Whats a thing that is dangerously close to collapse that you know about?[Original title]
Posted by axl3ros3@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 406 comments
Bulky-Size-2729@reddit
The environment
PoorClassWarRoom@reddit
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/
"The most diverse group of organisms on the planet are in trouble, with recent research suggesting insect populations are declining at an unprecedented rate."
KnownStruggle1@reddit
This is why it's more important than ever for people to convert as much of their property as they reasonably can to native plants. I have a relatively small yard in a major city and it's amazing to see the diversity of insects in my yard after converting 70% of my property to over 100 species of native plants.
Adventurous-Woozle3@reddit
And to things you can eat! Grow delicious wild plants that are native to your area. Then you'll be twice as happy :-) and get real solid nutrition.
fatlittletoad@reddit
I'm going to make a more concentrated effort to do it. Although this year our native wildflower patch generated a nastygram from the township threatening to put a lien on the house unless we took care of it. Even outside of an HOA, there will always be cranky old boomers angry about you doing what you want with your own lawn.
WalterSickness@reddit
I'm pretty lazy about yardwork and man, I got bugs. My hostas get eaten up every year. They are still growing year over year, but they are just full of holes by July.
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
Bugs can bounce back if we people start doing these things right now. But it has to be now.
When I moved where I am now several years ago, I was so disappointed that were no fireflies during the summer. None. Since moving here I mow only a few times all year (I’ve only mowed once this year in early spring) so my yard is overgrown. I also have a few acres of old cow/sheep/hay pasture that hasn’t had anything in there since I moved here. Right now outside there are HUNDREDS of fireflies. Their blinking is literally everywhere you look. It’s incredible.
BUT….A family built a house in what used to be a big empty field across the road from me the same time I move here. They cleared out trees, built a bunch of buildings, and keep the ENTIRE field mowed. Acres of what used to be a big empty field mowed weekly for no reason whatsoever. And on top of that, they have giant LED floodlights that that they keep on all night. There isn’t a single firefly on their entire property. God knows what chemicals they spray over there.
And that’s why it’s imperative more people start making changes now because there will be a point where they wont be able to bounce back.
ItsAllAboutThatDirt@reddit
I'll just add that it doesn't have to be all natives either. A strict focus on "native only" does exclude a lot of people. I've been at it for over a decade and even that focus would make it harder for me. Having a decent selection of natives is important; they host a lot of life that has evolved with them. But non-invasive climate-natives can be just as important ( not moreso in some cases) as a lot of areas have shifted climate conditions from what "native" historically was.
I live in a subtropical region so that part may be amplified here, but there's many good studies out of England as well. As far as pollen/nectar and such are concerned non-natives are just as beneficial. Planning street trees in many areas do need to include non-natives that can handle the shifting conditions on heat, water, and/or insect stresses that have changed with the climate/human-landscape effects.
Definitely nothing against native species though!! And they can help a wider array of species. There are typically species that host on those plants or are attracted to them for certain aspects. It's just the... "Purity" of it all that excludes too many people from getting started in the first place with an extra level of education beyond "start putting plants in the ground and don't use invasive ones" just to get a hands-on education and learn as you go.
Just my little rant 🤣 based on converting my own yard over time and just being absolutely full of life, and now city gardens as well. The more people planting in general gains us the most benefits. And diversity of plantings being the king of it all
Random section of the yard. But especially for the fruit trees. Non natives that feed humans!
quirkygirl123@reddit
Same. My tiny plot of land in the city has so many wildflowers and local plants and the birds are everywhere enjoying the bugs. I just love it. I also have limited untreated grass mixed with wild strawberries for the bunnies.
iridescent-shimmer@reddit
Doug tallamy's homegrown national park! But also, lobby HARD to get your municipalities to fucking stop mosquito spraying. It's does jack shit to kill mosquitos effectively and kills every other macro-invertebrate species. This sometimes kills up the food chain too.
legalpretzel@reddit
Good luck. As soon as West Nile virus kills the first person of the year my city and state start spraying everywhere.
subc0nMuu@reddit
I love this. We’ve been working on this too and our front yard is finally getting the meadow look. I love seeing all the bugs out there. We’re the third house on our street to work on replacing the lawn with native plants, and I’ve seen two more nearby with at least half of the lawn replaced already. I hope the trend keeps going through the neighborhood.
notabee@reddit
HOAs are literally collapsing the biosphere for stupid lawns. I love seeing a wild but well-tended yard!
lilymom2@reddit
Yes, to all this and r/NoLawns if you haven't seen it.
KnownStruggle1@reddit
Agreed! The native plant nursery close to me seems to get more popular each year. I love to see it.
Another thing people need to cut back on is pesticide use outdoors. People with their perfectly maintained green grass sometimes wonder why they never see any pollinators or other insects and have no clue why. I treat the perimeter of my house for termites and nothing else. On occasion I may need to use something inside the house to treat pests, but that's usually rare.
It seems the native plants helped attract predators that consume cockroaches, etc. and my little native ecosystem has somewhat balanced itself out.
azcurlygurl@reddit
Beeeees! Stock up on honey and almonds now. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/scientists-warn-severe-honey-bee-losses-2025-rcna198141
StoriesandStones@reddit
This morning, watering my crops, I saw some bees pollinating my cucumber plants. I told them to keep up the good work! Thinking of putting up a small beehive.
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
Bee hives of European bees won’t help the native bees. You should see what bees are native to your area and then plant the flowers those native bees like. There are also bee “hotels” that if set up properly can provide them a nice place to live
wookape@reddit
So funny, if I’m mowing on my tractor or lawnmower and I see a single bee I will swerve out of the way.
All pollinators are in serious trouble. If you have the space and ability, please plant milkweed and other native flowering plants.
Disastrous_Crazy8049@reddit
Definitely on my radar more lately. Our dogwood usually gets flooded with bees when it blooms. Then they pop over to the lilacs. This year the dogwood blooms came early and were wiped out quickly with poor weather. I've seen maybe 3 bees at the lilacs this year. I miss the little buzzers.
FnEddieDingle@reddit
Im 55, never saw one June bug this year. First time I can remember
DaisyHotCakes@reddit
I haven’t seen any either and they used to be inescapable. I’m still waiting to see if we have any fireflies this year. It’s been unseasonably cool here but that apparently changing today so hoping the warmer temps bring them out. We always have a light show down by the creek and I’m nervous we haven’t seen any yet.
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
Where are you located? In Missouri there have been more and more out each night over the last few weeks. Tonight there were hundreds in the field and yard (both are overgrown). I stood outside just watching them for like half an hour.
FnEddieDingle@reddit
We normally have loads of them too. Proportionately we have TONS of cotton from the trees. More than I've ever seen..I'm in MN
anuthertw@reddit
The last several years here we only got a handful, and this year ive only seen 2 dead ones :/
FnEddieDingle@reddit
We normally get lots. It's very strange, interesting to see how many lightning bugs
asmodeuskraemer@reddit
I watched a sparrow beat the ever loving shit out of a junebug on my garage roof last year. It was WILD. Sparrow was PISSED.
cheerful_cynic@reddit
Like, picked it up and smashed it against something, Hulk v Loki style? This is all I can picture now
((grip it by the husk joke))
asmodeuskraemer@reddit
The sparrow was throwing it with all it's tiny wee sparrow might against the garage roof -sometimes it would bounce- then hopping over to peck at it, shake it and throw it again.
Tushaca@reddit
It’s because they are busy with a full scale invasion at my house, you can come get them if you want!
Demarinshi01@reddit
I’ll send these ones here at my house to you. Been here for about 2 weeks now.
xmo113@reddit
They are all hanging out on my porch apparently.
Mindless_upbeat_0420@reddit
I saw tons last night
WotanSpecialist@reddit
Dude it’s only June 4th, give them a minute jeez
FnEddieDingle@reddit
They usually come middle of May. Roommate saw 1
chocolatewafflecone@reddit
I just read an article on this - a man who’s been studying insects in the most remote parts of the world since the 70’s is literally documenting the collapse.
Graymouzer@reddit
This article?
chocolatewafflecone@reddit
Yes! The tree of life, thanks for looking it up.
Graymouzer@reddit
It is depressing and frightening.
rmannyconda78@reddit
Surrounded by water and forest the other day, yet I hardly saw any insects
OhmSafely@reddit
I read that a couple of years ago. I remember as a kid driving from southern Denver to La Junta many times. Once we got to the Arkansas Valley, we would have to stop a lot to remove the splattered bugs from the windshield. I went in 2023 in a rental, taking the same route, barely anything on the bumper or windshield.
squirrel8296@reddit
I had the same vehicle for 20 years. When I first got it, brand new in 2005, when I'd go on a road trip anywhere I would have to clean the windshield multiple times along the way. Even just going an hour out of town on the highway I'd need to clean the windshield when I'd get home because it would be so covered in bugs. By the end, I never had to clean the windshield when taking a trip.
watchthenlearn@reddit
Seems like your car killed all the bugs and now there's no more the kill. #science
ItsAllAboutThatDirt@reddit
And then you typically don't notice the lack of something. I'm highly invested in ecosystem creation and even I didn't notice it for a long time. Just one day it all clicked together that driving on the interstate used to = bugs all over the windshield. Not anymore. Riding mowers contributed a lot to that as well. Even just mowing down the edges of the roads all the time.
My yard is basically one giant garden, but I do have a few sections of grass that I treat more like a meadow. I was just mowing it down yesterday and all sorts of little flying things that live in there, as I allow it to grow longer between mowings. And a mix of "weeds" in with the grass. I always imagine the scene from Fern Gully (dating myself? 🤣) and I'm the evil human mowing down the forest as the inhabitants all flee from me.
Random section of the yard
Ricky_Ventura@reddit
And uts had a huge knock on effect on bird numbers
Jetfire911@reddit
Fortunately O2 starvation will be a bit down the road... unfortunately way earlier you get deadzones and H2S emissions from them along the coast lines...
iridescent-shimmer@reddit
I mentioned ocean acidification in one of the prepper subreddits and was downvoted to oblivion. I was like wtf, this isn't even up for debate?
Ricky_Ventura@reddit
I don't mention it mostly because it's hard to prep for not being able to breathe anymore. Would never downvote though.
LazySleepyPanda@reddit
I'm sorry, have you made this comment before ? I swear I have read this exact comment word to word before (I know I could just check your history, but I'm too lazy).
123shhcehbjklh@reddit
Me too lol
Conscious_Avocado225@reddit
Memory unlocked! Now that you shared that observation, I recall how difficult it was to remove bug splatter every day or so. Now I only get an occasional bug that requires extra attention.
DonTequilo@reddit
When I was a kid, every year we used to see the migration of thousands of monarch butterflies. You would see them everywhere in the city.
It’s been at least a decade that I don’t see them. Maybe one or two, not even dozens, let alone thousands.
HurtPillow@reddit
I used to work in Atlantic City in a school. At recess we would see thousands of monarch fly over about 30 years ago. Now there is almost none. It breaks my heart.
DonTequilo@reddit
Same here it was about 30 years ago in the 90s
Visible_Window_5356@reddit
Terrifying - I plant native plants to try to combat this issue. I find it especially fun to find host plants for native butterflies in my area then they come back year after year to lay eggs. Might only slow the decline a bit but if everyone focused on it, things might change a little bit. Less mowed lawns, more wild prairie and native plants.
Also, people clean up their beds in the winter when many insects need that space to hibernate. Leave the leaves people. If you want to clean them up wait until it's warm enough that the bees and bugs have left their hibernation spots
Ok-Requirement-Goose@reddit
I stood in an area of the yard that is a field of flowering vegetables, and I saw no moths. It hurts my heart.
TwoFarNorth@reddit
Moth populations are definitely way down! Although my veggie garden brings in the cabbage white moths and dreaded squash vine borer in droves.
Silver_Sparrow888@reddit
Fascinating link - thanks!
dani8cookies@reddit
When I recently moved to a new area, closer to forests, I came out and there were four honeybees flying around my Rosemary. I actually brought my family out to see them. I couldn’t believe they were there; at my prior house I was always using a Q-tip to fertilize all of my vegetables, because there are never any bees. So now when we have to walk by them I say’ don’t make them mad they might sting you and then they’ll die !
Fungi-Hunter@reddit
Just read a different article on this. In summary- remote, protected areas are experiencing declines in insects of up to 70%. I get how it happens in populated areas, but now deep in the rainforests and the like. That is scary!
packeddit@reddit
Born and raised in the Mid-Atlantic, though where I live now is a few hours from my hometown but it’s still the Mid-Atlantic i.e. same climate/environment. This article just made me think of how every so often over these last years, I’ll make a comment to myself about how I barely see fireflies outside at night, compared to when I was a kid.
Granted I don’t spend time just hanging outside in the evenings as I did when I was a kid, but it seemed like to me back then, that basically as soon as you stepped put the door even for a shower minute or two, you’d see enough firefly activity. Smh
Coherent_Tangent@reddit
In my home town, we didn't have fireflies. If we went to visit my grandparents not that far away, they did have fireflies.
I later learned that this was because of the mosquito sprayers that would come around dusk several times a week. It turns out those were killing all of the fireflies in the area.
Of course we still had mosquitoes, and that was probably terrible for our health. At least we got a healthy does of carcinogens in the evenings.
angry-mob@reddit
Caring about shit like this. Every day it’s another article about the next major disaster right around the corner. I think there’s a desensitization to it over time. It’s just like the 100 negative articles about Donald Trump per day I see on every subreddit here. I only have so many fucks to give and you want them all to sell me pharmaceutical drugs and mobile games.
We are entering our apathetic age.
Stonna@reddit
The stock market.
The stock market algorithms are barely holding together. The books are so unbalanced the prices are trading almost identical to each other in order to prevent a cascade of bankruptcy’s
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
Can you tell me more about this?
Stonna@reddit
I’m gonna explain it in layman’s terms
There’s a hedge fund. It invest in two things 1. Long positions 2. Short positions.
And this hedge fund (we’ll name it “castle hedge fund) has a sister company. Called. “Castle securities”
Castle securities is allowed to make infinite shares, they’re responsible for refereeing the stock market, and they don’t have to report to anyone.
So here’s where it went all wrong…
Castle securities gave Castle hedge fund shares for free. Castle hedge fund then went and sold shares they didn’t own and made a profit.
They did this over and over and over.
They would profit from selling the counterfeit share, and they would profit when the company would go bankrupt. So to Castle hedge fund it’s win win. This is the short side.
But one company didn’t go bankrupt, and now castle securities has to buy back all the counterfeit shares they sold.
Which is impossible.
So now the algorithms are tasked with managing castle hedge funds books which have this ever increasing debt on the short side, and an ever destabilizing economy on the long side.
So they can’t rely on the long side anymore, the short side is gonna bankrupt castle hedge fund, castle securities, and the large bank that financed them. Let’s call them a made up name “bank of North America”
And since bank of North America is connected to the DTCC, the debt is gonna passed on to other banks, which will also go bankrupt.
And on and on until the FED.
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
Thanks for the explanation. Everytime I learn more about the stock market, it just sounds like a bad idea.
Stonna@reddit
It’s probably even worse then you could imagine.
My suspicion is they were heavily involved with Putin and his regime.
The CEO of “castle hedge fund” took several trips close to the Russian border right before the war broke out.
Traitors galore
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
They serve the dollar as the US has always done. People like us have no country of our own—never did. We merely live here as products and resources to be used, consumed, and disposed of. Treason is the excuse governments use to punish us when they feel threatened or insulted and part of how they enforce their order upon us.
50shadesofgilf@reddit
Black Friday: 50 Shades Darker
GonzoLeftist@reddit
The market for sedatives is very undersupplied. The booming secondary use of Ketamine as an antidepressant has already stressed the market further and there are rumblings in Washington about the White House rescheduling Fentanyl to make it illegal. If this happens surgeons and dentists will face widespread shortages before the suppliers and regulatory apparatus can adjust the supply of alternative drugs.
Velotivity@reddit
Anesthesia here. Fentanyl is already “illegal” and tightly controlled. If it becomes more tightly controlled, it doesn’t mean it will be wiped off from medical use. There is no evidence it will be removed from medical use right now.
Ketamine is a great anesthetic and analgesic, but it is far from being “essential”. I use ketamine only one in every 20 anesthetics, and that’s only because I’m trying to be opioid-sparing.
If we run out of fentanyl, I can use hydromorphine or sufentanil. If we run out of ketamine, I can use propofol, etomidate as primary hypnotics, and even magnesium and precedex as adjunct analgesics. Fentanyl is most commonly used in the OR not even for pain— it’s used to prevent a rise in BP and heart rate after breathing tube insertion. I can use esmolol for that— not even a controlled substance.
None of these shortages will actually cause any delays in surgeries for patients. I just wanted to make that clear. The alternatives are endless. There are definitely issues in healthcare, but this is not something that we should lose sleep over.
DisabledArmy@reddit
I’m an inpatient pharmacist and it’s frustrating little people know about medication, yet act like they know everything about it online.
Unique-Sock3366@reddit
I’m a nurse. I have to be proactive and very cautious with my patients regarding pain medication education.
We use a lot of fentanyl currently in labor and delivery. Many of my patients look absolutely terrified and appalled if the doctor mentions fentanyl before I have the opportunity to explain it thoroughly.
grebetrees@reddit
I got fentanyl immediately after my c-section was over and it felt kinda awful, like a thick blanket was separating me from the world and forcing me into unconsciousness. I really don’t see how anyone could enjoy that
jewdiful@reddit
I envy the life you’ve lived where you can’t understand the appeal of being physically and emotionally numb. You’re very lucky.
Adorable-Middle-5754@reddit
I think if you thought about it a bit harder you could see why some people would enjoy that.
jewdiful@reddit
Right? I wish I lived the kind of life where I couldn’t imagine someone wanting to be fully numb to the world lol.
Trauma sucks.
Disastrous_Crazy8049@reddit
Yes! I felt like I was a balloon or something floating around, like I wasn't solid. It was awful. And when I brought it up I was told that it wasn't a normal experience. The poor nurse looked at me like I was nuts when I asked for just strong Tylenol.
Unique-Sock3366@reddit
I’m sorry, my friend. Some people are more sensitive to it than others, especially if you aren’t accustomed to taking much medication.
Toradol and Tylenol work amazingly well together for post surgical pain! (If you find yourself in need of meds in the future :)
grebetrees@reddit
Tylenol actually works well for me, if I’m patient. I have to give it an hour to 90 min for full effect
DisabledArmy@reddit
Yep. I make probably 50 fentanyl epidurals a day and I get the craziest looks the times that I have to deliver the bag to the patients room. We also used it a lot for GSWs and people who were hit by IEDs. It really is a miracle drug in the healthcare setting.
There’s a really funny video online of a young guy who was being sedated for a procedure, once the dr said something about fentanyl the young guy jumped up in his bed and said “FENTANYL?!” Everybody was like no no no no and then he passed out😂
Velotivity@reddit
50 fent epidurals a day is crazy jeez. Thoracic epidurals for rib trauma pain? Interesting
squirrel8296@reddit
Wait, how does that work? Don't most (all?) hospitals drug test after delivery and check for opioids in the system? Wouldn't that lead to a ton of false positives since they'd have fentanyl in their system?
Unique-Sock3366@reddit
Not at all.
We don’t do drug testing unless specific circumstances warrant it. And our patients have to be informed of testing and consent to it.
Laws vary from state to state and worldwide, of course.
GWS2004@reddit
Well FOX news has been telling people for years that all you have to do it touch it and you can die.
DisabledArmy@reddit
CNN does the same exact thing. It’s almost like it’s up to the viewer to not believe everything they hear on the news.
GWS2004@reddit
Though I agree, no one is as terrible as FOX.
Read real news at Reuters and the AP.
DisabledArmy@reddit
Both of those news orgs have spread the same lies about fentanyl and COVID as every other news org.
GWS2004@reddit
Yes, my bad, I was thinking about the news "overall". FOX is the worst.
DisabledArmy@reddit
So you’re unnecessarily bringing bias into a scientific discussion. Gotcha
GWS2004@reddit
What?
GonzoLeftist@reddit
They're talking about rescheduling it to Schedule 1, which means it would, legally speaking, have no acceptable medical use.
Velotivity@reddit
Marijuana is a schedule 1 drug. I’ll just leave it at that
joeg26reddit@reddit
You’re good at your job or perhaps Google fu Either way the wall of text will put me to sleep lol
CindysandJuliesMom@reddit
Ketamine is used in a lot of veterinarian procedures.
Sad_Math5598@reddit
Musk is using up all the supply of special K
ghost_of_agrippa@reddit
What are the alternatives?
Velotivity@reddit
If we ran out of fentanyl, I’d switch to hydromorphone or sufentanil without much issue. In many gases with general anesthesia, fentanyl isn’t even being used to treat pain — it’s more commonly used to blunt the rise in blood pressure and heart rate that happens after intubation. For that, I could also use esmolol instead, which isn’t even a controlled substance.
If ketamine were unavailable, I’d use agents like propofol or etomidate for hypnosis. For adjunct analgesia, there’s precedex and even magnesium(which works similar to ketamine), depending on the situation. Ketamine is useful, but far from essential — I maybe only use it in about 1 out of every 20 anesthetics, usually just to reduce opioid use.
CavitySearch@reddit
Why do you think sufentanil would be spared if fentanyl isn’t?
There are many procedures and patients where dilaudid is not a good alternative to fentanyl due to its longevity I think.
GonzoLeftist@reddit
There are several others, primarily Midazolam, but it also faces a supply crunch especially when Fentanyl and Ketamine are in low stock.
boomrostad@reddit
The week they started introducing their attempt to reschedule fentanyl, the FDA had just approved a replacement. Journavx produced by Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Bozhark@reddit
Which Trump buddy owns VP?
ScamperAndPlay@reddit
Vanguard, Blackrock, Fidelity, JP Morgan.
eucatastrophie@reddit
midazolam is NOT a replacement for fentanyl. midazolam is a benzo- when they put you out with fentanyl they often use fentanyl with versed, versed is also a benzo. very different effects.
axl3ros3@reddit (OP)
So interesting
Boring-Philosophy-46@reddit
Insect populations. Not just bees. Pretty much all of them.
athomevoyager@reddit
Why potable water production?
wijet@reddit
Hydrologic patterns are changing with the climate, so hydrogeologic recharge cycles are changing and affecting water tables, amongst other issues.
CJ_7_iron@reddit
Parts of the San Antonio area just hit stage five water restrictions for a few weeks. The Edwards aquifer can’t keep up with the demand and drought beating it from both ends. Corpus Christi is is a severe water shortage as well. Lots of Texas municipalities are having to bring water in to keep up.
whiteknucklesuckle@reddit
Despite this, making cannabis fully illegal was a MAJOR priority for Lt. Governor Dan DP Patrick, good work folks!
Larrynative20@reddit
Marijuana is a huge water drain to grow though right?
Ashamed_Zombie_7503@reddit
I don't think it's huge by any means especially when you compare it to dumbasses growing alfalfa in the desert lol
Larrynative20@reddit
Per ChatGPT
Bottom Line
Marijuana uses 5–10 times more water per pound than alfalfa. However, marijuana is grown on far fewer acres, so its total water footprint is currently much smaller than alfalfa, which is one of the top water-consuming crops in the western U.S.
Let me know if you want this broken down per acre, per plant, or under indoor vs outdoor grow conditions
lionaroundagan@reddit
If he doesn't protect the adults from marijuana, who will?!
Few-Affect-6247@reddit
Good, fuck Texas. They got what they voted for.
adioskarma@reddit
And there’s the extinction of empathy mentioned in the top comment. :(
CautiousManatee@reddit
Cool, I guess fuck all the people who organized and voted against this but live in districts that are so gerrymandered it barely makes any impact. Get a grip.
Content_Economist_83@reddit
That’s a really ignorant short sighted view
SavingsQuiet808@reddit
I'd agree with you if Texans didn't constantly fuck themselves over and blame everyone around them and demand help.
anemone_within@reddit
Pair that with the fact that across the country, many farm's wells are pulling up fossile water and recharging the aquifers to preindustrial levels could take ages.
vahistoricaloriginal@reddit
Ask an old fart from a rural area. They will describe how much higher, cleaner, and more flowing the rivers, creeks, and tributaries were a few decades past. Also, how much more abundant the aquatic life in small streams and creeks.
Whole-Ad3696@reddit
Cyanotoxin
Boring-Philosophy-46@reddit
Depends on where you are in the world but in general, higher temperatures mean more evaporation, more droughts (higher need for potable water used by agriculture) and more torrential rains (which run off and do not soak into the ground so they are kind of useless and often wash off fertile soil). In addition the current potable water pumping from underground reservoirs usually far exceeds the rate of replenishment meaning that we are using them up. Even worse, a lot of groundwaters are getting contaminated from various sources - pesticides, petrochemical production, etc. Others are getting infiltrated by saline water due to the pressure difference from pumping water out.
ForthrightGhost@reddit
This is the biggest one. Ocean acidification is underway. There will be a regime shift within 5 years, and then CO2 will no longer absorb into the oceans, which will cause a significant decreases in oxygen levels by the end of the century.
Boring-Philosophy-46@reddit
Also for those not in the know: last time we had ocean acidification from CO2 it caused a mass extinction event that killed like 98% of all life on the planet. It won't be within our lifetimes but within a few hundred years this planet will be uninhabitable unless we not only reduce the CO2 exhaust to 0 but also start capturing it. Planting trees is a complicated matter and in many cases does not result in co2 capture. We should still do it for other reasons but don't count on carbon capture that way, net capture only happens in very specific circumstances which are rarely met.
ForthrightGhost@reddit
Capturing won’t help, because water vapor is a GHG. It will still be a problem. We have to completely change how we manufacture everything. Everything has to be made ecologically, especially with the laws of thermodynamics in mind.
We also have to clean up all of the pollution in the oceans, and set up regenerative practices so we can rewind the ocean habitats and elsewhere.
Boring-Philosophy-46@reddit
If the temperature drops due to capturing CO2 you get less water vapour too. But the more likely scenario is they will use aerosols that reflect light to cool the earth, and cause problems with that too.
Due_Satisfaction2167@reddit
Who is predicting that?
Most predictions seem to suggest +1.5 degrees by 2030.
Boring-Philosophy-46@reddit
No, that is the 10 year average (so when the climate can be considered to be +1.5 degrees due to that being a ten year average). We have already hit +1.5 degrees on a yearly basis in 2024: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68110310
However agriculture, plants don't wait for 10 years before the effects occur. They die from +2 degrees global warming weather induced extremes like droughts.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481945-the-world-could-experience-a-year-above-2c-of-warming-by-2029/
Sorry I was a year off, 2029.
ForthrightGhost@reddit
Adding to your link collection here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364821580_Climate_Disruption_Caused_by_a_Decline_in_Marine_Biodiversity_and_Pollution
nw342@reddit
I used to wash my car daily because of all the insects i'd drive through....havent seen any insect spatter this year.
Corrupted_G_nome@reddit
Alberta is running dry. Last 2 years had droughts and a major ferry route north isn't deep enough anymore.
techdaddykraken@reddit
The internet.
Algorithmic advertising, artificial intelligence, commercialization, device fingerprinting, automated bot-ing, have all but killed it already.
The danger isn’t the death of the Internet, but what the prevalence of these tools does to our psychology as humans
I’m sure most who read this comment can attest to the dramatic shortening of their attention span over the last 10 years.
That coincides with the rewiring of your dopamine system in your brain.
Humans are the greatest pattern matching machines we know of in the universe. Even better than AI.
What happens when you take an excellent pattern matching machine, and feed it detrimental patterns non-stop for years?
You cause a recursive self-destructive loop where the machine begins searching out the patterns that are negatively affecting it to begin with. Think sugar, alcohol, social media, porn, gambling, etc.
Prior to social media and the internet, these things still existed, but you weren’t ’plugged in’ to them 24/7.
The downstream effects of the algorithmization and commercialization of the internet will be reduced knowledge/education, reduced critical thinking skills, and so forth.
But that is honestly not what I am worried about, we are already experiencing those effects.
I am worried about the second-order downstream effects. When the populace becomes so illiterate and uneducated due to atrophying their critical thinking abilities, it exponentially accelerates this recursive feedback loop.
We are quite literally accelerating towards Idiocracy: ‘Brawndo has what plants crave!’.
PatientPower3@reddit
Isn’t this what led to our wonderful government now? Idiots who believe the lies and wanna fight you over them? Yeah I agree the school system sucks I have 2 kids, one did well and went to college and has amazing critical thinking skills and will thrive in the workforce. The other? Not so much. We got them a job after graduation where they begrudgingly worked each day and the minute they got in a relationship, they convinced that person somehow to take them in and now 3 years later still has no job and no marketable skills much less any interpersonal skills. Just an awkward isolated person. Its sad because as a parent I did everything I could to motivate them. Its sad.
yaykaboom@reddit
Extra big ass fries!
Sorry you were saying what?
somethingwholesomer@reddit
But
It has electrolytes
PoliteIndecency@reddit
It's got what plants crave!
amuse84@reddit
And to think that many live in environments that favor more screen connections. There’s not a whole lot being done to foster humans connecting together and growing. When I go to work, most of time is on a computer, and my work revolves around caring for people. So it’s sick and twisted really.
I have always been interested in some weird thinkers and one of them being John C Lilly, went a bit crazy but he was an analyst/neuroscientist. He had fears that his research on brain mapping and isolation could be used to gain power and control over others. If you read some of his work you mint find yourself getting a little freaked out on how the mind works.
Not only are we becoming illiterate but we are kind of asking for it in a way. As in it’s our choosing, partly anyways. Huxley and Orwell warned of this so it’s interesting to see it being played out. I’m not really sure exactly what action these intelligent men took to prevent literacy and critical thinking decline (besides write about it where eventually people won’t read it anyways)?
I have noticed I struggle with reading but I’ve had to really work at it. I have to set 2 hours a day to reading and it’s slowly become easier. I’ve always been a strong reader but noticed how distracted I have become. I think people are pretty smart though and maybe a terrible decline will result in something miraculous, eventually?
EfficientBend2948@reddit
The Democratic Party lol
Ftank55@reddit
Heck while we're at it the republican party
squidboot@reddit
'Common sense'truth. AI video has destroyed its basis, we just don't know it yet.
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
Saw an AI video the other day of a "dog" saving a "toddler" from a "flood". Whole thing looked not only fake, but dipped very hard into the uncanny valley. Despite that, there were real people cheering the dog in comments beneath.
These people are lost.
Terrible_Noise_361@reddit
I feel like a good portion of those generic responses to AI videos are bots, and pretty soon, if not already, most of the internet will be bots responding to bots sharing links from bots.
GridDown55@reddit
Wait a year, I bet no more uncanny valley, then we're all hosed.
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
I'm not so sure. AI bases its results on what's popular, so it pulls a lot from over the top influencers, reality show presenters, and talk show hosts with fake expressions. Now, imagine when there's enough AI generated content that it starts using that, too. No matter how good it might get in the short term, it won't be better than fake. However, in the long term, it will likely get so much worse than it is now.
Killer_Method@reddit
Allow me to introduce you to reinforcement learning. The data pollution problem won't hold it back forever. And Veo3 is already near-real.
chocolatewafflecone@reddit
This isn’t about which thing per se, but the lily pad story fits here. I heard it somewhere, but it goes like this:
A lily pad starts growing in a lake. Each day, it doubles in size. If it takes 30 days to completely cover the lake, the lake is only half covered on day 29.
This story horrifies me and I think we are so close to day 29 with the lake half covered.
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
Oh that’s good
chocolatewafflecone@reddit
Now we need a separate thread for the secrets you’ve been told.
TwistedNJaded@reddit
Well that’s now going to live rent free in my head for the rest of the day
Curious_Excitement_8@reddit
uhhhhhh society?
Zealousideal-Site838@reddit
A: The public education system, but that's no secret.
softsnowfall@reddit
The focus of education became making sure every kid had an easy time of it - a progression of every kid gets a trophy… Education was in dire straits before covid, but covid exposed the cracks faster. Covid got blamed for everything instead of blaming the REAL culprits: the move away from teaching phonics, kids being raised by ipads, parents not talking to or teaching kids ANYTHING, and schools capitulating to parents wanting easy A’s and no-fails for their kids. Teachers are often in a hellscape of bad behavior, phone-scrolling, music-listening, and lazy students who at this point don’t WANT to learn. Kids have learned the school won’t fail them and most of them haven’t learned to love learning (instead they have learned to deliberately be mentally lazy)… It’s a disastrous combination.
We’ve caused a catastrophic failure not only in education but also in a sense of personal responsibility and a sense of community… The attitude towards education and teachers is abysmal now. Too many parents don’t care if their kid acts like a monster and is threatening and hurting teachers and other students. Too many parents see kids as almost life fashion accessories now. They want to instagram/facebook an illusion of family for likes but have zero reaction with their kids. Kids are watching things online at seven and eight that are… not okay. Their parents react with, “She/he wants to watch it. What can I do?” Kids have all the power, and it’s unhealthy. Kids need healthy boundaries. Kids need social interaction.
Idk where the f the adults are… This subreddit is mostly real adults but out in the world, it seems the masses are just sleepwalking into societal collapse and don’t care that their kids have no empathy, don’t know if their change from buying Starbucks was right, and can’t read past 4th or 5th grade.
We need to change our priorities. Technology should be a side thing rather than everyone is a scrolling zombie… We need to look hard at this stuff because we’ve made a mess of everything (the climate, humanity, etc) and many of the younger ones who will take our place are WORSE than we are…
TalesOfFan@reddit
Well said. This year has been by far the worst of my seven years as a high school English teacher. The kids were done by October. I then had the pleasure of spending six hours a day, five days a week, for the next eight months with a bunch of phone addicts who couldn’t be bothered to complete even the most basic assignments.
Even better, many of those students still passed thanks to the wonderful invention that is online credit-recovery software. Kids who failed my classes were able to pass the entire semester in a day using ChatGPT to cheat. Worse, admin knows this is happening and doesn’t care. They just want kids to graduate.
Teaching is becoming meaningless and miserable.
Pho__Q@reddit
Holy shit this is bleak. I’m sorry to hear of your experience with this sickening downward trend.
I’m 38, and it’s absolutely wild to hear of the differences in public education now vs when I was in school. I have a few friends who teach, and it’s hard to keep my jaw off of the table when they tell stories of the teaching environment today.
TheyMightBeDrWorm@reddit
I live in MA and have 2 kids in public elementary. This year there wasn't enough funding for science. SCIENCE. If we truly are the best the US has to offer, we are fucked.
IntrigueDossier@reddit
"The school cut the math club, and, math!"
bangermadness@reddit
It's great where I live. So not as a blanket statement, which I would think a collapse would entail.
scoby-dew@reddit
I don't have any school-age kids, but I've been archiving electronic copies of several decent K-12 curricula just in case,
whiteknucklesuckle@reddit
Same would love some copies, can we set up a peer to peer transfer or a download source?
Onyourmarkgetset100@reddit
Same!
AwakeningStar1968@reddit
Store classics and original sourse materials. News articles books... Print them or keep them off the internet
Squishy_Em@reddit
May I ask where you got them from? I definitely need to do this.
nw342@reddit
spend an hour on any teachers subreddit....it's terrifying. Parents arent doing anything but shoving phones in kids faces.
FunCoffee4819@reddit
And they aren’t allowed to fail anyone, just keep pushing them through….
MindFluffy5906@reddit
To be fair, parents are also letting kids stay up as late as they want (yes, even in early elementary), not making them do homework, not supporting learning or imaginative play at home, and really don't seem to engage with their children much. It's like feral parents and even more feral children.
QHCprints@reddit
Exactly. Brain rot is definitely a problem but blaming it all on phones isn't the answer.
OldCompany50@reddit
Do you have children in school? I have 5 grandchildren that are receiving excellent education
CindysandJuliesMom@reddit
You are very lucky. A lot of schools are pressured to pass the student to the next grade no matter what. The average reading level in the US is 6th grade and there are many who can't even read at that level. Students are graduating who can't complete a job application because they can't read. Simple math is beyond much of the population.
OldCompany50@reddit
Education begins in the home of course, reading to kids daily from very young the best start. Involved with the school, volunteering, getting to know the teachers, working with the school not against and not treating school like your daycare
CityCareless@reddit
Spoken from a place of privilege where either parent didn’t have to work multiple jobs, or had a job with time off, or one parent didn’t have to work at all.
electranightowl@reddit
So maybe our broken education system is a result of the economy & HCOL, because it all comes down to the family in the end
CityCareless@reddit
💯that’s a big part of it.
Adorable-Middle-5754@reddit
None of this has anything to do with the quality of public schools in the USA. If you don't have something constructive to say, maybe refrain next time.
anglenk@reddit
I see. So, education within the home and using outside sources as supplemental. Quite a difference from an educational system that actually works, if you are only using the system to supplement what is already done.
songofthewitch@reddit
Can you say more about how you feel their education is excellent? I’m a former classroom teacher who had to leave the field 10 years ago because I couldn’t pay my bills. I now have a middle school son and I honestly cry several times a month about the state our US public education system has fallen into.
I’m not disagreeing with you, just wondering what makes you say this.
OldCompany50@reddit
Just excellent young teachers, incredible staff support and parental volunteers with a progressive school board.
Adorable-Middle-5754@reddit
Would love to hear where this is taking place and would love you to recognize that that one experience is not indicative of the facts of the entire country or world. There are hundreds of news reports about the education crisis, why don't you try looking it up and read for yourself, you don't have to take our word for it.
OldCompany50@reddit
Kansas- we voted in a democratic governor in 2018 as the education fix, she’s succeeded
Adorable-Middle-5754@reddit
How hard is it to include this info in your original comment? This is important context.
OldCompany50@reddit
No one asked for details, seems all too busy trying to dispute
Adorable-Middle-5754@reddit
I asked for details, how can you say no one asked? You've gotta be a troll
Adorable-Middle-5754@reddit
I said include it in your original comment.
OldCompany50@reddit
If you only look for the bad you’ll find it
songofthewitch@reddit
This is absolutely one of those bot accounts. Look at the comment history. All “progressive” taking points, but also a “woman over 60” in a red state with nearly a hundred comments over the past 5 days. Also, a ton of removed comments.
The persona a too perfect to be real.
(And one of them was that her only experience of menopause was a few hot flashes over 5 years and then it was easy and over and done with.)
Zealousideal-Site838@reddit
I'm a special education teacher in a public school. Yes, I also have children in public school.
OldCompany50@reddit
Good thing you didn’t choose many other careers
WordySpark@reddit
Are they receiving an excellent education, or is it just that their grades/scores are good? There's a difference.
Lots of grade manipulation is happening in public schools, where students have high scores and the schools are rated A+, but the students aren't actually proficient in anything.
Adorable-Middle-5754@reddit
Yeah, my kid was getting all A's before I pulled her out for homeschooling, she was behind on everything compared to what we did when I was growing up and the grade standards as they currently stand, but according to school she was advanced (she is brilliant but they were not challenging her in any way). They are way behind on their curricula because the kids don't listen or participate in school. Anyone who wants to know more should check out r/teachers for an inside look
WordySpark@reddit
💯 Source: I was a former teacher and still work in education. It's a massively growing problem. I often hear parents say things like, "all their grades are good but when I ask them questions, they don't know anything."
Adorable-Middle-5754@reddit
It's not even about kids falling through the cracks anymore, it's just a giant chasm and the kids are walking in like lemmings.
WordySpark@reddit
It's being done on purpose. We were instructed to take late assignments without penalty, drop any grades that made the student's score look bad, give easy extra credit assignments for "grade recovery", and the standardized testing scales were downgraded to where lower scores were still considered "mastery". This is all data manipulation. It makes the school district look better, and less parents complain because on paper their kids are doing great. Too few actually quiz their kids to realize that they don't really know (or retain) anything. Couple this with lower standards for teachers (some states now accept an associates degree), and it's a recipe for disaster which won't be fully baked until it's too late to make sufficient changes.
MorningPooper4Lyfe@reddit
Private school?
OldCompany50@reddit
No a public elementary school in Kansas, our governor Laura Kelly elected in 2018, a former educator
BedazzledCodPiece@reddit
Our constitutional republic.
Hpidy@reddit
Chocolate and bananas. I worked making meal and protein bars. Chocolate producers are barely a cunt hair above replacement plants due to climate and deases. Bananas are the same.
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
Coffee beans are in a similar boat
FrankSkellington@reddit
They warned of fire and flood and the end of the human race, and no one took heed, but nobody warned of a world without chocolate.
axl3ros3@reddit (OP)
true terror
FrankSkellington@reddit
One only has to reflect on The Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020, where no scarcity existed beyond that created by panic buying, the memory of which is surely the driving force behind the mainstreaming of prepping. Imagine the blood spilled over the last bar of chocolate. The siege of the Birmingham (UK) chocolate factory during the Battle of Bourneville and the Mad Max road battle on the notorious Spaghetti Junction nearby would go down in the history books - which, as there would be very little future in which to consider the past, would be printed on toilet paper.
ConferenceSudden1519@reddit
You made my day lol thank you
FrankSkellington@reddit
Haha. Thanks! If only I had the skills to turn the idea into a comc book.
Mountain_Fig_9253@reddit
People keep claiming it was panic buying when it wasn’t. It was an example of the supply chain being unable to pivot quickly. The supply chain was set up for a certain amount of toilet paper being bought for use at home and a certain amount for work dispenser. When we all stayed home we blew through the amount manufactured for that.
If you bought the one ply in bulk you were fine.
FrankSkellington@reddit
My elderly father, when he was alive, was a toilet roll stockpiler. He stockpiled nothing else, having always at least 100 in the house. When he saw the tv news showing people panic buying toilet rolls, he was all set to go out and do the same. It took an awful lot to persuade him that he already had enough, and that the shelves would be restocked in a few days, which they were.
It brings to mind when the local tv news ran a story showing the crisis facing businesses at the seaside during lockdown. Thousands of people flocked to those coastal towns and villages the very next day thinking they were helping to solve a problem. The local news then reported this in dismay at people's behaviour as if they had played no part in it.
Mountain_Fig_9253@reddit
That’s one person and when scarcity occurs in anything people will scramble to buy some. They didn’t cause the situation, they were simply reacting.
But the overall cause of the toilet paper shortage was a supply chain mismatch. It’s an important lesson that people need to understand and plan for.
You can’t expect the supply chain to always provide everything you want at any given time. There is no resilience in the system. That’s the proper takeaway.
OuterLightness@reddit
The true unit for measuring collapse proximity.
Boring-Philosophy-46@reddit
Coffee too.
Sea-Tangerine2131@reddit
At a city festival after party, somewhere in western Kansas, I eavesdropped on two farmers talking about the Oglala aquifer and how maybe there’s 10-12years of solid water options but it could become a lot less given the changing climate. I wonder what the Plains would be like if the US Army Corp of Engineers didn’t start hyper vacuuming water out of the ground 70+years ago.
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
My grandpa talks about the natural springs they used to swim and fish in that have completely disappeared in his lifetime.
axl3ros3@reddit (OP)
Thank you for the info and providing actual context/explanation rather than just stating a noun
SleepyWeezul@reddit
Weather service, especially emergency weather. Just had a weatherman in S FL straight out say they were going to have trouble predicting & tracking hurricanes due to cuts. Topped off by a governor who refuses to even reverse traffic during a major evacuation or put in mobile fuel stops. There is going to be shorter notice, which means more people evacuating at the same time. Midwest has had similar late or lacking notification of tornado events. Make sure you have paper maps, as between weather and overload mobile phones & hotspots are going to be at best spotty in emergencies, while main routes & interstates are backed up to a standstill. Have a route or two on back roads pre-planned. Be aware of low areas and bridges, roads will flood in hurricanes, and in any emergency one bridge being closed or damaged can affect multiple routes
Volitious@reddit
The fucking head of FEMA didn't know there was a hurricane season
-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS-@reddit
I can’t articulate how fucking absurd this is.
SleepyWeezul@reddit
Oh, and if you’re at all near a military base, try to get one of your weather feeds set to their weather station, and keep an ear out on local gossip. If they’re moving planes or sending boats out to sea, you have a heads up to go before they call general evacuations
whattimeisitmrfox@reddit
The USA
SilentKnight44@reddit
My will to live 😓
mountaindewisamazing@reddit
I'm just trying to hold on for GTA 6 at this point
IntrigueDossier@reddit
For real
Lumpy_Strawberry_154@reddit
Same. I've given up on another elder scrolls. Will the overlords allow us GTA 6 before it's too late?
PoopyButtHumper1@reddit
Simply nothing more to give There is nothing more for me Need the end to set me free 🤘
FranklinSlop@reddit
There it is!
--Tao@reddit
Real.
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
Our Medical Providers: I have a lot of health issues and have to see many doctors. The new doctors and nurses have no idea about medicine or how to chart a patient’s medical issues. Growing up the Doctors listened to what a patient had to say be it 10 minutes or an hour. I had a great doctor growing up. The new breed of nurses and doctors want to do everything electronically. I trust a stethoscope and blood pressure cuff over an electric one. Was even told by one doctor that the machine was better than the person. Old school in medicine needs to reschool some of today’s medical. One dr didn’t know what an Intake form was.
I’m a Gen X. We got hurt we dealt with it and kept going. A bloody nose or black eye was common. Bruises, sprains and breaks. Who knew how to put sticks around leg or arm and tie together with your shirts and everyone helped carry the injured out or we kept playing. We were healthier. No Vitamin D Deficiency, kids didn’t go to doctor much because they were healthy, they eat fruit, vegetables, flowers, drank from hoses and creeks. Today’s kids are sick all the time. Doctors don’t see the difference. We were taught take care of things and keep going. We will Survive. Otherwise with stunts we pulled we would have already been dead. Sorry for the rant.
woahwoahwoah28@reddit
This is a horribly misinformed take.
Doctors are spending less time with you because they are forced to by insurance companies who refuse to pay. The categorization that “they want to do everything electronically” is baseless.
If validated, digital blood pressure readings are more accurate than manual in most settings—barring patients with arrhythmias.
Kids are more sick for a variety of things, but simplifying it to drinking out of water fountains isn’t an accurate assessment. There is a post-pandemic immune gap (which has been closing, as expected), more children in group settings earlier like daycare, parents being more likely to seek out medical care, etc.
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
My doctors are funded by charities and do not take insurance. So it’s not the insurance companies fault.
LetsJustDoItTonight@reddit
It might not be insurance companies in your particular case, but they're a big part of the general problem (as are hospitals' boards of directors and C-suite executives).
That said, they aren't the only problem.
We also have a major shortage of doctors and nurses, primarily due to the increasingly insane costs of medical school paired with wage stagnation and the intense demands of the job.
And that was definitely not helped by the Covid pandemic, which killed a lot of healthcare workers and burnt out even more, causing them to leave healthcare altogether.
Additionally, private practices are becoming harder and harder to start and maintain as medicine has been slowly consumed by monopolistic corporations, and hospitals have largely become for-profit institutions (even if, on paper, they're considered "non-profit").
Not to mention the countless clinical tech companies that actively poach doctors and nurses to be their medical directors and whatnot.
As well, we have an aging population of baby boomers, causing a large influx of high-needs patients.
And, of course, there's a ton of regional variation; my partner, for instance, has had to see about 6 different specialists this year for various reasons, and every one of her doctors have taken as much time as needed to discuss things with her, hear everything she has to say and any questions she has, etc. Largely because where we live just happens to have a good doctor-to-patient ratio for a variety of complex reasons.
I can't say I know what's going on in your specific case, but there are just a ton of different factors to consider beyond just "doctors are bad now".
It's legitimately one of the hardest jobs you could have physically, mentally, and emotionally. You don't go several hundred thousands of dollars into debt and spend a decade of your best years studying and training to just not give a shit when you finally get into the career you've been dreaming of and preparing for.
I promise you, it's really not that "doctors are worse now" or whatever; it's far more systemic than that.
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
Well considering that they put me on stomach medication that caused my Plavix to be ineffective and caused me to have a heart attack and be in the hospital for 19 days. They didn’t know it interfered with each other. No that’s not doing your job and costing people lives. I’m not the only one they’ve almost killed due to not doing their job.
LetsJustDoItTonight@reddit
Without knowing the specifics about your condition, prior testing, and medications, it's hard to say just how bad of a mistake that was.
That said, it isn't that they didn't do their job, it's that they made a mistake.
Keep in mind, there are currently over 20,000 FDA-approved drugs; FAR more than there were when you grew up.
Which makes medication management far more difficult and complex, which can lead to more mistakes, despite also helping more people.
And, again, the insanely demanding and fast-paced nature of working in healthcare makes mistakes more likely, because no one has time to be as thorough as they'd like to be, and are often running on fumes in the as they're being forced to work 20-hour long shifts.
The issues are far, far, more systemic than just "they're not doing their jobs".
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
Well considering all stomach medication’s interfere with plavix and make it ineffective it should have been an easy find.
LetsJustDoItTonight@reddit
Not all do. It very much depends on the drug type (like proton pump inhibitors) and specific chemistry.
It's also a probabilistic risk-benefit analysis.
Plavix itself can cause significant damage to the GI tract, especially the stomach, which can lead to life threatening conditions like internal bleeding.
Which is why it's often prescribed with PPI's; depending on a person's medical history, tests, and symptoms, the likelihood that a PPI could make Plavix less effective, enough to cause a clot, can be FAR less than than the likelihood of developing internal bleeding from Plavix without a PPI.
This stuff is genuinely a lot more complex than you seem to think it is. A quick Google search is not an adequate substitute for med school.
Out of curiosity, what was the stomach medication they gave you?
BelAirBabs@reddit
I am a recently retired physician. This is not true. Physicians depend on insurance—private or Medicare or Medicaid. I never got paid by a charity and do not know any other doctors who did.
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
Well that’s the way it is and because of the way they are set up you can’t sue them. They won’t even write a medical excuse for anything and I had to get a lawyer and local news crews to get my medical records told me I wasn’t entitled to them.
Mountain_Fig_9253@reddit
What’s the link to the news story?
Mountain_Fig_9253@reddit
Well then you’re just an ass.
Those doctors are barely funded and trying to see as many people as possible and you’re wanting concierge level service.
You may be a Gen X by age but damn you sure adopted a boomer attitude.
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
The guy that started the charity is a billionaire and has it set up as a not for profit for a tax break.
Mountain_Fig_9253@reddit
Again, you are getting care at a charity and demanding concierge level service. The doctors and nurses working at the clinic aren’t the billionaire who’s running it.
You should probably google concierge doctors in the area and establish service with them. It’s a monthly fee but the doctor then has all the time in the world that you need.
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
Well these doctors don’t know how to check for drug interactions that can kill patients and they went to medical school so no it’s on the doctors.
fearthebuildingstorm@reddit
Bingo. Doctor's hands are tied by insurance companies. If you think your quality of care has declined, you can thank your insurance company for that.
thefedfox64@reddit
The idea that kids were practicing medicine is kinda wild. You were a kid, your bloody nose and such were your parents' problem, not yours. The reason you "dealt" with it was because your parents didn't take you to receive medical care. You were not taught to take care of things you were taught to cope, so they didn't have to pay a bill for you to receive medical attention.
Today, those GenX take their kids to the doctors/hospitals for all that shit. Your parents not wanting to pay medical bills didn't make you tougher. It made the problem yours down the line. They made you play outside, get horrible sunburn, then when you're in yours 60s needing to get tested for skin cancer every 6 months, that's your bill now. Not kids being sicker, kids being properly treated for medical issues. I knew lots of kids whose sprain was really a fracture, and years or decades later, it causes way more issues. But thank got their parents saved 150 bucks.
Your parents were fucking cheap and passed a penny wise dollar foolish mentality onto you. Save a penny today, but it will cost you a dollar down the road
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
When you live 4 hours from nearest hospital and 2 hours from town in middle of nowhere you did what you had to do. I guess non e if you have ever been poor I’m talking nothing to eat at all in the house. So go fuck yourself. You’re lucky your parents were rich. We didn’t even have a car.
Sushi_Explosions@reddit
Nah, go fuck yourself. You had no idea what was happening with yourself or the world around you, but are confident that the past was somehow better.
thefedfox64@reddit
That has nothing to do with GenX being tough. That has to do with income, which I will 100% agree with.
But the idea that GenX is tough isn't because their parents were poor, is incorrect. Your entire stance is a generation of tough kids because they drank from the hose and had poor parents. People are that way cause they were poor. Just say that next time.
songofthewitch@reddit
Idk, this is kindof a weird take.
I had a rare type of cardiac problem. So rare that I had to explain it to most non-cardiologists. Then, an ear, nose, and throat doctor who was a new doctor was the first to not only know what it was but ask the right followup questions.
When I mentioned he was the first non-cardiologist to be familiar with my condition me, he just shrugged and said “I mean, I went to med school.”
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
I was straight up told at the hospital it was the stomach medicine which caused me to have my heart attack due to it making the plavix not work. That these doctors and pharmacy should have caught the interaction since I have a lot of medication allergies. They were supposed to triple check everything and didn’t.
boomrostad@reddit
There is not a creek near me that is safe enough to drink out of... and my hose water contains the upward levels arsenic as recommended by WHO, and is above prior EPA standards.
Inner-Confidence99@reddit
That’s what we did as kids and teens. At least where I grew up but the water was clear.
CityCareless@reddit
Water being visibly clear doesn’t mean it’s free of contaminants. 🤣🤣🤣
Unique-Sock3366@reddit
You’re terribly out of touch with your rhetoric.
I’m also GenX. I’m a nurse. My young colleagues CANNOT spend an hour with a patient and a paper intake from. We have strict requirements, governed by our medical institutions and insurance industry, that dictate what vital information is gathered, how it is stored, and how many patients you must see in order to maintain metrics for reimbursement. The government and high litigation culture has robbed you of your unlimited physician access.
The electronic medical record is an invaluable tool that streamlines care across multiple facilities, across the country, even. Properly calibrated and maintained electronic health devices are far superior to human ears and foibles.
And GenXers were NOT tougher or healthier because our broken bones and neurodivergence were ignored and we drank from creeks. We were neglected. Many of us were abused.
thefedfox64@reddit
The litigation is huge, GenX is one of the biggest filers of lawsuits compared to population size. This is what you get with Judge Judy on TV growing up.
GenX parents being cheap ass and not having to pay medical bills is a huge thing.
Zephyr_Dragon49@reddit
The ones who whould have in your time instead died from lack of medical advancement or enough money to be seen regularly
granular_quality@reddit
Confidence in systems: educational, judicial, governmental
Idontlistenatall@reddit
USA.
Intimidating_furby@reddit
The topsoil :/
ForthrightGhost@reddit
Less than 60 growing cycles left.
MrHobbits@reddit
Can you explain, or link, about this more? I've not heard of this
ForthrightGhost@reddit
At one point it was on the news in my area, where one of the UN officials handling agricultural production related issues reported this, but it seems like after looking for the news article, I came across the following information that includes citations:
https://ourworldindata.org/soil-lifespans
GlassAd4132@reddit
This right here
TotalRecallsABitch@reddit
The GENIUS act!!!
Please spread awareness that US government will officially have a treasury stake in cryptocurrency.
This means the USD will be tied to cryptocurrency! One world currency.
UX_Strategist@reddit
Christians talk of the book of Revelation with fear, but then vote in favor of a politician who is literally forming the foundations for many of the horrible systems and the world view described in that book.
According to the book of Revelation, a one world currency will be a part of the method that the government uses to persecute Christians and enact control over the populace.
You'd think there would be more backlash, but then I remember that most Christians haven't read the Bible and aren't aware of what it says. Right now, they believe every word they read on Facebook and only know what Fox News wants them to know.
metafedora@reddit
I’ve heard theories proposed like ‘some christians welcome decline that leads to the apocalypse because it means the rapture / return of christ is imminent and they will be in heaven after that.’
That always bothered me. It sounds like a death cult mentality.
After-Leopard@reddit
Honestly I’m 100% atheist but recent events do have me re-reading revelations with one eyebrow up.
iridescent-shimmer@reddit
Nah, it's literally coded language but some fundamentalists are hellbent on misinterpreting it to shit. No honest biblical scholar would ever read it as literal. It's sooo misinterpreted and yes, it is absolutely possible to come to a wrong conclusion from the Bible lol.
50shadesofgilf@reddit
Ever hear of christian accelerationists?
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
This was taken during his first term.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/08/02/opinion/sunday/01Dowd/01Dowd-mobileMasterAt3x.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale&width=1200
resemble@reddit
Revelation was primarily political propaganda against the Roman Empire, and as it spiraled, many of the economic and social dynamics are very similar.
Jokierre@reddit
A broken clock is correct twice a day
randomrealitycheck@reddit
I see you haven't migrated to digital.
Jokierre@reddit
Religion is analog
randomrealitycheck@reddit
That sound you heard was that joke flying over your head. My apologies.
Jokierre@reddit
Covering all bases. Wrong sub for you.
randomrealitycheck@reddit
It's all good. Not sure why I ticked you off but it certainly wasn't intentional.
DingGratz@reddit
I know how you feel but you could say the same about many fictional apocalyptic stories (if that makes you feel better).
However, I am a hopeless optimist and believe that the future is determined by our mindset (for better or worse).
We don't have time to wallow and can't find solutions to our problems if we feel hopeless.
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
The US has its own holy trinity made up of civil religion, the president, and the dollar.
reincarnateme@reddit
Because it will bring about the 2nd coming of Jesus, supposedly
BlazingPalm@reddit
BTC is better money that anyone can buy now.
hdufort@reddit
We're still watching bees/beehive collapse in slow motion, and although we've started experiencing some of the consequences, it could get MUCH worse. Also insect counts are way down.
Bees and flower plants will not disappear anywhere. But the economic impact of this serious decline will contribute to severe food scarcity, along with water table depletion in many regions (such as the US west coast).
SunflowerRidge@reddit
We have a market garden and grow most of our own food. I plant clover patches all over the property to draw bees - they're usually swarmed. This year I've seen maybe 30 at a time.
watchthenlearn@reddit
I can't believe no one has said the job market. Increasingly, college grads are having trouble finding entry level white collar jobs, much of it being attributed to companies trying to adopt an AI focused workforce. Since AI is getting better very quickly this problem will only get worse at least until society can correct for it.
Good luck if you or your child will be entering the job market in the next 10 years.
Unfair_Bunch519@reddit
The Kerch bridge
wrenmike@reddit
The U.S.
Vast-Carob9112@reddit
The Russian Federation.
stormywoofer@reddit
Amoc circulation, us passing 2c resulting in collapse of the food system. Insurance crisis is also looming
ForthrightGhost@reddit
This goes along with ocean ecosystem collapse from acidification caused by Industrialization. See the post by boring-philosophy
stormywoofer@reddit
Yessir. The 80 percent reduction in biodiversity will further dampen recovery as well
Sad-Bonus-9327@reddit
Most underrated concern in my opinion
stormywoofer@reddit
Also to note, the actuaries are using the ipcc climate outlook. The ipcc has a 0.01 percent chance of being correct, as they did not account for feedbacks, so climate sensitivity to carbon is higher. We are on track for 4.5c and not 3c as the ipcc indicated
CorvidCorbeau@reddit
The IPCC accounts for feedbacks though, you can read it yourself in the AR6. You can argue whether or not they attribute correct values to those feedbacks, but they are still present in the report.
stormywoofer@reddit
Not the appropriate values for the feedbacks tho, sorry I should have specified. They are using some older data as well. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2025.2434494
stormywoofer@reddit
Some more up to date data is even more dismal. Cloud feedback was way under estimated as well.
stormywoofer@reddit
We will surpass 2c by early 2030s at the latest. Environmental feedback is going wild. James hansons new paper lays it out. And the actuaries of the uk also touch on this and sound an alarm https://actuaries.org.uk/planetary-solvency
MattStPaulMin@reddit
Empathy
GWS2004@reddit
FOX news won.
Pricycoder-7245@reddit
It’s funny in a way. The bad guys have “won” but all they’ve done is killed us all themselves included. The only way to “win” in the face of the end was to stand together. Pride must be one hell of a drug.
ThatGuy8@reddit
Fox News response: PRIDE IS THE GAY AGENDA!
natethegreek@reddit
in 1984 (the movie) they only did 2 minutes of hate, now people stew in it for 16 hours a day.
WolfzH@reddit
We are in a spiritual war, there is no right or left just us versus them and the them are the billionaires who made a deal with the devil, it is why they are just sapping everything from everywhere and from everyone. They are soulless beings. The second people gain compassion for one another and stop looking at each others differences is when they die out
sajouhk@reddit
I believe if a billionaire thought they could be the last person on earth, they’d spend their last dime to make it happen just to know they could.
Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836@reddit
Amazing how empathy has now been classified as a sin
PlanetOfThePancakes@reddit
And hate is somehow a virtue. These people have never cracked open a Bible.
Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836@reddit
They just hate the same people.God hates. Or thats their excuse.
PlanetOfThePancakes@reddit
God hates no one. Just sin. Never sinners
Goobygoodra@reddit
You mean "The woke mind virus" lol
kangaroos-on-pcp@reddit
honestly both sides of that coin lack empathy. if they had it there wouldn't be such a strong divide
whiteknucklesuckle@reddit
I think the people who come in and say its both sides actually have the least amount of empathy.
kangaroos-on-pcp@reddit
wtf how? this makes no sense. although to be fair that coin is a small sample of the population. most people are tired of hearing about anti woke or pro whatever at this point. but still, how is that lacking empathy?
whiteknucklesuckle@reddit
I misread the thread, empathy wise I think we agree there are people lacking it on both sides, I rescind.
kangaroos-on-pcp@reddit
gotcha
FastCommunication301@reddit
What? On the contrary it’s an epidemic
Snoo23533@reddit
Well if it wasnt such a liability in todays world damn
adia780@reddit
This is the one. All boils down to a lack of empathy.
North_Quote5088@reddit
The United States dollar
ForthrightGhost@reddit
Yup, the US economy is toast. We won’t last another few years.
VetTechian@reddit
\^This right here. The US Dollar collapse would cause world wide collapse.
whozwat@reddit
What’s dangerously close to collapse? Our social contract. Trust in institutions, shared truth, and basic cooperation are fraying. Without that, everything else—economy, education, even democracy—teeters.
hanno1531@reddit
hospitals. for example mine is at capacity and turning away patients and its not even an emergent event, just a real busy tuesday. now imagine thousands instanly need a hospital, hospital after hospital would hit capacity in the first hour or two.
most mid sized hospitals only have around 150 to 300 beds. supply chain disruptions mean vital meds are on back order or in very short supply, nurses, medical assistants, doctors, etc. are already at their wits end now…another 2020 or something much worse? it’s over. healthcare in the US is unbelievably vulnerable to a catastrophic collapse.
almost20characterskk@reddit
My country (Poland) is currently running out of water and energy.
2 days ago we had to import 200-400 MW FROM UKRAINE. And it wasn't the first time too. Our main source of power is coal, WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF COAL, by 2035 our current mining sites are going to be depleted. We do have a bit more coal, but it's really deep and it's too dangerous to mine it (too much methane and sulfur in there per PGE/Polish Energy Group). We don't have enough renewables and they aren't reliable enough to supple the whole country, nuclear power plant's keep getting pushed further into the future because ChErnOByL. Fortunately there is one in the works right now, construction is scheduled for the next year and it's supposed to be operational by 2033, assuming Russia won't sabotage it...
We're also running out of groundwater, mainly due to the global warming (eg. no more regular rains, just one big tropic-like rainstorms every now and then), we don't have any serious water retention sytems in place, both built by govt in living areas and by people on their own lands (it's costly, taxed and requires building permits). IN MAY wells, rivers and lakes drop to late summer levels of water. And thanks to people and cities putting concrete on every single cm3 of ground (EVEN IN VILLAGES) there is 0 ground water retention while rising air temp in living areas. For past few summers local municipalities have been putting in laws to forbid watering gardens, pools, and even farm fields during certain hours, pretty much rationing water (decreasing water pressures in certain hours too etc).
I check water level maps every now and then since I live in flood prone area and have already have experienced pretty bad droughts (no tap water for 2 months straight and having to haul ass to stores 20-30km away to get water because all stores in the area are out of stock is very fun :) ). It's early june, and half of the country is already at low levels, only rivers and hydrological stations along southern border aren't at risk of major droughts right now.
But I guess the biggest threat to society are gays and immigrants, not the fact that we're going to be unable to grow our own food, have no electricity and die of thirst while half of country literally turns into a desert.
HateZoomers@reddit
Well, I live in the desert. It's pretty amazing and has the cleanest water. The water table is vast and filtered through sand. But we're out of gays and immigrants.
hotmesser6@reddit
What’s the stance on solar energy?
50shadesofgilf@reddit
Sooo, when are y'all gonna invade Russia? /S
Seriously though, that's not good... Hopefully y'all can get that figured out asap.
081719@reddit
One thing you have in your favor is that your government selected Bechtel to construct the new nuclear plants. Will it be expensive? Very. Will it more or less be completed on schedule (pending something awful like war breaking out)? Yes. Bechtel will use what it learned constructing Vogtle Units 3 and 4 in the U.S. (same AP 1000 design) to progress the units in Poland according to the schedule.
SolfCKimbley@reddit
Or it'll end up like the failed V. C. Summer project same company and same AP 1000 design that South Carolina which ratepayers are still paying for without a singular watt being contributed to the grid.
081719@reddit
The VC Summer 2&3 project was mothballed without being taken over by Bechtel. Although undeniably expensive, Bechtel succeeded at completing Vogtle 3&4 where several previous firms failed.
almost20characterskk@reddit
Tbh it's absolutely going to be delayed, at best we'll only have to deal with Russians sabotaging construction. At worst, our lovely politicians might get a bright idea to hold electricity hostage in every single election the same way they do with abortion rights, housing crisis and cutting work hours.
pickingnamesishard69@reddit
Since you seem to know about water: would it make sense to invest into a distilling system and/or some active carbon waterfilters? For the filters i fear they might get expensive when water gets scarce, plus they have to be changed at some point. For distilled water i heard you're missing nutrients(?), but the distillery can run a long time without having to be changed. I'm pretty new to the water topic, hence the question.
CityCareless@reddit
Distilling water from what?
pickingnamesishard69@reddit
Collected rain, nearby rivers or lakes for example.
CityCareless@reddit
But if the rivers are dry and it’s not raining a lot? You’d need a pretty big storage system to collect. And this works well for someone in rural areas with a standalone alone home. I hope they’ve been planning for those living in cities etc.
pickingnamesishard69@reddit
Oh yeah no problem, we'll just pump up some water from the ground aaaaand it's gone
CityCareless@reddit
Not what I said, but ok.
pickingnamesishard69@reddit
Didnt imply you said it. Like you i hope cities and countries realize they need to prepare for this. It just seems that there is little to nothing being done. I'm in a new apartment block and we dont have meters for cold water. Neighbours run their sprinkler daily to water the lawn, even during rain. Sustainable? Who cares?
My comment was meant as a resigned shrug at the current status quo. It seems like such a large effort is needed to get our politics moving even slightly on any of the climate issues, that the effort needed to push them to actually prepare our communities for what is to come seems insurmountable.
CityCareless@reddit
Yes that’s my point. I’m now slightly incredulous at the fact that there is no meter on your building. That sounds nuts. How do they know how much you need to pay for water? How does that work anyway? Or is the tap water not the same sources as what’s used for watering lawns?
pickingnamesishard69@reddit
There is a general meter for tapwater, meaning the total cost of tapwater gets divided by the tenants according to the area of their apartment. Quite common here because metering costs money. Hot water is metered, so we do individually pay for that. Hot water is much more expensive than cold water, because energy costs something and water is considered "basically free"... For now.
And yes, the water used for lawns and toilets is 100% drinkable tapwater.
CityCareless@reddit
So the hot water comes in through the pipes hot already?? Here the water (cold) is metered, and each unit has its own water heater, and then you’re charged for power separately.
pickingnamesishard69@reddit
Comes cold from the city, gets heated in the tech-room of the house in some huge tank with a solar solution (which is nice at least) and then you got hot and cold pipes to each apartment.
The seperate water heater running on the tenants electricity is another common way to do it. Every house here has a water meter but very few are metering cold water per apartment. Now that we're talking i'm actually going to ask around if i know any apartment dweller with metered cold water, but my guess is no.
CityCareless@reddit
That’s interesting. I’m in civil/water engineering adjacent and have worked with quite a few municipalities, so how this kind of stuff is handled elsewhere is always fascinating to me. Thanks for that info!
almost20characterskk@reddit
I'm not some watering expert, what I know is mainly from checking non mainstram and local news sources, talking with people and then doing a bit of research about the topics myself.
I don't know where you live, what your housing and local regulations allow you to do, but what I'm currently investing in is:
Besides that I have mechanical filters + carbon one in kitchen to have drinking water, don't really mind having to change them once a month since I can get everything online reliably. I'm on a budget so I gotta check news regularly to prepare in advance and adjust my setups if needed.
I'm not overtly concerned with filtering, as long as I have something to boil it in I'm gonna be fine. It's not hard to make a filter yourself, having no water at all is more troubling.
As for your distiller/filters question, I'd say get both if you can afford it. If one breaks or power grid goes down you're kinda fucked, it's important to have options. You can get nutrients from other sources, like food and supplements, if you're prepping you should be stacking up on them anyway.
wwaxwork@reddit
In parts of Australia, we run whole households off just rainwater tanks, of course, these are 10s of thousands of litres in size. You don't need to use it just for dirtier jobs. Get a diverter to direct the first rain away from your tank to clean the roof. We used it for everything, and I lived on the edge of a desert where it only rained 3 to 4 months a year. The main problems were mosquitoes and animals trying to get to the water.
ImportantBiscotti112@reddit
That last paragraph got me! 😆
I guess I didn’t realize that politicians are UNIVERSALLY using minor “issues” as distractions for why they aren’t addressing actual problems for the world. People are the same everywhere. ☮️
ThePatsGuy@reddit
Imo, it’s by design
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
Politicians are well connected with those other countries. The people handling American elections are often the same ones planning European ones.
Silver-Abroad-6807@reddit
i present to you, candian natural gas.
RangerDangerfield@reddit
It’s not just Poland. Here in Texas, we’re at significant risk of running out of water. Our water supply is expected not to meet demand by 2030 if we don’t make significant changes/overhauls.
almost20characterskk@reddit
Now add into the mix people migrating away from areas that are becoming unlivable because they're simply too hot to exist in, with infertile soil, no water, no electricity and wildfires everywhere you look.
See ya in the water wars :D
QuorusRedditus@reddit
Is it true though? I've red only 1% of that number was from Ukraine but didn't check
almost20characterskk@reddit
We don't have enough energy reserves, and on monday we had even less than we're supposed to because renewables underdelivered (cloudy, windless weather). We had to get emergency energy transfer from Ukraine that day, not the 1st time something like that happened, but it will get worse. Officially PSE claims it's a nothingburger, unofficially energy grinds going down in summer (outside of cities) are becoming more and more common. Power plants are overheating, there isn't enough water to cool them down from natural reservoirs, there is no energy reserves we can use in such cases and we're forced to do imports. Also we're not phasing out coal fast enough, we need more diverse energy sources NOW, not in 2040s. A single nuclear power plant is not enough to replace coal when it makes up over 57% of total power consumption. Where I live it's been getting warm for like past 2 weeks, not even 30 C weather and power grinds are already failing, it's getting much worse with each passing year.
prinnydewd6@reddit
Reddit does fuck with my mental health. It’s either be completely ignorant to the world and have good mental health. Or have to stay in touch and you go crazy. Me reading that I want to kill myself almost lol.
KillahHills10304@reddit
How are those clams that check the water doing?
Boring-Philosophy-46@reddit
Honestly all over Europe. Those solar desalination plants are going to be huge.
TerribleCaregiver909@reddit
My alcoholic neighbors liver.
SirDouglasMouf@reddit
The stock market. Spend 2 hours reading the DD in superstonk and you'll question the fabric of society.
Intellectual_Dodo_7@reddit
I’d say human civilization as a whole, but that’s just my gut feeling, no specific evidence.
antisara@reddit
The coffee shop said that matcha is beat. Cus of climate change they will probably never make enough to meet demand again. I know it’s not important but get it now if you like it!
iridescent-shimmer@reddit
Well shit.
Silver-Abroad-6807@reddit
the united states bond market. nobody knows how close.
Outside-Trust-7889@reddit
Is this going off of articles online ? Or are you knowledgeable in the bond market ? I am not so would like a answer for dummies. Not article links.
Silver-Abroad-6807@reddit
Knowledge. Im a trader. Bonds are how the federal government finance thier debt. Think of it as give me monies now and I pay you later. When there is less interest or fear they wont be able to pay, the yield goes up and it gets more expensive for America to finance its debt. A couple weeks back a 30yr bond auction went horribly and the yield was up over 5%. That is very bad. American bonds were considered to be the safest of safe havens to park your money. AAAA rated. A lack of interest in 30yr bonds is extremely telling and definitely going to trickle down. One bad auction does not wreck the market but the timing of it.....it really means the worlds financial giants do not believe America will win this war. Without tonnes of interest in those giants to finance thier debt, it changes the entire game for America in thier trade war/tax and spending bill. Thier math must change, reality isnt what they dream of, reality is the bond market.
50shadesofgilf@reddit
"Were considered". Does that mean the Moody's downgrade is related to these bonds no longer being the place to park your cash? Sorry, I know jack about how finance works.
Silver-Abroad-6807@reddit
No not at all, although not a good thing the moodys downgrade was largely meaningless. The first downgrade was 2008, second was during pandemic, this was the 3rd and last rating agency. These are the same rating agencies that certified the mortgage back securities that blew up in 2008 as AAA. And they largely are still the place to park your cash, there are no better bonds to buy.
50shadesofgilf@reddit
Oh... Lol I did not realize they're the ones that certified the mortgage securities as AAA. Lol I just looked up their website and it looks like they're big on private credit, which seems pretty sus.
But I don't know enough to really have an opinion. Thanks for the insight tho.
Outside-Trust-7889@reddit
So what will be the first signs of "oh shit" to the average American? How bad will it get ?
Silver-Abroad-6807@reddit
Those were the first signs. Next would be banks failing. At which point fdic steps in. They would step in before banks start offloading thier bonds in an attempt to preserve the value of the rest of the banks balance sheets. Americans will start trying to get thier money out of banks, furthering the issue for the fdic as those banks will be forced to sell thier bonds before maturity. If the fdic is able to stabilize(if they can make whole all the depositors trying to get thier money out) then the contagion should stop there. If they do not have the required liquidity. Dollar plummets. Banks hard default, and start liquidating equities to satisfy withdrawal demands causing a stock market crash. That is when we find out how rotten the financial system is as other classes of equities may or may not start to implode. My point is, the bond market is the foundation of EVERYTHING. It can all go to zero, see Venezuela. Wheelbarrows full of dollars for a loaf of bread. There is no limit to how bad it can get.
Outside-Trust-7889@reddit
Thanks for answering my questions. In your personal opinion how bad do you think it will get ? I know no one knows for certain but your gut feeling.
Silver-Abroad-6807@reddit
My gut feeling is that it wont happen. He has smart people around him that are warning him when he needs to back off. The fdic is watching. The federal reserve is watching. The treasury is watching. The uncertainty has alot to do with the lack of confidence. Some of it is also foreign governments retaliating by attacking the bond market to apply pressure(canada Mexico china japan). Nobody knows how leveraged the banks are. How degenerate or greedy they have been. Its impossible to know where that greed and the instability in the bond market will overlap and cause an event, the breaking point is an unkown. He has capitilated twice since he started all of this and both times were when the bond yields were ripping up. He is watching. But even he doesn't know and cant know what the breaking points are for the banks and institutions. Its a very dangerous game, and that bad 30yr auction was the shot across the bow.
Outside-Trust-7889@reddit
Thanks.
snotick@reddit
Every bridge and overpass in this country?
50shadesofgilf@reddit
And the rail system too.
tommymctommerson@reddit
This is alarming. ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as scientists find nature reserves are emptied of insects - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
thomaspanton@reddit
My deck
iveseensomethings82@reddit
The American healthcare system is one bad flu season away from collapse
Ok_Run2024@reddit
The Movie Industry/Studio System
DieselPunkPiranha@reddit
Interesting read. Thanks. Used to work for a company in SoCal that repaired and refurbished equipment in that industry. I mostly drove, dropping off equipment places couldn't wait overnight for. Company was set up the usual American way: run by two wealthy, old, white guys; the owner's wife playing secretary but doing fuck all; and all the actual workers were of color and paid minimum wage. At the time I was laid off due to the decline in work, I kinda knew it was coming.
Because the industry's been in decline for over a decade. You've got movie theaters pricing themselves out of existence. Studios themselves are reticent to create anything new, instead relying on existing franchises and works to reboot, remake, etc. There's no respect for anyone who isn't an actor, director, or executive and certainly no willingness to pay them enough to survive long enough to do the work, let alone do it well.
On the one hand, I say good riddance. It's always been corrupt and has never cared one iota for the people it's put through the wringer or killed. On the other, I feel sorry for all the good, talented workers making it all come together who'll lose their livelihoods.
SolfCKimbley@reddit
Alpine glaciers, numerous critical groundwater aquifers, and the agriculture and energy system that they support.
SirMaximusBlack@reddit
Spoiler: everything
MangoPeachFuzz@reddit
We have carpenter ants. I don't think the source is inside because I can see no evidence of water damage anywhere along the water lines or on the roof. The neighbors gigantic wood pile is my bet. Anyhoo, the exterminator asked if we wanted to treat for other insects, ants, etc
Um, no. The ants outside are just fine. So are the spiders and wasps and butterflies. I'm not thrilled about the mosquitos, but I'm not here to kill all the insects and treat my grass.
Every year I try to add more native plants to my yard and I bought a bee house for solitary bees. I fill planters with bee and hummingbird friendly plants and I'm trying to overseed my yard with native grasses.
I'm allergic to bee stings, but I stopped trying to take down the wasp nests and try a cautious peaceful coexistence. I don't know if they recognize me, but we seem to stay out of each other's way in the late fall when they're hungry and angry.
Lord_Heckle@reddit
Civic duty
SpearInTheAir@reddit
EMS and ED services, along with an explosion of medical debt. They're already loaded to maximum and often times in straight up overflow - several of the counties near me have wait times for EMS, and the ED'S always have lines in triage and people on halfway beds. The system is running at or slightly over capacity most days, and it just breaks in the period between Christmas and New Year's. And this is a system in a Capitol city that's fairly populous. Rural hospitals are barely holding on between staffing issues and funding shortfalls. COVID decimated the number of nurses working in the US and the numbers still haven't recovered. Times were you didn't make it into a NICU/ICU or ER without several years experience and a good resume, now they take anybody breathing.
That's bad, but if those Medicaid cuts from the budget bill go into effect it'll implode. A large portion of EMS ground ambulance costs are paid by Medicaid; if people are forced off the program or the reimbursement drops too far, it straight up won't be affordable to take Medicaid patients. If that goes, a number of ground ambulance operations will have no choice but to close their doors, which will leave city fire departments on their own to figure out funding and non-emergency transports like return to homes or hospital-to-hospital transfers.
This will, inevitably, lead to reduced compensation but paradoxically a bigger number of people going to a hospital ED (if people can't get routine Healthcare, they wait until it's an emergency. This happens already and is a large part of why the system is at or overloaded it's capacity). They'll just drive or walk or bus or otherwise transport themselves rather than use EMS. So you'll end up with people who can't pay, showing up to an ED with preventable problems, waiting a really long time to be seen. Wait times are already an hour or more, prepare for them to get ludicrously long. The reduced or missing compensation to the hospital for services rendered then has a whole bunch of knock on effects - people in medical debt from using ED services, but also prices going up elsewhere because of the reduced ED income. This makes health insurance more expensive, denials more common, reduces quality of care, etc. And this is all just looking at hospitals in urban centers. Rural hospitals are just fucked.
Tl;dr, if the Medicaid cuts go into effect, non-zero chance significant portions of the US Healthcare system become unaffordable or collapse entirely.
Few-Affect-6247@reddit
The American Health Care system was already on the brink of collapse before the threat of major cuts to Medicare/Medicaid. If these cuts go through many, many people will die and many more will lose their jobs due to hospitals closing, worsening staff shortages and private insurance having to pick up the slack and refusing to do so. It’s so bad out here and no one that actually has control over any of it seems to care or want to help the situation.
Stuck-in-the-Tundra@reddit
Agreed, I left the entire medical field after the election. Healthcare should never have been allowed to become for-profit. Between insurance, greed and top heavy overpaid administration (up to 80% of medical costs are admin in some systems) it’s gotten really bad.
ILikeCoffeeNTrees@reddit
The US Emergency Medical Services System. It’s hanging on by a thread.
Paragod307@reddit
I was just going to put this.
Healthcare in general (specifically rural) is hanging on by a half rotten thread. Urban isn't far behind.
And health workers are leaving these rural areas in droves.
InsaneDOM@reddit
Maybe your region, mine is holding just as it's always had
pgriffy@reddit
On a bad day? Me. Not really. I'm just tired of all the hypocrisy
OkRazzmatazz5070@reddit
The American healthcare system. If we have another Pandemic or bad Epidemic most nurses and doctors will dip out knowing how poorly they were treated before.
cockycrackers@reddit
United States hegemony
songofthewitch@reddit
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing.
AncientBaseball9165@reddit
The will to even resist against the rise of authority.
OldCompany50@reddit
Not going by scores at all, thier reading and math abilities
Interesting_Win_0567@reddit
America
ShihPoosRule@reddit
The global economy
greywar777@reddit
Everything connected to the internet. Even at a hardware level stuff gets shipped with bad bugs from major companies. And they KNOW about some of them. They hope for security by obscurity way way WAY too often.
dystopiannonfiction@reddit
Ecosystems because of colony collapse and global mass die-off of insects. This is the one that worries me the most right now.
The US Healthcare system is righr behind that one...I'll be shocked if it lasts another 5 years.
Flat-Control6952@reddit
Democracy
bassta@reddit
The local pump station. We have a lot of underground water that needs to be moved. There are 6 pumps in my part of the city. Only 2 of them are optional and the strain on them is huge. Once they stop working, a lot of underground water will start flooding underground parking lots and do damage to buildings.
ArtCapture@reddit
Which city are you in? i would love to read more about this. I come from fire country, so I often forget that water management can look different in different spots.
bassta@reddit
I’m in south district in Sofia, Bulgaria. There is ton of underground water here ( even the name of my neighborhood is related ). I went to buy underground garage in the building 1 block from mine and saw water marks over 1 meter in height. I fly FPV and there is this closed site nearby ( the turbines are there ) with restricted access. I’ve asked the guard if I can fly outside because there is a lot of space and they said no problem, just don’t fly near the building or parked cars. So I made friend with the guards flying there and I know for sure most of the turbines are out of service and they cannot repair them ( parts come from Japan and contract was terminated in order of a local company that took the money and didn’t deliver ). So that’s that.
helluvastorm@reddit
Healthcare, it was on the brink before Covid. Never recovered from the shortage of staff. Any shock to the system and it will collapse
axl3ros3@reddit (OP)
Well I messed up while posting and can't figure out how to edit
This thread was really eye opening for me
Though others would appreciate and/or have their own tid bits to share
Impossible_Range6953@reddit
Agreed. Very good read. It was also a good indicator of the perceptions of wider audience outside of preppers bubble.
chriczko@reddit
My next relationship
Low-Carob9772@reddit
Bees bees bees.. so.. food, no food. Good thing birth rates are falling
manalexicon@reddit
Sanity
LetsJustDoItTonight@reddit
Modernity.
Arctic_x22@reddit
This belongs in r/preppers, not here.
Ricky_Ventura@reddit
No, it doesn't. This sub is literally about changes members see. Read the sidebar ffs
Girafferage@reddit
Idk. This is actually more related to Intel than most posts you see nowadays.