Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] March 31
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rmannyconda78@reddit
Location: north central Indiana, today’s photo “after the storm”
I went out chasing last nights storms, and they were terrible, I was in a tornado watch, and was surrounded with warnings, how my town escaped the wrath of these storms (not even a tornado warning)with minimal damage is beyond me, the worst done appears to be some branches down, and a swollen river. Other areas especially to the south were not so lucky, as they got hit with tornados. We are not out of the woods yet, more rain is due, with possibly more severe weather, this is likely to make the swollen river I photographed burst its banks and flood the surrounding area. People are starting to go crazy again here, when chasing I’ve encountered people who were driving way to fast for the conditions presented, besides crazy driving there was this big fight between some teens, and some of the local police department, the people towns/county Facebook group comments on that situation were terrible and extremely hateful.
Collapse rating for my area 2.5/10 business as usual. For the internet/social media 9.5/10, almost fully collapsed, for it to be a 10 at this point it would have to just shut down, and never boot back up.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Thank you for your always lovely photos. I enjoy seeing them in my enclave of Orange county NY.
I am sad to read about the fight amongst the teenagers & the poor comments by the community in FB.
rmannyconda78@reddit
It’s not good, I’ll tell ya that, I’ve even had people in my towns FB group make racist comments when I posted a picture of a coffee shop that was under construction
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
They are too far gone to be reached or helped in any way. I am sorry to read this, truly.
rmannyconda78@reddit
And that’s why I said nothing when I read those comments, arguing with them is like pissing in the wind. “Don’t argue with a fool, lest you become one yourself”
Ghostwoods@reddit
Location: Southern Spain
Third dose of significant food poisoning in two months. I've noticed that much more produce is arriving with bad spots. Guess I'm going to have to fight my ingrained food insecurity issues and get much more aggressive about trimming bad spots / just throwing stuff out / dumping leftovers. Which sucks, but not as much as 48 hours without sleep.
I also note Reddit is winding up the old interface, chunk by chunk. Might be the excuse I need to give up on the site completely -- I truly can't stand the new interface.
Yesterday's tariffs -- based on trade figures, none the less! -- are going to absolutely ravage the US economy. With the complexity of global logistics, and the predatory inclinations of corporations, American prices are going to go through the roof. The rest of us are going to go into a global recession for sure, but the US is heading straight into a meltdown-grade depression. It's terrifying.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
American here. It's not like they weren't planning on these tariffs during the election. We were warned. And a majority, as you know, voted for it.
What did you eat to give you food poisoning three times? Wow.
Ghostwoods@reddit
As a European, it really doesn't look like a majority voted for Trump. I know no-one wants to believe their elections were crooked, but yeah, your election was as bent as a nine-bob bit.
As for the food poisoning, it's not been the same stuff every time. A couple of days ago, I'm fairly sure it was a plum with a manky spot I obviously didn't get all of.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Boo hiss about the plum. So far nothing has made me sick that I eat.
Consumption of politics OTOH has made me feel excessively ill in the USA.
Ghostwoods@reddit
It's like being trapped in the Upside-Down, only instead of cool cosmic horrors, it's all utter wankers in suits.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
The Upside Down. Yes. I agree with you. Watch out for the men in suits - I think it's always been that way. Maybe now it's the men who wear designer Norm Core clothing.
Ghostwoods@reddit
++shudder++
ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit
Oh I believe it. I even want to believe it.
Two problems though. First, it doesn't matter. Our checks and balances and stuff have completely failed. No one is being held accountable for a gol durn thing. They won; having cheated is irrelevant, it's just how they won.
Second, even if you can achieve an accurate accounting of how many people did vote for the Pied Piper of McDonald's, that number is unacceptably high by any standards. We got authentic problems no matter what.
Ghostwoods@reddit
I'm right there with you on both points. It just feels unfair to your country to say that the majority of voters chose this. It also legitimises the rape and pillage of America, to a degree, and this is not something that should be legitimised. It's the husking of a global power by a transnational crime syndicate.
Who_watches@reddit
Location: South Australia
It’s dry as fuck here at the moment, it only rains once a month. As reservoir is the lowest it has ever been at 38%, if it wasn’t for the desalination plant we would be under water restrictions. If we don’t have a wet winter I fear we are going to burn real bad come Summer.
It’s election time here down under. In one corner there is Albo, whose lackluster leadership has seen a massive cost of living crisis to occur. Under his leadership there has been mass migration, while there is a lack of housing. Abject failing to curtail property investors or combat the supermarket duopoly price gouging the people. In the other corner there is Dutton aka Lord Voldemort (no joke that’s what he looks like). At the behest of the mining industry seems to take inspiration from Javier Milei and Musk in wanting to do cuts to taxes and regulations. We also have this fat cunt called Clive Palmer who is another mining billionaire who for the past decade spams ads during election time with his own party which this time is called Trumpet of patriots (get it). Every ad on YouTube and billboard and newspaper, I get to see his ugly mug. Guess it’s a break from the sports betting apps that I usually get.
Unsurprisingly the Oompa Loompa cunt in the White House has put tariffs on us. Despite all the wars we fought along side you or the half a trillion dollars we have given you guys for second hand submarines which we probably won’t get or the massive CIA base we have in the outback isn’t enough.
Goofygrrrl@reddit
Location: Gulf Coast Texas
Healthcare: we are starting to hit full on collapse now.
First is the continuing, and worsening, outbreak of measles in Texas. I have personally never seen measles (I think) but on each of my last two shifts I’ve had people come in concerned about rashes. I know all the diagnostic signs and have looked up the pictures, but I’m not fully convinced I’d know it when I see it. Measles cases have spread and there are now confirmed outbreaks in 5 states, and we haven’t yet gotten the Tuesday update. 2 deaths so far, and the parents whose child died recently will never be held to account. They were on the news insisting that it wasn’t the measles that killed their child. It was pneumonia. The fact that measles created liquified lung tissue that made the environment for bacteria to take hold was completely lost on them. In other news, people don’t die of a gun shot wound; They die of blood loss. So we should only legislate anemia, not guns
In addition to that, Lubbock Children’s Hospital is now reporting patients with various stages of liver damage due to the super doses of Vitamin A they are taking. Vitamin A accumulates in the liver leading to dysfunction. The children are getting supplemented with Vitamin A on the recommendation of RFK as a treatment for measles. While Vitamin A supplementation is helpful in treating measles in countries where people are deficient, that’s not the case in the US. A little bit of knowledge is not the same as a comprehensive understanding. And in the US, the cure is worse than the disease.
Then we have H5N1/ birdflu. The outbreak in dairy cattle started here in Texas. It was spread throughout the country in spring of 2024 when wildfires in west Texas caused a state of emergency to be declared. The declaration allowed cattle from Texas to be moved emergently to other states without having to be tested for H5N1. Testing was a USDA mandate prior to interstate transfer of cows to prevent the spread of disease, but it was halted by Gov Abbott. That’s how birdflu got out and now we have a cumulative national total of 996 infected herds in 17 states.
Currently commercial poultry facilities that test positive for birdflu are systematically depopulated. This is a 2017 USDA order (put in place under Trump) and by killing all the birds it allowed the farm to recoup the total loss of all the birds without incurring any costs for veterinary care. It actually helped because it limited spread of the disease which is why the USDA order was put in place. However, with the loss of egg making capacity there are indications that order may be rescinded. The effect being to lengthen the time an outbreak is occurring at a facility increasing the chances it spreads to the rodents and cats there and then to the wildlife. There may be additional spread to the workers on the facility who are likely to be immigrants who are now avoiding healthcare facilities. These infected immigrants may now be eligible for deportation further spreading disease. An outbreak in the El Salvadoran Supermax prison is unlikely to be reported to the WHO and the prisoners unlikely to be treated.
Also, Lots of evidence suggests that bird flu is being transmitted through wind borne pathways. Spring here in Texas is very active both for strait line winds and tornado activity. It is an active time throughout many places on the south and it may end up being a larger problem for spread than migratory birds ( and on that note, the spring migration north has now begun).
On the home front, I have taken a job in admin to attempt to have some collapse aware say in our ER. First up is the upcoming tariffs on Canadian drugs. Several drugs including Wellbutrin, Mobic and Penicillin V are solely Canadian sourced. At this time there is no indication that they will be spared tariffs at its unclear what the effect will be on the both price and availability. In 2022 there were 22 million prescriptions for Wellbutrin in the US and we have no idea how withdrawal may affect those patients. I don’t know how we plan to treat them in the ER and whether ER physicians will be responsible for transitioning these patients to a different medication. I do emergency medicine, I don’t make a good psychiatrist and I specifically chose a different specialty.
Also we are now having meetings regarding violence in the ER. The first time many people will realize they have been cut from Medicare or Medicaid is when they come to the ER. We will be the face of these cuts and we will have to deal with the fallout. We expect to see two types of disruptive visits; The desperate and the angry. The desperate ones will be people who have no where to go when their home health or oxygen have been cut off. The families of nursing home patients dumped on them who have no idea how to handle tube feedings or abdominal dialysis. They will want us to admit these patient for placement or as a reprieve and we DO NOT have capacity for that. Then there will be the angry. Those that insist the THEIR benefits couldn’t have been cut, they paid into the system god dammit. We are putting in a new bulletproof shield in triage to protect staff and prevent an active shooter from jumping over the desk and accessing the rest of the facility. We are also meeting with local law enforcement for a silent alarm button at all desks to call for help surreptitiously.
I have come to the realization that being smart and being informed isn’t going to save me. I am likely going to be killed in collapse by someone less intelligent and informed lashing out at me and people like me. Convinced that because I can identify the problem, I must simultaneously have the solution and that I’m deliberately withholding it from them.
That’s my collapse synopsis this week
EarthSurf@reddit
Taking large amounts of vitamin A instead of a harmless vaccine is nuts.
Ask anyone who’s taken Accutane for severe acne, which is essentially just overloading your system with vitamin A, and you’ll hear about a lot of horror stories. They make you sign a fucking waiver and the pill boxes have like mis-shaped babies on them with an X through it — because getting pregnant results in severe complications.
The drug is life-changing for many but after a week on it I could barely walk, my body felt oddly hot from my sweat glands not working, and my contacts were like wearing glass.
Imagine getting these side effects without doctor supervision, all when a perfectly good vaccine exists with no side effects.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Or poisoning your children's bodies and hurting their livers. SMH.
Collapse_is_underway@reddit
Oh yeah I feel you for the last part. Ecologists are already demonized heavily by mainstream medias, backed by industrial and businessmen.
However, I think a lot of people will be open to talking if you focus on "adaptation" instead of the "causes". You can promote low-tech, talk about how you can do your job if supply chains gets heavily disturbed, etc.
The more low-tech will be promoted, the more the area you live in will be able to adapt, regardless of the severity of collapse and how dire things will be.
Anon0118999881@reddit
The measles thing has been scaring the fuck out of me. 400+ cases statewide and ever-expanding, it just popped up one county next door. Last time that happened I was picking up a doordash order in said county at a Burger King in 2020, and the TV playing the local news in there was going on about the first case appearing in that county. A month later and well, we all know what happened.
So yeah. I went ahead and pulled up and dug through all my old records looking for vaccination records and found an MMR report from 2002. So I'm assuming that hopefully means that I'm safe no matter how fucking stupid these inbred idiots want to be skipping that shit. When I was in school if someone didn't have their shots, they threw their ass out until the stupid parents finally had to shut up and get their kids their shots. This wasn't some boomer back in my day thing this was literally only 10-20 years ago. What the hell has happened
TuneGlum7903@reddit
Brilliant closing paragraph. It captures perfectly how I feel most of the time these days.
springcypripedium@reddit
Second that.
frequencyx@reddit
Very well written. Take care of yourself and Thank you!
Heeler2@reddit
What is your facility going to do about violence in the ER - are they actually going to do something? Is it an option for you to find a different job and quit? My husband was an ER nurse during the worst of Covid and he ended up retiring 7 years earlier than he’d planned due to all of the crap the healthcare workers had to put up with. I think people who don’t work in healthcare don’t truly understand the toll these situations take on the workers. I will know in the next few weeks if I will be layed off from my corporate job. A few people have asked me if I will go back to nursing. Nope - after seeing what working through Covid did to my husband and our friends in healthcare, there is no way I would do it under this administration.
Good luck. Stay safe.
ceruleanmoon7@reddit
Holy shit. I hope you’re doing okay. Please take care of yourself and hugs!
Defcrazybutwhatabout@reddit
Location: Liberation Day, USA
Many of you newer users may not know this, but this sub started out as an economic collapse board full of goldbugs. Cheers to any of the survivors from that era! Kids these days think they’ll survive to see sea levels rise, hahhahahaha.
Anyway … let’s see, tariffs as far as the eye can see, stock market crashing in after hours, probably will get halted tomorrow. Might want to grab some extra groceries today before the store managers can reprice everything. Layoffs coming Monday.
With international tourism destroyed, will we see another temp spike from missing aerosols?
With the pesky CDC and FDA out of the way, will we see human to human H5N1?
Canyoubackupjustabit@reddit
Great post. I just looked at the tariffs imposed tonight - as if every nation on the planet doesn't hate the US enough already.
I wouldn't be surprised about human to human H5N1. Masks won't help if that happens.
Bad times are coming.
RunYouFoulBeast@reddit
Why hate USA just because of tariff? It's a tax to American people, a decoupling of US dollar as the world reserve currency (if can't earn it might as well don't use it), a stop on unstoppable growth (since US can't print indefinitely to support world consumption hunger)... so really there is noting to hate about. It's should be stop earlier, hope to see you guys come out differently in spirit later. I think Trump probably did the right thing with the wrong reason.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
As an American I don't like the USA very much right now.
Defcrazybutwhatabout@reddit
Oh, they have arrived!
Canyoubackupjustabit@reddit
Sure enough.
Collapse_is_underway@reddit
Don't threaten me with good times ! :]
The era of chaos is upon us. Great time to start a cult if you're either a low-empathic kind of person or if you can truely brainwash yourself into believing the narrative you'd use, lmao :]
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
I'm brainwashed now. Is it time for a re-programming and a NEW brainwash? s/
EratosthenesJr@reddit
People on this sub have talked about the overconsumption of Americans and the west. I do think that could be changing soon.
luv2block@reddit
Location: Canada, Ontario.
Price of coffee has gone insane. For the Walmart coffee it used to be like $5... then went to $7.99, then $8.99 and then last week to $12.99. I mean, this is coffee, a simple staple that basically everyone drinks (ie. should benefit from massive commodification). But because of climate change the price is going through the roof.
And it's not just local inflation. Open market prices for coffee has gone up 100% over the past year. I mean, when we can't grow coffee properly and as a result demand starts to outstrip supply, you know we're messing up the environment big time.
SecretPassage1@reddit
If it's any relief to you, coffee became a staple in every worker's house during the industrialisation, when they needed the live-in factory workers to stay awake to do their ridiculously long shifts, and work longer hours.
So in a way, giving up coffe is giving up a modern form of enslavement.
Its what I tell myself while weaning out of the habit for my heart, anyways.
ZiggedShouldaZagged@reddit
From my research it became a popular in Europe beginning in 1683, although was introduced to Vienna as many as 100 years prior. It was of course, being sipped elsewhere in the world as far back as the 1500's.
So if you want to feel Viennese, and sip coffee before they even had a notion of a Steam Engine, you can comfortably go right ahead and not have any kind of guilt about being enslaved.
https://culture.pl/en/article/the-spy-who-started-cafe-culture-a-secret-polish-history
SecretPassage1@reddit
Opening the first café frequented by aristocrats isn't quite the same as factory owners facilitating the adoption of coffee as a staple in every labor worker's home, to the point it still is well over a century later.
Of course aristocrats had a taste of it centuries earlier, as they had of everything. That's not even remotely what I was talking about.
ZiggedShouldaZagged@reddit
You are quite correct! And I broadly concur!
However in the article it points out that in Vienna, it was popularized "broadly", which may not mean the Poors, but certainly not just the Aristocrats. Perhaps Vienna was a bad example.
It turns out that by the 1680's, there were over 500 coffeehouses in London, (It's first in 1652) later referred to as "Penny Universities", because a single penny bought you a cup and the equivalent of a newspaper. So I would argue that the common man still had access long before the revolution.
I am not out to contradict you -- I hope that any loser who reads this far down the comment chains may be similarly enlightened that the precedent was well established long before punch-clocks and steam engines. And indeed, before Newton's 'Principia'.
Not what you're referring to, of course. But it was eye-opening to me. Because I thought the same thing that you did, which was that it wasn't booming until we had to keep the Poors awake. But indeed. It was booming!
SecretPassage1@reddit
Yeah, still entirely besides the point.
It's like popping up with "ah but coke cola was available in pharmacies all over the country waaayyyy before it hit the supermarkets, and anyone could go buy some!". Not wrong but not the same at all as it being so present in every household, café and restaurant, that it's now odd to not have any offered at a teenage party, café or restaurant... and I'm sure in many households, at all meals (hopefully except breakfast)
ZiggedShouldaZagged@reddit
I think we can both be right.
TuneGlum7903@reddit
The shortages of chocolate and coffee are harbingers of the food crisis to come.
finishedarticle@reddit
My own personal Armageddon is when I can no longer procure chocolate, coffee and cannabis .....
Lele_@reddit
Thankfully weed is not as picky as the other two
SoFlaBarbie00@reddit
I feel like I read a weekly observation on here months ago by someone in Colombia warning us about this coffee issue. This sub always connects the dots in advance.
RichieLT@reddit
I feel like coffee will be a very rare item in the coming years
Jaybird149@reddit
I honestly feel like coffee is the only thing keeping people going with their shitty jobs - Caffeine is like the drug that makes their day bearable with the enormous load people have on their shoulders.
if coffee goes, you can kiss civility in the workplace (as bad as it already is) goodbye.
It’s like the one thing people can drug themselves with legally to dull the pain of work.
Glad-Cow-5309@reddit
Coffee is my legal drug of choice!!
pathofthebean@reddit
hopefully tea doesn't spike at the same rate
luv2block@reddit
[Tea prices] (https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/tea) actually seem to be falling. I drink tea also (green and orange) and they've only gone up a smidge (like maybe 2-5%). But tea comes from China and India, while coffee comes from Brazil. If Trump finds this out he'll invade Brazil for sure.
anonymous_owlbear@reddit
The cheapest coffee in nova Scotia this week was 15.99 :(
down_a_mountain@reddit
Drought hit the biggest coffee producing areas (Brazil) this year. Additionally, this is the fourth successive season of harvest deficit due to adverse weather.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/coming-store-near-you-double-digit-coffee-price-hikes-2025-03-27/
As someone who enjoys their one a day cup of coffee, I'm trying to savour every delicious sip as much as possible while I can.
See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit
Location: USA, Lower 48 States, East of the Mississippi River
Covid cases have dropped slightly, which is good, but overall case levels are still not exactly what you'd call sunshine and roses, with about 1 out of every 150 people either currently actively infectious with covid or having had covid recently:
https://x.com/michael_hoerger/status/1906759296433394112
https://pmc19.com/data/
Trolls, haters, and assorted other losers are, of course, always perched in the wings ready to attack if you ever so much as mention that covid is an objectively bad thing and that there are ways to help protect yourself and other people from it. But being the sort of person whose general motto regarding people who want to hurt me is "Fuck your feelings," have a randomly selected bunch of sources and information regarding covid below, and let the haters and the losers cope and seethe. I've observed these creatures in the wild for about 5 years now and they all start to blend together after a while, sort of like how any argument on Twitter automatically evolves into the most craptastic unhinged fuckfest known to humankind at the speed of lightning. As always, I add a disclaimer that I don't endorse or follow every single belief or viewpoint expressed by the people who have compiled the information below but I share what I share anyways as it has some useful information:
Covid Basics: How To Protect Yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeFqnQKpEhU
Basic Facts About Masks: https://sites.google.com/view/letscleartheairab/masks?authuser=0
The Engineering Science That Shows How Masks Work: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-work-distorting-science-to-dispute-the-evidence-doesnt/
The Effect Of Long Covid On The Workforce: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/long-covid-has-had-brutal-effect-workforce-study-finds
How Covid Can Affect The Brain: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brain-fog-of-long-covid-is-a-serious-medical-issue-that-needs-more-attention/
A Google Doc Spreadsheet Listing Some Celebrities And Other Famous People Who Have Suffered With Long Covid: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oz8Vvg3G6D4b2RS1SrG6AJb3J4ghArxsSthh7N330ao/edit?gid=1875209590#gid=1875209590
The Bad Science Behind The Concept Of Immunity Debt Explained: https://www.salon.com/2022/12/04/does-your-immune-system-need-a-workout-the-science-behind-immunity-debt-explained/
Guideline For Re-Using N95/KN95/KF94 Masks: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-reuse-a-kn95-or-n95-mask-experts-say-yes-but-follow-these-steps-180979404/
An Opinion Essay Regarding Some Thoughts About How Humanity Has Handled Infectious Diseases Throughout History: https://www.nukit222.com/blogs/info/pathogens-and-the-law-of-club-and-fang
Bird Flu continues to cause a lot of problems for animals, including house pets, with reports of pets dying from eating food contaminated with the bird flu virus increasing as of lately: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/bird-flu/bird-flu-in-cats-rcna198374
https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-could-be-on-the-cusp-of-transmitting-between-humans-but-there-are-ways-to-slow-down-viral-evolution-250232
To top off the shit cake with a cherry straight from hell, Robert F. Kennedy, a man whose brain is smoother than the hardboiled eggs my mom put in the fridge a few days ago, has claimed that ultra high doses of Vitamin A can treat measles, which has resulted in some instances of people getting Vitamin A poisoning from ill-fated attempts to prevent or treat measles. In addition, Trump and his ghouls cutting jobs from departments like the Centers for Disease Control and Health and Human Services is like slamming the metaphorical gas pedal on the destruction of public health taking place in America.
The weather in my area has been mostly normal though today and yesterday the high temperature reached about 80 degrees Farenheit, which is less objectionable to me than it might be to people whose bodies process heat and cold in a more normal way, but of course, I'm also aware that it's not normal for it to be that hot in my area this time of year. The wildfires in North Carolina and South Carolina have been raging, burning thousands of acres and destroying homes and businesses. There was also an alert for a tornado watch in my area a while ago but luckily nothing came of that, just some rain and thunder.
The local news channels in my area have mostly been covering an increase in crime, Trump and company's ghoulish plans to fuck with Canada and Greenland, how tariffs will impact the economy, inflation continuing to fuck with people's finances, and rapidly changing weather patterns that seem to change their mind at the drop of a hat. Most tv commercials lately seem to be for medical stuff, cars, or shitty overpriced fast food/junk food.
In more personal news, my family's cable bill has gone through the roof so we changed our internet provider from Cox to Verizon, as doing so will wind up with us saving about $150 a month. I don't watch a lot of cable TV (unless you count the weather channel and some local news stations,) but I do occasionally indulge in some Netflix bingeing, and anyone who's ever bothered to check my Reddit profile (whether out of curiosity or just to trawl for more reasons to be a hater as people sometimes do on Reddit when arguing with people,) can probably guess that most of what I watch on Netflix is either anime, historical documentaries, or the occasional exercise program-there were some really nice yoga videos on Netflix that they got rid of last year that I'm still pissed off about because I haven't been able to find the videos uploaded anywhere else.
My dog, a hairy little man who looks like a cross between The Beast in Beauty and the Beast, a shaggy throw pillow, and some kind of cryptic gremlin that was created by a wizard that got high off of quaaludes chased with a shot of jungle juice, needs to be groomed, since he has thyroid issues that make him get too hot really quickly and his coat is incredibly thick for a little dude of his size, but the soonest appointment I can get him in for is in a couple weeks. When I brush him, the tufts of hair that come out of his fur look like tumbleweeds rolling along the ground in an old cowboy western movie.
Anyways, here I find myself at the end of another month, 3 months into the unhinged, deranged, balls to the wall clusterfuck that is 2025, and given the kind of shit I've seen go down so far, I'm more than a bit concerned about what the rest of this year may bring. Life sometimes seems to move by too fast, but at the same time, it also takes me an inordinately long time to find time to do things I enjoy, as different obligations and tasks seem to pile up faster than I can comfortably deal with them. There's been a lot going on, good, bad, ugly, and sometimes just plain bizarre, though as far as bizarre things are concerned, I may not be one to talk here, since I happen to be responsible for creating some pretty bizzare things myself (though, most of the bizarre things I create stay on Archive of our Own and are properly tagged so it would take at least some amount of effort to stumble on them. As for the memes I make, though, well, I can make no such promises about those, you might find those just about anywhere.)
It's been a wild ass year so far, but my message remains the same: Stay safe, stay healthy, take care of yourself, your loved ones, your community, and anyone and anything else you care about as best as you can and remember that even though things are hairier than Bigfoot's sweaty ass crack right now, there are still plenty of ways to help your fellow homo sapiens as we all take a ride on the blue and green orb third in line from the sun in our solar system while it moseys on its rotation around the aforementioned giant star as it always does. Even if some problems can't be fixed, fixing the ones that can be fixed still goes a long way in helping make things better for yourself and everyone else, and that means more than you think.
twotimefind@reddit
Try using an HD antenna for your local stations.
For internet, if you can see an Xfinity WiFi hotspot. You can log in and pay $10 a month with just an email, unlimited.
See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit
Thanks for the tip.
nosnowjob@reddit
Howdy Space Coyote! Always good to see you here. Thanks, as always, for the Covid info. And keep on writing! You are gifted.
See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit
Thanks, glad you like my posts, I find the weekly discussion posts a good way to infodump/rant/vent about what's on my mind.
No_Scientist9241@reddit
Location: North of Atlanta, GA
It’s mostly climate related. Atlanta’s pollen count broke a record. The lakes are so filled with pollen it looks like another layer of sand. Just before this, we had a red flag warning that lasted for several days. Dangerous wildfires aren’t common down here. It’s only going to get worse as there is so much construction and the expansion is overwhelming. Many places are now borderline unrecognizable due to the mass takedown of trees.
The infrastructure is average at best and many buildings are either old or poorly built. Nobody in my county is prepared for any natural disaster that may occur. Many people didn’t even know what the red flag warning meant. There are a ton of mobile homes in the rural areas, and storm shelters are limited. The closest shelter recommended by FEMA is in Kentucky. If anything more dangerous than a thunderstorm hit this area, we’d be screwed. Yet, it seems as though it’s only becoming more likely. I didn’t anticipate ever getting a red flag warning, especially not in spring, and was more focused on tornadoes.
neu8ball@reddit
Location: New England, Southern MA
There's a few good posts here about the draining mental and emotional toll of being collapse aware, and I'm right there with all of you. I'm depressed and burned out - oh well. My little Zoloft candy + weed takes the edge off most days, but my intellect cannot be quieted.
I came across this phrase the other day - "The world that was promised to us was a lie all along." Certainly feels that way. You can apply this phrase broadly to any topic you want.
I learned about the law, checks and balances of US democracy as a child through my college education; oops, oligarchs, literal nazis, and MAGA fascists run the country now and are completely above the law. I was told to vote for people who would represent my values, but now politicians just ignore their constituents and even refuse to meet with them.
I was told "go to college, find a stable company where you can develop your career, and save, and you'll be a success." Oops, I finally paid off my crushing student loans last year, but I've been laid off three times and "survived" many more, and I'm terrified of what happens if I'm laid off again.
I was raised to accept my fellow PEOPLE. People of all nationalities, races, genders, religions, economic backgrounds, even, dare I say, political views. Now, half the states have laws that control women's bodies, students and legal immigrants are abducted off the street in plain daylight and sent to concentration camps, and "across the aisle," half the country is cheering for death.
I was taught crime is bad, the police and justice system are here to help, and if you break the law, you'll suffer consequences. Now, this applies only if you are poor or non-white. An unelected billionaire controls the country while another billionaire - the actual POTUS - openly grifts taxpayers for golf vacations and wealth.
I was told if you get sick, you should go to the doctor and insurance will take care of the cost. Now, most people can't even afford an ER visit, much less preventive care. A board of unnamed and unseen "advisors" will determine what medicine you can and cannot take, what tests or procedures you are allowed to have, and what your treatment will be (if any) regardless of what your doctor says. And they might front a percentage of the bill, but probably not if you're poor. Oops.
As a child, I learned that "global warming" was poorly-understood science that silly Al Gore was obsessed about, and that the countries of the world would come together to lower emissions and invent magical technology that would save us all. Oops, now emissions are the highest they have ever been, and the planet is burning up.
I could go on, and on, and on, and on, and on. But I'm just here, living in my gilded prison waiting for the axe to fall, mourning a world that I thought I knew, but one that never existed in the first place. My only advice - make the most of the time we have left. Do what you want, cherish the ones you love, and remember that while kindness may not save us, it will make the end much more bearable.
4BigData@reddit
The system has been working against the average citizen for generations, it's great that people finally are waking up.
lifeissisyphean@reddit
I hear you brother 🫡
Pleasant-Log9457@reddit
Trevor Noah did a great video in 2020 about the social contract being broken. It really hit hard then and still does today. If you haven't already seen it look for it on YouTube.
neu8ball@reddit
Possible to link in a comment for myself and others?
Pleasant-Log9457@reddit
https://youtu.be/v4amCfVbA_c?si=epD7suAem8UIGeOb
I wasn't sure if YouTube links could be shared
RoyalCanadianBuddy@reddit
Location: The Prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada:
I noticed today that there were many more non-US produce items at the grocery store. The US products still available were not being bought and somethings are rotting where they sit. There's more Mexican, Israeli, and Chinese produce. For me it was a small reminder that the US is about to go through some serious economic turmoil. Even aside from the tariffs, the boycotts are going to do big damage.
On the weather front, we're pretty normal (calm) so far this spring. We've been extremely lucky all things considered (so far). I expect more wildfire smoke that typically comes our from the the Northwest. Thunderstorms will likely increase in frequency and intensity. We haven't had the crazy droughts like California is having, but I expect this year, the next or the one after that, we will have water management issues. I get really annoyed that people still have grass lawns everywhere. It's so foolish.
Nothing very earthshattering, but yes big changes are coming our way.
Hazbin1Worker@reddit
Why are Canadians boycotting Mexico?
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
As an American, good for you guys (re: letting it mold over on the shelf). We deserve it.
Heeler2@reddit
Correction, the Americans who voted for the Cheeto deserve it. Those of us who voted for Harris are collateral damage. But I support what Canada is doing.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
Good caveat, agree with you 💙
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
The USA earned it. And I am an American writing this.
log_with_cool_bugs@reddit
Location: Georgia
For those who may be unaware the largest wildfire in state history is currently burning through NW South Carolina and SW North Carolina: LATEST UPDATES | Table Rock and Persimmon Ridge Wildfires.
My family currently lives in the affected area, and the home that is to be their retirement home is in the path of the encroaching flames. This, to me, is symptomatic of collapse for a number of reasons. Not least of which is the fact that we're seeing extreme wild fires in an area of temperate rain forest. Also that the Federal government's response to this seems to be a resounding "shrug" with our president spending this past weekend golfing (again).
This area was already bludgeoned by Hurricane Helene in the fall of last year, and it's frankly insane to me to see a series of apocalyptic tier events befall this space and everyone (myself included) just has to keep soldiering on, attending meetings, doing the daily tasks. Things appear to be coming apart at the seams.
TuneGlum7903@reddit
This is something people just don't GET no matter how much you explain it to them.
ALL, I repeat ALL of the existing forests globally are going to DIE and then BURN.
036 - The World’s Forests are Burning, Ecosystem Turnover is the Cause. Let’s All be Really Clear on What that Means.
"I use the term “ecosystem turnover” frequently in my articles to explain why the planet is going to be plagued by fires on unbelievable scales for the rest of this century. The basic idea is that Global Warming is warming up the entire planet, so every ecosystem on the planet is going to change in response to that warming."
"Not just “vulnerable” places, not just “some” places, every place is going to go through this. The ecosystem you live in right now is already dying."
"You might not have noticed it yet, but the plants and animals have. When it reaches a tipping point where there is enough debris from the dying ecosystem laying around, fires will start happening."
Moving to "the woods" to escape COLLAPSE is a deathtrap at this point. Unless you do extensive fire mitigation to keep your house from burning down and provide an emergency shelter you can retreat into.
PhoenixRisingdBanana@reddit
would underground be safe from fires?
I could see humans burrowing in the future as weather gets more extreme. Will need great drainage...
slickrok@reddit
Yes. And from what I understand, this is the first time in history they've had to use the aerial suppressor dumping planes east of the Mississippi River. That's incredible. The fuel on the ground when we were in gv county in November was sickening. I was stunned by the vast vast vast area that had damage. The fires are going to be bad every time for the foreseeable future with all the trees down so widespread.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
It's been a "red flag" dry alert for the past week or so - I saw it in a tiny box on WSB's chyron.
Storms are supposedly due today, which may help alleviate some of it, but we here in Gwinnett need a thorough soaking.
No one around here is ready for a spreading ground fire.
log_with_cool_bugs@reddit
Adding to it I just looked at our local forecast - it's supposed to be near 90 next week. In early April. I don't know how anyone can deny the reality of our current situation any longer.
buggcup@reddit
I'm horrified that I hadn't even heard about this yet. Best of luck to you <3
log_with_cool_bugs@reddit
Thank you for the kind words <3
SecretPassage1@reddit
Location: France, Paris Area
Military exercise of urban war around the town Frejus you might have to set your vpn to a french server and decline cookies a couple times to access the video but it's worth it.
The military exercise took place from march 25 to march 27, the city's website has a map showing the areas where up to 600 soldiers and 100 armored vehicles were practising amongst citizens, mainly in empty vacation villages, but also in other areas of the city.
TBH IDK if it's a normal run of the mill event, but it's the first time I saw anything like that, of that magnitude on the news. They generally train for terrorist attacks in subways, not urban guerrilla in a high intensity war with tanks!
US interfering in french companies
Yes, this is a new category I reckon from now on. The US embassy in France has sent letters to a few french companies requesting they comply to the anti DEI Trump admin rules, but not all of them do business in the US, with the federal agencies or even with the US embassy in France.
Le Monde article in english -archive link
The New York Times -archive link
The bloody nerve.
Politics
Extreme right leader Marine LePen has been convicted as the leader of the RN for a long running accusation of embezzlment of european funds (together with all other parties accused) to 4 years in prison of which she's only to do 2 years with a bracelet, 5 years of ineligibility (meaning kiss goodbye to the presidency election in 2027), and the RN has to pay a fine of 2 000 000 euros. Why is this even in my comment? Because of the discussions around this in the media and social media and political parties. The logical take would be "the Judge applies the law. Lawmakers change the law when needed. No-one is above the law." But not anymore. People are outraged that the judge had "the nerve" to convict a party leader, but if she'd done anything else than apply the law she'd set a precedent, bypassing the lawmakers, which is undemocratic.
Yet all politicians from the far-right to extreme right, and the extreme leftists Insoumis, especially their leader Mélanchon, are commenting in outrage that "no one appart from The People can judge a party leader's /policitican's right to be elligible", which is in effect claiming that any politician is above the law.
Jordan Bardella (Marine Lepen's second in commande, probably their future candidate someday, when he's older and experienced enough) has called to a "peaceful march" in protestation of Marine Le Pen's conviction (she will appeal anyway, and still can attend and vote in the national assembly until the end of her term).
Such dangerous times for democracy, all over the planet.
Truth is agonising its last breaths
in an excellent article in french (maybe just google translate it ?) Telerama warns about the growing difficulties met by reporters who fact check the lies being published everywhere, and wonders when it'll become impossible to fact check anything because of the growing tidal wave of conspiracy BS being produced by politicians, their teams, their supporters, troll farms, and several different countries fed by IA. In addition to the shear volume of BS to untangle, the fact checkers are beign targeted and threatened in many places of the world. A european deputy warns fact-checking is in mortal danger.
We're are now living any narcissist's wet dream.
Neverstopstopping82@reddit
Thanks for the level of detail here. My husband is French and we were considering leaving the US for France until the war business started. It’s hard to know what the safest place is right now.
SecretPassage1@reddit
I honestly don't know.
If you're POC or from whatever religion, you might be targeted one day (basically, anything else than white and christian) you might only be buying yourselves a couple of years before some flavor of authoritarian leader takes over the presidency and starts slashing into our democracy too.
And France is warming up faster than anywhere else, the institutions have started preparing adaptation plans for a France at +4°c (for the buildings, natural catastrophies resilience, ...), which should be reached "by the end of the century", so probably within a couple decades, at the rate it's accelerating...
But we have a solid leftist base that should normally be able to resist the insanity, alas it is in bad shape since Mélenchon is showing increasing signs of authoritarianism (for instance he routinely yells to "shut up" at reporters interviewing him because he doesn't like being questionned).
Europe is ramping up the war effort, which is both a survival need to arm and get ready to defend, and posturing to show we won't be annexed as easily as they imagine. Young people are legit angry at the bloody nerve of threatening us on one front, and letting us down on the other, and a majority of them is ready to enroll in the army, according to recent polls. People are spending less in convenience shit, clothing stores are shutting down, most people shop in discounter supermarkets like Aldi or Lidl now, and I'm starting to see random articles about how cool it is to store "resilience food" pop up in the most unexpected places, basically prepping windowdressing as the new instagrammable craze. (last one was in a magazine about organic food stores, explaining what you can plant, harvest and store in glass jars "for years", no recipes or anything, just a prepping list)
Life still seems normal on the surface, but people are on edge, either in fierce denial for their own sanity, or actively starting to prep in their own way, depending on how they cope.
We're expecting a recession, even though it's not expressed like that in the media.
Collapse_is_underway@reddit
I heard about the +4° preparations, and it's so hilarious. Agriculture is done for at this level.
Wanna hear something funny ? Listen to Arthur Keller and find out that there are "critical sectors" that needs to be protected in France, like military, retailers, healthcare, etc.
But not agriculture. We're so fucking out of touch that the very basis of our civilization is "not critical"; because obviously, retailers will always magically make food appear in their stores.
But Arthur Keller is good to listen to, because of his ideas about "how to prepare locally", past the "constat" of the situation.
SecretPassage1@reddit
Yeah, I'll go back to stuff like that when I'm out of heart rehab, for now, I have to avoid them. Too stressful.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Yes, please focus on your health first!!
We look forward to anything in english, i feel kind of handicapped only knowing english.
SecretPassage1@reddit
maybe comment on the podcast episodes tyou'd love more of them, might get the team who translated them to be motivated to continue
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Oohh i will do that! Send em a note! Thx.
Collapse_is_underway@reddit
Godspeed in your recovery _\\//
boneyfingers@reddit
Your last point is the culmination of Brandolini's Law, coined a decade ago: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
SecretPassage1@reddit
Yes, but also, now the bullshit is being powered by AI and bots, and generated faster than can be even detected and identified, before even starting to consider the work to refute it. That's the jist of my point. But maybe I didn't explain it properly.
Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit
LFI isn't "extreme left", just socialist. Mélenchon criticized the judges decisions here, which I agree isn't a normal reaction. LFI has ties with Qatar that should frankly be investigated, however they've never been funded by Russia and never supported Putin in any way. Unless you happen to have exclusive informations that would certainly interest the justice and the Canard Enchainé.
SecretPassage1@reddit
well listen closely, it's the Kremlin's "éléments de language" that come out of their mouths when they open them. When they are not paraphrasing Trump.
and it's not new either
libé 2017 article about Mélanchon's "fascination" for Putin
jdd mouillé sur le détournement de fonds européens comme Marine
le monde à la botte de poutine dans ses positions et paroles
and you're right, they've only proven an attempt to buy him off Obs - article incomplet
But I'm convinced there's more to find, time will tell...
ManticoreMonday@reddit
Location: far east Asia.
Due to the ongoing threat of Tariffs, China, Japan and S. Korea are agreeing to work together against the US trade war Because teaching history is so neglected, not enough people realize how much of a disaster things have to be for those countries to hold any consequential talks.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china-japan-south-korea-will-jointly-respond-us-tariffs-chinese-state-media-says-2025-03-31/
This is collapse related as new trade agreements to replace the broken trust of those with the US will massively impact global economies.
Together with consumer confidence, US debt, and a market that has little of it's foundational value in reality(and has been propped up without a major correction for 15 years) all points towards a massive downturn. Perhaps not great depression levels? Perhaps with the AI/LLM replacement of swathes of employees it will be far worse.
The circuses aren't keeping up any more. Fast and Furious 25 isn't going to cut it when bellies start to rumble.
It's a massive inflection point for humanity, and it will probably go how you expect.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
Those 3 working together 🫣
China and US both courting Moscow (China will win out)
Americas best bet is to cozy up to India, but we don’t do grand strategy anymore in the US.
Anywho, I think we just lost lost Taiwan if Japan and SoKo have had it with us 😬
ManticoreMonday@reddit
Well put! Especially about Indian relations - that is some solid outside of the box realpolitik
However, please think which of India's neighbors was a very close, long term US ally.
If you have forgotten, don't worry, India hasn't.
And what country would trust US intentions at this point.
I make ZERO excuses for a government that wastes decades of tax revenue without solving any fundamental issues of its population.
The same delicate approach that is taken with diplomacy is NOTHING like that!
The massive amount of time, resources energy and effort necessary to establish diplomatic channels and trade agreements means that, once broken, alternative paths to the same goal with other, more boring and predictable partners are far more preferable.
Breaking back into those markets will not cost countries who broke the agreements the same amount of TREDS as it did initially. It will be vastly more expensive.
To expect that would be insane.
Or horrifically ignorant.
This is why career diplomats shouldn't be under the same blanket as career politicians.
Every day the lunatic inspired approach to international relations is this toxic, the more multiples of "are you frickin kidding me" will be needed to navigate back through to calm, understandable relations.
Who the hell gets back into a toxic relationship on purpose?
Apart from America, that is.
And I am of the same opinion of the Taiwanese Straights as you are.
Donbas, Taiwan, Greenland, Munich Everybody talking 'bout Pop Music.
*Populism, sorry for the earworm.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
100% re: India’s long term enemy and our total fumbling of relations with both countries. Love your analysis & spot on.
ManticoreMonday@reddit
Thank you!!!
dawnguard2021@reddit
Russia will never trust US, only the idiots in Trumpland believes they can court Putin
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
Agree 100%
ManticoreMonday@reddit
Trust.
But verify.
Is that irony? It feels like irony, but probably isn't.
Only an fool of a Took or a fool of a country would trust the US diplomatically at this stage.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
I know where you got the "Trust but verify"!
I agree with you: "Only an fool of a Took or a fool of a country would trust the US diplomatically at this stage."
IPA-Lagomorph@reddit
Location: Colorado, USA
In one of the cities here, many of the local doctors had formed a city-wide group practice over the past several decades. That group practice was purchased by a private equity group a couple years ago. The PE group made a bunch of changes that cut corners and made the patient experience far worse, while also screwing the doctors. So the doctors have been leaving but have non-compete clauses that means they have to relocate their work in a different city. So it's very likely there will be a local doctor shortage, all because of the greed of already rich people trying to get richer. To be clear: I am not talking about the doctors forced to move because their workplace became terrible, I am talking about the private equity people, who are much, much more wealthy than doctors. All of this is separate from the garbage fire that is the US health insurance system, which has its own level of awfulness, nor the nightmare of public assistance which the federal government is destroying (or allowing to be destroyed in the case of the legislative and judicial branches) nor the lack of a public transportation system so people who can't drive could get to a doctor 15 miles (20km) away.
Anyway, locally the health care system is collapsing.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
I am really surprised that non compete is holding.
IPA-Lagomorph@reddit
I'm not certain about the details of that tbf. Hopefully docs won't be forced to work outside a certain distance but there's a lot of disruption and confusion right now.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
That has to be horribly frustrating and worrisome for the whole community!
Novel-Suggestion-515@reddit
Oh Fort Collins... Yeah, that is a very fucked situation.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
And with the war on Medicaid and gov't supported health insurance, future financials look bleak.
Hospitals, too.
Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit
Location: Aquitaine, France
Collapsometer - 3/10, as local emergency rescue teams have been roaming the mountains for four days without sleep, to mirror real collapse conditions. Some regional administrations started issuing orders to stop using Microsoft 365 and Google workspace. Should have been done back in the 2000's, if you ask me. In other news, Marine Le Pen has finally been convicted for massive misuse of EU parliament money: no 2027 presidential campaign for her. Four years of "jail" (bracelet) instead.
Weather bulletin - rhe weather is weathering in a most weatherly fashion, nothing to declare.
War bulletin - no war. This is a drill paragraph. "War bulletin" coming soon.
Preppers of the Third Kind - I do care about my citizen's duties, it's the rest I stopped caring about. New girlfriend, spent the weekend with her at a ~~pseudoscience~~ "spiritual well-being" convention, helping her selling a frightening amount of New Age stuff. We had a wonderful time together, all those people are lovely, and I didn't hide the fact I don't believe in shamanism or orgone therapy. Collapse related because those doux dingues are prepping (in their own Zeta Reticulan way). It striked me somewhere around 3pm on Sunday. Whether they believe The Source will save them, 5th Dimensional beings will help us all, or numerology can vanquish evil... they're all stocking up on magic rocks and enchanted invisible elfs (90€ a piece, all sold-out, my woman's genius terrifies me) with a transparent goal in mind: surviving climate collapse. Maybe the hippie nuts are right ; maybe I too should invest in a household elf. Think about it: invisible elves are carbon neutral and basically a Pascal's wager. I can't blame G for running a decarbonated business making weird people happy. She's not even scamming anyone she sees the invisible elves.
Opposites day - Israel's government warmly invites Le Pen's pétainist gang to an event against antisemitism, but blacklists L'Humanité. Communist newspaper, always been on the jewish people side, including during the Nazi occupation of France where it is useful to remind 80% of the pre-1945 Resistance was socialist/communist. That's how I deduced the UN launched some kind of "opposite day" happening this week. Again, how can I blame the pseudoscience folks for saying "I don't read the news anymore it's all >!bad energies!<"? Look what happens when I read the news. Israël warmly inviting actual neonazis to an event against antisemitism. Bad energies.
I hope you're doing okay. See you next week
Pictured below: according to G, small folks are hiding here. According to me, we're half a kilometer away from a Dassault factory. According to data, we're getting close to global collapse
_rihter@reddit
I already see people complaining about Le Pen's conviction, and they are usually the same ones complaining about that disqualified candidate from the Romanian presidential elections.
Which probably means it was the right decision.
Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit
Probably, yes. People who don't understand the rule of law (or refuse to understand it).
France is an emblematic battlefield regarding this topic, by the way. It goes all the way back to Napoleon, who "invented" modern cesarism: the idea "democracy is dictatorship of the majority", and therefore anyone popular enough is the democracy.
France still struggle with the rule of law to this very day. For instance we didn't even had a Constitutional Court before the 1970's. That's not in the local culture.
Which means today's decision is very interesting, and adding Macron to 200 years of treacherous cesarists "killing the father" (long story short, today's decision was Macron's decision, because France also has a cultural issue with the balance of powers)
Among various funny consequences, it gave us this: Mélenchon, boss of the French left, actually... Defended his archnemesis Le Pen. Complicated result of 200 years of local political culture.
_rihter@reddit
It's Russian propaganda. Apparently, they are trying to label ICC, ECHR, and French courts as "kangaroo courts."
As soon as you see whataboutism (why is ICC issuing an arrest warrant for Putin and not Biden), you already know it's a Russian disinformation campaign.
Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit
Not everything is Russian propaganda... I think some people give Russian too much credit and influence these days. Local Bonapartists didn't wait for Russia bot farms ;) They've been feeling this way regarding the rule of law for 200 years. Russia is active, yes, but merely surfing on trends already present
You know, it's a bit like when my fellow French creatures yell "we got kicked out of Mali because of Russia". Well, yes indeed. But we made it really easy for Russia to do so in the first place !
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
I forgot about French imperialism/colonialism.
ceruleanmoon7@reddit
I want to see les chats!!! Lol
Stufilover69@reddit
Suggesting that Israel supports nazis and antisemites is antisemitic
Do the Musk gesture three times to pay for your sins
Karma_Iguana88@reddit
Beautiful! I hope the little folks have a better shot at riding out the climate crisis than we do...
Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit
I hope too. Their biomes are at risk of disappearing
TuneGlum7903@reddit
It's what we should have done to Trump. At least someone learned something from US stupidity.
Maj0r-DeCoverley@reddit
Yup.
It's what we should have done to Chirac, Juppé, Sarkozy, Fillon... (they're all from the same party, oddly). At least the four of them got convicted. But it didn't prevent two of them to continue politics afterwards as if nothing happened (and one of them to actually become President)
But, still, a good news is a good news. That's a start !
river_tree_nut@reddit
Location: Lake Tahoe, CA
New 24-hr surveillance tower at one of the local Tesla charger lots. The chargers had been vandalized a couple times. What does this have to do with Collapse?
Our representative system of democratic governance is collapsing. People SHOULD be able to petition their representative in congress for a redress of their grievances. In our district, the GOP congressman won't show up for town halls. People's grievances are not being addressed, and so they're destroying the property of the richest man in the world. The man who was allowed to buy our government.
Representative democracy is collapsing, and when people don't feel heard, they take out their frustrations on private property. The government chooses to protect property rather than address grievances. Additionally, using "property must be protected" as a pretext for widespread surveillance is yet another symptom of a collapsing government.
TuneGlum7903@reddit
TBE - Elon and Trump want "Tesla vandalism" classified as "domestic terrorism".
Remember, if you are a "terrorist" you have NO civil rights and can be detained indefinitely without charge or recourse. Masked men, wearing no identification, can literally "snatch" you off the streets and whisk you away in an unmarked black van into "detention".
Never to be seen again.
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
lol thats not true for US citizens
TuneGlum7903@reddit
Ummm....this is exactly what they did in Portland during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
ok please give me one example of a citizen who was snatched off the street and never seen again
TuneGlum7903@reddit
Wow, that's the part you are focusing on.
Masked men, forcing people into unmarked vans, and hauling them off to unknown locations is OK?
As long as everyone was released in the end.
Your standards for alarm are apparently a LOT higher than mine.
That was the "shakedown" for these internal police units. Trump was considering a coup in 2020 and getting ready for it. We saw these same units in DC later that summer.
These units were never officially accounted for or investigated after the election. The Dems couldn't wrest control of DHS, ICE, and BCP away from the MAGAt loyalists that Trump packed the agencies full of.
This time, going to "detention" is likely to be much more serious.
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
Yes I am focusing on the absurd and histrionic portion of your comment.
slickrok@reddit
Here you go, it's easy to find and was covered by plenty of sources.
You could have done this yourself. The rest of us already read it
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
So you think those people were never seen again? As in the government has locked them into secret prisons forever? This is your actual belief?
Novel-Suggestion-515@reddit
4 month old account with negative comment score, why are we even entertaining you?
slickrok@reddit
Ugh, you're right.
Novel-Suggestion-515@reddit
I fully recommend looking at account details for bizarre/inane/agitprop comments. It can save a lot of time.
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
a lot of people struggle here with reality
slickrok@reddit
Stop.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland
Ghostwoods@reddit
Da, tovarisch.
river_tree_nut@reddit
Well, this may not be true. The Patriot Act drastically reduced civil liberties for citizens who were deemed to be "terrorists" and/or "enemy combatants." Yes, this includes American citizens. At this point it should be viewed as a legal definition.
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
US citizens cannot be detained indefinitely. They cannot be snatched off into black vans to never be seen again. If you believe either of these things are happening in the US you are not informed enough to offer any sort of commentary.
PaPerm24@reddit
the law doesnt mean shit anymore. They absolutely WILL do that
river_tree_nut@reddit
I hope that I am wrong, but I'll dig into it and see if I can confirm or dispel.
BTW, how old were you when the Patriot Act passed? I was a 25 yr old Poli Sci major at the time.
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
I was 11
river_tree_nut@reddit
That sounds a lot more fun than analyzing policy and coming to the conclusion that the terrorists won.
While there are not now widespread stories of US citizens being 'disappeared' these types of things don't typically become acceptable overnight. The Patriot Act set the stage. We are dangerously close to this being a new reality.
Key words to listen for: emergency, security, marshal law
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
I don't think the terrorists won considering 1)they almost all ended up dead or in prison and 2) their goal wasn't to compel US authorities to curtail civil rights. I enjoy reading this sub but the way I envision collapse is a lot different than how the majority of posters here do. Things will look more like the covid era than 1930s central europe. Most countries have governments that are desperately looking for less obligation to their citizens, not creating police states.
river_tree_nut@reddit
Terrorism is effective when it causes it's target to change their behavior in response to fear of more violence. I can argue that the USA definitely did that. We absolutely traded our liberty for security. TSA drastically changed the flying experience for every single passenger.
The domestic surveillance apparatus exploded. This also provided a backdrop for the rise of consumer surveillance, and influenced what we found acceptable in terms of corporate prying.
Based on those two items alone, the TSA and explosion in domestic surveillance, I would assert that the terrorists won. They struck enough fear in us to make these changes.
But then, we also responded with here was 20 years of war. Good god. The cost of war. Trillions of dollars, lives lost or destroyed, damage to environment, the political capital that could been spent fixing domestic issues. It's astronomical. That's how terrorism wins.
The vision of collapse here has evolved in the past few years. There used to be a lot of "when is the collapse" discussions that viewed the phenomenon as a singular event. That view has evolved to realize that it's more of a series of events.
I do hope you feel welcome here to share your own personal vision on collapse. We can learn from our differences.
TuneGlum7903@reddit
Fantastic answer and analysis.
I thought your point about "how old were you when?" was well made. So many people don't remember what life was like before the disaster of 9-11.
river_tree_nut@reddit
*Presumption of detention for any person charged with crime on list of terrorism offenses (sec. 2602). This provision relieves the government of the burden of having to show with evidence, at a bail hearing, that a suspect is dangerous or likely to flee - instead, the suspect would have to prove they are not dangerous and are not likely to flee. The presumption already applies in international terrorism cases; this provision would apply the presumption to all cases where a crime listed as a terrorist crime is charged
https://www.aclu.org/documents/patriot-act-ii-provisions-hr-10-passed-house
DefinitionFresh5388@reddit
I'm not saying the Patriot Act is good, it does curtail civil rights of US citizens (mainly with regard to surveillance), but this is a procedural thing that applies to bail as you await trial. US citizens still possess robust constitutional protection from the state.
winston_obrien@reddit
Maybe it’s time to go after the surveillance tower
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river_tree_nut@reddit
I’d be lying if I said the thought didn’t cross my mind.
I also wonder who’s paying for it. Tesla or the taxpayers?
Cannibal_Soup@reddit
Location: Arizona
When I moved here 20 yrs ago, there was already a problem of homeless people from around the country moving here to avoid freezing to death in other places where that's common. Every few blocks you'd see someone with a sign asking for anything that helps, or a person with a shopping cart carrying all of their worldly possessions. There were often a few with tents that fared better than others. It was sad and frustrating knowing how easily it could have all been helped.
Now there are often multiple people, on almost every single corner of every interaction in town, and there are literally mini tent villages popping up all over, often being torn down by police sooner or later, then going right back up again a few months later. The drug problem has also gotten so much worse, heroin meth and more, and these problems have a huge Venn diagram overlap with the unhoused.
People discussing these problems often just want these people removed, instead of dealing with the root causes behind it all.
And then, on a completely unrelated, and much darker note I've made of late: the local Air Force base has been flying a helluva lot of practice missions over the city in the past few weeks. I work nights, sleep days, and have been shaken from a sound sleep to what I honestly thought was bombs exploding, thinking that the house was about to collapse. They're practicing for something...
BritaB23@reddit
I wonder if there's anyone else near other bases that have noticed the same thing? Concerning indeed.
surewhynotokaythen@reddit
I'm in S. CO and hit the deck the other night around midnight due to a fairly concussive boom that had a secondary boom behind it. I'm wondering now if that was a sonic boom from a training flight.
Novel-Suggestion-515@reddit
Perhaps anecdotal, but up in Greeley, I'm hearing a shit ton more helicopters recently.
Calowayyy@reddit
Yes. Smaller upper mid Midwestern state. I live by an air guard base and an armory.
Mewmieux@reddit
I live near Air National Guard and yes, far more active recently and very concerning!
Rossdxvx@reddit
When I lived out west around fifteen years ago, this problem was already becoming ubiquitous. Portland has been banging their heads against a wall for years now - how do you make these people disappear without actually addressing the root causes of it?
While I was living there (pre-covid), luxury apartment buildings were going up left and right, and rents/housing were becoming sky high. For me personally, the writing was on the wall. It was either move back to the somewhat cheaper midwest or become one of those homeless denizens myself.
ClimateMessiah@reddit
Location: Reddit
As a Boomer of Jewish descent, I am witnessing the parallels between the present day and the early period of the Third Reich.
I am linking an article which refers to a social construction during the buildup to the Holocaust. The judenrate were the Jews who maintained orderly in Jewish ghettos until it became time to ship the residents off to extermination camps.
We are all presently experiencing the violence of a socio-economic system which is killing us all. It's even eventually killing the billionaires who are addicted to the status quo just as the Third Reich eventually killed Hitler, Goebbels and their cronies.
The reddit moderators are among the modern equivalent of the judenrate. They tell us that the rules are that we must endure violence without fighting back.
This is a useless platform and s/b abandoned. Nature mandates that we struggle to survive. This platform is an abomination of nature which tells us to accept our death in silence and capitulation and follow the oligarchs on their suicide march.
Judenrat - Wikipedia
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
which mods?
ClimateMessiah@reddit
The reddit admins give all of the subreddit moderators the marching orders and they follow.
If they had any balls, they would shut down the subreddit and force collapseniks to find a new place where they are allowed to exercise freedom of speech and the potential to organize a rebellion.
This subreddit is a place built to lament and acquiesce. A place for the people who embrace their powerlessness.
Known_Leek8997@reddit
You're free to be frustrated with the limits of Reddit and this subreddit. But comparing volunteer moderators—regular people who care deeply about this stuff—to the Judenrate is just not okay. It minimizes the suffering of Holocaust victims and doesn't reflect what’s actually going on here.
Yeah, Reddit has rules and we follow them. That includes no calls for violence or certain types of organizing. It’s not because we like it, it's because we either follow those terms or this place gets shut down. The sub links out to other spaces where those kinds of convos can happen for exactly that reason.
r/Collapse exists for people to bring awareness to collapse, talk about it, make sense of it, and sometimes just grieve. Plenty of folks here are involved in mutual aid, advocacy, caregiving, mental health, parenting, and such. It’s not all doom and it’s definitely not all passive.
If this isn't the space you want, that’s fine. But you can criticize without throwing out awful comparisons like that.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Location: Gwinnett County; the Atlanta Sprawl, Georgia US
I seem to have a lot fewer neighbors these days. My subdivision (what an insane idea of a neighborhood) is quite mixed and I believe that a good number are undocumented. They primarily work in the building trades.
The folks across the street have lost 2 roommates, and I think they left their cars up on blocks in the driveway. Carlos is brain-damaged from an industrial accident - he has recovered but he's getting real creepy around girls and women. I am sure he does not know what's going on. Rosa tries her best to hold up the household, working multiple jobs and getting the kids to school but she's always frazzled.
One of our white neighbors have abandoned their house and their car for years. Their house, fully paid for and worth hundreds of thousands in today's market, sits rotting and even worse, they were hoarders and the house and car are packed with detritus. They've been working some scam with social services here, but live in New York. They moved because they did not like black people and Central Americans.
I hope any of the people who are left are living good lives and are free.
compounddreams@reddit
Location: Louisiana.
We've had several tornados across the state - not unheard of here, but they've been steadily increasing in frequency.
On the recent industry announcements front, Meta is building their largest AI data center here, for which they will be building their own power plant, as the power demands are expected to be about a third of our current supply. And Hyundai announced they will be building a massive new steel plant here, in the area along the Mississippi deemed Cancer Alley.
In other cancer alley news, the new administration has dropped a federal lawsuit years in the making against a petrochemical plant that intended to reduce their chloroprene pollution, which has, of course, caused elevated cancer rates in surrounding communities for years.
Aaaaand of course we are the ICE detention location of choice for student political dissidents. The administration is working to get cases from all over the country moved into this jurisdiction.
One small win: we voted down an amendment this Saturday that would have given judges broad discretion to try children as adults for a whole litany of new crimes, as well as a few other nasty reforms to our judicial system. So, slowing them down a touch, I wager, but we'll see.
Good times.
taylorbagel14@reddit
I went to college in Louisiana and still follow the Louisiana subreddit (as a lurker) and I was really happy to see that particular amendment voted down. I worry about my friends who live there
compounddreams@reddit
Yeah... I'm actually from Oregon & in the process of moving back. My parents are aging & we're fortunate they're on a very large, remote piece of property in Eastern Oregon, so we've decided it's family compound time.
I've really loved my time down here, the people are, by & large, really wonderful, but between the political climate, the heat, & the broader collapse in general, it's time. 😔
Complete_External_72@reddit
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains
We haven't had meaningful snowfall since early January. Usually, we get large dumps of snow in the spring that's wet and heavy, helping us mitigate wildfire risks later on in the summer months. We have had nearly zero accumulation since the beginning of the year.
I'm actually terrified of what this summer is going to look like for us.
ToBeFaaaiiiirrrrr@reddit
I'm also frightened of what this spring/summer/fall will bring to the Front Range and Clear Creek/Summit Counties. Please stay safe. At least in Denver, we got a bit of moisture over the last two days, which is something at least.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Yup. Me too. And i amnin a 'wetter' area than you and our soil moisture levels are not what they need to be for planting.
massemt@reddit
Location: Massachusetts, USA
I have been an appointee of the Selective Service System (the “draft”) citizens board since 2008. Our job is to activate if a military draft were to occur in order to make decisions about people wanting exemptions from the draft (religious or conscientious objection being the most common). While we have “required annual training” this has almost never happened in the 17 years I’ve been active and most of the years I’ve never even heard anything from them. I usually get a certificate in the mail for my 5/10/15 years anniversaries and that’s it. This month we got sent an actual drill/training to attend in April.
AgencyWarm2840@reddit
Location: The Remote Highlands of Scotland
Been a while since I've posted here, been trying my best to kill reddit out of my life, but no luck yet (clearly). So off we go then; is it going to be 3 degrees or 13 degrees (celsius) the next day? Nobody knows, not even the weather forecast, even though it hasn't been stripped like the US' one has. Maybe it'll just be both, make sure to bring shorts, a body warmer and a balaclava! I'm used to being prepared for all types of weather up here but god damn.
As you can probably tell by my tone I've pretty much fully transitioned into the acceptance stage of collapse awareness, and everything happening around me seems absolutely comical at times. I still do my best to avoid listening to the news on a regular basis though, because really what is the point? There's absolutely fuck all we can do about any of it.
I've actually come to realize that I'm living in one of the best areas for surviving collapse (even though I don't want to, ugh). The air and water where I am is some of the cleanest in the world, and the mountainous terrain means we'll never be lacking for clean freshwater in survival situations. The rural nature of things up here means there's also lots of wildlife, so much so in fact that we've had deer wandering through our garden and eating all the flowers. This is not a normal occurence, or at least it didn't used to be.
I remember four years ago I would open my window during pretty much any time of the year and within fifteen minutes a fly or a wasp or a moth would be in my room. I would occaisonally see butterflies when out walking. Now? Nothing. It's pretty spooky when you realize what that means. Businesses in the area continue to die out, leaving the ones that remain under even more pressure to serve all the tourists, increasing prices, stressed out workers; its an efficient little bastard of a negative feedback loop.
Oh and not to forget this subreddit itself - AI slop is infecting even here, because its become so hard to tell the difference. On top of that, I've noticed increased aggression between folks, people becoming angrier, more frustrated with the world and society as a whole, and subconsciously or consciously, looking for someone or something to blame. Remember, we are all apes, screaming into the void, try to show some compassion...because it literally won't matter either way, we're so fucked LOL.
PS: this song continues to become more and more relevant.
Ok_Main3273@reddit
The song video would have been better if the tramway had dropped off a cliff at the end of the line. Too early? 😂
Here is another anthem to express what we really feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZTNgAs4Fc&ab_channel=MyChemicalRomance
st8odk@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac4E_UsmB1g
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Song borrowed to r/CollapseMusic!
lightweight12@reddit
I got banned for a day here because I was arguing with an AI....
Ok_Main3273@reddit
One of only two I saw this year... (and yes, I am fully aware of the dreadful irony that taking a photo of a butterfly with a chunk of heavy metal and plastic full of electronics contributes to their demise)
Ok_Main3273@reddit
One of only two I saw this year... (and yes, I am fully aware of the dreadful irony that taking a photo of a butterfly with a chunk of heavy metal and plastic full of electronics contributes to their demise)
alloyed39@reddit
Location: Virginia, USA
Tech systems failure seems to be increasing. For example, I have 2FA set up to log into my banking app. In the past, I would request a code sent via text, and I would receive it almost instantly. Now, it fails half the time. I never get a text; I have to log out, clear the app, and try again.
There are other examples: emails that are sent but never arrive, 2FA apps that have stopped working properly, inboxes that won't load, text-to-park numbers that have died and won't respond. It seems to be happening all at once and getting worse. I'm frustrated and scared.
SecretPassage1@reddit
Yeah, I've been noticing the inboxes who don't load too! And the sent emails lost into the void. And other stuff too.
ElephantContent8835@reddit
For about two years I’ve been noticing a steady decline in the functionality of technology. Half the things I used to rely on now only work properly about half the time. It’s truly incredible.
Muted_Resolve_4592@reddit
I worked in IT and noticed the same thing. All the services I inherited from the last guy that operated through account or sales reps just kind of...stopped working. Any team of humans I had to deal with has been slowly giving up and stopping real work. Software and web functionality has been deteriorating. Giant chunks of our tech infrastructure like VMware and Microsoft are just disinterestedly giving the middle finger to any company worth less than a few million. Security is a god-forsaken shame at most levels, and nobody cares.
I about drove myself to insanity trying to maintain high-quality service levels with everyone else around me at every level giving up.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I’m a photographer, almost all of my cameras are older models, my main digital being a rebel t6, newest model being a dji mavic 3 classic, those are proven to be very reliable. When I need medium format I grab my old 1939 Kodak vigilant 620, thing is an old medium format can take every bit as a good photo as a newer digital one.
Ellen_Kingship@reddit
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Weather: It hit the 70's. It's been windy and rainy. Tornado warnings. Looks like we'll have an extreme spring this year.
Work: Saturday was super busy till close. March Madness and/or something else. I don't know. It was rainy too, and they still came. A random customer, buying a case of Michelob, asked me why there were so many people buying Modelo and other Mexican beers in the store today. He said everyone in line seems to have a case. I shrugged. I said, "We're not having a sale. So, tarrifs? IDK." I had just clocked in an hour or so ago, and it had already felt like I've been there much longer. 😭 Besides holding up my register, he didn't offer me his theory on what's going on. 🙄
Yeah, there was an uptick that Saturday, but not so unusual for me to have noticed it and attribute it to anything other than something normal like March Madness, random house party, Spring Break, etc. It's nonsensical to stock up on beer because it has a short shelf-life compared to other alcohol-based products.
Beer has a shelf-life of anywhere from a few months to a few years, depending on what you buy (lagers, pilsners, stout, etc). However, beer is safe to drink beyond the expiration date; it'll just be flat. So there is no sense in stocking up beyond what you usually drink per month (or two) unless you like flat beer.
Now, tequila on the other hand...
TuneGlum7903@reddit
I'm a single malt scotch drinker myself. Give me a 25yo MacCallan and I'm ready to toast the Collapse in style.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
During the storms Sunday, my bathroom (safe space) had two items: a flashlight and Macallan classic cut 😂
TuneGlum7903@reddit
You sir, have excellent taste in "disaster drinking". I would share my bunker with you anytime.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
I’m truly complimented, I’ll keep two glasses ready at all times 🫡😂💙
rmannyconda78@reddit
Or some rum, my favorite hard liquor is rum, medello is good, one of my favorites in fact, but if you want a beer to stockpile get a strong imperial stout, lager does not keep as long. A nice 12-20 year bacoo rum is my favorite
bristlybits@reddit
location: inland pnw USA
it's really warm in the day but still cold at night. every year my thinking that it's too warm in the day comes a little earlier.
sounds small, but I have a few bare root trees to put in and some grafting to do and it's been hard to know when will be the right time. mainly the weather- will it get too warm and kill the grafts? will I need to water (in April!!!) the trees more often if I put them in ground now?
the are small concerns but they're getting harder to decide every year, I've been growing here for ten years gardening and every year is less predictable.
JL671@reddit
Location: Alberta, Canada
Warmer winters with less snow. Temperatures getting as warm as 15°C during the coldest months, when the highs typically don't exceed 0°C or like 5°C during chinook periods. Less snowfall for sure and the snow we did get melted away pretty quickly.
We're definitely gonna face another drought this year as we choke from wildfire smoke and struggle to sleep at night without A/C.
TuneGlum7903@reddit
The recent IEA report found that about 40%+ of energy use in 2024 was for "cooling".
"Heating and cooling accounts for about half of the global final energy consumption. It is the largest source of energy end use, ahead of electricity (20%) and transport (30%), and is responsible for more than 40% of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions."
This was termed a "vicious feedback".
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Earth sheltered homes are the best answer.
Right-Cause9951@reddit
Is it feasible at all to get a wall mounted unit where you are? Or is there constraints budget wise with utilities? 27-28 Celsius is my tolerance level indoors for longer periods personally.
PorcelinaMagpie@reddit
Location: Indiana
Yesterday we had a high of 75 and two tornadoes barely missed my area last night. I live on the second floor (highest level) and a new neighbor of mine knocked on every single door and offered for all of us to take shelter in his first level apartment since it's technically the safest. For as scary as the situation was, it was nice to see some form of community doing something positive. Today's high is 38 with a chance of snow flurries by noon.
I started my new job a month ago. Great pay ($45/hr.) healthcare premium paid by employer every check, etc. I was on cloud nine until the end of the first week. Long story short I was working under the master of micromanaging and negativity. Was talked down to, belittled, mocked. Anything and everything. I started looking for new jobs by the third week and thankfully landed some interviews. They/my boss must have sensed I had my feelers out and my ass was canned on Wednesday morning. I was literally sick to my stomach every morning due to anxiety and it was a fully remote position. I'm well into my career and I have never worked for such ruthless people before. On Thursday morning I woke up feeling nothing short of amazing. Your mental health is very valuable. Never forget that.
I ran into an acquaintance of mine at the store this weekend and he mentioned hearing news stories about people stealing eggs in high volumes now. He was shocked by it. I simply asked him, "When's that on day one promise going to arrive?" and walked away. These people must be exhausted from moving the goal posts miles and miles everyday. How much lower will the madness go? First theh complain about inflation, and now they are okay with it?
TuneGlum7903@reddit
I have been in places where ALL of the food in a supermarket was behind screens. You made a list of what you wanted, gave it to a clerk, and they put it together in the back. The cashier and everyone else working in the store never came out from behind bullet proof shielding.
That's what "shopping" is like when people get poor and desperate.
rmannyconda78@reddit
Those storms packed a punch, the sunset after them was stunning though. Being autistic, I’ve dealt with a lot of what you do in the workplace, and everyday life, people just seem terrible these days, sorry you had to deal with that. People just seem to have no respect towards each other these days.
buggcup@reddit
Location: Northeast Florida - I've updated here on and off over the course of a year, talking about organizing locally to try and make things better for people and protect their rights. The local org where I hold a leadership position is connected to a national org that helps us campaign, gives us resources and training, etc. I had a question for our regional field organizer because we are planning something national in August, so I emailed her.
"Thank you for reaching out! I am out due to a climate disaster in my
area and cannot access reliable power or internet."
I don't even know WHICH climate disaster she's referring to. I don't even know where she is. She just had a baby. I hope she's ok. I feel like this is going to be more and more normal. I'm already used to working around power/internet outages and life-threatening floods with the other Florida orgs. But climate change is reaching deeper and deeper into this country. And obviously it's going to impact community organizing... it's just so odd finally seeing it trickle in.
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
I definitely am seeing these kind of things too. Organizing has been really hit by climate issues.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Location: Great Lakes state, US
With the temperatures here all over place throughout the month, it dawned on my a few days ago that there is away to quantitatively measure the difference between March 2024 and March 2025 (specifically, the period between February 21 through March 24) - information on my energy bill.
My energy company includes Heating Degree Days as a measure of energy use, with a comparison between this year and last year. This shows that this year, when we're either at the tail end of a La Nina or in a Neutral state, there were fewer heating degree days than during last year's El Nino. Same time period, different years. It's probably important to also note that the average temp was 2F higher last year, so the difference could be the results of a few high-temp days (near 80F rather than the "old normal" 42-47F) or, more likely, warmer nighttime temps.
So then I looked at last month's bill.
February's bill clearly showed the effects of the El Nino - 2024 was 25% (overall) warmer than 2025. The El Nino was weakening but still effective in Feb-March 24 yet late February/March this year was nearly as warm this year than the same period during last year's El Nino.
My neighbors have all been enjoying the "early Spring" again this year. If I say something like "the weather IS beautiful! But I hate that it's climate change causing it" they change the topic immediately. They know, but don't want to know.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Yup. This is a very good, but scary comparison. If you have lived someplace long enough the graph is very much like a mini version of the graphs we see here, yanno, the standard hockey stick.
Last_Jury5098@reddit
Location:europe.
Massive gold imports in us. Massive gold shortage in london. Articles about countrys worrying about their gold. Something is happening and its not good. Trust in the financial system is eroding quickly spurred by the new administration in the us. Who casts doubts on any existing agreements and international law.
It will keep detoriating from here untill the great reset. Originally anticipated for 2030 but at current rate this might be sooner. It will most likely be triggered by a massive trust crisis in the financial system and international law.
Goatmannequin@reddit
Location: Germany
Is there any work? Like honestly, I see these people driving around every morning. They wake me up on their motor scooter, they drive by the apartment. But what is actually going on? If I try to find a job, will they give me one? Who is finding a job here? I need to know.
_rihter@reddit
Location: Central Europe
Near-shoring and on-shoring are on the rise as de-globalization is accelerating. Gen Z and millennials should benefit from this change, as there will be more high-paying jobs, and the labour pool will shrink due to demographic collapse.
Initially, the focus was on shifting away from unfriendly countries like China and Russia, and now also from the US.
It's interesting to observe how one election can change so many things.