Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 30

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SeattleDave@reddit

Location: Seattle, WA

There are no fucking birds around here! I used to hear singing, clattering, and clucking throughout the day outside my window and walking around the neighborhood. Now, silence, sometimes broken by a faint and distant call.

This is a wave of absence and destruction sloshing into the landscape of normal life. If the birds are gone, it means that the web of life that supports them is gone. My religious ex-wife says: "God is withdrawing his spirit from the world." That is a fine metaphor for what I am observing!

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

That’s some Old Testament type of analysis. The new covenant, if we are talking about Christians:

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9

"And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." - Matthew 28:20

"Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me." - Psalm 23:4

—— Fun aside: do you know some scholars believe that the God of the Old Testament was actually a cruel entity, possibly the Egyptian Set (god of chaos, storms, the desert, and foreigners). If so it would make sense that he directed his people to a foreign land to claim as their own.

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antikythera_mekanism@reddit

My kids are not being raised with religion. However recently they learned some old testament stories because I believe it’s culturally important for them to be aware of the content of religions.

Anyway they were BLOWN AWAY by how “mean” and “evil” (their words) the god of the Old Testament was. Killing innocent babies because they didn’t have the blood on the door?! My kids will never get over their shock that this is the “god” their grandparents love.

I hadn’t ever heard that analysis about Set, but we already know the influence the Osiris story had on the New Testament. Very interesting idea about Set!

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

Your Osiris reference is likewise interesting to me I didn’t know if it’s influence. I was raised all through Catholic school, my parents then turned fundamentalist (Baptist vein).

It’s funny to me how much the Baptists are just practicing Judaism but with pyramid schemes (ie Amway) and mega “churches” 😂

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antikythera_mekanism@reddit

Oh lord you’ve been through it! I had some Baptist friends growing up and what I saw and heard was wild.

With Osiris, it’s the story of rebirth of a god and has many parallels to the Jesus story. There are direct translations of the story of Osiris, Set who turned on him and killed him, and Isis who brought him back to life. The Egyptian book of the dead has this story, among other texts. Historians have noted the adaptation/inspiration in Christianity.

As a historian I believe no religion, but do enjoy the study of its evolution. Religion is one of the great plagues of humanity, a self-inflicted plague born of our desire to control nature and each other; that’s my own historical take on religion.

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ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit

Wait, what scholars have claimed old testy god was benign? Where do you even begin?

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

Gnostic scriptures, to start. It is, of course, controversial.

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ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit

I mean. Your reply still works, and is spot on. :D

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

Hermeticism

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osoberry_cordial@reddit

I’ve seen an ok number of birds in Portland. But I’ve only seen two butterflies this summer so far and they were both just cabbage whites.

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ctilvolover23@reddit

They're all in my yard with a bird feeder here in Ohio. Visitors all day long.

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SeattleDave@reddit

I'm very glad to hear it! I've heard the same from places in northern Washington, so it's not universal. The absence here is striking, sad to say.

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96-62@reddit

Not neccessarily, it may just be bird flu. Something close to a virus apocalypse is happening to birds right now, it kills like 50%, even though it hasn't jumped to humans yet.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

Location: Southern Spain.

I just took some trash out, a few minutes before 11pm. It was 31C/88F, and as humid as balls. Our garbage collection is a skip located a short way down the street.

I've given myself some nastily unpleasant heat exhaustion. In 10 mins outside. At 11pm. And July has barely even started.

T*'s budget passed, so now it's just waiting for him to flap his greasy paws at tomorrow morning. ICE becomes the fourth-largest military operation in the world, in funding terms.

In an interview a few minutes ago, T* declared that he would be renting snatched farm workers, cleaners, and catering staff back to the companies that they grabbed them from.

He said that as their new owners, these companies would bear responsibility for the behaviour of the "illegals". Emphasis is obviously mine.

The same fate clearly awaits the poor bastards that RFK rounds up for his health-through-work programs. No doubt "degeneracy" will soon be added to depression, autism, ADHD, and the other 'traumas' that need curing.

ARBEIT MACHT GESUNDHEIT.

With the devastation coming to healthcare and financial support for the old, the poor, and the rural, it's clear that the Death Cult have decided to drop the last remaining shreds of their mask. My best guess is that they're looking for a 50-75% depopulation over the next five to ten years. Cull anyone who isn't a useful source of expertise, labour, or sexual gratification, plug the gaps badly with AI, and dole out just enough to the 'fortunate' to keep them in line.

Get old? Get ill? Get cranky? Get fucked.

But the enslavement of us divergents, queers, malcontents, progressives, and free thinkers is still -- just about -- in the future. Right now, I'm wondering whether Zohran Mamdani will make it to the end of the month without being snatched. Hell, I'm wondering if he'll make it to the end of the week.

And sure, I'm in Europe and out of this immediate line of fire, but anyone who thinks this cancer is confined to the USA isn't paying the slightest bit of attention. It's already metastasised, and bad as it is -- particularly stateside -- it's about to get much, much worse.

Still, the water wars are going to really kick off in earnest over the next 12-18 months, so maybe we'll all get sent off the pitch for an early nuclear bath rather than having to limp on through the final, excruciating minutes.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

The sad thing is that neither the Democrat nor the Republican Party will let that man win the election. 100%, he loses or “goes away”, one way or the other, by the hand of either party, despite the voters.

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ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit

Where was that interview? I hate to expose myself to him but I'm compelled to get that in its original state.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

My partner showed it to me on one of her devices, from a BlueSky link. Not sure where it originated, I'm afraid.

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ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit

If you can share the link I'd... Not sure "appreciate" is the right word here. I don't fucking know. I got out the whiskey.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

I understand completely :(

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DisingenuousGuy@reddit

Here is a human-typed/edited (mine!) transcript from the video in this link since I don't have anything better to do:

So we have a case ... we have a lot of cases where ICE will go into a farm, and these are guys working there for 10-15 years. No problem. The farmers know them. We're going to put ... it's called farmer responsibility or owner responsibility where [the Farmers are] going to be largely responsible for these people. And they know these people.

They've worked in-on the farms for 15 years and all of a sudden- they So I have a great- uhhhh- Ron does, Christy does. We have a great feeling for the farmer and for others in the same position and we're going to give [the Farmers] responsibility for people and we're going to have a system of signing them up so they don't have to go. They can be here legally.

-Donald Trump in Alligator Alcatraz

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Ghostwoods@reddit

++shudder++. Yep, that's the one. Thanks for the transcript.

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Legal-Abroad-7481@reddit

Here's the blue sky link:

https://bsky.app/profile/fetchstep.bsky.social/post/3lszigsx7cc2t

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Ghostwoods@reddit

Yes, that's it! Thank you :)

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ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit

Thanks, good to have

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TheLonesomeCheese@reddit

Location: UK.

Some weather forecasting models have been suggesting that we could reach 40C again during a heatwave next week. So far the only time that happened was in 2022 and it was unbearable. Afterwards, the entire country turned brown and plants died in the heat and drought.

Last time the heat only lasted for two days but I have a horrible feeling that this time we won't be so lucky. Many parts of the country are already in drought after one of the driest springs on record and the warmest June on record. The next two months are likely to bring brutal heat and drought, just thinking about it makes me anxious. These kinds of extremes were unthinkable even 10 years ago, but this seems to be the new normal now.

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KingofGrapes7@reddit

Location USA

The bill passes. No surprise. As much as I miss family who passed over the last year I am morbidly(?) thankful they did not live to be stressed about this. Or that we have to stress about how this bill will risk what was their already shaky health. Their deaths were at least natural and not the result of ghoulish cruelty. I have enough living members to panic about now. Whatever plans my dad had once he retired and was off the work Healthcare is probably fucked even if he doesnt/refuses to realize it. Hell, my job involves billing for hospitals. Even if we somehow dont get fucked by this job wise I am too sober right now to try imagining what things client side are going to look like.

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neu8ball@reddit

This “bill” passing has been torpedoing my ability to “switch off” and enjoy my time “in the moment.” Fucking surrounded by idiots who also happen to be Nazis. This is who won. The inherently stupid and the racists.

ICE budget is $130 billion. BILLION. While the NOAA is dismantled! Haha, not only is climate change happening faster than expected, so is the USA’s descent into utter fascism.

Must be a great time to be a MAGA with your head in the sand. May they all have the future they voted for.

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potorthegreat@reddit

ICE is now the fourth largest military in the world by budget.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

😞 this got me down today, I’m happy I know this… but ugh

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Double-Winner-2470@reddit

Location: Europe, United Kingdom.

The education system.

My children are both primary school age, and classed as special educational needs (SEN). They have both been forced out of mainstream school and into homeschooling. This was done through the school saying they are unable to meet the needs of the children and then fining the parent for lack of punctuality.

Obviously, this is a complex situation, with lots of variables, but it is important to note that both children love to learn and have no behavioural issues - their struggles come more with interacting with other students than the work. I strongly believe the school "rejected" them as it was affecting their attendance and results stats.

I fully appreciate the difficulty of teachers jobs, and how they are insufficiently trained to deal with so many children, especially those with additional needs, however I feel this further exposes how broken the UK education system is.

Mainstream school cannot cope - the way they operate excludes students who love to learn but struggle with outdated, inflexible institutions.

Special schools are only accessible to those with an EHCP (educational health and care plan) yet these are like gold dust, only granted through local councils and are known to have to be fought for. It was suggested to me that my youngest would have more chance of getting the EHCP if she went back to mainstream school... where I will be repeatedly fined £1000 for her not fitting their rigid structure.

Private schools are obviously expensive. My children did actually attend for a year in vein hope of the smaller class sizes helping. The smaller class sizes were beneficial, however staff just denied the existence of any additional needs and simply omitted my children from exams so they did not bring down their results stats.

Homeschooling is currently the only viable option that protects the children's welfare and encourages actual learning.

How can this be sustainable? We recently visited a primary school in hopes they would be suitable for the youngest, to increase her chances of receiving the coverted EHCP so she could access a suitable special school. They looked me straight in the eyes and said "we got funding to build this SEN room because we have to have somewhere to put them". Wtf... is it just me that thinks this is incredibly wrong?

How can society function if basic education is unavailable to anyone who cannot fully conform to an unreasonable system that prioritises results and data over children welfare?

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Double-Winner-2470@reddit

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hauntedhettie@reddit

Location: Great Plains USA

I continue to play “has AMOC collapsed?” bingo here as we check more and more boxes for regional signs. This spring and summer have been exceptionally challenging weather-wise. Things continue to be windy as hell, and we’re no strangers to wind here. We were cooler than usual until a week into June, and extremely wet for this region, which slowed down my gardening efforts and basically encouraged a 24/7 snail buffet to establish itself in the planters. Then, once everything was nice and stunted by wind and pest damage, we got “the heatwave”, which seems to be less a heatwave (which you would expect to last days) and more just…summer for the foreseeable future. I’ve brought this up before but the sun is scary intense this year. Everything has horrible sunscald, had it even under cloud cover and cooler temps, which was perplexing. The high winds have also brought a good bit of herbicide drift into the damage equation. The only thing truly flourishing is Bermuda grass and invasive honeysuckle. I just don’t know how people stuck in property-managed housing or HOA setups are supposed to escape the annual, collectively endorsed poisoning of the landscape. I really want out of the “spray everything” suburbs but I couldn’t even afford my current place going back on the housing market today.

A “beautiful” side effect of the weather anomalies has been observable in our skies this year. It’s an almost unearthly deep blue, with tall, pillowy clouds flying by so fast (re: the wind) that it looks like the old windows desktop background come to life.

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GhoulieGumDrops@reddit

Ok I thought it was just me noticing/thinking everything you said about the sun and sky. I'm in Illinois and I swear the sun is unnaturally painful every time I'm directly in it, and the sky is SO BLUE! It seriously is the old windows desktop background; you're exactly right. The only days it's not blue are when the sky is so hazy it practically blots out the sun, from the pesticide/dust storms we keep getting ☠️

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

Well, the earth's ALBEDO has "dimmed" over the last 25 years. Quite a bit actually, although it sounds like a small amount.

FYI- In the mid-2000s, the energy imbalance was about 0.6 watts per square metre (W/m2) on average.

Here's how James Hansen explains the recent dimming of the albedo.

Large Cloud Feedback Confirms High Climate Sensitivity. 05/28/25

Earth’s albedo (or reflectivity) is the portion (percent) of incoming solar radiation that is reflected back to space. As shown in Fig. 1, in the period of precise satellite data (since early 2000), Earth’s albedo has decreased about 0.5%.

We described this change as a BFD (Big Fucking Deal) because it has staggering implications. Solar radiation reaching Earth is about 340 W/m2, averaged over Earth’s surface, so the 0.5% albedo decrease is a 1.7 W/m increase of absorbed solar energy.

A +1.7 W/m2 increase of absorbed solar energy is huge. If it were a climate forcing, it would be equivalent to a CO2 increase of +138 ppm.

THAT'S LIKE ADDING +138ppm OF CO2e to the atmosphere SINCE 2014.

+138ppmCO2e in JUST 11 YEARS.

Now, a change in the reflectivity of the planet of only -0.5% seems small but our eyes are tuned to a slightly dimmer sky.

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Mission-Notice7820@reddit

At no point in the earth's history has there ever been a 138ppm co2 equivalent move in less than 12 years.

Never.

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colddata@reddit

At no point in the earth's history has there ever been a 138ppm co2 equivalent move in less than 12 years.

Never. Meaning, lol are we ever fucked

The asteroid event from 65 million years ago was a bigger, faster, move. That lead to planetary wide firestorms and later to planetary wide cooling as dust blocked sunlight. That wasn't a good day for large non-avian dinosaur lineages.

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Mission-Notice7820@reddit

Yeah I should’ve added the caveat of outside of the asteroid event. Or early formation of the earth.

Under normal operations without extreme events.

Point is, it’s not survivable for long.

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CAWildKitty@reddit

Another reason to expect the unexpected. We are in uncharted territory now.

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CannyGardener@reddit

Thank you for this response, it at least puts a bit of context to the feeling. I will say -0.5% seems on the low side for as much sun scald I'm seeing on my direct sunlight plants the last 2 years. Not only does the sun feel hotter than it did in the past here in Denver, it also is killing off plants that have been growing in my yard for years. Looking at Elderberry, Raspberry, Gooseberry that have been in the yard for (some of them) decades, and are now having their leaves cooked off here this summer and last.

Recorded temps don't seem to be much higher than our standard averages, and rain seems pretty normal, so I'm struggling to pin down what is going on.

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hauntedhettie@reddit

Yes, I will second that established plants are cooking this year. It’s not just seedlings. I have some very old rose bushes in my landscape on the west facing side of the house and they look like someone broiled them in the oven. Another point, this is happening at low temps and fairly average elevation in the lower Midwest where I am. I was witnessing plants wilting in direct sunlight back in May on 70 degree days, it wasn’t about temperature, it wasn’t poor watering, it was the strength of the sun.

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CannyGardener@reddit

Ah good, I feel less like a crazy person. LOL I was talking to family about this (they spend most of their time indoors), and they all looked at my like I had lobsters climbing out my ears. "Its summer. Its always hot in the summer." I've had this row of gooseberries and black currants, on this same drip line, in this same spot for 20 years, and last year and this year they got cooked, and we didn't break a ton of local heat records, and we weren't in any crazy droughts like we've had in the past, but these long time perennials are just getting crispified. I had to dig up some old ass Elderberries and move them into the back, on the north side of the house, to try and give them protection, since they were legitimately just about to die. Pests weren't eating them, water was normal (I run an urban farm so I'm always out there), but god damn these guys are just cooking out here anymore.

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hauntedhettie@reddit

I’m sorry you’re going through this too…I can’t put up shade cloth out front where my roses are (I’m up against some delightfully antiquated neighborhood restrictions around curb appeal that also prevent me from turning the lawn into a pollinator patch) but I’m seriously thinking that the only way I’m going to be able to grow any unscalded crops next year is by shading out the side yard…

Best of luck there 💜

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CannyGardener@reddit

I super appreciate you posting here =) Definitely cathartic to talk to others in similar boats to mine =) LOL Thankfully my neighborhood is free of an HOA *knocks on wood*, so I've torn out my lawn, built a giant arbor for grapes, and filled the whole lot with a polyculture/perennial farm. We had about 2 ft of hail 5 miles north of me a week ago, they had to break out the snowplows to dig the cars out. I'm thinking I'm going to add some roll out shade cloth to the arbor, to extend the shade it provides, and help mitigate the hail risk. ;)

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Midir_Cutie@reddit

This has been happening to me too! Particularly the last 5 years, the sunlight HURTS and o body believes me 😭

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hauntedhettie@reddit

Yeah, the intermittent dust storms have been the exception…in my area we’ve had a couple full brown-out dust storms already this year which is pretty unusual for urban areas. I remember noticing the blueness of the sky to a lesser degree last June, this year it’s noticeably more intense. People have suggested that the regulation of shipping aerosols in ‘23 might be part of it? Wonder if the intensity of the sun is related to that. I’ve found my house is heating up in the afternoon sun more than previous years as a result.

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SideburnSundays@reddit

Location: Japan

Climate change has fucked up our transition from spring to summer. Typically in June-July there is a month-long rainy season with mild temperatures before the hot, humid summer hits. In recent years that rainy season has been getting shorter and shorter. This year we had a few days of rain and then straight into summer in June. We already have mid-August temperatures and humidity.

The Japanese media is largely ignoring it. Culturally there's a lot of "this season starts on x date and ends on y date" stubbornness that refuses to adapt to nature, so they keep fabricating "end of rainy season" dates to make it look like we had one when we really didn't.

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ThisMattressIsTooBig@reddit

Location: central NY, US

I had the radio on for a random trip and caught the emergency klaxon. It was just the monthly test but for a moment, man, for a moment...

That's all for now. Get the levity where we can, amirite?

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dmo1066@reddit

I have those moments too, whenever I hear certain sounds If it happens, it's going to feel familiar, in a bad dream kind of way.

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falconlogic@reddit

Location: SW Virginia

Not sure where to put this but I got this message when I went on the Walmart site to order some groceries just now. What kind of surveillance is this? Why would they want this info? Really freaked me out!

Virginia Health Information Consent Virginia law requires your consent to collect or use information about your potential or actual purchase of reproductive or sexual health products or services. By viewing, searching for, or buying these products or services on our site, or using related features such as Baby Registry, you consent to our use of this information to complete your purchase, provide the requested feature, and for general analytics, operations, and fraud prevention.

If you do not consent, please avoid viewing, searching for, using, or purchasing these products, services, or features.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

“Please avoid viewing or searching”?! Jaysus Christ. How many times have I googled something innocent to see it was slang for something horrific. How do you avoid seeing anything repro / baby related in search results?!

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DisingenuousGuy@reddit

"What is this word mean?"

-Types into work laptop-

-Safesearch enabled-

"Oh farts I shouldn't be looking that up at work!" 🤣

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

Exactly. Sometimes what comes up horrifies me so much I have to turn it all off and think about humanity and whether we deserve to survive 😂

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falconlogic@reddit

Idk wtf this is about. I'm so glad I'm not able to get pregnant. This would be a terrifying time. It's terrifying anyways.

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DisingenuousGuy@reddit

I work at a datacenter.

Fingerprinting a device and a browser (even in Incognito) and crossreferencing different devices you own and tying it to an identity is trivial if we wanted to do it. It is shockingly doable.

Reddit Admins can even tie alts together and track ban evasion by device ID.

If you want to avoid it, use TAILS.

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delusionalbillsfan@reddit

Thats incredible. I've had this nagging feeling lately (probably last 6 months or so) that all our data is fairly tied together and there's pretty much zero we can do about it. I'm sure it's been doable for a long time

It came from me working at a smaller business where I was like 100% certain they were tracking everything I was doing. REQUIRED to have MS Teams on my phone and the cheap bastards didnt even give us laptops so I had to VPN in from my personal computer if I worked from home. And one of the managers' brother worked for the IT outsourcing company. What a gross work experience.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

They’re doing it out in the open. Palanatir is a big hit with the owners of capital class… for this reason :-/

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DisingenuousGuy@reddit

Did you use the "Access Work of School" on your personal computer? I'd NUKE that PC if so.

They could have enrolled your personal PC to an MDM and they could essentially have full admin access to your PC.

I had to help a friend reformat their PC when their work kept pushing BGInfo and other apps to their PC remotely.

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delusionalbillsfan@reddit

No it was a remote access desktop. At first it was just an .exe to remote into the server and then it later added an extra layer where I had to VPN first.

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falconlogic@reddit

Thanks for the link. I will get this.

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bristlybits@reddit

location: inland Pacific Northwest USA

we have been in the news more often than I like lately. yesterday was the anniversary of the day the local fire dept used the old Aryan nations buildings as controlled burn training. 24 years ago.

yesterday, the fire dept and cops were lured into the woods by a 20 year old guy (as far as we know) with a fire, and shot at. this is a neighboring town. it was going on all day.

they're still searching for a guy who killed his kids and took off into the woods, too.

our fire dept in my town has a now semi famous cat, and was reprimanded for having the pride flag on their truck with the cat along for the ride. which is ridiculous. the truck always goes to pride, the cat likes to go, and the pride flag isn't a political flag here.

we have had local union leaders taken by ICE and regular people, and we've had one spontaneous crowd attempt to stop two kids getting taken away from their court hearing and also protests. the cops called in Idaho cops and gassed the people. our local police are the second most dangerous in the country and have no oversight.

they do have an ombudsman, who is hired and fired by the police, and the police aren't required to give them any information. so that's useless

it has been relatively cool here which was nice but we are supposed to be going into a hot dry time. however twice now the weather forecast even for the next day or two has been totally wrong.

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Intelligent_Hair3109@reddit

That's so sad what y'all have gone through with the shootings etc. Bars eat mosquitoes. Stay safe. Thank you. Western North Carolina sending respect and empathy.

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bristlybits@reddit

thank you

man you guys have been through some shit lately. best wishes to you and yours

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Intelligent_Hair3109@reddit

All struggle is educational. Same to you. Apologize..my hands started to cramp and I fell over on the couch..typing to converse is exceedingly hard on my hands..I can do it on keyboard but phone turns my right hand into a useless appendage Is there a charity in Boone which keeps track of unmet needs? If so send it to me please

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Muted_Resolve_4592@reddit

Seriously, ICE is just straight up targeting union leaders now? That's an alarming step toward full-on Gestapo. Any news links?

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bristlybits@reddit

sure, in LA they bagged the leader of the service worker union, here it was a migrant workers union organizer

https://nwlaborpress.org/2025/04/farmworker-union-organizer-detained-by-ice/

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/tacoma-ice-union-members-arrested

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/08/nx-s1-5427156/union-leader-detained-at-ice-raid-in-los-angeles

there's more but these are the 3 people I know of

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WorkingClassSchmuck1@reddit

Idaho scares me.

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apoletta@reddit

Pacific Northwest, BC Canada.

When I was a child, mid 90’s we had one or two weeks of “summer” weather so warm we could swim in the ocean. This year we will have two months of weather that warm. We have moved to California without lifting a finger. Did a hike, it used to be semi marshy the whole way. Now it’s drag as a bone. Everything is dry. People are in denial, if you even hint about it people shut right down. My work has us back in the office. Not good. Also about 10% the bugs we used to have. Not even one dragon fly yet.

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No-Cost-1764@reddit

Prairies, MB Canada

Very dry here too, and we used to get huge storms here in the summer. The heat is getting worse every year, in the 90s we might get a few days over 30C in the July and now they start in May and go to September.

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apoletta@reddit

How are you for bugs? Summer starts mid May to beginning of June.

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Reasonable_Swan9983@reddit

Location: Central EU

I am hiding in my room, after cooling it down throughout the night and closing the windows/curtains at 7AM. Did all the shopping early in the morning, as well as replenished the bird bath with fresh water - and now it's time to wait until late evening. Now, I live in a mountain area, and the thermometer is reaching "only" 33 celcius, but go a hundred kilometers inland and you'll get up to 37 degrees. The highest temperatures recorded in this country are 40C. Looking at the forecast last week scared me, honestly. Everyone is talking about this weather, and doing some errands in the city yesterday, I saw many older people struggling. That was a 28 celcius day.

My thoughts distort the reality and I can't fully grasp what's going to unravel doing my lifetime, even though deep down I know. It's more of a feeling. CBD oil helps to calm me down and do things, I'm one of the lucky ones that are very productive when on edibles. And I have been making them myself - not only it is cheap and better for the enviroment, but also a nice skill to learn, which only pushed me further into foraging and making herbal medicine. With a little plot of land and some wild nature around me, perhaps this is something that might come in handy during later stages of the ongoing collapse.

I don't have much money anymore and I will do everything in my power to spend even less. I just wish we mostly worked with nature, had our permaculture gardens everywhere, more trading, more civilization, more community oriented jobs. What we have now I would not call a civilization, it is very brutal, loud and selfish way of living. I'm mentioning permaculture because recently I have watched video about a couple that lives mostly off of the land - it was really beautiful to see. So i started imagining, but why aren't we all living like this? Generations of kids learning from their parents how to sustain themselves, and so on. Sure you need doctors, and technology is nice too - but it all could be done with caring about nature first and foremost.

Supermarkets have become so cancerous. The fake "promotions" which only increase traffic and train us to shop by their rules. And the apps, which the youth is trained on. Shake your phone to get a discount, scrap a digital card to get a special deal, and so on. This is a casino, predatory tactics that one has to use if addicted to city living and struggling financially. Which many of us are, and more of us will. How long until it is a common practice for digital pricing to change according to the weather or demand? Perhaps the EU will come up with some regulations against it, and so the corporations are going to find a way to weasel out of that eventually. All of it increasing the complexity of living a daily life.

The machine is also taking all of our thinking and brain excercising. These are not really my words, this was talked about in the 80s by J. Krishnamurti. He said, what is going to happen to our brain when the machine can tell us a thousand memories in a second? Will it slowly wither, degrade? Will it be employed in entertainment? And so here we are, right now, employed in entertainment. The AI generated video content is never ending circus.

And the AI probably won't save us, perhaps in desperation we will let it tell us what to do, invent new technologies to fight climate change, and so make our lives even more complex. Even if we survive and live in some kind of bunker, devoted of life, devoted of the song of birds, breeze on the leaves - what kind of living is that?

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herpderption@reddit

And I have been making them myself - not only it is cheap and better for the enviroment, but also a nice skill to learn, which only pushed me further into foraging and making herbal medicine.

Same! I started with CBD extractions and now I've branched out into all sorts of things. It's amazing once you learn how useful these skills are, and it does wonders for depriving corporations of as many dollars as possible.

The machine is also taking all of our thinking and brain excercising.

It is, and this is made worse by a bunch of little quirks where people are generally blind to their own cognitive decline and also refuse to believe it when others tell them it's happening (assuming others notice and care enough to even try.) IMO we essentially built a machine that induces dementia.

Personally I've been trying to make some use of the "AI" shit being shoved in my face every-damn-where I look. Whenever I get an urge to use an LLM to help me code, I double down on reading the official manuals and practicing with small toy problems to help reinforce the knowledge. Whenever something tries to make me use an LLM to search, I sift through the muck and dodge the auto-generated stuff as best I can. I make a note of what I was looking for and come back later and try to identify the "classic" way to find that information. Do I have or can I find books that contain what I want? If so it's a great opportunity to get those books and practice the old ways: using indices, reading the table of contents, leveraging bookmarks and those little sticky post-it tabs. I essentially use AI as a reminder to reinforce the skill it would have eroded. For technical materials it's been really motivating to help me organize things into my own local library and just generally ensure I have offline copies of things I'm actually demonstrating need for. Ultimately my vision is to spend the time I would have spent liquefying my brain with an LLM to strengthen the specific things that would have weakened.

None of this is perfect but it builds self-reliance, resiliency, keeps me as sharp as my plastic-ass brain will allow, and it feels like I'm doing something to face the moment.

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Slopagandhi@reddit

Location: UK, North West England

I've lived on the edge of one of the larger cities here for about a decade. Every year we have swallows and swifts migrate in large numbers from Africa (some travelling as far as 6000 miles), arriving around April and returning in September.

These birds have been here for a long time- people in the middle ages found them mysterious because they had no idea where they came from and also because swifts can go months without ever landing. People used to speculate that they came from the Moon!

Anyway, for 10 years I've seen crowds of them every summer evening (when it doesn't get dark till 10pm) high in the sky swooping around for insects.

For the past five years there have been fewer and fewer every summer.

Part of this is down to the calamitous decline of insect numbers in the UK. Part is to do with less availability of nesting sites. But a lot is down to climate change on the route- storms and winds, habitat loss in staging areas, seasons and so food availability getting out of sync.

What prompted me to write this comment is that yesterday I saw the first and only one I've seen this year, a lone swift gracefully swooping through the sky. Next year, almost certainly there will be none- ending, maybe forever, a cycle that has been going on for many thousands of years (and probably a lot longer).

Swifts and swallows aren't in danger of extinction. But it made me wonder how many signs like this will creep up over the next few years- how many threads like this are getting gradually unpicked.

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Fedquip@reddit

Every summer we get a bunch of Purple Martins in our backyard (Saskatoon) we have 6 dedicated apartments for them. This summer only 2 apartments were taken. We have no idea why less came back this year, but we are sad to see them declining.

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96-62@reddit

There is another factor in bird population decline, which is bird flu. Which kills maybe 50% of birds it infects, and is widespread enough to generate new variants.

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hectorbrydan@reddit

In michigan I used to see legions of swallows flitting around hitting swarms of mosquitoes and flies. Since the late 90s they are almost entirely absent.

Anecdotally here it seems to have coincided with insect population crashes, down 90 percent since the 90s worldwide by many studies. While the parasitic insects are as strong as ever, the big bug hatches of mayflies and the like are a shadow of their former selves. It has many factors but pollution has to be the big one, poisons that kill or otherwise poison the base of the food chain that swallows live off of.

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winston_obrien@reddit

They still like to hang out on the bridges of Belle Isle. I would guess the water is more conducive to more insect life. I rarely see them anywhere else.

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hauntedhettie@reddit

don’t make an unladen swallow joke, don’t make an unladen swallow joke, don’t m—

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winston_obrien@reddit

African or European swallow?

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Odd_Awareness1444@reddit

Bird populations are crashing worldwide. So sad. I fill my birdbath and feeder everyday as a small token to them.

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rmannyconda78@reddit

Location: north central Indiana, today’s photo “at least it rained”. A storm approached as I sit kneeled in the garden picking collards, it grows ever cooler, next thing I know I’m soaked as it’s a torrential downpours. The heat has been oppressive the entire week, but relief has been coming in brief but torrential downpours, including one that hit me when I was picking collards. That’s the thing about climate change, all weather patterns get stronger, including the storm that drenched me as I was picking collards. Something scary I noticed is how few cabbage worms I found on the 10 lb harvest, 5 total, found while washing them to get ready to can. in fact I only saw one butterfly out there today, not a good sign, not as many bees as I remember too. Lack of pollinators is a bad thing. In town people are growing scummy again, this time a few more convince stores and a big box got accused of double charging, and stealing food stamps apparently. Either way someone is being scummy, either the store for scamming, or the person saying this stuff if in fact the accusation is false, something seems off. Violence is back too, already one shooting in nearby county, yep not good.

Collapse rating for my area 4.3/10 For the internet 9.2/10

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Meowweredoomed@reddit

I see that you're noticing the weather training too. The dry periods are super dry, and the wet periods are Biblical deluges.

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rmannyconda78@reddit

I have been storm chasing since last year, been paying attention to the weather patterns much more lately

The updrafts appeared nice and healthy yesterday, noting the anvil topped storm clouds, rain was very intense in short burst, dropping inches of rain in a short time, at most of them weren’t severe, this time. I’m watching for derechos currently, as conditions are starting to get favorable for them, tis the season. At least these cells did not have wind shear to spin them

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

Oh my gosh. I overthink but i want to make sure i tell you: I made a comment below about storm chasers (negative) - you are not who I was talking about. You’re very interested in the science, I was talking about dude-bros doing it for YouTube. I hope you didn’t take offense.

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rmannyconda78@reddit

You’re good, no worries, yeah some of those chasers are gonna get themselves killed. Some of those tornados look like they are just waiting to dismember some unfortunate influencer that gets too close to it, and they are certainly capable of such. Never got getting really close to it, I understand, I feel the same way about them

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

That looks fantastic I didn’t know you could make sourdough noodles! Googling recipes now 💙

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rmannyconda78@reddit

You can, next thing I’m making is pizza crust, my dad made cinnamon rolls with some as well

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HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit

SOUR DOUGH and PROUD noodles. :)

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eric_ts@reddit

I did a study on cabbage root maggot mitigation when I was in an agriculture program in college. You have less in your harvest than we did in most of our treated fields. Hell, you have about the same amount as we got in rows protected by row covers like Remay or Agril17. (I don’t remember the spelling of the row covers—my study was in 1987). Our untreated rows were unsalable. This is disturbing.

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lightweight12@reddit

I know you know this but just for others sake....

Cabbage root maggot and cabbage worms (catipillars) are different things. The root maggot fly looks like a housefly. The pale moths flirting about make the catipillars.

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eric_ts@reddit

My recollections of this experiment are old enough for a Corvette and a combover, and, unfortunately, I had no further experience with cruciferous crops, or agriculture for that matter, post graduation. I am happy for the clarification though because I thought OP was talking about the fly species. Ah, aging is wonderful.

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rmannyconda78@reddit

That’s what I was referring too, but yeah I may make some edits soon to straighten things up, yeah my brain does not always work correctly at all

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rmannyconda78@reddit

If there’s less than a field and a treated field of that on my untreated harvest(I don’t think my gram applied the 7 dust to that bed yet), this isn’t good. I hardly saw any cabbage moths out there in fact, and this was way out in the country. Yeah this isn’t good. I also am hardly seeing any of the invasive Japanese beetles, not even hearing many cicadas.

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East_Progress_8689@reddit

Location: Ozarks

We have had the worst year of storms in my 41 years of life. Non stop tornados w damage which doesn’t just impact buildings but destroys crops early in the growing season. People don’t even get a day before the next one hits. And we get all the rain at once now so constant soil erosion on top of everything. Will never get over that in the course of my so far short life our weather patterns have shifted so dramatically.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

It’s very scary how bad the storms are getting, it kind of makes me wonder at the people who get excited to chase tornadoes - not for science, just to see em for a 2 minute adrenaline boost. “Look at that wedge!” - there are people on this earth…. Callous disregard…. Stay safe 💙

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rmannyconda78@reddit

“Look at that wedge” is gonna be someone’s last words before it picks them up and shreds them to tiny pieces, getting sucked into a strong tornado is like getting sucked into a jet engine, it’s a basically a blender

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

😂💯

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daviddjg0033@reddit

at least the sunsets have more color they said. Is that even true? Did 3X CH4 and CO2 above 420ppm make the sunsets purple and red and yellow and on fire?

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thriftmystic@reddit

Location: Midwest, US

So far there has been an emphasis on climate-related collapse, which I appreciate. I've been in the US for almost 10 years. Living in California, the wildfires and cost of living esp. housing were among the most pressing disasters we were living with. Now that I've relocated to another region (tornado country) I'm focused on other pressing issues. What I see as being a major indicator of collapse is the rapid escalation of authoritarianism, including the disollution and disappreance of the relatively few environmental protections that have been put in place. The prospect of National forests being logged and pipelines across major wetlands and rivers, as well as a complete lack of oversight for corporate pollutors is existential in scope.

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LPhermanos70@reddit

Location: West coast, United States

It is hard to have hope these days. It feels there is no rules, no laws and no moral anymore in our society. The culture encourages people to kiss up to whoever is most powerful, and step on whoever is below them. Many businesses and people are just out there to scam one another. Whoever plays dirty and can get away with it wins the game.

I used to be able find solace in nature. But lately I've noticed our beaches are lot more polluted compared to just 1 or to 2 years ago. The air quality is also getting worse due to pollution.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

Everyone is realizing “there are no rules”

A series on Apple, Your Friends & Neighbors touches on this topic.

Once you live life knowing there are no rules, you will be set free. Humans are returning to their (nasty brutish) nature.

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Ghostwoods@reddit

Yeah, turns out society has an Overton Window too.

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Uncommented-Code@reddit

Location: Switzerland.

Second hottest June of all time... again. Only June 2003 has been warmer. I wonder how long it'll take until we break that horrible record. A few years at best maybe?

The data for june is now in and they updated the climate change monitor with it. I feel like it's worth looking at the picture and letting it sink in: https://i.imgur.com/AV7zENf.jpeg

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_rihter@reddit

Location: Central Europe (Pannonian Basin)

Not a single drop of rain in June. Drought and heat waves will continue in July. Nights are getting hot, too.

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See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit

Location: USA, Lower 48 States, East of the Mississippi River

Covid case numbers, are, as is often the case these days, a whole lot of dog water. Could things be worse? Undoubtedly. Could things be better? Absolutely. Point is, shit's bad, but not as bad as it could be. Given how the U.S has historically handled (and continues to handle infectious diseases,) it's best to do what you physically, mentally, and financially can to protect yourself-don't beat yourself up if you can't be perfect, but any effort you can put in will go a long way in making the roiling shit-storm we're stuck in more manageable.

https://x.com/michael_hoerger/status/1939798591603605832

https://x.com/CyFi10/status/1939740403533832263

https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php

As many of us already know, the government usually does the bare minimum to keep enough people alive to run stuff, if that, and very often, the government drops the ball and does even less. If you haven't received a lot of recent information about covid lately, here are some sources to help get you up to speed. If you have, or if you just don't like clicking on things very much, feel free to scroll down a little for other content:

A recent article about a possible way exercise can cause PEM (post-exertional malaise) in people with long covid: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6717727/v1

A brief, more simply worded summary of the same article above: https://x.com/RTHM_Health/status/1939790288081322374

Basic fact sheet about covid: https://www.covidsafecampus.org/health-ed

Eight things you need to know about current covid variants: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/eight-things-you-need-know-about-new-nimbus-and-stratus-covid-variants

What is Long Covid: https://www.berlinbuyersclub.com/whati-is-long-covid

What is PEM (post-exertional malaise): https://www.berlinbuyersclub.com/what-is-pem

Rebuttals to common myths about covid: https://youhavetoliveyour.life/

More rebuttals to common myths about covid: https://icemsg.org/myths/

Evidence that covid is airborne: https://cleanaircrew.org/covid-is-airborne/

Basic FAQ about masks: https://cleanaircrew.org/masks/

How to use the "Swiss Cheese" method to reduce the likelihood of catching or spreading covid (and no, it doesn't involve actual cheese, it's just a catchy acronym): https://web.archive.org/web/20221219201201/https:/www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2020/12/10/the-virologist-who-created-a-swiss-cheese-metaphor-to-explain-the-pandemic-has-a-message-for-educators

In a bleak update on the bird flu front, Trump and his cronies have canceled funding that would have gone to developing a vaccine for bird flu: https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/mrna-vaccine-moderna-contract-restore-pandemic-prevention-for-h5n1-avian-flu-now/

While watching the news tonight while making dinner the feel-good news segments at the end of the news (some news stations in my area have feel-good news stories at the end of certain news segments,) were, to be frank, just random stories of lucky things happening to individual people while, which nice, doesn't really fall under the category of news. This may seem like a small thing, but it gives me pause anyways for reasons that I find hard to articulate. There's a lot of good in the world, to be sure, but sometimes it's very rare for it to hear stories of it being something that leads to lasting positive change.

Reddit has randomly been deleting some of my comments for no specific reason-I strictly follow the rules in every subreddit I post in but it doesn't seem to help solve the problem.

The weather in my area has been even more humid than usual-some days feel like you're walking through a bowl of soup and the air smells musty and damp. I dust regularly but the dust just comes back in full force hours later like I never dusted at all.

Traffic patterns in my area fail to make any kind of logical sense and there's road work happening almost constantly-I can't even remember the last time more than a day or two went by without some new road work being done. New buildings are being built pretty much all the time, including housing (mainly townhouses/condos/apartments) that are way too expensive for the average person to afford.

Store shelves are often half empty and sometimes even completely empty and the grocery stores in my area run out of random products for stretches of days or sometimes even longer, especially dairy, prepared foods, and fancy specialty items. The quality of fresh produce is very hit or miss and bananas seem to be turning brown much more quickly than they used to.

I went to see some fireworks with my family a few days ago (I'm neutral about fireworks but I wanted to spend time with them and it was easy enough for me to wear a mask the whole time when we went,) and the amount of people I heard coughing (like in a way that sounds like they're obviously sick, not just like a momentary clearing your throat kind of thing,) was ridiculous. It's also become a lot more common for people to just open mouth cough like toddlers instead of trying to cover their mouths. As far as activities go, I probably put myself out there more than the average covid-avoidant person does but not as much as people who live like it's 2019, as striking a balance somewhere in the middle is what helps me manage my physical and mental health the best (none of the options are perfect for me, but it just happens to be the best option out of all of them for my personal circumstances and situation.)

Given the way things are now, I've been trying to build community, as some people say, but naturally, given my personality, quirks/mannerisms/general way of being, my hobbies/interests, and certain physical issues I struggle with, this is a lot easier said than done for me. It feels defeating to try to go out there and make friends and connections with other people, as I get rejected or ghosted by everyone sooner or later, but it would make me feel even shittier to give up so I push forward anyways.

Anyways, here we are at the end of another month, halfway through 2025, and holy fiddlesticks has it been one blisteringly insane clusterfuck of a year. Between environmental catastrophes, disgusting weather patterns, rampant disease, economic troubles, and Trump turning the country into his own personal deranged sandbox of deep fried fuckery, the first half of this mind-warpingly deranged year has been a truly unfathomable experience in many, many ways. Stay safe, stay healthy, take care of yourselves and each other, and even if joy escapes you, resolve to live out of spite for those you wish you harm. The world may be an open air insane asylum but we still have each other and when people are determined to help each other, you never know what can happen.

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Mostest_Importantest@reddit

I have tried for months, and perhaps subconsciously for years, to find people to socialize with. Add in my non-facebook lifestyle, and it feels like I'm a big zero in existence.

Nobody is outside. Nobody is away from their phone. Nowhere in my little corner of America is there any space for people to just be people.

These days, even a response to a reddit post drops dopamine that doesn't exist in my real world.

This planet/country/species/whatever sucks.

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See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit

Yeah, it's depressing how little people seem to want to connect with other people at all. So many people act like you're demanding some form of heinous emotional labor from them just by wanting to talk to them occasionally or have them respond to time sensitive messages you send them, it's weird and depressing and it makes life feel gray and hollow. There are so many things I want to do that I'll never be able to do because I can't figure out how to get people to tolerate my presence-I've put as much effort as possible into masking my autism in public and sometimes it feels like it doesn't even help at all.

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Mostest_Importantest@reddit

What kinds of things do you want to do that require public people to tolerate your presence?

I usually just have some music playing on headphones while I'm wandering amongst the drones and zombies.

You taking up ballet? 😉

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See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit

I mean, I just want to be able to exist in public without random people looking at me like they're contemplating committing a violent crime against me.

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Mostest_Importantest@reddit

I feel ya, there. Unfortunately, I'm a 6'4" kinda feller, so I tend to not get too many looks from people. But it's double edged. I'm unable to really approach anyone without them looking sideways for exits as I get closer.

At least my hospital patients didn't get too lippy or foul with me. 😆

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See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit

I feel like society has changed in such a way that there's no way for me to fit into it anymore-even though I struggled before, I think I could have possibly found someplace for myself where I could belong if things turned out well enough for me but now I have no hope of that happening anymore.

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Mostest_Importantest@reddit

This is my life, too. If you want, and have a few spare hours, we can definitely share our horror stories of growing up in this nightmare nation with autism. Seeing the society for the poison that it is for everyone...

Collapse is a rough road. Even trying to be early to avoid the rush has its horrors. And they're simply beginning.

I lost my safe space in its entirety, as well. Though it's not much consolation, at least there's some comfort in knowing that the suffering across the world is going to steadily worsen, so that more are "awakened" to the reality they'd been lying to themselves since their grandparents. :::)

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See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit

I have discord, feel free to message me.

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Mostest_Importantest@reddit

My reddit browsing has a lot of blocking goop in it, so I can't seem to send dms very well. My Discord is Appaguchee. Add me there, and I'll be able to talk better.

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See_You_Space_Coyote@reddit

Not a problem, I'll add you.

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rmannyconda78@reddit

I’ve been afraid to try to connect with others, yet my brain wants too at times

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TinTamarro@reddit

Location: northwestern Italy

It happened AGAIN.

Exactly one year (29/06/2024) after last year's events (which caused rockslides and floods and killed at least 5 people in Switzerland, and left entire towns stranded for weeks), a new storm is bringing new rain to the same areas.

Right now the Susa valley, and the town of Bardonecchia, are being heavily flooded with rivers overflowing. The same is happening in the Cuneo province.

Last night, a localized storm has brought about 3 inches of rain in one hour in the Cogne valley, isolating the town again after last year (but fortunately failing to structurally damage the roads), and heavy hail in Pila.

All of this is due to the high temperatures of last week, which saw the 0 degrees hightitude reach over 5200 meters (a record for June), and more than 30 degrees down the valleys (reaching 36-37 degrees in some cases). A lake even formed in the monte bianco massif because of the ice melt.

Meanwhile, in northeastern Italy, a rockfall caused a village to be covered in a thin, greysh powder.

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Intelligent_Hair3109@reddit

Prayers from Western North Carolina

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Collapse_is_underway@reddit

We had a surge of water in my area in Switzerland as well, but not nearly as bad as what you described. The next days are supposed to be sunny with a very slim chance of orange with no water, but that was the forecast for yesterday as well (weak orage, no rain).

It's getting rather unpredictable. I have no doubt that we'll live another flooding in Valais this year, and the next, and the next.

And until we physically cannot import enough steel/cement/oil to keep repairing stuff, people will keep on clinging to "ALWAYS MORE", probably. While denying the growing polycrisis issue, so we can keep on being a service-based economy that do not grow food locally (but that's probably the same for you), or grow it but requires petrochemical fertilizers that... we need to import.

Anyhow, good luck to you too, my southern neighbour ! We get to experience the mountains falling on us instead of tsunamis :o _\\//

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Known_Leek8997@reddit

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

I was out for lunch with my husband and seated adjacent to a table of 8 retirees, like sixties. They were a rather loud group, multiple couples, and there was hardly a break in the conversation. They were talking about an upcoming trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone and musing over whether or not the entrances were going to be open (I wasn’t fully listening), coordinating who was meeting where, etc.

I was kind of intrigued though, what would it like to be a boomer who had a much easier career than I and now gets to enjoy retirement, planning fun trips with friends, all of whom are able to afford these excursions. They toasted to their upcoming trip. How exciting for them.

The conversation eventually switched to Glacier National Park and they were lamenting over the limited months it was open and that it’s always busy… they wanted it to be their next excursion.

One of them mentioned that “the glaciers grew a bit in recent years because of all the snow” which seemed incorrect to me, and so I perked up.

Another one said “well yeah we had a guide say last time that they grow if they get x amount of snow, if they don’t, the glaciers shrink”. There were some noises of affirmation and intrigue from the crowd.

A different person (a woman) spoke up and said “well actually, I read that all of the glaciers in the park are in danger and it’s very likely that they will all disappear within our lifetimes, climate change and global warming are real and it’s a tragedy (or travesty?) that people refuse to believe it’s real.”

And that killed the conversation. The quietest they were the entire meal. I heard silverware clanking like people chose to eat. After several awkward moments — my husband, who was not paying attention, even noticed their silence and looked over — another woman spoke up and said “well I’m just so excited that we can all take this fabulous trip together!” And the conversation returned to logistics.

Clearly the company was mixed, I’m sure there were some regrets bringing the climate change woman along, she’s probably a lot of fun at parties.

Anyway. I think a baby boomer speaking hard truths about climate change and how they're going to see its effects in their lifetimes to a group of peers who likely don’t agree or are aware was worth mentioning here.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

I'm a younger Boomer... there are a lot of us who know what's happening, but IMO the overwhelming majority prefer to stick their heads in the sand because it keeps them sane. I'm going to generalize here, so this doesn't apply to all of the ostriches, but they have children in their 30s or 40s, and grandchildren whom they dote upon. They've spent their lives working (and no, most did not have 'much easier career than I") to build a future for their children and themselves, and maybe to leave something behind - and a better life - for their kids. Basically, think stereotypical 1950s values, because the oldest Boomers remember the latter years of the 1950s (I remember the last half of the 60s). This is the world we were all sold as children.

If these people were to actually look Truth in the eyes, their entire lives would crumble. There IS no future for their grandkids. Their WILL BE nothing of any substance to leave for their children. Everything they've worked and striven for is really... nothing. Sure, the older ones had a good run, but us younger Boomers did not. Many Boomers - especially those born from 1946 to 1955, cannot handle that Truth, so they have to believe that nothing is materially wrong with the world - just a few climate hiccups that magical New Technology will solve. So, there WILL BE - HAS TO BE - a future for their grandchildren and children! They HAVE TO believe that. But deep down, in their souls, they actually know that that is a lie. They have to live the lie to stay sane.

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Intelligent_Hair3109@reddit

Too true. I'm a disgusted by my own generation boomer. I was disappointed in the days of the late seventies. Born in 1956, In 1975 in Colorado,had a strong premonition of seeing civilization end. Can no longer brush that off. The fact we are all alive at all seems a miracle to me. Western North Carolina recovery of Helene sending prayers to all still dealing with disasters

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missinglabchimp@reddit

A single cruise ship can emit as much CO2 as a small city, and as much pollution as a million cars per day. Carnival (European cruise line)'s emissions are higher than Glasgow - Scotland's biggest city. I hope every Boomer's vacation goes as well as the Poop Cruise

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WorkingClassSchmuck1@reddit

Clearly the company was mixed, I’m sure there were some regrets bringing the climate change woman along, she’s probably a lot of fun at parties.

That climate change woman is /r/collapse in a nutshell.

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Normal-Ear-5757@reddit

The truth always goes down like a cup of cold sick, while lies are lapped up like Mother's milk.

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Spidersinthegarden@reddit

This is the kind of observation that keeps me interested. Good reporting.

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rematar@reddit

https://psychologyfanatic.com/socioemotional-selectivity-theory/

It's like my folks. They are close to being lonely in their twilight years.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

The last paragraph made me giggle: “Boomers who don’t agree” (subtext: don’t agree with facts ie climate change) 😂💙

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atlasblue81@reddit

Location- Japan

The annual rainy season front disappeared, and we are now every day over 30c/90f with many many places over 35c/95f and high humidity aka wet bulb disasters. The chance of the rainy season front disappearing is less than 1%, and it didn't return so rainy season has officially been declared over, the earliest in recorded history in Japan for multiple regions and the shortest rainy season since weather stations started operating in the 1950s.

We already have record highs of heat shock deaths and exhaustion. I'm worried about crops since we didn't get the necessary rain, and we are still trying to recover from a rice shortage from last year. The first time ever an invasive weed species was found in Hokkaido just last week too.

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atlasblue81@reddit

This literally just posted on the news:

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan logged its hottest June since records began in 1898 due to a warm air mass hovering over the archipelago and global warming, the weather agency said Tuesday.

Last month's average temperature was 2.34 C higher than the overall monthly average recorded between 1991 and 2020, eclipsing the previous record of 2020, when it was 1.43 C above average, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

The agency said the country was frequently covered by warm air due to the effects of a high-pressure system in the Pacific and the westerlies taking a northerly path, while climate change also appears to have had an effect.

With July also expected to be extremely hot, the public has been urged to take precautions against heat exhaustion.

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MuffinMan1978@reddit

Location: Europe, Spain, city of Madrid

Sweltering hot. This is the hottest June so far, with temperatures raising up to 39 degrees celsius (not sure how much in freedom units) and nights of 26 degrees. These kind of temperatures are expected for mid August, usually the hottest part of the summer (or it used to be).

The authorities are starting to worry about what comes in the next two months, even a continuation of this much heat would be bad enough, but usually it gets hotter later in the summer.

The south of Spain has registered records of 46 degrees celsius. Again, it was June until yesterday. People are starting to talk a lot about how the heat is starting to be completely off the charts.

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Accomplished_Log9669@reddit

I was watching the news. I was shocked to hear about the 46 Celsius in Spain. Then they clarified that was the temperature IN THE SHADE. Oh my god that's some hot weather.

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Herbert-Pogi@reddit

46C in the shade …. maybe a heat index of approximately 250 degrees F in the open sun

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Uncommented-Code@reddit

If that was not in the shade, you'd be seeing much higher temps. Official temperature measurements are almost always measured in the shade 2m above ground.

Compare it to my outside thermometer: It easily reaches 50-60 degrees when it's sitting in the sun on the warm rocks. And I don't live in a place that is as warm as Spain.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

One chart explains EVERYTHING.

See how hot the ocean is around England and Europe. See how HOT the Mediterranean has become. Global Warming IS Ocean Warming.

80% of the HEAT captured from the Sun starts in the Tropics and then moves to the Poles. When the amount of Energy going into the Climate System is greater than the amount of Energy the Earth can shed the planet WARMS UP.

Since 2000;

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by +58ppm.

Since 1850 the level of atmospheric CH4 has increased from 800ppb to over 1900ppb. Since 2000 the increase has been about +175ppb.

The current level of CH4 adds the equivalent of about +100ppm of CO2e to the atmosphere.

The Earth’s albedo has been declining during the last 20 years. BY A LOT, although it seems like a small amount.

in the period of precise satellite data (since early 2000), Earth’s albedo has decreased about 0.5%.

We described this change as a BFD (Big Fucking Deal) because it has staggering implications. Solar radiation reaching Earth is about 340 W/m2, averaged over Earth’s surface, so the 0.5% albedo decrease is a 1.7 W/m increase of absorbed solar energy.

A +1.7 W/m2 increase of absorbed solar energy is huge. If it were a climate forcing, it would be equivalent to a CO2 increase of +138 ppm. — James Hansen

THAT’S LIKE ADDING +138ppm OF CO2e to the atmosphere SINCE 2014.

+138ppmCO2e in JUST 11 YEARS.

For context, over the last 800,000 years CO2 generally changed less than 20ppm PER THOUSAND YEARS.

That's like 7,000 years of “normal” CO2 increase in just 11 years.

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Physical_Ad5702@reddit

The poor Mediterranean - a warm bath tub of desolation. It's so isolated by the landmasses of Europe and Africa also; there can not be a whole lot of mixing with the strong Atlantic currents going on.

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scaredthrownaway11@reddit

I am curious as to why you use 1850 as a baseline. I've noticed others using 1750.

I feel you have a realistic view of things, it's not fun is it?

I hope you're moving/housing set up is OK, I noticed you mentioned you were having some difficulties. I'm in my mid 60s and find myself basically homeless.

Glad you mentioned methane, if I see one more "if ONLY we'd stop burning fossil fuels…" statement, without understanding that melting permafrost negates point source control completely, I will lose my mind. I guess people just can't accept death on a large scale. I find it difficult, but I can't ignore data.

thanks for your analysis and your writings.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

I use 1850 mostly because it's the baseline from the 70's and still the baseline the majority of climate researchers use. 1750 has gained support over the last few years, as it has become clear that even the emissions of the 19th century caused changes to the Climate System.

I think that both of these dates will eventually be discarded in favor of a 180ppmCO2 baseline.

Paleoclimate analysis shows that the CO2 level hasn't gone below 180ppm for the last 500 million years. It apparently is the "rock bottom" level for CO2 in the Climate System.

What paleoclimate analysis also indicates is that each doubling of CO2 seems to cause +8°C of warming.

180ppm to 360ppm causes +8°C of warming (or +2°C using the 1850 280ppmCO2 baseline).

360ppm to 720ppm causes another +8°C of warming (or +10°C using the 1850 baseline).

1850 or 1750 are arbitrary numbers that don't really have anything to do with the geologic record.

Yeah, moving sucks. I still haven't found a place yet. My deadline is getting tighter and tighter.

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BlackMassSmoker@reddit

Just saw the UK had its warmest June since regards began 1884.

Was just reading as well that Europe was being hit by a brutal heatwave, pretty much across the continent and it could go on for some time.

I'm in the norther west of England and we've had a few brutally hot days here which we just rarely get and we're barely into summer here. I wonder what these next few months have in store.

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Pleasant-Winner6311@reddit

Im just south of london, 33°. This does not feel fun at all. This feels kinda of sinister to be honest. It's completely unnatural weather.

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FooolOfAToke@reddit

Feels like we've had barely any rain even in the early months of the year, and June has been shockingly warm and dry. This weather feels so wrong and even people who never complain about the sun are starting to feel it.

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Pleasant-Winner6311@reddit

I absolutely agree. Last year was Blade Runner levels of constant rain and this year hardly any. I don't think my children remember the saying 'April showers' whixh was said constantly when I as a child. I can see this shifting culture regarding the seasons over a longer period of time, im 51.

As a keen gardener I'm looking closely at the soil and the plants and im realising that traditional 'English garden' plants are not fit for this climate anymore. We gave a clay based soil lawn. Its split and cracked. The grass is yellow/brown already and we have 9 more weeks of summer to go.

I think setting climate related targets for 2050 its completely pointless

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Rossdxvx@reddit

Location: Michigan, USA.

Been feeling a lot of fatigue lately. Some of it is the heat, but a lot of it is a deep depression, apathy, and general lack of motivation. As many of you know, we continue to circle the drain, and the circling of the drain itself gets faster and faster, more and more chaotic. Nothing is being done to stop this, so we have to live with the cognitive dissonance of everything breaking down and dying all around us while carrying on with living something that resembles a total mockery of life.

We have another round of storms set to hit today (a whole month of this shit). I kind of used to have a lot more to say on here, but that is about it. I wish I could move the fuck out of here. I am sick and tired of the people around here, the landscape, weather, etc., but where does one go when it is all going down? Not to mention the perpetual lack of money being a wage slave. I could trade one shit job for another, one sprawled out soul crushing city for another. However, the sense of emptiness is ubiquitous. Even retreating into nature doesn't seem like much of an option anymore since nature is being systemically destroyed. Go and live in the woods? It could go up, no matter where you are.

But hey, the fuckhead from Amazon got married. Like something out of late stage Rome or the Gilded Age, the self-indulgence and overall decadence is reaching staggering proportions. Not that I am jealous of that (I wouldn't want it even if I could have it), but the wanton excess in the face of environmental degradation and destruction is mind-boggling. It's actually offensive. I just really don't see any good in humans anymore.

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Mostest_Importantest@reddit

The lethargy is real, man. And the mental stupor of everyone else is equally nonsensical.

All of humanity is zombie-marching to its worst future. The resistance is functionally non-existent.

My current goal: find friends to talk with while awaiting the end of the world.

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TuneGlum7903@reddit

So you're "Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World"?

:-)

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Mostest_Importantest@reddit

Yarp. I can't think of a better use of my time.

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Rossdxvx@reddit

Well, where I live, 1 in 2 people are MAGAs, and the other half are incredibly naive about our predicament, even if they feel it intuitively. So, broaching this subject is not easy for me to do without becoming a pariah doomer raining on everyone's parade.

I feel increasingly like I am living in an insane asylum where the people do not realize that they have gone insane, but the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. Grinding this machine into the ground.

The lethargy comes from the pretend, playacting of daily life. Like, I still have to live in a world of diminishing returns where the future is not just uncertain, but more and more certain to be bleak and dystopian. And it is there for all to see, if they so choose to see it, but seeing it has become the major obstacle within our society.

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hauntedhettie@reddit

Jeff Bezos looked as though someone had dressed up a penis as a little cake topper groom.

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HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit

HO HO HO! Truthful post right here. Thanks for the laugh this afternoon.

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AbbeyRoadMomma@reddit

I feel you. It’s awful, everywhere. There are many good humans out there, they just never get the power to actually do good over a broad swath of humanity, because they are…good humans. There are a few exceptions, like Senator Andy Kim. I don’t know how he goes to work every day, it must be excruciating. Maybe doing some local volunteer work would help you socialize with some good humans. That’s what I do.

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Rossdxvx@reddit

That sounds like a good idea, and it might make me feel better about myself and the situation to at least be doing something other than being resigned to our fate.

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AbbeyRoadMomma@reddit

Yes, I figure I can do some good on a local level, at least. It really helps me cope. Hang in there.

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

I live in Ashland, Ohio. You don't really notice it per say, except that $50,000 houses are now $150,000. They will be 100+ years old, sometimes near 200+. Really inflation is all you see here. But the big cities in my state, much higher crime. Also, not to sound whatever, but a lot of natives of all creed and race are being displaced by foreigners.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

Source for your last sentence?

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

Most Dramatic Case:

Springfield, Ohio: Huge surge of 15-20k of Haitian immigrants, now roughly 25-30% of a 60k population

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/haitian-immigrants-fueled-springfields-growth-now-us-presidential-debate-2024-09-11/

Moderate Case:

Columbus, Ohio: Columbus is currently one of the fastest growing cities, 15th in the U.S.A.. 70-77% of that growth is from foreign born immigrants.

https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2025/03/18/columbus-population-increase-immigration

Smaller Cases:

Dayton, Ohio

Immigration from foreign nations are up 30%

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/immigrant-populations-are-growing-in-dayton-and-ohio-but-theyre-still-relatively-small/W3M3CCBV7FEYVFQPWJXXOMIACI/#:~:text=In%20the%20last%20decade%2C%20Dayton,in%20the%20last%2010%20years.

Now the smaller spikes may seem like not a big deal. But with low housing availability, evey bit counts. And it's unnecessary strain on people trying to buy homes for young families.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

Where is footage of "natives" caravanning out of the cities as the immigrants move in, "displacing" them? There isn't any because it's not happening.

None of your cases show "natives" being forced out by immigrants. If immigrants move into an area, that area has the cost of living that immigrants can afford. If "natives" then move, they're moving voluntarily, quite possibly because they're racist. I saw this happen in Milwaukee in 1971 and 1972. We called it "white flight".

No one is being "displaced".

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

It's simple supply meets demand. It's not happening in YOUR area so of course you say it isn't. When housing is already limited and government has provided some of that limited housing for non Americans in grants or whatever, then yes, it is displacing. Could get an affordable home in Columbus before 2020 for roughly 150-200k. Now you need 350-400k. I can't afford that bro. I had to move somewhere affordable, even when those prices are inflated as well. That is me being displaced. It's not "white flight" it's working class surviving.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

As I noted, I lived through the White Flight in North Milwaukee, so I am VERY familiar with this, which is how I know how wrong your interpretation is. Unless Ohio is some liberal bastion, it does NOT provide housing for poor people - immigrants, in this case. The Feds also do not. Housing prices are indeed based on supply and demand and, gee, Columbus is a liberal college city in a red wasteland, so of course people with any brains want to live there. We're seeing the same thing in university cities across the north and yes, people with shitty jobs are priced out of housing. This is terrible, but this has absolutely nothing to do with immigrants and everything to do with the Dem and GOP GOD called capitalism. Don't like it? Vote Socialist.

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

That is hilarious, because as per usual I have recipts. It has nothing to do with the immigrants themselves bro. Its the government doing it. Why would they be to blame when having such an offer? Who wouldn't take it? But you wonder why Immigration was one of the 3 key issues in the last election. Also, I prefer to not have a socialist nor capitalist government. Both have failed. https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2024/04/12/department-homeland-security-announces-300-million-direct-funding-communities

https://reasonabletv.com/podcast/springfield-locals-displaced-as-landlords-triple-rent-for-government-backed-migrants/

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

You said that immigrants were "displacing" "natives" and have failed to prove this in any material way. You most emphatically do NOT have any "receipts". Now you're changing your stance from "immigrants" to "government"? Dude, this is moving the goalposts after you've lost the game. LOL.

"But you wonder why Immigration was one of the 3 key issues in the last election."

I don't, but you apparently do. The answer is "propaganda".

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

And this here is why no one would ever believe in you. Everything I have said has been consistent and factual. If you bothered to reread my original comment, I had blamed the government from the beginning. The immigrants are simply the catalyst. You socialists say that you think all labor is sacred, yet you condemn mine. I am a skilled tradesman. What happened to all labor providing livable wages?

You speak as though you've diagnosed my failure, and capitalism's. But only offer ideological necromancy in it's place. Your socialism isn't rooted in principle, it's a reactive cult of contradiction. Where your values shift with your convenience and your rhetoric depends on emotional theater. Capitalism may have lead us here, but men like you do not point towards solution, only a different brand of collapse.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

I'm not denying that the stas you've provided are factual - it's just that NONE OF THEM back up your initial assertion that immigrants are "displacing" natives. Not One. I have reread your initial comment - you blame immigrants, not the government.

"immigrants are just the catalyst"

Racists gotta racist, I guess.

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

You are the racist, you are the one assuming Americans are white. I said natives from America of every race and creed are being displaced. But continue with your emotional rhetoric for that is all you have. And LMAO, you called my sources propaganda, NOW you are saying it's factual? Go home Boomer.

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS18140Q

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

Irrelevant to your response that immigrants are displacing "natives".

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AcademicDirection260@reddit

Here’s a source. TLDR: The actual immigration numbers do not substantiate the fear mongering in Ashland County, Ohio.

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

Ashland doesn't, I moved there from Columbus in 2020. Im not fear mongering, the housing crisis is a real issue felt everywhere. And more immigration puts more strain on it, in which creates higher demand when we already have low availability.

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JagBak73@reddit

They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs!

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Trick_Contribution99@reddit

nobody wants to live in ohio bro 😂

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

Americans don't. But Columbus, Ohio is currently the 15th place holder on fastest growing cities. 70-77% by immigrants. But you know "no one wants to live in Ohio" could be it's own reason for our collapse lmao.

https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2025/03/18/columbus-population-increase-immigration?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-columbus-606b2230-0356-11f0-94aa-75e3acf0717d?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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Trick_Contribution99@reddit

that makes it sound more appealing actually, the bad food and crushing lack of diversity is one of ohio’s problems

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Miserable_Bet713@reddit

Crushing lack of diversity? You do know that Ohio sent more soldiers for the North to fight the South than any state per capita? We also have great food, large Italian, Polish, Puerto Rican, and German centers for food. Let alone the Amish. You don't know bro.

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WernerHerzogWasRight@reddit

Username checks out 🫡

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pathofthebean@reddit

What does your username mean BTW? I've seen you before and am a fan of herzog movies, my favorite being Fitzcarralldo

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Gumbode345@reddit

When I grew up, a hot summer was temperatures of 25c. Super hot days would be 28, 30 was unheard of. Now, every year, the average is above 25 and we regularly have heat domes of a week or more of 32 plus. Spring used to be mixed rain, sun, cloudy, now it’s mostly sunny and dry and with temperatures akin to what used to be summer.

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

Same here. Today it’s forecast to hit 95 degrees where I live in the Pacific Northwest, and it’s like ho-hum, the only heat waves worth commenting now are the 100+ degree ones (which happen once or twice every summer these days).

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daviddjg0033@reddit

how many people are going to need AC units in the PNW because I never saw 105F in OR, WA and surely British Columbia?

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

Something like half of Portland households already have A/C. Our climate is on the verge of becoming hot-summer Mediterranean (that’s when the hottest month averages higher than 22 Celsius), and will undoubtedly cross that threshold in the next couple decades.

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ontrack@reddit

Location?

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Gumbode345@reddit

Western Europe.

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PorcelinaMagpie@reddit

Location: Indiana

Gas prices in my area are skyrocketing. I'm predicting we will start seeing $4/gal for the holiday weekend and it will only get worse from there. Whenever I'm out in public it seems like the vast majority of people are in a zombie-like trance. People constantly run into each other with shopping carts and blow up at each other if one parry doesn't apologize to the other. I firmly believe we are beyond the cooked phase of society.

Did anyone else see the barricades that are waiting to be assembled around the White House? Wonder what he's cooking up now? Possibly expecting protests if his bill passes? Also, it seems that some military equipment from his birthday parade is still in the area as well. Very ominous...

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M0RE_C4NN3D_G00D5@reddit

> Whenever I'm out in public it seems like the vast majority of people are in a zombie-like trance. People constantly run into each other with shopping carts and blow up at each other if one parry doesn't apologize to the other.

Spatial awareness at Costco drives me insane. Fortunately for me, you made me realize I need to chill out. I get very upset in these environments when shopping for food.

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pathofthebean@reddit

Life is so much easier if you step back go on chill mode before going into busy places

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CannyGardener@reddit

Gas has gone up a dime per day for the last week here in Colorado where I live.

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Mr_Doberman@reddit

Might be preparing for signing the Big Betrayal Bill. I'm not surprised that some military equipment and troops were left behind in the capital. It was the perfect excuse to position troops in broad daylight.

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AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit

I suspect he wants to sign it on July 4th.

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lavapig_love@reddit

Which will forever associate his name with that shitshow of a bill. But he's not thinking about that.

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jez_shreds_hard@reddit

Location: Boston, MA

Boston had it's hottest June day ever recorded, last week. it hit 102F, which is just 2 degrees lower than the hottest day ever recorded (which was 104F in July of 1911). No one seems to care. Sure, people complained about the heat, but very few people talk about it being June and that we're already hitting 100 degree weather. Homelessness is getting worse and worse, as the cost of living keeps going up and jobs are not keeping up with the cost of living. The park near me has more and more homeless people living there every month. It sad that America is willing to go in debt to fund wars and tax cuts, but not to take care of it's people. I guess that's just another part of the ongoing collapse. The collapse of social safety nets and local aide programs, which is slow and ongoing.

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Hephaestus1816@reddit

Location: UK, East Midlands.

We're expecting to record the hottest June day ever, either today or tomorrow. It's 11:58am and 28C, in my location. It's higher, further south. The highest temperature to date was in 1976 at 35.6C. UK homes are not well suited at all to this kind of humidity and heat, never mind extended heat, and the fact that it's barely cooling overnight (18/ 19C) night means physical recovery from the day is even harder. The BBC News website has a live event feed running, keeping track of heat advisories, incidents and health alerts, so it seems that this abnormal weather is considered 'big news'. I hope that trend continues. More people need to realise that this is just not normal.

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hypermodernism@reddit

My hospital today was full of frail people who had become a little unwell and then very dehydrated and suddenly needed to be in hospital for rehydration.

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6rwoods@reddit

Highest temperature to date was 41C or thereabouts in 2022.

But imo it’s the extended duration of the heat is what’s unusual this year. It’s been reaching 25C almost every day for the past month in the southeast, with maybe a couple of days where it cooled down to peak temps of 22C. My 100 year old ground floor terraces flat has heated up enough that the brief respites aren’t enough to cool it back down. I haven’t seen anything like it in the 6 years I’ve lived here, not even in that summer of 2022 where the peak heatwaves were still interspersed with cooler periods.

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CatchaRainbow@reddit

I would disagree that UK housing is not suitable for this excess heat. I was a refrigeration engineer and have a great deal of experience in keeping heat out of a room/area. Modern housing IE: last 40 odd years are built like walk in freezers, they are highly insulated to keep heat in, but this also works the other way round they will also keep the cool in, IF! you keep your windows and doors closed in the hottest part of the days. The rule of thumb is, if the temp outside is cooler than the temp inside, open the doors and windows. If the temp outside is hotter than the temp inside close your doors and windows. Simple really.

I lived in Australia for some time, and I was shocked at the poor insulation requirements for new builds. Building codes only require 25 mm of insulation! it is 100mm in the UK. You might as well live in a paper house. The houses are stifling hot in the summer and freezing in the winter. Madness.

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Hephaestus1816@reddit

I grew up in the Far East. 32C was a typical Brunei day at this time of year. And it was mostly rainforest, so the humidity was brutal. This is worse. We know about closing up the house - our doors, blinds, curtains, and windows were closed here by 10am this morning and they'll be opened again tonight when the temp has dropped outside, around half ten-ish. It's still miserably hot and sweaty.

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profanite@reddit

while this is true lots of people are unaware that they are making their house hotter by opening all the windows, and they think their ventilation will improve by doing this. Once your house heats up in this way, due to the insulation it’s very difficult for the house to cool down again unless the temperature drops significantly, which when we’re seeing 20°+ nights is highly unlikely. Also many houses in the UK have been altered for the rental market, so attics other extensions have been built onto the houses where previously this would have been storage or empty space. Now I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to sleep in an attic space in 30° outdoor heat, but they can easily reach 40° or more during the day and if your insulation is good that heat isn’t going anywhere. I lived in several attics while a student and the heat was completely unbearable, I’d rather sleep in the stairwell. Also many businesses in the UK that are built into older buildings don’t seem to have AC or other adequate ventilation, so workplaces and cafés etc don’t offer the respite that they might for countries where AC is more widespread.

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profanite@reddit

Location: UK, East Midlands

We are expecting heatwaves again this week, temperatures expected to reach above 30° in some parts of the UK. What’s still been more scary to me though is the wind, I have never known such consistently high winds for so many weeks. I looked it up and we have been experiencing much higher winds than average for the past few months, and it’s trending up year on year. One very unfortunate consequence of this is that a young girl was killed by a falling tree this week, and several other children were injured. I have seen lots of tree damage and debris in my local area, and some completely healthy looking trees with absolutely massive branches downed. The high winds and heat waves combined I’m sure will lead to lots more crises across the UK, with excess heat deaths expected in the thousands.

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RichieLT@reddit

Wildfires too!

You MUST include Location: Region when sharing observations.