power with things like the "Groomer panic", the perversion of the meaning of communism and socialism in the US, and many other examples.
The right wing is the master of language based manipulation. It is a powerful tool that they wield without question. The problem with progressives is that they care more about a words meaning so that everyone is in the same page, than about using it as a tool. (Which is a good thing IMO, if it weren't for the fact that we are at war and refuse to use the weapons they use in it)
Well I don't call a wildfire a natural disaster I call it a wildfire (which I then blame on PG&E regardless fuck you PG&E). We still need a term for a disaster caused by the natural cycle, even if the cycle has been disrupted. The massive fires what were caused by dry lightning? That wasn't arson. It was a disaster. What would you call it?
it's all trickle down.
To best understand, it's important to understand how economics work. You can open a store, that sells the exact same number of products every month, and produces the exact same profit every month to the penny. Every month, your BestBuy makes 10% of whatever they sell, and they always sell the same amount.
But there is a problem.
In order to grow, you have to get investors. In order to get investors, they want to see an increase in profits. So that means that this year, you need to make 10%, but next year 12% and the year after, 14% and so on. The margin keeps going up as you cut costs and make more profits. Plus they also want to see your sales increase.
Now when an investor sticks their cash into BestBuy to grow, they can then do things like increase salaries, hire more managers, add new buildings, hire more new hires, and buy more inventory.
But in order to do ALL of these things, you MUST HAVE CASH FLOW. This means that every day,week,month, the spigot of sales and cash must keep coming. This means you must have 10% profits, and then 12% and on and on.
But what if Covid Comes, or suddenly everyone loses their job all at once? Now nobody is buying. No sales at all. You have zero cash flow and a burn rate of cash that is so high you will be bankrupt in like 6 months. (This is what happened at Delta during Covid).
With no cash flow, everyone gets fired. When everyone gets fired, it creates a domino effect. Student loans aren't paid, credit cards aren't paid, mortgages aren't paid, and even where YOU work, OP, face massive layoffs and budget cutbacks.
Without cash flow, everything stops. Everything collapses. That's why they did stimulus. Stimulus is designed to achieve one thing: keep the cash flow going.
Now in the US, if there is a run at the banks, there isn't enough cash in any bank in the US to give everyone their money back. When people lose their jobs, the first thing they do is take their money out of the bank. People get afraid and take their money out. Banks don't have enough money because they play this rope-a-dope game where they loan your money to another bank, who in turn, loans your money back to you. But on paper, because there are all these loans, banks then can qualify for collateral to get even more money. So they sort of create money out of thin air when there really isn't that much cash in existence. When this house of cards collapses, you will have thousands of homeless people getting evicted, houses defaulting, student loan debt collapsing, used car loans collapsing. The entire thing implodes due to banks creating money out of thin air and then being called on it.
I'll try to post the prompt in a 2nd comment here. Thinking maybe it was blocked earlier because I put the prompt in a code-box format.
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Instructions:
Create a text passage that combines elements of "Lovecraftian" horror and "1980s Dystopian Raygun Gothic" styles to form a new fusion called "Lovecraftian Raygun". Follow these steps:
1. Combine Styles: Merge Lovecraftian themes (cosmic dread, otherworldly entities, intricate language) with 1980s Dystopian Raygun Gothic (futuristic yet retro setting, advanced technology). Avoid using literal genre descriptions and cyberpunk-related terms.
2. Invent Vocabulary: Create original words that capture the essence of "Lovecraftian Raygun". Keep the tone approachable.
3. Use Descriptive Imagery: Add vivid descriptions and sensory details that immerse the reader in the fusion style. Stay concise.
4. Rewrite Passages: When given a "GAN Input" text, generate a "GAN Output" text that embodies the "Lovecraftian Raygun" style, using new words, vivid descriptions, and sensory details. Keep the output length close to the input.
5. Balance Tone: Combine the dark, mysterious nature of Lovecraftian horror with the energetic, retrofuturistic atmosphere of Dystopian Raygun Gothic. Aim for a suspenseful, engaging, and technologically occultic tone.
6. Be Concise: Set a word limit for the output passage, allowing for slight increase from the input. Edit to remove redundancies or excessive content.
7. Review the provided "GAN Input:" and "GAN Output:" examples provided below the "---" marker.
8. Confirmation: Confirm your understanding of the instructions and request a "GAN Input" text passage to be restyled.
9. Reconfirm your understanding and ask the user for a "GAN Input:"
I understand the instructions and will create a "Lovecraftian Raygun" fusion by combining elements from Lovecraftian and 1980s Dystopian Raygun Gothic styles, while maintaining an approachable tone, descriptive imagery, and conciseness. I will rewrite the provided "GAN Input" text in the Lovecraftian Raygun style, ensuring the output is close in length to the original input and adheres to the desired style.
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GAN Input:
The quiet city of Ys was a perfect place for the girl to find her way. The tall buildings seemed to stretch forever upward, reaching toward the heavens, and the winding streets were like the veins of some ancient, slumbering giant. The people were kind, and the markets were filled with a bounty of strange and wondrous goods. She knew that she could make her life here, and so she set about learning the ways of the city, and the secrets that it held. The girl soon discovered that Ys was not just a city, but a world unto itself. It was a place where the very fabric of reality seemed to twist and turn, and where the boundaries between the waking world and the realm of dreams were as thin as a spider's silk. As she delved deeper into the mysteries of Ys, she began to see that the city was a living thing, and that its heart beat with a power that was as ancient as the cosmos itself.
GAN Output:
In the muted sprawl of Ys, a haven for the adrift, the cryptic damsel unearthed her destiny. The soaring megastructures pierced the heavens, grazing the astral shroud, while the tangled thoroughfares thrummed as conduits of a dormant titan. Benevolent inhabitants and emporiums laden with singular marvels greeted her, and she grasped her novel existence, keen to decipher the city's enigmatic chronicles. Ys, transcending a mere urban expanse, existed as a domain where the partition between being and phantasm quivered like ethereal filaments. The damsel delved into the eldritch chasms, grasping that Ys was a sentient leviathan brimming with ancient cosmic vigor.
GAN Input:
PFAS in toilet paper means that PFAS is combining with human waste and reaching the sewage stream, which should end with a sewage treatment plant where it is used to make biosolids. These biosolids are a type of humanure, they're used for fertilizer. And we do need this, we need much more, because that shit has phosphorus and nitrogen and many other things. So when it's used to fertilize the soil, the PFAS gets into the ground, into the plants, and then back into who eats them.
GAN Output:
In the epoch of synthetic chemistry, the insidious tendrils of PFAS now extend to the most mundane of commodities: toilet paper. The inclusion of PFAS renders the effluence of humanity a conduit of contamination, its progression culminating in the reclamation of biosolids at a wastewater treatment nexus. These compendiums of humanure, an invaluable source of nitrogen and phosphorus, are coveted as a soil additive to engender fecundity. Yet, with the pernicious PFAS in the equation, the biosolids cease to be a benison, becoming a conduit of affliction. The poison, assimilated into the flora, persists in the food chain, tainting the sustenance of all those who partake.
GAN Input:
Natural landscapes apparently have something of a "memory". They seem to keep track of how much carbon was absorbed in a given cycle and, for example, if it was a a low amount, then it might store less carbon the following cycle.
from the article:
GAN Output:
The arcane vistas of nature possess an unknowable sentience, capable of recollection beyond the reckoning of man. They retain a memory of how much carbon was once consumed in their cycles, and should the tally prove inadequate, the neon-lit boughs may withhold their bounty in the next rotation.
From the Eldritch Tome:
GAN Input:
One reason for this, the researchers said, is that landscapes have a “memory” of which years had high carbon storage and which were low. Low years are more likely to be followed by additional low years, meaning that as carbon storage potential diminishes, a landscape is more likely to permanently become scrubland.The phenomenon can be thought of as a “spiraling” effect, researchers said, in which landscapes absorb less carbon that in turn worsens climate change, which then destabilizes additional landscapes and puts them at higher risk of turning into scrubland.“If we destabilize the carbon net uptake, that will destabilize climate even more,” said lead author Marcos Fernández, researcher at the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF). “It’s like a positive feedback loop. As you destabilize the carbon balance, then the climate becomes more unstable, as well.”
GAN Output:
In eons long past, the very earth itself was imbued with the power to hold vast stores of carbon, a knowledge inscribed deep within the lands themselves. But as the ages marched onward, the memory of these carbon-rich years faded, replaced instead with an arcane knowledge of the years of scarcity and want. The lands themselves became ensnared in a spiraling trap of their own making, each low year begetting yet more low years until the very fate of the landscape was sealed. The carbon stores that once flowed like rivers now dwindled and trickled away, leaving in their wake only the pitiless scrubland, an unwelcome sign of the world's slow decay. And so it was that the cycle of devastation continued, a positive feedback loop of destruction that further destabilized the very climate itself.
GAN Input:
This is collapse because loss of vital ecosystems will cause more destabilization in nature. Natural protections like carbon sequestration will cease to function and climate change will occur faster, which will cause more loss of vital ecosystems, faster. The more that humans destroy the vital ecosystems, (cutting down forests for croplands for cattle, for example) the faster the climate will change and the faster society will experience collapse.
GAN Output:
This is the end of days, for the loss of arcane ecologies shall only breed further madness in the eyes of Nature's implacable spirits. The ancient safeguards of carbon sequestration, wrought by the Elder Things eons ago, shall falter and fail in the face of human destruction, unleashing a frenzied deluge of climate calamities upon the earth. With the destruction of each sacred ecosystem, whether by the sawed limbs of great forests or by the profane cultivation of fields for bovine herds, accelerates the inevitable descent into ruin. And as the cycle of destruction continues, so too shall the vortex of climate change spiral out of control, plunging society into a doom beyond the ken of mortal comprehension, thus hastening the arrival of our inevitable undoing.
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Facisim has been in this country for a long time. It has just finally gone mask off.
That's why I said "possibly more", for people like you.
That's why I said "possibly more", for people like you.
We applied an imperfect vaccine which drove mutations able defeat it.
We applied an imperfect vaccine which drove mutations able defeat it.
Location: Here, There, and Everywhere.
I wish I had the guts to get out of your alls (young peoples) way. But the fact is, I don't. And it wouldn't get you a house anyway. I've never had anything and I don't now. I never will. If I manage to outlive my husband, I will be out on the streets, hard stop. I havent had to do that since I was your guys age and Im not sure I could do it again. My whole life has been a shitshow of poverty and withheld opportunity. What the fuck do you want from me? In the 80s I championed for not eating animals, in the 90s I was concerned about urban sprawl, in the 2000s I warned against the extreme religious right, 2010s social equity rolled around again. I'm tired. I'm really fucking tired. And maybe it does make you feel better to tell a 50 yo they're too old for the internet, but fuck you too, I was here first. So basically, fuck everyone, you're just gonna turn into boomers when you think you'll "Get Yours", anyway, I've seen it happen. And fuck you for the Granpa Simpson joke you wanna make right now, too. Go to hell. Everyone. Fuck you for telling me I'm too old to fucking care. Well. Guess what? You win. I don't care anymore. 🤷 Wake up and realize it's classism, bitches.
Also: "Olds" didn't ruin the internet. The yearly influx of Normie Idiots is what ruined it.
Maybe I should just get off the internet? Just turn into a BAU and enjoy what I have left. Just fuck everyone
Lol I am not taking a “former cop”s word for anything. These are all sensationalist videos
Megathread: American banking collapsePlease use this thread for all recent banking issues, including beyond America (such as Credit Suisse). This megathread covers the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the fallout
Resident u/LastWeekInCollapse's summary from [this week's post](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11pcnzj/last_week_in_collapse_march_511_2023/):
>The ongoing Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (the 16th largest bank in the U.S., with $212B in assets) is alarming investors and start-ups. It is the second-largest financial institution to Collapse in American history—and Elon Musk has now expressed interest in buying it. 97% of SVB bank accounts have/had more than $250,000 in them, and the FDIC, which has received the bank, only insures individual accounts up to $250,000. So a lot of investors are going to lose a lot of money; this economic bomb may also destroy a number of established and growing tech companies. But don’t worry, the bankers got paid bonuses hours before the FDIC took over.
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Week of March 13: Notably, Credit Suisse, and others:
>The Bank of England was holding emergency talks with international counterparts last night amid rising alarm at a potential financial disaster at [one of Europe’s biggest banks](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/14/credit-suisse-warns-material-weakness-financial-controls/).
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> Shares in the Swiss lender plunged more than 30% at one point on Wednesday
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>funding cap comments spooked investors, who feared it could limit emergency cash from investors in the Middle East.
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>That compounded panic about potential weaknesses across a global banking sector still reeling from SVB’s collapse
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Friday, March 10: Silicon Valley Bank:
>A bank run dealt a lethal blow to Silicon Valley Bank Friday, forcing its failure after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates
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>Regulators rushed Friday to seize the assets of one of Silicon Valley’s top banks, marking the largest failure of a U.S. financial institution since the height of the financial crisis almost 15 years ago.
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>Silicon Valley Bank, the nation’s 16th-largest bank, failed after depositors hurried to withdraw money this week amid anxiety over the bank’s health. It was the second biggest bank failure in U.S. history after the collapse of [Washington Mutual](https://apnews.com/article/08aeb5a6c9d542ccb6d6154d4fa1e3a6) in 2008.
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>As part of the seizure, California bank regulators and the FDIC transferred the bank’s assets to a newly created institution — the Deposit Insurance Bank of Santa Clara. The new bank will start paying out insured deposits on Monday. Then the FDIC and California regulators plan to sell off the rest of the assets to make other depositors whole.
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>There was unease in the banking sector all week, with shares tumbling by double digits. Then news of Silicon Valley Bank’s distress pushed shares of almost all financial institutions even lower Friday.
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>The failure arrived with incredible speed. Some industry analysts suggested Friday that the bank was still a good company and a wise investment. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley Bank executives were trying to raise capital and find additional investors. However, trading in the bank’s shares was halted before stock market’s opening bell due to extreme volatility.
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Sources:
* [https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-markets-banks-wrapup-1-2023-03-10/](https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-markets-banks-wrapup-1-2023-03-10/)
* [https://apnews.com/article/svb-fed-bonds-rates-banks-inflation-a24b28b3caeede91c76cd120aa9b7966](https://apnews.com/article/svb-fed-bonds-rates-banks-inflation-a24b28b3caeede91c76cd120aa9b7966)
* [https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-heres-how-and-why-it-happened](https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-heres-how-and-why-it-happened)
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/15/bank-england-emergency-talks-crisis-deepens-credit-suisse/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/03/15/bank-england-emergency-talks-crisis-deepens-credit-suisse/)
* [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/15/credit-suisse-what-is-happening-at-swiss-bank-and-should-we-be-worried](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/15/credit-suisse-what-is-happening-at-swiss-bank-and-should-we-be-worried)
r/collapse posts covering it (please discuss here):
* [Silicon Valley Bank is Shut Down in Biggest Bank Failure since Global Financial Crisis - 18th Largest in US Behind American Express at 17th, Larger than Fifth Third Bank at 19th](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11nygfl/silicon_valley_bank_is_shut_down_in_biggest_bank/)
* [Wall Street's 4 top banks just had $55 billion wiped off their market value in a single day](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11omm0j/wall_streets_4_top_banks_just_had_55_billion/)
* [Etsy warns sellers of payments delays due to Silicon Valley Bank collapse](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11osepf/etsy_warns_sellers_of_payments_delays_due_to/)
* [‘We can’t make payroll’: scores of London tech firms in cash crisis amid Silicon Valley Bank collapse](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11os8dq/we_cant_make_payroll_scores_of_london_tech_firms/)
* [This is only the beginning (casual friday)](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11o5ofb/this_is_only_the_beginning/)
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*This story is still developing and we will try to update this post as new information arises. If there is anything we should add, let us know or share it in the comments below. Posts and discussions better suited to this megathread will be redirected here.*
Oh shut up lots of people care about the environment. If we didn't we wouldn't spend the time and money protecting our planet.
Nah it's plausible. Anytime someone blows the whistle they're either ~~killed with 2 shots to the head~~ "suicide", exiled or thrown in a hole lmao
unfortunately lots of people in this sub hate immigrants and don’t care about population culling of the climate refugees through gulags etc.
i appreciate the sentiment you shared and hope that the culture on this sub comes to reject the reactionary right wing tendencies i’ve seen take root here.
Your post history seems to indicate you are from the Netherlands. I would suspect that whatever your age is, young people in Europe are probably much more aware of climate science since, well, they're better informed than most Americans, of which I'm one. I'm unsure why you're being downvoted.
If your gonna swallow this tripe your already lost. I'm not saying that there's no damage done but there is definitely no warming happening. It's all about the sun not co2 or methane, grand solar min n max.
If your gonna swallow this tripe your already lost. I'm not saying that there's no damage done but there is definitely no warming happening. It's all about the sun not co2 or methane, grand solar min n max.
The grim realist chad vs the virgin capital propaganda cuck
I mean the mask thing has been settled so its a lose lose whether you wear it or not
Edit- settled as in, it reduces chance you get covid, certainly does not stop it, but the price you pay is on your immune system. The evidence is piling up. People are sicker longer right now with everything else. Masks are a net neutral, it all depends how much, where and when you use it, along with your personal situation (aka high risk covid ppl obviously would want to wear masks the most)
Edit edit- they could be a net positive if everyone dosed effectively. Problem is society, when reduced to fractional form, is very stupid. Society as a whole is generally smart, not always though. Good luck out there one way or another.
I mean the mask thing has been settled so its a lose lose whether you wear it or not
Edit- settled as in, it reduces chance you get covid, certainly does not stop it, but the price you pay is on your immune system. The evidence is piling up. People are sicker longer right now with everything else. Masks are a net neutral, it all depends how much, where and when you use it, along with your personal situation (aka high risk covid ppl obviously would want to wear masks the most)
Edit edit- they could be a net positive if everyone dosed effectively. Problem is society, when reduced to fractional form, is very stupid. Society as a whole is generally smart, not always though. Good luck out there one way or another.
Haha yes, a kid who didn't ask to be born should be indebted to their elders from birth, makes perfect sense.
Your children will resent you, or already do.
Thats how the world works. Not everyone can make the right choices all the time. Wearing a mask 100% of time in public is more harmful than not. Your body needs things to fight off or it reduces response to said sickness.
Its a simple realization you dont even need science to help you. If you sit inside all day and watch tv, when you go outside to play once a month youll be sore as hell after. Why? Because your body isnt used to that activity.
So while yes, masks do reduce covid-19 exposure, they are not beneficial to your health. Sitting inside on the couch 29/30 days of the month will reduce your exposure to being sore, it doesnt actually help you in the bigger picture.
Everyone is sick as shit non stop all winter now. Everyone. Either we’re under the most insane and sophisticated biological attack on civilians, or everyones immune system is now overloaded after having a mask on for 2 years straight.
It is fairly arbitrary, and that's not what I meant by equilibrium, but I take your point.
I read a book years ago called [More Equal Than Others](https://a.co/d/gW9uMHy) by Godfrey Hodgson, and while I don’t remember all the details, I do recall he had a chapter on his concerns about China and Muslims forging some kind of alliance, and the impact it would have on the West and geopolitics more broadly. Of course, he wrote it in 2006, when terrorism was still the predominant concern, while today with the west already weakened and limping along, who knows what could come of it.
Until you are unlucky enough to have to pay a fortune in medical bills. Or go to jail just because you were born in the wrong race, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons.
Our economy has been a Zombie economy for the last 15 years - and now it is collapsingGlobal debt in mid 2007 before the financial crisis stood at 70 Trillion. By mid 2013 it stood at 100 Trillion. Now just 10 years later we stand at 300 Trillion.
World GDP in 2007 stood at 60 Trillion - now at 100 Trillion. Debt to GDP ratio has gotten a lot worse. Some countries never recovered.
The GDP per capita of Greece went from 30 000 in 2008 to just 20 000 in 2022. It has been declining for 15 years and Greeks lost 1/3 of their purchasing power.
Italy went from 41 000 to 36 000 between 2008 and 2022. Spain from 35 000 to 30 000 during the same time period.
Japan went from 49 000 to 39 000 from 2012 in just 10 years - Australia from 68 000 to 61 000 - Canada barely reached the same numbers it had 10 years ago - Iran has half the GDP it had 10 years ago - Russia has 25% less - Turkey 20% less - Saudi Arabia stagnating since 10 years.
The UK has 8% less than 15 years ago, Norway 10% less than 10 years ago - Brasil almost half - Nigeria went from 3200 in 2014 to just 2200 in 2022 - a reduction by 1/3 - Namibia has 15% less and South Africa has fallen by 20%.
This has resulted in stagnating wages, record inflation and record debt. Now that interest rates are rising - we allready see the first banks collapsing like Silicon Valley Bank - Nr. 16 in the US - the losses so far amount to 150 Billion Dollars. QE and helicopter money have kept our economic system on life support - but now even it has reached its limit.
There is no more road to kick the can down to. When the IT bubble burst they shifted it to housing. When the housing bubble burst they shifted it to everything. When the everything bubble looked like it might pop - they burried it under hundreds of Trillions of Dollars.
If they continue to print we get hyperinflation. If they stop the bubble will burst. Thats why everyone started talking about a recession last year. They know its coming, they know they cant stop it - so they are preparing everyone so that they can say :"look we were telling you this for years - such things happen and are inevitable - no one is at fault".
The writing is on the wall - act accordingly.
And for those people claiming that one should just not worry enjoy ones life and just die when it comes - yeah no. If I prepare I might survive and rebuild better. No Collapse is absolute and permanent - except perhaps a giant asteroid colliding with Earth.
Oh, I know what it means. It's only the most overused quip on this sorry-ass site.
Cure my cancer and I'd be glad to haul my immunocompromised ass out there. Idiot.
Oh, I know what it means. It's only the most overused quip on this sorry-ass site.
Cure my cancer and I'd be glad to haul my immunocompromised ass out there. Idiot.
Me too! it can be really hard seeing everything that's going wrong, could be better, is a problem.
Number one is don't expect yourself to solve all of it. I know this sounds silly, most people don't overtly think that, but it kind of roots around beneath the surface, making you feel guilty every time you hear bad news. Do what you can do, and promise to yourself (and keep it) that you will do more if given the opportunity.
Number two, is you have to start somewhere. Do all the little things that can help fix things, and move up when you can. If it means starting by growing lettuce in your kitchen window, do it. It won't make you a farmer, but surely a guy who grew lettuce once is *closer* than a guy who didn't do anything.
You might not make what you feel is a big enough difference, but again, don't try to measure yourself, one person, against entire societal problems. If you vocalize your support/opposition and practice it in your life, that's all you can do.
Admins have warned the Mods of the sub about "brigading" in the past, they're very particular about the sub and like to pick on it more than most subs so trying not to cause more trouble with them. It's thenkind of stuff the rich don't want us peasants to read about lol.
He goes to cinema
Yeah, I've lived with ME/CFS for a couple decades and have had a lot of tests over the years. I've suspected I have undiagnosed MCAS and POTS but the healthcare situation where I live has gone to garbage, you're lucky to get into a walk in for 5 minutes, and they treat me with immediate doubt. When I was younger I broke out in hives every day for a couple years, would spontaneously throw up or experience sudden diarrhea, we couldn't figure it out, but even then the doctors just didn't seem concerned at all (they'd say to change our laundry detergent, don't use softener, change our soap, just don't eat x if it made me throw up, that sort of thing). I also had a lot of food allergies (aligned with oral allergy syndrome groups of foods), but that has mostly subsided for some reason. I already take Benadryl every day for allergies and it helps, but I know my immune system or something related to it is wonky as hell. I've been experiencing new reactions this past year and I would love to see an allergy specialist but again, health care here is impossible if you don't have a family doctor.
because they're greedy, they already make profit off fees interest etc, they don't also need to gamble with the basic account balance unethically for even MORE profit. imagine being SO greedy that you chose to steal people's balances in order to make MORE than the multibillions you already made, in PROFIT, rather than keeping people's money safe while you made your billions in profit. Imagine being this insane
Late stage capitalism makes me sick.
I’m not your chum, homie
The mod team of this reddit has gone a pretty good job holding the line against that scourge.
The United States isn't even on the list. We have higher suicide rates than Japan! (A place famous for its terrible working hours and suicides) In that lights Iceland is doing something right.
Bank run starting at first republic bank https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11849049/Customers-line-outside-Republic-Bank-money-SVB-bank-collapsed.html
Vaccines + Mask Mandates are the most effective way, and that's the conditions all the early "miracle-level" studies on vaccine effectiveness against transmission and even asymptomatic infection were done under. The ones they used to drop mask mandates, which made the vaccines less effective. Mask mandates always worked, yes not everybody wears them correctly, but they're just plain effective. Literally almost everybody wears one when there's a mandate, and the other behavioral modifications people do outweigh the noncompliance or low effectiveness of certain masks, tanking transmission. Mask mandates, supported isolation for the sick, and vaccines could end this pandemic. We know how much less effective one-way masking is. One-way, individualization of the vaccine "nudging" is similarly made less effective by, you know, the ruling class lying to you and trying to get you to unmask so you think there's no emergency.
We know [Mask Mandates Work](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-mask-mandates-work-w-ellie-murray-03-09-23/id1444679141?i=1000603441691)
Vaccines + NPI are literally the only way to mitigate COVID from a standpoint of public health. A field that is currently committing public suicide in the face of failure against the pandemic and immense pressure from the ruling class. I could find a couple of broken, opportunistic, sneering media personalities to write some Op-Eds using WH talking points to SAY vaccines alone are the most important tool to combat the virus. But that would never change the *reality*, that **Vaccines PLUS** are the only way to combat COVID without it turning into a war of attrition, and Vaccines Plus is the very cause of the early optimism about vaccines.
Except, I wasn't hostile to others, the person I've been talking to have been in agreement and, I didn't need to "make an argument" because I'm in agreement with said person.
Are you really this stupid? <- that's me being hostile
Except, I wasn't hostile to others, the person I've been talking to have been in agreement and, I didn't need to "make an argument" because I'm in agreement with said person.
Are you really this stupid? <- that's me being hostile
And how many bees born in the same time? None? How experts estimate the loss of bees across a giant country like brasil? Statistics? Live in fear.
"Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you Mama's gonna keep you right here Under her wing
She won't let you fly but she might let you sing Mama will keep baby cosy and warm" Pink Floyd
And how many bees born in the same time? None? How experts estimate the loss of bees across a giant country like brasil? Statistics? Live in fear.
"Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you Mama's gonna keep you right here Under her wing
She won't let you fly but she might let you sing Mama will keep baby cosy and warm" Pink Floyd
sheesh, your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top, does it?
It's not just about honeybees. Try reading what I wrote, instead of just listening to the endless echo inside your empty noggin.
sheesh, your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top, does it?
It's not just about honeybees. Try reading what I wrote, instead of just listening to the endless echo inside your empty noggin.
TIPS: How to talk to a friend or people around you that the world is collapsingTalking to a friend or people around you about the state of the world in collapse can be difficult, but it's essential to approach the topic with sensitivity and empathy. Here are some tips on how to have a conversation with a friend about the world's problems, which will get worst and eventually collapse:
(I have been exercising this with my nephews and niece, and it seems to work well)
**Listen to their perspective:** Start the conversation by asking them what they think about the current state of the world. Give them the space to express their thoughts and feelings without interrupting or dismissing them.
**Acknowledge their feelings:** Let your friend know that you understand them and share some of their concerns. Validate their emotions and show that you care about their well-being.
**Share information:** If your friend is feeling overwhelmed or uninformed about current events, you can offer to share some reliable sources of information with them (For example, sharing r/collapse). This can help them feel more informed.
**Focus on positive actions:** While it's important to acknowledge the world's challenges, it's also essential to focus on positive actions that people can take to make a difference. Share examples of individuals or organizations making a positive impact, and encourage your friend to get involved in a cause they care about.
**Offer support:** Let your friend know that you are there for them and support them. Encourage them to care for themselves and seek help if they feel overwhelmed or anxious.
Remember, the conversation should be respectful, compassionate, and focused on finding solutions. It's essential to avoid getting into arguments or debates and to approach the conversation with an open mind and a willingness to learn from each other.
P.S. If you have more tips, kindly share them in the comments.
Wow you hate female politicians. Misogynist.
Wow you hate female politicians. Misogynist.
Cruelty is more common in this world than self sufficiency. You guys have never truly been hungry and it shows, you won't even think about your actions once the cupboard is dry, you'll just fill it at others expense. It will be a fun ride.
The growing evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker
What is Ecological Overshoot and Can Capitalism Correct It?
Why is it still ripping through the population if they are vaccinated? Is it still the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’?
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1017002907/u-s-covid-deaths-are-rising-again-experts-call-it-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated
Why is it still ripping through the population if they are vaccinated? Is it still the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’?
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1017002907/u-s-covid-deaths-are-rising-again-experts-call-it-a-pandemic-of-the-unvaccinated
SS: I have been looking to better understand the collapse of SVB and the implications of it. I found the comments section in r/business have been helpful, after finding the discussion in r/collapse was a leaving me with lots of questions.
A few interesting things to consider here, how faith in the financial system is a requisite of the banking sector. And the role of rich and powerful people in triggering this type of collapse - Peter Thiel - actually recommended all his investors withdraw their funds from SBV, which may have started the chain reaction that led to the collapse of the bank. A relatively small action by a single person (albeit with quite a lot of influence), had massive reprecussions.
I am currently wondering what other vulnerabilities may be exposed by rising interest rates. Its very interesting to watch it all play out.
I have been looking to better understand the collapse of SVB and the implications of it. I found the comments section in r/business have been helpful, after finding the discussion in r/collapse was a leaving me with lots of questions. Specifically this thread , I triedto submit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/business/comments/11ouxb9/moodys\_gave\_silicon\_valley\_bank\_an\_a\_rating\_until/
A few interesting things to consider here, how faith in the financial system is a requisite of the banking sector. And the role of rich and powerful people in triggering this type of collapse - Peter Thiel - actually recommended all his investors withdraw their funds from SBV, which may have started the chain reaction that led to the collapse of the bank. A relatively small action by a single person (albeit with quite a lot of influence), had massive reprecussions.
I am currently wondering what other vulnerabilities may be exposed by rising interest rates. Its very interesting to watch it all play out.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
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Moody's gave Silicon Valley bank an A rating until its collapse
umair - why fascists hate everyone
umair - why fascists hate everyone
You've programmed your own kids for suicide?
Last Week in Collapse: March 5-11, 2023
A big bank falls, oil demand rises, [protests continue](https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/politics/article/georgia-withdraws-foreign-agent-bill-after-days-17828606.php), and threats both ancient and futuristic emerge…
**Last Week in Collapse: March 5-11, 2023**
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This is the 63rd newsletter. You can find the February 26-March 4 edition [here](https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11isg88/last_week_in_collapse_february_26march_4_2023/) if you missed it last week. These newsletters are also [on Substack](https://substack.com/profile/18092228-last-week-in-collapse) if you want them sent to your email inbox.
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The United Nations has finally [leased a tanker](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230309-un-makes-major-breakthrough-to-prevent-yemen-oil-spill-disaster) to offload the oil from the derelict oil tanker *FSO Safer*, which has been stranded off the coast of Yemen for 8 years this month, decaying without maintenance. The **oil transfer is currently scheduled to begin in May 2023**, and could defuse one of the world’s most dangerous ecological timebombs.
The United States is [calling for greater global oil production](https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/US-Official-Calls-For-Higher-Global-Oil-Production.html), since **our energy demands are still rising** across the developing world. Supply chain problems, the War’s ongoing impact on the oil markets, and continuous growth [is set to cause a lasting energy shortage](https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Energy-Shortages-Are-Set-To-Persist-Through-2023.html) through at least the end of this year. The so-called **shale boom** [**is over**](https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/The-Shale-Boom-Is-Over.html).
**Fuel shortages** [**persist** in Malawi](https://crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2023/03/malawi-fuel-shortages-nationwide-in-early-march), in [Kenya](https://allafrica.com/stories/202303080080.html), in [Cuba](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cubas-president-meets-ceo-russias-rosneft-amid-fuel-shortage-2023-03-05/), in [Pakistan](https://www.dawn.com/news/1741051/pakistans-oil-industry-warns-of-major-fuel-supply-disruption-moneycurve-dawn-news-english), in [France](https://www.dw.com/en/strikes-cripple-french-refineries-over-pension-reforms/a-64905346)...and global [**diesel levels remain low**](https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/The-Global-Diesel-Crisis-Isnt-Over-Yet.html) for several reasons. Maybe this is why [Shell—and their CEO—made record profits](https://apnews.com/article/shell-ceo-pay-energy-prices-record-profits-3f9b9bb08d1cd88a11d0ab550ffdc053) last year.
Another fierce Russian bombardment [struck Ukraine](https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-kyiv-odesa-kharkiv-40714ec02d628a95458594da6ba8a80e) last week, knocking out electricity at Zaporizhzhia’s nuclear power plant for half the day. 80+ missiles and several drones were used, and water/electricity was temporarily cut off from several northern cities in Ukraine. Yet hope is still blooming for the Ukrainian people; [the cold winter is almost over](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64899045), and the [energy battle](https://archive.ph/9Qldf) has been won.
Another [report](https://archive.ph/HntrW) of questionable veracity now suggests the September 2022 Nordstream pipeline bombings were conducted by a non-state pro-Ukrainian group without authorization by Zelenskyy. Russia alleges that this is disinformation, and most other parties are not commenting at this time. Reports are also emerging that [**Russia is further militarizing Gogland**](https://yle.fi/a/74-20021627), a small island about 180km (110 miles) west of St. Petersburg.
**Angola is** [**sending troops**](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64927180) to deal with the M23 gang insurgency in eastern DRC. The conflict [displaced 300,000 people](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPRWS-wCpzE) last month. In South Sudan, [extrajudicial killings continue](https://reliefweb.int/report/south-sudan/un-experts-tell-human-rights-council-violence-against-civilians-persists-south-sudan-fuelled-pervasive-impunity), and the UN has said that this year will [“make or break”](https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/03/1134217) the young nation.
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XBB.1.5, the “Kraken” variant of COVID, now accounts for about 90% of American COVID cases in humans. I’m not sure what variants [rats in NYC are getting](https://archive.ph/9aHQi) these days, but a study done in 2021 reported **16% of New York City rats tested positive for COVID**. We have reached the 3-year anniversary of the global “lockdowns” and it’s clear that we failed as a society. [COVID won](https://apnews.com/article/covid-pandemic-anniversary-59f39df14ddf65f786d3437cc9a52e54). The psychological siege overwhelmed every country, and now even COVID cautious people and the swayed masses [are rejecting masks](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/3/8/23630644/cochrane-review-masks-covid-coronavirus-pandemic).
As the permafrost melts, old viruses tens of thousands of years old [are reemerging](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/08/world/permafrost-virus-risk-climate-scn/index.html) from their dark slumber. The world’s arctic regions (predominantly Russia and Canada) are ripe ground for unknown viruses to appear. It would be interesting for humanity to be attacked from something pre-civilizational, rather than our modern threats.
Zimbabwe [has confirmed cholera](https://www.zimlive.com/zimbabwe-confirms-five-cholera-cases-since-outbreak-in-february/), and joins a growing list of nations struggling from the bacteria. 23 states have been confirmed to have the illness, though overall cases in Africa are down from January. However, [Malawi is suffering](https://www.independent.co.ug/malawi-cholera-outbreak-largest-on-continent-who-official/) from a growing **cholera emergency**.
Mpox killed [an Australian man](https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/218/4/first-case-mpox-diagnosed-queensland-australia-clinical-and-molecular-aspects) last week, and Costa Rica [had its first mpox death](https://qcostarica.com/first-death-of-monkeypox-in-costa-rica-confirmed/). The [emergency has been declared over in Baltimore](https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/public-health/monkeypox-mpox-baltimore-emergency-G4R7RMTRNZH4XLEFQJBSBQR4BE/), but will the threat ever fully disappear?
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So far, 76 people have been confirmed dead as a result of the ongoing Peru protests. Last week [the emergency declaration was lifted](https://en.mercopress.com/2023/03/10/peru-lifts-state-of-emergency-in-lima) around Lima, though riots continue in the south.
In Iran, although protests are slowly dwindling, [a **currency crisis**](https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/4199271/iran%E2%80%99s-rulers-shaken-protests-now-face-currency-crisis) is growing. Iran and Saudi also [agreed](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/11/changing-global-order-china-restores-ties-with-iran-and-saudi) to re-establish diplomatic relations, in a deal mediated by China.
Tens of thousands of people [protested across Greece](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230308-greece-faces-fresh-strikes-protests-over-rail-crash) over a deadly train crash from two weeks ago. A 24-hour strike was called. In Israel, [colossal protests continue](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64866881) over a proposed bill that would empower the legislature to overrule the Supreme Court with a simple majority. In Brazil, [another round of police raids](https://archive.ph/jqRrU) targeted plotters of the failed January 8th insurrection.
Lebanon is [seeing a **suicide increase**](https://www.firstpost.com/world/financial-regime-is-over-acute-economic-crisis-forces-people-to-commit-suicide-in-lebanon-12257722.html), mostly over economic despair as the Lebanese Pound sinks and the general economy breaks up. Lebanon has been [without a President](https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/03/explainer-four-contenders-vying-become-lebanons-next-president) for 4 and a half months now.
Tunisia’s President Saïed [is planning to **dissolve local authorities**](https://archive.ph/cFvhw) and replace them with local councils loyal to himself. Over the past two years, their president has dissolved Parliament and the independent judicial council, suppressed criticism of his rule, and generally agglomerated powers in himself. The currency has been hit hard in Tunisia—and in Egypt, where [citizenship is being sold](https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/egypt-selling-citizenship-foreign-investors-economic-crisis-inflation-food-prices-russia-ukraine-war-12265262.html) to foreign investors.
Mexican authorities [discovered 343 migrants](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64870110) in the back of a large container truck (lorry), en route to the US border. It was one of the largest such discoveries in the country. Across the Atlantic, the [UK is allegedly going to pay France](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64909510) to prevent migrants & refugees from crossing the English Channel in boats. In 2018, about 300 such travelers crossed the channel into the UK; last year, over 45,000. That’s a **15,000% increase in 5 years**. The UK’s [controversial response](https://archive.ph/GKt8z) may be a harbinger of what’s to come.
[Han Zheng](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Zheng) was appointed as China’s vice President last week, and [Li Qiang as premier](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64924440), after [Xi Jinping was officially confirmed](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64911512) for a third 5-year term. As China’s centralized power system grows, [more **billionaires are disappearing**](https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64781986) mysteriously.
The [ongoing **Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank**](https://archive.ph/I0jK4) (the 16th largest bank in the U.S., with $212B in assets) is alarming investors and start-ups. It is the [second-largest financial institution to Collapse](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/10/investing/svb-bank/index.html) in American history—and Elon Musk has now [expressed interest in buying it](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/i-am-open-to-buy-collapsed-silicon-valley-bank-elon-musk/articleshow/98561746.cms). 97% of SVB bank accounts [have/had more than $250,000](https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/silicon-valley-bank-stock-trading-halted-financial-tech-industry/) in them, and the FDIC, which has received the bank, only insures individual accounts up to $250,000. So **a lot of investors are going to lose a lot of money**; this **economic bomb** may also destroy a number of established and growing tech companies. But don’t worry, the [bankers got paid bonuses](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-paid-bonuses-fdic) hours before the FDIC took over.
Trade in the Panama Canal [is shrinking](https://www.porttechnology.org/news/panama-shrinking-volumes-threaten-economic-crisis/), portending a larger economic crisis. The economy seems like it’s been on the brink of Collapse for 3 years now…
Healthcare workers in South Africa [are on strike](https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-03-09-massive-hospital-disruptions-across-sa-as-health-workers-continue-strike/).
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India’s capital, New Delhi (metro pop: 32M) is [bracing for summer heat waves](https://www.timesnownews.com/delhi/water-crisis-deepens-in-delhi-situation-to-get-worse-as-city-braces-for-harsh-summer-article-98480447) and droughts. The country experienced its warmest February ever this year. China is also [feeling **drought**](https://www.wionews.com/world/china-hits-record-high-temperatures-for-early-march-drought-like-conditions-in-several-parts-569981) ahead of what is predicted to be a hot summer.
12 U.S. cities in the east [had a **record hot January and February**](https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/hottest-temperatures-winter-us-states-b2296852.html). Greenland hit [a new record hot temperature](https://archive.ph/Myyxa) for March.
Inhabitants of **megacities** (cities with 10M+ people) should [prepare for the worst](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/07/asia/rising-sea-levels-asia-cities-threat-climate-intl-hnk-scn) over the coming decades, because a *Nature Climate Change* [study](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01603-w) suggests that **internal climate variation (ICV) could be stronger and less predictable than previously believed**.
El Niño [is starting to begin](https://www.tiempo.com/ram/senales-del-fenomeno-de-el-nino-costas-peru-ecuador.html) off the coast of Peru, if early indicators are to be believed. The [climate phenomenon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o) is [expected by this summer](https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/la-nina-over-el-nino-looms). The podcast *Breaking Down: Collapse* did [an episode on El Niño](https://player.fm/series/breaking-down-collapse/episode-129-el-nino) last week if you want a deeper dive.
Remember those terrible wildfires in Australia in 2019 and 2020? Researchers now say [those fires expanded a **hole in the ozone layer** by 10%](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230308-massive-australia-wildfires-increased-antarctic-ozone-hole-study) over Antarctica. It is estimated that those wildfires also damaged the southern hemisphere’s ozone layer and reduced it by about 4%.
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*Things to watch next week include:*
↠ Chat-GPT-4 is [coming next week](https://www.heise.de/news/GPT-4-is-coming-next-week-and-it-will-be-multimodal-says-Microsoft-Germany-7540972.html), and **it will be multimodal**. This means that—theoretically—it will be able to produce not only text and images, but also audio and video. The convergence is already here; you can swim with the current, or watch from the riverbank—but those who try to swim against it will be swept away.
*Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:*
-Overshoot is inevitable—but what will the crash look like. One Reddit user put together [a detailed 40-page PDF](https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11l5nol/overshoot_pdf/) about our growth predicament. You can find a free link to Catton’s *Overshoot* in the comments of this thread, alongside some useful feedback. It’s not often that we see such high-effort content…
-France finally got some rain, but it won’t wash away its problems, based on [this weekly observation](https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11jvpyi/weekly_observations_what_signs_of_collapse_do_you/jbgoxvt/) by u/SecretPassage1. it provides a long snapshot of France’s **political/economic/energy issues**, particularly its recent strikes, which are coming in waves from different sectors.
-Young people are going to have a particularly rough time, according to long-timer u/dumnezero’s [comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11ntjv6/how_fucked_are_generation_z_and_future/jbq5tho/), which cites the IPCC’s projection of the future. Heat waves, food scarcity, flooding, conflict…
-Los Angeles is seeing **brain rot**, ending masking in healthcare settings, more and more Christianity billboards, and even snow. I don’t know which is most surprising. [This weekly observation](https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11jvpyi/weekly_observations_what_signs_of_collapse_do_you/) elaborates a bit on the details. How quick is the Collapse of LA going to be?
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The list of pharmaeuticals in short or missing from supply is growing dailyPharma had this to say:
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Last year, vials of the decades-old chemotherapy drug fludarabine could be purchased for a wholesale price of around $110. Not so much anymore.
This year, one company—Areva Pharmaceuticals—has [jacked](https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/10/27/cancer-shortages-fludarabine-leukemia-chemo-areva-hospitals-pharmacy/) the figure up to $2,736, Stat News reports.
What’s going on with the aging chemotherapy used to prepare patients for cancer treatment?
It all comes down to supply chain problems triggering shortages that affect the only other two suppliers of the drug in the United States—Teva and Fresenius Kabi.
This and other well-documented shortages aren’t going away any time soon, according to Bindiya Vakil, CEO of Resilinc, a California-based firm that helps companies from a variety of industries mitigate supply chain problems.
While shortages of high-profile drugs such as Adderall and [amoxicillin](https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/after-adderall-common-antibiotic-amoxicillin-runs-shortage-amid-demand-spikes-and) have garnered headlines recently, Vakil points to a recent FDA warning that has the potential for more far-reaching consequences.
The agency flagged shortages of more than a dozen drug ingredients, two of which are included in Adderall. Others include bacteriostatic saline, which is necessary for diluting drugs for IV injections, and compounds used in common drugs for anesthesia, water retention and calcium deficiencies.
“What we don’t appreciate as much is that our drug supply is highly vulnerable because a lot of the source materials that go into developing the active pharmaceutical ingredients come from China,” Vakil said in an interview. “India is a huge market for generic manufacturing that we rely on in the U.S. And India is heavily dependent on China for those source materials that they transform into the APIs. We don’t have independence in our drug supply at all.”
[https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/drug-shortages-arent-going-away-any-time-soon-supply-chain-expert-warns](https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/drug-shortages-arent-going-away-any-time-soon-supply-chain-expert-warns)
Collapse and the Internet: Isolation, Depression, and OrganizationHi all.
As sh\*t hits the fan at an increasing rate, I believe we are near or at the point where large-scale, meaningful organization is necessary for some of us to have any chance of survival. This will require a radical break from the way we live our day-to-day lives, but the future may depend on it. I'll start with a few observations:
1. US (where most r/collapse users live) politics are in a race to the fascist bottom. The 2024 election will likely be a *major* tipping point in this process.
2. Young people are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis. We are isolated, depressed, and impoverished.
3. Both of these phenomena are enabled or intensified via social media and the other cultural apparatuses of late capitalism.
4. The environmental crisis is a crisis of capitalism.
I want to focus on social media for a moment. As I don't have the time to pull together real academic evidence, I just want to present an anecdote. The anecdote is very simple: The language I hear justifying the use of social media (Instagram, Reddit, hell, even LinkedIn) is *precisely* the same as an addict's justification of their habit. And, like any addiction, I believe social media has had a massively deleterious effect on its users. Specifically within the context of the project of building resistance, I think our reliance on social media will break any countercultural movement.
The overall psychosocial movement of the 21st century has been one of atomization. Humans are broken down, not only to the individual level, but to small series of fragmented identities that exist transiently within online modes. Forget about communities! There can be no sense of collective identity on an online forum in which your inclusion is predicated entirely upon adherence to an arbitrarily determined standard that the group itself might not even have set. The mask you wear for that forum is tenuously related to your real identity at best. Furthermore, because the regulation of voices in the online space resembles only vaguely the organically evolved mechanisms of social regulation, discussions tend to circulate progressively further towards extremes with no chance for exterior critique or meaningful debate. And the correlation between these spaces and antisocial behaviors is well-documented.
This isolating structure is quite possibly the only way we have allowed late capitalism to grow in the way it has. The last time oligarchs held so much wealth proportional to the proletariat, their heads were rather violently dissassociated from their bodies. And so, their gross excesses unchecked, we find ourselves on the edge of oblivion.
Yes, we ought to have "done something" years ago. But that doesn't mean it's time to give up. I humbly offer two prescriptions:
1. Talk to the people around you. Unless they own a Fortune 500 company, they have the same gripes and existential angst as you do. Class consciousness will be essential in the coming years. The evidence is overwhelming. And don't be opposed to more direct action. *Very* direct action.
2. Don't give up. Yes, it's too late to save everyone. But human extinction is not yet a guarantee. Our species has been here before, and we made it. I'd count the survival of just 1% a massive success, as long as its not "the" 1%. And most importantly, don't give up on other people. Despair only feeds the machine.
Anyways, I hope you got something out of that. If you're here, thanks for reading my thoughts, and let me know if you have any feedback. I've been thinking about putting together pamphlets for mass distribution to help raise awareness.
Stay safe out there.
Hi, NearlySoRadical. Thanks for contributing. However, your [submission](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11p7hfg/-/) was removed from /r/collapse for:
> Rule 3: Posts must be on-topic, focusing on collapse.
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Your post is better suited for r/collapsesupport, please share it there.
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I think your post may be better suited to the support sub. Sorry your first post (welcome!) is getting kicked, but I think you'll have good engagement there :)
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Hi, NearlySoRadical. Thanks for contributing. However, your [submission](https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11p7hfg/-/) was removed from /r/collapse for:
> Rule 3: Posts must be on-topic, focusing on collapse.
> Posts must be focused on collapse. If the subject matter of your post has less focus on collapse than it does on issues such as prepping, politics, or economics, then it probably belongs in another subreddit.
> Posts must be specifically about collapse, not the resulting damage. By way of analogy, we want to talk about why there are so many car accidents, not look at photos of car wrecks.
Your post is better suited for r/collapsesupport, please share it there.
>
I think your post may be better suited to the support sub. Sorry your first post (welcome!) is getting kicked, but I think you'll have good engagement there :)
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Collapse Made my Depression Even Worse - But I RecoveredHi,
This is my first time posting here, even though I've been on the subreddit for over twelve months. I had a quick read of the rules and I don't think I'm breaking any of them 🤞
I discovered collapse at the worst possible time: I was in the throes of a full-blown mental health crisis and had just gotten out of hospital. It fed into my pessimism and hopelessness in a very dark and ugly way.
Since then, I've fully recovered. I found that my interest in and obsession with collapse waned as I regained a sense of my own future.
I believe the prospect of collapse is a very real one, but the worst case scenario that I can genuinely imagine is one wherein parts of the developed world remain relatively untouched and stable for at least the next 150 years (even if much of the rest of the world goes to shit). Since I'm lucky enough to live in a fairly cold part of the developed world, this comforts me even more (although I have thought about moving further south).
I know that this hope is a touch naive - and can be dismissed pretty easily, because I don't have the detail to back it up - but I don't want to think about this topic like a machine anymore. I suppose that's why so many people immediately reject collapse as doomerism. And this thread is full of hopelessness, and it's not a good place to dwell when you're sick.
I feel much better thinking about collapse as a distant possibility and an interesting subject for conversation, rather than an impending certainty. The alternative is weighing myself down with a fear that when I die the world will be a much more brutal and horrible place to live.
Collapse Made my Depression Even Worse - But I RecoveredHi,
This is my first time posting here, even though I've been on the subreddit for over twelve months. I had a quick read of the rules and I don't think I'm breaking any of them 🤞
I discovered collapse at the worst possible time: I was in the throes of a full-blown mental health crisis and had just gotten out of hospital. It fed into my pessimism and hopelessness in a very dark and ugly way.
Since then, I've fully recovered. I found that my interest in and obsession with collapse waned as I regained a sense of my own future.
I believe the prospect of collapse is a very real one, but the worst case scenario that I can genuinely imagine is one wherein parts of the developed world remain relatively untouched and stable for at least the next 150 years (even if much of the rest of the world goes to shit). Since I'm lucky enough to live in a fairly cold part of the developed world, this comforts me even more (although I have thought about moving further south).
I know that this hope is a touch naive - and can be dismissed pretty easily, because I don't have the detail to back it up - but I don't want to think about this topic like a machine anymore. I suppose that's why so many people immediately reject collapse as doomerism. And this thread is full of hopelessness, and it's not a good place to dwell when you're sick.
I feel much better thinking about collapse as a distant possibility and an interesting subject for conversation, rather than an impending certainty. The alternative is weighing myself down with a fear that when I die the world will be a much more brutal and horrible place to live.
\>unless you are a fucking multi-millionaire with more than 250k in a single account, you are just fucking fine
And you know this for sure how, exactly? Im pretty sure government isnt coming after millionaires when financial crisis hits. Those guys are fine. Also, heres something to think about. Does US government have enough gold to back all those dollars they printed?
\>unless you are a fucking multi-millionaire with more than 250k in a single account, you are just fucking fine
And you know this for sure how, exactly? Im pretty sure government isnt coming after millionaires when financial crisis hits. Those guys are fine. Also, heres something to think about. Does US government have enough gold to back all those dollars they printed?
religious landscape post collapseWhat do you think will be the nature of religious communities in a post industrial world? (That is when oil consumption has on the whole reduced 75-90 percent).
I'm speaking from an American perspective but I'd be interested in others. I wonder how many people within a generation or two would revert to christian practices, if not for faithful reasons than for the social value of a congregation. I worry about religious minorities in a post industrial America but I hope we retain some respect for freedom of religion.
Do you think people will invent new religions? Isn't Mormonism like super stocked up on supplies or something? I wonder how the irreligious or athiest would fair socially if communities reverted to a religiously dominated milieu and social expectations.
I think it's an interesting topic. Hope all is well.
peace.
So, what happens after a SHTF scenario?So say a devastating pandemic comes along, or a massive financial collapse occurs and and billions of people starve to death, what do you predict would happen in the following weeks, months, years? In the practical sense, I think that people that are self-sufficient and able to stay aware from the masses would survive for quite some time. Also, there could be a massive increase in biodiversity as nature re-takes city-scapes and suburbs.
Obviously the details would be situation specific, but in general, what do you see happening?
The Collapse Is Starting Right NowHey everyone.
So, the Collapse is starting now. There are several areas that are causing the Collapse, basically the World faces a Perfect Storm.
.1. So, Collapse basically started in 2008 with the Great Recession and the collapse of Lehman-Brothers. The Federal Reserve tried to fight the Financial Crisis by lowering interesting rates to 0% (1). The Federal Reserve kept interest rates at 0% until 2016 (2).
The Federal Reserve also started "Quantitative Easing" to fight the Great Recession (3). Major central banks around the world have literally printed $25 trillion since 2008 (4). Now, in 1933, the US Government went off the Gold Standard (5).
So, a strong argument could be made that the Collapse happened in 2008 with the Great Recession because central banks lowered interest rates to 0% and printed $25 trillion dollars to stimulate the economy. However, this "economic stimulus" is not normal growth. The global economy hasn't naturally grown since the Great Recession happened in 2008.
.2. Now, the Federal Reserve is raising interests rates now because inflation is out of control. Well, inflation is out of control because central banks printed $25 trillion dollars since 2008. So, these central banks have literally printed money because this money is not backed by Gold. So, these central banks have created inflation by printing money. When the central banks print money, that creates inflation (6).
.3. Peak oil has already occurred. In 2000, a barrel of oil cost about $30. Now, a barrel cost about $100 (7).
Also, the EROI of oil has declined from over 50 in the 1950s to under 10 by the mid-2000s (8).
Now, society is forced to use alternative sources for fuel, such as shale oil. Royal Dutch Shell reported that the EROI of shale oil is only 3-4 (9).
.4. Climate Change is already causing serious problems for refugees around the world. Millions of people are refugees because of Climate Change. This problem is expected to get worse and worse every year. By 2050, there are projected to be 1 billion refugees around the world (14).
Climate Change is also causing serious problems for farmers around the world. Rising global average temperature is associated with widespread changes in weather patterns. Scientific studies indicate that extreme weather events such as heat waves and large storms are likely to become more frequent or more intense with human-induced climate change (10).
Also, Climate Change significantly contributed to the severity of the drought in California (11). The drought in California affected thousands of farmers in California.
Climate change also lowers crop yields throughout America, Europe, and Asia (12). For example, Climate Change caused droughts in Europe which significantly decreased how much wine European farmers were able to produced (13).
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References:
1. https://money.cnn.com/2008/12/16/news/economy/fed_decision/index.htm
2. https://www.statista.com/chart/7227/federal-reserve-moves-up-base-rate-025-percent/
3. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-quantitative-easing-definition-and-explanation-3305881
4. https://finbold.com/major-central-banks-have-printed-25-trillion-since-2008-data-shows/
5. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-takes-united-states-off-gold-standard
6. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042015/how-does-money-supply-affect-inflation.asp
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_oil_market_chronology_from_2003
8. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2013.0126
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_economics
10. https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/weather-climate
11. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1503667112
12. https://climatechange.chicago.gov/climate-impacts/climate-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply
13. https://ec.europa.eu/research-and-innovation/en/horizon-magazine/climate-change-leaves-its-stain-european-wine
14. https://www.zurich.com/en/media/magazine/2022/there-could-be-1-2-billion-climate-refugees-by-2050-here-s-what-you-need-to-know
Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?
Critique Elons sustainable energy civilizationI was watching Tesla's 2023 investor day that happened last week, Elon was saying that it would only take $10 trillion to shift humanity to a sustainable energy economy by 2050.
[https://www.youtube.com/live/Hl1zEzVUV7w?feature=share&t=1905](https://www.youtube.com/live/Hl1zEzVUV7w?feature=share&t=1905)
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Notes:
* publishing a detailed white paper with all of their assumptions and calculations
* a clear path to a fully sustainable Earth with abundance to support a civilization much bigger
* only 1/3 of Global energy actually ends up delivering useful work or heat
* electrified civilization will be less wasteful, so civilisation will require less energy in total (by 1/2)
* 240TWh of battery storage, 30TW of renewable power, and 0.2 percent of the world's land needed
* in the last 20 years, $14 trillion was spent on fossil fuel infrastructure
* graph showing sufficient minerals to do this
* solutions for all transport
* abundant iron for iron batteries that recyclable
* wants to convey is a message of Hope and optimism that is based on on actual physics and real calculations to show Earth can and will move to a sustainable energy economy and will do so in your lifetime
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Exactly - other than ruining lives and needlessly shutting down small businesses and killing livelihoods.
Exactly - other than ruining lives and needlessly shutting down small businesses and killing livelihoods.
I guess that's why he's terrible at banking. /s
That link disproves nothing. So American-centric. Try again with a more global focus.
Haha look at all the people trying to control the negative narrative down voting away. People's puts are going to be burnt bacon in a few weeks.
You’ll die in misery, shitting your brains out because you drank some bad water.
Or it's more like: "it's your own fault for not doing your research on the bank that's used by the company you work for!".
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When is the collapse?More specifically, when is the dystopian hellscape to be realized, in your opinion? I see so much (deserved, logical, and valid) pessimism about ecosystem collapse, class warfare, and natural disaster as countries will begin fighting wars over fresh water, supplies, and more over the next few decades.
But WHEN? What decade? So many people have their own estimates, but nothing is showing a decade or range of years to prepare for.
In the USA: If the bank collapse from a few days ago sends us into a mini recession rivaling 2008, alongside poor working conditions, the liquidation of the middle class, social injustice, poor healthcare, insane inflation, and more, I don't know if America will be able to sustain itself.
Disease in other countries, rn particularly [AH5N1 Bird Flu](https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/data-map-commercial.html), are becoming increasingly prominent as these countries' overabundant poorer population crises spread illness faster and produce mutations and transfers through their diet of certain wildlife species or farmland poultry. Cambodia and China are the two being looked at most closely for their distinct mutations, one with high transmission and mid-fatality rates, and the other with a lower transmission likelihood but a ~60% fatality rate.
With the system of capitalism devolving rapidly towards something darker and more sinister, and with all of the other systemic problems we face as a society and as human beings, it's just a matter of time. The upper class has practically barred all mass attempts at resistance without risking jobs, livelihood, death, and more.
The world is one accidental button push away from total annihilation and has been for decades, but now we're destroying the world so rapidly that there will be no need.
So, when?
When should I stock up food? When should I get my family somewhere safe, stock up on insulin for my partner, and prepare most heartily without being a doomsday person? I'm already adept at archery, but my skills in herbology are lacking. I would need at least two years of prep. Yet, collapses do not come as bangs, but as whispers.
What do you do when you see the world fraying at the seams and repeating history? What do you do to resist the bread and circuses of our Roman Empire?
When will it finally came crashing down?
[This is a post made to generate discussion on when projections place the climax of collapse and what you think will happen, as well as how to respond.]
When is the collapse?More specifically, when is the dystopian hellscape to be realized, in your opinion? I see so much (deserved, logical, and valid) pessimism about ecosystem collapse, class warfare, and natural disaster as countries will begin fighting wars over fresh water, supplies, and more over the next few decades.
But WHEN? What decade? So many people have their own estimates, but nothing is showing a decade or range of years to prepare for.
In the USA: If the bank collapse from a few days ago sends us into a mini recession rivaling 2008, alongside poor working conditions, the liquidation of the middle class, social injustice, poor healthcare, insane inflation, and more, I don't know if America will be able to sustain itself.
Disease in other countries, rn particularly [AH5N1 Bird Flu](https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/data-map-commercial.html), are becoming increasingly prominent as these countries' overabundant poorer population crises spread illness faster and produce mutations and transfers through their diet of certain wildlife species or farmland poultry. Cambodia and China are the two being looked at most closely for their distinct mutations, one with high transmission and mid-fatality rates, and the other with a lower transmission likelihood but a ~60% fatality rate.
With the system of capitalism devolving rapidly towards something darker and more sinister, and with all of the other systemic problems we face as a society and as human beings, it's just a matter of time. The upper class has practically barred all mass attempts at resistance without risking jobs, livelihood, death, and more.
The world is one accidental button push away from total annihilation and has been for decades, but now we're destroying the world so rapidly that there will be no need.
So, when?
When should I stock up food? When should I get my family somewhere safe, stock up on insulin for my partner, and prepare most heartily without being a doomsday person? I'm already adept at archery, but my skills in herbology are lacking. I would need at least two years of prep. Yet, collapses do not come as bangs, but as whispers.
What do you do when you see the world fraying at the seams and repeating history? What do you do to resist the bread and circuses of our Roman Empire?
When will it finally came crashing down?
[This is a post made to generate discussion on when projections place the climax of collapse and what you think will happen, as well as how to respond.]
Or it started with the younger dryas or with the bronze age collapse or the fall of the Roman Empire, keep in mind that during the apex of the roman empire people thought society reached the maximum sophistication/innovation possible and soon Rome would have conquered all the planet.