Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 02
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beigers@reddit
Location: New England
I am actually embarrassed to see how easily my college-educated, otherwise intelligent liberal friends are being roped into believing that this Elon/Trump fight isn’t orchestrated and that they continue to believe that Trump/Elon are truly “this stupid.”
I don’t know why but at the end of the day, seeing the gullibility is how I know their brains have been rotted just as badly as those who think Trump’s election would improve America. Yes, they’re still mostly good people with their conscience in the right place, but it’s so painfully obvious to me how much of this is a WWE style skit that I know that if we’ve lost the people I used to think of as the critical thinkers, it feels as though all is truly lost.
fireWasAMistake@reddit
I think this is a real fight, it's just that it's between people with special personalities
candleflame3@reddit
I'm a highly educated cynical old hag who has been on this sub for 10 years and even I have difficulty sometimes believing that it's all as deliberate and orchestrated as that.
I think it comes from having a more or less healthy, functioning brain and some kernel of moral decency. A healthy mind struggles to grasp something so deranged.
Red_Stripe1229@reddit
It is easier and more credible that 2 narcissistic sociopaths would get in a public pissing match than be following a pre planned script for what gain? They are not smart enough and lack the impulse control to follow a plan. All they do is react like toddlers and knock the blocks over if things dont go their way. Don't read into anything more than that. We live in the golden age of stupidity.
candleflame3@reddit
The 2 nutjobs are the distraction part of the grift. The architects and true beneficiaries are working behind the scenes. This has been developing for decades.
Canyoubackupjustabit@reddit
I am inclined to agree that it's theater.
Makes me wonder what's really going on that isn't being reported while people are consumed by their bullshit drama.
candleflame3@reddit
More Palantir database nastiness probably, plus whatever else.
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
I have been getting more alerts about increased ICE activity and them starting to clash with protesters in a few major cities.
My concern is a cross between NFFA and a "summer of love". Not quite purge in the streets but I think they're trying to instigate activity.
Spare-Dingo-531@reddit
Why wouldn't you believe they are this stupid?
I knew a board member of a mid-sized bank who was a creationist.
Impassionata@reddit
no that's just stupid
Repulsive-Business85@reddit
Elon openely called him a pedo rapist. that goes a bit beyond fake kayfaybe
Ghostwoods@reddit
Sure, it certainly could be kayfaybe. But it could also be a couple of brain-burned malignant narcissists waving their weird little mushroom dicks at each other.
DisingenuousGuy@reddit
If Donald Trump has Toad, who or what would Elon have?
Ghostwoods@reddit
A tiny version of one of those horrors from Bloodborne.
DisingenuousGuy@reddit
🤢
Big_Brilliant_3343@reddit
Some facts are true though. Elon and Trump are raging narcissists, incredibly stupid, and Elon is high as a kite in the oval office.
I have too much pattern recognition, so I always fall back to Occams razer. Dont get me wrong, this is all happening while US embassy said no to both a ceasefire and aid in Gaza, recordbreaking wildfires in canada, increased tensions in Russia.
But the simplest answer is these so called "world leaders" are insanely dumb and petty individuals. They are a reflection of all Americans and how much we are dumb and petty individuals.
Airilsai@reddit
Location: Turtle Island. East Coast.
This year with be the Summer of Fires. The first have been lit in Canada and Los Angeles. More to come.
Unconfirmed but I've heard protesters are getting mowed down by ICE vans in LA. Hopefully not true but it seems vehicles are becoming an easy weapon of terror to inflict on those struggling for freedom. I was in Charlottesville when that all went down and its feeling like a terrible, much worse sequel.
LemonFreshenedBorax-@reddit
Location: Central/eastern Canada.
Wildfire smoke not as thick as yesterday but still noticeable. However, due to unrelated (and not necessarily collapse-related) geological phenomena, I'm getting really high radon readings today.
My options are (1) open the windows to let the radon out (and let the smoke in), or (2) close the windows to keep the smoke out (and keep the radon in).
candleflame3@reddit
I'm in Toronto.
Yesterday the air quality was rated "moderate", supposedly OK for not at-risk people, yet after a few hours of running errands outside I had a scratchy throat and a cough, and I was wiped. Felt better after few hours inside with the windows closed and the air purifier running so, hmmm...
Today is supposed to be "moderate" too, but I will only go outside briefly, with an N95 on. Learned my lesson.
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
And these cascading issues are something that more people need to be aware of. Unfortunately I don't have a solution, just my personal anecdotes.
When the freeze happened back home in the deep south in 2021, the ice and cold on day one was the least of worries. There were residual deaths in the days after from a 3 day near complete loss of power statewide. Deaths from not just the cold temps themselves and no way to be warm (if unprepared there were people freezing to death in their homes with no power), but there were deaths from lack of water (frozen pipes), house fires (people not familiar with how to use space heaters etc and causing issues), gas poisoning (carbon monoxide buildup from poorly placed generators, or using grills or cars running in an interior space), traffic fatalities (the traffic lights were out everywhere), medical deaths (no power means some of those on life support machines at home might not have made it, and with phones down might have been able to call for help), etc etc.
It's a similar sight seen in other local disasters. Hurricanes usually bring not just death and despair from the water and wind, but also from heatstroke and dehydration in the days after (from days of no power in high heat), the reasonings above, somebody died in an elevator during Harvey (lowered into flooded levels and drowned, what a way to go), electrocution hazards (downed power lines and floodwater equals bad time), crime related homicide (think post Katrina, areas there made the purge look like a chuck e cheese level of horror), and sickness (floodwaters will have pathogens and chemicals in them, contaminating everything it touches including home walls themselves which will turn into a mold hazard. They can displace animals into homes as well spreading disease).
Now elevate this with two disasters hitting simultaneously. It's gonna be fuuuuuuuun.
daviddjg0033@reddit
to let the radon out
why do you have a radon detector in your basement?
LemonFreshenedBorax-@reddit
I honestly think every Canadian basement ought to have one.
daviddjg0033@reddit
AI answered my question, so .... Canadians use radon detectors because radon gas is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that can accumulate in buildings and is the leading cause of lung cancer for non-smokers. Exposure to radon, especially long-term exposure, increases the risk of developing lung cancer. Health Canada estimates that about 1 in 5 Canadian homes have radon levels above their guideline of 200 Bq/m³, making it a significant public health concern.
Instant_noodlesss@reddit
Are you able to install a radon mitigation system to pump it out?
LemonFreshenedBorax-@reddit
I already have one. It appears to need an upgrade.
Collapse2043@reddit
Here in Toronto, the Air Quality Index just hit 200 or Very Unhealthy, due to fire smoke. They are advising everyone to stay indoors. You can see the haze close to the ground if you look into the distance. It doesn’t seem like anybody has gotten the memo though. There are crowds of people dancing to a Salsa band in the local park. (I went out with an N95 on to walk the dog for 15 minutes. I have no yard to let her out in so there is no choice.) They say excercising in it will do more harm than good.
keyser1981@reddit
Location: Alberta, Canada
June 5, 2025. Sharing a photo update of the forest fires across the provinces in Canada, and all the people under ordered evacuations.
I'd write some salty comments about what I'm observing about the general reception of all the vulnerable folks being evacuated, but my fight isn't with folks online. For example, if these fires were going towards the O&G sites, different response, right Alberta, remember the response for Fort McMurray 2016, I do, because I was there.
BlackMassSmoker@reddit
What's crazy to me is I am seeing very little about this on the news, if at all. Perhaps it doesn't compare in scale to the LA fires back in January (doesn't that feel like years ago and not months?) but when the evacuation numbers and that smoke from the fires has drifted over to Europe, I wonder why this doesn't seem newsworthy to the rest of the world.
Perhaps it is just seen as 'normal' now.
Stay safe out there mate.
keyser1981@reddit
New normal. Yikes. The heat dome is just around the corner, folks. Maybe when after the Stanley Cup Playoffs are over, Oilers vs Panthers, maybe that's when people will care and/or notice.... /s
In the meantime, Don't Look Up and Let's sit tight & assess.
Rossdxvx@reddit
It has already become normalized, so people won't wake up, and the younger generations will never know of a world where it was an anomaly.
I imagine that we will see a lot of catastrophic and terribly destructive things over the next few years and certainly decades. However, it is hard to tell what it will take to finally break our collective inertia.
candleflame3@reddit
I was just thinking the other day that the 20somethings I work with have only the climate from what I personally consider a majoring turning point in the early 2000s. They may know that it's not normal and a serious problem, but they have not experienced the mild, clear Ontario summers or snowy winters I grew up with in the 1970s. Or the weeks of real autumn and spring.
It's one reason why I am fine with generational descriptors like GenX, etc. The generations are growing up in VERY different worlds.
Rossdxvx@reddit
It is really weird how so many boomers (not to pick on that generation in particular) have their heads in the sand when it comes to climate change. They have definitely seen and felt things change massively within their lifetimes, but somehow don't put 2 and 2 together or think that things have gone massively awry.
Hell, I can tell you that today is a much different world than the 90s or even the 2000s. Much different. I can't imagine what the sixties and seventies must have been like. But, for the world to change this much within a single generation's lifetime is nothing short of a monumental catastrophe.
QueenCobraFTW@reddit
I was born in the fifties and I am very very aware of climate change, have been since An Inconvenient Truth twenty five years ago. I’m not alone. My family and friends all understand it, too, and many of us are actively prepping for the insane destruction it will cause. This is certainly not how I expected my well deserved retirement would go, but I refuse to pretend any different.
Look, there are people with their heads in the sand from every generation. I’m saddened by the numbers of babies I see everywhere because I don’t think their lives will ever be easy. It’s their condemnation I fear the most.
Rossdxvx@reddit
Although I agree with you that people from all generations have their heads buried in the sand, so much of the ire aimed at the older generations is because they were in a position to do something when there was still time. And the older you are the less you will ultimately suffer because, let’s be honest, you will have long checked out before things get truly bad.
candleflame3@reddit
Exactly. I'm GenX, born 1967, and it's OBVIOUS to me, and I don't even in particularly hard-hit or at risk area (Southern Ontario). In the early 2000s I was in my mid-30s and thinking "Yep, just they (scientists) said would happen".
So how are people in their 60s and 70s not seeing it? How are they not concerned for their own children and grandchildren?
QueenCobraFTW@reddit
We are.
candleflame3@reddit
Obviously not in any great numbers because y'all keep doubling down on the very worst candidates and policies. And y'all have enough numbers to vote for and and get literally anything done for 50 years and this is what you chose so nope, not buying it.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Right behind you geographically and chronologically. Born 1968 in Buffalo NY. Same observations.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
Agree, south of the border major towns being stuck in the dark for weeks, no info on the St Louis tornado. News media is totally silent, the people impacted have no voice thanks to the captured news media and everyone dream king into this abyss… until it comes for them. Then it will be real.
Instant_noodlesss@reddit
People are still jogging and playing soccer with no protection where I am.
People are posting on my local social media about the "smog" and wondering what is happening. They don't even know about the fire even as their fellow countrymen evacuate from their homes.
Instant_noodlesss@reddit
My nieces and nephews are going to grow up with this as their norm. This along with flash floods and hurricanes.
Kids in my spouse's hometown washed away into a ditched two years ago during a flood.
My coworker's hometown lost a fishboat of young men because they had to go further and further to chase the catch.
We are going to not care about these losses the same way we get desensitized to gun crimes and war in other lands. Except this time it will be far more wide reaching and closer to home for everyone. You won't care until it hits you, at which point others won't give a damn either.
And slowly in apathy and greed we go to our ends.
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4BigData@reddit
I'm already not paying attention to fires, the way I've adjusted to diseases, deaths, and funerals.
We are approaching 2C which implies 2 billion diseases, starvation, deaths, and funerals, tons of wildfires...
If we pay attention to each single one of them, there's no time for living our lives while we are still alive.
keyser1981@reddit
That's the privileged response I was waiting for...
Just as long as folks like you, understand why so many other folks, are choosing NOT to have kids and you'll support and defend our choices.... that would be great.
Please try not to shit on the younger people's choices & concerns, as they watch how all these polycrisis' are being handled & addressed.
Telling them to "shut up, have kids and keep capitalism alive" isn't the selling point that's working, you know.
Long. Sigh.
4BigData@reddit
you sound super white
keyser1981@reddit
Lmfao. Good one. Just made this Cree woman laugh. You sound... privileged.
FortunateClock@reddit
Location: Indiana
Last week it was sweater weather. This week, we’re back in the 70s with summer storms and heavy rain. The air is thick with smoke from Alberta’s wildfires. You can’t ignore it: it scratches at the back of your throat, leaves a haze over the trees.
June Pride flags went up in a few yard in the neighborhood. Then the Trump flags reemerged, bold and less about support than about resistance to visibility. An argument confined to polyester about people's right to exist until, it's not contained anymore.
There seems to be an uptick in violence. A shooting at a graduation ceremony. Another mall shooting. The sheriff referencing 7-year-old injured and an 86-year-old killed in separate shootings.
A black man brutally beaten by members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club outside Pike’s Pub.
That last one was caught on video. Camera caught racial slurs, and the vests. The Sheriff called it “more than just an assault,” saying it was an attack on who we are as a community, but who are we? This didn’t come out of nowhere. People here seem friendly until they remind you they’re not. The politeness has an edge. A warning under the surface.
There’s no shortage of things unraveling: smoke in the sky, flags at war, violence in familiar places.
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
I'm seeing a similar uptick in violence back home. There was a massive incident a few hours away in San Antonio, where a gay man was shot and killed by a neighbor following a "dispute". Said man was a voice actor on King of the Hill, the one that voiced John Redcorn and was also of native descent IRL. On one side, the victim's husband is saying that the neighbor left their dog's remains in their mailbox to provoke them, then pulled out a gun and shot him in cold blood. On the other side, local police and media alike aren't saying shit, not even calling it a murder but instead a killing, let alone avoiding calling it a hate crime. Homeboy already posted bail and is supposedly on house arrest.
There's a part of me that thinks that the local PD is playing it cautious so that they can make sure this man is put away for life properly with no chance of mistrial. Then there is the part of me that knows that some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses. That is what concerns me, if that they're downplaying it on purpose to give a "green light" to those that do not like minorities such as myself. Given it's June as it is I already have been supporting pride quite a bit, but this flag flies a little higher for John Redcorn 🏳️🌈
On a side note, I ended up watching one of the purge movies that he was in and there was a harrowing similarity to what's kicking off right now. Now I'm rewatching the series but praying that we don't see a similar fiction become reality. While I don't think we're going to see a yearly night of lawless violence toward minorities anytime soon, the recent politics do leave me concerned toward a "night of broken glass".
lavapig_love@reddit
If I were a cynical person, I'd say that the police, the prosecutors and the judge are setting the world's most obvious trap. For whom, is the question.
GatoradeNipples@reddit
Nancy Gribble, clearly.
rmannyconda78@reddit
Someone drew a pair of swastikas and wrote the n-word in white paint on a building near me, Indiana is really starting to revert back to its extremely racist former self, not that it was never not racist, going from bad to worse to ugly is how I see it. I’ve noticed an uptick in violence recently myself too, kid in my area got killed over $30 last month it’s really sad.
Ghostwoods@reddit
:(
bebeksquadron@reddit
Location: Indonesia
This is perhaps a rare positive collapse news, but Indonesia's rice production has seen significant increase, up to double digit percentage compared to last year.
How is this possible despite the global increase in temperature, I don't know, but I welcome the good news.
https://jakartaglobe.id/business/indonesia-records-highest-rice-stock-in-over-five-decades
ShyElf@reddit
Total rice consumption in Indonesia seems to have been going down lately despite population growth. There's also a strong trend towards production correlation with La Nina, and this year was good and last year bad as expected. Weather seems to be continuing good so far this year, with a neutral ENSO. Add to this a relatively hard border, where it matters which side you're on.
Wheat imports seem to have been going up during the decline of rice production, but they have achieved rice self-sufficiency. Yay? Palm oil production is way up on deforestation, but most of that seems to be going to biofuels.
Food prices tend to move in lockstep with energy, on both biofuel substitution and input costs.
I wonder how much of the demand shift is due to government policy shifting national rice prices, and what else people are shifting to eating more of.
Ghostwoods@reddit
That's awesome!
96-62@reddit
Location UK (news from Scotland, although I'm in East Riding of Yorkshire).
Reform are doing well again. Labour held on in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, taking the seat from the SNP despite falling vote shares for all the major parties except for Reform. Reform were only 1,500 votes behind the winners though. It's unmistakably a good result for reform.
I am right, aren't I? Reform would be a disaster for the country. Idiotic fantasy land economic policies coupled with repression of minorities? People seem to like them?
BlackMassSmoker@reddit
While it's still too early to tell, no one should write off that that Reform could be in power the after next election.
Look at Labour, not even in a year in power, and their acting like the Tories were their last few years in power - flip flopping on policies because suddenly they're scared of the losing popularity, but more importantly, upsetting their backbenchers. I'm still trying to give Starmer and Reeves the benefit of the doubt. They inherited a country broken by 14 years of conservative incompetence, and it will take time to fix. But so far, it feels like more of the same, and people are sick and tired of it. Strong possibility that if Labour doesn't show results the closer we get to 2029, then they are handing power to Reform.
But then again, even if Labour did fix this country, our media machine is mostly right-wing, and they'll make people feel Labour have failed them regardless.
BriefCar2237@reddit
It is more of the same.
Ghostwoods@reddit
At the moment, Starmer is acting like he thinks his job is to make sure Reform win at the next election.
JagBak73@reddit
Is there a major difference between UKIP and Reform? I know that bloviating turd Nigel Farage was/is the leader of both.
Ghostwoods@reddit
They're both Putin-funded fascist parties designed to leverage fear and hate in order to divide and damage the UK, but UKIP was primarily campaigning on 'Leave the EU', and Reform isn't.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
I have found that any party who will tell people sweet lies: especially when it impacts their wallets; will do well. Most people, at their base, are driven by 2 things: fear (immigrants!) and greed.
Ghostwoods@reddit
People like Reform for the same reason Trump got some popularity -- constant pro-fascist media agitprop from the billionaire sector making them seem like a breath of fresh, sane air rather than the regressive, murderous, hate-peddling thugs that they are.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Location: Southern Spain
I saw a hoverfly while I was out and about yesterday. This is not something that should be in any way remarkable, and yet here we are.
Temperatures this week are apparently ranging from 25C/77F to 41C/105F. We've had a couple of power cuts in the last ten days, and I'm already heat-sensitive from a couple prior heatstrokes (and because of SSRIs), so I'm definitely hoping we don't get a heat spike/aircon outage combo.
The weekly shop continues to get more expensive and smaller.
I can cope for now, but my discretionary monthly spending is non-existent. I don't travel, don't eat/drink out, don't do red meat, don't have kids, don't spend on interests or clothes or hobbies, nothing but utilities, rent, food, and meds.
Most months, I can just about squeak through to next payday. This is with a remote corporate job that pays two and a half times the local average, mind. Been a long time since I had an identifiable "life".
Rent could be a couple of hundred cheaper if I was prepared to move somewhere that required a car to get to doctor's appointments, but that seems like a real dumb step.
People are noticing the temperature swings, and they're noticing the price increases, but they're also noticing the rising fascist tides -- already entrenched in Hungary, Italy, Israel, and Russia, takeovers in the US and now Poland (with US interference), almost stealing Romania, rapidly strengthening in the UK, Netherlands, Germany, etc etc etc.
I think there's a growing sense that it could be much, much worse here in Spain.
You and I know it will be, of course. Sooner than expected, too. But the average local here is no more prepared to think about that than any folks are anywhere else.
So, for now, they watch the world going mad, and maybe try not to get too riled about the groceries. Besides, 'tranquilo' is the Mediterranean way. Better to have a beer and set the world to wrongs with a friend than to let things ruin your whole day.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
Poland broke my heart, my belief interference in that and other elections makes all of this seem inevitable. Spain, with its history, if it ever turns towards fascism, it will be the final nail in the coffin of western civ.
Thanks for your update I enjoy when you post, hope you are doing well 💙
Ghostwoods@reddit
Yeah, me too. The current White House is metastasising, and it's horrific. Spain will be amongst the last to fall to the jackboot thugs, I think, but when the desperate refugee floods are coming across the Mediterranean, fall it will.
And thank you, yes, I'm OK <3 Extremely grateful that I'm fortunate enough that my biggest worries are some debility and a slim wallet. How are things for you at the moment?
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
I’m doing ok, I’m at the point where even talking about collapse with anyone in meatspace is pointless and depressing. They are either living in delusion or know how bad it is, and don’t need a reminder.
I let go of trying to be the messenger and it has given me some measure of peace.
The Canadian wildfire smoke is about to enter my region of the US, air quality is already 100+ what it was yesterday. The total lack of news reporting is surreal to me.
But, the Elon Turnip divorce is providing some much needed entertainment this weekend. 💙
Back to the forest I go, -Werner
Ghostwoods@reddit
Yeah, I've given up on discussing anything about reality, except with one doomer-adjacent friend, and even then only when we're both in the mood for some very dark humour. I hope the smoke doesn't cause you too many problems <3
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Location: US Great Lakes state
Second day of heavy Canadian wildfire smoke here - today is worse than yesterday. US EPA's Air Quality Maps, however, show that my entire state has great air quality, yet the sun is barely casting any light. NOAA's radar shows absolutely clear skies. Yesterday, the forecast from the National Weather Service (part of NOAA) for today mentioned heavy smoke, yet that mention is gone for today's forecast. Even though we're experiencing heavy smoke.
I don't think I'll be trusting NOAA or the AQI any more. If no one mentions Canadian wildfire smoke, then it can't be causing the effects that we're seeing, right?
The Twitocracy is real.
I've worked in the horticulture world for years and can estimate that the shade I'm currently experiencing in a cloudless sky from smoke is about 50-60%. Absolutely no plants that like full-sin (AKA - all food crops) can grow in those conditions. This chart: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-022-00783-7/figures/3 from this publication shows that yields from our staple crops will dive as shade from the sun increases. The ratio for cereals is about 1% shade = 1%-1.5% loss of yield. The ratio for maize is even worse. Now, this smoke is a temporary event, so no yield losses at this point. However...
Yesterday's smoky skies were more akin to what I would expect after we inject sulphate aerosols into the upper atmosphere - a pearly white sky with only the faintest of blue in it, with a little darker blue at the very top of the sky. The shade effect was at least 10%. Now put today's smoke from multiple wildfires across North America, Brazil, and Siberia under yesterday's geo-engineered proxy sky. For areas without smoke, add long-lasting, thicker cloud decks due to increased moisture in the air. There will be famines. Globally.
I'd be in favor of geo-engineering if the world were actively working to decarbonize, but since we aren't - and won't - all geo-engineering will get us is BAU until we miss a year of adding aerosols... then? We all cook.
PsudoGravity@reddit
Supposedly industrial (with a capital I) hydroponic/indoor farming is going to boom soon.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Great news for fossil fuel, since hydroponic setups are almost entirely made of plastic and most of the inputs are derived from fossil fuel. Greenhouses at scale require polycarbonate sheathing, although plastic-covered hoop houses can also be used; however, the plastic degrades rather quickly and is not robust enough for heavy weather. They also require a ton of energy for heating and cooling, although that can be at least partially produced from solar and, perhaps, wind. At industrial scale, all inputs for the plants will be derived from fossil fuel.
PsudoGravity@reddit
Welp! Not a problem then! We'll see earth itself wither and die before running out of oil.
KrankyKong28@reddit
I've been curious about this, since the same has been happening here in Toronto. Same hazy pearlescent look to the sky as you describe, and it's casting an orangey-pink light, but AQI monitor at ground level says it's fine at the moment. I wonder if a lot of the particulate stays at altitude in some cases, while in other cases it "descends" to ground level? That's the only explanation I can think of.
Frostyrepairbug@reddit
As a west coaster, the "orange glow cast" is how I know it's time to check how close the nearest wildfire is. That's been the "tell" for us for years. And yes, smoke/particulate can stay at higher altitudes and the AQI on the ground can be fine.
CAWildKitty@reddit
Exactly. When the smoke is “aloft” or very high up the sky will have that weird whiteness. If it starts to descend things will become sepia-tinted and when it’s right down there with ya, well, things can get either orange or just this murky, dirty grey. Keep an eye on the winds, what direction they are blowing and how hard which is what drives all this.
wetbulbsarecoming@reddit
Aqi was reported as normal?? Wow
JulianMorganthau@reddit
Yep - green dots all over my state and most of the one south of us, with the index itself in the normal range.
thisisfuctup@reddit
I’m not certain, but if the smoke is at high elevation and the AQI sensors are at ground level then they probably won’t sense an issue.
Mediocre-Peach6652@reddit
Southern Connecticut here. I was thinking the same thing all day. This isn't the kind of sub I would normally find myself on but I literally couldn't get the white sky out of my head today because it made me think of what a geoengineered sky would look like 10-15 years from now. Me and my friend were driving early last week and it was just so featureless and the light had the same quality as just before totality in an eclipse. It was intensely unsettling. I'd been trying to figure out why I felt off and everything was just so attenuated and weird and we finally realized there was no distinction between the clouds and the sky except for their dark edges. Sunset was beautiful. We got some local coverage of the smoke tonight so weather data accuracy might vary by state. I hope they do not decide to make the sky this way on purpose during my lifetime.
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
I was at the DMV on Friday, and someone mentioned the months of weekend rains we’ve been getting and I swear to the gods someone legitimate said to the person helping them, “it’s because the government has been messing with the weather for decades.”
I can not with humanity. I ordered more seeds that like cool weather and less sun. I’m still planting corn, but not all of my seed for this year. And I plan to focus more on other things. Climate adaptation where I can, shaking my fist at human stupidity where I can’t.
JHandey2021@reddit
Similar experience about two months ago in Ohio - sitting in a car dealership lobby waiting for service (that's a whole other story of a chain of incompetence regarding something that it felt like was handled better pre-COVID), and I overheard two men talking, who I will charitably describe as "people of the land.... the common clay of the New West" (if you've seen "Blazing Saddles", you can fill in the rest.
And one of them started rambling, out of seemingly nowhere, about chemtrails and how "they" are in control of everything (right after giving advice on the other gentleman's baby momma problems - hand to God, this is true).
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
These people are just wild. Back when I was a wee-in, just into college, people talked about conspiracy theories quietly, over beers, in their backyards, about how Clinton was gonna use the military to stay in power so another Bush couldn’t become president.
Now, they just out there talking wild in public.
rematar@reddit
Could I bother you to list some of the garden plants that prefer less sun?
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
Most legumes are going to do okay, think early and late season plants. Peas, lettuce & other greens (kale, collard, mustard), radishes, even beets, turnips & carrots can do do well but may grow slower.
If your soil has warmed enough, beans can also do well - but again - will take longer. So it very much can depend on your growing season, and you may want to assist with pollination if your getting super consistent rain that it drives off pollinators.
I would start things in cells, don’t plant seed directly because germination rates will be much lower in wet soil, because of rot, but if your getting super get things started, you would be good, then protect from slugs because they will be increased from the moisture.
rematar@reddit
Awesome. Thank you kindly.
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
Always happy to help!
rematar@reddit
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Ghostwoods@reddit
Geoengineering is absolutely Russian Roulette.
CannyGardener@reddit
Unfortunately it only takes one country or group of people to pull the rest of the world into the game... I know this is where things are heading, but it is just so astoundingly shortsighted and there are some really intelligent people promoting it, I just am blown away that we are to the point where we are discussing this sort of thing seriously...
I worry that we (as a society) are informationally extremely siloed off, to where people that are working on cooling the plant, just literally have no knowledge about farming or other impacted areas. Akin to the folks that pushed to remove the Sulphur from the ocean freight fuel, only to have the gains be hosed by the negative knock-on effects.
Ghostwoods@reddit
I'm sure you're right. Some bloody idiot will kick it off, and then we'll all be forced in, and then some other bloody idiot will dump us into termination shock. Yeeeehaw.
CannyGardener@reddit
If I didn't have a son I'd be pulling out the popcorn. Not sure how you even prepare for the sky being blotted out LOL Learn to grow mushrooms?
Of all the times to be born I feel like we are blessed and cursed being able to watch these things unfold...
Ghostwoods@reddit
I used to have a sense of the future. It wasn't especially accurate -- I'm no futurologist -- but it was there, and it was vaguely reassuring.
It's completely gone nowadays. Just a roiling chaos in its place. The short-term bits that do seem likely are all hideous, like the growing worldwide fascist decay.
I miss the future like a knife.
rematar@reddit
Some four year olds want to be a weatherman and president.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/201705/psychological-science-says-trump-is-four-year-old
Some want to be a rocketman.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Yup. This is so damned basic but everyone is still in the mindset that oh no fires like that won't happen or not at the same time if we do x.
And yeah. I am worried about my tomatoes again. I cannot imagine being a farmer right now
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
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Vegetaman916@reddit
Absolutely.
In many ways, humanity as a species is acting with the maturity level of teenagers, at best. We can fix the problems we caused by using fossil fuels with theoretical geoengineering solutions, and that means we can all keep using fossil fuels! Yay!
The frustration I feel with the "it won't happen" climate hopist crowd is the same that I feel with those who persist in the idea that nuclear war is impossible. In both cases, it is always "let's just keep doing what we're doing!"
We're cooked. And that loss of sunlight will be coming from more than one source, my friend.
Sapient_Cephalopod@reddit
Location: Athens, Greece
Given the fires that are ravaging Canada, I thought to look at the current situation here with regards to fires.
I used the NASA FIRMS web application to create maps of total burned area for Greece in five-year periods, from 2000 to 2024. The burned area data are sourced from VIIRS for the period 2012-2024 and MODIS for 2000-2011. The burned area includes both unplanned and planned fire, although planned fire is mostly concentrated in the large cultivated plain of Thessaly - the circular, mottled patch near the center of the image.
Here, I offer a map of the total burned area for the period 2005-2024 - the last 20 years. Areas which have burned multiple times in that time frame are not shaded differently to those which have burned only once.
Although some fires have occurred in the more mesic forests of moderate and high altitudes, the vast majority of fires in Greece burn in mediterranean lowland pine forest, maquis and phrygana.
Maquis and phrygana are often the product of degradation through fire, erosion, clearing, and grazing pressure of the pine forest. Fires in the maquis and pine forest are typically stand-replacing fires, i.e. crown fires that kill both trees and low-growing vegetation. However, mediterranean pine cones are serotinous, and high temperature promotes the formation of a post-fire seedbank.
The East Mediterranean pine species in the mediterranean lowland pine forest are P. halepensis and P. brutia. Although they have differences, both require a minimum fire return interval of 20 years to reliably reestablish their forest formations in their climatic envelope, and fire return intervals of <15 years cause collapse of the forest formation due to inadequate seeding.
Thus, if we exclude limited, montane fire & agricultural fire, we can see the burned area of "potential" lowland pine forest.
Take note that the 21st-century fire regime has significant differences compared to the 20th-century one, never mind comparing with fire regimes of older periods - "pre-industrial", "ancient", "natural". Based on what I've read, pure pine forest formations were rarer in earlier time periods, and conditions allowed for succession of the pine forest to a mixed pine-oak forest and then to evergreen oak forest, especially in more mesic locations.
I focus on the lowland mediterranean pine forest, solely because it is the most drought- and heat-tolerant forest type - if any of the aforementioned areas are burned again (and some already have), then forest regeneration may be compromised. I cannot stress enough the erosion that becomes possible with frequent forest loss, thus compromising even maquis establishment.
Add to that the increasing occurence of larger single fires, susceptibility to pests, heatwaves, and drought, especially in winter, and you can see that in many parts of the country, forest cover is becoming extremely vulnerable.
Rossdxvx@reddit
Location: Dystopian Hell, Michigan, USA
Went for a walk yesterday. It is one of the few enjoyments that I have left in my life. It would have been a fine day if it weren’t for the thick, hazy, and chalky wildfire smoke hanging in the air. I did not wear a mask or a respirator outside, so I wonder what breathing in this crap every summer is doing to my health in the long term. Not just to my body, but how it affects my mind and mental well-being, as well, since everything is connected.
I feel sort of like a fool. Like I should have made more of the 90s/00s/and even 2010s. What has turned out to be the good old days of relative stability. It really feels like we are headed towards a kind of hellscape now. There is no longer any time to waste, seeing as things are coming to a head in my lifetime.
I have a hard time fathoming why humans are the way they are. It is like collective madness or insanity. The winds have shifted to the right globally, and we are just digging in our heels towards self-destruction.
Everything is also so expensive. My mom's boomer friend in CO is selling their home for $ 950k. Who the fuck can afford that? I don't know, but they already have someone lined up to buy it. And with their cash, they are moving to Italy. The well-to-do are jumping off the sinking ship of the USA, but we are all going to boil no matter where we are or where we go.
When you take away a people's future, what do they have left? So much of life feels like playacting now, or pretending that things are what they are not.
iluvmyhamster@reddit
If you don’t mind sharing, what part of Michigan are you in? I’m in the Michiana area and the smoke has been really bad here lately too, weird weather, red sunrises, just very creepy 😔.
Rossdxvx@reddit
North East of Detroit.
SelectiveScribbler06@reddit
'I feel sort of like a fool. Like I should have made more of the 90s/00s/and even 2010s. What has turned out to be the good old days of relative stability. It really feels like we are headed towards a kind of hellscape now. There is no longer any time to waste, seeing as things are coming to a head in my lifetime.'
What could I do? I was a kid in the 2010s and my mid-teenage years were taken by lockdown. (I'm in the UK, by the way.) Aaargh, so frustrating! I guess I can console myself in that at least I was lucky enough to skim some cream off the top, despite being unable for multitudinous reasons to drink from the full glass of life.
Rossdxvx@reddit
Just think of the people being born today. Collapse will be their norm and only point of reference when it comes to life.
PromotionStill45@reddit
Please wear a mask. Don't hurt your lungs this way.
Rossdxvx@reddit
Thanks for your concern. I probably should wear one, you are right. I just find it amazing that this is a regular occurrence here in the eastern half of the USA now.
Dystopia isn't in our future, it is here right now staring us in the face.
TuneGlum7903@reddit
May Lin Wilgus, a doctor and researcher at UCLA, compares breathing wildfire smoke to smoking cigarettes — a lot of cigarettes.
On a smoky day, when AQI levels reach 100 to 200, “the exposure to the fine particulate matter, the air pollution, is similar to smoking a quarter to half a pack a day,” Jan 8, 2025
neu8ball@reddit
Location: Southern MA, New England
Environment: The good news - since I moved here a few years ago, I have not used any pesticides or chemicals on my lawn, and nature has moved in. My trail cam caught a hilarious interaction between a clan of skunks and raccoons last night at 2am, and there are so many species of birds nesting and flying around this year, including chimney swifts and a few other declining species. I think it’s because my lawn has a ton of ants and grubs now that the soil is less poisonous.
But the bad news? Huge decline in flying insects that is quite noticeable. Just a few years ago, there were lots of honeybees, paper wasps, some butterflies, and of course mosquitos, ticks, moths, etc. Now it’s June and I’ve seen no honeybees, no butterflies, barely any bugs at all. My pollinator garden is in full bloom and there is just…no insects. Incredibly sobering and terrifying.
Corporate Dystopia note: I’m a very highly rated employee at my company, for a few years now, and I was told I could not be promoted because there are no roles open at my desired “level.” So I recently asked a mentor how I could get a promotion or new role. Her answer was that I needed to create a personal LinkedIn brand and follow people, comment on their posts, and basically run and publish a personal content calendar in my free time.
I almost laughed. She doesn’t know I’m a regular over at r/linkedinlunatics, and I have no fucking desire in the least to navigate that bullshit. I’ve got my resume and credentials and experience up on LinkedIn - should that not be enough? No, apparently I’ve got to become an influencer just to get a new mid-to-entry level corporate job.
That’s my update this week. Stay safe and stay strong out there.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
If it's one thing I learned being a participant over on Antiwork: the only way to get a promotion is to leave the company for another company. With a bump in pay. Perhaps flattery on LinkedIn is the way to go - but not for me.
candleflame3@reddit
Ugh, I know a complete moron who used that strategy and it WORKED. Because flattery works.
ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit
My employer had me firmly pegged at the top of my career with nowhere to go, unless I was willing to take a management track or go hard engineering. They changed up their strategy this year (sounds like I wasn't alone) but so far that hasn't translated to, y'know, compensation.
It bugs the hell out of me that I have two years seniority on one guy and yet he outranks me. I clean up his work and he outranks me. It's the people skills, and I openly acknowledge that has very real value, and he's a nice guy who deserves to succeed... but come on! Where's my payoff for working hard and knowing what I'm doing? Stupid networking.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Competence is a barrier to promotion. It makes you hard to replace and threatening to managers.
ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit
They should love me then, I never want to be a manager. Fuuuuck that noise.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Yeah, I'm perfectly happy in the "expertise" trenches. My manager was an old friend before recommending I apply for my job -- and, quite properly, then entirely recusing herself from my application -- and I know I can trust her. I do not want anything to do with the painful daily bullshit she has to put up with.
unbreakablekango@reddit
Location: NYC.
I went to Nordstroms in NYC to buy some new clothes after losing a good amount on weight and I could not believe the prices. The salesman was bringing me $300 shirts $400 pants $1700 jacket $1300 shoes. I was appalled and I was also amazed at how many people were buying loads of clothes. The Salesman said he moved like $80k in merch that day. It was wild.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Congratulations on your new, slimmer, healthier figure and mindset. May it continue to work for you.
FWIW NYC is a separate entity of its own bubble-world. What happens in NYC just happens in NYC. I am not surprised about the cost of the clothing at Nordstroms, nor what the salesman told you.
I live in Orange county NY. We have the Woodbury Commons Factory Outlet stores here. It generates a good portion of the county's sales tax revenue. I wager if foreign tourists are TRULY going to by-pass traveling to the USA this summer, sales tax revenues are going to take a hit. Not just here, but in places just like NYC.
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
I'm curious if it's a very similar energy in Houston - we aren't NYC but there can often be a similar blue collar "oilman's economy" vibe at times here.
We're talking closer to $200 jackets that used to be $100 or less, but still. Also for some reason we are getting a lot of tourism. Tourists coming to Houston lmao, a decade ago that would be a good joke to lead in with here but nope it's actually something now.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Hello to you in Houston. I confess to having never been to Houston or Texas for that matter.
Regarding the increase of tourists - an increase of American tourists? Or International? Or both? Has Houston done advertising somewhere? "Come to Houston and get OILED" or some such slogans? Complete with glamour shots of the oil rigs, happy oilmen smiling, sky scrapers illuminated by the sun. :) When I watch YouTube I get such advertisements for NYS and New Jersey (!!!!).
Is there a county/city sales tax in Houston that generates revenue from clothing and other items?
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
No, nothing specific like that which is a bit confusing. Also it's a bit of a silly misonomer, but there is a lot of media that portrays Houston as arid cactus land with oil derricks in the desert, cowboys horses and all. IRL is nothing like that, maybe closer to Louisiana bayou and creole style atmosphere.
IIRC though around spring break there was a lot of tiktokers advertising Houston as a cheap place for a spring break trip. Think like a Myrtle Beach type of area, where it's not fancy it isn't Orlando or Miami after all, but everything here is cheap and there is good food and some good things to do that are underrated.
I will say there is some good stuff here at least. We have a very good amount of major league sports here following the failed 2012 olympics bid, zoo and museum district are heavily underrated, lot of photogenic spots like the cooling tower waterfall near Williams Tower, lots of shopping at places like nearby Galleria, etc. Nearby is Galveston with that "dirty ass water" that Charles Barkey talked about on national TV 😂
It's not anything to go out of the way for IMO, but for a cheaper getaway it seems to be picking up a bit in popularity.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Thank you for your assessment of your home ground. Now I too had a laugh at the visual of a horseback rider getting his/her meal from the Wataburger drive-thru. Very Hollywood. :)
I honestly am ignorant about Houston. TBH I never even THOUGHT about what it was like. I knew about your sports teams (obviously), but NOTHING about your culture. I didn't know it was more like Louisiana.
As for a "cheaper" place to have spring break or take a vacation - may your area get sales tax boosts from internal travel from other places in the USA. Shoot, I just got a new car. Maybe I should take a drive down to the Houston area and see for myself. Why not!
I will, tho, by-pass the Houston Galleria. We have one where I live and it is nearly kaput. The tower waterfall sounds neat and maybe a trip to "Dirty ass water" Galveston. Glenn Campbell had a song called "Galveston".
fd1Jeff@reddit
I think it’s somewhat related. It shows the big disconnect between what people are spending their money on versus what would actually be best for the planet as a whole.
Something else that kind of makes me laugh. People always talk about the “supply and demand“ and other things involving prices of items. In someways that was never really true, especially when it comes to wealthy people. People tend to think that because the prices of a certain thing went way up that people will buy less of it. Definitely not always true. I know that there are millionaire cheapskates out there, but not too many. Cost really matter much less than we think when it comes to very wealthy people.
The other aspect of this is that there are people who think nothing of spending $3000 for new clothes at Nordstrom‘s, but they won’t spend $100 to do something that improves life on earth.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
The amount of money in the NY Metropolitan area is crazy. Not just in the boroughs of the city, but the counties outside the city AND NJ and CT. It is a world unto itself.
revolvingradio@reddit
I went to Nordstrom's Rack in Chicago recently and was also surprised by the prices. Clearance clothes that were marked down 4 times and still $400. I used to always find something I liked for a decent price but anything remotely interesting was too much. I was quickly reminded why I dont do much retail shopping anymore and stick with vintage and thrift shops.
_rihter@reddit
Location: Central Europe (Pannonian Basin)
We're in hell.
There's a massive heatwave that won't end anytime soon. The forecast says the temperature will reach 36 °C later this week. The water level of my local river is probably at an all-time low for early June, since we skipped winter and there's a massive drought.
Absolutely no preparation was made for the upcoming four months of heat. Hospitals, schools, retirement homes and most workplaces lack AC. I don't know the level of preparedness when it comes to wildfires. Electricity production from hydro will take a massive hit.
Climate change is something most people think will be a problem in the distant future, and don't realise we only have a few years of "normalcy" at most.
I can only imagine what July and August will look like if June is this hot.
PsudoGravity@reddit
It was in the distant future. Back in the 2000s anyway. These days that future is not so distant.
Do you have any info on the cause for lack of AC? Seems necessary for habitation of many structures. I'm not based in the US and AC is still commonplace.
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
For the fellow yankees, that is 96 F. That is absolutely wild especially for Europe. I feel for you because while we do get summer temps like that right now, we are more used to it as in that we plan for it with our infrastructure. Every apartment house and domicile has a dedicated HVAC unit that can lower temps 20 degrees to 70's or lower inside. In places like Europe that is not as common of a thing and there are many places without functional A/C in the same way.
OP I'm very sorry to hear about that. Water rationing could likely be a thing but hopefully drinking water etc will still be fine for you. Hoping worst case scenario is some cranky old farts complaining about their yellow lawn and not being able to water it when more important things are going on. That is very concerning to hear though about critical places like hospitals and schools being without A/C. Where I am in a very hot climate at this time of year, during heat waves they open "cooling centers" for the impoverished homeless etc that are free to visit for anyone during daytime hours, usually inside libraries and schools. The idea is that people can get out of the heat and avoid heatstroke this way. If there is no place for that though then that is a disaster and public health crisis just waiting to happen.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
If you can get your hands on aluminet you can shade your windows/house and have something of a cooler area. it gives about a 10 degree f drop from my window covering tests.
feedmeyourknowledge@reddit
Same in Ireland, I think was driest and warmest spring for a century or some figure like that. If we run into a dry summer there will be water shortages and drought etc.
WhyDoIEvenBotheridk@reddit
We will definitely need updates throughout the summer please. This is an important example of an area not having a lot of AC and getting hit with extremely hot temps.
Sapient_Cephalopod@reddit
Well even AC is problematic if demand is sky-high during a heatwave.
I live in Athens, and in 2021 the city grid came relatively close to a blackout due to a heatwave with maximums of 42-44 °C and minimums > 28 °C for about 2-3 days.
There have been higher temperatures of > 45 °C outside of Athens, 46 °C, 47 °C. I expect the 45 °C Athens record to be broken within the next 5 years, with night lows easily > 30 °C. It will be interesting to see how the grid responds to even greater stress.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Location: Gwinnett County, The Atlanta Sprawl, USA
Random notes:
I got food poisoning this week. It was probably the blueberries. Food safety is not a top concern in Georgia and it will probably get worse. Plus I am pretty immuno-compromised.
We made the mistake of trying to go to an art supply store in Buckhead (really metro Atlanta). I needed some Caran d'Ache watercolors and they don't sell them anywhere else in this region. The traffic was horrible - far worse than I remember. I'm an ex-NYCer and traffic is as bad as NYC Sixth Avenue (nobody calls it Avenue of the Americas) - worse because most of Manhattan is serviced by mass transit. Here, there is little to no mass transit and everyone is driving all the time. One day, traffic congestion will lock this region down tighter than a junkie's asshole - for days.
And the store? Shelves were bare, none of my products were there. The store has contracted, put up fake walls. Digital graphic rendering at all levels, personal and commercial, has eliminated the need for all those messy paints and inks and pencils and papers and all those dohickeys and doodads.
Walmart run today - we do it rarely and far less than we did in previous years, but certain very basic cooking items are cheapest there. And we HAVE to save money on our food. Differences between Publix' prices and Smalwart's is a dollar or more. It's very dystopian there. No staff - security and shelvers.
It's been raining a lot. My new Collapse Bingo entry is The Years of Fecundity.
syn3cal@reddit
I lived in Atlanta for six years. If I couldn’t walk or take Marta to somewhere, I generally didn’t go. The traffic in Atlanta is horrendous.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
And because of the increased traffic load, the water mains in Buckhead are bursting all the time - at least one a week. No infrastructure is going to survive that incessant pounding of traffic.
manicpixiedreamsqrll@reddit
Location: Indiana, USA
Our skies are once again filled with wildfire smoke from thousands of miles away, much earlier than last year, and nobody is batting an eye. Local news outlets and meteorologists are posting forecasts that call for a “100% chance of colorful sunsets this week!”. The comments are full of people saying we should charge Canada tariffs for the smoke.
We are cooked.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Has the smoke cloud descended on Northern Europe yet?
Some areas in the southern U.S. are getting hit by the regular Sahara dust storms AND the Canadian wildfire smoke.
"May you live in interesting times." is an old Yiddish curse.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Yes, but it's staying high enough up so far that it's not really going to affect breathability. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/canada-wildfires-smoke-europe-us-health-warning-b2763372.html
fedfuzz1970@reddit
I refer to local broadcasts here in Raleigh, NC as The Weather, Ads, Self-Promotion and Oh, A Little News. Here a rain event is depicted in bright red and orange and captioned, "a weather-warn day". I remember when it was just rain. The scare tactics of local news stations here are designed to promote, "download our app" and eyes on the screen by engendering fear. In your area, by downplaying the smoke, its extent and potential danger, they promote comfort and safety.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Christ above, that's a dystopian way of telling you your air is unbreathable :(
TuneGlum7903@reddit
"100% Chance of colorful, poisonous sunsets!"
"Enjoy them now, before you cough up a lung."
WILDFIRE SMOKE IS TOXIC.
May Lin Wilgus, a doctor and researcher at UCLA, compares breathing wildfire smoke to smoking cigarettes — a lot of cigarettes.
On a smoky day, when AQI levels reach 100 to 200, “the exposure to the fine particulate matter, the air pollution, is similar to smoking a quarter to half a pack a day,” Jan 8, 2025
Recent studies have underscored the health dangers of breathing in wildfire smoke.
This week, an analysis published in the journal Epidemiology found that
--the risk of going to the hospital for cardiorespiratory problems like hypertension or heart attack rose for months after exposure to smoke,
— showing that the health effects can linger long after the fires themselves have been put out.
seriouslythisshit@reddit
Location: Southcentral Pennsylvania. May was the wettest recorded, with 2.43X the thirty year average rainfal total for the month. Unseasonably cold until yesterday 6/3. This might be the first year in my life where I ran a furnace in June, as it dropped into the mid-sixties in the house by sunrise, the last three days. Totally bizarre weather the last few years. Repeat warm winters with trees blooming months early, and nearly snow free, folllowed by a brutally cold one. Current forecast for days of blue cloudless sky and 80* F +, instead it's bright gray skies for the immediate future, choked out by the Canadian wildfires, 2500 miles to the northwest. I just noticed that our federal dept. of AG has a new planting zone map out. We are averaging 4*F+ hotter since 2012. We now have the same planting conditions (first and last frost, soil temps, etc ) as the northern portion of North Carolina, 320 miles to the south. Neighbors are successfully growing banana trees but not bananas yet. One local here has a giant pineapple palm tree in his front yard for at least a decade now. The south, as experienced by boomers and greatest gen folks who grew up there, has now moved to the mid-Atlantic states.
TuneGlum7903@reddit
Hey alligators have colonized North Carolina. Nothing says "the South" like gators in your swamps.
saltytac0@reddit
I’m from Florida/the South and moved up to coastal NJ. I think its just a matter of time until alligators are up in these waterways. They look like perfect mudflats for them, and the temperature doesnt get that bad any more for them.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
You know, you are right. My parents live near Oak Island/Southport NC. They have alligators in their development.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Bananas are all clones now. Weird dirt-borne fungus kills off cavendish vaieties.
Big_Brilliant_3343@reddit
Location: Madison, WI
The black hole sun washing over the lake with an eerie glow.
Living in one of the top health care locations in Wisconsin and its obvious things are rotten underneath. Wild fire days usually end up with more people dying; the firestation has been busy with constant calls.
This is all happening during a nursing strike that just ended today. I hope those nurses got what they asked for, its very difficult to work in the competitive UW system.
Housing is getting worse. Old houses take forever to get rezoned/updated, lakes cause "prime real-estate" next to the university strain on housing. More people than ever are moving from rural areas to the medium cities (especially for Madison's healthcare system.)
At least the sun is hauntingly beautiful
KrankyKong28@reddit
Soundgarden intensifies
Nihilate_@reddit
Location: Eastern Ontario, Canada
Orange sun returns
Miss carefree blue days of youth
Wish I could go back
BeginningMonth525@reddit
Also in Eastern Ontario. So far we've been lucky enough to avoid the wildfire smoke where I'm at but I fear it'll be another bad summer for it, like in 2023.
People don't seem to care as much about it this time around.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
This reminded me of a post about spraying phosphate into the atmo to control global collapse… it turns the sky white. Someday maybe the answer to “what color is the sky” will be… white (smoke or phosphate) 😣 ~ however, the sky being black would be more likely
Choice-Standard-6350@reddit
Location uk We are having a record warm spring and beginning of summer with little rain.I am enjoying it, but it’s because of climate change. Our biodiversity gets worse with loss of insects and invertebrates. There is less money for public services because like all countries in Europe, we are having to increase our defence spending
ClimateMessiah@reddit
Location: Reddit
I am observing the collapse of the struggle to survive. People just giving up.
There is a powerful brainwashing going on which is constantly reinforcing our lack of agency and powerlessness.
Any effort or attempt to even discuss potential political action aimed at installing an environmentally responsible government regime is instantly attacked in the same way our bodies immune system attacks an infection.
Look at this community. It is titled r/collapse.
Do you discuss collapse from all facets ? No.
You document the evidence of collapse.
You don't discuss how you want the world to be managed in light of collapse. You don't imagine the least painful path forward. Any person who attempts to raise these points is systematically attacked and ejected. The mods apparently consider the suggestion of political action to fall under their definition of violence.
I think a more apt name for this sub would r/powerless. It speaks closer to the subs essence.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
another scold.
ClimateMessiah@reddit
Do you have any comment on the substance of the observation or are you part of the brainwashing "team" which seeks to deflect from the substance by pivoting to a focus on the messenger instead of the message ?
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bipolarearthovershot@reddit
Oh save us climate messiah. What are you doing to rebel?
ClimateMessiah@reddit
I'm willing to govern in a communist environmentally centric fashion.
I'm willing to get on a stage and tell the world that both the Democratic and Republican parties are part of a death cult.
I'm willing to cancel all debt and private property ownership.
I'm willing to risk the wrath of the wealthy and their willingness to silence me.
I'm willing to die for a cause.
bipolarearthovershot@reddit
Ok mr. President you have my vote haha. Get some rest you need to start campaigning soon
ClimateMessiah@reddit
Let me ask you a question ? Would you want someone to govern in an eco-centric fashion ?
Who is offering to do that ?
Someone like Jem Bendell in his Deep Adaptation philosophy provides the framework for how humans can govern themselves in a sustainable fashion. But the Deep Adaptation movement doesn't have a leader who is willing to compete for that.
What do you want mr/ms bipolarearthoveshoot ?
What is your preference ?
bipolarearthovershot@reddit
Dave Gardner already failed in his run. http://davetheplanet2024.com/ But you can certainly try for 2028 with all your wonderful ideas and energy and charisma
ClimateMessiah@reddit
How do you feel about Dave Gardner ?
Do you have contempt for him for trying at something that he didn't come remotely close to succeeding in ?
Do you mock him ?
ClimateMessiah@reddit
Did you support Dave ?
Maybe he's the guy we need ?
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
I see a couple of your lot every week.
preachers.
collapse-ModTeam@reddit
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Collapse_is_underway@reddit
At this point I'm gonna ask for the mods to ban you, dude.
This is a post for r/CollapseSupport, not the weekly of collapse. We want data about what's happening in your area; if you feel the dread/depression of collapse weighing on you => r/CollapseSupport
You want to keep on making posts on a compromised social media, as someone else linked in another comment, that's your kink, but it's getting rather annoying.
But why do I bother ? You probably didn't read the post of the other dude that gave you links as to why reddit is NOT a platform for organizing.
ClimateMessiah@reddit
Ah .... the way to avoid uncomfortable truth is censorship.
I am here making observations on collapse. What better observation of collapse is there than the collapse in people struggle to survive ?
We are in a self destructive spiral and there is no organized opposition to it. Anywhere.
A widespread abandonment of agency. Cowed by fear,
Collapse_is_underway@reddit
No there is no organized opposition that you can see or join, which is not the same thing.
You're not making observation about collapse, you're making observation about your feelings when you think of the current collapse.
Go seek the antispecists or XR or Just stop oil or a similar organization. To keep on whining on reddit will accomplish nothing in regards to "organizing".
We all deal with the slow collapse of our globalized ponzi-schemed economy in our own ways.
DisingenuousGuy@reddit
What the fart, ok fine, I'll take a rip.
This is not the first time you have tried to ""discuss"" this. This is also not the first time this reaction has been tossed at you.
You cannot organize a meaningful resistance online on a platform that is Internally Compromised by it's ownership and Externally Compromised since it's a public forum and we are certainly being watched.
The only thing that can happen is IF any form of resistance is actually organized here, is that the subreddit gets knocked off the platform making actual discussion of the current situation, and at that point there is almost no recovery.
If you want to do something, it cannot happen here, by design.
rekabis@reddit
Location: Canada.
We’re on fire. Again. Large parts of us. Except instead of it being British Columbia and most everything north of the Arctic Circle, it’s the entire prairies going up in smoke. From Alberta to Manitoba, shit’s on fire, yo.
wetbulbsarecoming@reddit
The Midwest of America will forever be choked out by Canada. There goes your last climate haven.
Valeriejoyow@reddit
I was seriously considering moving from Chicago to WI. After the first year of Canadian wildfire smoke I had to change my mind as the smoke really affects me. I ended up choosing Asheville which was touted as a climate haven. Then we got hit with Helene. Is there any safe place?
seriouslythisshit@reddit
That smoke also ends up in the Mid-Atlantic and hangs here. At the moment is a bright gray outside, and if you didn't know any better you would assume that something is burning within a few miles of here, not 2500 miles away.
wetbulbsarecoming@reddit
I realized in 2023 when I moved from Florida to Michigan and the large wildfires in Canada smoked us out, there is no escaping climate change. I have since gotten serious about air quality and its effects on not only your lungs, but heart and brain too.
Wear a n95 people.
Skepticulation@reddit
Hey hey hey. Midwesterners have a POPE now man
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Yup. Chewy air up here in the upper midwest of the US.
It is making gardening hard!
We have air filters on and the house closed up but when the heat came this weekend it was awful. We are, finally, going to get a minisplit put in so we have ac. The smoke just pushed us over the edge.
I have people in my house that work from home as well as elderly etc that do not leave all day so they are not going to some airconditioned and filtered place. So. Never thought i would break but here we are.
BrookieCookie199@reddit
Yeah thanks for the smoke yet again (sorry I hope rain comes through soon)
rematar@reddit
Yeah, it's eerie.
And no government entities seem interested in moving away from being pathetically reactive. It's business as usual until they need to give a 24-hour evacuation notice, with nowhere organized to house the evacuees.
rekabis@reddit
And some people have 8-16hr evacuation routes - at highway speeds! - to the nearest shelter. That’s how remote some of these communities are.
See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit
Location: USA, Lower 48 States, East of the Mississippi River
Covid cases aren't the worst they've ever been but there's a hell of a lot of room for improvement. One reason I tend to start out my posts with this is because most people's reaction to covid is to deny that it exists, let alone is a problem, but I'll also admit that people getting angry at me for posting about it motivates me to post about it more-while some people with my personality prefer to direct their energy towards trolling and harassing other people online, I re-direct this energy towards this instead. It's effective, it pisses off the people who hate me, and it also helps me remember that nothing that's going on now is normal. We're living in a time where a pandemic was allowed to spiral out of control and everyone was told to shut up and eat their repeated infections because no government could be bothered to actually do anything to help solve the problem:
https://www.pmc19.com/index.php
https://peoplescdc.org/2025/06/02/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-99/
https://x.com/CyFi10/status/1929614477462589902 (Data here is derived from the Walgreens covid tracker.)
As usual, in honor of the haters and the trolls (whose numbers always increase with time,) and for the benefit of anyone who doesn't have a lot of information about covid at the moment, here's a bunch of stuff you can click on if you happen to find this post and suddenly get the urge to click on things:
Long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness among US children: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834486?utm_content=334100094&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-108930921605449
An Interactive Map That Shows How Covid Can Affect The Body: https://longcovidsux.com/
How Covid Spreads From Person To Person: https://cleanaircrew.org/covid-is-airborne/
Fact Sheet About Long Covid: https://www.who.int/europe/news-room/fact-sheets/item/post-covid-19-condition
More General Information About Long Covid: https://pandemicpatients.org/home/covid-19-resources/long-covid/
How Long Covid Has Impacted The Workforce: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/long-covid-has-had-brutal-effect-workforce-study-finds
Compilation Of Recent News About Covid: https://raindrop.io/laurieallee/covid-general-articles-discussions-videos-35482466
How To Use Covid Wastewater Data To Make Safer Choices: https://www.today.com/health/coronavirus/covid-wastewater-monitoring-rcna143158
Basic Info About Masks: https://cleanaircrew.org/masks/
The Physics Behind N95 Masks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdanPfQdCA
More General Information About How To Reduce Your Risk Of Getting Covid: https://johnsnowproject.org/fact/we-can-reduce-our-risk/
Bird Flu is still hurting animals, with egg production suffering as a result: https://www.inmaricopa.com/egg-giant-to-pause-for-2-years-amid-bird-flu-devastation-vaccine-delays/
To add icing on the shit cake, our bitch ass government canceled funding for a bird flu vaccine: https://cmmonline.com/news/hhs-cancels-bird-flu-vaccine-funding
The weather in my area has been variable, with some days being perfectly fine and pleasant and other days, not so much. There's also some wildfire smoke from Canada drifting down to my area, though luckily my area isn't too badly affected compared to more northern parts of the U.S.
Someone in my area, who had already committed other acts of sexual assault in the past, recently got caught trying to sexually assault a woman at a train station, and it was later discovered that the attacker worked for a large government agency. (I'm skipping some details to avoid doxxing myself, but the gist of it is that the attacker was someone with a great deal of social power/influence and the victim was very much the opposite of that. Now, things like this happen a lot, sadly, but this particular incident happened close enough to my general area to raise my personal alarm bells.
There have also been increased reports of antisemitic hate crimes in the news, including one that happened fairly close to my area (though not in my exact city/county, thankfully.) I find myself at a loss of words when this kind of shit happens, so I'll just leave it at that.
AI is continuing to enshittify the internet. I don't care if enshittify isn't a word, I'm making it up now because, hey, it's 2025 and the world is imploding in on itself so if there's anytime to make up words, now's as good a time as any. Some sites, like Facebook and Twitter, seem to be more AI than human, but even so, AI still has shills and grifters who dick ride it like it'll save their souls from eternal damnation.
My social life is, unfortunately, more online than in real life due to a variety of circumstances and while I occasionally find people that I click with, most people I run into wind up having (or just straight up inventing,) A5 grade Wagyu beef with me. I was never particularly well liked before the pandemic, but things have gotten exponentially worse since then as society has grown more and more polarized and my politically homeless ass manages to offend everyone's sensibilities. Because you run into all kinds of insane psychos online, I'll specify that I support human rights for everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, skin color, birthplace, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and physical and/or mental ability but the way all parts of the political spectrum handle things doesn't sit right with me and so I dodge metaphorical tomatoes thrown at me from people of all belief systems and walks of life, with the number and frequency of the tomato storm increasing more and more as time passes.
The price of everything continues to be very far from ideal, mainly because of the orange hominid in chief but also due to the various troubles climate change throws our way, and any dreams I have of being able to live on my own are very likely to remain stuck in my dreams like a particularly stubborn clump of hair in a shower drain. To many people, I present an image of a disaffected millennial who never managed to launch, as it's difficult or impossible for outsiders to see my efforts to improve my circumstances. I worked as hard as I could all my life, fighting the various social and sensory difficulties my autism has given me, as well as some chronic health issues, to push through and do what I need to do, and yet despite my efforts, I find myself stuck depending on other people more than I would like and I don't see a whole lot of opportunities for me to change things for the better, and though I wrestle with the grief this causes me ever day, I can't afford to burden anyone else with my problems or else things would just get worse.
Anyways, in the interest of not crashing anyone else's browsers/devices/etc, and because I'm also adding some more baffling, incomprehensible fanfiction to the great wide grasslands of the cyber savannah also known as the internet, I'll stop here. If you've read enough of my previous weekly posts, you know me and you know what I'm about but it bears repeating just as much as always because we live in one hell of a hot, steaming, moist, sweaty fustercluck of a timeline: Stay safe, stay healthy, wear a mask in enclosed indoor public spaces if you have the money and resources to do so, or if not, at least wear a mask if you're sick and you have to go out in public, and don't forget to take care of yourselves, your loved ones, your communities, and anyone and anything else you care about. I'm heading off to continue part of my life's work, which is to make the internet even more incomprehensibly and mind-bendingly weird than it already is-it's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it and it might as well be me. Be safe out there and here's to hoping that the next 7 months of this year has as little doom and gloom and nihilism as possible despite gestures vaguely around at everything. It's a giant ass pimple of a timeline that we find ourselves in, but in spite of this universe being a metaphorical ass pimple the size of an average politician's ego, every day's still a good day to make sure that you take the time to treasure every bit of joy and beauty you can find in your life and in the world in general while they're there.
Defiant_Traffic_2863@reddit
Enshittification is a real thing. Check out Cory Doctorow's work
See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit
I've heard of the idea of enshittification before, I haven't read anything by Cory Doctorow before though, I'll take a look at what he's written.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Try the short story "Radicalized" - it was written prior to the L'Ouija incident and kinda predicted it.
See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit
Sure, thanks for the recommendation.
antikythera_mekanism@reddit
Ok yes I understand your frustration with the general public. The masses are asses, no surprise.
But honestly, is your lengthy copy-paste here in this thread really doing anything for anyone? It’s enough already. And your posts always read much more as a personal diary entry than any contribution to an online forum. Perhaps I’ll get downvoted to hell… but I can’t be the only one who is tired of the long long long posts, half of which is copied and pasted every week, from this particular contributor.
Maybe wait until you have something to really report that isn’t a copy/paste about Covid or just personal reflections?
Ragnakak@reddit
It’s not just you. Every post reads like a whine fest even though I agree with most of what he says
eric_ts@reddit
Or not. I look forward to your weekly posts.
See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit
Cry about it.
LurkingFear75@reddit
Regarding pimply timelines… I have a vague suspicion you might thoroughly enjoy Terry Pratchett‘s & Stephen Baxter‘s „The Long Earth“ - quite a few of you Good Folks in Collapse might 😉.
See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out.
ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit
...for a moment I thought you were bragging about taking many people to have a nice dinner.
rmannyconda78@reddit
Location: North central Indiana, todays photo “a peaceful float”
I got my boat out today, a nice 14-foot touring kayak, and took it down the river. Out of all the places in Indiana, the environment on my stretch of river was not too bad. Saw several bird species (bald eagle, American crows, kingfishers, red tailed hawks, a great blue heron, robins, cardinals, wood ducks, mallards, and a few more) so I was happy to see the birds out and about. However the insect count appeared low, I only noticed gnats, and a few damselflies, and some water bugs in the river itself. Signs of man were omniprecent, like there was a few plastic bags hanging from trees, and a bit of scrap metal in the river, I tried to go fishing but my pole was not casting right, so I stuck to taking in the scenery and birdwatching.
It’s been mostly quite in town, but I may be out of the loop, as I’ve been sticking to myself. Someone spraypainted with white paint the N-word, and a pair of swastikas on a window of a building however, confirming nazis in my area, though I have not seen any more activity from them, I did photograph the racist graffiti but I’m not going to post it, as some may find it upsetting, and I certainly found it upsetting to see. Indiana is such a strange place, on one extreme you have crime ridden former industrial cities, and smaller former sundown towns but on the other you have stunning natural landscapes mixed in with corn and soybean fields.
Facebook continues to get more and more racist, and gore posting seems to be common there. An example of the racism is I saw video of two women getting into a fight for whatever reason, the comments section, oh boy that comments section, its bad.
Collapse rating for my area 3.7/10 yeah, some nasty stuff is starting to pop out of the woodwork, at least the environment in some areas looks nice.
For the internet: 9/10 yeah… not good.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Looks beautiful. What a shame about the madness.
rmannyconda78@reddit
It is madness in my town That river can be, but its shallow and swift in many spots, had a rapid where my boat got hung up and I had to drag it out. But that stretch of river is one of the more peaceful parts of my state.
Ghostwoods@reddit
It looks like an amazing spot. I'm really glad you have somewhere to escape to from time to time.
rmannyconda78@reddit
And the fishing is usually good too, lots of smallmouth bass, crappie, and longear sunfish, though I did not catch anything. I’m actually going to go fishing today and I’m going to try to catch something
Ghostwoods@reddit
I hope it went well -- or, at least, you had a lovely and relaxing time!
rmannyconda78@reddit
I did not catch anything, my cousin caught some pretty good sized bluegill Damn fillet knife was not sharp enough so I could not get any good cuts off them, I was looking forward to some fried fish. It was a good time, got a nicely needed getaway, and got to hang out with my cousin.
hairy_ass_truman@reddit
Location: North Carolina, USA.
As far back as I can remember talking walk the day after a nice soaking rain there would be earthworms squirming on or if the sun was out dried up on the sidewalks and roads. This year we've had several rains and not a single earthworm. I don't know is this is a local thing or if earthworm populations are vanishing,
splat-y-chila@reddit
Worms are invasive and from Europe, so if they die off it's actually nature healing. https://ecosystemsontheedge.org/earthworm-invaders/
DavidSwyne@reddit
"But today, virtually all earthworms north of Pennsylvania are non-native."
Its only the northern parts of the U.S. where glaciers killed native worms and they got replaced with Asian/European varieties. Places like North Carolina were never covered in glaciers and thus have native worm species.
splat-y-chila@reddit
Yeah, I wanted to put 'most' because they invaded everywhere, so I went to go edit the comment because I forgot that word. But reddit went down hard yesterday and I gave up trying.
theCaitiff@reddit
Probably a local thing, my soil is teaming with them, but then I'm farther north in PA.
Like a lot of bugs it's highly dependant on lawn chemicals. My friends across town live in a more affluent area where everyone has a lawn service spraying pesticides/herbicides/fungicides/fertilizers all the time and keeping the monoculture grass the perfect height. Their soil is sterile and their nights are quiet. I live on the edge of the suburbs near a protected forest and most people on my block do not do much "lawn care" except to keep the city away so the insect life is pretty strong. We still have fireflies thank god.
GeneralZojirushi@reddit
I wouldn't be surprised if the chemicals killing the bees and creating the dead areas in the Gulf of Mexico were coming more from lawns and private use vs farm fields. The fact that you can just walk into a hardware store and purchase a giant jug of defoliant or broad spectrum insect killer is absolutely crazy.
InstructionFew1654@reddit
Gulf of America, or Taco Gulf…Gulf of Mexico died and moved to a farm upstate.
ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit
Hell yes. I don't know what it is about fireflies, but every year, I don't feel like I survived winter until I see them arrive.
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
We’ve been seeing them, during the day for a while now. I’m hoping they start putting on shows this week.
ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit
I got a bit of a show last week, haven't seen them again since.
I lived in TN for a while. The one thing I really miss is that the fireflies were everywhere. Hopefully they still are, but.
Professional_Nail365@reddit
I haven't seen earth worms on the sidewalk after rain since my child hood. This is in phoenix, az I am 35.
TrickyProfit1369@reddit
I have an ok amount on my minimum till and always in my compost. I guess they need to have something to eat lol
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
I will say I have a LOT of worms here in Maine. But we also have invasive jumping worms spreading. Which would reduce other worm populations if they get out of control.
Cronewithneedles@reddit
Location: New England
I had a fire in the wood stove yesterday - in June! That’s a first but it was in the lower 40s and I’ve already shut down the oil furnace.
Dull-Guarantee-9076@reddit
I wonder how Britishers colonised india where temps would fry you.
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
I know it's a big country, but fucking hell. We're dying in 90 degree heat in the deep south lol.
Turtleflame-extra@reddit
It’s going to be 90 here in vt today
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
My husband said it was 39 last night! They had a fire at home too.
Turtleflame-extra@reddit
Us, too.
New England
Total_Sport_7946@reddit
Location: Ireland/Canada
Nothing major just another reminder that in our deeply interconnected world, climate change 'over there' has effects over here.
This Link has some good telemetry from the Copernicus sattelite system showing Canadian wildfire smoke extending over north western Europe. This article notes the effect this had on Ireland's recent sunsets with more to come in next few days.
Willing-Book-4188@reddit
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
I’ve noticed a drop in the amount of people out and about. Most notably are grocery stores and restaurants. The last few weekends the grocery stores have been quiet on Sundays which is normally the busiest day of the week. I went out to dinner with some friends on a Friday to a chain steakhouse and we waited ten minutes for a table at 6pm. At the grocery store I’ve seen missing items, overpriced items, damaged items and even items left out with mold on them.
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
Maybe my area is more resilient, but I've seen just the same amount of traffic where I'm at. It was pretty dead the couple weeks leading up to Memorial Day weekend, but when that hit it just kicked off. It has slowed down a little bit but it's still very active where I'm at.
Rossdxvx@reddit
I work in one, and it was busy for the Memorial Day weekend, but the last week or so has indeed been a ghost town like people have spent all of their money. I notice that HyperNormalized state where people are still trying to celebrate the holidays and have a good time like always, yet there is this palpable sense of unease underneath the surface that they can't quite put their fingers on.
PorcelinaMagpie@reddit
Location: Indiana
We're seeing a lot of haze in my area due to the fires in Canada. Prices have skyrocketed at the local stores and I'm hearing more and more people say they thought everything would get cheaper after Trunp was sworn in. Slowly but surely people seem to be (hopefully) waking the hell up.
A new neighbor moved into my apartment complex and over the weekend he was knocking on doors saying he would quote "be willing to be a father figure for anyone who needs it" - last night he stood outside randomly yelling "YEAH!" for over an hour. Turns out his family kicked him out and he's been on a downward spiral since Christmas Eve of last year.
And about that database Trump wants to create for all of us. These are scary times and everyday it gets scarier.
rematar@reddit
This database?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/trump-appears-to-be-building-an-unprecedented-spy-machine-that-could-track-americans/ar-AA1FNS5i
I hadn't heard about that.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Good lord. The picture of Alex Karp, Plantir's CEO looks like something out of a David Lynch or Wes Anderson film.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Yep, the Stasi's wet dream.
Stunning-Guidance852@reddit
I am also in Indiana. My weekly ritual is to go grocery shopping and exclaim "Gosh prices are going up, aren't they" and for the lady of the supermarket to answer back "they really are...it is crazy"
parkerposy@reddit
YEAH!
soitgoes75@reddit
I'm extremely concerned about that database situation as well. Very ominous.
Ghostwoods@reddit
That's an unnerving new neighbor. Poor guy.
rmannyconda78@reddit
Sounds like his mental health is bad, if anything I needs help and support if possible, it’s a really unfortunate situation
Gator_farmer@reddit
Location: Central West Florida
I wonder if the heat is going to drive some people out. Or at least alter patterns of behavior. The past couple years it’s been discussed a lot how high the heat index have got and how it just feels unnatural. Well I decided to pull national weather data for heat index in the area and it does confirm that.
Days with the heat index over 108 have jumped dramatically in the past two years. Looking at the charts, there are plenty of years where there was never a day with an index over 108, and going forward I honestly don’t see how that’s going to be possible.
It’s one thing to be hot, but with these Summer days easily having 80% and frankly normally 90% or higher humidity it just makes things unbearable.
4BigData@reddit
it's fascinating watching people still move to Florida
Gator_farmer@reddit
It likely won’t stop. It’s slowed, but it hasn’t reversed yet. I do expect quite a few of the COVID arrivals to leave this decade though. We’ll see.
But we’ve always been a state of mixed populations at least since the 50s. It’s rarer and rarer to meet a born and bred Floridian in the main cities though, generally speaking. Every time I tell someone I’m from my county and have never left except for undergrad and law school (all within a 2 hour drive) people are shocked. Even newcomers mention it’s rare to meet a native.
Sorry I’m rambling. For all its faults I do love this state and want to see good changes.
4BigData@reddit
> Sorry I’m rambling. For all its faults I do love this state and want to see good changes.
No need to apologize, it's super interesting
The change I anticipate is a lot more salty water above street level and more frequently
Filthy_Lucre36@reddit
The tracks are derailed and we're watching people still get on.
rematar@reddit
From America War by Omar El Akkad.
SoFlaBarbie00@reddit
I’m in South Florida on the Atlantic side and in the past two years we have had multiple days with 100 degree heat indices in May. I have lived in Florida for 20 years now. That is the first time I have experienced this in May. Talk to the people on the Gulf coast cities too. They have been roasting in Tampa in May. We’re really starting to see the impact of a hot Gulf of Mexico on our temps.
Gator_farmer@reddit
Yea it’s brutal here in Tampa. We finally have got some rain and it’s much better today. Hopefully the daily showers start soon and that keeps a lid on the height. I’ll take the normal high humidity and high heat over what we’ve been getting.
antikythera_mekanism@reddit
Are you currently getting the Sahara Dust plume? I’m in the Caribbean and we are wheezing down here with it (staying indoors and masking up until midweek). It’s making things even hotter than usual down here and I read it will also be hitting Florida pretty hard.
I hope you and your loved ones can stay comfortable. I hear you though… heat boundaries are being pushed for sure.
Gator_farmer@reddit
We are or are about to. Granted I see some high index’s in the data like 50 years ago so it’s not completely out of the blue, but the past two years have been a worrying trend up.
I’m born and raised here, my life is here, so we won’t be leaving. But I’m looking into adapting as best we can. Would like to get some good sized, drought tolerant plants put in front of all our windows to at least take the brunt of the heat in the afternoon. Plus switching over a lot of my wardrobe to linen, linen blends, and light weight synthetics.
_Jonronimo_@reddit
Location: Northern California
Summer has started off with a heat wave. Coworkers have been talking about how surprisingly hot it is for a mountain town this time of year. Last Summer we topped 105F+ for several weeks, which is unheard of here. Redding CA hit 119F.
I am not looking forward to the Summer. My living situation is poorly suited for extreme temperatures and last year my AC would trip the switch once it reached around 90-95F. The fires in this part of the country terrify me. I don’t want my town to end up like Paradise, though I know that’s the most likely scenario sometime in the near future.
4BigData@reddit
If a fire is nearby, I recommend you to do a short trip to another CA area to remove your lungs from toxic air
weyouusme@reddit
location: Tennessee, USA
Tick population has absolutely exploded, I used to find maybe one a week on me if that...now I find 2 to 3 a day , I work outdoors and I literally see them walking around now everywhere..
besides that of course very high winds , floods and drought...just like everywhere else
GalacticBishop@reddit
Less birds = more ticks?
That_Surly_One@reddit
Could be. Some songbirds do eat them. Opossums like a little kid with a bag of chips. If you have a mild winter AND no birds or opossums, you're likely to be overrun with the little bloodsuckers.
foco_runner@reddit
The milder the winter the more ticks
GalacticBishop@reddit
Ah that makes sense. Thank you
locololo61@reddit
Higher tick population in NE Oklahoma than past several years. We've had record-breaking rainfall last two months. Related?
SunnySummerFarm@reddit
The ticks are wild. I pulled TWO tiny nymphs off one of my cats eyelids the other day. Our animals are all treated, but we are pulling them off everyone and everything. We live in the woods, and it’s semi expected, but it’s been especially aggressive this spring.
It’s partially invasive plant related, at the root, which links back to climate issues.
Limp_Meet1321@reddit
I live in Western, KY. The amount of ticks that I pull off of me and my dog every day are insane. I'm talking about twenty plus ticks a day. I do hike a lot but even in the yard, I can't walk across it without ticks getting on me.
Katiecnut@reddit
I noticed this last year in north Georgia area. I wonder if it’s a wave going north
kaless_@reddit
im in northern illinois and have also noticed an increase in ticks.
tfaboo@reddit
I haven't seen as many in the past 2 weeks. But about 1.5 months ago, there was a week one person in our house had a tick on them each day. It was crazy and scary.
Kozmicsky@reddit
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Wildfire smoke from Canada is headed our way.
We’ve been unusually cold this Spring season and lots of rain.
I’m hearing about a database that Trump wants us all in.
4BigData@reddit
this is why imho the great lakes area os over hipped as a climate change destination
the air quality as Canada burns down will suck
CaptainBirdEnjoyer@reddit
Plus deregulation increases pollution to the lakes. As a great lakes native, fuck.
roblewk@reddit
Without access to water, you die quickly. Without access to fresh air, you die slowly.
Canyoubackupjustabit@reddit
With either you die horribly.
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
More info on the database plz 😣🙏
Kozmicsky@reddit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html
WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit
Thank you 💙
ctilvolover23@reddit
I love having actual Spring weather here for once. Haven't experienced this in twelve years.
Kozmicsky@reddit
It is nice
Rossdxvx@reddit
You ain't kidding. Unfortunately, by it being cold, people think that it means global warming isn't happening. That isn't the case, as we are seeing a breakdown of the jet stream and stability of the planet's climate systems in general, which is creating weird, off-kilter conditions.