Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] November 04
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morphemass@reddit
Location: UK, London
I don't think I've ever experienced an early November so mild. There's this strange quality to the weather the last couple of days ... almost as if it's not British weather at all but something imported from somewhere on the French coast. Immigrant weather! Temperatures aren't predicted to drop until mid-month and even then they are simply miserable rather than what I'd normally expect of early winter.
On the positive side, massive bumble bees are still out and about in my garden. It really is incredible what is possible in an urban garden in terms of nature conservation ... but I'm pretty sure the bees are a bit on the WTF side too about things.
Current-Code@reddit
I'm in Lille, I still grow tomatoes on my rooftop. Next batch next week.
Crazy.
morphemass@reddit
Likewise in my garden I still have many nearly ripe tomatoes on the vine with many more green tomatoes. Normally (!!) there would have been frosts by now ...
Right-Cause9951@reddit
I'm a implant in a relatively northern state in the US. All week we were supposed to have sub 40 lows and none of it is remotely panning out.
I think we are plain doomed. Things are changing too fast environmentally and the consequences are stacking in the background while the fools talk about how lovely it is to not have the cold around.
RichieLT@reddit
Yes, it’s very mild and was last year too, not many people seem to be picking on this.
EmergencySushi@reddit
Location: West Midlands, UK
My partner and I were just discussing how unseasonably warm it has been. We went for a walk after dinner the other day in firework night (12 Celsius at 8pm), and taking about going to firework night in the past and facing temperatures.
There were also news that, unless we get record rainfall this autumn and winter, 2026 is likely to see the worst drought on record.
LykosDarksilver@reddit
Location: Massachusetts
I've posted in the last couple weekly observations of less tourists and more bigotry during this year's tourist season in Salem. While every year there have been one or two street preachers screaming about witchcraft and hell, this year there were a LOT of them. They are also much more aggressive. The day after Halloween, the streets were littered with bible tracts like confetti after a parade. Some of them go into shops and directly harass the owners and staff. Some of the "Christian influencer" types proudly display their No Trespass orders on their socials.
The rise of Christian Nationalism is do doubt a contributing factor. If they're suddenly bold enough to do this in a city like Salem, rural, "Bible Belt" type areas of the country are about to be slaughterhouses for those not straight, Christian, and white.
JagBak73@reddit
I'm am an atheist in the bible belt, and don't talk about my unbelief. These Jeezo wackos will only get more unhinged and vindictive as things fall apart. They're mostly well-armed and I don't want to willingly paint a target on my back.
lavapig_love@reddit
Purchase a Kalashnikov! The traditional weapon of the discerning atheist!
/joke
But really, make sure you take steps to secure yourself. There was a university in Sweden or Finland that issued ceremonial swords to every Ph.D graduate, since they had successfully "defended" their thesis and could continue to do so. Bit of a lark for them, but China also has scholar-designated swords that date back to times when education was seen as a target. I feel with the way schools and student loans and the very idea of learning is being targeted, that all students of every kind are next.
JagBak73@reddit
WASR-10s are cheaper. :p
IntroductionWhich920@reddit
It's happening in Atlanta too. I was out at the club for Halloween downtown and there were SO MANY preachers with amps and microphones preaching that I literally had to put headphones in as I walked home. At least 6. I have lived here for 15 years and have never seen anything like it before.
Meowweredoomed@reddit
They're bringing back the era of superstition and witch trials!
_rihter@reddit
Location: Europe
Lukoil operations face fallout from Trump sanctions, Gunvor drops bid
Multiple countries in Europe are being affected by Lukoil sanctions.
One that is not mentioned in the media is Serbia and its 112 Lukoil gas stations. Following the sanctioning of its Russia-owned oil company, NIS, Lukoil's sanctions are also set to begin on November 21st. At least 80% of the nation's fuel supply will be taken offline by sanctions on those two companies.
The central bank, commercial banks, and insurance companies, among others, are openly assisting sanctioned entities in evading sanctions, attempting to delay the inevitable. Such a move has no precedent in terms of Russia-related US sanctions and will have massive consequences.
The Serbian government is highly concerned about the prospect of fuel rationing and long lines at gas stations and is desperately trying to avoid that scenario. That would shatter the illusion of normalcy and prove that the government had ultimately failed in its mission to secure fuel supplies.
Currently, the government is wagering that the US will not allow Serbia to become a 'failed state' by cutting off its fuel supply, and will grant a few months of sanction exemption for the Russia-owned oil company NIS. That's a completely miscalculated move, considering the US already delayed sanctions for nine months, and the Serbian government has done absolutely nothing in terms of taking action to remove Russian ownership in the company.
They simply don't see how the US government considers the situation. If the company is deemed essential for national security, then you must nationalize it and remove Russian ownership. Otherwise, the company is not allowed to operate and must shut down.
The government of Serbia wants to depict itself as a victim because Russia will cut the gas supply if it even thinks about nationalizing the company, and the US government will see that as a 'hostage situation' and grant an exception for the sanctioned oil company.
I'll continue to post updates, as the Serbian government has apparently imposed a complete information blackout, and the European press is not very interested in analyzing what's happening in that country.
peuco-cl@reddit
Get out of NATO, join the good guys from the east... problem solved... :)
Sapient_Cephalopod@reddit
Your work is very valuable. I am terribly curious as to how the situation will evolve over the next 30 days. In your opinion, what do you think will happen?
P.S. The popular unrest following the Novi Sad collapse, and the probable use of a sonic weapon (what the hell!) by riot control set precedent for the near future, I reckon. Much more vigorous response than in Greece following the Tempi train crash.
_rihter@reddit
On November 21, Lukoil sanctions will take effect, and Visa and Mastercard credit cards will cease to work immediately. In response, Serbia's central bank will permit the use of its national payment system to process transactions. However, Lukoil won't be able to import additional fuel and is expected to shut down within weeks.
I expect NIS won't get an exception from US sanctions, and their refinery will run out of oil on November 25. They will still have fuel reserves for another month or two. After they run out of serves, their gas stations will shut down.
The entire strategy of the Serbian government is to hope for a miracle that will resolve the NIS crisis while avoiding fuel panic. However, they are running out of reserves, and it's a matter of time before the government must implement rationing. Only around 20% of Serbia's fuel supply can be covered from imports, because the infrastructure for importing large quantities of fuel does not exist.
Financial damage could amount to billions of Euros if the situation persists. Something must be done.
However, if the government eventually gets overthrown and the new government nationalizes NIS, Russia will immediately cut off gas to Serbia that it gets via TurkStream. Currently, Serbia imports 75% of its gas from Russia. The only viable alternative is to import gas via pipeline from Hungary, but Serbia doesn't have a contract with other energy suppliers.
Secondary sanctions by the US Treasury Department are always a possibility, and that's a black swan event. The consequences would depend on the severity of the secondary sanctions.
bottom_armadillo805@reddit
Location: USA
I know that it's already accepted on this sub, but the new UN Emissions Gap Report is bringing our fate to reality for me. In my brain, it's one thing to feel it and read news or read this sub, and another to see just how far off we are on a graph by optimists. The fact that the US is completely absent is rough to see in graphs, to the point that in the report they have to put graphs showing "if the US were to cooperate this is where we would be, but without them, we're projecting a lot worse". Also seeing the graphs showing just how far off even our most aggressive policies are from keeping below +2C is shocking.
I'm a middle school science teacher, and I wanted to spend a couple of weeks on climate change this month to line up with COP30... I don't know how to deliver this news to 11 year olds without giving them all levels of climate anxiety that might not be healthy for kids. It's dissonant to say "we're fighting this and you can save the world!" and then show graphs that say we're locked in to over +2.3C in the best-case scenario. I think it's dissonant enough that even 11 year olds will pick up on it.
AbbeyRoadMomma@reddit
I don’t envy you having to present the awful climate truth to these kids.
25TiMp@reddit
I would stick to hard facts as much as possible. If some parent complains about your teaching, it would be nice if you can back up your statements in the classroom.
TuneGlum7903@reddit
Boy, are you brave. You actually want to talk about Climate Change with kids. In a lot of Red States that would probably get you reprimanded or even fired. MAGAt parents tend to think it's "a Liberal hoax" that's intended to grab power and take over peoples lives, ie. "ecofascism".
Just trying to present "the facts" is going to be problematic since they don't agree with most of them. I imagine all you can do is present the history of what's happened without interpretation.
Example- you can discuss the historic increase in CO2 levels in relationship to the ice core CO2 record but, don't say that it will cause global warming. Because around 50% of the population still doesn't believe that's true, or that it's been tremendously exaggerated.
That's a very fine line to walk.
Maybe you should consider doing what they do for Sex Ed. Get parental permission in advance and allow parents to "opt out" their kids. If nothing else, that would tell you how thin the ice you are standing on is.
Good luck, I hope you are in a liberal district and this goes well. It's DESPERATELY needed.
bottom_armadillo805@reddit
It is a pretty fine line, and I am a little anxious about it. This is my first year at the school, and I've already given admin the heads up. They're pretty good at protecting the teachers from what I hear from my coworkers. One of my coworkers got some angry emails for casting doubt on RFK's autism conclusions, but admin handled that discussion with the parents.
I do live in California, and one of the middle school science standards is "Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century", so it's technically required learning. The line that I have to walk carefully would be with all of the inevitable questions about what that means, what the world is doing to stop it, and what the US is doing to stop it. If I give them an assignment to find a news article about COP30 or what we're doing to fight climate change, inevitably one of them will bring up that the current admin pulled out of the Paris Accords and COP30 goals, that Trump thinks climate change is a hoax, and that the UN is now saying 2.3-28C of warming is the current path. THAT would go beyond the scope of the standard, but is also simple fact. I don't know how to deal with that yet.
rematar@reddit
I'm curious if kids sense what is coming. A decade ago, some folks predictably were drawn towards seeking a perceived strongman as a leader.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/12/why-voters-might-be-choosing-dominant-authoritarian-leaders-around-the-world.html
I watched my simple father become more racist around the same time. Lots of the young adults I know don't have hope, which is confirmed by their often reckless consumption of drugs.
Maybe they are ready for the truth?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397179407_What_is_education_for_in_the_polycrisis
Serious_Mechanic4692@reddit
We feel it all, really badly, Itll happen very soon, it’s like every day is a second passing on a countdown. People are going to start standing soon, maybe even sitting, and when they do – join them
rematar@reddit
I'm tired of sitting around. I'm in for up.
Meowweredoomed@reddit
Location West Virginia
The bird feeder we normally put out this time of year is deserted. No doves. No cardinals. No wood-peckers. No tufted titmouses. No wrens. No sparrows. No blujays.
The only thing we're getting is chickadees, and not in mass like they normally come. Whereas normally I would refill the feeder every 2-3 days, it hasn't been empty in a week. I've only had to change it once since putting it up.
AbbeyRoadMomma@reddit
Same in southern NJ. Suet has been untouched for a month, feeder also—I saw one blue jay a couple of days ago and was thrilled. There are just no birds.
CannyGardener@reddit
We used to have tooooons of starlings and blue jays come to our back yard every fall. The jays are....very loud. This year has been eerily silent. Thankfully we have squirrels in spades this year to eat all the acorns, but I can count on one hand the number of blue jays I've seen this year... After all of my bee pollinated crops failed, the vibe is not good right now on the suburban homestead.
AbbeyRoadMomma@reddit
Where r u?
iwatchppldie@reddit
North Carolina here. Same thing all the birds are gone I mean all of them. I’ve tried everything feeders, sleeping spots and I even rewilded a part of my backyard much to my neighbrows annoyance. There’s even a 300 gallon pond dedacated to ether birds or frogs just to bring some wildlife. All I got is possums and half dead frogs. It’s worse than ever now.
springcypripedium@reddit
I'm experiencing the same thing in the Upper Midwest. 😥💔 It is desolate here, even at my feeders that are filled with suet, woodpecker mix, thistle and peanuts. Basically just a few blue jays, 2 chickadees and a few juncos. Like you, I used to fill feeders often (sometimes everyday)----now, weeks go by. I forgot to take the feeders in and the food was eaten, but by a bear (who also smashed all my feeders).
Walking in the woods is downright depressing. Stressed/dying trees and so few birds (if any). I saw a nuthatch while hiking in the woods the other day and was shocked to see a sign of avian life!
The thing is . .. they are not going to come back as the planet heats up and ecosystems fall ill and die. Not to mention bird flu ramping up again, chemicals everywhere, insects disappearing.
Biodiversity loss is left out of discussions way too often. You can read articles that address limiting emissions, trying to not get beyond 1.5, 2.0 + of warming that leave out the fact that humans need biodiversity to survive. Even if we could limit heating, biodiversity is crashing.
bipolarearthovershot@reddit
Microplastics too, the birds often make their nests with garbage and microplastics
Throwaway756e8e@reddit
I have noticed this too up here in Saskatchewan. The chickadees are gone. There are barely any crows around. It's just pigeons now, and since they aren't being fed or cared for, they are dwindling in numbers and getting each other sick, too. And those little brown birds but their groups are smaller and smaller every year.
stellamccoy@reddit
Location: Southern NJ, USA. My peppers, tomatoes and eggplants are still flowering and setting fruit.
AbbeyRoadMomma@reddit
Location: also southern NJ. Saw a swallowtail today—in November! No food for it, I left a bit of sugar water out for it, if it can find it.
Right-Cause9951@reddit
I saw a butterfly during my late morning walk this morning. Growing patterns are completely out of of the norm now. I had a coworker scrapping his setup for the season. He was trying to lecture me on winter and blizzards.
We had frost more or less on Thursday this week. The rest of the week has been more or less warm though. Having longer seasons for warmer weather crops could be nice but at what cost to lack of precipitation from snow
GalliumGames@reddit
Location: Space Coast of Florida
We are at 3rd world country levels of environmental regulations and stewardship here. Some soulless developer is cutting down wide swaths of forests to build shitty wooden toothpick and duct tape apartments that are wildly under spec to handle a major hurricane and would get annihilated. The main problem is they’re just burning all this shit and poisoning the air in my city with particulate matter, whatever phytotoxins are in these plants, and probably a fair bit of plastics and toxic waste that’s been dumped there. Sometimes the smoke turns the air this sickly white color, and I’ve been experiencing on and off metallic coughing, headaches, stinging eyes and sore throats breathing in the poisoned air. These parasitic pieces of shit get to make our air carcinogenic, destroy our environment, make the city overpopulated and congested, and create terrible, poorly built structures that ultimately hurt us in the long run.
I pray to god the coming economic depression crushes their development and takes everything they’re worth away from them. Fucking hate what they’re able to get away with destroying this state, and building for pure greed and never for the people.
Outside_Bed5673@reddit
The whole I-4 corridor has been suburbanized. This has been happening for decades and maybe has its own boom and bust cycle. There is even a stat of the total amount of population Florida absorbs per year. I speculate this is from different waves: retirement, NYers leaving after COVID, and at times many desperate to leave the midwest and north in search of economic opportunties.
South Florida has a border with the Everglades that slowly has been encroached. The Everglades restoration project was important because we need drinking water and do not want algal blooms harming the tourism isndustry.
I remember the first thing the Florida legislature did was insurance reform. This year we had no hurricanes - I remember reading insurers went years without profitability.
Was there any change in building codes? I wonder how these companies plan to unload housing into this market without depressing housing costs further. Before anyone writes that this is a good thing - remember this is not NYC, this is the I-4 corridor from Tampa to the Space Coast and the job opportunities that pay a living wage are largely outside this area.
rmannyconda78@reddit
Location: north central Indiana. It’s been a long week, climate has been fairly warm for a mid November, though it’s gonna cool off this weekend, I remember it being in the 40s this time of year, hell I remember it snowing this time of year 15-20 years ago. I even remember a few years ago there was a foot of snow on the ground one time when I was deer hunting on a relatives property. Not much on how people in my town are doing, current data is limited because town has been quite, and I don’t really interact with it much more, did hear around of a local business owner screwing over employees but what’s new in Marion, or anywhere these days.
An important thing I will say is: if you can afford it, and have a deep pantry or shelves, get stocked up, as much as you can especially canned and non perishables, way things are going it’s not a bad idea. It’s better to do this ASAP than wait (if you can afford food is crazy expensive these days, sad thing really)
Vengedpotty@reddit
Hey neighbor(ish?). Went to Wally World yesterday and I saw multiple people wearing shorts and t shirts. As a cross country skiier, this does not inspire joy.
rmannyconda78@reddit
Took this a few days ago it’s easy to see why. I’m so adapted to high heat currently so this is kinda cool to me, but this is warm for many people. We definitely fucked things up environment wise that’s for sure
neuro_space_explorer@reddit
Hello fellow Buick owner. 👋
rmannyconda78@reddit
I’ve always driven either Buick or Pontiac cars
rmannyconda78@reddit
Location: north central Indiana. It’s been a long week, climate has been fairly warm for a mid November, though it’s gonna cool off this weekend, I remember it being in the 40s this time of year, hell I remember it snowing this time of year 15-20 years ago. I even remember a few years ago there was a foot of snow on the ground one time when I was deer hunting on a relatives property. Not much on how people in my town are doing, current data is limited because town has been quite, and I don’t really interact with it much more, did hear around of a local business owner screwing over employees but what’s new in Marion, or anywhere these days.
An important thing I will say is: if you can afford it, and have a deep pantry or shelves, get stocked up, as much as you can especially canned and non perishables, way things are going it’s not a bad idea. It’s better to do this ASAP than wait (if you can afford food is crazy expensive these days, sad thing really)
I took this a few days ago on a way back from work (clock in my car is hours off disregard it) yeah I can see why.
Chibilicious@reddit
Location: Central Florida State, U.S.
So for reference, I've been working two part time jobs for awhile. One of them is in a grocery store since May of this year. The store intentionally keeps produce to restock shelves with relatively low on Wednesdays typically because of Friday-Sunday volume being much higher than other weekdays, with Thursday essentially being a prep day for the weekend.
I have never, in my almost 6 months of working this job ever seen enough on hand produce to get through another entire typical Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday on Wednesday night. If COVID and those disruptions weren't enough shatter a bunch of folk's sense of normalcy this is going to break it imho for another large group of folks. Even when this shutdown ends, I don't believe the psychological damage this shutdown's inflicted will be undone anytime soon.
luminousrose9@reddit
I am a bit confused. Is this what is happening all the time or did something new happen because of the Snap debacle?
Chibilicious@reddit
Most likely yes. Coworkers who have worked in this exact store for years are saying this is unusual.
Throwaway756e8e@reddit
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Our city's homeless population are lighting so many garbage cans/dumpsters on fire during the colder months that the police force is considering relabelling these acts as they currently fall under arson. Homelessness is getting increasingly worse and visible here. Bus shelters are mainly spots for the homeless to use dr[]gs and the glass within the shelters are being smashed out regularly. The homeless are getting restless and becoming desperate here. Being cold on top of desperation and hunger is a dangerous formula..
CityOutlier@reddit
And a lot of us are one disaster away from becoming homeless. All the while there seems to be people itching to criminalize poverty, not realizing it will come to bite us all in the ass later on.
treesarefamily@reddit
Saskatchewan is not a place to be homeless...there used to be a great migration west of homeless people in the fall because it is unsurvivable in the winter. The housing situation will make people desperate indeed.
Throwaway756e8e@reddit
Oh no it's absolutely not a good place to be homeless. But they keep getting sent back here is what I heard from a few. BC can't accept them as they have too many of their own they need to help. And going there has become dangerous especially for the Indigenous population, so they choose to stay out of fear of being sent back/hurt/killed.
Solo_Camping_Girl@reddit
Location: Manila, Philippines
A category 4 (US equivalent) typhoon just left nearly 100 people dead in Cebu Province, in the southern Philippines, devastating neighborhoods. Cebu is also the province that just suffered through a powerful quake about a month ago.
As of the time of this comment, another storm is brewing near Guam and this one could develop into a super typhoon or a category 5 in hurricans equivalent. This is related to collapse as while my country has been frequented by typhoons historically, the rapid intensification due to warmer sea temps and piss-poor public infrastructure has made natural disasters even more destructive.
Throwaway756e8e@reddit
Stay safe over there. That must be scary for you to be so close to devastation.
Solo_Camping_Girl@reddit
disaster fatigue is all to real. I still maintain that sense of alarm and preparedness for these disasters that have a grace period before it strikes. but it gets tiring after the Nth typhoon. But yeah, this one is expected to be a Cat 5 so we should take more caution.
The resiliency to remain sane during disasters and the ability to bounce back after going through one only to prepare for another round will really get into you. I'd honestly take a polar vortex with no electricity right now over dealing with a cat 5 hurricane tbh.
Rossdxvx@reddit
Location: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
A war criminal passed away today. On Election Day of all days, which used to mean something in this country, once upon a time long ago. A man who spent his entire life serving the interests of the oil and gas companies, weapons/arms manufacturers, and other merchants/profiteers of death, ecological destruction, and human suffering. A man who lied us into an unnecessary war of aggression and sent kids my age to die in far off desert lands. A man responsible for the mismanaged and bungled occupation of said lands along with the deaths of countless civilians, or “collateral damage,” who were vaporized just for being in the wrong country at the wrong time. Yeah, a guy who helped empower the executive, sanctioned torture and other abuses, and paved the way for the authoritarian nightmare that we are living today.
Sorry, not really an observation of any kind, just something that I had to get off my chest.
No-Football2656@reddit
Yeah, but you people voted for him. Twice!
Rossdxvx@reddit
Let's break this statement down, shall we?
In 2000, the Supreme Court handed Bush the presidency. The Dems rolled over and allowed it to happen in order to "bring the country together."
In 2004, the Dems ran John Kerry, who, through a single degree of separation, belonged to the same ruling elite secret society/fraternity as Dubya. He ran his campaign not on the anti-war sentiment of the time, but on a good cop "I will manage the war better than the other guy."
In 2016, the Dems sabotaged Sanders' campaign therefore giving us the Trump era.
No-Football2656@reddit
Maybe, but votes are votes. Actual, living human beings in America cast millions of votes for Bush and running mate, and Trump and running mate. That's the country we live in.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
But his daughter Liz endorced Kamala!!!! s/
Normal-Ear-5757@reddit
sniff He's starting wars in Hell now
KingofGrapes7@reddit
Location USA
Normally an election night shouldn't be collapse worthy since that's how the system is supposed to work. But you know what timeline we are in. It was a blue sweep, I dare guess alot of GOP are wiping their brows thankful its not midterm elections yet. I consider this collapse worthy since there is a 99.99% chance the establishment Democrats double down and a 100% chance MAGA doubles down. Fossils like Schumer seem determined to die in office and keep power away from the younger generations as long as possible. I think the only reason they havent caved in the shutdown is because the GOP demands are so petty and cruel it cant be sold politically. Giving in would empower the Mamdani and AOC types to scrape them off their thrones. And on the GOP side all they know how to do is double down. Even if they wanted to pretend to not be cruel assholes Trump wont let them. All they have is fear and outrage and for once that MIGHT not be enough.
But yea. Collapse related because while last night's elections are a 'good sign' the powers that be are going to double down on all the things that got us into this nightmare to begin with
Rossdxvx@reddit
A lifetime of experience has taught me to be skeptical, cautious, and wary of the Dems. The party exists as a dead end in order to kill any real social mass movements from ever truly changing the system. If the neoliberal corporatist elements can be exercised, then maybe the party can be reformed. But, I just don’t know.
I am not very optimistic, honestly. I get more of a feeling of this country tearing itself apart and fracturing/declining further with the schism growing ever deeper between left and right. In any case, the tension in the air for 2026 is going to be like living in a tinderbox waiting to explode at any moment.
Lord_Vesuvius2020@reddit
I share your skepticism and caution. Yet I feel somehow like the election did feel like change. I felt a little bit of the oppressive darkness was gone. Like maybe the tide had turned.
fedfuzz1970@reddit
I hope it's not another episode of Charlie Brown and the disappearing football. The outfit I'm worried about is the IDF. They don't like people operating outside the control of AIPAC. I would be suspicious of any "accident" that might befall Mamdami and other progressives. Schumer and Schiff are bought and paid for and to earn that money they must keep dissenters in line. Interesting times ahead. My skepticism stem from evacuating the wounded from the USS Liberty following Israel's false flag attack on June 8, 1967. The killed 34 and wounded 171 American servicemen and we helped them cover it all up.
fedfuzz1970@reddit
The relentless outing of Trump and his Epstein distractions by social media, including reddit, keep the heat on. The main stream media props Trump up out of fear for their federal licenses while most readers are switching to trusted on-line sources. Nothing like information and actual harm to normal people to get action at the polls. I hope everyone keeps up the pressure.
CannyGardener@reddit
There are no courts for the likes of him. Even if the files were released unredacted, tomorrow, from a reliable source, AND he is all over them in a meaningful way, nothing will happen. Even if he goes to trial for it, nothing will happen. Look. People at that level pay by different rules. Let me give an example. My father worked for the federal government for 45 years... He had to follow very strict confidentiality rules about what was shared and how data was stored and destroyed. When Hillary Clinton was found to have a personal server full of government emails, he turned to me and goes, "If that was me I would be at the very least fired on the spot, and I'd likely be going to jail as well." And what happened? Nothing. Trump was charged with how many felonies? What happened? Nothing.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
I am in that group.
GravySeal45@reddit
LOCATION; NW USA
Well, in the USA right now, we have poorly or completely untrained "Federal Agents" walking around with masks and not required to show identification or a warrant, stopping random brown people and demanding they look into their camera so they can get facially scanned into a national database (that is TOTALLY secure I am SURE) and if you refuse they grab you and throw you in a van with no windows and take you to another state to THEN decide if you are a legal citizen. (I have witnessed this first hand)
Then we have a President that is personally dumping MILLIONS into state governor elections to sway who he wants to be elected, while ALSO telling states that if they elect someone he doesn't like he will cut all federal funding to their state.
I'd say that was some pretty first steps of a collapse kind of bullshit.
FluteVixen@reddit
An unfortunate and inconvenient truth is that the facial scanners were trained on predominantly white faces so the database often contains too few black or brown faces to make a correct ID which puts people of color much more at risk for a bad or illegal outcome.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Location: Atlanta Sprawl, Georgia USA
It's looking a little 2007 around here.
Used car lots have sprung up overnight - right where the old used car lots used to be before those firms imploded financially about 2 years ago*. Lots of cars, even more trucks. Newer models. Could be a number of things - people bought at inflated prices 2020-24 and they are basically underwater on their car loans. Probably a lot of vehicles previously owned by people who may have had to leave suddenly. But even used, they are way too expensive.
We see the repo trucks out every day.
There are a lot of empty houses, a lot of for sale signs. A lot of for rent signs, too. Individuals, not just corporations, bought up houses during the recent RE hyperinflation for some of that "passive income", became landlords. The rents they need to charge now just to make their mortgages are no longer market prices.
It seems that when a lot of people disappear, the region doesn't need so much housing.
The mega-McMansion development construction is slowing down. Around the corner, they ripped out a couple of acres of fallow greenspace to build a 30-40 house development - there are 3 houses up. one demo, one just started construction. Starting at the low $500Ks. A McMansion around the corner in a tiny modest little space along what has become a major road, sold last year for $825K on the market, now asking $650K.
Miles and miles of vacant commercial real estate, from warehouse/office complexes to storefronts in strip malls. A lot of it has never been occupied - at least for the past 12 years or so.
The whole situation is untenable.
Our neighbor M's mom had self-deported back to Oaxaca, Mexico during the summer after 25+ years in the U.S. It's not as she remembered. Major gang activity. The family needs to sell the house here in Georgia that they just bought last year and probably overpaid for by lots. M's daughter V moved back in with her because she says that other house is a sausage fest. In that part of the family, there are only men left.
But M & R did have a good-sized Dia de Mertes party for the whole family Saturday. Mainly for the kids Grandma's gone and I don't think they are doing too well with that.
Pre collapse in my eyes.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Thanks for the update on M and R. I remember you posting about M's situation a while ago.
headin4thefreeway@reddit
Location: western Washington state
I am a drowned rat. Constant atmospheric rivers - which it didn't used to be like here (1980s to about 2010). Yes, it was rainy but it was much lighter, especially during the fall and winter months. It was steady, but not these weekly downpours. Also it's way too warm.
I used to think humans were smart. I've pretty much given that up.
Yay for the Democrats, vote harder everyone, Mamdani, AOC and Bernie are gonna save us /S. Funny, I never hear them say word one about the climate or the Arctic. By the way Arctic sea ice 'I think' is is at the second lowest ever. The Titanic will be fine Madam, pay no attention to that ice water lapping over your feet.
Mamdani went from "the police are corRUPT" in 2020, to just apologizing to the good ole NYPD now they are Bff's. Also I got a little sick of seeing him doing all these cool activities like jamming with the DJs. He's a glib ex-rapper not Jesus. So I don't expect any big things there. I'm sure I'll get slaughtered for that opinion. Just you wait Henry Higgins…
AOC was giving whitehouse™️ tours while people face starvation and Bernie continues to complain. None of them ever actually DOES anything. EVER. And they are all housed and comfy with aMAZing healthcare. Politics is a big club and I'm not in it. Neither are the rest of us.
So we're going to die in the world's most stupid cruel apocalypse, for nothing, while the band plays on.
I am living on a couch barely surviving, in a single room with someone who is Covid careless. That's a constant threat to my very spectrum-y mind and I am boggled, after getting Covid at the beginning of October due to this carelessness, that anyone would still take this disease lightly. Novel coronavirus indeed, my immune system had never seen anything like it and I was hit by a truck sick and I still feel it. The pandemic is not over...see above comment about stupidity.
My housing has been unstable for over a decade now (thank you Amazon and Google who made this region unaffordable!), and it has turned me from a pretty healthy creative human into a sick aged shell.
I can't find work so when my money runs out I'm dead. My large and wealthy family have all either contributed to my situation by stealing what would've been an inheritance, and/or turned their backs which has been fun.
I miss the natural world. Frankly, we're a shit species and we mostly deserve extinction, mostly, which nobody can fucking admit to because we (western nations anyway) don't deal with death, even though it's all around us. Frankly I see that as cowardly at this point. it's mourning in America.
Famous-Delivery-2685@reddit
I feel you on that and about the weather. While you guys are having an incredibly wet fall, us here in the southeast near south georgia/north florida are in extreme drought after our summer rainy season shut down back in Mid-August and have barely had any rain since.
headin4thefreeway@reddit
I feel you on the drought! That really sucks and it makes me incredibly afraid of fire. We've had a lot of fire out here. You take good care there.
AnInevitableDoom@reddit
Northern England, UK.
I know it’s a consistent theme now, but it’s just so damn warm for the time of year. It’s 15c outside in November, it’s going to be around there for the next week. All the UK subs still drone on about these mythical, grim, cold winters that we have - but that was fifteen years ago. I’ve only turned the heating on a bit to get it going and keep the damp out.
SecretPassage1@reddit
North of France here, but I'm still watering my garden's pot plants ... that should've become unnecessary a couple months ago now!
bottom_armadillo805@reddit
I know it's weather vs climate, but here in Southern California, it passed 30C last week. In the last week of October, it was as hot as summer. These random anomalies could just be weather, but they're definitely a reminder of the climate trend.
KingofGrapes7@reddit
Location: USA
Elections! I have no expectations one way or another at this point. Just more funding threats from Trump that in any sane reality would have him impeached. If Dems do see a good night that might be a little encouraging. I fall into the trap myself but its important to remember that MAGA's victory isnt absolute. Its not easy but it can be broken.
Shutdown is still going. I feel for anyone hurting right now but I'm genuinely surprised the Dems haven't caved. Yet, for all I know they are doing it right now. I think for established Democrats its just not politically viable anymore. Trump obviously wont do them any favors in return and the fossils are determined not to give younger democrats any power if they can help it. See New York. But 'reaching across the isle' may just end up being ammo against them now that anyone who isnt hooked on Fox News knows how petty and cruel Trump is. The fact Trump isnt doing so well medical wise might be helping. Its maddening how so much over these years could have been prevented by just saying 'no'. Is it really only now that 'decorum' is given up on?
I said before how gaming as a hobby is getting priced out by higher console and subscription prices. As an example of hobbies in general, because Halo on Playstation is not infact a sign of collapse. Now RAM is going up in price, AI is no doubt behind that to some degree. I say this knowing now is not the time for many to be spending, but if someone wanted to game away the apocalypse their most cost efficient option would probably be a Steam Deck and load Emudeck on it. A 3DS is also an option but sadly not very cheap, the homebrew scene is keeping prices up.
Weather is decent. 53 right now, should probably be cooler but at least I'm not sweating. Expecting some November 70s.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I built my pc a while back, mainly as an editing computer, a mostly modest rig consisting of a, rtx 3060, a ryzen 5 4500, 32 gigs ddr4,and probably gonna put a ryzen 7 in it, increase it’s cooling by a lot (more powerful air coolers), then run Linux on it. windows is too full of bloatware these days, god knows how long it is before I’m paying monthly for it.
BitchfulThinking@reddit
The next GTA, assuming we make it long enough for the release, is rumored to cost $80-$100. Wtf? I remember when console games (and controllers and accessories) came in bundles...
The push for subscription based games is killing the hope of any new story rich games. It's driving away a lot of the older gaming market, and preventing new people from wanting to take up the hobby. I'm hoping this inspires more indie developers to go the Stardew Valley route, however.
Muted_Resolve_4592@reddit
I get a LOT of mileage out of my old secondhand laptop with integrated graphics. Indie and retro games, even 3D games up to PSX, play just fine on any modern-ish processor.
PorcelinaMagpie@reddit
Location: Indiana
It's very obvious that the vast majority of the people in my area have finally realized they were conned after casting their votes last November. I see mothers crying in grocery stores because they can no longer afford the snacks their kids like. People are driving around with duct tape on their cars because they can't afford repairs. More and more people are moving out of my apartment complex late at night/breaking their lease without notice because they can't afford the rent anymore. Average wage in my area is $17/hr. Average rent at my apartment complex is $1300/month if you move in today. Yeah..that's very unrealistic. But at the end of the day...will any of this actually change the way they vote? Who knows?
The weather is FINALLY starting to feel like fall. We are supposed to get snow over the weekend.
I wonder how uncomfortable and bare minimum the holidays will be. I can't even imagine what 2026 has in store for us.
rmannyconda78@reddit
This is what collapse looks like, and it’s only gonna get oh so much worse. I’m actually getting ready to go get 2 cases canning jars tomorrow, and a shitload of canned goods at the aldis, now is the time to stock up. Also gonna get a few pouches of tobacco for my pipe, gotta take the edge off a bit.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Best of luck. Make sure you get it tested for cwd.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I think I will, cause that’s running rampant
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Yup, and despite what my idiot uncles say you cannot cook prions to safety.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I mean you can, but you need a blast furnace, wouldn’t be edible as it was incinerated, that blast furnace is better used for forging steel
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Lol...
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
1300/mo for what? 1 bed? 2 bed?
Includes heat? Water? Trash?
PorcelinaMagpie@reddit
1300 for 1 bedroom. 1000 for studio.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Holy shit!! Ouch
Existentialcrisis25@reddit
Warmest November here in Colorado. What used to be cold, icy and showy is barely fall weather. We have reached 80° already and the month as barely begun. We used to need coats and boots now people rarely need sweaters.
bottom_armadillo805@reddit
In SoCal last week it hit 90F. We kind of joke about it here, but really our seasons are turning from Spring>Summer>Fall (we don't have winter), into Fire Season > Summer and also Fire Season
Existentialcrisis25@reddit
I miss when there was no such thing as a fire season. I worry ahout it every year here. It just keepa getting dryer and warmer. A waking nightmare.
GoodButterscotch8185@reddit
Location: England. Seem to be a lot more cases of violent crime being reported, but this may just be the media making it seem that way. Over the last few years, tensions have been rising among the populous, dividing by racial and political lines, people being pushed more towards the extremes. Hard not to feel like we’re heading for some kind of social tipping point. Personally, I want to believe it’s just a social media bubble, that the average person on the street doesn’t harbour much hate and just wants everyone to get along and stop causing such a fuss. But like I said, it’s hard not to wonder if something terrible is on the horizon. Pretty much no one having any faith in the government (for good reason) doesn’t help either
LongTimeChinaTime@reddit
Any time standard of living drops it surfaces differences in people to become pronounced and less tolerable.
There’s some evidence that during early stages of decline, societies become more tolerant of minorities and of decadence. But after years as the decline deepens to crisis levels, this tolerance boomerangs and society almost overnight can start producing scapegoats and “enemies” to try and explain why things are worse.
Rossdxvx@reddit
A big problem is that the human brain has to make sense out of chaos by trying to fit a square block into a round hole. What I mean is that people latch onto comforting narratives when the world around them is seemingly falling apart. Civilization is nothing more than a shiny veneer and a convenient social contract among people. If things get bad enough, people will literally eat one another.
lifeissisyphean@reddit
Always 9 meals away from anarchy
Bellybutton_fluffjar@reddit
Yep. Everyone is frustrated and angry, lashing out at who their chosen news outlets tell them to. When really the people who are to blame are so untouchable, so far removed from the chaos they've created. Politics can't solve the problem because they are part of the problem.
People know things are worse and they can't do anything about it. More violence is inevitable.
LongTimeChinaTime@reddit
And on some levels, there isn’t even anyone to squarely blame. History shows virtually all powerful societies reach a complexity and overhead cost that eventually causes a crash in ROI. From a ground level you can get an illusion of people to blame for this or that, but when you zoom out to a Birds Eye view, you see a pattern of step-by-step descent with cause and effect sequences. For example the layman can accuse 1980s corporations for starting a pattern of offshoring production, but most people don’t ask the question of WHY companies started doing that, with the answer being the great inflation causing collapse in business viability of factories. It’s easy to accuse America for turning to implicit scarcity to feed asset price appreciation and fake prosperity, but you have to ask what caused us to start doing that? The answer is, since we had stopped producing as much and our production has become less viable economically, we then turned to asset rentier behavior to lubricate the economy.
So when you zoom out, you see connections and cause effects that society follows into decline, and see that society can become rationally trapped by inertia to keep repeating mistakes. To me decline now is baked in, but elites could soften the blow by paying for free and low cost basic high density housing in many cities just enough to bring relief to income-constrained citizens. But you ask why haven’t they yet, the answer is incentives not to, and even though some actors within are needlessly greedy, a collapse in housing prices can ruin plenty of owners in the lower tiers, so it becomes a desperate game of competing incentives as the floor is giving way.
But rolling out charity high density housing projects at scale is the first and foremost action that will be needed to buffer against high mortality in coming years. They need to do it in ways that reduce negative impacts on property valuations but will have to accept that generating “wealth” on artificially scarce assets, which do not actually produce anything, is an astronomically fatal trap
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Criminally underrated comment.
Your point about asking WHY we saw the shift in the 80s and 90s that we saw is crucial to understanding why yhe fixes proposed have not fixed fuckall.
And yet, prople think there was some sort of intentional malice. Nope, just regular humans responding to pressure. And never questioning the underlying structure that created the pressure.
Susanoos_Wife@reddit
Location: USA, Lower 48 States, East of the Mississippi River
Covid case numbers have dropped somewhat but are still pretty high. For context, about 1 out of every 210 people currently have covid right now or have been infected with covid recently.
https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php
https://x.com/michael_hoerger/status/1985460747854299610
Though the news hardly mentions it anymore, covid waves have been peaking at higher and higher numbers and "lulls" have also continued to remain at higher and higher levels. For context, if there was this much covid around back in 2020, we'd still be in lockdown (or, what American called a lockdown, as we never had any genuine "stay inside your house and don't leave unless you're given permission by the government" sort of lockdowns.) While hospitals are no longer as overwhelmed as they were before and not as many people die of covid now as they did in 2020, covid itself still causes a variety of problems, which the government has mostly decided to ignore.
How long covid is changing an entire generation: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-covid-kids-school-absenteeism-1235447552/
How pregnant women getting infected with covid can harm their child's brain development: https://scienceblog.com/mothers-covid-19-infections-may-harm-childrens-brain-development/
Autism diagnosis rates higher among children whose mothers had covid during pregnancy: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/health/autism-covid-pregnancy
Catching covid or the flu can increase your risk of getting a heart attack: https://www.discovermagazine.com/catching-covid-19-or-the-flu-could-triple-your-risk-of-stroke-and-heart-attack-48215
For new people (or just anyone who hasn't taken precautions to avoid covid since mandates were removed, here's a few basic links for some FAQs and info about covid:
Basic Covid 101 guide: https://covidhelp.org/
Interactive map showing what long covid can do to your body: https://longcovidsux.com/
Basic guide about when and how to wear masks: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Respiratory-Viruses/When-and-Why-to-Wear-a-Mask.aspx
In other health news, an outbreak of listeria tied to pre-made pasta meals has spread further, with deaths reported in 6 states: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/listeria/deadly-multistate-listeria-outbreak-tied-prepared-pasta-meals-expands
Trump has been busy hacking away at the federal government like a horror movie villain going after random teenagers who found a creepy abandoned house in the middle of the night. SNAP benefits expired on November 1, affecting at least 42 million people, many of whom are children, elderly people, or disabled people. However, many people who work still have to use SNAP to be able to eat because as we all know, many jobs (perhaps even most jobs,) don't pay enough for you to live. Election ads are always a bunch of deep fried, flambeed crap but lately they've morphed into unhinged yelling, quoting random people out of context over grainy screen-caps of some angry looking pissface or other, and/or random sound effects looped over some doom and gloom proclamation of what will happen if candidate x wins. Call me a hopium partaker, but I vote in every election that I'm eligible for because I figure fuck it, the government's always trying to tell you what to do so anytime I have any semblance of free choice in something, you better believe I'm going to take advantage of it.
On a more personal note, there hasn't been a lot of rain in my area and the leaves, while pretty, are shedding faster than I remember them shedding before. Going by what I've seen so far, most of the leaves turn yellow or pale orange rather than bright orange or red. People have also been driving pretty terribly lately, though that's been a problem for a while. Construction and road work are ever-present, and even though there's hardly been any grass growing for months, people in my neighborhood continue to have their lawns mowed at least once a week if not more.
Prices for basic stuff, like food, paper products, household supplies, etc. fluctuate a lot lately, and stock in stores is very hit or miss, and I have to hunt for a long time online to find certain things at all. My monthly health insurance bill is set to rise by about 100 dollars starting at the beginning of next year so now I have to see if I can find (and afford to buy,) cheaper health insurance during this year's open enrollment period. I generally try to avoid going to the doctor as much as possible, since doctor's visits nowadays are mostly just an expensive gaslighting session where they waste your time and/or expose you to covid. With that said, I do try to keep up to date on my vaccines and I never skip on regular dental cleanings and eye doctor appointments (I've worn glasses since I was in elementary school and even with a pretty strong glasses prescription, I sometimes have to wear special migraine glasses to reduce eye strain.)
Daylights savings time going away and making it get dark earlier makes me feel gross, and seasonal depression lurks around the corner waiting to lay a world of hurt on me like Muhammad Ali waiting to land a punch on an opponent in the boxing ring. To keep my mind off of the general blargh-ness of late fall and winter, I've been shamelessly making the internet even weirder than it already is, along with working on random creative projects to keep myself from accidentally launching myself off of the haywire hamster wheel that is my mind. A poet, I'm not but if you read fanfiction, you might find something I wrote somewhere on the internet, for better or for worse.
I'll stop here to let everyone's hard working browsers breathe a sigh of relief like a horse who survived a battle that Genghis Khan participated in, stay safe, stay healthy, floss regularly, check your dryer lint trap for lint if you have a dryer, and remember to treat yourself like you would treat someone or something you care about. Here's to the beginning of another month, and even if the powers that be are trying to flush the world down the metaphorical toilet of doom to sate the monetary lust of deranged billionaires, there's still wisdom in not letting the ugliness and pain of the world tempt you into crab bucketing yourself into sitting in a metaphorical bucket of abject misery when you can still climb out of the bucket and into another bucket that has less misery in it. If nothing else, if you can do something to climb out of the metaphorical Dashcon ballpit into a regular ballpit, hey, that still counts for something no matter how fucked up the world is. If I ever find where I was actually going with my metaphors, I'll be sure to alert everyone like Paul Revere (but with less yelling,) otherwise, I'll bounce back in these threads next week.
rmannyconda78@reddit
There’s was a decent fire risk in my area today, dry and windy will do that
Initial_Mixture_5040@reddit
Warmest October since a moved to southern Alberta 13 years ago, and little to no rain this year, i can't mention anything to people around me because most here are crude oil drinking ultra conservative climate change deniers.
rematar@reddit
I voted with my tax dollars and left.
If Danielle Smith wants to separate, I would be ok with her shortsited views to take her flockoffs to the Palliser Triangle south of Highway 1.
Initial_Mixture_5040@reddit
yes, a lot of people here would vote for a turd if it were blue
ch1140092@reddit
Location: Delhi The city is under an immovable cloud of smoke. There are no colors and no smells, everything is grey and smells like smoke. The local government is running sprinklers near AQI monitoring stations to reduce the readings and the data conveniently goes missing whenever it's worse than usual. Millions are slowly choking to death but the most popular topic in the news is a controversial proposal to rename the city.
Fickle_Stills@reddit
https://aqicn.org/city/delhi/
If these are the doctored readings... That's really awful. I feel it when aqi hits the moderately bad range (50-99) let alone in the purple and beyond