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Chesapeake Virginia
We had three nights of frozen temperatures in a row earlier this week. Today it was high 70s. It felt hot. Unnaturally hot. Looking at temperatures in the 80s as a high the next couple of days. No wonder people are crazy. Temperatures are wild and swinging.
As a great-grandmother, I defy any male to try to create what "identity" he thinks I am, or any born woman, for that matter.
Nearing That Bingo.
Well The Earth Takes Awhile To Melt.
Scientists uncover startling concentrations of pure DDT along seafloor off L.A. coast
Location: Upstate NY
I'm thinking of a certain T.E. Lawrence quote in writing this:
*'There seemed a certainty in degradation,' ... a kind of safety, for no matter how high one could rise there was a limit below which one could not fall."*
...except, our fall seems limitless; it feels as though the specter of 'social murder' is closing in all around - every day brings greater and greater uncertainty as the institutions that have shaped our lives slowly crumble. The most conspicuous example I've witnessed, which has grown to an absurd point, noticeable in every single aisle of the grocery store - is the phenomena of "shrinkflation". For those who don't know, it's essentially a form of "stealth inflation" where businesses shrink the amount of product they sell you in any variety of deceptive ways: the 92 fl oz laundry detergent you paid $9.59 for last year is now $13.99 and 69 fl oz - and if you weren't looking too closely, you would have barely noticed how much shorter the bottle had become. And this doesn't just happen to detergent - it's everything - foodstuffs of all kinds, sundry items, pet food, toilet paper... this isn't to mention the worsening quality of those products.
We're being squeezed to death for every last dollar we can produce, and are given less and less back all the time - like the 7.5 oz box of Wheat Thins that's exactly the same size as the 8.5 oz box of Wheat Thins from last month *(how do they even do that?)*, nobody would be as so kind as to tell you that this is what is happening. The writing may be on the wall for catabolic collapse all around us, and all we can truly perceive, day to day, is a life that grows increasingly insecure all the time.
Yet, somehow, everything just seems to keep plunking along, doesn't it? This isn't the 'collapse' the culture industry has advertised to us ad nauseam. My own personal collapse, already well underway, has taught me this.
I lost two family members last year - my father, and my uncle. The latter to a sudden heart attack, the former to Alzheimer's. One death was entirely unexpected and sudden, found out about through a stranger's phone call... and the other dragged on and on for 8 long, painful years. Our present collapse reminds me much more of my father's death - it's grueling, torturous in its slowness - like a creeping rot; every day, there's less and less 'there' of something you recognize, and more and more of something else, something that shakes you to your core, forces you to stare down your mortality and realize you're no more than a trembling, scared ape, born in this world naked, alone, whimpering - and just so often leaving it the same way.
I watched my father die in a hospital bed last April, and it was one of the worst things I've ever experienced. When I first came into the room, the hospital staff had this strange "peaceful" elevator music playing, with a video of "nature" imagery playing on a small TV set above my dad's deathbed. This backdrop to my father's 'death rattle' had the effect of disturbing me far and beyond the 'death rattle' itself, and after about thirty minutes I asked a nurse to turn off the music and the TV.
He died 7 hours later.
It strikes me that, in our own lives, we're all collectively the dying patient in the hospital bed, but we don't have the privilege of turning off the music and the TV set, regardless of how disturbing it is. And that's because not only are we part of the production crew, we're the show itself - producing the very thing that keeps us distracted from the reality of society's decay, and impending death.
An unexpected source of methane? Your local sewage plant.
Explaining the meaning behind the dystopian corporate art style
Doomscrolling & the state of our planet: 12 existential threats 2023
There’s less need to convince people of a future climate doomsday. It’s already here.
Global water crisis could 'spiral out of control' due to overconsumption and climate change, UN report warns
Nanoplastics Interfere With Developing Chicken Embryos in Terrifying Ways
Evidence Summer Arctic Sea Ice Melted During Early Holocene
Social Security Full Retirement Age Increased by 2 Years While Life Expectancy Decreased 0.4 Years Since the Outbreak of COVID-19 | GOP Now Floating Increasing Retirement Age to 70 as Part of Debt Ceiling Debate
Why We Can't Just Do It: The Truth About Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions
I mean, we should get on that, right away. 1B people is fine.
I mean, we should get on that, right away. 1B people is fine.
What will the ecological consequences of bird flu be?There has been a lot of discussion about how bird flu *could* collapse society *if* it achieves human to human transition and keeps its lethality rate of 60% — however, what is already going to happen with what sounds like a ton of birds dead? I’m thinking about what birds do and these are their roles I can think of from the top of my head
- spreading plants
- eating insects
- being eaten
- eating carrion
So I would assume the plant life will be really affected because they can’t spread as much and then will be eaten by unchecked insects. Maybe more diseases since those can brew in carrion? And I admittedly don’t know what animal might live off of birds except other birds and cats, so is there a link I’m missing?
Let me know. Trying to picture the whole thing
Well thing is, let's say you do a lot of long form reading and you learn something. If you want to share it, you can do a lot of long form writing. Then other people who do long form reading will read it. No one else will though. So if you have some information you want to share with a lot of people, then you have to accept reality and figure out how to create something they'll engage with. What form is superior definitely depends on your goals.
The smart ones will find a way to profit from climate change. Until they can do that little will be done. I am sure a lot of people will lose their lives due to the changing environment and people not being used to the new diseases they are exposed to. Just like the American Indians died enmasse when settlers and explorers brought European viruses to the Americas. Will there be planned "culling"? Anything is possible especially when it comes to the poor and the displaced.
RIP 💙
Exactly
Not related too much but I became collapse aware after listening to the last Kauai 'O'o singing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU)
So, thank you for at least caring enough to get angry about this.
Location: Vancouver Island BC Canada
The Western tanagers have returned in ever smaller numbers.
I remember the first years we lived up here seeing hundreds of them, I had never seen them before. The South Island supposedly has a summer breeding population, but not having been an avid birder I had never witnessed them. Up here though it's a tragedy befitting of a horror movie when they arrive.
They congregate on the highway, I have theorized It's for the grit and salt as well as the warmth of the morning sun on the asphalt. Of course being a highway trucks and cars barreling along at 90 to 100 km means it's an absolute massacre. the number of birds drop through the years, now it's a small scattering of bodies every few hundred meters that litter the road, in the past it was dozens every few meters.... more.... I worked at a local hotel when I first moved here, I remember a contractor truck driving into the parking lot, the guy jumped out and started picking lumps out of his grill and throwing them in the parking lot, upon closer attention I realized the lumps had tiny wings. I went over to the truck after he checked in, at my feet were the crumpled bodies of tens of tiny brightly coloured birds. It's a standout as one of the most gut wrenching moments in my life. Tossed aside as garbage, slaughtered en masse, the leavings of industrial scale genocide their fragile beauty reduced to annoyance.
Honking your horn and slowing down is all that's required to not commit a massacre. For a few years I preached this simple fact to as many as I could. I had the ears of not just locals in my hotel position. From mid March to early April, a few scant weeks a year. All that required of men is to use their fucking horn to not commit mass murder.... What do people do? Well a few of the really fucked up apes actually accelerate into the small clusters of birds on the road... But most simply don't give a shit ... Get out of the way. I'm certain they chant this under their breath as they plow through the flocks... I had the misfortune of being behind one such psychopath a couple of years ago watching the heads and bodies bounce off her car as she sped past me down the highway (I had to stop and have a cry, I hated that woman until the day she mercifully, for the birds, died of a stroke)
Long story short people are still plowing through the now tiny flocks of birds on the road, no horns, no shits given. They die in little clumps of a half dozen or so because that's all that is left. My last grocery trip was witness to the little red stains and feather piles spread out for 40+ km. It left me feeling homicidal for a while, but mostly just enforcing that hopeless impending sense of doom with the underpinning of hatred for my species.
I've never hit a single one in 20 years, for 2 to 3 weeks I drive under the speed limit ready to break and use my horn constantly... That's all it takes. 15 minutes more on your trip time for caring enough not to kill shit... The majority of people here only avoid hitting what might damage their cars... The rest? Fuck them, they shouldn't be on the highway if they don't want to die... (Side note many other species die because they come to feast on the bounty of squished and decapitated tanagers. I've seen eagles, ravens and some of the smaller corvids dead along side the little body piles)
When there are no birds left singing in the trees, make no mistake we did it intentionally, because doing anything else would be inconvenient.
Fuck humans
That's all
I believe TikTok actively censors words like suicide or died/death; that seems to be where I first noticed that trend online.
EDIT: typo
**Location:** Canada
Winter has been whacky where I live. February in particular was a mild month, with about two weeks of spring weather before getting reasonably cold again. In fact, this March has felt more like a classic winter than February did. I regularly checked [Ventusky.com](https://Ventusky.com) and saw that Canada and Russia were the only countries with a consistently classic winter this year. The United States and Europe were particularly mild in comparison to prior years.
Otherwise homelessness is on the rise, along with substance addiction and crimes. These problems are affecting urban/suburban areas that never once had these issues. It is geographically spreading, the police response is questionable and government policies aren't resolving this issue. The news media are circulating rumors about potential vigilantism from citizens who've had enough with the rising crime. I've personally watched my birth city's Downtown deteriorate over several years, as I once commuted there for work. Corporations withdrew their head offices, some businesses have shuttered, the homelessness is more visible, people are openly doing drugs in the streets and police are sentries on the subway trains.
The situation is getting worse.
Now THIS is a quality post. Mahalo for posting, OP.
Now THIS is a quality post. Mahalo for posting, OP.
Optimism | Get free $OP | Airdrop
How Carbon Removal is Failing Badly - The Two Largest Direct Air Capture Companies Carbon Engineering and Global Thermostat are Using Captured Carbon to both Extract and Create Hydrocarbons for Combustion
A world without fossil fuels can only support 1 billion people, not 8 billion peopleScientists at MIT have made the En-ROADS climate simulator so that people can quickly simulate how much the world will warm (1). I had a chance to use the tool recently, and I was extremely dissipated because this simulator completely ignores 1 HUGE problem: how do these dramatic changes affect the world's population?
In order to have an accurate and useful climate simulator, the tool should also estimate how many people would be able to live in the world. That is a very challenging question to answer.
In order to accurately answer that question, a scientific team would need to perform a scientific study and have the study published in a Scientific Journal, such as Nature or Science.
At best, we can only estimate how dramatically the world's population would be affected by stopping fossil fuel usage completely.
So, here is a list of things that would be necessary to do to stop Climate Change now:
* The world would have to stop using fossil fuels completely
* So, oil, coal, natural gas, etc couldn't be used at all
* The world's population would be forced to dramatically decline from 8 billion to approximately 1 billion nearly immediately. I don't know exactly how many people could live in a world without fossil fuels, but I'm using 1 billion people as an approximation because that is how many people lived on Earth in the 1800s (2).
* In the 1800s, people didn't have electricity, cars, trucks, tractors, planes, etc.
* The world's population would have to dramatically decline because fossil fuels are used to produce fertilizers and other chemicals in farms. Also, diesel is used on every farm around the world to power tractors. Additionally, diesel is used to power trucks to transports raw crops to factories. Fossil fuels are used to power the factories and turn the raw crops into edible food.
* Additionally, fossil fuels are used to transport the edible food to stores around the world. Millions of ships and trucks are used to transport food.
So, there is simply no easy solution. We have made fossil fuels a huge part of society. Now, eliminating fossil fuels from society would take society back to the 1800s.
Now, if you talked to climatologists in private, they will admit that society is basically screwed (3). Climatologists know that society is screwed.
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references:
1. https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=23.2.1
2. https://heartland.org/opinion/how-many-of-the-worlds-8-billion-will-survive-without-fossil-fuels/
3. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/total-climate-meltdown-inevitable-heatwaves-global-catastrophe
You won't be banned. But your post will be removed, and we gently respond with a standard message offering resources to /r/CollapseSupport, suicide counsel hotlines, and others. It's a hard subject and the mod team isn't qualified to offer real advice. I'm sorry.
Last year, and the year before, and the year before that, the Collapse mod team discussed what exactly we'd allow when it comes to suicide and whether any of us were qualified or empathetic enough to offer some real counseling. It's still hotly debated, and keeps getting debated with every new mod.
We're not really the place to help people. People who talk about suicide want help. We try to offer resources to other people who can. Would you like me to offer some?
That fucking CareBot.
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Xylazine and the culling of addicts…The DEA has issued a new warning about xylazine. This drug is an animal tranquilizer which is not fit for human consumption. Regardless, it has ended up in heavy circulation mixed with fentanyl.
Fentanyl addicts, opiate addicts in general, will die more than ever as this continues. A xylazine overdose can not be helped with narcan. Injecting xylazine can easily lead to necrosis of the skin which can lead to loss of limbs and be deadly.
Kensington, the sad and hellish drug cesspool of Philadelphia, has the highest percentage of xylazine thus far. I feel that the addicts who live on the streets there have already been abandoned by society and the city. There will be even more deaths now. As society declines and collapse accelerates, the most needy among us will be culled. Xylazine seems an expedient way for this horror to go down. To me this is a sign of collapse as addicts die in their thousands and it’s just become an accepted part of modern life. There is no one coming to help, and no resources are being spared for addicts. They aren’t even treated as people anymore.
Xylazine and the culling of addicts…The DEA has issued a new warning about xylazine. This drug is an animal tranquilizer which is not fit for human consumption. Regardless, it has ended up in heavy circulation mixed with fentanyl.
Fentanyl addicts, opiate addicts in general, will die more than ever as this continues. A xylazine overdose can not be helped with narcan. Injecting xylazine can easily lead to necrosis of the skin which can lead to loss of limbs and be deadly.
Kensington, the sad and hellish drug cesspool of Philadelphia, has the highest percentage of xylazine thus far. I feel that the addicts who live on the streets there have already been abandoned by society and the city. There will be even more deaths now. As society declines and collapse accelerates, the most needy among us will be culled. Xylazine seems an expedient way for this horror to go down. To me this is a sign of collapse as addicts die in their thousands and it’s just become an accepted part of modern life. There is no one coming to help, and no resources are being spared for addicts. They aren’t even treated as people anymore.
Will phytoplankton give us more time?Ive heard that despite taking up only 1-2% of the total global plant carbon that phytoplankton is able to remove around 40% of carbon exsisting in the atmosphere. When world governments start scrambling to find a solution when things get really bad would they turn to increasing the amount of phytoplankton in the oceans? Would that be enough to set back our inpending doom 5-10 years?
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Source: [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24311124/#:\~:text=Abstract,about%2040%25%20of%20the%20total](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24311124/#:~:text=Abstract,about%2040%25%20of%20the%20total).
This is, to put it plainly, a very dumb OP.
People who think the population needs to decrease should take the lead then.
People who think the population needs to decrease should take the lead then.
This is, to put it plainly, a very dumb OP.
Yeah, I really don't know what to make of all these smarmy corporate measures to direct people to a suicide hotline. I know they mean well, but it always comes off as *"go call this number and leave us alone, this is the wrong place for that stuff"*
People try to be open about their ideation because they want to connect with someone, they need to just talk and be human. But it seems like there is a new push from higher ups to shut these conversations down. Is it just liability? Idk
I have found the speed with which this stuff has become ubiquitous to be curious.
Like Alex Jones I will eat my neighbor's liberal ass
Like Alex Jones I will eat my neighbor's liberal ass
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Opinion: Future of AI combat robots --> small, fast, airborne, lethalHere's my vision of how it ends for many of us...
Imagine a squadron of UAVs sized somewhere between a grape and a tangerine that can fly at \~150mph and make <1ms decisions on friend or foe and lethally pass through identified targets intact and move on to the next. Now imagine you're being hunted by one - it has your specific identity and knows your location. The device has infrared, can detect comms, image / facial recognition, and 24 hour operational time. Nowhere to hide.
This seems like tech that should be ready now or soon, especially with AI learning how to manage swarms and conduct friend/foe ID at scale. Is it also possible that state actors are collecting global data on individual friend or foe? Would China create a dbase of Euro and US citizens that oppose China? I believe the answer is yes.
Seems like something a hostile state actor could make happen in the next 5-10 years, and if so, what's to stop them from deploying a large swarm to cripple an economy by taking out political, economic and military leaders?
Opinion: Future of AI combat robots --> small, fast, airborne, lethalHere's my vision of how it ends for many of us...
Imagine a squadron of UAVs sized somewhere between a grape and a tangerine that can fly at \~150mph and make <1ms decisions on friend or foe and lethally pass through identified targets intact and move on to the next. Now imagine you're being hunted by one - it has your specific identity and knows your location. The device has infrared, can detect comms, image / facial recognition, and 24 hour operational time. Nowhere to hide.
This seems like tech that should be ready now or soon, especially with AI learning how to manage swarms and conduct friend/foe ID at scale. Is it also possible that state actors are collecting global data on individual friend or foe? Would China create a dbase of Euro and US citizens that oppose China? I believe the answer is yes.
Seems like something a hostile state actor could make happen in the next 5-10 years, and if so, what's to stop them from deploying a large swarm to cripple an economy by taking out political, economic and military leaders?
can confirm, am literally retarded
can confirm, am literally retarded
I'll probably avoid it until I'm ready to die. Also vasoconstriction sucks for me big time.
You obviously don’t know shit about addiction. By the time someone starts injecting, they’re already hopelessly addicted. No one starts with shooting up.
You obviously don’t know shit about addiction. By the time someone starts injecting, they’re already hopelessly addicted. No one starts with shooting up.
Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It
This is why I drive a car from 2003 that's dirt cheap to insure.
How Forest Loss Can Unleash the Next Pandemic | "It’s a key driver that’s largely ignored by governments and international health agencies"
Satellite Images Reveal Danger of Earth's Toxic Algae Blooms | "Toxins have been found to accumulate in ocean networks, sometimes leading to [...] “dead zones”, where aquatic life cannot survive. These dead zones wreak chaos on the food chain and fisheries"
Menindee: Millions of dead fish wash up near Australian town
Freddy: The deadly cyclone that lasted more than a month - Malawi, Madagascar and Mozambique reeling from effects
Cyclone Gabrielle: The New Zealand flood victims too scared to go home - $8.4 billion damage, summer’s worth of rain fell in a single day
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Grey___Goo_MH:
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Submission statement: prions continue spreading a while back it was shown that mice can pickup and transport prions now we have plants bioaccumulating prions from the soil at a certain point the spread will become exponential and humanity will still ignore it. https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/index.html
Acceleration of CWD will continue and it’s only a matter of time till it’s in cities the fox and rat population comes to mind
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Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/11vmbr3/plants_uptake_prions_from_contaminated_soil_and/jctnyu8/
Plants uptake prions from contaminated soil and transmit it to animals
Plants uptake prions from contaminated soil and transmit it to animals
Exposure to PFAS chemicals found in drinking water and everyday household products may result in reduced fertility in women of as much as 40 percent
Plants uptake prions from contaminated soil and transmit it to animals
Negative Equity Surges: Millions of Americans Now Underwater on Auto Loans
**Location: France, Paris area**
**Social:**
So the goverment finally bypassed the parliament vote with a "49.3" (a law addendum) concerning the retirement pensions law, thus validating the fact that we'll have to work longer, women will have less (except childless workaholics who started working at 18yo) because they are the ones who stop working to raise the kids.
So I've been staying away from the mess for my own mental health, but the expected hours long upheaval happened in the Assemblée Nationale (people's representatives' chamber of the parliament), the opposition is screaming that this is a "denial of democracy", there are spontaneous manifestations of discontent all over France (small crowds gathering, few dustbins burning, few smashing of front windows of businesses and banks that symbolise greediness for some, and then anti-riot police canalising all this), and new calls to "bring France to a halt" (hasn't happened yet, in stark contrast of 1995 when there was *ZERO* public transport running in all of the Paris area and effective road blocks by all the trucking companies all over France in key places, for over 2 months.)
But there's a sense of a pressure cooker about to explode in the air. Maybe the real strike is about to start.
But what makes me especially uneasy is when you lsiten to the opposition, the way they talk, the words they use, you understand in filigran that what they want is to stir a revolution and overtake the goverment. And people seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that all revolutions are followed by years of terror during which people are murdered in thousands, including amongst the factions that allowed the revolution to happen.
**Climate change awareness:**
The weather forecast on the public channels is now called "weather and climate bulletin" and every weather forecast is now linked to an explanation of how climate change is impacting the weather w'll be experiencing the following days, like "because of the CO2 levels in the air, we'll be experiencing a warmer 5-10 days, than we'd typically would've at this lattitude".
I find this amazing, fucking *amazing*, a daily lesson on climate change and weird weather patterns! I hope other channels will follow suit.
**Cost of life:**
Shoplifting is on the rise, it makes national news regularly. Shops now have to put antitheft devices on food items, such as meat, and regular hygiene products like deodorant.
My local shop has managed to noticeably have much less different choices per type of item (like my favourite sliced bread brand is gone from the shelves, mid-range in price), thus allocating one line of shelves for the products that used to take up 3 lines of shelves, and I legit cannot see any holes or empty slots anywhere. Am impressed by the skills they gained in masking the disparition of all those other products they used to sell. What breaks my heart is it's mainly the products for families with kids that are disapearing (cereal, sliced bread, jam, powdered hot chocolate, ...).
Also noticed they are now selling the "best by date" products that have gone by the date. With a price reduction, but still, until recently, I had never seen them being sold. They'de be ferried away to a charity instead.
Definitely signs of impoverishment.
ETA : Have started guerilla gardening around the city - store bought seed-bombs of flowers for bees so far. About to make my own seedbombs with leftover seeds from edibles (chinese brocoli, squash, various herbs and salads). Any tips or good source of info welcome.
Check out the r/GuerrillaGardening subreddit if you haven't already. Lots of good info there.
Mc Lars Mendocino's Burning
Yo guys... Something IS happening with the Sun
Yo guys... Something IS happening with the Sun
Software Developers: Your Chance of Survival in a Post-apocalyptic World
Sunk cost bias fascism - cartoon by Mr. Fish
bank debt bombs (why people panic AND how this causes financial institutions to go belly up)
bank debt bombs (why people panic AND how this causes financial institutions to go belly up)
What the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank Means for Climate Tech | Funding for the Nascent Industry has Dried Up and the Future of the Climate Change Reversal Industry Looks Uncertain
U.S Shale Boom Shows Signs of Peaking as Big Oil Wells Disappear
Rural California community loses police coverage due to lack of budget: a growing problem
Global Warming: The Decade We Lost Earth
Millions of dead fish wash up near Australian town
How this sub feels sometimes
A hard day's work
Every Sci-fi Story
Credit Suisse shares fall again, sentiment remains fragile
Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts | Water
Moral Hazard
Moral Hazard
Moral Hazard
Moral Hazard
I am very aware. I've only been a nurse 9 years. I am 40 years old and have 5 kids ranging in age from 3 to 21. I was a single mother and worked as a bartender, scraping by, living in public housing etc. for a looooong time.
When I started nursing school I had 2 little boys and a 4 month old daughter. Making it to graduation while juggling them was one of the hardest things I've done in my life thus far. But I saw what their future would look like if I chose otherwise and clawed my way out to escapse that system...
I am an older one compared to these newer ones.
And as hindsight is 20/20 I realize how easy everything was when I began.
I too watched my rent climb from $600/month, to $850 then $1100 then $1500 up to the $1625 plus nearly 10k down to move into a house owned by a slimeball landlord who tried to screw me out of nearly 20k that was supposed to go towards closing, after I paid nearly 60k in rent for 3 years, when it came time to purchase.
I also still have student loans I am paying off.
Even then, at my in house rate of $27/hr up until I started working agency myself last year, I got by just fine without being "forced" into agency.
I will never buy that these nurses are being "forced" to take higher rates. No one in the history of forever has been forced to take a higher rate for doing the same job if they had a choice. Its not about their situations. At least all the ones I BS with which is a lot. We will just have to agree to disagree on that part.
I swear though, if anyone understands that type of situation, I do.
I absolutely do agree with the system being designed to make people sick though. And it starts way before kids go to school. Its a business and its filled to the brim with the worst of the worst bureaucracies.
I didn't start to put it together til I was in nursing school and couldn't breastfeed my baby adequately. I supplemented with formula. I picked soy, not realizing it converted into phyto estrogen, pumping my infant essentially with hormones. She got sick. I switched but as I was still in public housing and on assistance my WIC only covered certain brands of formula. Enfamil or Similac (top 2 brand, wonder why 🧐). I picked one. She tolerated it better than soy but not 100%.
Once I started my nutrition class, we were taught ingredients are listed in the order they are most abundant in a product. I read ALLLLL the ingredient lists I could find. Including the Similac. Turns out its over 50% sugar, several different types of it, but for all intents and purposes, sugar none the less. The parent companies of those 2 formulas are Abbott and Mead.
Then I started clinicals and realized A LOTTTTT of stuff was made by those companies. Things like the insulin, needles, diabetic test supplies etc. (I'm sure it has nothing to do with feeding people sugar from infancy).
Then I geaduated and became a nurse. I began to see it everywhere. My tube fed and chronically ill patients on jevity or Nepro.. guess who makes them "to provide nutrients". Guess who makes em.
The "healthy" nutritional supplements like boost and ensure... literally prescribed across the board to "nourish" my dying cancer patients as they suffer through treatment after treatment. Guess who makes them too...
Yep.. those same companies making the medicines and equipment used to "treat" these poor people.
Theres so many instances like that its honestly quite sickening. And the general public is oblivious. They truly believe the companies profiting hand over fist, charging for every last piece of medical equipment used to try and "cure" these folks, would also make nutritional drinks, or tube feed, or even baby formula to help nourish them. To make them well again.
Incidentally the ingredients in that crap tend to lower pH levels making a body more acidic. It then has to work harder to correct the imbalance and with that comes the sickness and disease processes. The majority of disease processes begin and continue in acidic environments. Health and a bodys acid/base balance go hand in hand. There is no such thing as coincidence. It's a business.
Of course the system is designed to make... and keep... people sick. And even if those failures were to be solved (they never will be).. but if they were... the bureaucratic nature of the beast would replace it immediately with others.
Knowledge is power. But people lack knowledge of this stuff for some reason...
Toronto Zoo closing bird aviaries after bird flu found in southern Ontario farm
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The Israeli army, violating the Geneva Convention, takes civilians hostage,
YouTuber analysis/summary: Does anyone else feel like everything has changed?
Hurricane Ian insurance payouts being 'significantly altered' by carriers, sometimes reduced to nothing
Suburbs vs. The Collapse ProcessWe all know about how suburbs are created because of an age of abundance. Beginning in the post-WWII era, cheap gas prices and affordable automobiles allowed people to live farther from where they work, which is often in the urban core. This caused a bunch of other consequences like zoning laws which put commercial and residential areas far apart, the construction of a car-addicted infrastructure, the decline of public transport, pollution from cars, and obesity from communities not being walkable or bikeable.
The pandemic created another suburban boom as a bunch of idiots realized they could work from home and decided to move far away into hideous decadent mcmansions.
How will the collapse process affect suburbs? I can't know for sure but I have some ideas. I don't believe in a rapid collapse, I think the collapse process will take many decades and will be unevenly distributed. Here's what I think might happen.
\- Suburbs depend on cheap transportation. If gas prices increase as a result of peak oil or other factors, some people won't be able to get to work. Richer people might stay in the suburbs because they can afford the higher gas prices or because they work online. Middle class people might have to move deeper into the urban core where there is more opportunity. Lower class people might not be able to move at all and will have to carve out their living in other ways or become homeless.
\- Existing suburbs will have to become more economically self-sufficient. This might mean market gardening, it might mean some suburban houses will be converted into businesses. Many suburbs will not be in the position to become self-sufficient at all and will be hollowed out.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
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This is releated to colapse becouse shows how the spiral of violence in the Middle East is winding up. The Israeli military conducts almost weekly raids on Palestinian settlements, killing civilians to intimidate both civilian and armed libertarian organizations. Quasi-Fascist Israel, run by a handful of generals, is responsible for the killing of 14 Palestinian children and nearly 100 civilians in total in the three months of this year, in the same year, Joe Biden supports them in displacement and genocide. AMERICAN POLITICIANS ARE FIGHTING FOR SUCH FREEDOM.
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The Israeli army, violating the Geneva Convention, takes civilians hostage,
The Israeli army, violating the Geneva Convention, takes civilians hostage,
Says retired cop on youtube? Do you know what else of shitty information you can find on youtube? This is just stupid wasting time.
ConocoPhillips Wants to Install Chilling Devices in the Arctic to Get More Oil
Location: Portland, OR:
I woke from my insomnia-stunted sleep to a text message from a neighbor, telling me that my car was broken into again. I stumbled out the door and sure enough, my glove box was open and the back car door was slightly askew. There was garbage, including a straw wrapper on my front seat, so I'm pretty sure they were smoking fentanyl in there. I stood there with the windows open, trying to air it out for a bit, just staring up at the sky, when a neighbor opened her window and we talked for a bit. She told me that she would keep an eye on my car, and that her partner is armed. I thanked her and we traded numbers.
I don't want to get into a sob story because it's not worth anyone's time, but I've lived with a severe mental health diagnosis since I was young, and I'm barely keeping my head above water. My memory is so fucked some days, and it creates situations like this, where I don't know if I locked the door or if I did. Either way, I don't keep things in my car since the first things were stolen from me. I can't help but feel like this is all karma for something I've done. Making me live through whatever....*this*...is. This *thing*, that's happening to our society and our world. Losing my mind at the edge of civilization is a hell of an experience.
As you might guess, because of that, I'm very quiet and observant, both due to what I live with and because I'm always on guard now. There's always a base level of anxiety. I've been numbing it with booze and weed recently, but it's still there, thrumming in the background of every mundane situation. The city just keeps getting more and more surreal. [A bus driver was stabbed yesterday.](https://www.kptv.com/2023/03/14/2-arrested-after-trimet-bus-driver-was-stabbed-leg/) A week ago, [a dude smashed a person's face in with a rock.](https://archive.ph/XUl4V)
>According to court records, Sgt. Jessy Brown said Moan spontaneously exclaimed after his arrest, “I use meth,” and, “Yeah, I did that,” apparently referring to the assault with the rock.
Or I mean, there's the [stabbing happened in August, too.](https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/03/woman-gets-20-years-for-meth-fueled-fatal-stabbing-at-portland-max-stop.html) There are so many people using drugs on the public transit system here now that [the transit authority commissioned a study on second-hand fentanyl smoke.](https://z100portland.iheart.com/featured/portland-local-news/content/2023-03-12-trimet-studies-second-hand-fentanyl-smoke-on-buses-and-trains/) Well, at least it [wasn't my car window](https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/smashed-car-windows-portland-foster-powell/283-af1a1ec6-4073-451a-bc5a-bdada4a276e4) this time. Or the time the vultures were out, scavving from actual [natural disaster victims.](https://www.kptv.com/2023/02/26/drivers-return-smashed-windows-abandoned-cars-after-portland-snowstorm/)
I spend most of my spare time now building electronic radios and clocks out of kits or on breadboards, preparing for the day that I have to trade my skills for gruel and protection. But on mornings like this, I wish I could just crumble into dust and beat the rush.
*In the eye of the hurricane, the loneliness is peaceful, but the peacefulness is lonely.*
Hold on i am getting my crystal ball, it says you pulled information out of your ass because you didn't like reality and created your own reality where everyone is lying for clicks. Sorry reality is such a bitch.
After the Fall: The Psychological and Emotional Consequences of Societal CollapseSocietal collapse is a complex phenomenon resulting from various factors, including economic collapse, political upheaval, natural disasters, and pandemics. While the physical consequences of such events are often discussed, the psychological and emotional toll is equally essential and can be equally devastating.
One of the most common emotional responses to societal collapse is *grief*. The sudden loss of loved ones, friends, and familiar surroundings can be overwhelming and challenging. The lack of closure or the inability to correctly say goodbye to those lost can complicate the grieving process, leading to confusion and despair.
Individuals may also experience *anger* in the aftermath of a societal collapse. This anger can be directed at various sources, including government institutions, economic systems, or other individuals or communities. The breakdown of governance and law enforcement systems can create a sense of lawlessness, further exacerbating frustration.
*Trauma* is another common psychological consequence of societal collapse. The experience of living through a catastrophic event can leave lasting emotional scars. Individuals may experience flashbacks or other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) long after the event has occurred.
In addition to these emotional responses, societal collapse can lead to hopelessness and despair. The loss of essential services and infrastructure can create a sense of helplessness, making it difficult to move forward. *Displacement* can also contribute to loneliness and hopelessness as individuals struggle to find their place in the aftermath of the collapse.
Communities can also experience a range of emotional and psychological impacts in the unity of societal collapse. The loss of social cohesion and trust can create a sense of chaos and confusion, leading to increased stress and anxiety. Increased conflict and violence within communities can also result from the breakdown of governance and law enforcement systems.
It is important to note that societal collapse's psychological and emotional impacts may not be visible right away. In the initial aftermath of the event, individuals may be focused on immediate physical needs such as food, water, and shelter. However, as time passes, the full extent of the emotional and psychological trauma may become more apparent.
Individuals and communities need to receive support and resources to address these consequences. Mental health professionals can assist with coping strategies, including therapy and medication. Community support groups can help individuals unite and rebuild community and social cohesion.
Government and non-governmental organizations can also support individuals and communities after a societal collapse. Providing basic needs such as food, water, and shelter can help to alleviate feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Rebuilding infrastructure and restoring governance and law enforcement systems can also restore social order and stability.
I want to let you know that this post is not meant to be fear-mongering or to suggest that societal collapse is imminent. Instead, it explores such an event's potential psychological and emotional consequences. *By understanding the potential impacts of societal collapse, we can better prepare ourselves and our communities to cope with the aftermath and work towards rebuilding a stable and resilient society.* This post is meant to raise awareness about societal collapse's psychological and emotional consequences and emphasize the importance of preparing for such events.
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I can't take any talks on water conservation that don't eliminate lawn maintenance and take precautions to prevent chemical spills and corporate pollution seriously.I'm listening to some bigwigs talk about reducing showers as the path forward and it just pisses me off. Charging everyone more to carry out the necessary basics of living while overlooking the elephant in the room is so typical. We're dumping massive amounts of water down the drain, with added RoundUp and other chemicals, just to have the velvety green lawns that serve no purpose when we could have real, natural foliage. Companies are dumping toxic waste into our rivers, lakes, and oceans regularly. The focus needs to start there.
I can't take any talks on water conservation that don't eliminate lawn maintenance and take precautions to prevent chemical spills and corporate pollution seriously.I'm listening to some bigwigs talk about reducing showers as the path forward and it just pisses me off. Charging everyone more to carry out the necessary basics of living while overlooking the elephant in the room is so typical. We're dumping massive amounts of water down the drain, with added RoundUp and other chemicals, just to have the velvety green lawns that serve no purpose when we could have real, natural foliage. Companies are dumping toxic waste into our rivers, lakes, and oceans regularly. The focus needs to start there.
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We all need downlines to survive.The products and services that we consume are fiat-debt, enslavement and environmental flora & fauna distortion fueled. It's just that the more wealth you have, the more noise that you make. Hence, conspiracy is nothing but a distortion of what is obvious that can be explained by animism, intuition, lifelong learning, experience, unified science, system science, omnism, common sense, etc.
What I'm saying is everyone, including the poverish, the middles and the elites all have their battles and common denominators that we all can leverage, for everyone to be heard, forgive themselves & each other, sustainably compromise, and collaborate as one & different. There's no advantage pointing fingers to who's who if in the end, we all live in the same boat. Hence, a collective individual forgiveness, acceptance, accountability, compassion and sustainable proactivity are needed.
I repeat, we all have our battles, especially this existence of ours.. Especially when it is eternal (energy is eternal, so is consciousness), without the cyclic memory wipeouts (Refer to Omnism and Unified Physics). So please, may we make the post-scarcity future possible through an upbeat collaboration, rather than an infighting between all brothers and sisters (different versions of I's / oneness / eternal energy presently dreaming in a holofractal game of self-forgetfulness.) 🫂❤️🙏
I hope this content be one amongst many voices calling for a New Earth where the Heavens can be made here through positive collaboration and post-scarcity.
Please, let's make this reality compassionately warm for everyone and everything. Fear is no more when kindness is the most convenient form of currency, existence, thinking and "technology".. 🫂🙏❤️
We all need downlines to survive.The products and services that we consume are fiat-debt, enslavement and environmental flora & fauna distortion fueled. It's just that the more wealth you have, the more noise that you make. Hence, conspiracy is nothing but a distortion of what is obvious that can be explained by animism, intuition, lifelong learning, experience, unified science, system science, omnism, common sense, etc.
What I'm saying is everyone, including the poverish, the middles and the elites all have their battles and common denominators that we all can leverage, for everyone to be heard, forgive themselves & each other, sustainably compromise, and collaborate as one & different. There's no advantage pointing fingers to who's who if in the end, we all live in the same boat. Hence, a collective individual forgiveness, acceptance, accountability, compassion and sustainable proactivity are needed.
I repeat, we all have our battles, especially this existence of ours.. Especially when it is eternal (energy is eternal, so is consciousness), without the cyclic memory wipeouts (Refer to Omnism and Unified Physics). So please, may we make the post-scarcity future possible through an upbeat collaboration, rather than an infighting between all brothers and sisters (different versions of I's / oneness / eternal energy presently dreaming in a holofractal game of self-forgetfulness.) 🫂❤️🙏
I hope this content be one amongst many voices calling for a New Earth where the Heavens can be made here through positive collaboration and post-scarcity.
Please, let's make this reality compassionately warm for everyone and everything. Fear is no more when kindness is the most convenient form of currency, existence, thinking and "technology".. 🫂🙏❤️
All of those are controlled by the CIA
Try adding telesur english
The world/society will collapse as we know it. But that’s a good thing because it did not work in the first place.The reason we (western world) could buy cheap stuff is because the other half of the world was suffering.
So I hope it collapses and we (the world) can create something better for everyone.
Sure it will be bloody, but if you look at the long run it can become a better world.
Look at history. It always became better.
My hopes are AI based society. AI judges that are not put there by politicians but by people. And that everyone has the same AI lawyer. So that the ridge don’t get the best legal defense.
But before we will get there we will probably have a revolution/war.
I can also believe we won’t have a war. Because even the elite now sees that a war will just make earth like venus.
Also want to point out that the technology to make the world a better place for everyone is almost/allready there. It’s incredible for me we are all focusing on what goes wrong and don’t see the solutions.
But I think the elite don’t want people to believe in it. They want people hopeless because hopeless people are much eassier to control.
If you feel hopeless you just fill up your worries with entertainment and buying stuff you don’t need.
I even made a video to give people hope https://youtu.be/Q1-gGaD-X-g
Amazing how people reacted on this video. (on reddit) Enviriomentalist are getting angry with it because they just wanna be against everything. But they don’t want to work on solutions.
Greenpeace was against everything but never gave a solution. Why don’t they own the biggest solar park in the world or have a alternative for meat? Greenpeace feels like a tool from the elite to distract the people. Donating their money so they feel better. While nothing really changed. Shell kept on selling oil.
The biggest threat for Shell was a nuclear power. And had their biggest allie in Greenpeace to fight against it.
Sorry that I am ranting and probably make no sense at all. I’m just affraid and need to fent.
We need hope and technology to overturn the elite without to many casualties.
Downvote all you want. You still cannot change the fact that the average citizen in the US has a very precarious future. Who by suicide, who by natural disaster, who by chronic disease (cancer, diabetes, heart disease), who by medical error, who by man-made disaster, who by violent crime, who by accident and who by war and terrorism. You could hope to live to 100 years, but in this day and age, would you?
That's why I said "possibly more", for people like you.
Thank you for having a brain.
Haha. You’re hilarious.
Even though what you’re saying is incorrect and foolish I understand why you would believe what you’re saying, I had recently read a study that a large portion of vegans tend to be autistic.
Haha. You’re hilarious.
Even though what you’re saying is incorrect and foolish I understand why you would believe what you’re saying, I had recently read a study that a large portion of vegans tend to be autistic.
The West will Collapse as fast as everyone else - there is no place to hide
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Read this article and you will understand why all banks are going to collapse.
The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States and is responsible for overseeing the country’s monetary policy. It sets the reserve requirement for banks with more than $124.2 million in deposits, which is currently at 10%. This means that for every $100 deposited, banks are required to keep $10 in reserves and can lend out the remaining $90.
This process of lending and creating new money continues, with each bank lending out a portion of the deposits it receives. This results in an exponential increase in the money supply, allowing banks to handle large amounts of cash without actually having it.
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Creating Money out of Thin Air: The US Fractional Reserve System Explained - BITNEWS24.COM
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Credit Suisse and infact all the EU banks never recovered from the great financial crisis. This can be clearly seen when share prices are compared to similar US institutions.
The ECB is raising rates trying to control record high EU wide inflation. Changing course to try and save the financial sector could allow inflation to spiral further out of control.
This is a classic rock and hard place scenario and Euro collapse cannot be ruled out.
If a major EU collapse were to occur, the US system would also then be in danger, risking a spiral into a massive 1st world financial crisis.
I would like to also add the timing of the Saudi's pulling support is interesting being that the Chinese just brokered a massive deal between the Saudis and Iranians. Is it possible coordinated moves are finally being made against the West?
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Credit Suisse faces collapse as the Saudi's pull their support from the struggling bank. Risk to the entire EU financial system is high, with ECB busy fighting record high inflation.
Credit Suisse faces collapse as the Saudi's pull their support from the struggling bank. Risk to the entire EU financial system is high, with ECB busy fighting record high inflation.
90% of the time I go into a gas station to buy something the shelves are 50% bare.
I'm hungover, I want a Power-Aid, and they are never there. My backup Coke is also missing most of the time.
It's so stupid, but it's just weird that it is this way now.
Location: Costa Rica
Hi, it's been a while since I last posted a comment in one of these. I have been feeling down for the last 3 months now. There is a lot of shit going on in my life right now. In any case, last week a new law was approved here that raised some concerns.
The Law of Public Employment came into effect on Thursday, and it sets the wages for the employees of public institutions (state owned, this applies to public schools, ministries, the health sector, etc). To any employee with a higher wage than the one written by law, they are not applicable for a raise in their wage, never. This effectively stagnates the wages of a lot of people working in the public sector (not that there wasn't any stagnation before), and of course, the wages offered are a lot poorer than those offered by the private sector.
The wages for professors are specially laughable. You wouldn't guess how much a professor with a Phd can earn now, right? It was capped at around $1100 monthly for any new hire, which is barely enough to survive, and an insulting wage for a profession that always has to work afterhours (lesson planning, evaluations, etc).
While I'm not really sure that this is a sign of collapse, this is an insulting slap in the face to the employees of the state.
There is no alternative because is "cheaper" to keep killing our future than trying to search or use them. It could be more expensive, it could need changes on how things are done, it may be called less efficient. But in cost/efficiency never was considered the long term effects of using fossil carbon, things are cheap in the very short term and have infinite cost in the middle/long one. Its like being on drugs that make you happy for a few hours but melts your brain in a few years, the global civilization is still doing that.
Good vibes back atcha :) Thanks for your kind words. I'm sorry you also feel this way. It is bittersweet to know I am not alone.
Good vibes back atcha :) Thanks for your kind words. I'm sorry you also feel this way. It is bittersweet to know I am not alone.
Location: Florida. Fascism tightening its icy grip, an overwhelming housing crisis with COL rising faster than any one of us can keep up (with housing in my particular neck of the woods outpacing the rest of the country in terms of affordability), rising temperatures and the looming fact that our coastal areas may not exist for our grandchildren. Book bans, disenfranchised educators (and students), police violence and of course Ron Desantis.
Critical ecosystems: Congo Basin peatlands: “There is no possibility of limiting global warming to 2°C or 1.5°C if we don’t conserve existing carbon sinks, such as peatlands, and quickly cut fossil fuel emissions, reaching net-zero by 2050 – but ideally much sooner"
Doomsday or fossil fuels? Mankind has a choice to make
Hot take. I have also stocked up on Magic the Gathering cards and believe in cultivating marijuana crop. Anything that has "hand to eye" entertainment value is worth hoarding for your mental health alone. Fancy a game of Gwent?
>I have a heart, so I stfu so some poor bastard doesn't just blow his brains after after a 20 minute conversation with me.
My wife's eyes just glaze over or she tells me to shut up and stop taking nonsense. Interestingly, we had a bunch of friends to dinner yesterday and when the one dude who is relatively tuned in to collapse said something about it, all our other friends just glared at him and tried to talk him down. So, he and I just drank and shot the shit while they all talked about their plans for holidays in Europe next year.
That's a takeaway. I was prepared to look into the other observations, but clearly you're an asshole so I think I might just ignore you and move on instead.
One political party it is a bioweapon designed in a Chinese lab used a bad American.
Then don't wear a mask, get a shot or socially distance as it isn't that bad.
I don't know, it depends on how many more atrocities current religious people will commit.
World religions like the Abrahamic ones need civilization, they won't do well in collapse. The big ones are basically ideological tools to manage an economy, especially to manage slaves and the class/caste system. Collapse of states and economies will bring the collapse of religious institutions too.
People dying a lot also collapse religions. Most religions reproduce by the indoctrination of children, conversion isn't that common, and that requires a constant or growing population.
Once the big ones vanish like their burning churches turn to ash, I expect a large diversity of tiny cults and movements to pop up; lots of variety. And just lots of non-believers. I mean, misotheism is an option, but it's not attractive. Witness enough suffering, lose enough children, and talk of big gods becomes very boring as the theodicy doesn't work out.
Then you have to wait for the collapse of knowledge. That takes a few generations as people with knowledge die and stored knowledge decays and isn't maintained or upgraded. Of course, now would be a time when new local stable religions pop up, but I don't see how they'd have a stable climate.
It's the land and environment that determine the culture, usually, *indigenously*. How can there be culture if the land is in chaos? What kind of culture is that? The point of more indigenous religion is to broadcast asynchronously educational information about the world and the social order and *your place in it*. I don't see how that can happen in an unstable climate/environment. What? A religion for chaos? Chaos gods? Sounds cool, but it doesn't hit the right spot in the brain.
This is a current list of the unavailable or drugs in short/limited supply. https://www.drugs.com/drug-shortages/
Nigeria has added almost 100 million people since 2000, which far exceeds the USA's baby boom. The consequences of that for Nigeria and many other countries that have also grown at rates that are historically unprecedented will certainly be interesting.
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The impulse to use the rich as scapegoats to blame collapse on is an attempt to find an excuse to do nothing. It is an abdication of responsibility. The average First Worlder is not as innocent as commonly portrayed on this sub.According to the Global Footprint Network, if all 7 billion people lived like the people of the United Arab Emirates, for instance, then roughly 5 Earths would be required to sustain them. The United States of America isn't far behind, requiring roughly 4 Earths. On the other hand, countries like Bangladesh, while still overshooting beyond their geographical limits, do so by much less, requiring only 0.57 of a single Earth.
If there’s anybody who can begin to pretend to be innocent it’s probably the poor souls in the Third World on which the First World builds it’s prosperity. Oh and maybe the Amish plus the few contemporary hunter gatherer populations that still remain. The average Third Worlder objectively has less of an impact on this problem than your average First Worlder because their too poor to afford anything but basic necessities.
Do you think corporations just manufacture things for fun? The average human in the First World consumes all the products that the “rich and corrupt fucks” manufacture and produce. That’s a fact. And as long as that happens, those “rich and corrupt fucks” will continue to manufacture and produce those products for profit. I really don’t believe there are any convenient scapegoats in this problem. There’s nobody that isn’t guilty.
The way forward is to fight against the cult of consumer society. To starve it out and think more critically about our consumption and how to become self sufficient on a small, local scale. This will naturally mean some measure of sacrifice and asceticism in regards to our living standards. Especially us in the First World who have that liberty. The Third Worlder who is worrying about where to sleep or how many meals he will have to skip really doesn’t have that freedom nor does he bear as much of the blame.
The impulse to use the rich as scapegoats to blame collapse on is an attempt to find an excuse to do nothing. It is an abdication of responsibility. The average First Worlder is not as innocent as commonly portrayed on this sub.According to the Global Footprint Network, if all 7 billion people lived like the people of the United Arab Emirates, for instance, then roughly 5 Earths would be required to sustain them. The United States of America isn't far behind, requiring roughly 4 Earths. On the other hand, countries like Bangladesh, while still overshooting beyond their geographical limits, do so by much less, requiring only 0.57 of a single Earth.
If there’s anybody who can begin to pretend to be innocent it’s probably the poor souls in the Third World on which the First World builds it’s prosperity. Oh and maybe the Amish plus the few contemporary hunter gatherer populations that still remain. The average Third Worlder objectively has less of an impact on this problem than your average First Worlder because their too poor to afford anything but basic necessities.
Do you think corporations just manufacture things for fun? The average human in the First World consumes all the products that the “rich and corrupt fucks” manufacture and produce. That’s a fact. And as long as that happens, those “rich and corrupt fucks” will continue to manufacture and produce those products for profit. I really don’t believe there are any convenient scapegoats in this problem. There’s nobody that isn’t guilty.
The way forward is to fight against the cult of consumer society. To starve it out and think more critically about our consumption and how to become self sufficient on a small, local scale. This will naturally mean some measure of sacrifice and asceticism in regards to our living standards. Especially us in the First World who have that liberty. The Third Worlder who is worrying about where to sleep or how many meals he will have to skip really doesn’t have that freedom nor does he bear as much of the blame.
Today, the global average temperature is more than 1.5 °C higher than the pre-industrial averageAs you can see on this website, the world on average is 1 °C warmer than the 1979-2000 baseline today. The temperature anomaly for the northern hemisphere is 1.44 °C above the 1979-2000 average. For the southern hemisphere it is 0.55 °C. For the arctic it is 2.46 °C and for the antarctic it is 3.13 °C.
[https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var\_id=t2anom&ortho=3&wt=1](https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=t2anom&ortho=3&wt=1)
I check that website almost every day and this is the first time I've ever seen the global average temperature hitting 1 °C above the 1979-2000 baseline. The 1979-2000 average temperature was already 0.54 °C higher than the pre-industrial average, so today we hit the critical threshold of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial, as the world on average is 1.54 °C warmer than the pre-industrial average temperature.
1.5 °C warming above pre-industrial is often cited as the critical temperature when self-reinforcing feedback loops may start to warm the Earth exponentially. The cooling effect of la niña is now over and the transition to el niño has begun. This is where our descent into climate hell begins. You can now kiss the world goodbye. This year is going to get really ugly. Actually, 2022 might have been the last year when we still had something we could call civilization left.
>“I do think the connection between chronic disease risks, like diabetes and obesity, and infectious disease outcomes, which people knew abstractly, [has] become so tangible during Covid that it is breaking down some of those barriers,” says Murray.
There are two basic problems I see with COVID-19:
1. Many diseases are comorbidities for COVID-19.
2. SARS-CoV-2 can leave people with various new conditions that are also future comorbidities.
I call that "attrition", perhaps it's not the best term.
>Patients would in turn need to be educated away from reliance on a “paternalistic” model and helped to understand that they needed to take responsibility for their own health, he argues. But healthcare professionals, policymakers, patients and citizens would all have to align around the new approach if it was not simply to create “fear and resistance”, he warns.
>Some patients may struggle with this notion of empowerment. At Columbia, Armstrong says the pandemic taught her how many patients without health insurance relied on informal networks of support, whether from nurses at urgent care centres, pharmacists or family members. The pandemic had frayed these support structures, revealing a big gap in patients’ knowledge about how to care for themselves.
Maybe because I'm not from the "First World" and grew up with a dysfunctional semi-collapsed healthcare system, I was forced to learn a lot about prevention. It's definitely harder. Most people don't have the time or the patience or the intellectual background to learn so much, so most can easily fall prey to healthcare/wellness grifters. That is unfair, but in light of the complete lack of revolution, both against the capitalist class system and against ignorance (i.e. good education starts early and ignorant parents need to shut the fuck up about "innocence" and traditions), what we have now is basically war medicine; class war medicine. In war you protect yourself and you protect others, you don't expect the attacks to stop. This may be new to those in the "developed" parts of the World.
>“When people came in, we kind of talked at them, sent them home and assumed it was all going to be OK [but] you really have to have basic health literacy to survive in this new world order,” she says.
And we could've taught that in early childhood. Still can. Adults can learn too.
>In Singapore, Jeremy Lim acknowledges that structures must be kept in place for those who, perhaps for reasons of disability or discomfort with technology, are not able to take their health destinies into their own hands.
Yep, that's who actual herd immunity and other such effects are for.
>But, as he prepares to publish further findings from his scrutiny of the VA database, Al-Aly is in no doubt that clinicians and society at large will be dealing with the after-effects of Covid in perpetuity. “This is not something that will go away in a week, in a year, or two, or three. This will reverberate with us for generations,” he says.
It's certainly not going away without an organized effort to stop the spread. In terms of harm, it's essentially going to slice off human life-expectancy for the foreseeable future.
I know it's fiction, but the Nantucket Trilogy by S.M. Stirling contains some pretty plausible ways society would deal with a major catastrophe. Premise: Global phenomena sends the island of Nantucket and a Coast Guard ship back into the bronze age, meanwhile the rest of the world is in present time, but all modern technology ceases to function. Gas won't combust, black powder won't spark, no electricity, complete collapse of society. A college professor who's specialty was medieval warfare becomes the leader (and tyrant) of a powerful army, while the protagonists gather smiths, leather workers, an archery shop owner, etc along their journey. They adopt ancient Irish guerilla warfare tactics to great success. Again, total fiction, but very thought provoking as to who's skills would be desirable after collapse.
Oh no, I paid attention to the actual scientists rather than the Op-Eds from radiologists being paid by think tanks to get me to kill myself, what a terrible fate has befallen me
Very condescending and offensive of you to connect all of us who are Christians to brain rot. Your disdain is disgusting.
You are incorrect and have zero actual medical education or background. Go blast your lack of knowledge where people are dumb enough to listen.
You are incorrect and have zero actual medical education or background. Go blast your lack of knowledge where people are dumb enough to listen.
Very condescending and offensive of you to connect all of us who are Christians to brain rot. Your disdain is disgusting.
Posting a word salad question you copied from Twitter doesn't make you more informed or in the know of secret conspiratorial information.
The vaccine can cause heart conditions however it is extremely rare. You know what is more prevalent? Heart conditons from folks that got COVID without a vaccine.
You've programmed your own kids for suicide?
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
How to start a conversation like thisI’m in my 20s. I was sitting in a parked car today and watched a fancy Benz pull through the gate of a large, tidy house.
A mid-late 60s boomer couple went inside. A couple of minutes later the man re-emerged with two bright spray bottles (maybe containing glyphosate? Or some other horrible chemical?) and proceeded to slowly walk the external perimeter of the property, on the sidewalk and in the laneway, squirting microscopic tufts of grass that had squeezed themselves through the cement and the gravel. The plants were in the gutters and laneway or along his fence, not within the property.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the loss of biodiversity, particularly in bees and butterflies and other important insects. I felt like running over to him and shouting, “No! Please don’t!” or something less dramatic to the effect of, “Please consider the bugs and the ongoing wellbeing of the planet.”
It’s hours later and I’m still wondering whether I should go to his house tomorrow and knock on the door or leave a note. I feel absolutely sick about it. I probably won’t go at all, and I feel like I should have said something within the moment.
How do you even start a conversation like this?
Is it even worth trying to reason with or change the behaviour of a boomer who has probably lived their whole life this way, and probably feels entitled to despoil the natural wonders of the planet to control every square inch of *their patch* with chemical weapons, rather than taking a minute to bend over and pull out a weed?
How can I frame this in a non-confrontational or constructive way?
My favourite take on this are the people that see a widespread viral infection ripping through the population with long lasting effects, and say "See! All these people are suffering from the vaccine!".
I recently read a book >!The Second Sleep by Robert Harris!< That covered this fairly well.
It's set in England, and describes how post collapse the population return to the Church. General thoughts are that the excesses of the pre collapse society angered God. Things like having Female Vicars were seen as an affront that bought down Gods wrath, and the Church also suppress technology by pointing to the hubris of the pre collapse society decorating their devices with the image of the original sin, the bitten Apple.
>"Young people are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis. We are isolated, depressed, and impoverished."
Ooh BOY I have been waiting my entire life to say this:
*leaves, comes back with podium, a stack of index cards and a microphone*
*taps mic three times* OK, is this on? Good.
*AHEMMMMMM*
Man up. And go outside for once.
*throws index cards behind shoulder, disassembles mic, grabs podium, walks off into sunset*
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?
I mean the Prime Minister of India is Narendra Modi who is part of the BJP. BJP is a Hindu fascist party that has lead multiple pogroms against their own Muslim population.
If India's billion+ start to starve (more than they already are) it doesn't seem too much further to strike those *outside* your country.
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AI and Jobs are a ticking time bomb for both governments and YOU.With AI already eating up the art industry, automated self service checkouts, predictive algorithms with the potential use to sway political balance, fake engagement on social media and other things. This is going to heavily influence the job markets eventually, as AI takes over more jobs. On top of this, has nobody considered that all jobs will eventually require higher and higher requirements as time progresses in order to fulfil quality quotas?
AI and Jobs are a ticking time bomb for both governments and YOU.With AI already eating up the art industry, automated self service checkouts, predictive algorithms with the potential use to sway political balance, fake engagement on social media and other things. This is going to heavily influence the job markets eventually, as AI takes over more jobs. On top of this, has nobody considered that all jobs will eventually require higher and higher requirements as time progresses in order to fulfil quality quotas?
They lost the money due to interest rate crush on GOVERNMENT BONDS, not playing 0dte options
No need to be an edge lord
And what are we in now? A happy, financially secure society that's just full of hopeful people? Or are most Americans also too stupid and useless to consider worthy of concern - unlike yourself, of course - an undoubtedly cultured and well educated person of superior intelligence, highly successful, and fully autonomous and correct in every judgement, choice, and decision made now and in perpetuity. Pfffttttt...
That would literally only fuck yourself
They don’t give two shits about your $10k in cc debt in the long run
*slaps a piece of of Flex Tape with the words "Consult a proper medical professional before taking meds that you read about online" on the post above*
Location : New England
Recovered from COVID and I fear I have long COVID this time. My chest has been hurting and I’m exhausted. I can’t tell if my anxiety is just finally hitting peak physical suckery (I’ve lost a ton of weight, and I’ve had bouts of dry heaving and nausea from stress over the past 9 months- anyone else? 😅) or a legit physical issue as a result of Long COVID. I hate to be “that guy” and throw my undiagnosed ailment under that umbrella but I’m scared. Plain and simple. I haven’t felt “100%” since I got Covid the first time last year. I’m sure it’s a combination of everything but damn. I’ve never been so sick, anxious and burnt out. I’m 30 and my body feels weak. It’s infuriating and scary.
In other news, eggs were almost $7 at my small supermarket. What else is new, right?
As an independent business owner - ooof. We’ll see. I don’t know how I’m going to afford the rest of this month. I can feel tears collecting on my mascara line as I type this, cause DAMN YA’LL. How do you continue to help yourself once you’ve exhausted all your resources?
I’m sending good vibes to everyone. Lord knows we need it.
‘We can’t make payroll’: scores of London tech firms in cash crisis amid Silicon Valley Bank collapse
A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans - more than 2.3 million tons.
Do not bail these motherfuckers out. This is their gamble, their loss. They'd tell us to eat shit and die if we went broke at the casino. Personal responsibility, and all that.
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When do we start talking about starting fresh on Venus?
Absolutely Ayn Randian level of understanding of the history of education. Just because you know NCLB is crap, doesn't give any credibility to the rest of that bullshit.
Fuckin clown shit, like parents saying: *Well MY child wouldn't be doing so badly if there were PLACES for your disabled kids to go, instead of INFECTING poor little Johnny with those underachiever brain waves*
Yeah, bullshit funding ties to terrible testing standards is bad. Kids are getting worse because we've made their school and home lives worse, while stealing their future. Not because it's hard to kick kids *out* of school. That and union busting has been charter schools' main way to cook the books on their statistics, but guess what? They're still shit, and end up fucking over even more kids to keep their numbers pumped.
Absolutely Ayn Randian level of understanding of the history of education. Just because you know NCLB is crap, doesn't give any credibility to the rest of that bullshit.
Fuckin clown shit, like parents saying: *Well MY child wouldn't be doing so badly if there were PLACES for your disabled kids to go, instead of INFECTING poor little Johnny with those underachiever brain waves*
Yeah, bullshit funding ties to terrible testing standards is bad. Kids are getting worse because we've made their school and home lives worse, while stealing their future. Not because it's hard to kick kids *out* of school. That and union busting has been charter schools' main way to cook the books on their statistics, but guess what? They're still shit, and end up fucking over even more kids to keep their numbers pumped.
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How Broad is that Brush?In regards to the domestic terrorism charges being leveled against the people protesting construction of a new police training center in Georgia, here is a relevant statute:
>**Article 6 - Domestic Terrorism § 16-11-220. Definitions Universal Citation: GA Code § 16-11-220 (2020)**
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>As used in this article, the term:
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>"Critical infrastructure" means publicly or privately owned facilities, systems, functions, or assets, whether physical or virtual, providing or distributing services for the benefit of the public, including, but not limited to, energy, fuel, water, agriculture, health care, finance, or communication.
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>"Domestic terrorism" means any felony violation of, or attempt to commit a felony violation of the laws of this state which, as part of a single unlawful act or a series of unlawful acts which are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics, is intended to cause serious bodily harm, kill any individual or group of individuals, or disable or destroy critical infrastructure, a state or government facility, or a public transportation system when such disability or destruction results in major economic loss, and is intended to:
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>Intimidate the civilian population of this state or any of its political subdivisions;
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>Alter, change, or coerce the policy of the government of this state or any of its political subdivisions by intimidation or coercion; or
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>Affect the conduct of the government of this state or any of its political subdivisions by use of destructive devices, assassination, or kidnapping.
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>"Public transportation system" means all facilities, conveyances, and instrumentalities, whether publicly or privately owned, that are used in or for publicly available services for the transportation of individuals or cargo.
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>"Serious bodily harm" means harm to the body of another by depriving him or her of a member of his or her body, by rendering a member of his or her body useless, or by seriously disfiguring his or her body or a member thereof.
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>"State or government facility" means any permanent or temporary facility or conveyance that is used or occupied by representatives of this state or any of its political subdivisions, by the legislature, by the judiciary, or by officials or employees of this state or any of its political subdivisions.
If you read this, it is pretty clear that *any* action, even symbolic ones, taken against the power of the State *can* be read as "domestic terrorism", *if the government wants it to be*. You do not have to commit a felony, you just need to be accused of *attempting* to commit a felony. I mean, letting air out of bus tires is "disabling public transport" and I am sure a prosecutor could *claim* this caused a "major economic loss". And heaven forbid you "intimidate" law enforcement through "disabling the critical infrastructure" represented by a police car, by putting a flyer under its windshield. Who knows what felony *intent* lurks behind that action? They might need to bring in the bomb squad to remove it to prevent the possibility of disfiguring paper cuts!
Everything the protesters did that was illegal, was *already* illegal under other *non*\-terrorism statutes. Calling this "domestic terrorism" is designed to intimidate dissent, pure and simple.
I will say this falls into "collapse" as it represents a deliberate attempt to intimidate the general population with draconian penalties, into accepting whatever the government wants the *status quo* to be rather than being representative of and responsible to the people, which is opposite the direction it *should* be going. To be blunt, it *looks* fascistic.
How Broad is that Brush?In regards to the domestic terrorism charges being leveled against the people protesting construction of a new police training center in Georgia, here is a relevant statute:
>**Article 6 - Domestic Terrorism § 16-11-220. Definitions Universal Citation: GA Code § 16-11-220 (2020)**
>
>As used in this article, the term:
>
>"Critical infrastructure" means publicly or privately owned facilities, systems, functions, or assets, whether physical or virtual, providing or distributing services for the benefit of the public, including, but not limited to, energy, fuel, water, agriculture, health care, finance, or communication.
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>"Domestic terrorism" means any felony violation of, or attempt to commit a felony violation of the laws of this state which, as part of a single unlawful act or a series of unlawful acts which are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics, is intended to cause serious bodily harm, kill any individual or group of individuals, or disable or destroy critical infrastructure, a state or government facility, or a public transportation system when such disability or destruction results in major economic loss, and is intended to:
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>Intimidate the civilian population of this state or any of its political subdivisions;
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>Alter, change, or coerce the policy of the government of this state or any of its political subdivisions by intimidation or coercion; or
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>Affect the conduct of the government of this state or any of its political subdivisions by use of destructive devices, assassination, or kidnapping.
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>"Public transportation system" means all facilities, conveyances, and instrumentalities, whether publicly or privately owned, that are used in or for publicly available services for the transportation of individuals or cargo.
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>"Serious bodily harm" means harm to the body of another by depriving him or her of a member of his or her body, by rendering a member of his or her body useless, or by seriously disfiguring his or her body or a member thereof.
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>"State or government facility" means any permanent or temporary facility or conveyance that is used or occupied by representatives of this state or any of its political subdivisions, by the legislature, by the judiciary, or by officials or employees of this state or any of its political subdivisions.
If you read this, it is pretty clear that *any* action, even symbolic ones, taken against the power of the State *can* be read as "domestic terrorism", *if the government wants it to be*. You do not have to commit a felony, you just need to be accused of *attempting* to commit a felony. I mean, letting air out of bus tires is "disabling public transport" and I am sure a prosecutor could *claim* this caused a "major economic loss". And heaven forbid you "intimidate" law enforcement through "disabling the critical infrastructure" represented by a police car, by putting a flyer under its windshield. Who knows what felony *intent* lurks behind that action? They might need to bring in the bomb squad to remove it to prevent the possibility of disfiguring paper cuts!
Everything the protesters did that was illegal, was *already* illegal under other *non*\-terrorism statutes. Calling this "domestic terrorism" is designed to intimidate dissent, pure and simple.
I will say this falls into "collapse" as it represents a deliberate attempt to intimidate the general population with draconian penalties, into accepting whatever the government wants the *status quo* to be rather than being representative of and responsible to the people, which is opposite the direction it *should* be going. To be blunt, it *looks* fascistic.
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Saudi Arabia is a dystopia with a utopian veil covering it. To ensure this veil stays in place, a well equipped and heavy handed mafia has stepped up. As more and more people turn away from the Utopia and wake up to the Dystopia, soon the floodgates will open leading to intense instability in the region.
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Substack piece deep-diving into the world of Saudi Arabia. “Saudi Arabia - Utopia, Dystopia or just another Mafia? Part 1” by Geopolitical Irish Lad
Substack piece deep-diving into the world of Saudi Arabia. “Saudi Arabia - Utopia, Dystopia or just another Mafia? Part 1” by Geopolitical Irish Lad
Climate change: Warming could raise UK flood damage bill by 20%
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Critique Elon's s sustainable energy civilizationI was watching Tesla's 2023 investor day that happened a couple days ago, 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](https://www.youtube.com/live/Hl1zEzVUV7w?feature=share)
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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
Critique Elon's s sustainable energy civilizationI was watching Tesla's 2023 investor day that happened a couple days ago, 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](https://www.youtube.com/live/Hl1zEzVUV7w?feature=share)
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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
Hey. I'm inclined to approve your post if you edit you swearing. Attack ideas, not each other. Mahalo.
lol .. making everyone around you either combative or miserable is "better"? It is not like you will stop the collapse if, for some magical reasons, people believe you.
In fact, I bet you mom won't believe you whether you spend 8 hours or 800 hours writing.
lol .. making everyone around you either combative or miserable is "better"? It is not like you will stop the collapse if, for some magical reasons, people believe you.
In fact, I bet you mom won't believe you whether you spend 8 hours or 800 hours writing.
lol .. making everyone around you either combative or miserable is "better"? It is not like you will stop the collapse if, for some magical reasons, people believe you.
In fact, I bet you mom won't believe you whether you spend 8 hours or 800 hours writing.
Location: USA
It's looking like 2023 is the year of right wing propaganda. I'm genuinely concerned for where our country is headed politically. Tucker Carlson is pushing cherry picked videos that distort the truth of January 6th. Now right wingers are convinced nothing happened and the reaction to it was all a hoax. What will happen if Trump is held accountable eventually? How will his rabid cult react when they believe he is being prosecuted over a lie? Who knew things could get so effed up.
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Straight from the factory to the landfill...
Straight from the factory to the landfill...
IT FUCKEN WIMDY
IT FUCKEN WIMDY
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This is a chart that shows the global temperature in last 50 years.
Data from: [NASA](https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/)
Chart from: [PlotSet](https://plotset.com/share/8ddd335b-81ea-4657-83c5-c69d9ee54ef4)
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Global temperature
Global temperature
Your mom is flying towards earth omg
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Nearly everyone is exposed to unhealthy levels of tiny air pollutants, study says
"Triple Dip" La Niña may be followed by an El Niño
"Due to climate change there is a rise in extreme weather, nearly 1/3 Canadians has experiencd extreme weather." Government of Canada PSA on climate change risks.
Bee and butterfly numbers are falling, even in undisturbed forests | Science | AAAS
location: inland pnw USA
***medical***: my stepkid has covid and I've got symptoms. he felt bad enough that we did to the ER, where staff were wearing surgical masks that didn't cover their noses, patients were not masked. only the doctor had an n95 and seemed glad to inform us "we won't have any masks next month"
**edit to add, in May, all tests, treatment will no longer be free or covered fully by many insurance plans, you will be paying out of pocket after that**
asked about isolating at home to protect my partner (transplant patient) and was told "the new strains are so mild! I wouldn't worry" by a nurse who had her baggy surgical mask around her chin. I protested that we have a vulnerable person in the house and she replies "I'm around vulnerable people, I'm a nurse".
trying to get paxlovid here is impossible only one pharmacy seems to carry it unless you're in the hospital, there are no rapid tests to be had and the response time for testing is 3 to 5 days. paxlovid is meant to be started within 5 days of a test.
my stepkid tested negative on home tests for two days, then positive on the hospital test. I'm tempted to go in just to get proper testing and treatment. I'm a smoker and I truly do feel like shit, cough and aching and fever. we are isolating in our rooms with air purifiers going and I'm masking in shared areas. my partner keeps unmasking to drink coffee in the living room so I'm staying out of there as much as I can. stepkid keeps wandering into shared areas with no mask, which tells me he hasn't been protecting himself at work very well either- sadly he doesn't seem to understand it's contagious enough that he's exposing his vulnerable parent every time he does it. he's also feeling very sick.
we did get our bivalent boosters in October. but I know they last 3 to 6 months at best so they're less effective by now.
the hospital ER was nearly empty when we were there. the ICU, full. we went to a pharmacy for PCR tests and the woman at the drive through had no mask at all and said she was "so tired of" doing covid testing. THEN WEAR A DAMN MASK. it was pretty disgusting on every level...
***work***: I'm the one that has to call in sick for a week this time.
***local***: a local professor realizes there's no FDR on the way to save our asses:
https://www.khq.com/news/how-american-politics-went-crazy-wsu-professors-findings-and-solutions/article_e707b1cc-bc87-11ed-a9e7-8b3b6588f78d.html
spending money on water rights to a river that you can't eat fish from, due to industrial runoff:
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/mar/07/a-watershed-moment-spokane-county-buying-water-rig/
our mayor sucks, there's a good challenger, but this is a reddish purple city:
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/analysis-mayoral-challenger-lisa-brown-says-spokane-is-stuck-in-neutral-woodward-says-browns-ideas-are-radical-and-straight-out-of-sea/Content?oid=25551103
***crime***- crimes of desperation and property are up, but not by a lot historically. violent crime is way way down. still, the police and news and local right wing interests play it up:
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/property-crimes-are-way-up-violent-crimes-are-down-and-politicians-and-business-owners-are-waging-a-war-of-perception-over-the-safety-of-dow/Content?oid=25545780
this site shows in the tables (not the graph) that violent crime rates were in the 500s from '99-2007, and are now down in the 300s. the graph is presented in a misleading way, look to the right and below and order it by date and you'll see.
https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/wa/spokane/crime-rate-statistics
statistics are hard to find that compare to anything but "last year", last year was very low and so things like shootings have gone up this year compared to last year- but have gone way, way down compared to five or ten or twenty years ago
a story comparing to "last year":
https://www.kxly.com/news/crime/data-shootings-in-spokane-up-by-27-this-year-compared-to-2020/article_323dd01b-d86e-5012-bf81-deb85f5c3bc6.html
a story that compares crime rates prepandemic (very high) to current (not so bad really)
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/feb/27/why-the-same-data-is-used-to-show-crime-decreasing/
property crime and violent crime not being separated in most police-given statistics are causing a panic for no reason.
***women's rights, human rights***: our neighboring state, Idaho, is twenty minutes' drive. many women have come over for abortion needs so far and many more are on the way. trying to help them without being sure what Idaho will do legally to helpers has been frightening. we are doing our best though.
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/with-starkly-different-abortion-laws-in-idaho-and-washington-and-legislators-in-both-states-working-to-enshrine-them-providers-and-patients/Content?oid=25386617
if anyone is interested in my city is best to read the inlander then look for primary sources, the spokesman has a paywall and has been slightly less reliable (not terrible, not great)
***MY FAMILY IN PA/OHIO***
they've all left now. the few who were stuck there for work have now joined other relatives closer to Philadelphia, all are on the eastern side of pa now. several are sick but we don't know yet if it's covid, flu, noro, or chemical exposure. two are getting good medical care at Philly children's hospital so I think we will know soon. they were stuck there this whole time. one of their dogs died.
***eggs/gas/prices***: the feed store raised prices on feed, straw, bedding. eggs from my keeper friends are the same price, at the store they went up again a little. gas is the same as it was. packaged processed food has gone up in price, raw ingredients haven't. produce is in bad condition at the chain stores but not at the local in season co-op. my garden starts are doing well.
***infrastructure***: noticing that the major street crossing by my house hasn't been fixed going on two years. there's a mall, two strip malls and the major hospital on this street, so it's usually every year or every other year. I can hear the ambulances clunk over one of the potholes every day. other streets are worse.
***community***: one neighbor has the black American flag ("take no quarter" or whatever) to replace his old trump flag he had taken down over the autumn. it may have been up a few days or weeks but I noticed it today. this is the only neighbor on the block who's confrontational and unhelpful, everyone else is normal regardless of their politics. I think he may be the only one that's actually right wing to that extent, on this block. (diverse, poor neighborhood, rainbow and BLM and even an antifa and coexist flag or six on this block alone).
***general***:
we adopted a new dog, he is massive and yet acts like a gentle baby. pretty sure he's great Dane/pitbull mix- his head is like a big hamburger and his body is tall and thin and graceful. our dachshund enjoys licking the inside of his mouth, which is disgusting. the adoption agency is overflowing and has no fee anymore, they are doing their best but it's obvious they are overwhelmed. this dog was homeless with a homeless family who are now sheltered but couldn't take him along (TOTALLY UNFAIR) but he's safe here now with us. they even had puppies, at the shelter it's unusual.
I intended to stock up on dog food today or tomorrow but I'm not going out in public with covid in the house while I've got symptoms. fuck that. I don't wanna kill anyone.
Discord Link for Climate Change TradesHello all, I am posting a Discord link for discussing trades involving climate change - [https://discord.gg/tpBV9MBH](https://discord.gg/tpBV9MBH)
I am in consistent contact with a very influential Indian celebrity (her) who along with me has filed separate patents for two different "companies". I know a lot of you here seem incredibly depressed which is what we both are as well. I would like to discuss plans considering the resolution of climate change. It is good to be optimistic, but at the same time I am nihilistic as well which is why I am consistently working around the clock to fix a lot of other issues in the world as well. I am a trader by nature, and I also deal in astrophysics, economics, philosophy, and history as well. However, climate change is a global emergency which is why I am asking you to collaborate with us. I also understand that a lot of you are looking for interesting work which is why you would find it stimulating to seek appropriate and new-age answers to the mess created way before in time. I call a lot of bluffs on research which is why I don't talk much, but I would love to hear ideas from you. I am extremely rich; looking for plenty of ideas to invest in. A lot of you might be watching Shark Tank and/or Dragon's Den which is something I don't watch since I don't require investments neither does she. We would love to see what the next steps are, so please join us on this quest.
Honestly I've already taken a dive into all sorts of self assurances. The worst part is that I can't actually be open with my neighbors, in any direction. I've traded flavor (peppers/herbs) for eggs, honey, and even beef. They aren't bad people in some respects but you can't ignore the rest. Politics and anything related almost always comes up in most interaction and as far as they know, I'm as conservative as they are. I semi-regularly shoot with a few of them and they've 'accepted' (as they say) my gauged ears.. what fucking year is this?
Isn't that just the most difficult part? These are folks that I know would willingly help someone who broke down on our road, but god forbid they aren't straight christians. Fuck. How do you reach them? How do you help them, encourage them to be critical of their beliefs? I feel like a spy lol.
Location: California Central Coast
Stabbings, shootings, or violent assaults every couple of days in my town. This is new. The police and city officials try to bury the stories, but fortunately we have a very persistent online news source here.
Other than that, this is the first time in more than a decade that our reservoirs are full! Crazy snow in our local mountains. Below normal temps for many weeks. Can’t wait for summer.
Also, my dog has an infection, so please keep him in your thoughts. He’s my best friend.
Location: Belize Central America
This week I have to travel 8 hours to Mexico to access medical services I cannot get in my own country. My gyno is one of the best in the country, and she let me know, after diligently working with me for a long while, that she just doesn’t have the medical equipment to diagnose or further treat me. I don’t know if this is a sign of collapse, but when you to have to travel internationally for medical treatment, you know it’s bad.
💯
San Luis Obispo County, California Central Coast
It's happening everywhere. Sadly, regionalism and petty politics maintain the status quo so really impactful programs can't seem to get enough traction to do significant good. Here in California, water will destroy us. Water as a commodity is going to get very expensive here. The poor will suffer the most and companies selling bottled water will flourish. Rainwater collection isn't mainstream..yet.
When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s most of the end of the world fiction centered around an invader from space or nuclear war. Only a few visionaries saw the collapse of mankind as something self inflicted by capitalism. Sad to say but we likely have enough food, water and power for all of humanity plus some. We are destroying the earth for the benefit of the wealthy. Sadly, humans don't seem to have the basic empathy for us to survive as a species. As someone turning 70 this year it's been horrifying to watch as it has developed. I am someone who grew up having atomic bomb drills in school I always felt we could save ourselves because the options were too awful. I'm not so sure about that anymore.
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SS: While browsing a real estate website for houses in my area (nova scotia, canada), i scrolled down and saw this.
This is on every property they are selling. Its just part of the website. Standard. Normal.
This has to do with collapse because a real estate company now lists which climate disasters will affect you if you move to the house they are selling.
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from a canadian real estate website
from a canadian real estate website
With global warming of just 1.2°C, why has the weather gotten so extreme?
Europe’s warm winter could mean food shortages in UK
Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points
All Portland Walmart stores to permanently close in late March
Not in anyway the TOS of reddit would allow, friend...
If that's what you think is necessary, then that's just an opinion. Though Malm has some good material on how industrial protests and sabotage (from an academic perspective) can necessitate change among capitalist classes.
No. Revolution at this point would be self defense. The widespread and extreme violence is what's happening now.
History would say otherwise... but yeah one can only discuss around such subjects on Reddit via euphemism or allusion if you haven't gotten the memo yet.
After watching Walmart destroy my small hometown in Kentucky, selling at a loss to make all the local businesses go under then raising their prices once there’s no competition, I have zero sympathy for them. When we eat the Rich, I say we start with the Waltons.
Enjoy your trip while you still can
Your ignorance, or partisan propaganda blinders, are not the same as lack of evidence. The truth presents itself *a priori*, or at least it does to those with an intellect depth beyond tired "Russian troll" smears.
For the benefit of spectators, as I take it you are beyond reasonable discourse, [the greatest living investigative journalist has compiled the evidence and collaborated it with insider whistleblowers.](https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream)
Your ignorance, or partisan propaganda blinders, are not the same as lack of evidence. The truth presents itself *a priori*, or at least it does to those with an intellect depth beyond tired "Russian troll" smears.
For the benefit of spectators, as I take it you are beyond reasonable discourse, [the greatest living investigative journalist has compiled the evidence and collaborated it with insider whistleblowers.](https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream)
u don't give a shit about understanding the difference between fast and slow cycle carbon
u don't give a shit about understanding the difference between fast and slow cycle carbon
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Has anyone else played this game that lets you try and attempt to prevent the climate crisis?I found this game through the related book called Half-Earth. Basically it lets you plan the whole world economy to attempt keep warming below 1 degrees. It just makes me realize how damn miniscule the chances are we'll ever get close to that.
Like, keeping warming under 1.5 is what's agreed upon in the Paris agreement right? Playing this game and realizing how hard it is to get there even while having control of literally the whole world, the outlook seems pretty bleak.
Anyways I was wondering if anyone else has played this and has thoughts. Here's the link if anyone's interested, its free to play: [https://play.half.earth/](https://play.half.earth/)
Has anyone else played this game that lets you try and attempt to prevent the climate crisis?I found this game through the related book called Half-Earth. Basically it lets you plan the whole world economy to attempt keep warming below 1 degrees. It just makes me realize how damn miniscule the chances are we'll ever get close to that.
Like, keeping warming under 1.5 is what's agreed upon in the Paris agreement right? Playing this game and realizing how hard it is to get there even while having control of literally the whole world, the outlook seems pretty bleak.
Anyways I was wondering if anyone else has played this and has thoughts. Here's the link if anyone's interested, its free to play: [https://play.half.earth/](https://play.half.earth/)
New Disease Plasticosis Discovered caused by Plastic In Wild Birds
CPAC speaker sparks alarm with call for trans people to be ‘eradicated’
Stop hurting their feelings!
The Scheme: A series of speeches given by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the floor of the Senate about how right wing billionaires managed to capture the Supreme Court using dark money.
REJOICE
New disease caused by plastics discovered in seabirds | Plastics
*sorts by controversial*
Gotta love individual agriculture
I found a stack of these in the supply closet at my job...
Nearly 3,500 sea lions in Peru die of H5N1 bird flu
Sneak preview for the next few climate conferences
‘Dr Doom’: World headed for dark times in the next 20 years
Not in anyway the TOS of reddit would allow, friend...
Article verified. Also buried at the bottom:
>There will still be over a dozen Walmart stores in the metro area, outside of Portland’s city limit.
So Portlanders will either not be truly suffering or have a long battle ahead, depending on your perspective. Mahalo for your time collapseniks.
Article verified. Also buried at the bottom:
>There will still be over a dozen Walmart stores in the metro area, outside of Portland’s city limit.
So Portlanders will either not be truly suffering or have a long battle ahead, depending on your perspective. Mahalo for your time collapseniks.
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Walmart is claiming stores not meeting financial expectations but basically shoplifting has gotten so bad in the area it is not economically viable to stay open. Related to Collapse because area is reaching a breakdown point regarding drug users and economic meltdown.
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>There will still be over a dozen Walmart stores in the metro area, outside of Portland’s city limit.
So Portlanders will either not be truly suffering or have a long battle ahead, depending on your perspective. Mahalo for your time collapseniks.
All Portland Walmart stores to permanently close in late March
My partner tells me to stop reading when the anxiety overwhelms me.
“We have a duty to bear witness” I say.
“I have a duty to protect. I am looking, so you can look away.”
“Someday I will be your guide into the ‘after’.”
As soon as I see something coming, I begin to prepare.
Preparing for yourself and yours is the only productive use of this anxiety. We are powerless to enact change one by one, on our own. Survival is not assured. Delay is possible.
- Werner Herzog
[The ravings of a madman, dictated but not read]
Location Hilo Hawaii,
I have a boutique here in Hilo and a young girl aged 18 ran into our shop today seeking shelter from a black man who was stalking her. She was a tourist who was only in town for a couple of days and hid in the back as the man ran in after her. I confronted the man and asked him what he wanted and he pointed to the girl and said I want that! I asked him to leave and he refused and started incoherently mumbling about being racially profiled and attempted to make himself as the victim. As the girl is cowering in the back of my shop I called 911 and put my physical self between him and the girl, he refused to leave. He seemed to be from LA I got definitely city vibes from him, in Hawaii we don’t have issues like this and this is collapse related as we’re seeing an influx of US California homeless with mental health issues come to our state. Our police were here quickly and are amazing but again this guy chased this girl into my shop and was very aggressive. Not normal for our small ocean town. We are aware here in Hawaii, we are watching and our community is strong.
The one thing you shouldn't do is sell and use the proceeds as you outlined.
College is no guarantee of anything at this point. I know many people who regret their degrees because they are no more employable than before they got it.
A down payment for a home is worse than useless. Over the course of a mortgage, default is common if a person loses their ability to work due to chronic illness and disability, which given endemic Covid is a continually elevated risk now.
The reason to sell would be if you see the area continually losing value over the immediate future due to spiraling negative self-reinforcing trends of natural disasters, pollution, ill health, crime, poverty, and political unrest.
Then you should sell ASAP with the plan to immediately reinvest somewhere better (which as you said is probably impossible), or to have an emergency fund for 'rainy days' ahead.
Keeping the property for family would be best.
Second best is dealing with tenants, which means dealing with continual maintenance and tax costs, periods of possible non-payment or vacancy that can last months, possible damages that can run in the thousands or tens of thousands, and very serious risk of liability.
A friend whose family owns properties in mid to upscale areas of a major city described to me some of the problems they have faced dealing with tenants.
She did property management for the family business and would literally receive death threats after evicting tenants for months of non-payment, or for clear cut lease violations, such as making illegal modifications to the property that are building code and safety violations.
She also described a situation where otherwise excellent tenants allowed a friend to crash with them for a few days. The person fell asleep on the porch while smoking, set the place on fire and tragically died. The tenants were musicians and risked their lives running in and out to retrieve their expensive equipment and consequently had permanent lung damage. They survived the fire, then turned around and sued the property owners...
(Possibly to try and recoup their medical expenses? Or to make money? Or to try and find someone else to blame for the situation besides themselves? Or fearing being sued themselves, sued as a sort of preemptive strike? Who knows why!)
Anyway, they sued my friend, the rest of her family and their employees personally, as well as the corporation, so basically every single involved party. This despite the fact that part of the reason for creating a corporation in the first place is to shield the owners from exactly that sort of personal legal liability. Lawsuits, even frivolous ones such as that one, often go on for a period of five years and have significant legal costs.
Being a landlord is nowhere near the 'great deal' that people think it is. IMO, you should not do so unless you have no other means of making a living available to you.
The world is on track to overshoot 1.5 degrees of warming, so it's time to study reflecting sun away from the earth, says UN
No, fuck you, that's not going to happen, quit talking about it, all it will do is line more rich fuckers' pockets while accelerating our imminent demise. Fuck that.
How has your family and friends reacted to any changes you have made to your lifestyle re: climate or collapse?I've started making a few lifestyle choices regarding climate change and collapse. The notable ones being planning a move to a small city/large town instead of the giant suburban sprawl I currently live in. As well as no longer considering air travel for anything that would be considered frivolous like random vacation destinations just for the sake of traveling.
My wife says she understands collapse and the many reasons why but then laments about having to travel alone with our kids if they decide to go somewhere tropical, or that she really wanted to go on a cruise with me this year.
My mother will make comments to people like "oh he doesn't fly anymore" when people talk about traveling.
I explained to my wife that I will fly if it's something worthwhile, like visiting relatives in England she hasn't seen in years.
How have the people in your life reacted to any similar changes you might have made in your life? Just curious if my experience is the norm or is my family pretty laid back about it.
You can’t make this up; we’re tracking the Matrix reality frightening closely. Between proposals like this, random start ups spraying aerosols to cool, and the pace of AI development they should start teaching the Matrix as a documentary now to be ahead of the curve.
More seriously hearing proposals like this, personally, radicalizes me more.
Our species rather than adjust its god like life style for the few would rather play with planet level engineering ideas to maintain a patently broken status quo.
Were just one species of many on this planet and our unwillingness to fit into anything resembling a sustainable lifestyle leads me to believe our natural conclusion needs to be a mass culling event to protect whats left.
Domestic terrorism targeting the U.S. electric grid is exposing dangerous vulnerabilities A federal report published in 2014 found that strategically disabling just nine substations across the country — combined with an attack on a transformer manufacturer — **could cause a nationwide blackout lasting 18 months.**
[https://theweek.com/crime-and-punishment/1021282/attacking-the-grid?fbclid=IwAR0Noz2-ukRh5QxPd5emj2ijHrKiZ2rnMxRN5l8Iir2PEpCAN1li031uV5Y](https://theweek.com/crime-and-punishment/1021282/attacking-the-grid?fbclid=IwAR0Noz2-ukRh5QxPd5emj2ijHrKiZ2rnMxRN5l8Iir2PEpCAN1li031uV5Y)
Domestic terrorism targeting the U.S. electric grid is exposing dangerous vulnerabilities A federal report published in 2014 found that strategically disabling just nine substations across the country — combined with an attack on a transformer manufacturer — **could cause a nationwide blackout lasting 18 months.**
[https://theweek.com/crime-and-punishment/1021282/attacking-the-grid?fbclid=IwAR0Noz2-ukRh5QxPd5emj2ijHrKiZ2rnMxRN5l8Iir2PEpCAN1li031uV5Y](https://theweek.com/crime-and-punishment/1021282/attacking-the-grid?fbclid=IwAR0Noz2-ukRh5QxPd5emj2ijHrKiZ2rnMxRN5l8Iir2PEpCAN1li031uV5Y)
Domestic terrorism targeting the U.S. electric grid is exposing dangerous vulnerabilities A federal report published in 2014 found that strategically disabling just nine substations across the country — combined with an attack on a transformer manufacturer — **could cause a nationwide blackout lasting 18 months.**
[https://theweek.com/crime-and-punishment/1021282/attacking-the-grid?fbclid=IwAR0Noz2-ukRh5QxPd5emj2ijHrKiZ2rnMxRN5l8Iir2PEpCAN1li031uV5Y](https://theweek.com/crime-and-punishment/1021282/attacking-the-grid?fbclid=IwAR0Noz2-ukRh5QxPd5emj2ijHrKiZ2rnMxRN5l8Iir2PEpCAN1li031uV5Y)
The fuck does this even mean? Are you responding to the person who said capitalism, not “human nature” (fake concept), is the problem? Cause this seems like some non-sequitur ass word salad
The fuck does this even mean? Are you responding to the person who said capitalism, not “human nature” (fake concept), is the problem? Cause this seems like some non-sequitur ass word salad
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The current world conflict situation is looking riskier by the day. A world at war is not as far away as many may believe.At the start of the hot Russia/Ukraine war, a few people said this was the beginning of WWIII. Some say the first act of World War II was Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria in blatant defiance of the League of Nations, while similar claims are made of Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia.
Regardless the Ukraine conflict shows no sign of ending anytime soon after a brutal year for both sides. US support is stronger than ever, with new weapons and money flowing into the conflict. Russia is resolved to grind out a win.
China is the current focus, great fears exist that support from China could tilt one side or the other to victory. So far nothing is clear, which is often the case with Chinese policy. [They talk of peace](https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3875996-what-to-make-of-chinas-peace-plan-for-ukraine/), while clearly supporting Russia with [no-limits agreement](https://www.indianpunchline.com/china-reboots-no-limit-partnership-with-russia/).
[EU doesn't have a functional defense force, with talk of many years before they can even provide promised tanks to Ukraine.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/world/europe/ukraine-tanks.html) A few token tanks have been sent. Honestly, this entire NYT story is enraging. EU has become a joke with defense ability reliant on US support.
Russia, Iran, and China are all working together to bring down the Western powers. This is the new great fear. [Israel may go to war](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2023-02-02/ty-article/.highlight/netanyahus-red-line-on-iran-was-crossed-now-what/00000186-12fc-d840-a78e-7afca0bf0000) with Iran.
[China may go to war with Taiwan](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/01/china-taiwan-military-threat-invasion/).
The [US has begun sending troops](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/politics/us-taiwan-forces-training/index.html) into Chinese territory from their perspective. China sees how the US trained up Ukraine for years and how much trouble Russia is now in dealing with that. This may help prevent war or make conflict evolve in a different way.
Top [US general predicts China-US](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-air-force-general-predicts-war-china-2025-memo-rcna67967) war in 2025.
These regional conflicts threaten to spill over into global war due to various alliances. Upcoming economic and environmental problems will only heighten these hot and cold conflicts.
The current world conflict situation is looking riskier by the day. A world at war is not as far away as many may believe.At the start of the hot Russia/Ukraine war, a few people said this was the beginning of WWIII. Some say the first act of World War II was Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria in blatant defiance of the League of Nations, while similar claims are made of Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia.
Regardless the Ukraine conflict shows no sign of ending anytime soon after a brutal year for both sides. US support is stronger than ever, with new weapons and money flowing into the conflict. Russia is resolved to grind out a win.
China is the current focus, great fears exist that support from China could tilt one side or the other to victory. So far nothing is clear, which is often the case with Chinese policy. [They talk of peace](https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3875996-what-to-make-of-chinas-peace-plan-for-ukraine/), while clearly supporting Russia with [no-limits agreement](https://www.indianpunchline.com/china-reboots-no-limit-partnership-with-russia/).
[EU doesn't have a functional defense force, with talk of many years before they can even provide promised tanks to Ukraine.](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/world/europe/ukraine-tanks.html) A few token tanks have been sent. Honestly, this entire NYT story is enraging. EU has become a joke with defense ability reliant on US support.
Russia, Iran, and China are all working together to bring down the Western powers. This is the new great fear. [Israel may go to war](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2023-02-02/ty-article/.highlight/netanyahus-red-line-on-iran-was-crossed-now-what/00000186-12fc-d840-a78e-7afca0bf0000) with Iran.
[China may go to war with Taiwan](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/01/china-taiwan-military-threat-invasion/).
The [US has begun sending troops](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/politics/us-taiwan-forces-training/index.html) into Chinese territory from their perspective. China sees how the US trained up Ukraine for years and how much trouble Russia is now in dealing with that. This may help prevent war or make conflict evolve in a different way.
Top [US general predicts China-US](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-air-force-general-predicts-war-china-2025-memo-rcna67967) war in 2025.
These regional conflicts threaten to spill over into global war due to various alliances. Upcoming economic and environmental problems will only heighten these hot and cold conflicts.
It's like your problem is that you're smoking too much meth.
Should I smoke less meth? No! I'll just start taking sleeping pills to balance it out!
It's like your problem is that you're smoking too much meth.
Should I smoke less meth? No! I'll just start taking sleeping pills to balance it out!
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How can ChatGPT be used for business?
How can ChatGPT be used for business?
Pathetic spam
I certainly hope you were not a "Wired" reader back in the mid-1990s, before Conde Naste bought it. Oh boy...what a load of libertarian techno hopium drivel.
Metro-Detroit
Power was out Wednesday night through this morning. Ice storm wreaked havoc, but didn’t seem that bad while it was happening.
DTE grid is kind of a joke. We all know the storms will get worse over time. The money and effort and time is visibly not being spent to build and reinforce a more capable and resilient grid.
We just gotta be cool with losing power for 6-72+ hours every storm, while figuring out how to afford the lost food, still make it to work, and complain to each other.
Covid never went away, but everyone is out and about constantly without masks or precaution. I work full time in live entertainment. Someone in my circle of working musicians is always sick.
I know a lot of teachers and healthcare workers, and they are always talking about how the schools and hospitals are already collapsing. Lot of them are quitting and trying to find work in other areas. They don’t want to work in food service, but it’s comparable pay with a better schedule and less constant raw mortal stress. The understaffing is bonkers for both. Too few Nurses on the floor with no beds, 40 people in the lobby, people berating them with misinformation, and bad or nonexistent PPE. Teachers alone with a class size of 35+, most of the kids having essentially missed two years of school.
I keep waiting for another shut down but it doesn’t seem to matter how big the numbers and rates get any more. I have to gig to stay sheltered and alive, and I can’t wear a mask while singing on a stage to a crowd of maskless drunks. I just expect to get covid again at this point. Still have long covid symptoms from last fall.
There is still vibrancy and culture and beauty in the city and people, but the fog of desperation, burnout, and anxiety is thicker than usual. Everyone I talk to is either candid about how it’s all shitty and unsustainable, or they are rich and/or bonkers and just ignore or don’t believe the truth in front of them.
Leaving a 40° house in the dark to go play songs for drunk millionaires in a generator powered mansion for $150, fed food and wine I would otherwise never afford in my one nice black suit, and going home just feels bleak and surreal at these times.
Idk what I’m even trying to say. Times are hard. What up doe
Read your link and my response again.
The global temperature average is not going to rise by 1C this year.
That would represent almost triple the fastest rate of warming per decade.
Edit: this sub is garbage. The average temperature rise [PER DECADE](https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature#:~:text=According%20to%20NOAA's%202021%20Annual,0.18%20) is .18C
But I’m sure all you super climate researches know better then NOAA.
I'm approving your post despite Rule 4, for public info.
Right under your quoted section is this:
>The 2022 surface temperature was 1.55 °F (0.86 °Celsius) warmer than the 20th-century average of 57.0 °F (13.9 °C) and 1.90 ˚F (1.06 ˚C) warmer than the pre-industrial period (1880-1900).
In one year, NOAA shows it went up more than 1 C.
The global temperature average is not going to rise by 1C this year.
That would represent almost triple the fastest rate of warming per decade.
Edit: this sub is garbage. The average temperature rise [PER DECADE](https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature#:~:text=According%20to%20NOAA's%202021%20Annual,0.18%20) is .18C
But I’m sure all you super climate researches know better then NOAA.
It is reversible the moment they quit messing with the atmosphere; things will go back to normal.
It is reversible the moment they quit messing with the atmosphere; things will go back to normal.
Localisation: France
It officially hasn’t rained for more than 30 days in France between the end of January and about last week or so.
[link for article in English](https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/21/in-pictures-parts-of-europe-face-risk-of-drought-after-historically-low-winter-rainfall)
It’s the driest February month since 1959 in France, Farmers are freaking out, the state starts telling local authorities to prepare for a terrible summer and some are already telling people to save on water (not stocking, just don’t water the garden or wash the car).
Economically, lots of complain about oil prices and the négociations between our national healthcare agency and the doctors is about to break down. For the latter, the doctor unions seemed to be outflanked by their more radicalised members so it doesn’t look promising.
Boone here also, actually right outside in Foscoe, NC and really amazed how warm it is this February.
Central California Mountains: Unusual amount of snow and length of storms. I'm an old guy so I have seen this a few times. We had a large volume of people that moved into vacation homes full-time during covid and they are having a difficult time adjusting. The thing I am seeing is that resiliency is in very short supply and I'm kind of surprised by it. We have seen climate change here progressing and we are making the needed changes. Good Luck everyone.
Location: Southern Colorado
* Beetles and fire risk. We had nice forests, but I can't help but notice now that huge swathes of the trees in any given state park are just standing dead and brownish-red- "beetle kill." As temperatures rise and winters are less cold, nature's control measures against the beetles disappeared, and now they proliferate in the unnaturally-dense forests, killing an honestly mind-boggling amount of trees. These dead trees are nothing but kindling for worse wildfires. Many of our ecosystems are adapted to wildfires to a degree, and those lower-intensity fires *need* to happen in order to prevent the worse ones. Forest "management" stopped many of these fires, however, clogging up the forests with dry vegetation and dead/dying trees, closely packed together. That usually would have been cleaned out by low-intensity fires, preventing high-intensity ones that the ecosystems are less equipped to handle. Instead, the forests are now just giant matchboxes. Beautiful!
* Water. Experts no longer use the term 'warming' here, but 'aridification.' It's estimated our reservoirs will dry up some time in the 2050's. Our source of freshwater comes from snowmelt, which we're getting less and less of on average. Everyone continues to allow animal agriculture to put an absolutely outsized drain on our water supply, then blame individual residents for using too much water. I was looking into moving to a different location in this state for a while and getting a few acres, and kept finding that all those properties in a reasonable price bracket either had no water at all, or had dried up wells, or would require well drilling so deep that it would cost thousands and thousands of dollars- and then there would still be no guarantee that the well wouldn't dry up in a few years. There just isn't much groundwater left to tap into. If there is, then someone *way* richer and connected to big agriculture has the rights to it. Real estate agents see an inch of water trickling on the ground and excitedly post that the property has a stream(!!) running through it. Previously fast-moving streams I used to pass by frequently are now just dry, cracked earth all year round. Also, what happened to the monsoon rains? I miss those.
* Bird flu. Despite "depopulating" around 85% of chickens here, it's since been detected in thousands of wild birds, killing entire flocks. It has also been detected in mammals like bears and mountain lions, not to mention a human. Everyone just bitches about egg prices instead of wondering if *mmmmaybe* there's a problem with how those eggs are produced.
Anticipating the yearly fire season. It's not just the fires, which I understand are natural *to a degree*\- it's knowing that they don't have to be this bad, but they are- and it's the landslides afterward, and the flash floods afterward, and the air pollution, and the sky being tinted a gross orange-ish gray all summer, and the smell that lingers all season long, and being on-edge and ready to get out fast when there's an evacuation order again, and charred forests just being there and staying that way for years on end, taking so long to regenerate because they didn't evolve for *that* kind of fire.
And I'm too tired right now to cover all the military-related and mining-related pollution and the resulting cancer, thyroid disease, etc- that's a whole doozy on its own. It all adds up to making me roll my eyes when people from elsewhere talk like the American West is a \~pristine wilderness.\~ Yeah, okay, lol. (And I'm not touching the political/social/economic issues, which are definitely also things.)
Location: Maryland, USA
It seems like the entire country got a blizzard EXCEPT ME. Fuck y'all I wanted even ONE good snow this winter. Like on Saturday it precipitated frozen water for a couple hours, didn't even accumulate on the grass, but I still saw the roads and sidewalks liberally salted. So fucking dumb.
There's some sort of Bug going around. A coworker was sick all week, and I had to call out Friday when I couldn't even get out of bed, my head was pounding so hard. I took a covid test just to make sure. I got a negative result. And also a nosebleed from the test and the dry air.
The ants have started their invasion. I have no idea what they find so enticing about a basement bathroom with zero edible things but I store a lot of extra supplies in the bathrooms so it's extra annoying to move everything out to spray repellent.
Three of my five lil avocado trees did not survive the winter, the other two look very sad. As much as I wanted a winter, I need warm weather to come so they can get more natural sunlight, stat.
Sirens in the distance are now a nightly occurrence, but even checking nearby crime reporting websites doesn't give too much insight into what the deal is.
News/science reports about time-traveling electrons and aliens using black holes as quantum computers are actively pissing me off at this point, because whoop de fucking doo, you saw the edge of the universe but not the collapse of global civilization that's about to punch us all in the fucking face? Having a Ph.D. doesn't mean you're not a fucking idiot.
Region: Europe.
People are being squeezed from all directions: Wages not increasing, prices increasing dramatically, indirect taxation run amok (because government cant raise real taxation more) , politicians dont care, hysterical legislation regulating behavior with draconian punishments, government and people snitching and telling for nothing just to be evil, government total surveillance - even ignoring the EU rules and court decision to keep on spying for no good reason. There is systemic all pervasive hysteria. Everybody is having a sense of impending doom - even those in good jobs and high wages.
I am old enough to remember when my country was very free and very happy. It is not like that anymore - not at all.
To me these are clear manifestations of Calhouns behavioral drain in action - and the bathroom metaphor by Isaac Asimov.
Location: Southern Kentucky, U.S.
Spring is here. A month early. We've had several days break 70 degrees in February. We will probably still get a cold snap, as we are wont to do, but this is the earliest I remember this much protracted warming during the month. The daffodils are up. The redbuds are out in several places. The spring birds have arrived. It sounds twitterpated and spring-like outside in the dead of "winter." Climate change is now a daily conversational topic in this rural, politically conservative area that 10 years ago had more deniers. It's startling when I think on it.
Grocery prices still suck, like everywhere. Eggs are back down, though, to about $3/dozen.
Even my parents say things just aren't right. It's just a weird time.
**Location: France, Paris area**
**Climate chaos / Weather patterns :**
France is undergoing it's dryiest february on record since 1959, and has beaten its record on the longest dry winter spell nationwide since records have started - 33 days without rain in all of metropolitan france (meaning without counting any islands and distant lands). I mean we're undergoing our 6th year of drought, so it's no news for me and those who read my reports, but it's making the front page of national news.
Many rivers and lakes are still way below their usual summer level, and a few have dried up altogether.
Moreover, there are several voices amongst which president Macron's one, that are calling for "water saving measures", similar to the ones we set in place last autumn for energy (ecowatt), especially since in winter farming barely uses any water, so it’s up to the individuals to make a difference.
In fact one southern departement already is seeing water saving measures, such as forbiddance to water your lawn or fill up your pool.
At the yearly agricultural national show (held in Paris) president Macron was interviewed about the drought situation and answered « well we’re seeing the end of abundance, as I told you this summer » (with ref to a speech he made this summer that I’d [commented for you](https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/wupfmq/weekly_observations_what_signs_of_collapse_do_you/ilq0jbq/?context=3) ) and is pushing for the setting of water-saving measures starting in march. The measures will probably include mending the many leaks in the water pipes, selecting better crops, and setting a new infrastructure to reuse grey waters; but also some individual measures like not watering your lawn, not filling your pool, not washing your car.
Meanwhile this morning, I heard the mayor of a small town in the south of France, who is so worried about the water levels of the river they usually get it from that he’s blocked all construction developpement and is refusing to allow any new houses to be built and occupied withint the next 5 years, because he cannot guaranty water delivery to them. How dystopian is that ?!
Locally, it shows through initiatives like the flat owners’ committee has included a note about drought to be distributed to all flat owners from our building ahead of the next yearly meeting, with a list of measures they can each take to waste less water (similar to what we do), and also, a note about how to water the local hedges and trees with their own grey water (based on the note I’d had published on social media last autumn about the results of one year of watering « my » trees ) explaining that either we all make an effort to save what we have planted in the small patch, or we’ll have to pay an expensive fee to replace the ones who died last year plus the rest of them probably before the end of the year. And it wasn’t even my idea to add it !
But it’s not just us, everyone is talking about the current scary « dry spell » and trying hard not to panick about what summer has in store for us.
And while this is all unfolding, we’re in peak allergy season for pollen, 3 months ahead of normal-weather patterns. Because flowers, bushes and trees are in full blossom, skies are blue, sun shining, and yet temps go below freezing temps each night, probably harming all that growth.
**Cost of living**
I’m routinely shocked by the price of my usual grocery haul, even though we’ve cut down on many things for their cheaper equivalent.
13,3 % inflation in average on food since january 2022. But it’s 19 % inflation on eggs and dairy. The worst of inflation is supposed to peak in march and then it’s supposed to calm down.We’ll see.
17 % of people who go to foodbanks have a job.
**ETA additional data :**
350 small towns have no tap water since last summer and still have to have the water delivered by truck. (there are roughly 35 000 towns in France, to put it in proportion)
updated inflation numbers, since 2021 :
sugar 50%, meat 35%, eggs "only" 30%.
Location: Southwest Florida
Take a look at [this map of red tide](https://myfwc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=87162eec3eb846218cec711d16462a72) the entire Gulf coast of Florida is covered with this harmful algal bloom. It results in massive fish kills and respiratory diseases in humans. [“Climate change will lead to higher air temperatures which can have a corresponding effect on raising water temperatures. Higher water temperatures combined with increased stormwater runoff of nutrients can result in conditions favorable for algal blooms. Consequently, with a changing climate, harmful algal blooms can occur more often, in more fresh or marine waterbodies, and can be more intense.”](https://www.epa.gov/arc-x/climate-adaptation-and-harmful-algal-blooms) I had to drive to the Atlantic coast just to find some clear water to escape from the record heat that’s been plaguing us down here. Florida will be amongst the first US states to collapse and it will be sooner rather than later.
Location: Singapore
Despite our reputation for affluence, the slow erosion of public health services is [becoming noticeable](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/11cld02/impossible_to_book_polyclinic_appointments/) (including [mental healthcare](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/11d3ent/commentary_mental_healthcare_should_be_for_all/)) with access to subsidized healthcare being made increasingly difficult, forcing those with more immediate needs to seek privatized healthcare (and those without the means, to suffer going without). While nowhere as advanced as other nations the strain is now increasingly visible.
Yet another post hits the front page of the local subreddit complaining about the [astronomical rents](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/11d2s9k/the_property_market_is_nuts/) as landlords look to gouge as much as they can in a runaway market. While locals like myself are more insulated to rent (in many cases the landlords themselves are locals) due to relatively high home ownership, the resulting exodus of immigrant labour will have unintended consequences.
While only tangentially related to collapse we are in global news again for a [Reuter's greenwashing investigation on Dow Inc and the government](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/) regarding false claims of repurposing old shoes. The donated footwear turned out to be exported to Indonesia instead.
In my experience, for final frost dates, it is pretty accurate. It might be balls ass hot in Georgia but we still always get a final frost in late March. Though this year was “unprecedented” in many ways, including temperatures and droughts, so who knows.
Absolute war hawk too. He is a vile, despicable piece of shit who is well-loved by the “reputable”, “trusted” establishment news media. No surprise at all that he’s peddling that propaganda.
The top three things they'll do when you submit your disability application:
Delay. Deny. Wait for you to die.
"There's Gonna be a War in Montana" - an insightful view of a polarised society and perhaps the beginning of a civil war.
Aloha kakou, collapseniks.
As is typical in discussions about American civil wars, we're removing a lot of threats. Reminder: those violate Rule 1, we'll ban first and reconsider maybe, and Reddit's Anti-Evil Operations team may track you down and permaban you. Also, police do read our forum.
If this keeps up we'll lock the thread. Attack ideas, not each other. Mahalo nui loa.
Aloha kakou, collapseniks.
As is typical in discussions about American civil wars, we're removing a lot of threats. Reminder: those violate Rule 1, we'll ban first and reconsider maybe, and Reddit's Anti-Evil Operations team may track you down and permaban you. Also, police do read our forum.
If this keeps up we'll lock the thread. Attack ideas, not each other. Mahalo nui loa.
Aloha kakou, collapseniks.
As is typical in discussions about American civil wars, we're removing a lot of threats. Reminder: those violate Rule 1, we'll ban first and reconsider maybe, and Reddit's Anti-Evil Operations team may track you down and permaban you. Also, police do read our forum.
If this keeps up we'll lock the thread. Attack ideas, not each other. Mahalo nui loa.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Nzl:
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SS: Isaac Simpson captures the zeitgeist by describing the two extreme and fundamentally incompatible societies within the society. The techno-corporate capitalist hydra gentrifying and converting everything it touches into its own image. Pushing out and radicalising the former inhabitants in the process. Who respond by rejecting progress and ultimately reason while trying to bring back the "good old times" and traditional "values". A great recipe for civil war.
This is related to collapse because civil war is itself a collapse of a functioning society. Even if it doesnt lead to a war, a highly polarised society in this way still contributes to collapse. The author paints this contrast from both sides.
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"There's Gonna be a War in Montana" - an insightful view of a polarised society and perhaps the beginning of a civil war.
What? We’re you planning on sending someone else to come conquer my farm for you?
Then good luck, I guess? Again, I just hope it’s you out there.
I know how to handle guns, too.
But you tell yourself whatever you need to feel like you're safe.
Whatever you gotta tell yourself, man. I just hope I find you out there when the shooting starts.
Whatever you gotta tell yourself, man. I just hope I find you out there when the shooting starts.
11.6% is down not up. I swear you people do zero homework before making claims:
[https://i.imgur.com/oIXblwV.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/oIXblwV.jpg)
[https://i.imgur.com/4UhJLRG.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4UhJLRG.jpg)
Crime in Atlanta is [also down](https://33n.atlantaregional.com/friday-factday/atlanta-crime-in-historical-perspective-2009-2021)
Meanwhile, in Chicago a person is shot an average of less than every 4 hours: https://heyjackass.com
why would you say “mentally retarded” ??
that word isn’t used anymore and hasn’t been since 2013. it’s offensive to people with disabilities. do better. -an autistic person
Hurricanes could push deeper into U.S. in coming decades
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Submission Statement: this is related to collapse because of the increasing poverty of the USA., the richest country on earth. The official poverty rate in 2021 was 11.6 percent, with 37.9 million people in poverty. In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. Some of the many causes include income inequality, inflation, unemployment, debt traps and poor education. The vast majority of people living in poverty are less educated and end up in a state of unemployment higher incarceration rates have also been observed. Although the US is a relatively wealthy country by international standards, poverty has consistently been present throughout the United States, along with efforts to alleviate it, from New Deal-era legislation during the Great Depression, to the national war on poverty in the 1960s and poverty alleviation efforts during the 2008 Great Recession.
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Atlanta Hoods Not Seen On TV Compilation
Atlanta Hoods Not Seen On TV Compilation
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"politics is never really about reality, what politics is about is telling you a story that makes sense of the reality you are living through it at the moment it may be in a way a strange fantasy but is sort of makes sense of what you're living through it at the moment. The story they are telling us at the moment do not makes sense of reality, what they actually do is they make it weirder and worser"
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“The reason you feel bad is because you live in a shitty society, that’s not really discussed anymore”
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an interesting interview with adam curtis "politics is never really about reality, what politics is about is telling you a story that makes sense of the reality you are living through it at the moment it may be in a way a strange fantasy but is sort of makes sense of what you're living through it at
an interesting interview with adam curtis "politics is never really about reality, what politics is about is telling you a story that makes sense of the reality you are living through it at the moment it may be in a way a strange fantasy but is sort of makes sense of what you're living through it at
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I was shocked to see that Africa did not have as many resources as I thought compared to other continents. Is this graphic accurate ? Is it possible that a lot of nations are not reporting some of their deposits to reinforce idea of scarcity ?
For the bot: if the resource situation is that dire, then short term collapse seems inevitable.
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Born In 2010: How Much Is Left For Me? | visual.ly
Born In 2010: How Much Is Left For Me? | visual.ly
Study Ties Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure to Higher Heart Attack, Disease Risk
A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think
All Puerto Ricans are American born. Just FYI. My husband was born in NJ, he has the same exact status as a citizen as his brother who was born on the island after his family had moved back to PR. All American citizens.
Location Dublin, Ireland
No tomatoes in most of the shops, in fact no raspberries either and the price of most fruit and vegetables have gone up about 100% if not more in the last six months.
How Energy Privatization Bankrupted Britain
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Even if it's more on the humorous side, I'm curious to see the reactions to these climate-dramas (some that are either book or video games adaptations) and expand to make it a more accurate, yet fun graph. Please comment with any TV series or movies that would fit.
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Have you notices that the fictional scenarios of the destruction of the civilisation do very well lately. I made this fun graph base don search terms that skyrocketed after they've been depicted in television.
Have you notices that the fictional scenarios of the destruction of the civilisation do very well lately. I made this fun graph base don search terms that skyrocketed after they've been depicted in television.
India Seeing Unusual Rise In Temperature And The Impact Of These Heatwaves
Russia last year went for an all out one base zerg rush
Russia failed to take an mid game expansion as resources dwindled
Ukraine set up there bunkers and photo cannons pretty well,
With the zerg army spread out across the map, the APM of Russia fell apart from too many ambitious projects and complete over confidence of taking Ukraine mineral expansion lines
Russia's main army attempt push at tier 3 structures failed,
Over time Ukraine manage to upgrade to tier 3 units and upgrades
Ukraine's counter offense push zerg creep line waves back, securing map control
Currently Russia is suffering both internal and external resource management
Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die
Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die
Location: Nova Scotia
I work in a nursing home here. I've been talking to others, and everyone can see the problems and the simple solutions. But there are rules or practical limitations to prevent any idea you could possibly come up with to try to improve conditions for staff or residents. Its deeply frustrating and nearly everyone is suffering because of it. The system itself is deeply broken. Unfortunately, nothing can possibly get better without a fundamental change in the systems that created this mess.
From the private sector profits, their shareholders, and the bare bones amount of money linked to delivery of care - to the culture of healthcare that values sterile safety and staying alive as long as possible over quality of life, to the government and corporate partnerships, and their enormous bureaucracies and the regulations (edit to add: **and legal liabilities and insurance requirements)**,that completely paralyze community and family level activism. To well meaning public health guidlelines and all the unintended consequences of so many initiatives, and rules, and so many other things meant to help. THere is a big disconnect between those making decisions and those on the front lines who know the reality. There are countless barriers to communication - its just a logistical problem as the systems are just too complex and rigid to be dynamic and responsive.
edit: I am only talking of a small sector of our society - but I know this same problem has repeated itself in countless industries.
edit 2: I wanted to add a bit here. I dont expect you to care about every single problem in the world - its too overwhelming. But this will very likely impact you one day, either a loved one or yourself. If at any point you "lose your capacity" as in a doctor says you lack insight into your own safety - you can be institutionalized against your will with no recourse.
Your only hope in this situation is that you die before anyone notices you "lack capacity", or that your family is willing to take care of you to a standard deemed fit by the health authority - which by the way is a very high standard that is a full time job, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, physically and psychologically very demanding work. (regularly bathing, toileting, lifting and rotating a person, cooking and feeding, medicating, cleaning up after, and dealing with whatever emotions they have (often the most difficut part). People are often agressive and can spit on you, punch and kick you, and otherwise injure you if your back doesnt give out from the personal care.
Or if they/you are mobile - you must keep them safe - preventing falls, preventing dangerous behaviours like wandering, or burning down the house.
You may be able to have some sort of advance directive made up now - that will allow you to continue to "live at risk" even when your capacity is gone - but I have never actually seen this happen. So far you can't participate in MAID if you have dementia - so not yet an option.
What's most scary is that with COVID, and pollution, obesity, depression , sedentary lifestyles all on the rise - we can expect to see a huge rise in dementia, in younger and younger individuals. Truly its a bad situation and we need to be prepared.
Final thought: despite all this negativity - I love my job and I wont give up on doing the work that makes a difference. Everyone working in this area is making big difference in the lives of the individuals they are working with. Even though there is so much we cant change on our owns - what we do matters. Focusing on what we can control, and not becoming overwhelmed with what we can't, makes it much more bearable. And we can't give up on the big picture - that the system needs to be changed. We need to keep talking about our solutions and fighting for them, even if we only have a small amount of energy left over and we can only pick one small goal - we cant give up completely.
The concept of global issues are a constant worry to those with both catastrophic thinking tendencies, as well as global humanists. I used to think Anon were going in the right direction - many many years ago, but the truth is, I feel, that only through uniting the world will we ever get the joined effort to recover. As long as the rich and poor exist, the species will never reach a balance. The rich countries must MUST make a concerted effort to balance out the poor countries. This will be incredibly difficult to change cultures, many many people will feel this is unfair. Unless this happens the poor will eat the rich, and the rich will feel they deserve the status they have from either their own efforts or the efforts of their ancestors. If all were balanced, which at this point is less likely than passing a camel through the eye of a needle - we would still have issues, but we would also have a balance. I think there needs to be a global NWO in order to apply strategies to maintain the health of the species.. even if we end up having to eat roach cubes to exist. We would still have art and conversation... eventually.
Location: Brazil
Heavy rainfall and landslides left a trail of destruction in Brazil this past week, more specifically in the northern coast of the state of São Paulo. The hardest hit towns were Bertioga and São Sebastião but several other towns in the region were affected as well. More than 50 people were killed and dozens are still missing. This is probably the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Brazil, it poured 680mm in Bertioga and 627mm in São Sebastião while it was expected to rain about 200mm, this in less than 24h. Mayors and the state government of São Paulo were alerted 2 days before of the high risk of heavy precipitations, flooding and landslides, but they didn't emit any alert to the population. This region is a touristic destination during this time of the year for people who seek a more peaceful environment to escape the hustle of the cities during Carnival.
The epicenter was the neighborhood of Vila Sahy in São Sebastião, which is a poorer neighborhood where many people who work at the hotels and/or providing service to tourists live. Most deaths ocurred here, many of whom were children.
An article in english with some images of the disaster: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/brazil-downpours-leave-at-least-50-dead-as-rescue-ship-arrives/ar-AA17RLQc
Location: Western Massachusetts
Weather:
We got a few inches of snow Wednesday night into Thursday mixed with sleet & rain, & freezing rain on top. Was like trying to shovel cement, but at least it looks like Winter. Got more freezing rain last night; lots of people didn't shovel all that well, so walking to work this morning was challenging. I could have literally skated down my street today, because a lot of property owners don't care all that much about having safe sidewalks anymore. Once I got to the center of town it was OK, but the side streets all looked terrible. Potholes appearing all over, & those streets just got repaved. Saw some snow removal going on this afternoon, but only on the sidewalks of main roads. Very windy today, & continuing through the evening. Lights flickering at work this morning, but power seems fine.
Tonight it's getting down into the single digits with below zero windchill. Tomm will only get up to low 20s. 30s & 40s over next few days, flurries Saturday & Sunday, more snow on Tuesday.
Economy & Human Behavior:
Housing market is crashing, home sales going off a cliff. It seems to have slowed way down for the state as a whole. Nothing new opening downtown, except yet another small overpriced restaurant in the "cursed spot". I give it 6 months, which is how long the last few tenants lasted.
Some commercial development on the outskirts of town. Looks like an old vacant strip mall will be the home to an Aldis.
Seeing lots of homeless just...wandering. All these 20 somethings with big backpacks & vacant or exhausted expressions. The ones still camping out are further away from town now. Cops seem to be all over the place these days, been noticing trucks getting pulled over lately, one after the other. Lots of speed traps, not that it matters. Impatient, angry & reckless driving is the rule. Hit & runs are getting bad. Lots of people openly smoking pot in public, like on benches & steps & in their cars. No one cares. Nip bottles & litter all over the place. Graffiti popping up everywhere. No one really seems to engage anymore, so much hostility in the air these days.
Food & electricity are stupid expensive, we're totally getting gouged. Everyday life feels like a shakedown. Shelves seem more full at the supermarket, fewer shortages but produce quality really going downhill. At least we have more eggs now.
Noticing so many people in public lately who are just so out of it now. Off in their own little world, no spatial awareness, just totally zoned out. Work is just a dysfunctional shit show now & layoffs are coming in two weeks, so there's that to look forward to. Next couple of months will be...interesting. I saved & prepared as best I could. But it seems many places are laying people off lately, & that would indicate to me that we're already in a recession.
I'm honestly more worried about the crazy weather & WWIII breaking out soon more than anything else. The Ukraine/Russia conflict keeps escalating. Tensions keep rising in the Middle East; a war between Israel & Iran now would be catastrophic, & it could very well happen. Both countries are also involved in the Ukraine/Russia war, this is how world wars start, with related conflicts spreading to different regions. Add China invading Taiwan or a US/China naval conflict in the Pacific, & its a party.
No wonder I don't sleep well these days.
If you could describe your political leanings in one word, what would it be?This subreddit is somewhat unique in the way it brings so many people all over the world together. To muse or even prepare for any possible form of collapse is something that the “left” and “right” do in equal measure. It got me curious and figured casual Friday was the best time to see what our community actually looks like. Also, I deliberately left out the terms “Democrat” and “Republican” because those mean different things in other countries and didn’t want to confuse non-Americans.
Best economic system in the world
All Part of Living The American Dream.
Gotta love ignoring systemic problems in favour of simplistic answers
nw a safe and effective vaccine is coming
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/prepare-bird-flu-vaccines-now-virus-jumps-humans-top-who-experts/
Everything is overheated - we are approaching a collapse of epic proportionsThe Planet is overheated. Its like 10 degrees more than just 30 years ago - and pollution - and climate change - and global warming are accelerating.
Our population is overheated. We were just 2 Billion in 1930 - now we are over 8 Billion. And the jump from 7 to 8 Billion was the fastest on record. The jump from 8 Billion to 9 Billion will probably be even faster. Every additional human means more resource consumtion - more pollution - more overheating.
Our economy is overheated. Money printing to infinity - record inflation - wage stagnation - the economy is like a glowing rod of hot iron - and we continue to apply heat by doing whatever the FED ECB and BoJ are doing.
Society is overheated. It is more divided than ever - hate - friction and disagreement everyhwere.
We need to stop and let things cool down. Of course this will never happen. So we wil continue to overheat and by the end of the decade - or 10 years tops - everything will just collapse like a house of cards .
We're starting to veer into "how to commit suicide" territory. Let's not, please.
We're starting to veer into "how to commit suicide" territory. Let's not, please.
You’ll be alright.
Emancipation in Crisis - In the unfolding systemic crisis, a renewed plunge into barbarism seems preordained. But this need not be the case.
Water Prices will SOAR
As Louisianas coast disappears, its historic communities are disappearing too
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You don't give a shit bc you do not understand any of it.
You don't give a shit bc you do not understand any of it.
The handy thing about biowarfare is that no one has to take responsibility for it. It's one of the cleanest forms of population reduction.
90% would be catastrophic for technological civilization, but 50% we can bounce back from handily. Are there any stats for birdman flu in the absence of medical treatment?
That was a great comment even if you are a little nuts.
After death of girl yesterday, 12 more suspected cases detected with H5N1 bird flu in Cambodia
Would you rather this variabt escapes and possibly ends society ?
Nuke Cambodia
Would you rather this variabt escapes and possibly ends society ?
Nuke Cambodia
Oh look, another one of those people who are like "YoU aRe A NaZi!" every time someone brings up over population as a problem which is a logical fallacy by the way. It's the slippery slope fallacy. That dealing with overpopulation means following in the footsteps of the Nazis. In other words, it's just a bullshit argument because you have nothing else. The Nazi/fascist card is always bullshit when it is not used against people who are actually Nazis or other types of fascists. I suspect you are one of those people who have a lot in common with the people who belong to The Quiverfull Movement even though you may not be Christian and white because who else would react the way you did? People like you, people who lash out like this whenever people speak of over population as a problem, whether you know it or not are trying to create hell on Earth and lead humanity to extinction eventually. The Nazis didn't even see over population as a problem. They just had a problem with certain people existing so you really have to go deep into your ass to pull out the Nazi/fascist card on me like that.
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Who are we saving for?Maybe I am not seeing this addressed, but whom exactly are we trying to create a better world for? I am trying to make my community collapseproof.
Heres my issue though....sure there are allies, but the vast majority are antagonistic to the cause. Plus the ones who are allies are the ones not having kids or having less kids; meaning the people most antagonistic to having a cleaner world are out populating us.
A generation or two from now if there is a collapse scenario simple math would show that these people are the ones that would then inherit the remains. This leads me to ask the question of what's the point of it all. Collapse is not guaranteed. Why not be apathetic? Let the world burn if thats what is intended to happen and if it's not, then so be it?
Who are we saving for?Maybe I am not seeing this addressed, but whom exactly are we trying to create a better world for? I am trying to make my community collapseproof.
Heres my issue though....sure there are allies, but the vast majority are antagonistic to the cause. Plus the ones who are allies are the ones not having kids or having less kids; meaning the people most antagonistic to having a cleaner world are out populating us.
A generation or two from now if there is a collapse scenario simple math would show that these people are the ones that would then inherit the remains. This leads me to ask the question of what's the point of it all. Collapse is not guaranteed. Why not be apathetic? Let the world burn if thats what is intended to happen and if it's not, then so be it?
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"Serious people" promote BAU, while "hysterical" experts get marginalized.I work for an EU country's public health organ. Think of the Austrian equivalent of the CDC. What I have seen internally at work over the last three years has completely destroyed my world view and faith in our governments ever saving us from the collapse.
BAU is the word of the day. If you do not play ball, you are viewed as "not serious"/"alarmist" and the "adults in the room" will ignore you. Repeat after me: Covid is a mild illness equivalent to influenza, Covid is not airborne, masks do not work, and everyone should work from the office all the time. This is what the politicians want to hear, and it has been clearly communicated to upper management. Upper management refuses to listen to anyone who does not tow the line.
Over the past three years, I have seen people in my organization speak up against BAU (experts in their field, saying that Covid is airborne and that ventilation/masks need to be prioritized) and 1) they are initially bullied/intimidated by management ("you can't be serious", "you don't know what you're talking about", "be quiet"), 2) their inputs are excluded from the final recommendations, 3) they aren't invited to the meetings anymore, 4) they are so demotivated and disgusted that they just give up.
All of the covid-deniers/management/bootlickers are back in the office 5 days a week. All of the people who treat covid with the seriousness that it deserves, do not want to come to an open-plan office where no one wears masks and people openly comes to work while sick with covid, so they stay at home and work remotely. This creates a situation where all the people in the office are the "serious people" and the remote workers are further marginalized and sidelined. That is, the covid-deniers can consolidate BAU into all the recommendations.
The covid-deniers have the backing of the politicians, media, and businesses, so they are fearless. They make recommendations on areas that they are not experts in. By contrast, the experts in the field are very careful with what they say, and they are not comfortable speculating about other areas. I was in a meeting with two remote experts, and it was fascinating:
**Person A**: When [Fauci equivalent] said "XXX" inn my area of expertize, I was so angry, it was complete bullshit. He knows nothing about my area, and I have said time and time again that these recommendations are bullshit.
**Person B**: What? It's bullshit? You know, I was suspicious about that, as it didn't seem to make sense, but I'm not an expert in that field, so I didn't say anything. You know, when [Fauci equivalent] said "YYY" on my area of expertize, I was also very angry as it was completely wrong.
**Person A**: YYY was wrong? I also was suspicious as it didn't seem to be correct, but it's not my field so I wasn't certain about it.
Basically, those who promote BAU can say anything they want, and they have the political/structural support behind them. The actual experts in the field are atomized, working alone/remotely (due to being harrassed and not wanting to catch covid), and hence ignored.
I have been in policy meetings where top management (think Fauci) equated mask-wearers with anti-vaxers. And there is nothing to be done about it. If you complain, you are "not being professional" and you will be marginalized (if not outright bullied and harrassed). Only "serious people" get to be included in policy decisions, and serious people know that BAU is what is appropriate for our country. How can you be taken seriously when you are "being hysterical and constantly overreacting"?
I also cannot stress enough how difficult it is to rise in this organization. You can "easily" become a senior scientist, but you will never ever touch a management position without an unwavering sense of loyalty upwards. Management leads the scientific teams, decides the final talking points, does the final edits. Management knows who its master is, who it serves, and that is not the public.
Covid is not airborne. If it was airborne we would need to wear masks and focus on ventilation. Masks don't work (and they're expensive take effort) and ventilation is expensive, therefore we do not recommend it. Since we are not recommending masks/ventilation, by definition covid cannot be airborne.
BAU will be the death of us. I have clearly seen that those in positions of power do not listen to reason, they only listen to their masters and the people who pay their salaries. They cannot be convinced otherwise, no matter the amount of data they are shown. They are bought and paid for.
The worst part is that many people in the public do not know this, and they refer to my organization as saying "the pandemic is over", "we don't need masks", etc. etc. They do not see that we are just parroting what the politicians want to hear, and that the real experts are working remotely from home while wearing N95 masks and avoiding the office like the plague, while buffoons who have caught covid 5+ times and went speed-dating during the omicron wave are running the show and writing the press releases.
Sometimes people ask me "if only China had given us more warning, we could have prepared...?" to which my answer is a clear: "No". We have had 3 years now, and we still have our eyes purposefully closed. What good would an extra 2 weeks in March 2020 have helped, if we haven't done anything for the last 3 years?
There is a saying: "Find an article in the newspaper about a topic that you are an expert in. Find all of the errors that the author has made. Now realize that whenever you read an article about a different topic (that you aren't an expert in), you are reading the same amount of errors, but not knowing it." This is my experience with the covid pandemic. My country, my government, my organization has clearly failed its people, and I can see that from the inside. But from the outside it looks "ok". If these are the hidden cracks that I see from the inside, how many cracks are there in other areas of the state? In food/agriculture? In the military? In the energy sector? In the banking sector? All these sectors, filled with serious people constantly promoting BAU, BAU, BAU.
I don't have a happy ending to this post. I just wanted to say that these last three years has been a serious awakening for me regarding how "serious people" promote BAU with the full backing of the system and "hysterical people" (experts) get marginalized and ignored.
"Serious people" promote BAU, while "hysterical" experts get marginalized.I work for an EU country's public health organ. Think of the Austrian equivalent of the CDC. What I have seen internally at work over the last three years has completely destroyed my world view and faith in our governments ever saving us from the collapse.
BAU is the word of the day. If you do not play ball, you are viewed as "not serious"/"alarmist" and the "adults in the room" will ignore you. Repeat after me: Covid is a mild illness equivalent to influenza, Covid is not airborne, masks do not work, and everyone should work from the office all the time. This is what the politicians want to hear, and it has been clearly communicated to upper management. Upper management refuses to listen to anyone who does not tow the line.
Over the past three years, I have seen people in my organization speak up against BAU (experts in their field, saying that Covid is airborne and that ventilation/masks need to be prioritized) and 1) they are initially bullied/intimidated by management ("you can't be serious", "you don't know what you're talking about", "be quiet"), 2) their inputs are excluded from the final recommendations, 3) they aren't invited to the meetings anymore, 4) they are so demotivated and disgusted that they just give up.
All of the covid-deniers/management/bootlickers are back in the office 5 days a week. All of the people who treat covid with the seriousness that it deserves, do not want to come to an open-plan office where no one wears masks and people openly comes to work while sick with covid, so they stay at home and work remotely. This creates a situation where all the people in the office are the "serious people" and the remote workers are further marginalized and sidelined. That is, the covid-deniers can consolidate BAU into all the recommendations.
The covid-deniers have the backing of the politicians, media, and businesses, so they are fearless. They make recommendations on areas that they are not experts in. By contrast, the experts in the field are very careful with what they say, and they are not comfortable speculating about other areas. I was in a meeting with two remote experts, and it was fascinating:
**Person A**: When [Fauci equivalent] said "XXX" inn my area of expertize, I was so angry, it was complete bullshit. He knows nothing about my area, and I have said time and time again that these recommendations are bullshit.
**Person B**: What? It's bullshit? You know, I was suspicious about that, as it didn't seem to make sense, but I'm not an expert in that field, so I didn't say anything. You know, when [Fauci equivalent] said "YYY" on my area of expertize, I was also very angry as it was completely wrong.
**Person A**: YYY was wrong? I also was suspicious as it didn't seem to be correct, but it's not my field so I wasn't certain about it.
Basically, those who promote BAU can say anything they want, and they have the political/structural support behind them. The actual experts in the field are atomized, working alone/remotely (due to being harrassed and not wanting to catch covid), and hence ignored.
I have been in policy meetings where top management (think Fauci) equated mask-wearers with anti-vaxers. And there is nothing to be done about it. If you complain, you are "not being professional" and you will be marginalized (if not outright bullied and harrassed). Only "serious people" get to be included in policy decisions, and serious people know that BAU is what is appropriate for our country. How can you be taken seriously when you are "being hysterical and constantly overreacting"?
I also cannot stress enough how difficult it is to rise in this organization. You can "easily" become a senior scientist, but you will never ever touch a management position without an unwavering sense of loyalty upwards. Management leads the scientific teams, decides the final talking points, does the final edits. Management knows who its master is, who it serves, and that is not the public.
Covid is not airborne. If it was airborne we would need to wear masks and focus on ventilation. Masks don't work (and they're expensive take effort) and ventilation is expensive, therefore we do not recommend it. Since we are not recommending masks/ventilation, by definition covid cannot be airborne.
BAU will be the death of us. I have clearly seen that those in positions of power do not listen to reason, they only listen to their masters and the people who pay their salaries. They cannot be convinced otherwise, no matter the amount of data they are shown. They are bought and paid for.
The worst part is that many people in the public do not know this, and they refer to my organization as saying "the pandemic is over", "we don't need masks", etc. etc. They do not see that we are just parroting what the politicians want to hear, and that the real experts are working remotely from home while wearing N95 masks and avoiding the office like the plague, while buffoons who have caught covid 5+ times and went speed-dating during the omicron wave are running the show and writing the press releases.
Sometimes people ask me "if only China had given us more warning, we could have prepared...?" to which my answer is a clear: "No". We have had 3 years now, and we still have our eyes purposefully closed. What good would an extra 2 weeks in March 2020 have helped, if we haven't done anything for the last 3 years?
There is a saying: "Find an article in the newspaper about a topic that you are an expert in. Find all of the errors that the author has made. Now realize that whenever you read an article about a different topic (that you aren't an expert in), you are reading the same amount of errors, but not knowing it." This is my experience with the covid pandemic. My country, my government, my organization has clearly failed its people, and I can see that from the inside. But from the outside it looks "ok". If these are the hidden cracks that I see from the inside, how many cracks are there in other areas of the state? In food/agriculture? In the military? In the energy sector? In the banking sector? All these sectors, filled with serious people constantly promoting BAU, BAU, BAU.
I don't have a happy ending to this post. I just wanted to say that these last three years has been a serious awakening for me regarding how "serious people" promote BAU with the full backing of the system and "hysterical people" (experts) get marginalized and ignored.
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Searching for infinite energyA philosophical approach towards energy. Humanity started to utilize massive amounts of fossil fuels in the 19th and 20th century. As fossil fuels are inherently finite a premonition came alongside it's extraction. We need to find an "infinite" source of energy for humans to prosper. Adverse effects from burning hydrocarbons cut the timescale for mankind to find a better source of energy.
In general, there are Renewables (Wind/Solar), Fusion and Fission with more abundant materials (Thorium, Breeder Reactors \[Uranium-238\]) as a likely contender for "infinite" energy.
Why do I remain sceptic about decarbonization and the holy grail of energy?
* The amount of energy humankind needs now and in the near future. It's difficult to envision an "infinite" energy source for this sort of variable demand.
* There would be no excuse anymore not to uplift the energy poor. Terraforming with the help of desalination would become possible. Energy intensive decarbonization and recycling.
In that way I would say renewables aren't "infinite" or uplifting (for now). Yes, the price is falling, but it doesn't trigger that magic point I am trying to convene with this text. Maybe I am pessimistic or optimistic that if there is this magic source humanity would put all their into it to rebuild itself. As long as there is no "infinite" energy the finite stuff is going to be used.
What do others think? Is such a breaching point necessary? Is just the cost enough? How do the figures change with a fixed energy supply (degrowth or whatever)?
Searching for infinite energyA philosophical approach towards energy. Humanity started to utilize massive amounts of fossil fuels in the 19th and 20th century. As fossil fuels are inherently finite a premonition came alongside it's extraction. We need to find an "infinite" source of energy for humans to prosper. Adverse effects from burning hydrocarbons cut the timescale for mankind to find a better source of energy.
In general, there are Renewables (Wind/Solar), Fusion and Fission with more abundant materials (Thorium, Breeder Reactors \[Uranium-238\]) as a likely contender for "infinite" energy.
Why do I remain sceptic about decarbonization and the holy grail of energy?
* The amount of energy humankind needs now and in the near future. It's difficult to envision an "infinite" energy source for this sort of variable demand.
* There would be no excuse anymore not to uplift the energy poor. Terraforming with the help of desalination would become possible. Energy intensive decarbonization and recycling.
In that way I would say renewables aren't "infinite" or uplifting (for now). Yes, the price is falling, but it doesn't trigger that magic point I am trying to convene with this text. Maybe I am pessimistic or optimistic that if there is this magic source humanity would put all their into it to rebuild itself. As long as there is no "infinite" energy the finite stuff is going to be used.
What do others think? Is such a breaching point necessary? Is just the cost enough? How do the figures change with a fixed energy supply (degrowth or whatever)?
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Can we wake people up for a world wide strike?We are truly nothing but slaves in a world where corporations, rich people and politicians are making our lifes more and more miserabel for every year that went by ever. This world truly misses a worldwide revolution, one where we show that they are absolutely nothing without us. Do you think its possible that we reach out to many people and set a date where nobody of us go to work, nobody buys any product except food, cancels all their subscriptions and so on?
Can we wake people up for a world wide strike?We are truly nothing but slaves in a world where corporations, rich people and politicians are making our lifes more and more miserabel for every year that went by ever. This world truly misses a worldwide revolution, one where we show that they are absolutely nothing without us. Do you think its possible that we reach out to many people and set a date where nobody of us go to work, nobody buys any product except food, cancels all their subscriptions and so on?
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The collapse of Western civilization by Cultural MarxismSince the 1960's, Marxists, who fled from Germany, set up shop in Columbia University, USA and executed their plan to hijack academia and society at large through a little thing they called "Critical Theory".
They came to realize that Americans were not about to rise up and slay their masters in the coming revolution, so they focused on subverting Western culture.
Some snippets of their evil agenda that might ring a bell;
" [Max Horkheimer](https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/h/o.htm#horkheimer-max) \[[Archive](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/horkheimer/index.htm)\] later himself became Director of the Institut, and it was Horkheimer who guided the Institut into its innovative exploration of cultural aspects of the development of capitalism."
" E[rich Fromm](https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/f/r.htm#fromm-erich) \[[Archive](https://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/index.htm)\] dealt with psychological aspects of social control, delusion and conformity and became one of the founders of “socialist humanism”. "
" [Wilhelm Reich](https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/r/e.htm#reich-wilhelm) developed his own doctrine of sexual liberalism as an antidote to political conformism and social psychosis. "
This isn't just me making shit up.
" After the isolation and Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, and the consequent decline of the Communist Parties in the “West,” the possibilities for the fruitful development of Marxism as a revolutionary-critical theory in close connection with the practical-critical activity of the workers movement, became extremely restricted. "
This perverted ideology goes by many names; cultural Marxism, political correctness or wokism, but you can't call it a "conspiracy theory" when they have never tried to hide their evil plans.
[https://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/](https://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/)
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And this is how Western civilization ends.
The collapse of Western civilization by Cultural MarxismSince the 1960's, Marxists, who fled from Germany, set up shop in Columbia University, USA and executed their plan to hijack academia and society at large through a little thing they called "Critical Theory".
They came to realize that Americans were not about to rise up and slay their masters in the coming revolution, so they focused on subverting Western culture.
Some snippets of their evil agenda that might ring a bell;
" [Max Horkheimer](https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/h/o.htm#horkheimer-max) \[[Archive](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/horkheimer/index.htm)\] later himself became Director of the Institut, and it was Horkheimer who guided the Institut into its innovative exploration of cultural aspects of the development of capitalism."
" E[rich Fromm](https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/f/r.htm#fromm-erich) \[[Archive](https://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/index.htm)\] dealt with psychological aspects of social control, delusion and conformity and became one of the founders of “socialist humanism”. "
" [Wilhelm Reich](https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/r/e.htm#reich-wilhelm) developed his own doctrine of sexual liberalism as an antidote to political conformism and social psychosis. "
This isn't just me making shit up.
" After the isolation and Stalinisation of the Soviet Union, and the consequent decline of the Communist Parties in the “West,” the possibilities for the fruitful development of Marxism as a revolutionary-critical theory in close connection with the practical-critical activity of the workers movement, became extremely restricted. "
This perverted ideology goes by many names; cultural Marxism, political correctness or wokism, but you can't call it a "conspiracy theory" when they have never tried to hide their evil plans.
[https://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/](https://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/)
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And this is how Western civilization ends.
That's because historically speaking centrists are just fine with the status quo, something which people are increasingly finding intolerable. judging from what I just read, you sound like someone who has a rather comfortable position and struggles to empathize with the marginalized. These marginalized peoples are heavily victimized by these right wing policies which you ultimately view as fine or are indifferent about because you aren't personally affected by them. In response to this you are doing what centrists have always done, align with the oppressors because all you care about is your personal needs and stability.
It hasn’t always been gutted. That’s not true.
And, seriously, where do you guys think your GPs get their info from?
I honestly think some of you have no idea what you’re taking about, but nobody calls you out on it.
You trust individual doctors? What do you think the CDC is made of?
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Restarting a career during current situation?What are your thoughts on going back to school and pursuing a career given the current geopolitical and economic situations unfolding?
Some background: I'm 34, with my partner and two step children who are teenagers. No savings (living paycheck to paycheck as a bread baker). I ran a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gym before the pandemic and had to close sadly. I'm rebooting my working life now and I'm considering mental health and firefighting as the two careers I would most enjoy.
But I'm also considering more down-to-earth and/or local jobs I could start right away like the trades, helping out as a farmhand, sheriff's deputy, working at a local grocery hub that works with local food suppliers, and other jobs that would encourage local networking over long term career planning.
I know its always impossible to predict the future, but I am stuck on a hamster wheel of trying to predict (Will X,Y,Z job still be in demand 3-5 years from now?)
Restarting a career during current situation?What are your thoughts on going back to school and pursuing a career given the current geopolitical and economic situations unfolding?
Some background: I'm 34, with my partner and two step children who are teenagers. No savings (living paycheck to paycheck as a bread baker). I ran a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gym before the pandemic and had to close sadly. I'm rebooting my working life now and I'm considering mental health and firefighting as the two careers I would most enjoy.
But I'm also considering more down-to-earth and/or local jobs I could start right away like the trades, helping out as a farmhand, sheriff's deputy, working at a local grocery hub that works with local food suppliers, and other jobs that would encourage local networking over long term career planning.
I know its always impossible to predict the future, but I am stuck on a hamster wheel of trying to predict (Will X,Y,Z job still be in demand 3-5 years from now?)
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Has anyone put their money where their mouth is i.e. Cashed out retirement?I couldn't find question in the FAQ or asked recently. Just for clarity my personal take is collapse is imminent on 3 - 5 year time range based upon info concerning Thwaites. Other things could happen first or time range could be a bit off but either way it's close enough for me.
So has anyone done the drastic? How crazy am I? I'm hoping to learn the do's and don'ts of such an extreme action.
Has anyone put their money where their mouth is i.e. Cashed out retirement?I couldn't find question in the FAQ or asked recently. Just for clarity my personal take is collapse is imminent on 3 - 5 year time range based upon info concerning Thwaites. Other things could happen first or time range could be a bit off but either way it's close enough for me.
So has anyone done the drastic? How crazy am I? I'm hoping to learn the do's and don'ts of such an extreme action.
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The People of Our Time: How are you managing, how is your spirit in our current age? And what do you do to improve your mood and mind in times of crisis?A sincere post to ask this community: how do you manage the recent stem of events in the past two weeks alone? Are there specific things that you do or experience, whether it’s exercise or speaking to loved ones, or taking time to enjoy nature or society that bring you back from the potholes of fear in the mental marathon many of us are sharing? If you have children, what things are you doing to make a world of hope for them, even in a small way? What do you do for your partner, or what are some of the things your partner does for you that helps, even in a small way, clear the air for even a moment?
Be safe, mi gente.
The People of Our Time: How are you managing, how is your spirit in our current age? And what do you do to improve your mood and mind in times of crisis?A sincere post to ask this community: how do you manage the recent stem of events in the past two weeks alone? Are there specific things that you do or experience, whether it’s exercise or speaking to loved ones, or taking time to enjoy nature or society that bring you back from the potholes of fear in the mental marathon many of us are sharing? If you have children, what things are you doing to make a world of hope for them, even in a small way? What do you do for your partner, or what are some of the things your partner does for you that helps, even in a small way, clear the air for even a moment?
Be safe, mi gente.
Thank you for demonstrating that AFFFs also have an affect on reading comprehension. I'll be sure to add your highly inaccurate "summaries" to future studies. Your dismissal of source 3 based on your complete misinterpretation of the very line you quoted makes me believe you should call your 3rd period English teacher and apologize for wasting her time.
I ran out of room in the OP but here are some more sources for you. And thank you for your service my military friend.
Despite known health risks military continues to burn AFFF
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/27/toxic-firefighting-foam-pfas-pfoa/
US military orders burning of AFFF
https://www.ecowatch.com/military-burning-toxic-chemicals-neighborhoods-2651221968.html
Here is the soil and water analysis following the militarys burning of AFFFs (that took place between 2016-2020 even after the DoD said it would stop) which shows the chemical findings. It is also linked in source 3 which I have absolutely no reason to believe you actually read. This link contains numerous other links to publications and studies of contamination following burns for you to misinterpret as well.
https://www.bennington.edu/center-advancement-of-public-action/environment-and-public-action/understanding-pfoa
Cheers.
Enough. Quit.
Enough. Quit.
I'm not the one saying that overpopulation aka "people" need to be dealt with.
The line of argument you started with, even if YOU didn't mean it as such, is eliminationist genocidal rhetoric. At BEST, its forced birth control/sterilization for whichever group it is convenient for the powerful to reduce the population of, but most often its just fascism and genocide.
Nope, shut that shit down. Anyone who says population is a problem is to be [offered some privacy and a chance to do the honorable thing.](https://preview.redd.it/us84pkrn3jnz.jpg)
Oh look, another one of those people who are like "YoU aRe A NaZi!" every time someone brings up over population as a problem which is a logical fallacy by the way. It's the slippery slope fallacy. That dealing with overpopulation means following in the footsteps of the Nazis. In other words, it's just a bullshit argument because you have nothing else. The Nazi/fascist card is always bullshit when it is not used against people who are actually Nazis or other types of fascists. I suspect you are one of those people who have a lot in common with the people who belong to The Quiverfull Movement even though you may not be Christian and white because who else would react the way you did? People like you, people who lash out like this whenever people speak of over population as a problem, whether you know it or not are trying to create hell on Earth and lead humanity to extinction eventually. The Nazis didn't even see over population as a problem. They just had a problem with certain people existing so you really have to go deep into your ass to pull out the Nazi/fascist card on me like that.
I'm not the one saying that overpopulation aka "people" need to be dealt with.
The line of argument you started with, even if YOU didn't mean it as such, is eliminationist genocidal rhetoric. At BEST, its forced birth control/sterilization for whichever group it is convenient for the powerful to reduce the population of, but most often its just fascism and genocide.
Nope, shut that shit down. Anyone who says population is a problem is to be [offered some privacy and a chance to do the honorable thing.](https://preview.redd.it/us84pkrn3jnz.jpg)
So you take any information you can't understand and call it a conspiracy theory.
Ive seen enough of your comments.
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Power is Out, and Dreams of Storms to ComeI live in Michigan.
Got back from work tonight and the power is out. Phone says 450k+ lost power due to this ice storm. It was rough out today, but I joked with my coworkers about how it wasn’t as bad as we expected.
It just has me thinking about predictions / expectations of worsening storm systems in the coming years and decades due to climate change and the destabilization of the jet stream.
How can the grid be developed and reinforced to be more resilient in these situations?
How long would it take and how much would it cost and it is it even feasible to do?
How long and how often does the power need to go out before people lose their minds or life en mass?
This is collapse related because people all over the world will be dealing with more intense, less predictable weather events while working with the infrastructure for power and water that we have now.
Hopefully my gigs tomorrow get cancelled. Can’t charge phone so I won’t ne here to check replies for a while.
Stay strong y’all
Power is Out, and Dreams of Storms to ComeI live in Michigan.
Got back from work tonight and the power is out. Phone says 450k+ lost power due to this ice storm. It was rough out today, but I joked with my coworkers about how it wasn’t as bad as we expected.
It just has me thinking about predictions / expectations of worsening storm systems in the coming years and decades due to climate change and the destabilization of the jet stream.
How can the grid be developed and reinforced to be more resilient in these situations?
How long would it take and how much would it cost and it is it even feasible to do?
How long and how often does the power need to go out before people lose their minds or life en mass?
This is collapse related because people all over the world will be dealing with more intense, less predictable weather events while working with the infrastructure for power and water that we have now.
Hopefully my gigs tomorrow get cancelled. Can’t charge phone so I won’t ne here to check replies for a while.
Stay strong y’all
I mean, the initial response shown in the film is very limited and lackluster. The CDC sends just one person to Minneapolis and it's only days later when they finally suspend school in the city, far to late to prevent the rapid spread of it among kids.
But like, they -do- portray the tracking efforts fairly well in my opinion, Dr Mears, (the one the CDC sends to Minneapolis) hits the ground running in regards to contact tracing and isolating people, because when she gets into contact with the man who drove Beth home and he coughs during the call she tells him to get off the bus he's on, cover his mouth and nose and get away from people and stay away from them until they arrive to get him, and then she says something to someone about finding out what bus he had been on and isolating the people from it. And then when she contracts it, she calls the front desk of the hotel she's staying in and tells them she needs a list of anyone who had cleaned her room in the past... I can't remember if it's the past 48 or 72 hours.
But then when she dies (reminder of just how good of a person her character was, her -last- act on this planet while dying in a swamped field hospital was to weakly pass her blanket over to a patient next to her who was shivering) contact tracing, at least in Minneapolis falls apart because of her death and the fact that she, a single induvial had been doing most of the tracing.
And honestly, the way her character was done pissed me off because she just, dies in a swamped field hospital, is buried in a mass grave, and COMPLELTLY forgotten about by everyone else. I know that's probably a realistic outcome, but at the same time one would hope that people on the forefront who fought the hardest to prevent something like that would be remembered.
**The first recorded human death from H5N1 was in 1997, 25 years ago.**
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/timeline/avian-timeline-1960-1999.htm
>In 1997, large HPAI H5N1 virus outbreaks were detected in poultry in Hong Kong, and zoonotic (animal to human) transmission led to 18 human infections with six deaths. These were the recognized first H5N1 human infections with fatal outcomes.
The Hong Kong outbreak in 1997 had a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of ~33%. Ongoing human infections of H5N1 since 2007 have had a much higher CFR, closer to 50-60%:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1
All these outbreaks have been bird-to-human infections, which happened to affect multiple humans, sometimes all at once (like the 1997 outbreak). **Thus far, we have not seen human-to-human transmissions; that is the potential development that has so many scientists and public health experts worried.**
A human H5N1 pandemic is, strictly speaking, not mathematically inevitable, but recent events -- the outbreak at the mink farm in Spain, and outbreaks in wild mammals that suggest intra-species transmission in other mammals is happening -- suggest such a pandemic is a credible risk.
In the film *Contagion* (2011), two CDC doctors, Hextall and Cheever, are looking at the fictional "MEV-1" virus, and have this exchange [timestamp 29:14]:
"It's figuring us out faster than we're figuring it out."
"It doesn't have anything else to do."
In point of fact, the U.S. federal government's pandemic prep work over the last 20 years or so has been in preparation for a flu pandemic, not the corona virus outbreak we had in 2019. (And we can see what a shitshow our response to that has been. I still remember emailing my local Minnesota state representative's office in spring of 2020 about my calculation of our state's projected shortage of ICU beds and mechanical ventilators.)
The only good news I've seen about H5N1 is commentary from molecular virologists that mutations making the virus more transmissible seem to be making it less lethal... but recall that *Contagion*'s MEV-1 virus is depicted as way worse than COVID-19, with a CFR of "just" ~17%. (Spookily, Minnesota is the state where the fictional MEV-1 virus gets a foothold in the U.S...)
The upshot is, if we do see an H5N1 pandemic, it will make COVID-19 look like a cakewalk.
[If you want to react to the H5N1 risk in a more educated fashion, read David Quammen's book *Spillover* (2012), and watch the movie *Contagion* (2011).]
I think I agree with everything you've written here, which is rare in my experience on reddit lol.
Re: Kunstler, You're thinking about Kunstler and others like him existing in this kind of outside space is correct I believe. I think part of the issue is the winner take all system of US politics, which makes trying to hold nuanced opinions more difficult. Someone might say 'well, somebody can run on one party platform or the other and still be independently minded'. That may be true when it comes to a politician winning office, but in practice this system has a downstream effect on all of our political thinking. Where I'm going with this is that for someone like Kunstler, they're finding themselves with no place to go politically. He used to be kind of a 1990's style democrat. I think he still is in a lot of ways, but hes fed up with the PC nonsense of the extreme left and with Trump coming up it just pulled him into no-mans land.
Like you say a lot of people viewed Trump as someone different who could shake up the system, and for Kunstler in particular - the "Deep State". Putting aside for a moment how vaguely defined that term usually is, the problem is that at the end of the day, Trump is just a dumbass who has no political experience. He doesn't have a clue how to be an effective political leader and isn't going to get one. Kunstler is smart enough to understand this, so I think he spends of a lot of his time trying to reconcile his disdain for the new left with the obvious reality that so much of the new right has just become so stupid - Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc.
The Putin stuff is weird. For a long time in American politics there has been this strange undercurrent of people puffing up Russia's military capabilities and Putin as this kind of macho leader who gets what he wants. I think it appeals to a certain kind of right wing person as an indirect critique on US. IE 'The deep state hates Russia and Russia is bravely fighting for survival' kind of thing. Its almost another natural hole for someone to fall into once they become enamored with Trump. The world would be better off without Putin, that much is clear, but its unfortunate the US looks so hypocritical given our foreign policy since the end of WWII. Again the nuance here is the problem. US foreign policy AND Putin are both terrible, why so many people have an issue with grasping that I don't know.
And yeah I've also had the vaccine. The mass die offs are obviously not going to happen, and the conspiracy nuts just keep pushing off the timeline. Doesn't mean all vaccines are good or that vaccines have never hurt people. People have died from vaccines. A reasonable person should be able to acknowledge that, then look at the risk as being worth compared to getting something like Covid.
One of my favorite historians is Morris Berman, who has argued for decades that the US is fundamentally Manichean (Bad vs. good) in its thinking. I think hes correct and that this makes working through these complex issues almost impossible.
Sadly, it would seem so. I noticed in his "Technosphere" book he seemed to be gobbling a fair amount of Putin dick. It was only a few pages, so I was able to read around it.
A few years ago went to his website and was sad to see he was onboard the antivaxx train. At a certain point, I think people start "playing to their audience."
Anyways, his older books are a great read. Nothing good lasts forever. He was one of my favorites.
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US Military poisoning communities across the US with toxic chemical incinerationOne of the most enduring, indestructible toxic chemicals known to man - Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) which is a PFAS "forever chemical" is being incinerated next to disadvantaged communities in the Unites States.
EPA definitions of PFAS:
[https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained](https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained)
Harvard Public Health article outlining the health risk of PFAS:
[https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/pfas-health-risks-underestimated/#:\~:text=A%20recent%20review%20from%20the,of%20asthma%20and%20thyroid%20disease](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/pfas-health-risks-underestimated/#:~:text=A%20recent%20review%20from%20the,of%20asthma%20and%20thyroid%20disease).
Data published by Bennington College documents the US military ordering the burning of over 20 million pounds of AFFF
[https://www.bennington.edu/afff](https://www.bennington.edu/afff)
There is no evidence that incineration actually destroys these synthetic chemicals. In fact there is good reason to believe that burning AFFF simply emits these toxins into the air and onto nearby communities, farms, and waterways.
AFFF was invented and popularized by the US Armed Forces. Introduced during the Vietnam War to combat petroleum fires on naval ships and air strips, AFFF was the whizz kid of chemical engineering that forged a synthetic molecular bond stronger than anything known in nature. Once manufactured, this carbon-fluorine bond is virtually indestructible.
[https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=113107](https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=113107)
Environmental Working Group has amassed evidence that the military knew about the environmental persistence of these synthetic compounds
[https://www.ewg.org/research/decades-department-defense-knew-firefighting-foams-forever-chemicals-were-dangerous](https://www.ewg.org/research/decades-department-defense-knew-firefighting-foams-forever-chemicals-were-dangerous)
US military bases at home and abroad encouraged the promiscuous spraying of AFFF in routine drills while firefighters were told it was as safe as soap.
[https://www.iaff.org/news/iaff-testifies-on-toxic-fire-fighting-foam-at-senate-subcommittee-hearing/](https://www.iaff.org/news/iaff-testifies-on-toxic-fire-fighting-foam-at-senate-subcommittee-hearing/)
Exposure to these chemicals is widespread:
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forever-chemicals-are-widespread-in-u-s-drinking-water/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forever-chemicals-are-widespread-in-u-s-drinking-water/)
Harvard research has shown that people who had been exposed to PFAS had more severe cases of Covid-19:
[https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/pfas-health-risks-underestimated/#:\~:text=A%20recent%20review%20from%20the,of%20asthma%20and%20thyroid%20disease](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/pfas-health-risks-underestimated/#:~:text=A%20recent%20review%20from%20the,of%20asthma%20and%20thyroid%20disease).
In 2017 the US Air Force admitted that AFFF spilled on the base had contaminated water and soil in Colorado Springs:
[https://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/25/air-force-admits-soil-water-contamination/](https://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/25/air-force-admits-soil-water-contamination/)
In a survey of military bases in December 0f 2016 the Armed Forces Identified 393 sites of AFFF contamination in the U.S. including 126 sites where PFAS compounds infiltrated public drinking water
[https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-18-700t.pdf](https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-18-700t.pdf)
In 2019 the Armed Forces stated that the previous numbers were undercounted - putting the number closer to 704 sites
[https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/11/20/the-list-of-military-sites-with-suspected-forever-chemicals-contamination-has-grown/](https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/11/20/the-list-of-military-sites-with-suspected-forever-chemicals-contamination-has-grown/)
When federal scientists moved to publish a comprehensive review of toxic chemistry of AFF in 2018, DOD officials called that science a "public relations nightmare"
[https://s3.amazonaws.com/ucs-documents/science-and-democracy/PFAS-CDC-study-2.pdf](https://s3.amazonaws.com/ucs-documents/science-and-democracy/PFAS-CDC-study-2.pdf)
Even went as far as attempting to suppress the findings:
[https://blog.ucsusa.org/michael-halpern/bipartisan-outrage-as-epa-white-house-try-to-cover-up-chemical-health-assessment/](https://blog.ucsusa.org/michael-halpern/bipartisan-outrage-as-epa-white-house-try-to-cover-up-chemical-health-assessment/)
Despite AFFF's resistance to fire, incineration became the preferred method to handle AFFF. "We knew this would be a costly endeavor, since it meant we'd be burning something that was engineered to put out fires":
[https://blog.ucsusa.org/michael-halpern/bipartisan-outrage-as-epa-white-house-try-to-cover-up-chemical-health-assessment/](https://blog.ucsusa.org/michael-halpern/bipartisan-outrage-as-epa-white-house-try-to-cover-up-chemical-health-assessment/)
In 2020 the EPA stated that "it is not well understood how effective high-temperature combustion is in completely destroying PFAS"
[https://www.epa.gov/pfas/interim-guidance-destroying-and-disposing-certain-pfas-and-pfas-containing-materials-are-not](https://www.epa.gov/pfas/interim-guidance-destroying-and-disposing-certain-pfas-and-pfas-containing-materials-are-not)
State regulators warned that existing smokestack technologies are insufficient to monitor the poisonous emissions let alone capture them:
[https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si\_public\_record\_Report.cfm?dirEntryId=348571&Lab=CESER](https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_Report.cfm?dirEntryId=348571&Lab=CESER)
Reporting from 2020 about how the incineration of AFFF created contaminated soil and water in upstate New York:
[https://theintercept.com/2020/04/28/toxic-pfas-afff-upstate-new-york/](https://theintercept.com/2020/04/28/toxic-pfas-afff-upstate-new-york/)
Reporting on military plans to burn AFFF from 2019:
[https://theintercept.com/2019/01/27/toxic-firefighting-foam-pfas-pfoa/](https://theintercept.com/2019/01/27/toxic-firefighting-foam-pfas-pfoa/)
Reporting from Ohio in 2020:
[https://www.heraldstaronline.com/news/local-news/2020/02/still-no-answers-regarding-hazardous-waste-incinerator/](https://www.heraldstaronline.com/news/local-news/2020/02/still-no-answers-regarding-hazardous-waste-incinerator/)
Most of the publicly available data on AFFF:
[https://www.bennington.edu/afff](https://www.bennington.edu/afff)
AFFF incinerator in Nebraska deemed out of compliance 100% of operation in 2022:
[https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110041638458](https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110041638458)
AFFF incinerator in Utah deemed out of compliance 100% of operation in 2022:
[https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000906985](https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000906985)
New York and Ohio incinerators deemed out of compliance roughly 75% of the time in 2022
[https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000906985](https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110000906985)
[https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110027242320](https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110027242320)
The military did not specify burn parameters of emission controls:
[https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/Sierra-Club-House-oversight-2019.pdf](https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/Sierra-Club-House-oversight-2019.pdf)
AFFF incinerators are not required to provide certificates of Disposal/Destruction:
[https://govtribe.com/opportunity/federal-contract-opportunity/removal-destruction-and-disposal-of-aqueous-film-forming-foam-afff-dot-sp450018r0008](https://govtribe.com/opportunity/federal-contract-opportunity/removal-destruction-and-disposal-of-aqueous-film-forming-foam-afff-dot-sp450018r0008)
U.N. talks to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity will pick back up this week: The ocean is the life support system of our planet now affected by deep sea fishing, mining, plastic pollution, climate change and other human disturbances
Assessing the impact of one million COVID-19 deaths in America: economic and life expectancy losses
Keck School of Medicine study finds “forever chemicals” disrupt key biological processes (PFAS)
11-year-old Cambodian girl dies of H5N1 bird flu
WE ARE A FASCIST REPUBLIC on the verge of COLLAPSE.I fully believe the United States must be defined as a fascist republic on the verge of collapse.
As the title says.
>>noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of FASCISM. [noncount] 1. or Fascism : a way of organizing a society in which a government [local or national] ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government[/ruling body].
Red states v. Blue states is not new, but with the prevalence of megacorporation control over politics and the shift of politics towards the rule of traditional fascism, I cannot comprehend how anything is constitutional anymore. We are a country founded on the idea of INDIVIDUAL liberty, yet that is being squandered by right wing Christian nut jobs who control every level of the ladder. Megacorporations are in every politicians' pockets and are buying their way out of consequence for destroying the world. This is so beyond okay and we're all just sitting on our hands waiting for the Great Revolution.
A timeline:
In 2022 we saw our right to bodily autonomy stripped by the highest court in the land, citing religious freedom while ignoring the first rule of this land: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
In 2021, after Trump signed an accord with the Taliban and an agreement to withdraw, Afghanistan was overrun by terrorists that forces thousands to flee for their lives while the GOP subsequently continued the anti-immigration stance they've held for decades.
In 2021, prices increased exponentially across the board for every necessity imaginable, with no inflation checks and no end in sight. The cost of eggs in 2023 rose to unimaginable highs, and gas now is unaffordable with price hikes daily.
In 2020, our nation was engulfed in a war for liberty for POC who were (and still are) being massacred by the police on the daily with little to no repercussions, with the government putting essentially a military lockdown on every major protesting city.
In 2020 we saw the world sink under a pandemic when our government had a TEXTBOOK written by the Obama administration from specialized epidemiologists with decades of experience handling pandemics and response efforts--yet the DOJ and Trump presidency effectively ignored it as another "Obama-era" toxin, leading approx. 103 million Americans to infection with over 1.12 million deaths to date (with 308 deaths occurring just yesterday 2/21/2023).
In 2018, migrant children were thrown in cages and separated from their parents until they no longer remembered the faces of their mothers or fathers, some never being returned to this day and forced into an overflooded foster care system.
In 2012, the Fight for $15 movement began and spread nationwide, but reports say that a national minimum wage of $15/hr today would be astronomical below poverty level, yet most states still have wages per hour at either half this amount or several dollars below.
With a current approximate poverty rate of [11.6%](https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-united-states) (Center for Poverty and Inequality Research) from the latest 2021 census, the amount of Americans at or below the poverty line exceeds 38.5 million. The median earnings of those who worked full-time, year-round decreased [4.1 percent](https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-276.html#:~:text=Real%20median%20household%20income%20was,and%20Table%20A%2D1).)
>Median household income was $67,521 in 2020, a decrease of 2.9 percent from the 2019 median of $69,560 (Figure 1 and Table A-1). This is the first statistically significant decline in median household income since 2011.
Elon Musk's current net worth is $198.2 billion. He pays his Production Team associates $20/hr and other main associates as low as $13/hr per Indeed estimates alone.
In Feb 2023, the Florida Senate has passed the law HB 991, Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses.
>GENERAL BILL by Andrade
>Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses; Provides that journalist’s privilege does not apply to defamation claims when defendant is professional journalist or media entity; revises provisions concerning venue for certain actions; provides for attorney fees & costs to prevailing plaintiffs in certain actions; specifies certain persons may not be considered public figures; provides certain allegations are defamatory per se; provides statutory damages to prevailing plaintiffs who are subject of such allegations; creates presumption that statement by anonymous source is presumptively false; provides public figure does not need to show actual malice to prevail in defamation action.
>Effective Date: 7/1/2023
This means that any call of discrimination from journalists towards any entity counts as defamation and thereby exempts them from media protections. Any slight against any entity by a journalist is grounds for being sued for defamation regardless of circumstance and holds that any claims of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or gender is unprovable in court. It also means that anonymous sources are considered hearsay and do not count as legitimate sources to prove discrimination, essentially making it impossible to cite discriminatory acts without the affected party DOXXING themselves.
In February 2023, a 50-car train derailment set East Palestine, Ohio ablaze, spewing toxic chemicals out so potent that most wildlife in the area dropped dead, with visible iridescent chemicals still visible in water sources around the area.
[U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/) While our eyes are turned to a burning train, let's not forget that our own government, local and national, have been negligent in enforcing food safety and have been historically allowing dozens of violations to national FDA laws in place of profits. Fuck Purdue, btw.
In 2022, House Republicans introduced the possibility of a national [Don't Say Gay](https://www.npr.org/2022/10/21/1130297123/national-dont-say-gay-stop-children-sexualization-bill) bill inspired by the horrific legislation in Florida banning any instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools until after third grade.
>If the federal bill were to become law, which is unlikely in the current Congress, its effects could be far more sweeping, affecting not just instruction in schools, but also events and literature at any federally-funded institution.
While this may seem reasonable to some people who can't see the whole fucked up picture, let's not forget that sexual orientation is forced on non-straight kids from birth through media and education on all levels. This is purely a bill for homophobic and transphobic masses and ignores the rights of LGBT/ally parents to have an education system that supports THEIR beliefs.
In 2022 alone, 647 mass shootings were reported, with almost one mass shooting for every calendar day, and some with [multiple on one day](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?year=2022). [In 2020](https://www.asralertsystems.com/blog/mass-shootings-in-2020-a-year-in-review), a year where most people were INSIDE THEIR OWN HOUSES, there were 612 mass shootings. That represents a nearly 47% increase from 2019. There were 43,000+ gun violence deaths in 2020, [49,000+ in 2021](https://giffords.org/press-release/2022/07/2021-cdc-data-shows-record-number-of-gun-deaths/), 20,138 estimated firearm deaths (excluding suicides) in 2022, and 6,157 GV deaths already reported this year with 82 mass shootings since the New Year. Yet despite the stats, [16.5 million guns were purchased in 2022](https://www.thetrace.org/2022/12/gun-violence-deaths-statistics-america/).
Despite the ASTRONOMICAL trend in violence, food scarcity, poverty, and the loss of human rights, our governments continue to take lobbyist money to line their pockets while limited those who are not white Christian nationalists in order to facilitate their own ideals and appeal to their bases. The GOP is an evil group of evil people who continue to ruin everything while Democrats try to peacefully make deals. Peace doesn't work. They're stripping us of EVERYTHING we are and taking away our most fundamental principles while megacorportations can get away with [child slave labor for a slap on the wrist](https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/nebraska-meatpacking-plant-facing-harrowing-child-labor-accusations-163779653523).
I AM TIRED of saying that it will get better when it's not. This is a real life 1984 situation that was an outlandish dystopia concept in the 1930s from a fever dream by George Orwell, and now it's fucking real. Read the book. In the book, the nation of Oceania is at constant war with two other superpower states. The population is exploited and controlled by the government under an iron fist and surveillance system that keeps everyone in their lane. Big Brother watches from every corner for any sign of deviation, and as soon as you step outside the bounds and rules of the society, you are targeted and brought back in line by any means necessary. Winston and the population in Oceania are brainwashed into their 9 to 5 routine with no exceptions until their die feeding the machine. [Emmanuel Goldstein](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein#:~:text=In%20the%20dystopian%20novel%20Nineteen,of%20the%20state%20of%20Oceania.) is the main revolutionary of the book that rejects the system.
>The political propaganda of The Party portrays Goldstein as the leader of The Brotherhood, a secret, counter-revolutionary organization who violently oppose the leadership of Big Brother and the government régime of The Party.
Sound familiar at all? But no matter what we do, every Revolutionary in the Modern Era is brought to their knees by the masses who feel threatened by their voices. MLK was killed for speaking out. Unionizing workers are fired and replaced like hot garbage. [Governors that try to make real change have their lives threatened by assassination attempts](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot#:~:text=On%20October%208%2C%202020%2C%20the,to%20overthrow%20the%20state%20government.) Dr. Fauci was labeled a "liberal propaganda tool" and harassed until he had to go into hiding with his wife and family. The only difference between MLK's time and now is that we haven't had a significant voice of change since. Any efforts at change are crushed.
Every month, I hear about a new scumbag that was on Epstein Island fucking children and sipping on Mai Tais while their sweatshops in the Phillipines pumped out their newest fashion line. Fuck this shit.
We are a fascist nation under the name of democracy where every state determines the conditions of their unconstitutional control. Some states actually care and fight for rights, but most (red) states do not. Protests do nothing. We have had protests for decades and nothing is changing.
We need to take a stand. Our government is collapsing in on itself and our nation is split into pieces by political ideology in the most extreme way since the Civil War. We are reaching a breaking point, and I fear what 2023 brings.
I believe a collapse is imminent.
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Edit 2: While this is creating a lot of conflict in the comments, I'm actually quite happy about that. I am happy to have sparked a debate on the definitions of fascism and where our country is headed. History is doomed to repeat if we do not remember to look back. I love academic discussion 🥰. If anyone has any good reads in the comments, I'd be delighted to brush up on academic material or videos.
Edit 1:
Someone said this isn't fascism via the definition I used. To anyone who says that, I'll just paste what I told them:
It is textbook to the definition, as cited via the Britannica.
>noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of FASCISM. [noncount] 1. or Fascism : a way of organizing a society in which a government [local or national] ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government[/ruling body].
Even if it's not as severe fundamentally as past fascist governmental bodies (which doesn't make it untrue just because its "not as bad as the worst-case scenario), I agreed with another post calling it a "proto-fascist republic" on the basis that it is almost entirely up to the standard of a fascist government's way of handling things on a regional state governmental level. As per the definition of fascism as involving such key elements as below:
>Common themes among fascist movements include: authoritarianism, nationalism (including racial nationalism), hierarchy and elitism, and militarism. Other aspects of fascism such as its "myth of decadence", anti-egalitarianism and totalitarianism can be seen to originate from these ideas. Roger Griffin has proposed that fascism is a synthesis of totalitarianism and ultranationalism sacralized through a myth of national rebirth and regeneration, which he terms "Palingenetic ultranationalism".
All of these are prevalent in the White Nationalism movement and other subsequent conservative and religious ideological movements of today with great political traction. Not to mention a national trend towards elitist rule, Palingenetic ultranationalism.
>Fascism supported private property rights – except for the groups which it persecuted – and the profit motive of capitalism, but it sought to eliminate the autonomy of large-scale capitalism from the state.
Hm. Sounds familiar. Let's go a little further.
>Fascism opposed class conflict and the egalitarian and international character of socialism. It strongly opposed liberalism, communism, anarchism, and democratic socialism.
They rejected and demonized all the same systems of politics, rejected consequence for large capitalist industries while squandering the common person, and promoted that money and power in the hands of authoritarian forces (police precincts and [$1.9 Trillion](https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense#:~:text=Status%20of%20Funds,-Data%20through%2012&text=Each%20year%20federal%20agencies%20receive,making%20financial%20promises%20called%20obligations%20.) to the U.S. military) would assure control over anyone and everyone. The "Make America Great Again" is a great movement to cite on the fascist principle of the mythical event of "national rebirth and regeneration" often touted during fascist rules to ignite the people to reclaim a nonexistent past greatness in a time where that state is nonfeasible and impossible to achieve in order for the government to gain popular support by groups that are often conservative rejects.
>Fascists shared many of the goals of the conservatives of their day and they often allied themselves with them by drawing recruits from disaffected conservative ranks.... and sought to radically reshape society through revolutionary action rather than preserve the status quo.
But... I guess it still doesn't fit somehow?
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_and_ideology#:~:text=Common%20themes%20among%20fascist%20movements,to%20originate%20from%20these%20ideas.
Griffin, Roger (2000). "Revolution from the Right: Fascism". In Parker, David (ed.). Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560–1991 (1st ed.). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415172950.
Sternhell, Zeev, "Crisis of Fin-de-siècle Thought" in Griffin, Roger, ed., International Fascism: Theories, Causes and the New Consensus (London and New York, 1998) p. 169-171.
WE ARE A FASCIST REPUBLIC on the verge of COLLAPSE.I fully believe the United States must be defined as a fascist republic on the verge of collapse.
As the title says.
>>noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of FASCISM. [noncount] 1. or Fascism : a way of organizing a society in which a government [local or national] ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government[/ruling body].
Red states v. Blue states is not new, but with the prevalence of megacorporation control over politics and the shift of politics towards the rule of traditional fascism, I cannot comprehend how anything is constitutional anymore. We are a country founded on the idea of INDIVIDUAL liberty, yet that is being squandered by right wing Christian nut jobs who control every level of the ladder. Megacorporations are in every politicians' pockets and are buying their way out of consequence for destroying the world. This is so beyond okay and we're all just sitting on our hands waiting for the Great Revolution.
A timeline:
In 2022 we saw our right to bodily autonomy stripped by the highest court in the land, citing religious freedom while ignoring the first rule of this land: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
In 2021, after Trump signed an accord with the Taliban and an agreement to withdraw, Afghanistan was overrun by terrorists that forces thousands to flee for their lives while the GOP subsequently continued the anti-immigration stance they've held for decades.
In 2021, prices increased exponentially across the board for every necessity imaginable, with no inflation checks and no end in sight. The cost of eggs in 2023 rose to unimaginable highs, and gas now is unaffordable with price hikes daily.
In 2020, our nation was engulfed in a war for liberty for POC who were (and still are) being massacred by the police on the daily with little to no repercussions, with the government putting essentially a military lockdown on every major protesting city.
In 2020 we saw the world sink under a pandemic when our government had a TEXTBOOK written by the Obama administration from specialized epidemiologists with decades of experience handling pandemics and response efforts--yet the DOJ and Trump presidency effectively ignored it as another "Obama-era" toxin, leading approx. 103 million Americans to infection with over 1.12 million deaths to date (with 308 deaths occurring just yesterday 2/21/2023).
In 2018, migrant children were thrown in cages and separated from their parents until they no longer remembered the faces of their mothers or fathers, some never being returned to this day and forced into an overflooded foster care system.
In 2012, the Fight for $15 movement began and spread nationwide, but reports say that a national minimum wage of $15/hr today would be astronomical below poverty level, yet most states still have wages per hour at either half this amount or several dollars below.
With a current approximate poverty rate of [11.6%](https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-united-states) (Center for Poverty and Inequality Research) from the latest 2021 census, the amount of Americans at or below the poverty line exceeds 38.5 million. The median earnings of those who worked full-time, year-round decreased [4.1 percent](https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-276.html#:~:text=Real%20median%20household%20income%20was,and%20Table%20A%2D1).)
>Median household income was $67,521 in 2020, a decrease of 2.9 percent from the 2019 median of $69,560 (Figure 1 and Table A-1). This is the first statistically significant decline in median household income since 2011.
Elon Musk's current net worth is $198.2 billion. He pays his Production Team associates $20/hr and other main associates as low as $13/hr per Indeed estimates alone.
In Feb 2023, the Florida Senate has passed the law HB 991, Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses.
>GENERAL BILL by Andrade
>Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses; Provides that journalist’s privilege does not apply to defamation claims when defendant is professional journalist or media entity; revises provisions concerning venue for certain actions; provides for attorney fees & costs to prevailing plaintiffs in certain actions; specifies certain persons may not be considered public figures; provides certain allegations are defamatory per se; provides statutory damages to prevailing plaintiffs who are subject of such allegations; creates presumption that statement by anonymous source is presumptively false; provides public figure does not need to show actual malice to prevail in defamation action.
>Effective Date: 7/1/2023
This means that any call of discrimination from journalists towards any entity counts as defamation and thereby exempts them from media protections. Any slight against any entity by a journalist is grounds for being sued for defamation regardless of circumstance and holds that any claims of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or gender is unprovable in court. It also means that anonymous sources are considered hearsay and do not count as legitimate sources to prove discrimination, essentially making it impossible to cite discriminatory acts without the affected party DOXXING themselves.
In February 2023, a 50-car train derailment set East Palestine, Ohio ablaze, spewing toxic chemicals out so potent that most wildlife in the area dropped dead, with visible iridescent chemicals still visible in water sources around the area.
[U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/) While our eyes are turned to a burning train, let's not forget that our own government, local and national, have been negligent in enforcing food safety and have been historically allowing dozens of violations to national FDA laws in place of profits. Fuck Purdue, btw.
In 2022, House Republicans introduced the possibility of a national [Don't Say Gay](https://www.npr.org/2022/10/21/1130297123/national-dont-say-gay-stop-children-sexualization-bill) bill inspired by the horrific legislation in Florida banning any instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools until after third grade.
>If the federal bill were to become law, which is unlikely in the current Congress, its effects could be far more sweeping, affecting not just instruction in schools, but also events and literature at any federally-funded institution.
While this may seem reasonable to some people who can't see the whole fucked up picture, let's not forget that sexual orientation is forced on non-straight kids from birth through media and education on all levels. This is purely a bill for homophobic and transphobic masses and ignores the rights of LGBT/ally parents to have an education system that supports THEIR beliefs.
In 2022 alone, 647 mass shootings were reported, with almost one mass shooting for every calendar day, and some with [multiple on one day](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?year=2022). [In 2020](https://www.asralertsystems.com/blog/mass-shootings-in-2020-a-year-in-review), a year where most people were INSIDE THEIR OWN HOUSES, there were 612 mass shootings. That represents a nearly 47% increase from 2019. There were 43,000+ gun violence deaths in 2020, [49,000+ in 2021](https://giffords.org/press-release/2022/07/2021-cdc-data-shows-record-number-of-gun-deaths/), 20,138 estimated firearm deaths (excluding suicides) in 2022, and 6,157 GV deaths already reported this year with 82 mass shootings since the New Year. Yet despite the stats, [16.5 million guns were purchased in 2022](https://www.thetrace.org/2022/12/gun-violence-deaths-statistics-america/).
Despite the ASTRONOMICAL trend in violence, food scarcity, poverty, and the loss of human rights, our governments continue to take lobbyist money to line their pockets while limited those who are not white Christian nationalists in order to facilitate their own ideals and appeal to their bases. The GOP is an evil group of evil people who continue to ruin everything while Democrats try to peacefully make deals. Peace doesn't work. They're stripping us of EVERYTHING we are and taking away our most fundamental principles while megacorportations can get away with [child slave labor for a slap on the wrist](https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/nebraska-meatpacking-plant-facing-harrowing-child-labor-accusations-163779653523).
I AM TIRED of saying that it will get better when it's not. This is a real life 1984 situation that was an outlandish dystopia concept in the 1930s from a fever dream by George Orwell, and now it's fucking real. Read the book. In the book, the nation of Oceania is at constant war with two other superpower states. The population is exploited and controlled by the government under an iron fist and surveillance system that keeps everyone in their lane. Big Brother watches from every corner for any sign of deviation, and as soon as you step outside the bounds and rules of the society, you are targeted and brought back in line by any means necessary. Winston and the population in Oceania are brainwashed into their 9 to 5 routine with no exceptions until their die feeding the machine. [Emmanuel Goldstein](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Goldstein#:~:text=In%20the%20dystopian%20novel%20Nineteen,of%20the%20state%20of%20Oceania.) is the main revolutionary of the book that rejects the system.
>The political propaganda of The Party portrays Goldstein as the leader of The Brotherhood, a secret, counter-revolutionary organization who violently oppose the leadership of Big Brother and the government régime of The Party.
Sound familiar at all? But no matter what we do, every Revolutionary in the Modern Era is brought to their knees by the masses who feel threatened by their voices. MLK was killed for speaking out. Unionizing workers are fired and replaced like hot garbage. [Governors that try to make real change have their lives threatened by assassination attempts](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot#:~:text=On%20October%208%2C%202020%2C%20the,to%20overthrow%20the%20state%20government.) Dr. Fauci was labeled a "liberal propaganda tool" and harassed until he had to go into hiding with his wife and family. The only difference between MLK's time and now is that we haven't had a significant voice of change since. Any efforts at change are crushed.
Every month, I hear about a new scumbag that was on Epstein Island fucking children and sipping on Mai Tais while their sweatshops in the Phillipines pumped out their newest fashion line. Fuck this shit.
We are a fascist nation under the name of democracy where every state determines the conditions of their unconstitutional control. Some states actually care and fight for rights, but most (red) states do not. Protests do nothing. We have had protests for decades and nothing is changing.
We need to take a stand. Our government is collapsing in on itself and our nation is split into pieces by political ideology in the most extreme way since the Civil War. We are reaching a breaking point, and I fear what 2023 brings.
I believe a collapse is imminent.
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Edit 2: While this is creating a lot of conflict in the comments, I'm actually quite happy about that. I am happy to have sparked a debate on the definitions of fascism and where our country is headed. History is doomed to repeat if we do not remember to look back. I love academic discussion 🥰. If anyone has any good reads in the comments, I'd be delighted to brush up on academic material or videos.
Edit 1:
Someone said this isn't fascism via the definition I used. To anyone who says that, I'll just paste what I told them:
It is textbook to the definition, as cited via the Britannica.
>noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of FASCISM. [noncount] 1. or Fascism : a way of organizing a society in which a government [local or national] ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government[/ruling body].
Even if it's not as severe fundamentally as past fascist governmental bodies (which doesn't make it untrue just because its "not as bad as the worst-case scenario), I agreed with another post calling it a "proto-fascist republic" on the basis that it is almost entirely up to the standard of a fascist government's way of handling things on a regional state governmental level. As per the definition of fascism as involving such key elements as below:
>Common themes among fascist movements include: authoritarianism, nationalism (including racial nationalism), hierarchy and elitism, and militarism. Other aspects of fascism such as its "myth of decadence", anti-egalitarianism and totalitarianism can be seen to originate from these ideas. Roger Griffin has proposed that fascism is a synthesis of totalitarianism and ultranationalism sacralized through a myth of national rebirth and regeneration, which he terms "Palingenetic ultranationalism".
All of these are prevalent in the White Nationalism movement and other subsequent conservative and religious ideological movements of today with great political traction. Not to mention a national trend towards elitist rule, Palingenetic ultranationalism.
>Fascism supported private property rights – except for the groups which it persecuted – and the profit motive of capitalism, but it sought to eliminate the autonomy of large-scale capitalism from the state.
Hm. Sounds familiar. Let's go a little further.
>Fascism opposed class conflict and the egalitarian and international character of socialism. It strongly opposed liberalism, communism, anarchism, and democratic socialism.
They rejected and demonized all the same systems of politics, rejected consequence for large capitalist industries while squandering the common person, and promoted that money and power in the hands of authoritarian forces (police precincts and [$1.9 Trillion](https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense#:~:text=Status%20of%20Funds,-Data%20through%2012&text=Each%20year%20federal%20agencies%20receive,making%20financial%20promises%20called%20obligations%20.) to the U.S. military) would assure control over anyone and everyone. The "Make America Great Again" is a great movement to cite on the fascist principle of the mythical event of "national rebirth and regeneration" often touted during fascist rules to ignite the people to reclaim a nonexistent past greatness in a time where that state is nonfeasible and impossible to achieve in order for the government to gain popular support by groups that are often conservative rejects.
>Fascists shared many of the goals of the conservatives of their day and they often allied themselves with them by drawing recruits from disaffected conservative ranks.... and sought to radically reshape society through revolutionary action rather than preserve the status quo.
But... I guess it still doesn't fit somehow?
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_and_ideology#:~:text=Common%20themes%20among%20fascist%20movements,to%20originate%20from%20these%20ideas.
Griffin, Roger (2000). "Revolution from the Right: Fascism". In Parker, David (ed.). Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560–1991 (1st ed.). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415172950.
Sternhell, Zeev, "Crisis of Fin-de-siècle Thought" in Griffin, Roger, ed., International Fascism: Theories, Causes and the New Consensus (London and New York, 1998) p. 169-171.
u/DystopianNerd since you deleted your reply to me before I could respond I'll just say this: You sound like you have no true conviction in your beliefs. If you head to the right because leftists get mad at you, then you didn't actually hold the beliefs you claim it seems. Try letting logic be the decider, not emotion.
"Yes, this is what transgender people say." Sure, maybe some have only experienced ridicule on the Internet. Personally, having my parents refuse to accept me when I came out was upsetting for me. Being laughed at, yelled at, and insulted by random people in public was upsetting for me.
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The slow collapseAlthough this may not seem like a typical post, I implore you to read on.
Around a decade or so ago, there was a webpage discussing the concept of a gradual collapse called I think "the slow collapse", where a series of small events would lead to societal decline instead of one catastrophic event. The page provided a fictional account of this scenario, and surprisingly, some of the events it predicted are now unfolding before us.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate the page since. Would anyone happen to have a link or remember it?
The slow collapseAlthough this may not seem like a typical post, I implore you to read on.
Around a decade or so ago, there was a webpage discussing the concept of a gradual collapse called I think "the slow collapse", where a series of small events would lead to societal decline instead of one catastrophic event. The page provided a fictional account of this scenario, and surprisingly, some of the events it predicted are now unfolding before us.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate the page since. Would anyone happen to have a link or remember it?
The slow collapseAlthough this may not seem like a typical post, I implore you to read on.
Around a decade or so ago, there was a webpage discussing the concept of a gradual collapse called I think "the slow collapse", where a series of small events would lead to societal decline instead of one catastrophic event. The page provided a fictional account of this scenario, and surprisingly, some of the events it predicted are now unfolding before us.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate the page since. Would anyone happen to have a link or remember it?
Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets - 'residential properties exposed to flood risk are overvalued by US$121–US$237 billion, depending on the discount rate'
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Patients Are Dying in Emergency Department Waiting Rooms
Patients Are Dying in Emergency Department Waiting Rooms
Lmao 1.2 million people died of stress.
You're a clown.
Lmao 1.2 million people died of stress.
You're a clown.
I'm not saying they made a mistake. I'm saying they made a conscious decision to reduce quarantine times and restrictions, knowing damn well that it was not the correct thing to do, but doing it anyway because our economy was suffering and the government would rather let more people die than give them more stimulus money. It was a greedy and corrupt move, not a mistake. That is the critical disconnect you're not understanding here.
I'm not saying they made a mistake. I'm saying they made a conscious decision to reduce quarantine times and restrictions, knowing damn well that it was not the correct thing to do, but doing it anyway because our economy was suffering and the government would rather let more people die than give them more stimulus money. It was a greedy and corrupt move, not a mistake. That is the critical disconnect you're not understanding here.
Where have I said that.
You’re a clown.
Where have I said that.
You’re a clown.
Car wreck deaths were up massively in 2020 (more than 20%) despite millions of miles fewer being driven.
Homicides were up massively too, despite violent crime like home invasion being well down. Murders went up 30% in 2020 compared to 2019. The largest increase for more than a century.
Google it, the stats from 2020 are really interesting.
The only thing that went down in 2020 was suicide, but that has taken off again since.
Why are arrogant people like you so sure of themselves. ‘You just need to read them.’
So why haven’t you then? Where do you get your smug idiocy from?
Car wreck deaths were up massively in 2020 (more than 20%) despite millions of miles fewer being driven.
Homicides were up massively too, despite violent crime like home invasion being well down. Murders went up 30% in 2020 compared to 2019. The largest increase for more than a century.
Google it, the stats from 2020 are really interesting.
The only thing that went down in 2020 was suicide, but that has taken off again since.
Why are arrogant people like you so sure of themselves. ‘You just need to read them.’
So why haven’t you then? Where do you get your smug idiocy from?
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Why Would Anybody Embrace Fascism? Live show & video 8 est
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Why Would Anybody Embrace Fascism? Live show & video 8 est
Why Would Anybody Embrace Fascism? Live show & video 8 est
Sure comrade, congratulations on living in a country where more is taken out of your paycheck so you can die on a hospital waiting list for a system youre told is "free"... Please try to remember your fraudulent healthcare system is a fantastic perk of outsourcing your military to the US taxpayer as you beg us to intervene with Russia to put an end to your energy crisis.
Given that we are your only hope in the inevitable global conflict our leaders are setting the stage for, I can see where your trust in the US Gov that they will "safely dispose of PFSAs" comes from. I assure you, that trust is misguided
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html
Moving on from your unjustified pretentiousness. If you had actually read the sources provided to you, you would see that analysis suggests that incineration of PFSAs does not break down the chemical, it spreads it.
https://www.bennington.edu/center-advancement-of-public-action/environment-and-public-action/understanding-pfoa
Since evidence shows that PFSAs are spread further by incineration - "there is no evidence that incineration actually destroys the toxic chemicals." I am not sure why you continue to misinterpret that quote, but you have done so three times now. Every study following the incineration shows chemicals (that were not there previously) appearing in the soil and water surrounding the burn.
So instead of dismissing my research that you clearly did not read, Why dont you tell me what's really bothering you, Champ?
Now we're also arrogant. You're nothing but a mouthy prick just spewing out hollow insults right now.
What part of the CDC blatantly obeying the demands of corporations has to do with intellect? They compromised their credibility and integrity on multiple occasions
Leave it to someone like you to double down on a limp appeal to authority.
If they acted like neutral scientific researchers people wouldn't be upset with them but you're too blind to see that.
Now we're also arrogant. You're nothing but a mouthy prick just spewing out hollow insults right now.
What part of the CDC blatantly obeying the demands of corporations has to do with intellect? They compromised their credibility and integrity on multiple occasions
Leave it to someone like you to double down on a limp appeal to authority.
If they acted like neutral scientific researchers people wouldn't be upset with them but you're too blind to see that.
Look you are right! 2,400 more people died in car wrecks in 2020 over 2019. You are a clown. A smug clown.
Look you are right! 2,400 more people died in car wrecks in 2020 over 2019. You are a clown. A smug clown.
Truly bizarre weather in Philadelphia area. Yesterday, Presidents’ Day, in the middle 60s. People wearing shorts. I’m sure you’re all tired of me stressing my memory, but hell, February used to last freaking forever. Cold, dark, zero buds no matter how much I desperately yearned to detect them on a tree. Those red buds came like clockwork after the vernal equinox. Definitely after my early March birthday. Yes, Philadelphia has had several late March snows. Guess they are a thing of the past. So yeah, 30+ years and the buds of ruby are here. Birds! I often place myself as a late teen in like 1990 and imagine a seer telling me it would be 77 in Rehoboth Beach NJ on February 23rd (actually forecast).
Also, have any of my mid Atlantic friends noticed stronger winds? It’s strange today. It was supposed to rain all day and then the bright sun shone and a fierce March like wind.
Location: Birmingham, UK.
We haven't received any substantial rain since the start of February, a month where we usually experience thirteen days worth of rain. I work in horticulture and plants that should be out in late march are out now, and the soil is bone dry, there seems to be much less soil life than even this time last year.
As for societal factors, the vast majority of the shops in local high streets are shuttered, the few remaining are doing clearance sales.
The homeless population has exploded in my city, I see more reckless driving, increased violence on the streets and much less civic pride.
UK salad shortages to last ‘for weeks’, retailers warn (ration purchases of fruit and vegetables)
World to face wars over food and water without climate action, EU green deal chief says
Location: Anderson, SC
Is anyone noticing how difficult it is to perform the simplest and normal task?
Venice canals start to run dry as low tide and lack of rain hit | Italy
Rising U.S. Interest Rates Push Countries in Global South Toward Economic Collapse
Collapse of America: Sea level rise could mean our financial ruin – here’s how
U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick
Location: Vancouver Island BC Canada
Mulling over life the universe and everything I realized I haven't seen a single person smile for a few weeks. And it's not because their cheerful personas are hidden behind masks, I am the only one anywhere here with that excuse. It's like what I imagine walking the grey back streets of some Eastern European Soviet satellite state must have been like in 1984... I can't say with certainty the reason that a dark blanket seems to have fallen on the masses, but I can let my imagination run with it. Winter here is always dark and grey and post holiday season nearly always somewhat glum as people take stock of their shattered finances and pine for the skies to brighten, but this feels a little different. And different than the covid years.. Everyone's faces show quiet fatigue, there isn't that forced optimism behind their voices. It is as if everyone has collectively given up at once, and now simply meanders aimlessly slightly anxious about what lies around the corner but lacking any pretense of mounting a defence against whatever that might be .. or maybe I'm simply projecting my own state of mind to explain the lack of smiles or energy from everyone I meet in my daily travels.... Maybe it's all just because I still wear a mask. I remind them of something they desperately just want to be done with and it sucks the life out of their delusions?
Today it is 8c by Wednesday it will be -12c overnight from this stratospheric warming event. Another shock to natures system. as long as it's brief it hopefully won't damage the buds and shoots that are all popping out of the ground right now. we do have occasional radical swings in late winter early spring. the problems come in when you have this sustained warmth that has convinced some of the plants that winter is in fact over.... Some of the budding plants are farther along and will likely sustain enough damage that they wont be productive this year. If we have another heat/drought event this year it will likely be too much for some of our indigenous species.
My last thought is the insane amount of logging that has continued throughout the winter. Usually the weather forces a break in logging for a few weeks during the darkest part of winter, not this year, because well it's been spring since Christmas. To quote a gentleman I have a great deal of respect for... all that's left is guts and feathers. I guess there's a small mercy in not having felt well enough to get out in the woods for months. My favorite spots are likely not there anymore. I have to work myself up for that loss and grief, I really don't want to face it right now, even with a mask on.
Location New Zealand (lower South Island)
While the top half of the country has had the worst flooding in it's short history two weeks after Auckland had its worst flooding in its short history most of the south island is slipping into drought, we're starting to see fish in our costal waters that classically are only found further north in warmer water.
Speaking of fish, the personal catch limits are getting lower as stocks run dry.
Crime is getting more frequent and worse, and now we have looters in disaster stricken areas but I'm sure the judges will ~~crack down on them with full force~~ let them go that afternoon.
Wages ~~have stagnated~~ continue to stagnate while inflation continues to inflate and it becomes even more expensive to live here, Australia is getting all of our talent because in 3 hours you can land in a warmer climate where it's around 20% cheaper to live and earn on average another 50% with better conditions than you'll get here, fortunately it's really only the nonessential workers that we're missing out on, trades, nursing, teaching, emergency services, agriculture and farming, things like that... must be nonessential or we would get paid more right? (Citation; am an ambulance officer, get paid fuck all)
Separately none of this is "magnificent disaster" stuff, but when shit happens and you don't get help because there isn't anyone, can't rely on savings because there isn't any, can't repair or rebuild because the tradies all live in Brisbane, can't leave because the looters will take everything.. suddenly you're shoulder deep in shit and there's another storm bringing more arriving tomorrow morning
There's trouble in paradise, climate change is ~~going to be~~ actively bad, really fucking bad... this last half a century of neo liberal fuckery has done possibly irreversible damage to the economics of the country, our basic social infrastructure is extremely unhealthy, our industrial sector isn't doing too well either for that matter, the police are out numbered, out gunned, and unsupported, 80% of our fire fighters are volunteers (I'm one of them) it used to be 50% of our ambulance staff were volunteer too but that's been dropping off because of understandable reasons (time/costs/workload/other) inequality is getting worse in leaps and bounds
Location: Daytona Beach, FL
Volusia County, FL. Police services are seriously lacking.
Somebody was hit by a car yesterday, no injuries but his vehicle was damaged. While this man was calling the police the vehicle that hit him drove away. The man (who was hit) waited 2 hours for police to show, called the police station was told "I understand". Realizing the cops were not coming the man went home, he received a phone call 2 hours after that (for a total of 4 hours), from the police asking him if he was still at the accident scene waiting for them, and would he mind submitting his report over the phone.
I called the police to report a person trying to run me down with their vehicle while I was crossing the street. The police response? Next time I see that vehicle maybe let them go through the intersection first, before I try to cross. They didn't even want the description of the vehicle.
Ontario - this past week or two, we've had more people out sick than at any time during the pandemic. Most list the cause as covid, as well, but there's hardly any mention of it in the news.
Weather has been screwy all winter. More snow than usual, warmer temperatures, a lot of thaws and freezes making for a lot of weight on roofs.
Aloha kakou, collapseniks.
Earlier today the mod team had to deal with an individual that didn't believe in flu vaccines. Influenza. The disease that killed more people globally that World War One. Didn't believe in them, so advised others not to take them.
They were banned.
The mod team of /r/Collapse does not believe that technology will solve everything, but we certainly believe some tech, like vaccines, gives significantly higher chances for survival on our planet. So avail yourselves of it while it's available. Get vaccinated.
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Aloha kakou, collapseniks.
Earlier today the mod team had to deal with an individual that didn't believe in flu vaccines. Influenza. The disease that killed more people globally that World War One. Didn't believe in them, so advised others not to take them.
They were banned.
The mod team of /r/Collapse does not believe that technology will solve everything, but we certainly believe some tech, like vaccines, gives significantly higher chances for survival on our planet. So avail yourselves of it while it's available. Get vaccinated.
And this thread is being monitored like the rest of the sub. Attack ideas not each other and don't brigade. Mahalo for your time collapseniks.
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It appears as though the masses are slowly waking up!
The fact other people are realizing that things are getting worse makes me feel less crazy for being in this sub. The comments in that thread are the icing on the cake too.
Edit: This is related to collapse because people in Reddits biggest future related subreddit r/Futurology \-which is dedicated to future technologies and how society will change over time, is growing increasingly pessimistic and a lot of its users are noticing and becoming angry at the constant negative news being shared on that sub. So much so that they are now saying there is almost no difference between r/collapse and r/Futurology!!! This shows that the decreasing state of the world is becoming blatant and very noticeable.
Edit 2: Side note, I think this is signaling an increase in users on this subreddit by the summer. I expect us to hit 500k pretty fast now that we are breaking into the sphere of ordinary people. According to this: [https://subredditstats.com/r/collapse](https://subredditstats.com/r/collapse) our growth has actually slowed down but I don't think that'll last much longer. Especially when the El Nino summer starts to take hold. Just my 2 cents.
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Aloha kakou, collapseniks.
Earlier today the mod team had to deal with an individual that didn't believe in flu vaccines. Influenza. The disease that killed more people globally that World War One. Didn't believe in them, so advised others not to take them.
They were banned.
The mod team of /r/Collapse does not believe that technology will solve everything, but we certainly believe some tech, like vaccines, gives significantly higher chances for survival on our planet. So avail yourselves of it while it's available. Get vaccinated.
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I’m sorry, but let’s not act like the Japanese were the innocent little victims there. Yes it’s unfortunate that Japanese civilians died but if you look up what the Imperial Japanese army did to civilians in the countries that they occupied during WWII, you’d realize that Japan got off *easy* from just being nuked twice. I’m Filipino and my grandmother literally had to be impregnated back to back *just so that Imperial Japanese soldiers wouldn’t rape her* like they did to countless Filipinas that they turned into their so-called comfort women. The Imperial Japanese army made the Nazis look almost fucking decent in comparison.
I’m sorry, but let’s not act like the Japanese were the innocent little victims there. Yes it’s unfortunate that Japanese civilians died but if you look up what the Imperial Japanese army did to civilians in the countries that they occupied during WWII, you’d realize that Japan got off *easy* from just being nuked twice. I’m Filipino and my grandmother literally had to be impregnated back to back *just so that Imperial Japanese soldiers wouldn’t rape her* like they did to countless Filipinas that they turned into their so-called comfort women. The Imperial Japanese army made the Nazis look almost fucking decent in comparison.
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Italy’s rivers and lakes are facing another year of severe drought after a winter of little rain and snowfall, raising the alarm on the implications for farming, hydropower and access to drinking water.
Vast areas of the Po – the country’s longest river that nourishes several northern and central regions – are already parched, while the water level on Lake Garda is the lowest during winter in 35 years.
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Last summer there was the worst drought ever recorded in Italy. Today, in the middle of winter, in what should be the rainy season, Italian water reserves have decreased by 45%. The longest river in the country has decreased its water volume by 61%. I'm Italian and I'm scared for the summer.
Last summer there was the worst drought ever recorded in Italy. Today, in the middle of winter, in what should be the rainy season, Italian water reserves have decreased by 45%. The longest river in the country has decreased its water volume by 61%. I'm Italian and I'm scared for the summer.
Great Lakes reach record lowest ice extent for this time in the season
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The deliberate targeting of innocent civilians with two nukes is a lot more merciful than what Imperial Japan did. Ever heard of [the Rape of Nanjing?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre) The [Bataan Death March](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March)? The [Sook Ching](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching) massacre? The [Rape of Manila](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_massacre)? My grandparents who lived in Manila at the time saw the latter and they told my dad and his brothers that it was the most horrifying thing they’d ever experienced. So don’t you tell me that you even grasp the severity of the atrocities committed by Imperial Japan, because you clearly don’t.
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What happens if Lake Mead hits dead pool and Hoover Dam stops working?
What happens if Lake Mead hits dead pool and Hoover Dam stops working?
Can’t blame ‘em. Nukes seem to be a near guaranteed way to get us and our ‘allies’ to fuck off. Libya under Gaddafi voluntarily disbanded their nuclear program, and look at what happened to them.
You don't know shit, strawman.
And yes, when those people fund and arm folks to murder innocents in their country and in other countries, others have a right to kill them.
War crimes, c'mon dude, they fucking behead people and film it, that's cool, fuck, let's blow up buses loaded with civilians, but got forbid the west kills a general that sponsored this bullshit
They were made unstable (wartorn, destroyed to rubble, loansharked to the stone age, and coup'd) by Western countries. Who have nukes.
Maybe the big fish would fuck off if the littler ones had nukes
> Iran fucking sucks, but so does the US
Unlike the US though, I don’t believe Iran goes around attacking anyone.
I don't know even anywhere remotely as much about any country than I do the USA. I do honestly trust the USA tk not do a first strike... And I potentially trust the USA to not mutually annihilate.
I think I trust in humankind generally to a similar degree.
There are radicals who exist that I believe would first strike or mutually annihilate... But I don't think any of them are in government, although some posturing and rhetoric might suggest otherwise.
Biggest concern is the security of a states nuclear armaments that are of gravest concern to me.
Near Weapons-Grade Enriched Uranium Detected in Iran
Why Sustainability Can Only be Achieved When the Financial System (Inevitably) Collapses
Near Weapons-Grade Enriched Uranium Detected in Iran
This is from the article itself:
> Iran has been producing highly-enriched uranium of 60 percent purity since 2021, but the material found was of 84 percent purity... Weapons-grade enriched uranium is generally considered to be around 90 percent purity.
It is hella difficult to make that kind of quality uranium. That Iran is close does not necessarily mean they have or will be successful at it. Prepare, not panic. Keep that in mind, collapseniks.
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There's been talk within the UN that Iran is close to achieving nuclear capabilities. Whether this is true remains to be seen, however there is quite a bit of saber rattling between the US and [Isreal](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-all-possible-means-table-prevent-iran-getting-nuclear-weapon-2023-02-17/) at the potential of such developments.
Add in the fact that China and Iran has recently met about talks of external forces and you got a spicy situation.
I believe this is collapse related as this could lead to a greater, overarching conflict.
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