Weekly "What good news / things are you seeing?"
Posted by AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 97 comments
Its that simple, something that gives you hope? Something nice or cool that happened? post it here!
UrsusArctos69@reddit
Im coming in peace with this one. Please, I'm begging the conservatives amongst us to not support defunding NOAA. The National Weather Service provides essential severe weather warnings to people that can save lives. I want to continue receiving severe weather updates into the future, especially considering what we saw with Helene and Milton this year. I also promise you're not gonna be happy having to pay for weather data.
Gold-Piece2905@reddit
I can't believe people actually support the idea of defunding NOAA, good bye warnings, no early evacuate notice for you. I saw this in the project 2025 PDF file.
CosmosMom87@reddit
Things I’m seeing: there are some really fucking crazy people in this sub.
zfcjr67@reddit
you rang?
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
Crazy people? On the internet??? Nahhh.
--Shibdib--@reddit
A lot of redditors are realizing the echo chamber here isn't a realistic representation of majority of the country.
iwannaddr2afi@reddit
I'm firmly anti-Trump and always have been and I ONLY say that to say this: exactly right. I think a lot of people this election cycle had to learn the hard way that the echo chamber is a real problem, and that bots and trolls leveled up a lot and aren't going anywhere. I hate that we have to learn these things the hard way, but since social media is so relatively new (on a human scale, brand new), we are just barely starting to develop "antibodies" to this stuff. And we must, it's good that we are. I hope we all learn better how to navigate the world we're living in, regardless of political views.
ruhtheroh@reddit
I just learned because Finland is so close to Russia and affected by their troll farms they have woven media literacy into all its education classes and give the kids books so kids learn critical thinking, what questions to ask to determine if what they read is real, fake, disinformation, misinformation etc. it’s really interesting and actually seemed to work- the kids were quite wise.
iwannaddr2afi@reddit
Wow. That's incredible, I would love to see that here. I don't have kids but obviously want the people to be educator. It would be nice to see this outside of schools, for regular people too.
Autumn_Of_Nations@reddit
the majority of the country doesn't vote, so neither party represents the majority (and never has)
--Shibdib--@reddit
Well that's a take, and statistically correct. But realistically that also means in this scenario their opinions don't matter because they don't choose to exercise them at the voting booth.
Autumn_Of_Nations@reddit
they matter when they come out en masse to riot, as they did in 2020. politics is more than what happens in the voting booth. the fact that America is increasingly becoming minoritarian increases the likelihood of "catastrophe" the likes of which Americans haven't seen for generations.
societies can't be held together by violence alone.
Concrete__Blonde@reddit
When I engaged in conversation with a Trump supporter, their reason for supporting him came from a misunderstanding almost every time. I hate to call half of the country stupid, but a good portion of that half does not understand economics, policy, or how our government works.
--Shibdib--@reddit
This mindset is why the Democrats lost. The elitist, I'm better/smarter than you attitude set that party back years.
AncientFudge1984@reddit
Except he’s right… but, also they lost because of Joe Biden’s colossal hubris in thinking he wasn’t too old to step aside. If Dems had a primary they’d have realized Harris was wildly unelectable and had a chance.
--Shibdib--@reddit
I agree with that, there's a reason she was barely a blip on the 2020 primary radar. She's not electable at a national level.
AncientFudge1984@reddit
It’s not just that fundamentally misunderstand how every one of his purposed economic and healthcare plans will cost them money and make their lives had. They are also incredibly xenophobic.
KN4SKY@reddit
I work in the construction industry. My employer is a large company with operations in most states. Well over a dozen postings at our corporate office have been posted in the past two days. Prior to the election, corporate hiring was slow (maybe 2-3 postings per month) but not entirely frozen. The openings range from internships to managerial roles. Hiring for hourly positions at our worksites remained unaffected before and after the election.
Interestingly, most of these postings were created in early October but didn't go live until yesterday. I don't want this to be construed as political and I believe that these openings would have been posted regardless of the winner of the election, but pre-election hiring anxiety is very much a real thing. I can also say that these are not "ghost" job postings.
SpeakerOfMyMind@reddit
Is your company one of the companies that pulled out and completely abandoned Asheville after Helene hit? Not that it matters, I'm just bitter.
KN4SKY@reddit
They actually put out an announcement to all of our sites on the east coast looking for people to temporarily relocate to affected areas and fill in while the normal crew was dealing with the aftermath of the storms. We don't produce concrete, but we supply a lot of materials used in asphalt production so it's kinda important that those sites stay running so the roads can be fixed.
It's seriously a great place to work. I lucked out getting hired there.
SpeakerOfMyMind@reddit
Oh, that's amazing to hear! We had to construction companies straight up abounded sites they were actively working on and said they did not intend to come back.
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
This post is automatic, but it isn't crickets this time! /s
I'm in a split household IRL, so, dinner will be "interesting"
The good news, we both felt security was adequate Tuesday, at the different polling locations we had to visit. We liked that law enforcement was out and made a show that they were out watching everything. I saw it in the few hundred miles trip I make regularly that happened to land on Tuesday.
Other good news, I'm making huge progress organizing my preps with quality shelving and totes. I practically doubled my square footage of the house in shelving!
kaekiro@reddit
Omg plz share how you organized cuz I'm inching daily towards looking like a hoarder house and it's driving me nuts
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
Start investing in finding storage solutions cheap. It takes time, but the big thing is having to be persistent.
I've bought store shelving at auctions, found quality pallets, used harbor freight coupons for steel cable to better reinforced the shelves or hang shelves from the cable (tied in floor to ceiling) wait for 22 gallon totes to go on sale at 4$ ea. Used boat winchs with cable to get drop down ceiling storage. Find clean buckets at swap meets under a buck each, milk creates...etc. make shelves 15 to 16 inches will accommodate MOST of the basic storage containers. Store things in the home based on weight and heat, and water issues from basement to attic and use dehumidifiers/ move the air so you don't get mold. It's a battle, but when you have it all... it's a different form of wealth than most have.
Shoddy_Reality8985@reddit
A large, clean victory is not a bad outcome at all - consider where a close run with a Bush v Gore situation could have led. Nowhere good, that's for sure.
deciduousredcoat@reddit
This being downvoted is bizzare. It's objectively beneficial that the results were as decisive as they were, regardless of one's preferred outcome. A Bush/Gore outcome would have, imo, torn this country apart.
Shoddy_Reality8985@reddit
Bush v Gore is one of the better scenarios there - can you imagine the chaos if it was another 1876?
MsCalendarsPlayaArt@reddit
Leftists and democrats will be more willing ti start wearing N95s again and, so far, none of the trump voters in my red county have had a problem with me wearing an N95. Some have even been willing to wear an N95 while around me. I believe that masking has become less of a political issue for the right and that it's not a dead giveaway to a person's political leanings at the moment. If leftists and democrats actually start masking again then we'll have less death and disability.
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
Culturally like in Japan, its accepted that a potentially sick people wearing a mask is a good thing for everyone. I think its smart and courteous.
jarpio@reddit
They wear masks in asia because the air quality is horrendous due to the volume of coal China burns.
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
I don't think the basic paper masks we commonly see really work for that level of toxicity, you need something like a p100.
jarpio@reddit
They don’t work for viruses either…
damagedgoods48@reddit
I’d prefer anybody who is sick with cold, flu, strep to wear a mask if they come to work or are out in public.
CPUequalslotsofheat@reddit
The weather in my part of US has been mild. I'm going to stock up on household items. I usually start stocking up in October, for Holidays. Im glad election went smoothly. Mild weather is good for me to shop to stock up.
skyflyer8@reddit
Baltimore: "As of this morning, homicides are down 25.9% and nonfatal shootings are down 36% compared to this time last year on top of the roughly 20% drop in homicides we saw in 2023."
https://x.com/MayorBMScott/status/1852376300679250020
eveebobevee@reddit
Are all police reports accounted for? They recently had to revise crime numbers up due to lagging indicators. Is there an increase in unreported crime?
thedelphiking@reddit
No, all of those reports are publicly available.
CastleBravo88@reddit
Many departments stopped reporting altogether due to the new reporting regulations creating a false sense of dropping crime.
thedelphiking@reddit
source?
CastleBravo88@reddit
The Marshall Project reported that 31 percent of the 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S. failed to report crime data to the FBI’s national database after transitioning to a new data collection system.
Quick search
https://www.nssf.org/articles/america-has-a-crime-reporting-problem/
thedelphiking@reddit
Looks like the FBI under Trump was ordered to build a new system and transition all police departments to it by Jan 1 2021. Interesting that the contract to build the system went to a huge GOP donor that worked in the tech industry. The transition got bungled, the head of the DOJ ordered them to just kill the old platform and force all police to start using the new one. But, there was no real effective training done and it was a sudden switch, so local police said fuck it they were too busy as Covid was going full swing.
It was either a calculated move to run for President on falsely reported lower crime rates or just pure incompetence at the FBI for rushing a huge transition. In reality it's probably a bit of both.
BUT, the really real reality is that all of those reports from all of those cities are still made publicly available by those departments just as they always have. The FBI pulls from those and compiles data.
Don't fall for BS talking points put forth by BS think tanks.
CastleBravo88@reddit
If only you had a computer in your pocket that connected with billions of other computers that could access any information at any time. That would be amazing.
hotdogbo@reddit
From StL, I personally think having legal access to recreational marijuana reduced homicides.
hotdogbo@reddit
St. Louis, MO’s homicide rate is also down
Beardth_Degree@reddit
No body, no crime. Check the vacants.
Kindly-Scar-3224@reddit
American brain drain happening.
smilescart@reddit
Yup go to Turkey if you want to see what an insane president overstaying their welcome does to a place. The economy is in the toilet and the brain drain is ongoing
squidwardTalks@reddit
And the strength of propaganda.
rmannyconda78@reddit
May adopt a cat my sister is fostering, jet black with long hair cute little thing.
DemoteMeDaddy@reddit
the orange man got elected again so I guess maga won't riot about the election being rigged 🙄
noitalever@reddit
Nope, just antifa pretending to spread peace with bricks and bottles of urine 🙄
jarpio@reddit
Elon and Bobby Kennedy literally saved the world.
RealWolfmeis@reddit
Jesus H Christ please write me a BOOK about why you think that?!?!
jarpio@reddit
One side was sleepwalking us toward a global thermonuclear war. And using a weaponized DOJ and DHS to aggressively censor, de-platform and often doxx anyone who countered their narratives and their policies that were sending us down that path
Elon broke the censorship by buying Twitter and telling censors to go fuck themselves. People began to see the complicit corrupt state media for the propaganda machine that it is and use their own brains and their own critical thinking skills and participating in honest discourse as opposed to just being spoonfed all their information by the state
Bobby Kennedy will follow it up by ripping down the poisonous food and pharma industry that owns and is wholly enabled by our CDC, FDA, and NIH. All of which will over time significantly increase the public health, reducing the nations healthcare costs which will save us billions over the coming years. Ending our country’s addiction to big pharma making healthier happier wealthier people with more buying and borrowing power as a result of lower inflation due to lower government expenditure on healthcare (our largest cost as a country).
Smarter, happier, healthier, and wealthier and better informed people have far less reason to ever allow themselves to be provoked into unnecessary wars.
RealWolfmeis@reddit
Listen, I don't agree with your perspective on this, but I do appreciate you taking the time to write this out.
DoktorSigma@reddit
All the drama and uncertainty of the American election this time was solved overnight, without any shade of doubt.
That's actually good! I don't think now that any of of the apocalyptic predictions of civil unrest or civil war, so popular this year, will come true. Trump voters are beaming with joy (heh) and they have no reason whatsoever to riot; and Harris voters are stunned in a shock and awe state, and so they don't have the disposition to riot.
America is saved from itself! (For now.)
sarcago@reddit
Saved from itself? One branch of the government is possibly locked by one party for the rest of our lives. That’s literally a threat to democracy.
Rev-Dr-Slimeass@reddit
Probably. But what this person was getting at is that there won't be riots or a j6 type event.
SmilingAmericaAmazon@reddit
We haven't appeased them, we have enabled them
Rev-Dr-Slimeass@reddit
Why would they riot now
SmilingAmericaAmazon@reddit
Look up the FBI report where hate crimes increased by almost 20% his first term
SmilingAmericaAmazon@reddit
They riot when told no ( at the voting booth, ala Jan 6). Now ( today) people are flying Trump flags that they didn't before and starting with the small aggressions. They will keep testing where the new line of acceptable open misogyny and racism and will push / go past it with violence ( little things at first - bigger later). Some will be individual acts, others will be group acts. It is already ramping up. Trump supporters are not known for their pacifism or willingness to work things out civilly.
MrFishAndLoaves@reddit
Turns out only side tries to overthrow free and fair elections
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
There's still a couple months ahead. I wouldn't rule out a 3rd or 4th assassination attempt.
CuriousCatte@reddit
Vance is just going to declare trump incompetent and take over the presidency, no need for violence. I give it a year at most.
Rev-Dr-Slimeass@reddit
Voted for Harris, but this was my thought too. Would've made great TV though.
neonopoop@reddit
Thank you for your optimism, i upvoted you
DoktorSigma@reddit
Nice, thanks!
Anyway, as you may have already guessed, I'm not very shy about voicing unpopular opinions that I know may well be downvoted to hell. =)
deiprep@reddit
I can't say you're wrong. The majority of people who voted got their ex-president back into office again! 🎉 Some good news for them eh?
Teenager_Simon@reddit
Democrats have never attempted to murder the political opposition, you're glad that the Nazis won? Yikes.
DwarvenRedshirt@reddit
On the positive side, the constant political phone spam should stop now.
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
I think we can all agree with that.
I hope all the political bull in general fades away. I'm sick of it from both sides.
LankyGuitar6528@reddit
Checking... nope. Don't see anything. Get back to me in a few weeks. It's 5 o'clock somewhere.
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
This post is automatic, but it isn't crickets this time! /s
totallyn0rmal@reddit
Read the room
ThatGirl0903@reddit
This is a pre scheduled automatic post that goes out regularly.
AntiSonOfBitchamajig@reddit (OP)
Yeah... lol, I opened reddit and was like, ohh...this will be interesting :/ lol
TrekRider911@reddit
Well, the good news is at least the election is over, and we know what's coming. Now it's time to prepare.
Let's be honest, neither side was going to do crap to solve the two biggest threats looming. Bird flu is banging on the door, and climate change is going to screw economies over worse then anything a politician could do playing with interest rates.
mad_bitcoin@reddit
We have COVID Part Deux and the guy that fucked up the first time is in charge again. Gee I wonder how this is going to go?
thefedfox64@reddit
Hopefully really well. Lot of elderly will continue to live life, which I think is great. Largest transfer of wealth will happen in the next 8 years, and even sooner if we get another Covid. I for one am glad, mainly because my families business can be done without office interaction. Good luck getting starbucks and going to church. God is good, if your righteous he will save you, if not...well them the brakes
papertowelfreethrow@reddit
Exactly. Not sure why Reddit is freaking (oh wait nvm). The results of the elections didn't matter at all when it comes to war and pestilence
Repulsive_Lynx7739@reddit
Trump presidency
gold_cajones@reddit
Post without fear- the reddit echo chamber has lost all power
Absinthe_Parties@reddit
I wonder if they are having a hard time finding the downvote with their eyes cloudy from all the tears. lol. "I'll downvote that dirty trumper. That'll show 'em!" lol I love it.
CastleBravo88@reddit
He'll yes brother!
PhinWilkesBooth@reddit
love the bias between what gets upvoted vs downvotes in reddit. Clearly alive and well in this sub.
mad_bitcoin@reddit
We are closer to a collapse than we were yesterday!
Maxing my preps over the next couple of months
MrFishAndLoaves@reddit
I became a prepper after the Biden debate and it sure feels good now
11systems11@reddit
I'm preparing for the flood. Of tears.
nmacaroni@reddit
Trump just won. Best news all year.
beansandweens69@reddit
Trump won. So thankful for that
CastleBravo88@reddit
Yep!
LaykeTaco@reddit
Trump won and the stock market is up 1300 points.
sarcago@reddit
Yeah that can’t backfire
galleyturd@reddit
Well trump won
minecraftsteve696@reddit
Yikes
anacondra@reddit
Probably not the time