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Unkn0wnR3ddit0r@reddit

Location: The Pacific Northwest

The low life trash that voted for him will get hit with full momentum by the damage this upcoming administration creates. Their stupidity and the indifference of democrats who didn’t vote, undecided voters etc will turn the majority of our country if not our whole country into a derelict, depressed, corrupt nation such as Hungary, Russia, Zimbabwe.

I will have no sympathy for the humans who live in upstate California and southern Oregon when fire season hits, only for the wildlite and vegetation. Nor will I have any for when the tornadoes, hurricanes, ano floods hit other regions and there will be no fema.

They now must reap the rewards from their misdeeds and look hard into the mirror at themselves when the cost of living doesn’t go down. I hope “owning the libs” was worth it to these fucking imbeciles.

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mistertrotsky@reddit

Go outside and touch some grass, man

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Oak_Woman@reddit

Shut the fuck up.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

Location: Arlington VA, just over the GW Bridge from D.C.

Well, once again WHITE America has voted it's racism and misogyny. Whatever you hear about Trump's popular vote victory being due to Hispanic and Black voters, Trump's victory is due to the White vote.

2 out of 3 White voters votes Trumpublican. That's about about 44% of the US population.

In 2020 about 2% of those voters "defected" to Biden.

That year the Trumpublican vote was 42% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black or 49%.

This time Trump got 41% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black or 51%.

Polling suggests that most of Trump's gains among Hispanic and Black voters were almost entirely male. There are a lot of Hispanic and Black men who just flat out, will not vote for a woman. Ever.

So, we get Project 2025 and 4 years of large scale looting of Federal resources by the MAGAts. There are still legal charges against Trumpies from the first term for their corruption. This time they plan on doing it "systematically.

MEANWHILE.

My weather station registered 84°F this AM on my balcony. My cherry tomato plant is still producing and there has been no frosts or temperatures lower than the high 40's.

The Global Mean Surface Temperature (GMST) has now been above +1.5°C for 18 months now and shows no sign of dropping below that level.

The Rate of Warming is now estimated as +0.27°C/decade up to +0.37°C/decade.

In 2023 the fires in the Boreal Forests released as much CO2 as the 4th largest polluter in the world, or as much as the global aviation industry.

Those same forests, due to heat stress and wildfire smoke, did not take in CO2. Across the world the Terrestrial Carbon Sinks that absorb about 25% to 35% of our annual emissions failed in 2023.

That increased the atmospheric CO2 load by about +9.5Gt in 2023. Resulting in a +81% increase in the year over year increase in CO2 levels. The CO2 increase in 2023 was over +3ppm for the first time.

2024 has been hotter than 2023.

With this election it is clear that the US will DO NOTHING about the Climate Crisis. If anything is going to be done it will have to be by the Chinese.

Let’s be REALLY CLEAR about this. It’s TOO LATE to do anything about this without attempting GEOENGINEERING the Climate System. Probably using SOx aerosols to increase the planetary ALBEDO to reflect more sunlight away from the planet.

James Hansen, and the team of climate scientists who work with him, are calling for a HUGE build out of nuclear power plants AND a global program to “turn the sky WHITE” with sulfate particulates. In conjunction with a CRASH effort to slash Global CO2 emissions as quickly as possible.

By their reckoning, “It’s the ONLY plan that has a chance of working and preserving our civilization.”

Anything short of that, “is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic while we wait for the ship to go down”.

Start thinking in terms of COLLAPSE by 2050 now.

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negbadkarma@reddit

on the bright side, the child killers will be evicted from the white house.

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daviddjg0033@reddit

Who is the child killers in the White House?

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negbadkarma@reddit

The Biden administration

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict

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Barbarake@reddit

Lol, Trump already told Netanyahu to "do what you have to do". Congratulations, now it's going to get even worse for Gaza.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/25/trump-netanyahu-support-gaza-lebanon/

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negbadkarma@reddit

I didn't say he would be better, and I didn't mean to imply that he would be better. I dont believe it can get any worse than the genocide that you have now.

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Barbarake@reddit

You said "on the bright side, the child killers will be evicted". That clearly implies you feel the situation for Gaza will improve once the current residents are gone.

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negbadkarma@reddit

And my reply to you clearly stated that that is not what I meant to imply

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daviddjg0033@reddit

The only hot war colonialism I see is Russia invading Ukraine. Belarus was a vassal of Putin years ago. Iran colluded with Hamas and Hezbollah years before the largest pogrom of Jews since WWII on 10/7. Iran's colonies in Lebanon and Yemen want fanatical Islamic regimes "from the river to the sea." Plus the Iraqi and Syria paramilitaries that bombed US troops. I am a Zionist. That means I believe Israel has the right to exist. Hamas denies the right for Israel to exist. And they won in one aspect - the peace Israel was to have with Saudi Arabia, the Trump Abraham Accords, is dead. The Islamic world is not liberal - it is where gays are murdered, and where cats have more rights than females. Israel is in a position where defending itself, despite being beyond proportional, and avoiding as many civilian casualties as possible, is never enough.
I take comfort knowing Israeli Arabs overwhelmingly want to stay in Israel and fight for her. You should further examine who is supporting the RSF in Sudan where the largest famine and war is killing 10x + the Gazans that died in the past year. If only the billions in aid were not siphoned by Qatar to rebuild Gaza after Israel left, moved all the Jewish tombstones and dead to Israel proper, and instead of building tunnels (not one was used as a bomb shelter by design) built Gaza into a peaceful country that did not pogrom.

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springcypripedium@reddit

"Start thinking in terms of COLLAPSE by 2050 now."

At this pace, I can't imagine we will eke out 25 more years.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

It's a big system. Like a big ship takes time to sink, it will take time to fail.

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supersunnyout@reddit

uhh....it's been taking water for while now. And the captain lied. Everybody knows.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

We started steering towards the iceberg in 1979.

We hit the iceberg around 1998.

We have been slowly taking on water since then.

NOW it's about to cause the ship to start listing.

Expect panic from the passengers when that happens.

To prevent it from getting out of hand they have started locking in the passengers in steerage.

We wouldn't want "their kind" in our lifeboats.

But still, it's a BIG ship.

There are several more acts to this disaster movie.

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SecretPassage1@reddit

Polling suggests that most of Trump's gains among Hispanic and Black voters were almost entirely male. There are a lot of Hispanic and Black men who just flat out, will not vote for a woman. Ever.

Even I knew that! I don't understand all those female Democrat candidates, America is not ready for that. Dangle a male candidate in front of the voters and then facilitate hiring females in all top managements of the federal agencies.

FFS.

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_rihter@reddit

I think famines will start way before 2050. Plants don't have AC. They just die if it's too hot and there's not enough water.

The rate of warming is too fast.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

Famines are about to start in the next year or two. At least in "poor" places. After we get to +2°C sustained, which could happen during the next El Nino, there will be a MASSIVE escalation in global famines.

At +2°C sustained we are looking at around -20% to global agricultural outputs. There isn't enough "over production" in the system to cover that shortfall.

The next 5 years will see escalating failures in the "breadbasket" countries that produce most of the surplus food that feeds about 2.5 billion people.

Fatalities could reach 300 million by 2030.

That's when things start getting REALLY ugly.

The 30's will see large scale famine events involving hundreds of millions.

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daviddjg0033@reddit

Location: South Florida, US of fucking "Aye."

Economy: Today the stock market went up - this has nothing to do with WHO won, but is just the end of the election hedging (where those wtih billions hedged but buying put contracts up to six months ago before the election.) The massive amount of those put contracts being sold today (the event is over) drives volatility down and the stock market up. Sounds great, right?

The bond market is $100T globally - making stocks the "queen" because bonds are "king." Since the last announcement of a rate cut, bonds have lost trillions in value (the interest rate is up dramatically) because when bonds drop in price the yield goes up. The bond market is signalling that the US cannot afford a tax cut for the billionaires, while at war with Russia/China/Iran/DPRK (during a relative peacetime) without a larger chance of default of US debt. Trump ran up the deficit 50% more than Biden did while in office.

The UK tried to pull a "Reagan" and cut taxes for the rich - and they were NOT rewarded. It was a sell the news event. The UK has had stagnant growth since 2007 compared to the US. Keep this in mind the day Trump gets his billionaire tax cut approved and sell that news. Tax cuts for billionaires (the last one Trump did before COVID) did NOT trickle down to the average folk, leaving the average folk with nothing during the pandemic except a check, that Trump held up for his signature to appear, that covered nothing. Inequality and US debt skyrocketed under Trump 1.0. Please comment on this if you disagree or have questions.

Meanwhile, the middle and lower classes will get the Greatest Hits of Reagan (Project 2025) but worse. Expect benefits to be cut. Elon Musk even admitted that there will be difficult times for the middle class. Student Debt forgiveness is gone. I could go on about the economy and what a Trump presidency means - but picture greater inequality, more money to service the debt, and the debt to explode because Trump will reward the Elon Musk and Bezos (the one that told the WAPO to not endorse Harris) will tax cuts they do not need. Even Buffett notices he pays less a %age as his secretary.

A wild card could be housing. If we deport the cyclical home builders, while homes get destroyed by 1 in 1000 year events, we may have housing values higher than the peak after the pandemic by the end of the decade. Remember, Florida in 2022, after the midterm election, passed "insurance reform" first. You only need to look at Florida insurance rates since 2022 to see who shoulders the cost of those living on the water in Florida - the poor that live inland, many, like me, over 6 feet above sea level (we have flood insurance, but it is not mandatory where I live.) What has happened where I live is two one in 1000-year events, one in 2023 that was 28" of rain in less than 24 hours, and the other was 20" in less than 24 hours. I need to buy a dual gas propane generator before 2025 because I know a hurricane that rapidly intensifies will not even leave you enough time to evacuate South Florida - where Dade doubled, Broward tripled, and WPB has doubled (and those population numbers were before the pandemic.) I imagine Mar a Lago underwater and the roads out I95, Turnpike, US27 Tamiami trail all bumper to bumper traffic. If we don't make it, at least Trump could helicopter in and throw paper towels at the natives.

Climate: I am still waiting for temperatures to be under 74F at night so my AC can take a break. No such luck this upcoming week. The average low temperature in November is 68F. Tmin is almost a full 10F above where it should be or so. There is a Cat 2 in the Carribean that is supposed to go over record high water temperatures. For those blaming Floridians for existing, I have a friend that moved to NC to avoid Florida's hurricanes and moved back with nothing after Helene. Nowhere is safe. And remember, climate is a distant second to the economy and 2024 showed or reinforced that.

Politics: How did the Democrats lose the youth vote? This could send the Democratic party back decades. I am worried for our allies. I suggest Europe buys as many US weapons to defend against Putin as they possibly can before Trump takes the oath on January 15th. How did fake FBI videos get disseminated from Tik Tok to Twitter? Why did Russia phone in bomb threats to minority neighborhoods? Why did the US not ban twitter instead of a call to divest within a year?

I feel flat. Like I just went through the worst mania you could have and then woke up after sleeping 12 hours. I am hung over from the election. I do not think Trump winning the popular vote has sunk in. Does late-stage capitalism always produce fascism? Will Trump die and we get JD Vance for 4 or 8 years? Look up Peter Theil and his plans (along with Project 2025) for clues of what a post-Trump MAGA becomes. A technocratic nightmare?

Lastly, are we going to fill the prisons up with immigrants to deport? Will the Hispanic crowd "get it" when thier abelo is deported? Will they stop, once the deportation machine is created, with immigrants? Will this wreck the economy, leaving crops to die in the fields and shrimping boats coming back empty? Are we going to have retribution against political opponents? Will the silence of the media (Trump is suing CBS right now for an interview he was not even in, and lost to Bill Maher in a previous media lawsuit) become deafening?

Are YOU going to kiss the ring of Trump metaphorically to get by? Keep your head down? Or protest? What is the plan?

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KingofGrapes7@reddit

Honestly I won't be surprised if dont wait for Trump to die. Give it a bit and they might 25th him to put Vance on top. The only thing really stopping that is whether or not they think they can finally remove Trump but keep his cultists.

As boring, cowardly and BAU as it sounds, keep my head down. He won, there is no cheating but a fuck ton of propaganda. The majority of Americans have voted for the worst available outcome and if that propaganda breaks it won't be by us. Protesting won't stop it from being 80 in fucking November. I'll hate every moment of it but regardless of their ignorance those moments are what the country asked for.

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mamroz@reddit

Weird. I was just saying this to a neighbor. That TPTB will have Trump offed (tho the guy is old and fat and senile and could drop from a heart attack any day now)and then make Vance into their own plaything.

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rainydays052020@reddit

Never underestimate a narcissist- They suck everyone around them dry.

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PrairieFire_withwind@reddit

They won't 25th him UNTIL the economy tanks or there is something so bad they need a scapegoat for.

I almost feel sorry for the guy.

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Barbarake@reddit

I live in a red state and will just continue keeping my head down (other than voting, of course - not that it does any good). Luckily I'm old with no debt so they can't do much to me. I will be filing the paperwork to get my German citizenship. Not so much for myself - as I said, I'm old - but to give my children options for the future.

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FoundandSearching@reddit

I don’t know. I truly don’t know @ this moment in time.

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daviddjg0033@reddit

Are you going to delete your social media accounts?

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FoundandSearching@reddit

No. I am on FB but don’t post too much. Only “Likes” & positive comments on “Friends“ posts.

I do not have X, IG or SnapChat or watch Tik Tok. Truly I just don’t have the time.

I participate here on a few subreddits on using this handle.

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KingofGrapes7@reddit

Location Massachusetts

As if to both augment the feeling of and display the relative irrelevance of the election, I stepped outside at 7am on a November morning and did not need a coat. I stepped out for lunch and felt the work mandated pants were a bit much. I will take my dog out at 10 tonight and probably still not need a coat. So yea.

I have two unoriginal bits of advice going forward. They are actually a bit contradicting but still:

As much as it's in your power start trimming the fat now. If you can pay a phone or car bill take the hit, that's lets say $200 either going in your pocket or being pointed at another bill. Start giving some subscriptions the side eye. Sounds obvious I know but better know than when we get tariffed into the next Depression.

Second, if there is something you want that is available and in your range, get it now. Like I said its contradicting. But that thing you want is almost certainly going to get more expensive and maybe harder to find. Don't go broke, but 'futureproof' as possible on headphones, a console, or even car repairs. I myself have money ready for the Switch 2, whenever the fuck Nintendo actually announces it. It might just make it a little easier when you start pincing pennies.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

This is good advice. The cause of the Great Depression was the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of 1930 intended to keep out foreign ag and industrial products. It was a form of protectionism for domestic industries to shield them from competition.

This time round the Tariffs are meant to be a tax break for the Elites. They will sell it by saying it will bring back jobs to America. But, OMG is the fallout going to be disastrous economically.

We cannot "win" a trade war with China and we are about to find that fact out. The US standard of living will CRATER if they go forward with this insanity.

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PrairieFire_withwind@reddit

See. They are trying to save the environment.

/s

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VendettaKarma@reddit

Location: Texas

We don’t get rain often. But when we do it is literal monsoons that are set up through bands that linger over the save place for hours which overwhelm all of the drainage in an already poorly set up city.

This is a recent phenomenon within the last couple of years.

Also we used to have daily 10-25 mph winds and they’ve stopped over the past few years.

Homeless population has also dramatically increased in the past 2 years. They’re actually so bad now they’re a hazard on the roads.

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BeenBorged@reddit

Second on no Halloween decorations. I took my little sister to Party City and Spirit Halloween to get some, and there was only one aisle for them. Some research drew the conclusion that brick and mortar retailers aren’t stocking them because everyone buys them online now. We’ve been buying Hershey’s nuggets for a few months, and I thought I remembered them being solid chocolate in the past. Now there’s a nut inside to save costs.

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BigLennysGhost@reddit

lol, come on man

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Fern_Pearl@reddit

Seems the nut would add to the cost, no?

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Glad-Cow-5309@reddit

I think you can get them with or without almonds. Did you pick up the wrong one?

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roblewk@reddit

Aldi’s had a smaller version of those bite-sized Hershey candy sets. I thought they could get no smaller. I was wrong.

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VendettaKarma@reddit

And the pumpkins are half the size lol

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Milleniumfelidae@reddit

Location: Seattle, WA

My most recent utility bill was nearly $300! I’m guessing it’s partly because I live in a complex. It’s also just myself and the apartment only 600 sq. Ft. The new job opportunity is coming at the perfect opportunity. Orientation is Wednesday so fingers crossed I can soon put in my two weeks for some of my hours. Someone else at my job also mentioned their gas bill increasing.

I’m thankful electricity hasn’t gone up. It’s still at around $120 (here electricity is billed every 2 months). I’m on the 6th floor and apartment is well-insulated so I don’t have to use the apartment’s rather confusing heating system.

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Barbarake@reddit

Serious question. My electric and water bill are about $60 a month (not including heat) so that matches up to your $120 every 2 months. So what's the $300 utility bill for?

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Milleniumfelidae@reddit

Most of it comes from sewer apparently. I also do baths 2-3x/wk but even if I stopped those I’m not certain that would make much of a difference. These utility bills are absolutely outrageous though.

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Barbarake@reddit

Ah, I don't have a sewer bill since I have septic but that would only be about $25 or $30 a month.

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Milleniumfelidae@reddit

I honestly don’t understand how utilities work. Tbh I did look into moving after my lease is up, but it seems that with a few of my circumstances a newer apartment is better. A lot of smaller or independent landlords want seller credit and rental references too.

Aside from the utilities I really like my apartment. But it does seem like a lot of us has that one bill/expense that is outrageously high and I guess for me that’s utilities right after car expenses.

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Arctic_x22@reddit

Location: Oklahoma, U.S.

We’ve only just made it through the worst tornado outbreak ever recorded, statewide, in November. Supercells of this intensity are not normal at this time of year.

Before that, my area went 3 months without any measured rainfall, grass fires burned tens of thousands of acres and fucked the air quality for a bit. Temperatures have been abnormally high nearly every single day this year. We also got a tumbleweed infestation, which are really unusual over here.

Here’s to hoping for a better winter, at least.

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BobWellsBurner@reddit

I apologize, just venting frustration. Oklahoma voting for climate deniers is peak r/leopardsatemyface material

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Arctic_x22@reddit

It’s ok. I didn’t vote for him.

I still hope we make it through this, the next 4 years (or more) will be the toughest in U.S. history.

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BobWellsBurner@reddit

Your state just voted red in a landslide. Here's to a vicious acceleration of all the above for the people there and everywhere else around the globe.

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Ellen_Kingship@reddit

Location: Central Indiana/Indy & the internet

Food stuffs Just got back from the grocery store and saw an apology sign above the organic milk section. (I don't drink raw milk or milk in general.) Went to the egg section, and it was decimated. (No apology signs.) I did pick up a carton of eggs, but I should probably stop eating those...

Birdflu has hit the supply chain. I've been subscribed to r/h5n1_avainflu for a little while (about a year, I think?), and I've been keeping up with the news via that sub. (Latest development: pigs are getting sick.)

Politics My boomer aunt started a family group chat yesterday about voting. Just a general reminder to get out and vote (hopefully for Harris). 😂 It annoyed me and a few other family members. A few made it known in the group chat. 😂 (I've already voted.)

Jobs Lastly, still job searching. I have a first round virtual interview on Wednesday that I'm happy about. Gainful employment 2025. 🙏

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No_Recording1467@reddit

How is reminding you to vote a sign of collapse?

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Ellen_Kingship@reddit

Maybe I should have added that I've received dozens of spam text messages in the past few months and last couple of days from the "Vote for Harris" camp or that this isn't the first text message I (or the rest of my extended family) has received from this aunt to go vote (with the implication that it should be for Harris).

"It's an important election!" It's been an important election since I first voted in 2008. 😭 Nothing has changed. When will the election just be a normal election?!

I will be happy when this election is over. IDC who wins. It won't be a 3rd party candidate. I haven't been a happy voter since 2008 back when I voted for the first time, and the debates were still civil, and I could understand why people would choose to vote for either Red Team or Blue Team, and that's all we had. I'm sure the 18-20 year-olds might be happy to participate in a historic election like I was back in 2008, but it will become old hat soon enough.

Nothing fundamentally will change. We may get some rights, back but capitalism will still be there dictating how much we're allowed of anything.

TLDR---I'm tired. We're all tired of the election. It was just a funny story from my personal life.

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No_Recording1467@reddit

None of what you have said about this issue is a sign of collapse. Talk to your therapist or post in another sub. Good luck to you!

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

Sheesh. Kind of harsh. One personal story at the end of several observations is fine. And love, we all need therapy with what we are being put through in this world, so don’t use it as some sort of a dismissive insult.

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No_Recording1467@reddit

Well did you remember to vote or nah? Sorry you’re so mad that your relatives don’t want this country to entirely collapse. Apparently, more than half of us do.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

I know this is a hard time, you do not need to take your anger out on people with whom you share views, for a result that was not in any of our control. Yes I voted for paper bag.

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No_Recording1467@reddit

What a beautifully racist answer! This is America!!

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Ellen_Kingship@reddit

Being tired of politics and frayed nerves/social relationships over said politics isn't part of collapse?!

Also, hard to afford a therapist...without a job which I don't have, and according to a recent job report others might not also have.

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BigLennysGhost@reddit

Is Vote A Bad Word 🤬🤔😮

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Ellen_Kingship@reddit

It is when you've heard it on and off for several months straight. I'm fucking tired.

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WhiteTrashJill@reddit

Location: DFW, Texas

Teetering between commitment to the place I live and the desire to escape. It has been this way for years, in the suburbs of Fort Worth Texas. Perhaps, delusional, I felt people like me needed to be here more than anyone. And, indeed, I felt a sense of pride that I was one of the 10 out of hundreds of homes that had any marker of, not even political, but existential “welcoming” assigned to my lawn. I know that I felt a glimmer of hope when walking by others.

My marker was a native plant garden, and cute little signs about native plants. It got the city called on me several times. It’s true that during the fall and winter, the wildflowers look like a jumbled and brown, tangled mess, but the city was called in the spring, as the flowers bloomed like gemstones amongst deep greens. In the fall, the asters fill deep carpets over my lawn, the only one still green in a land of Bermuda. My neighbor claims she is severely allergic, a fact that is near impossible for this type of plant.

I join native plant groups. They are, almost all, dedicated to teaching ranches how to better prepare their land for grazing. They are funded by Shell, Exxon, and other large oil companies. What am I doing?

A concrete plant is being built by my neighborhood. You can see my post history for how that has gone. The more I learn about the Texas environmental agency, the more despair I feel. Headed by retired energy executives, consistently siding with industry. My posts on Reddit and Nextdoor are filled with people siding with industry, are they related to the company building the concrete plant, or are these brainwashed people excited to blame citizens and defend industrial pollution? It’s Texas, so the answer is not clear.

I think I may have given up. I have never felt so despondent before. This state has been dead for a long time now, overrun by industry and those who kiss its feet. Dead likely before I was born, I was just never faced with the reality so closely. There is no movement for citizens, for the environment, for public welfare, that is not first filtered through industry and repackaged for its benefit at the cost of citizens.

People laugh at Texas, like the state and its people deserve it. Ecologically, it’s one of the most beautiful and diverse states. That’s an opinion of course, but I dare anyone to drive from the piney east, to the gulf, to big bend, to the hill country, to the parrots in south texas, to west texas sunsets—and truly tell me different. Even where I live has beauty, though it has been lost to highways and strip malls. But sometimes you can get a glimpse as a thunderstorm rolls through, and you imagine the prairie grasses from 100 years ago rolling like the sea. But it has been laid to waste for years. Those who feel the impacts of this are too poor to be listened to. Those who don’t feel the impacts don’t care, knowing they will never be impacted, they believe in a system in which they are right and just and smart and more than anything, blessed by the hand of god, and others stupid and deserving and filled with sin.

My mental health is at an all time low. I’ve had the chance to move to CO for years now, but have held off in some stubborn desire to make even a drop of change—there is drought here, there is no change, there are no drops.

The thought of moving to Colorado is an uncomfortable one. I had lived in Boulder for a year in my twenties, and the sort of righteous hypocrisy that comes from an enclave of wealthy white people, the same who, in Texas, have never had a concrete plant built in their neighborhood—it makes me uneasy. The same who have never struggled like the women, minorities, and poor in Texas have—who take on their causes as if they are at a costume contest—I am the Best Liberal, I am the most Kind Liberal, I am the Least Racist Liberal—it makes me sick, but in a different way. But isn’t that what I want, one day, for my Texas?

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lavapig_love@reddit

Keep doing your native plants. Let them grow wild. If nothing else, it'll piss off the concrete plant.

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Karma_Iguana88@reddit

Just wanted to say howdy from a fellow Fort Worth native on Election Day. I wish I could say something that would give you hope, but I don't have any (honest) words to share. All I can say is, you're not alone in your sentiments. I'm currently finding some comfort in reading Brian McLaren's Life After Doom. I'm not religious, but his words are comforting from a place and perspective beyond religion. Anyway, I hope that you do what's right for you. Texas needs more people like you, but you need to follow your heart wherever it leads. 💚

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joez37@reddit

It got the city called on me several times.

What happened if I may ask?

I laud your efforts with your native plant garden! I have one myself! I recently visited some close friends in that area and agree with everything you wrote. I feel your pain and despair (everyday)! My friend was warned by her HOA about weeds in her lawn and she hired one of those herbicide spraying companies. I exhorted her to try something other than pouring poison into her land. She cannot pull weeds herself due to infirmity, but I suggested hiring someone off taskrabbit or something to pull weeds by the hour -- what do you think of that idea? Anyone done something similar? Apparently landscaping companies won't do it because the job is too small and prolly they use herbicides on weeds themselves.

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WhiteTrashJill@reddit

We mow the lawn and have borders around the wild natives. They just don’t look pretty. The city did nothing, because they knew they couldn’t do anything. I simply added rock borders around everything I wanted to keep. I mow the rest, not too short—but because I don’t use pesticides, it’s not Bermuda grass. This time of year, it’s almost all asters, and when you mow them they form thick mats of dark green foliage and white flowers.

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ApplicationMedium529@reddit

It’s November 5th, I live in Canada. I’ve had to turn my A/C on so that my kids can stay asleep. What have we done?

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theincredible92@reddit

SAME WHY TF IS IT SO HOT

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lavapig_love@reddit

Because my V8 makes almost 400 at the wheels with a delete, and fuck the EPA.

/s

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SelectiveScribbler06@reddit

Location: UK

Tuition fees have hiked for next year! Shit, damn, bugger, blast and bollocks. There is a logic to it, but also, I'm against it on principle and it should at least be funded by the government and certainly not controlled by it. Also, it's Election Day in the US (in case you've been living under a rock these past five months... in which case, welcome to the world, and go right back under that rock again - and there's some moss right behind you, have that... yes... yes there we go, see? Much better.).

In other news: a fair few people on my table in Creative Writing are reading a genre called Romantasy. They are full-grown adults. I also might have mentioned this last week, but in case I haven't: when questioned on this, someone on my table says she reads it because it's valuable escapism from a world ripping itself to shreds. I also contacted one of the nurses I met on Week One of University and she independently verified that shifting hospice care into already overworked hospitals was a stupid idea. Paraphrasing enormously, obviously.

Oh, and I tried to have a discussion with someone about how to have better discussions on Twitter (they are possible... I think... I've only lurked occasionally on big historical events - it also tells you a lot about that person that they still use Twitter), and what I found out after a lot of wasted words on politely explaining stuff, like how I'm writing this now, from me is that she fundamentally thinks that everyone who voted for Labour is a Communist Revolutionary in the making. I felt like pointing out that people voted for them for any number of reasons but soon realised this was a vain pursuit.

Finally, I'm not sure how much this is helping, but I've finally bought Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's American Prometheus after harbouring an urge since Oppenheimer was announced in late 2021, and it's absolutely marvellous. Like the equally magnificent Seven Pillars of Wisdom, it takes a little while to get used to the style, but once you do, it's wonderful and it belts along at a similar pace to the film it inspired.

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Alicedoll02@reddit

Romantasy has been a genre for years without an actual name. I don't like it but many of my girlfreinds who are not super into books love the genre.

If it makes you mad or unhappy that adults are writing and reading it then definitely do not look up statistics saying that a good chunk of adult readers still read YA (Young Adult.) Novels. Because last I checked almost everyone that still reads only reads YA. To be honest I could care less what people are reading as long as they are reading more then a reddit and Twitter posts. No idea about other countries but in the west getting anyone to read anything instead of watching it is a struggle. At times it's hard to get people to watch things as well with the pull of social media. Social media being reddit, Twitter, youtube, and all the normal sites listed under its category.

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AgitatedSituation118@reddit

I used to be a more diverse reader pre kindle. But since I have gotten addicted to reading on my phone and the fast easy reads on Kindle unlimited my attention span has shifted to only finishing YA novels . I wish it wasn't so and I keep trying to force myself to read physical books again. But I'm addicted to the easy escapism of that genre on my phone.

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Alicedoll02@reddit

Try the wandering inn. I think it brings the fun escapism of ya to the fantasy genre with characters in their early twenty and late teens. Idk if it's on kindle unlimited but it's well worth the price of admission if it's not.

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SelectiveScribbler06@reddit

It doesn't make me mad as such. What irks me is that this is a course ostensibly about the written word, and yet they haven't subjected themselves to the full gamut of world literature, is my point.

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

I have many acquaintances who also read Romantasy for similar reasons. I still require actual good writing for escapism, thankfully that still exists in some genres. Romance can even be found in them… but you know, horses and water, etc. the books I like are a little too weird for many of my friends.

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Alicedoll02@reddit

Always recommend The Wandering Inn for a book to read. Not romantasy just a good story. You can read it for free online, get kindle versions, or audiobook versions.

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TickDingler69@reddit

Current Labour being anything close to communist is one of the funniest things I've read in a while.

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Visible-Summer-3589@reddit

Location: Punjab(North India): It’s November and the weather is still 30 degrees C from 11 am to 6 pm. It’s not cold like before. The heat is unbearable even in November. 5-10 years down the line i dont think it will be livable in the summer months!!

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Ok-Astronaut5728@reddit

What are temperatures usually like this time of year? Thank you for posting.

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emerioAarke@reddit

I'm not the same guy but according to Wikipedia it has a mean maximum temperature at 27,0C/80,6F in November.

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roblewk@reddit

I visited your area in December 3 years ago. I thought it was incredibly hot, but locals referred to it as a comfortable day.

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theincredible92@reddit

Location: Canada

Similar to the guy before me, why the fuck is it still so hot in November ?? Had to turn on the AC last night was so hot. And even then I was just super hot all night. It was at least 20 degrees yesterday.

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roblewk@reddit

Location: upstate NY along Lake Ontario
It is November 5 and I am at the beach in shorts. A typical November would be completely empty beaches with white caps as bitter cold winds blow in from the north.

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Right-Cause9951@reddit

People will panic eventually. The media cannot alter reality. Something personal has to happen for people to wake up ultimately.

I actually want to make a hat saying "Make people rational again".

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iwatchppldie@reddit

Only after the food starts to run out sadly.

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lifeissisyphean@reddit

Rational……. Again? With all due respect. When exactly are you referring too??

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Right-Cause9951@reddit

Yes yes we are irrational monkeys but we don't have to live in clown world is what I'm saying here.

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freakydee08@reddit

Location: Dutchess County, NY

Politics: So many people I am running into at work are literally in a panic. I’m worried that the results of the election will cause some people to fall ill physically. Most folks I’m speaking with have been ignoring the doom and gloom all election season and are certainly feeing very anxious.

I think from a collapse awareness perspective heightened emotions like anxiety and fear are definitely a direct correlation to what are day to day is like. Which brings me to my next point…

The Weather: This fall in the Hudson valley was so beautiful. Trees full of color! I mean truly a sight to see in 82 degree weather!

News of a drought watch has hit us as well. I’m worried because so many people don’t take environmental issues serious. And then so much extremism and polarization is thriving right now.

The Tech: I watched the latest episode of a diary of a ceo. And around 1hour mark this podcast gets really good. And there is a bit that speaks on algorithms and how good the algorithms are being designed. So much of what I see happening on X is that I’m being exposed to some extremist and alarming posts in my for you page. However on that clock app it’s so good at poloarizong and dividing people it’s really crazy to see in real time.

We are not keeping up with and processing all of this new tech that’s consistently upgrading. Human behavior is not set up for some shit like that.

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FoundandSearching@reddit

Waving to you across the Hudson. You are correct about the fall foliage. Brilliant.

I am not on X for the exact reasons you cited.

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freakydee08@reddit

Hello my friend from across the Hudson !!!

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FoundandSearching@reddit

There are a few of us here. Always glad to read other Hudson Valley residents voices.

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freakydee08@reddit

Hello my Hudson valley friend!

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unbreakablekango@reddit

I live in SW CT so I am right with you guys. Business had me spending a lot of time around the Bear Mountain Bridge over the last couple of weeks. I can attest, it was a magnificent autumn!

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freakydee08@reddit

Absolutely!!!

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Ghostwoods@reddit

It takes 20 years for society to process a new tech breakthrough. We're nowhere near to coping with the current bombardment.

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freakydee08@reddit

Wow!!! 20 years!

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S1ckn4sty44@reddit

Location: Western NY, USA

Today's high will be 25°F above historical average. Tonight's low will be 27°F above historical average.

Historical average: High, 54°F. Low, 35°F

Todays temps: High, 79°F, Low, 62°F

Shorts+t shirt weather. Ticks are still out and I have found a crazy amount on my dogs and myself. Not looking forward to these things getting even crazier than they already are.

I don't believe it's going to matter in the end but I did vote against fascism today. I truly don't care about the election because we are all dead pretty soon anyways but I figured I'd be disappointed in myself if I didn't vote against pure hate. I guess I chose the slower collapse version of the two, but others say the opposite. Not that any of it matters.

Enjoy what we have left. I said 5-10 years left in 2020. We are still on that path. More recent videos from Peter carter showing we are tracking even worse than the worst case scenarios. I'm just waiting for the general public to finally realize whats already here and what is to come over these next few years.

First things were slow, now fast. How many countries flooded again this year? Burned? Forrests not sequestering carbon anymore. Still deniers though.....

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jawsofthearmy@reddit

Fam and I were talking about that not to long ago… if it does snow.. it maybe another brutal year

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lifeissisyphean@reddit

I also voted against accelerated collapse, but I didn’t feel particularly good about it. Why should I feel good about voting for BAU?

I had my son today, it was 60 degrees out, long sleeve and pants weather. In November. In Maine.

He asked me about the flag flying on the house next door, I tried to explain America. I tried to explain the loose association of states to create a country, and the process of voting every 4 years for who would “lead,” us. I left current politics out.

Out of the blue he asked me about people eating people. We discussed it, different kinds. Tribes in the Amazon head hunting vs survival situations like the Donner Party. I just really hope that isn’t the future for me, and even more so for him. “That’s silly!” He said, as we talked about people eating people, “that’s what someone’s whose never been truly hungry would say,” I responded.

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RichieLT@reddit

Is this a passage from The Road?

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BobWellsBurner@reddit

What's this Peter Carter video?

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ruskibaby@reddit

I assume they’re talking about this guy:

https://youtube.com/@petercarter46?si=eCTng3S-hVV1jgut

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springcypripedium@reddit

Similar in upper midwest; so many ticks, plants in pots still blooming, vegetation is green and I too, voted against the orange cretin. There is a rumble of thunder as I type. Decades ago we would have snow, frozen ground and lakes freezing.

Peter Carter is one of my go to's for the latest on the truth about this human caused trajectory (collapse) we are on----it is not looking good as evidenced by his latest video. I am with you re how long we have (not long) 😥

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Reasonable_Swan9983@reddit

Location: The Internet

The whole election process intrigues me. I recently watched one of those 'propaganda' shorts posted under the @.America account on X (yeah, I know). What stood out was how expertly tailored it was; it didn’t even seem malicious—more like we genuinely believe what we’re doing is for the best.

It seems that the conservative mindset wants to save the world from the liberal one, while the liberal mindset cares so much for people that it overlooks everything but them. And by people, I mean all we’ve created: the economy, the countries, the society. We have so little left in common with nature and the world around us. But it make sense, while everything shifts further toward technology and analysis. Observation and sensitivity get pushed aside.

No politics are going to save us, and the more uncertain things get, the more we seem to seek authority. As u/TuneGlum7903 commented on my last post: we’re scared. Most of us still believe in presidents and government, but maybe 'it’s too late' will become our reality when we start relying on God to save us.

Here’s a joke I read recently:

Mr. Bob, a used-car salesman, goes to heaven and is met by St. John himself.
“Welcome, Mr. Bob! You’ve been a good man; here in heaven, you can have anything you like!”
Bob, without hesitation, says, “I’d like a red Ferrari, if that’s possible.”
“Certainly! Come with me,” says St. John.

After some walking, they arrive in a room full of beautiful cars. Bob picks his favorite red Ferrari. Just before he goes for a drive, St. John reminds him, “The speed limit here is 60, so please don’t go over.”
Bob agrees and starts his ride. But while he’s keeping to the limit, another car zooms past him, way above the limit. Bob notices the driver has lush, curly blond hair.

Bob rushes back to St. John to tell him about the speeding car. St. John, unphased, says, “Did he have blond hair?” Bob, surprised, asks how St. John knew.
St. John replies, “That would be our boss’s son. I can’t do much about it.”

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9chars@reddit

this is spam. you don't even list a real location or post how any of this has to do with collapse?

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Reasonable_Swan9983@reddit

The internet is powerful reflection of humanity, and you can see us decaying.

Like the propaganda being spread in the very last few days of US elections. Joe Rogan hosting Trump, Vance, Elon almost at the same time. These things steer population these days, especially when we search for answers when it's too late (who to vote for in this example).

And look how the election has turned.

If one does not see how any of my observations have to do with collapse, I'm sorry but the extreme weather or riots are a symptom, I usually seek answers in the human psyche and it reflects on "The Internet"

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ahmes@reddit

You got downvoted but you're right. The whole point of these posts is for people to report on the state of their local slice of meatspace. "Location: The Internet" should not be allowed. The entire rest of the sub covers that bit.

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Reasonable_Swan9983@reddit

In the beginning, the post received a burst of upvotes, but as soon as comments 'enlightened' everyone that it was spam, things started to go the other direction. Perhaps I'll leave everyone with that observation.

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leo_aureus@reddit

Spam

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rematar@reddit

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/12/why-voters-might-be-choosing-dominant-authoritarian-leaders-around-the-world.html

This might shed some light on the seeking authority part of your comment.

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Hephaestus1816@reddit

Location: East Midlands, UK

We haven't seen the sun in several days. The Met office calls it 'anticyclonic gloom' apparently, but it also describes my mood. Temps 5-6C above normal and my still vigorous strawberry patch is producing fat, lime green strawberries that don't seem to be tempting anything to eat them. It has at least been dry here, but I've been watching what's going on in Spain, and thinking 'it'll be our turn soon'. I also wonder what is it going to take, before governments sit up and take action? The threat of civil revolt from the survivors and families of the victims? Hurling mud and invective is just the start.

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jr-91@reddit

East Midlands, UK here as well. Went to Goose Fair for the first time in Nottingham the other week and it just felt like.. something that should have felt cold? A big event with hot chocolate, marshmallows etc and I was getting warm walking around in a coat.

I haven't really seen much of single digits in temperatures when I check.

I'm 33 and getting existential that we're all cosplaying our little careers and roles, and the building we're in is on fire.

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Overthemoon64@reddit

I'm in the US but... it's hard to talk about the weather like you would with strangers. Gosh its hot... because of climate change...that we can do nothing about...

We used to be able to talk about the weather.

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DirewaysParnuStCroix@reddit

There's a good amount of data that supports the notion of such conditions becoming the norm under a slowdown and/or collapse of the AMOC. Under current conditions, the infamous severe cooling response is substantially less likely than what the current literature suggests. What will more than likely happen is we'll see semi-permanent stationary anticyclonic atmospheric anomalies becoming the norm. That's effectively what's currently occurring, and the long range forecasts are suggesting will be the default pattern up until March. The most unusual factor here is how mild it's expected to be, considering the total isolation from Atlantic influences.

Anticyclonic patterns have a habit of stability to them, so I guess that's an upside. Ordinarily they'd be much sunnier than this, but anticyclones are stationary by nature, so we tend to get stuck with the same synoptics over longer periods. During the summer, this same pattern would almost certainly be particularly hot and dry.

If my own observations come close to verifying, and I have a high confidence they will, the decline and potential absense of AMOC influences in Western Europe's climate will result in a proportional atmospheric reaction that results in anticyclones becoming the baseline characteristic. During the summer, that results in very dry and hot conditions, during the winter it should result in colder and drier conditions, but honestly the current situation suggests that another hypothesis of mine could well be true - that not even the winters are guaranteed to get colder if the AMOC collapses.

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Unfair_Creme9398@reddit

Which studies show a semi-permanent anticyclone form over mainland Europe when the AMOC has collapsed?

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DirewaysParnuStCroix@reddit

Studies that reconstruct a full collapse scenario tend not to quantify the atmospheric dynamic response, with Rahmstorf et al.'s 2015 study demonstrating how CMIP model methodology underestimates atmospheric circulation in collapse reconstructions. It's sort of a well known but rarely discussed discrepancy. The hypothesis of AMOC collapse is a linear assumption founded on preindustrial baseline. As such, to understand potential atmospheric responses, a degree of cross-analysis is required to get a clearer picture of what's likely and what isn't likely.

Haarsma, Selten et al.'s 2015 study discusses the correlation between AMOC slowdown and subsequent stationary high pressure blocking elements across Europe. Their freshwater experiments demonstrate a strong low pressure element over the North Atlantic in response to absent heat fluxes, which in effect is a +NAO state. Further analysis by Rousi, Kornhuber et al. also demonstrate the implications of notably cold subpolar North Atlantic SSTs and accelerated atmospheric blocking over northwestern Europe, and multiple papers discuss the correlation between a cold subpolar North Atlantic SST anomaly and stationary atmospheric blocking-induced heatwave events across Europe (Duchez, Frajka-Williams et al., Oltmanns, Holliday et al., Bischof, Kedzierski et al.). There are consequential dynamics that further exacerbate this effect, with Whan, Zscheischler et al. demonstrating a strong correlation between soil moisture deficits and extreme heat events across Europe. This effect is particularly pronounced in Cfb climates which are highly sensitive to changes in rainfall accumulation. Essentially, in the absense of Atlantic maritime influences, a more stable continental influence establishes itself in response. This could be explained by Rossby wave activity, although among the expected responses to AMOC slowdown and/or collapse is a poleward migration of the jet stream and northward expansion of Hadley cells, as was substantiated by Orbe, Rind et al.. The latter would be associated with a warming response across all seasons in Western Europe, with Azores highs anomalies being an example of expanding Hadley cell dynamics (Cresswell-Clay et al. discuss this excellently). I often suggest 2018 as the ideal analog for absent thermohaline inputs and consequential climatic responses in Europe. That summer was defined by stationary atmospheric elements and notable anticyclonic events.

As of right now, the atmospheric dynamic response to thermohaline changes in Western Europe are drastically underestimated. Observations by Vautard, Cattiaux et al. discuss how warming rates in Western Europe are considerably more severe than the model reconstructions suggest, due to said models not accounting for atmospheric dynamics. As such, I'd rate this discrepancy among the more catastrophic elements that are currently not getting the attention they should be getting.

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hydrissx@reddit

Location: North Carolina (US)

Every time I go to the grocery store, I notice most people are paying for food these days with credit cards.

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Overthemoon64@reddit

how do you tell the difference between credit and debit cards? Also, I've been using a credit card for my purchases for years for the 1.5% cash back and fraud protection benefits. I don't think that's an accurate meter on collapse.

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

How can you tell? We pay for everything with debit cards. I mean, they look just like credit cards basically, but pulls directly from our account. I rarely carry cash anymore.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

That's actually dicey. If the power goes down and you have NO cash on hand. You can really find yourself in a bind.

I always have at least $100 in cash on me as "just in case" money. It's a good habit to have, and has, on a couple of occasions saved my ass.

You should also consider keeping a small reserve of cash at home. It doesn't have to be a lot, maybe $1,000. Enough to be useful in the event of a multi-day power outage where you need to buy things and the ATMs and card machines aren't working.

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Ok_Main3273@reddit

A lot of supermarkets, in Western societies, will simply stay close because their tills and inventory systems need power to function, even if YOU are ready to pay cash. Beside, they would probably save money by not opening their fridges and freezers, hoping to avoid food spoiling, without talking about not having to pay their staff, rather than take random banknotes from the few people who still hoard them.
I mean, your advice is good because maybe the local dairy / corner shop will be open and will allow you to take basic items in exchange for a sweet $100 cash deal ("pay it or leave it"). But if planning for a power outage lasting several days, stocking food, toiletries and medicine at home before hand is probably better use of your money. Having said that, cash is king for emergency travel or border crossing, so there is that.

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Erieking2002@reddit

Yep, definitely going to see stuff like what we saw with the crowdstrike issue become more common when infrastructure issues start causing outages to become more prolonged and widespread, there’s also the possibility of authoritarian controls like CBDCs being implemented

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

We keep cash at home, and I usually have $200 cash stashed in my car for emergencies. Maybe an emergency $20 in my wallet.

I just don’t walk around with it in my pocket. After living in the city, I found carry cash made me a target for every dude wanting to hit me up for cigarettes or bus money.

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hydrissx@reddit

I notice that they are Amex, Discover, etc. I worked as a cashier and recognize most of the local banks debit vs credit card designs.

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

Cool, thank you for explaining!

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capybaramelhor@reddit

I pay for everything with a credit card pretty much. I use my AMEX blue cash preferred for groceries, which gets 6% cashback. I don’t carry a balance or pay interest.

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BBR0DR1GUEZ@reddit

The great philosopher of collapse George Carlin said that when you’re born in this world, you get a ticket to the freak show and when you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

This election is shaping up to be a real highlight of the show. We are gonna see some wacky shenanigans and maybe even a few kooky hi-jinks by some of our talented and well-trained stage performers before the night is young.

If you thought those very special red capped monkeys shimmying up the walls of the Capitol a few years ago was the height of entertainment, and if you thought the ringmaster of that circus was done, well buddy he’s back for more! And you’re about to see a very spectacular encore presentation.

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christophlc6@reddit

My balls are so democratic right now

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kc3551@reddit

location : philadelphia pa

it wasn't that long ago where temperatures that start with a 7 (or even high 6s) is rare for november, right?

yet this is the forecast for the upcoming 7 days, coupled with a total lack of rain (apart from 1 random morning where it rained...about 0.01 inch?) and it feels very out of whack

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treetop_triceratop@reddit

Yeah I'm currently in Cleveland, Ohio where it's currently 11:19pm and 72° F.

72°F??? This time of night? This time of year? Yikes.

Physically it feels pleasant and perfect outside... but inside it fills me with a sense of dread.

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capital-minutia@reddit

That conflict of ‘yay nice weather’ and ‘boo, dying gasp of our climate’ is particularly brutal.

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badbads@reddit

Location: Japan

Mount Fuji doesnt have snow in November for the first time since records began. Some ski resorts on the north island have increased their prices more than double over the last 4 years. It means the local community can barely afford to be on the mountain anymore, only people from countries with stronger currencies flying thousands of miles to get there.

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roblewk@reddit

My American godfather tells the most wonderful story of running down Mt Fuji when he was on leave from the Korean War in the 1950’s. He said it was the single most joyful memory of his entire life.

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theincredible92@reddit

I am hearing more and more about “since records began”

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ObedMain35fart@reddit

Almost 80 degrees last week and 75 on Wednesday here in Maine.

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WillyWaver@reddit

I’m way Downeast, and currently not wearing a jacket. Crazy.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

Location: Southern Spain

The static anticyclone (iirc) weather cell that devastated Valencia is now flooding the hell out of Barcelona. The airport is shutting down, and it's one the five busiest in Europe. The knock-on is going to be ridiculous, both for passenger travel and for all sorts of supply lines.

On top of that, the dystopian Cyberpunk fruit-n-veg hellscape under the plastic sheets of Almeria has also had flood problems, including many of its access routes. A surprising amount of Europe's autumn and winter produce comes out of that not-technically-slave zone, so it's going to just add to the other supply-chain disruptions.

On a personal note, I'm firmly in the 'neurowibbly' bucket at the best of times, and my anxiety-spikes over the US election are alternately toggling me between totally raddled ADHD "I saw a squirrel!" and demented hyperfocus on whatever random shit is going past at that moment. If I try to resist either, I can feel the depression just slithering up to wrap its tentacles around me and drag me back down into the depths so, uh, I'm mostly just rolling with it.

I need words with the management. My meat golem is clearly not up to the job of dealing with modernity.

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joez37@reddit

that not-technically-slave zone

Who works those not technically slavery jobs? any particular groups?

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Ghostwoods@reddit

North Africans and East Europeans mostly, many of them undocumented.

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BobWellsBurner@reddit

Thanks for the update from over there. We're worried about the US too here in Canada.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

++hugs++. I well believe it. You're way too close to the sharp end for comfort.

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Unhappy-Breakfast-21@reddit

We have a lot of water and the US is getting thirsty.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

There's a disturbing image...

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

What? OUATE?? You're saying my favorite and non-technically-slaves provider of citrus is disrupted !?

Okay that's enough. That's the last drop. I'm firmly against climate change now, I'm boycotting it. The not-technically-slave agriculture can continue though, just... Away from my local fruits and vegetables aisle

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Ghostwoods@reddit

It's an outrage!

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

Now I understand how the nobles must have felt back in 1789

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Ghostwoods@reddit

... shorter?

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

Oh SNAP. LOL.

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Midithir@reddit

Thank for the tip on Almeria. Ireland gets most of it out-of-season salad crops from there. Here we call it the Costa del Polythene. People should check it out on maps, zoom out until you realise you can see it from space. Google maps Almeria

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psilocybinpsychology@reddit

Wow that is a horrifying amount of plastic. Never knew this.

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

In France we call it la mer de plastique

"La meeeeer, qu'on voit danseeer, le loooong des golfes clairs..."

Impressive sight from space, definitely worth a look indeed

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SecretPassage1@reddit

"plastic sea" for non french speakers

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Fox_Kurama@reddit

Oh wow, apparently all those plastic greenhouses actually are so widespread contribute enough albedo that the local area has warmed almost 40% less than the surrounding regions due to there just being that much local albedo from all the greenhouses.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

It's a hell of a thing. Almost as insane as Kowloon Walled City, in its own ways.

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

Try not to float away my friend, literally or figuratively.

My UU community is having a sort of group prayer over the opening & closing of the polls here in the EST. I am sure other groups are doing similar. I am generally not of the praying type, but I find the solidarity of knowing other folks are all holding a hope for a better than awful outcome in their hearts around the same time uplifting during this troubled time. Lots of us are over here holding on for the better of two shitty chances.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

Thank you :) I'm more of a "Call up the spirits" than a "Pray to a creator" type, but yeah, I'm with you.

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See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit

Location: USA, Lower 48 States, East of the Rocky Mountains

There have been a lot of rapid temperature swings in the last few days in my area, the nights have been feeling about 20 to 30 degrees cooler than the day for the past several days or so and we haven't gotten rain in quite a while. A lot of deciduous trees have some green leaves and some yellow, orange, or red leaves on them at the same time, so part of the tree will have leaves that are as green as they are in the summer while some other leaves on that same tree will be all sorts of shades of yellow, orange, or red, I've never seen anything like this in my area in any other year, it's quite pretty, actually, but I'm not sure if it means there's something wrong with the trees or not.

The price of everything is pretty much what you'd expect living during the kind of economy we have now, but even so, prices go up so fast that running errands or buying groceries seems to get noticeably more expensive even in the course of only a few weeks. The size of many containers and packages also continues to shrink without the price of said items going down at all. I've never had a job that pays a living wage before (meaning a wage that would allow me to fully financially support myself, though I pay some of the bills for my family,) and I don't know anyone else my age or younger who's ever had a job that pays them a living wage either (I'm a millennial and I was born in the 90's.) Luckily, in my culture, it's not considered shameful or embarrassing to live with your family after the age of 18 so long as you contribute in some way. I imagine not being able to afford to live on your own must feel a lot worse for people who were raised in a more typical WASP (white anglo-saxon protestant,) family. I was born in America but my family (I have some relatives who were immigrants,) didn't quite assimilate into typical white American culture the way most white people do,) for better or for worse.

Covid case numbers aren't quite as bad as they have been over the summer, but they're still higher than they were at the start of the pandemic, with the current average positivity rate hovering around 14%. Trying to dig around for information about current covid case numbers is about as easy as nailing a bowl of Jell-O to a tree that's being cut down, but somebody's gotta take a crack at it and even if I can't find every single morsel of information out there, I figure that someone might as well be me.

https://www.walgreens.com/healthcare-solutions/covid-19-index

To put it into perspective, earlier in the pandemic, Dr. Fauci said that covid cases would have to fall below 10,000 a day to make returning to "normal" (meaning 2019 normal,) a good idea.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/16/dr-fauci-says-us-covid-cases-need-to-fall-below-10000-a-day-to-get-to-a-degree-of-normality.html

Of course, we haven't ever reached that point since then and I have no idea if we ever will. To make matters worse, covid has been so heavily politicized in the last several years that you can barely even acknowledge that it still exists, let alone try to protect yourself from it, without some of the most bizarrely antagonistic, ignorant, blustering morons getting whipped up into a frenzy about it, and if you're extra unlucky, you might also have family members or former friends who treat you like a crackhead conspiracy theorist who's shooting up drugs all day and yelling at clouds for not wanting to get covid and not wanting to spread covid to other people. I could write an essay about all the deranged shit people have said to me since the pandemic started, but I won't do that here or else I'd break this website. There are some people out there who claim that anyone who doesn't know how dangerous covid is now is just a willfully ignorant asshole, but that kind of fatalistic thinking never accomplishes anything and if I can help even one person by sharing information that they might otherwise never find, then I'll continue to share information to the best of my ability, because you never know what even the smallest act or gesture might do to help someone, and if I go through my entire life having helped even just one person, then my life will have been worth it to me no matter what people think about me or how they feel about me.

Below are a few links with some basic, condensed information about covid designed to be easily understood by most people regardless of reading skills or existing scientific knowledge:

https://covidhelp.org/

https://youhavetoliveyour.life/

In more specific news, I took a walk today and saw random blocks of brightly colored paint in multiple colors all over the ground, as if someone was trying to paint symbols that look like rectangles or the = sign. If anyone knows what it means or what it's for, that someone is certainly not me. I've also noticed that whatever type of mulch my neighbors are using in their yards smells even worse than usual (I've always hated the smell of mulch,) but given that a lot of them are the type of people who all all anal-retentive about having super duper fancy yards, maybe they're just upgrading whatever sort of nasty ass chemicals they use on their lawns to try to make them look like some shit out of a Martha Stewart catalog.

Politics is, well, itself. It existence around election time always seems to have an uncanny way of seeping into everyday life even if you're the type of person who doesn't really pay attention to politics, and of course, the amount of bitching and moaning about it is about what you'd expect when you have a very dramatic and very orange former businessman who's had some rather colorful legal scandals and a current vice president serving under a rather underwhelming current presidency competing to be president. I've never liked either political party and I doubt I ever will, and I don't care so much about who other people like or who other people vote for as I do about how they treat other people and how they act in general. I've interacted with people all across the political spectrum in my life, and not only because I'm not the kind of person who can justify having a choosing beggar mindset when making friends. I genuinely think that a diversity of opinion-within reason-makes the fabric of our society stronger, and I wouldn't want to live in a world where everyone thought exactly the same about every single thing in the universe.

With that said, I do, of course, have opinions, but even if I was smart enough to articulate them in a way that I feel would coherently explain my beliefs, I think it's healthy to keep some things secret, or at least have them be like an unlock-able widget in a video game that you can only access after completing so many levels. Either way, some people would likely agree with me and other people would likely be mad at me, as is often the case when I share anything about anything else, so it's not like I'd be sharing any groundbreaking revelation if I started going all monkey on a typewriter mode here now about my political beliefs.

With all of that said, this week's likely to be a real mind-fuck regardless of what happens, so take extra time to take care of yourself. There's more than enough stress around (and more than enough to stress about,) so taking the extra time to give yourself a break from the stress will definitely be worth it for you in the short run and the long run. You only have one body and one mind and they're both worth taking care of, because they're the only home that you're guaranteed to have for your entire life.

Stay safe, stay healthy, and treat your body and your mind like they belong to someone you love, and if there's no one in your life who comes to mind when you think of that, treat them the way you wish humanity would treat the Earth. Things are looking as hairy as a hard drive full of furry porn right now, but that doesn't mean you have to let the world drag you down with it. No matter what happens, there are always opportunities to learn from it and there are always opportunities to learn more about yourself, and you never know how that knowledge may come in handy in the future.

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CaptainBirdEnjoyer@reddit

Regarding the symbols painted on the ground, it could be utility companies tagging water or gas lines before doing work.

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See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit

Good to know, thanks.

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_rihter@reddit

Location: Central Europe - Pannonian Basin

We're about to starve and nobody cares. No rain and the autumn heatwave continues in November.

The local river is drying up. I doubt there will be any snow. Food production will face a massive hit.

Collapse is here.

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First_manatee_614@reddit

The void is coming for us all and quickly.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

That's horrifying.

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capybaramelhor@reddit

Location: NYC

We haven’t had any rain here in over a month. There was one day where Central Park recorded 1/100 of an inch, but it has essentially been dry this entire time. Everything outside looks dry and dusty. Plants are dying. I was born here, and I have never seen anything like this, especially in the fall, which is storm and hurricane season.it feels really, really ominous. There were a few times rain was in the forecast and it went away. Possibly on Sunday now. The city has issued drought warnings and asking people to use less water.

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BWSnap@reddit

Location: New England, northeast US.

It's the same here in Massachusetts. Today was our 5th or 6th red flag warning day in a row, which is the highest risk for brush fires. With how windy it was over the weekend, combined with of rain, and a shitload of dry leaves on the ground, there are scattered brush fires around the state.

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FoundandSearching@reddit

Upstate from you in Orange County. Same thing in my village - dry, very, very little rain. Lawn brown, warm temps - hell I haven’t even put my heat on yet.

I don’t believe my town has issued a water usage warning - yet.

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PorcelinaMagpie@reddit

Location: Indiana

Weather: We're going into the first full week of November with temperatures in the low to mid 70s. Lots and lots of rain is expected for this week as well. My neighbors are still running their ac units with no end in sight. Yesterday morning they were scrapping off their windshield while their unit was buzzing away. And no, they do not have a heat pump. The husband told me it was his ac running because it got too warm in their apartment. Fun fact: the high that previous day was 52 and the low was 28.

Politics/Idiocy: I honestly can't wait until this damn election is over. The only thing I'm dreading, like many of you, is the outcome. It honestly feels like something very sinister is on the horizon regardless of who wins. On top of that, I overheard some real gems while standing in line to vote this past Friday. These two are tied for first place...

If Trump wins he will make traditional Halloween parties come back and he will also get to the bottom of why people are not trick-or-treating like they used to.
He will also make sure to lower the prices for all chain restaurants, especially those of Applebee's and Olive Garden.

Be safe out there everyone.

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klaschr@reddit

There's this movie tagline that stuck with me from that old Alien vs Predator movie that came out in the early 00's:

"Whoever wins, we lose."

That pretty much sums up my feelings about this election, no matter the results.

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rmannyconda78@reddit

You got a strange neighbor man, I wonder if a illness or something is causing him perceive it being hot when it’s not, people’s health has gone to shit since Covid

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

Hahaha. Trunk or Treats are much easier for parents and safer for kids.

Also, I find, much less fun. Which is why we went door to door as well.

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defekkto@reddit

Location: bahía de banderas mexico

It got cold all the sudden last week at night but the days are filled with intense sun. The winds seemed to have changed all the sudden and now it's back to hot and humid, today was cloudy all afternoon and rained a little bit, which is unnusual for this late in the year. People are like zombies and drive worse every week. There are also more cars on the road along with the ever present flood of food delivery bikes. Everything is super expensive, gas is 1.30USD a liter.

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Mission-Notice7820@reddit

Location: Mid-Atlantic

In the past 60 days I think it’s rained three times of any substantial amount and that was all at the beginning of September. People are finally starting to notice a bit.

BAU at work. Capitalism is incompatible with our biosphere and yet here we keep going.

COVID + microplastics + pfas + lead = holy moly everyone is way dumber now. Myself included.

I’m tired, boss.

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ClamsHavFeelingsToo@reddit

Get a sauna and some binders homie

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daviddjg0033@reddit

There are microplastics in my brain, probably the weight of a credit card. My knees hurt. Does plastic make knee joints hurt? Lead? What about asbestos - all those old NC hones after Helene... I'm too manic to get tired. This will be the coldest winter of the rest of our lives, boss

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

Location: The Mist, Aquitaine, France

Weather bulletin - For every degree Celsius that atmospheric temperature rises, the amount of water vapor increase by about 7%. We've had lots of rains. But now there's a large anticyclone stuck over France, which is unusual for the season, so the soil is dripping and the air is still. And thus:

The Mist

I was picking the last apples of the season while cranes honked South in V formations, when The Mist fell over. Now I wonder if the cranes will find us next year. They must be bathing near Valencia right now.

I stumbled on a supermarket in The Mist (god damn you Stephen King) and the true monster was consumerism all along. All the cottons were chemically bleached. Three million eggs had been recalled. France recognized Morocco rule over Western Sahara in order to secure phosphorus inputs and weapons sales.

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson seeks political asylum in France to avoid jail in Japan. But we're stuck in The Mist, so our leaders can't see him. Our government has now entered the same dimension of delusion as Putin, Orbàn, brexiters, Modi, etc...

I hope that mist continues forever. It's all nice and quiet, with occasional honking noises. I want to be like master Yoda on Dagobah, secluded in a swampy hamster ball. Because who knows what kind of canicular evil awaits outside the mist?

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

Maine is half mist. That’s why Stephen wrote about fog like that.

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

Ahah I suppose yes.

It must be beautiful

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

It truly is. Though a touch dangerous to drive the curvy mountain roads in. Maine, unlike much of the US, was not paved by planners, and our roads are haphazard and curve around properties and hills. Big ol Moose and deer, or a whole flock a turkey, can just pop right out of the fog.

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Tough_Salads@reddit

Maine, and Oregon. Two places I have had to drive in thick fog along winding roads -- trying to remember if there were logging trucks in Maine? I know there must be, right? The ones in Oregon I remember quite well, thinking of that movie Final Destination lol-- I stayed far back from those trucks

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

LOTS of logging trucks! I live right next to 1600 acres of logging forest. Most of the northern part of the state is privately owned logging land. So many trucks to stay way way back from.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

Just remember -- if you hear an air-raid siren, lock yourself in a safe room and do not open the door until the walls turn white again.

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

Bof. There's no need to worry about the mist.

That nice lady from Maine explained it to me: Stephen King got inspired by turkeys and moose. Worst case scenario, 50 meters high moose with tentacles knocks at my door. Living next to 40 active nuclear reactors, I've seen worse

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Ghostwoods@reddit

Now there's a sight I'd never imagined before. Moosethulhu. ++shudder++. Thank you!

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straight_blanchin@reddit

Location: Alberta, Canada

The UCP (the party running our province currently) just did a leadership review of their supreme leader, Marlaina "Danielle" Smith. She got 91% approval from the party.

They are tackling such important topics as mandatory outing of trans kids by school staff to their parents. Don't worry though, if the teacher suspects that that trans kid might be hurt or killed by their parents, they can refer the child to the school counselor first!

They're also making sex education opt-in rather than opt-out, but I'm sure that that won't impact any kids that are being sexually abused.

Our healthcare is collapsing, food is unaffordable, unemployment and homelessness are skyrocketing, but at least our government is focusing on the important issues: putting children in harms way for no reason

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canuck9470@reddit

Yeah our Canadian leadership and poltical system has utterly been corrupted and collapsed, totally bought out by big-corporate interests and the greedy billionares and ultra-rich elites. Especially since after 2020 big coronavirus scare, which after has only brought the worst and shamelessness out of our leaders.

That 91% approval figure must be bogus. Then I realize the keyword is "party". And it could mean it is ONLY the inner circle of the few elites inside UCP: Like 11 out 12 top elites just nod their head, then the party take that as the "official approval figure! Go figure.

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straight_blanchin@reddit

The 91% approval is of the 6000 people who were allowed to attend the AGM. Many people wanted to become UCP members and attend, but they were denied, so the people allowed to vote are very heavily vetted.

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rmannyconda78@reddit

location: north central Indiana. The small city of Marion where I reside has been becoming rather uncanny over the past few days, to the point of becoming almost liminal to me. the election/everything else Ive mentoned on past versions of this thread, has been giving the atmosphere of the city very tense vibes, while the climate that grows hotter, turns the month of November cool-warm, rainy month, gives the whole area a moody vibe, my area really feels like it is on the transition of what it was, to what it is to become now. The maga supporters in my area have been kinda silent too, which is kinda scary, not just those people, but the whole area has gotten quiet, not even birds singing, just the sound of the wind howling, and traffic, its really uncanny.

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BitchfulThinking@reddit

This photo is giving me Far Cry 5 vibes. It's fitting, which is deeply unsettling...

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rmannyconda78@reddit

It’s been like that, here’s another photo I took a few days ago with the drone, just dark, moody, the rays of light representing a last glimmer of hope before it plunges into darkness. It just has been absolutely liminal the past few days. Those MAGA folks do really remind me of the cult on far cry 5 a bit actually, such a great game.

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leo_aureus@reddit

I worked in your town as a contractor for the gas company for about two months in a row back in the summer of 2017 and have been on just about every street at least once looking for gas pipeline test stations within about 25 miles of downtown Marion.

Man does this great picture bring back some memories.

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

How do you do to add pictures like that? I'm interested.

Feels liminal indeed

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rmannyconda78@reddit

When using the app there’s a image icon, and it takes you to your camera roll. On pc I think it’s similar.

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

Thanks. Funny explanation: I only have one eye and so that little icon (appearing in blue at the right side of the screen for me) escaped my vigilance all this time ahahahah

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rmannyconda78@reddit

I understand, I have both eyes and things still escape my vigilance, when it was right under my nose the whole time lol.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

That's a great shot. Really captures the eerie feeling you're describing. Pre-apocalyptic, almost.

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rmannyconda78@reddit

It was rainy and windy when I took it. Fall is starting to become climate wise similar to early spring, not a good thing. They are saying there’s gonna be a lot of snow this winter, but I have my doubts

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icedoutclockwatch@reddit

Location: Chicagoland, USA

I have a terrible feeling about this election. Even best case scenario, I will have helped elect another government official that I fundamentally disagree with, but I guess that's how it goes when you're choosing the lesser of two evils.

Trump has been priming his people for another insurrection - he's said on tape that if he doesn't win, it will only be because of voter fraud.

Hoping it's just another day tomorrow, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't going to stop and grab a small stock of ammo on my way home just in case.

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LiterallyADiva@reddit

Beware the Red Mirage. Trump will be up early on as in person day of votes are counted first. He’ll attempt to declare victory extremely early, before any states are actually called and like 30% of the votes have been counted. Hopefully the Democrats lawyer up to combat this and the media outlets have the stones to call him on the bullshit.

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beth_at_home@reddit

It's not tomorrow that is troubling, it's the days after.

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Z3r0sama2017@reddit

Location:Northern Ireland

I saw midges out in the back garden on Sunday before sunset, which is fucking wild and shows how unseasonably warm it is. Also Snowdrops are peaking up already.

Early October frosts are basically a distant memory at this point, which is a shame as I loved walking in the crisp air.

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Abcd_e_fu@reddit

NI here too. It has been weirdly warm. Plenty of days I'm still going out with just a t shirt on. Feels more like early September weather than nearly winter.

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SubstantialPower104@reddit

Location, Upper Plains/ Northern Midwest State. Stood in line for 90 minutes to early vote on Sunday, probably the biggest voter turnout at one-time that I have ever seen-- I live in a rural area so that's not hard I guess. Weather has been weird, usually we would be much colder this time of year, but here in the North it hasn't been. it snowed like 3 inches at my parents place, but it all melted already. People today have been driving like maniacs, blatantly running reds, swerving all over, and suddenly slamming on brakes. IDK if that's due to the election tmr, or just more of the same lack of care while driving that has been so prevalent lately.

People have also been very aloof, aggressive-seeming, and un-friendly. I live in a place renowned for friendliness, so IDK what is up with that.

Grocery store shelves aren't being fully stocked anymore, and they are crazy expensive. Employment and hiring seems to have slowed as well.

Generally, it does feel as if everyone and everything is holding it's breath for tmr.

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milka121@reddit

Location: Poland At this point in the year, we should be experiencing temperature going below zero at nigh with freezing rain and some early snowfall, jumper weather turning to coat weather. Well, it's still pretty warm. Warm enough that the trees are actually budding new leaves and spring flowers blooming. I don't think we'll ever get the snow I remember as a child again.

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Humean_Being84@reddit

Location: Midwest US

It’s been near 80 off and on all October and into November, even though we had a frost and hard freeze a week or two ago. Typically we are done with the higher temps at this time of year, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see more forecasts for 70s and 80s as we go along. It seems to just be more volatile than usual, going from wet to dry and back or warm to cold and back. It takes a toll on everything.

I nearly pulled out my garden after the hard freeze, but with the recent warm weather I have a plant full of jalapeños, a few green tomatoes, and even a small watermelon on the vine. I’ve never seen anything like that here in early November! The watermelon likely won’t have time to ripen, but the peppers are 90% there and the tomatoes may. If I get a Christmas watermelon in December, you’ll see that in a future weekly observation! 😂

I live in a very “red” area of a “blue” state and I have seen quite a few Harris signs over the last week or so! I never would have expected it, but it’s definitely a change from 2020. I fear for the election results either way. But especially if Harris/the Democrats have an unexpected big win. That could just fuel the fire of election fraud posturing from the other side. Hopefully the vast majority of Americans keep a level head regardless, but you never know.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

I for one just can’t wait for it to be over. I’d like to be put into a coma and woken up in February, please. To whom do I appeal for this service?

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit

Location South West England.

We've recently had our finance minister release her spending plans for the next twelve months, seeing as the country is broke she has raised some taxes, mostly on rich people, but hasn't cut spending. The bond markets have reacted negatively because the tax rises aren't enough and spending is still too high, and now it looks like we are going to face more inflation and higher borrowing costs for the next 12 months, similar in a way to Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's budget that nearly sank our pension funds. It has got me thinking now that the country is so heavily indebted that we really aren't in control of our own destiny. What could the government do in the near future if it needed to rescue a financial operation like insurance, pensions or banks? We have nowhere really to go.

It is really scary how warm it is. 15°C is not normal for this time of year.

I'm seeing so many people who live relatively healthy lives getting cancer in their 40s and 50s, especially digestive system cancers. Something in our food/water is damaging us. Pesticides, pfas, fertilizers, preservatives or recycling of water? Or all of the above?

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Wave_of_Anal_Fury@reddit

I'm seeing so many people who live relatively healthy lives getting cancer in their 40s and 50s, especially digestive system cancers. Something in our food/water is damaging us

As a cancer survivor, I know through experience (unfortunately) that most cancers are linked to lifestyle choices.

Bad diet, inactivity, smoking and drinking alcohol – all are among the causes of up to 90 percent of cancers, according to a new analysis that stresses how many cases of cancer are under our control.

https://www.aicr.org/resources/blog/study-vast-majority-of-cancers-caused-by-lifestyle-not-bad-luck/

In the case of digestive cancers, a low-fiber diet is one of the biggest causes.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38687390/

The minimum daily recommended amount is 25-30g per day, with many recommending up to 50g per day. The average American gets 10-15g.

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PrairieFire_withwind@reddit

Somehow that gives a different vibe to your username...

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

I would have gone with plastic. We ALL have nano particles of plastic in our bodies now.

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

PFAS & plastic. We know for sure, thanks to the extra high levels on some of my local farms, they can cause cancers of the digestive system. I strongly suspect sustained levels can too.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

PFAS/Plastic is the "evil twin" of Climate Change.

We created it with our stupidity and now it's an unstoppable avalanche that threatens to snuff us out.

Like Climate Change there is nothing we can do about it now. Even if we get to a "Net Zero" of plastic usage there is NO WAY to clean up the environment now. Nanoparticle plastic is everywhere.

It's in the air you breath, the water you drink, in the rain, in the soils, in the plants, and in every organism we have examined. You cannot escape it.

So now we have to "find out the hard way" how BAD it's going to be.

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jr-91@reddit

East Midlands, UK here too. Can't help but feel and worry that cold Octobers will soon die out :(

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Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit

I know there's loads of more serious consequences of warmer winters, but I can't stop thinking about when I can wear my nice jumpers and coats.

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farfrompukenjc@reddit

Location North Central Wisconsin: My wife and I have been making wreaths for 20+ years. There were several weather related firsts this year. We usually gather our tree branches (balsam fir) in freezing temperatures with a light dusting of snow. This year it was 70+ degrees Fahrenheit. There was extreme drought this year that led to crispy trees. After gathering the tree branches we stacked them up in a pile and tarped them like we usually do. We brought some out the other day to start processing them and they dried up and turned brown in a manner of one week’s time from being crispy and being too hot. The trees are all very unhealthy here. Everyone of the spruce trees on our property have been invaded by ants and are dead / dying. We have the Emerald Ash Boar killing off our ash trees. What doesn’t kill the trees off the wind events take care of the rest. I have lived on our property for 28 years and have seen my woods deteriorated to almost an unrecognizable state. I don’t believe that the trees will bounce back. I think the decline will only continue to get worse.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

Your spruces are probably dying from needle cast disease, not ants. This fungus has moved into Wisconsin from the west - it was in La Crosse 10 years ago (when I lived there). Here's some info on it from the UW. Note that while the PDF talks about CO blue spruce it affects all spruce species and many other conifers.

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farfrompukenjc@reddit

Ants are maybe setting up colonies after the spruce starts to decline?

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

I've seen several different ant species - some quite small, too - in dead and dying trees here in WI not just carpenter ants.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

Spruce is probably doomed to extinction at this point. In Alaska a forestry paper from 2019 stated that by 2050 "every spruce in South Central Alaska will be dead".

If Alaska is becoming too warm for spruce, they won't last in Wisconsin.

Related to that this report came out last week. (10/29/24)

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced at least 40 percent of tree species around the world are at risk of extinction, according to a Monday release from the organization.

The assessment determined that at least 16,425 of the 47,282 evaluated species are at risk of extinction. More than 2,000 of those endangered species are used for medicines, food and fuel.

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TenderLA@reddit

It’s pretty sad what’s happening to the spruce on my property on the Kenai Peninsula. We had quite a few survive the spruce bark beetle, but now about 30yrs on from that event they don’t look so great. The Alders though, they seem to be thriving.

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PrairieFire_withwind@reddit

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

But also lines up with ky experience of the northwoods this last few. The emerald ash borer and bark beetles have been at them because they are so heat/water stressed.

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ProdigiousPeen@reddit

Location - northeast US - itbwas 80 degrees on November 1st, autumn colors are here in most trees, but the wild temperature swings have cause a lot of my plants to enter thier growing cycles, berry bushes are covered in buds, squash vines that somehow persisted thru fall are flowering again, and insect activity is unusually high for this time of year. It cooled off for a couple days, but the forecast says we're going back up to almost 80 this week. We're also in a drought which is unusual for this time of year. The climate is obviously messed up, but I think the degree of change this year has a lot of people feeling uneasy, tho the political climate could also be adding to the malaise.

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Geaniebeanie@reddit

Bit jealous of your bird situation. What I wouldn’t give to hear birdsong!

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PrairieFire_withwind@reddit

The weather not changing like normal feels like a holding pattern. Purgatory. Leaves us all uneasy.

I think it contributes to the malaise and the uneasiness around the election. Like our bodies are already feeling out of sync and then we get this election mess on top of it.

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greenman5252@reddit

Location: Olympic Peninsula

No first frost yet. Currently about 1 month late with no immediate signs of change. Crops growing and insects abound. Out-of-season fruit tree flowering again this year.

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canibal_cabin@reddit

If any non American wondered, this is north west of Washington state, not in Greece.

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greenman5252@reddit

Sorry about that

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canibal_cabin@reddit

Nah, this is fine, I learned a lot about American geography just from Reddit, this is actually quite cool!

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Zestyclose-Ad-9420@reddit

there isnt a Olympic Peninsula in Greece

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canibal_cabin@reddit

I know, hence I had to Google were it is. Because "cultural appropriation"/s.

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IPA-Lagomorph@reddit

Location: Colorado USA

After a hot and dry October, the weather suddenly snapped to normal for this time of year. Still anemic moisture which should have come down as snow but was mostly rain, but the temperature is in normal territory and predicted to be so for the upcoming week. It does seem like the weather forecasters are having a harder time than they used to (and this region was always difficult).

Everyone I know is on edge for tomorrow. Ballot returns are lower than expected in my county for some reason which is worrying. I am repeatedly reminded how much of democracy is run on a shoestring by volunteers. Given the implications for the entire world on how the US election turns out, especially per climate, trade, and subtle factors like pandemic threat, it's pretty sobering.

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PrairieFire_withwind@reddit

If it turns bad i feel like it will be an excuse for the world to both dump on democracy as a system as well as any us led trade/treaty as an unstable country.

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IPA-Lagomorph@reddit

I think the EU is already talking about this, how they can't be beholden to Wisconsin voters every 4 years. International relations is not my wheelhouse but I'm guessing things go worse in negotiations when the institutions trying to make agreements don't really trust each other.

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PrairieFire_withwind@reddit

Bingo. I mean, i am not a fan of being beholden to florida voters or florida courts (hanging chads looking at you) but i accept it as part of being american. Yes, working to get that changed, ranked choice voting would make a huge difference here.

But yeah, i do not blame the EU or anyone else for not wanting to be an economic colony of the US or a semi-political colony for that matter as that does feel like what our empire has made.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

That's EXACTLY what China is trying to convince the BRICS, or the non-white 80% of the world. Their pitch is that the US has gone cray-cray and is no longer able to provide any kind of leadership that doesn't involve protecting US corporate profits.

We keep saying there is NO WAY the rest of the world doesn't want to "be America" and would dump our control of the global finance system. But, another Trump presidency might do it.

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PrairieFire_withwind@reddit

I think we are a bit blind to the reallity on the ground outside of the US. And that is to our detriment. US exceptionalism only goes so far. We need real solutions for other peoples with other limits to their resources, location, structure, etc. stuff that recognizes those.limits and treats them as human.... Well, i dream.

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Sinistar7510@reddit

Location: Central Alabama.

Going to be 81°F today. I picked up a bag of grass seed on clearance for $20 this weekend. Seeded over what was a large garden plot in the backyard. Normally way too late in the year to try to seed grass (hence why it was on clearance) but with it being as warm as it is, I'm not worried. No way the cold is killing the grass before it's established. Yay?

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

Location: Downeast Maine

Greetings from Maine, where people are now making their own hand written signs for Tbag for Pres. I can’t with good conscious link to the post in r/Maine but you could always go look.

We all are holding our breath, collectively, as a nation. Because basically, no one knows. Even the guy who’s done the best job predicting elections is feeling nervous.. Pollsters can’t figure it out because there’s so much paid polls, people answering weirdly, and answers are all across the board. Basically no one knows what to expect, except the trouble.

Washington State, Oregon, & Nevada have activated their National Guards ahead of tomorrow’s elections. So far Maine has only been dealing with people going door to door offering to “deliver” people’s ballots for them. There hasn’t been any specific violence against voters or ballots - yet. Many other states are seeing failures with regards to absentee ballots. (I will probably update in the US election thread later.)

I got my ballot in and now we wait.

The weather has been all over the place. High 20’s some nights. Highs 90’s some days. Some of radishes I planted to overwinter bolted last week! I don’t even know what the hell I could have done to prevent that.

Also, the lakes are the lowest I have seen since we moved. It’s shocking. The birds do seem to have finally migrated south, thankfully, as I was getting worried.

This week was also the end of daylight savings time and I am always vaguely over it. I wish we could just pick one. I don’t think that’s collapse related so much as stupidity.

This past week was Halloween and we did my kids first door to door knocking. After Trunk or Treat in town we drove up our major road and stopped at houses, and everyone was delighted to see us. We live pretty rural and there are towns & cities with neighborhoods that get a lot more traffic. However the 9-10 older folks homes we stopped at were thrilled to see my little four year old in their costume. They even got full size Hershey bars at their last house and graced that nice old fella with a happy dance. It was a nice chance to meet our neighbors, especially the Trump yard sign ones, in a neutral way. Everyone was lovely and generous, of course.

Remember friends, even this week, there is beauty in the world. Look for it and look out for each other out there.

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Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit

That's a very pertinent conclusion

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Major_String_9834@reddit

A dreadful situation. If Trump loses, expect pogroms. If Trump wins, expect purges.

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SunnySummerFarm@reddit

Yeah, no matter who wins, it’s not good. It’s just a question of how bad.

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neu8ball@reddit

Location: US Virgin Islands (St. John) and Massachusetts

My wife and I went on vacation this past week to St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. We had been once before in 2021.

The change in just a few years was staggering. Everything on the island is 3x-10x more expensive, especially groceries. Cruz Bay has a big homeless problem, and I'm sure the rest of the island isn't doing great either based on the poverty we saw.

From a natural perspective, coral reefs that were vibrant in 2021 are now bleached and dead. It was shocking and depressing to see the exact same reefs all white and brown instead of red, green, etc. In 2021, I swam with more than a dozen sea turtles in Maho and Trunk Bay - this time, none. I also went on the hardest and most "secluded" nature hike on the island, a 10-mile round trip through the rain forest to multiple beaches. I barely heard and saw any animals aside from deer and a few birds. When I arrived at the Reef Bay Beach, there was plastic garbage and flotsam everywhere, and the beach smelled like sulfur and rotten eggs. The drinks were good at least, right?

I would like to finish this post by talking about our return to Massachusetts. It hit 82 degrees on Halloween. This morning, I noticed that the entire South Shore was under a wildfire smoke alert. I stepped outside and the air was filled with the smell of burning, and you could see the haze.

This is on November 4th. In freaking Massachusetts. I'm old enough to remember regular snow in November - now we have brush fires instead.

Faster than expected.

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PaPerm24@reddit

Location: Pennsylvania usa

Record temps (or near record) on halloween, drought and theres a wildfire near where i live. Getting worse fast yall. Atleast i can say "i told you so." wasnt expecting this in november but ill not too surprised

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