Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] April 27
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MoparMan59L@reddit
LOCATION: Far North Tampa Suburbs, Florida
Very weird here. I feel like more than anywhere else in the US, Florida is the perfect example of the K-Shaped economy. I'm an hour or so North of Tampa. Here there are no signs of the real estate market slowing down. Home values and rents remain very high. Everywhere you go there are new subdivisions being built. And all of the finished homes have cars in the driveway and people living in them. Very different from 2008 when homes were built but couldn't be sold.
The homes start at $400K and go up. Many $500K plus. Lots of late 20 to early 40 somethings usually working remote finance jobs tend to be the main demographic moving in. Which is nuts because we are an hour to an hour+ away from Tampa and here their is no central part to the town and it's really just an endless sea of gated communities, subdivisions and strip malls. Also lots of nicer cars in my area. Mainly from the Northeastern and Chicagoland transplants that have moved in. Lots of Mercedes E300s, Jaguar SUVs, BMW X series SUVs, Porsche Sedans, etc. In a sea of 25 year old F-150s and Honda Pilot minivans they stand out. Really started popping up over the last year. This is the sign of the upward part of the K.
The downward part. A large increase in homeless. It has been growing for the last year and continues to grow. I feel like in the back of almost every strip mall or gas station, a small settlement of homeless has appeared. Mostly people living out of their cars. It's unique because there really isn't "infrastructure" to support the homeless. No busy areas with foot traffic to ask for cash. Historically this isn't an area that gets a lot of homeless. They typically stay way further south in Tampa.
Also a lot more people loitering around gas stations and the non-publix plazas that just look strung out. They kept to themselves and they stay on the far end of the parking lots. But it's kind of become a thing among customers as not to park near them and avoid them. They just look very rough and strung out.
From people I know. I reported almost a year ago, that friends of mine that still work for the local Circle K's and 7/11s were reporting a business slow down last summer. That has basically continued for the entire year. They still get rushes, especially morning and evening rush hour. They still get random busy periods where 20 customers come in out of nowhere in the middle of the day.
But overall, it's slower. The smokers are the most interesting change. Especially the regular customers. People that buy cartons weekly are only know buying 4 packs. The people that typically buy 4 packs are only buying 2. The biggest change has been the 2 pack a day customers, who are the most common. Are only buying 1. And the 1 pack a day customers are buying 1 pack every few days.
Now sure, this could be a sign that people are smoking less and trying to quit (I hope so). But I think it's more people are trying to stretch their dollars and make their smokes last. I think it's more economic rather than health.
Then other things I have noticed. Nicer merch at pawn shops in the area. Namely tools. For years basically walk into any pawn shop anywhere the tools will usually be 90% Craftsman. Maybe a bit of Husky or Stanley and some Pittsburgh Pro. Usually just Ryobi for power tools.
Last few weeks, I've noticed a lot more Snap On, MAC and Matco tools. As well as Gearwrench and even NAPA Carlyle. Also more DeWalt and Milwaukee stuff for power tools. Gearwrench stuff was probably the most common.
Also nicer guitars. Usually most pawn shops are full of Squiers, Epiphones and lower tier Ibanez. Now quiet a few Mexican Strats, a couple of Gibson Studios and some ESPs, Jacksons and nicer Deans. Also a couple of Marshall and Orange tube amps at one shop near me. Rather than just the usual Line 6.
daviddjg0033@reddit
Florida Dweller on the right coast.
the perfect example of the K-Shaped economy
You cannot forget the Hat on the K go to Palm Beach County and drive east to Billionaire's Row you will see poor people selling TRUMO merchandise made in Jina being sold. A gas station less than a mile away from Mar-a-Lago is Espanoi only - which is common when you go so far South in Florida you end up going "up north."
I am noticing homeless with more than the picking at face chickenpox. I see abscesses and more than one homeless person both having abscesses on their legs.
The growth of the abscess on this poor woman - who I called an ambulance for before - only to see her distressed mumbling that Obama and I beamed her up.
I found out she used to live in the nicest building but her mom died and she was on the spectrum. I bet you I could give her antipsychotics, lithium or for others - suboxone therapy to wean off fentanyl. We have a huge homeless problem right in front of Trumo Towers.
Now I have millionaires-on-paper in my family. They are too busy with life to really visit. I get it - I am the black sheep that has a bipolar diagnosis. Today I explained what a 21C ocean on climateranalyzer means for this summer when we reach El Nino and started raising my voice in exasperation.
I read the room. I said, "I feel very passionately about the climate." I sat down.
I was told, "there is nothing you can do about it." This is the umpteenth time before it was me pulling out my hair with Doge government data theft.
I talk to a lot of people in hospitality. The upscale places are not filling rooms but charging more.
Huh? I thought less demand (Marriott build 1M rooms or was it more?) and increased supply means lower prices. Nope.
The interest rates are going to probably go above 6% because of rising oil prices. That means savers are getting rewarded. The wealthy can extract 6% from doing nothing with money. No wonder loans to make the businesses here instead of abroad or to retool our industries is not happening. If the banks did not want to lend at 2% or 4% or 6% now 8% or 12% when will they lend?
Maybe the smokers starting taking GLP-1s and I read it reduces the urge to drink alcohol. Maybe they are vaping. This is Florida Land of Trulieve so maybe they are high on shatter or 30 even 50% THC. Or they are taking kratom because we are only how many years removed from the Florida Oxycontin Pill Factory? I know dozens that died of opiate overdoses including my neighbor and my wife. How many pill mills were there in Tampa? In my county we had more doctor/pharmacies than McDonalds, Burger King and Wendy's combined. Now the pendulum has swung the other way the doctors will watch you in agony before they prescribe morphine.
I personally would "smoke em if I got 'em" but I am too lazy to pay $14 a pack for cigarettes.
The best thing about living near a casino is the pawn stores. I bought everything from video games when I was young, televisions, guitars, record Technics players and speakers at Pawn stores. I assume you pawn your belongings to go play a round of baccarat or more likely slot machines.
So did Tampa have 20" in 24 hours or 25" like the year before last? That was in April and June before the rainy season began. Good luck to us all this hurricane season the OCEANS ARE 21C I AM SCREAMING they look at me crazy and I say "I feel PASSIONATELY" and everyone is upset.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Rest assured, DJT is visiting The Villages today (Friday May 1) and things will be just a-okay! s/
MoparMan59L@reddit
I've heard a lot of resorts and places have done this. They are making more revenue and profit then ever before just off of fewer but wealthier customers.
Yeah lots of drugs and crap in Tampa Bay too. I feel like Tampa does a better job of hiding it then south Florida. And from a Marketing stand point a lot of people including locals and transplants think Tampa bay has no issues.
lavapig_love@reddit
To put this in perspective, the Craftsman brand was sold by Sears Company to Lowe's, a national hardware chain. Ryobi and Husky are sold at Home Depot, another hardware chain, Stanley is sold at Walmart, and Pittsburg is a Harbor Freight brand. These are all affordable entry-level tools that are good enough for homeowners that usually don't do a lot and don't want to spend a lot.
DeWalt (colored safety yellow) and Milwaukee (colored bright red) are tool brands good enough for commercial work. It's common to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on these tools and keep them for years.
Snap-On, MAC, Matco, Gearwrench and NAPA Carlyle are luxury brand tools that vehicle mechanic businesses spend tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for, partly for the image of being seen as professional.
Pawn shops filling up with quality goods are a bad economic sign.
A Fender Squier is a great entry-level guitar and goes for one to two-hundred dollars depending on paint job. A Mexican-made Fender Stratocaster goes from $400 to $1k depending on model.
Guitars are often vanity instruments strummed once and hung on the wall, but if musicians are selling the means of their livelihood things are getting dire.
96-62@reddit
It's probably a sign of tool theivery as much as anything else
MoparMan59L@reddit
Another sort of indicator, is two local bands I know. The guitarists in each band normally play Gibson Les Pauls. They told me around Tampa and Orlando, gear theft has been up lately. A few local bands have had instruments stolen out of the back of vans/cars, etc. So they are playing their Gibsons at home and in the studio but not for shows. One guitarist is instead playing an LTD EC-1000 and the other a Greco Les Paul.
lavapig_love@reddit
Ouch. Get them insured if you can afford it, but at least write down the serial numbers on your stuff. It's a definite way you can get it back from a pawn shop.
MoparMan59L@reddit
Thank you for pointing this out. I don't gig nor play in a band. But I do own a 2016 Gibson SG Studio that I got just before the pandemic for $500. I see them now selling for $1000 to $1400 used. I should get it insured. Started doing research just now. Should be able to insure it for $150 a year or so.
If I do gig or join a band anytime soon, I will probably use my LTD Viper-256.
DisingenuousGuy@reddit
Snap-On tools at a pawn shop is wild. I wonder how much of a discount do they go for?
I run mostly Ryobis (I have so many of the darn batteries) but I would never even dream of selling these or pawning it because tools just hold so much value based on what they enable you to do.
MoparMan59L@reddit
I'll have to look at the prices when I go out next week. One buddy of mine said that at his dealerrship (local Ford dealer) it's been slow. Some techs are there 50+ hours and barely making 20 hours. I'm sure at other shops it's similar and guys are pawning tools to make ends meet. Mind you this is Florida. No winter slow season.
NafuryTheBigFatCow@reddit
Very interesting read! Makes me wonder about a point where people won't tolerate a society any longer where the distribution of wealth is so absurd and obvious. Then again "Das Sein bestimmt das Bewusstsein." which somewhat translates to what surrounds you molds your consciousness. So these gated communities might truly be a word of their own and maybe poorer areas likewise?
MoparMan59L@reddit
It does seem like sometimes they are a world of their own. It's very surreal living here. I would argue at least this far north of Tampa most of the people living in them are not truly rich or the 1% but very firmly Upper Middle Class (Probably a lot of combined incomes from $150K to $250K a year). The Upper Middle Class seems to be thriving here.
As where the regular middle class and working class are struggling.
nothankeww@reddit
i’m about to list two of my guitars. It’s come to that.
MoparMan59L@reddit
Damn man. I'm sorry. I'd take it, nicer guitars?
Stock_Emu_2588@reddit
Very astute observations from that area, thanks for sharing
Valeriejoyow@reddit
Location: Western NC. We're still in an extreme drought with tons of debris still on the ground from Helene. It's a disaster waiting to happen. Hopefully we'll be lucky again this year. They're suggesting we limit our water usage but I think soon we will be put on restrictions. We live in a temperate rain forest so this is very unusual for us.
OddGold348@reddit
And now data centers are starting to spring up as well. Charlotte was trying to get water from other western NC counties even before the drought. It's a mess.
Valeriejoyow@reddit
There have a few towns saying no to Data centers. Recently a town by me Weaverville just said no.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Location: Southern Spain
Weather has been all over the place here. Some days up in the 30s/90s, others down in the low teens/50s. Plants are all over the place, absolutely no bugs.
Prices are rising, but not catastrophically. People seem wary, but not too over-stressed or panicky. Petrol (Gas) is rising, but I'm not sure exactly what it's doing as I don't keep a car.
Trees on pavements/sidewalks are an important civic thing here, providing shade for the brutal summers. Lots of them have been cut down in my neighbourhood recently, because they've died over the last year, and are unsafe to leave in place. It's always really depressing to discover a new absence.
Meanwhile, every possible scrap of empty space is being turned into "luxury" high-rises, adding hundreds or thousands of units to the barrio without a single thought given to roads, water, or other basic services. So that's going to be just great.
rmannyconda78@reddit
There’s some high end apt buildings going up in my area, right on the banks of the mississinewa river, on the left hand corner of the image is them (under construction) Sad thing is there is not a lot of high paying jobs in the area for those, I wonder how long til a slum lord buys them and leaves them to rot. The temp swings and subsequent weather as a result have been crazy, going from 80s to 60s with lows about 39 down from 55 for a low. Weather changes like that make my physically ill.
Ghostwoods@reddit
Nice photo. Interesting to see. But yeah, I do wonder about the use cases.
And I agree, temperature swings are brutal. Really knocks me out.
rmannyconda78@reddit
There are tones of big beautiful old houses that suffered that fate, I have not photographed many of them. Did find one, picture, funny story I lived there as a little kid and that shit was haunted, like you could hear footsteps up the basement stairs at night. Anyways.
And damn my condolences for becoming allergic to dairy, that sucks, I eat a lot of cheese. read your comment again, stay safe out there this summer’s probably gonna be a mean one, 40c is no joke.
Susanoos_Wife@reddit
I'm not allergic to dairy AFAIK but I noticed about 10 years or so ago that eating any dairy would suddenly make me sick, including the lactose free stuff, no doctor was ever able to figure out why but since then I haven't been able to eat anything with dairy in it, not even butter or hard cheeses that don't really have lactose.
Ghostwoods@reddit
That must suck :/
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Can you eat beef and pork? If not, then look into alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne illness.
Susanoos_Wife@reddit
It's been a long time since I tried to eat either but the last time I ate red meat (I don't remember exactly what kind of red meat it was,) it made me feel sick.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
If you live in an area of the US where the Lone Star Tick can be found, you should definitely see your doctor about this. Alpha-gal syndrome is carried by that tick and causes allergic reactions to any mammal meat as well as dairy products and certain ingredients used in cooking. If not in the US, then look into whether alpha-gal is a possible illness in your country.
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
Weather in my country (Serbia) and its capital Belgrade will be 23°C tommorow, warmer than what it was in last autumn.
Reasonable_Swan9983@reddit
Location: Central EU
Still, zero rain. You can see the drought monitor here. It's my first real year of gardening and I really love it, but it's an interesting time to start in such conditions. I will be updating you once in a while how the weather goes here. Right after this post I need to run and water everything, using water from the system as all the rain one we've depleted already.
I've seen lots of people complaining about the prices of food, I assume most of you are from USA and maybe will find this info interesting - our grocery shops are big on "promotions" drawing as much traffic to the supermarkets as possible. Some of the tactics they use is: certain items on sale only at a specific day of the week. Or you get a cashback on some items transfered to your app for use next time you're in there. There's also coupons you get if you buy more than X amount in a single day. Then the coupons are valid only for 48h or 72h so you need to do shopping asap if you want to use it.
Generally everything has turned that direction. Online shopping is also collecting coins, doing challenges, etc. Some shops also fight between each other and have a basic item like butter constantly for cheaper and cheaper prices (right now $0.30 per 7,0oz/200grams). Another huge thing is 1+1 or 2+2 which is self explanatory.
I also don't buy anything that's off-"promotion" because it genuinely pains me to pay 30% or 40% more for groceries cause I didn't wait for the right moment.
Lastly I see a lot of complaining about chocolate, coffee, meat prices and all the fancy items that we're accustomed to as normal. Or how "my favorite *insert a brand* got enshitified". This is also how collapse looks like in 1st world countries, doesn't it? For me it all comes down to abundance of resources being gobbled up and accepted as a static thing, a normal way of living. And last stage is exactly what we're in right now, a casino economy.
_rihter@reddit
Regarding grocery stores, even "discounted" items tend to be more expensive than regular-priced items in wealthy European countries. Southeast Europe tried a retail boycott last year, but ultimately, neoliberals have won.
At this point, I think everyone with self-respect who isn't a corrupt motherfucker involved in shady deals should abandon "Eastern" Europe and never look back. Wages are miserable, public services are awful, prices of many items are higher than in the most developed countries, and employee and tenant protection is inadequate, to say the least.
Getting old and sick over here is especially miserable. My elderly relative will need to go to an old folks' home very soon, and picking the right one feels like playing Russian roulette. Not to mention, they can't afford it with their pension, so the rest of the family will have to subsidize it.
At some point, I think people will start selling their houses to afford elderly care.
Nowadays, most still rely on younger family members to take care of them. However, regular people aren't trained to take proper care of severely ill individuals, like those who have dementia, and neither do commie-era buildings offer an adequate environment for those people to live. It's painful to see how much improvisation people must do to get their family member outside for some fresh air. And those are the lucky ones. Every year, more and more older adults die in their homes, and it takes months before anyone figures out they are dead.
Overall, it's an absolute disaster in the making. I'm a huge opponent of the idea of starting a family in a morally bankrupt and dysfunctional country, not being able to afford elderly care, and expecting someone to take care of you when you get old.
Barbarake@reddit
As a (retired) registered nurse in the US, this is something we've seen coming for a long time. As medical science progresses, we can keep sicker and sicker people alive for longer and longer. But they require help and care, lots and lots of it.
At the same time, people are having smaller and smaller families. My parents had four kids to take care of them. (Actually my mother took care of my father and then we took care of my mother.) I know lots of divorced parents with just one child. That single child will end up have to worry about two parents.
bristlybits@reddit
in the US it's common and usual for the elderly to sell all they own to pay for care.
we do not have anything getting inherited anymore, you must be destitute for any govt assistance in any kind of care for the elderly. so they must sell the house and pay all that money for medical care first, then state will pick up the rest.
they also look back 5 or so years to make sure you didn't sell your kids the house cheap. they'll take that house away from them.
only the rich can afford to cover elder care here and still leave anything to their kids
_rihter@reddit
It looks like it will eventually become usual in this area, too. The problem is that even selling your house might get you several years, up to a decade, in a retirement home, depending on the location of your home and the level of care you need.
The shortage of staff in retirement homes is an unsolvable problem because many trained nurses have moved to wealthier countries, and nobody from the rest of the world is rushing to learn Polish/Hungarian/Slovakian to come here and do those jobs.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
"The shortage of staff in retirement homes is an unsolvable problem because many trained nurses have moved to wealthier countries..."
In the US the staff for nursing homes and assisted living (roughly equivalent to retirement homes) can be ICE'd anytime the government feels like it, so many of these people have either left that field for something less public-facing or left the country altogether. This of course has led to a staffing shortage.
Reasonable_Swan9983@reddit
Such boycotts didn't happen here (Poland) but I think living conditions are still pretty good right now and we're happy to participate. There's been an introduction of machines in every supermarket that take used bottles and this has caused the most drama recently. Mostly because each shop only accepts their own for full price. Or even rejects outsider ones in some cases.
_rihter@reddit
Neoliberals do what they want when there's no regulation. Can you imagine that happening in Scandinavia, for example?
Me neither.
PorcelinaMagpie@reddit
Location: Indiana
Everything involving our government is now an illusion and reality show in my opinion. I don't believe anything I see or any narrative I'm told. The biggest question in my mind is this: "How much further can we go?" Every week I'm more and more appald at what occurs.
Economy: The state of Indiana currently has a gas tax holiday in place that expires at the end of this month. People are going to shit their pants when they see the actual gas prices. Theft is becoming more and more rampant in my area. I see dozens of armed dumpster divers when taking my daily walks. Day or night. It doesn't matter.
Buckle up and stay safe out there everyone.
Aurelar@reddit
Armed dumpster divers?
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
The age of political and societal collapse is i'm afraid, upon us.
Stay safe out there.
lightweight12@reddit
Sorry, what? Dozens of armed dumpster divers?
Is the garbage food so valuable now that folks are carrying weapons?
wwaxwork@reddit
Yeah I live in Indiana and I'm confused by this comment too. Though we do have horrendous rates of violent crime in a couple of our bigger cities so maybe that's what they're referencing.
PorcelinaMagpie@reddit
I'm in a smaller town
PorcelinaMagpie@reddit
Food and produce is being thrown out a week or so before expiring
lightweight12@reddit
It's the armed part I can't fathom. I've eaten plenty " garbage" food.
Maybe it's the fact I'm Canadian?
Ghostwoods@reddit
Sounds horrific. Stay safe, friend.
RichieLT@reddit
That incident at the dinner on Saturday was just like WWE.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
SO MANY coincidences. The police know that the alleged shooter is mentally unwell. (I assume) that they track him to DC. The president then decides to attend the dinner. The Secret Service is armed with SWAT gear for that night. They stop the shooter without killing him, even though shots were fired at a Secret Service agent (when was the last time a federal agent was shot at and didn't return fire?). No one is hurt. The Administration immediately says they need that ballroom built ASAP because of security reason. And then Trump ices the cake by claiming that the shooter is an atheist without any evidence.
Vdasun-8412@reddit
Con corgan en el 97'
Old times..cuando trump no estaba..
rmannyconda78@reddit
I got this gem in my neck of the woods, my reaction to reading this was holy shit… honestly I would hate to be a grant county sheriff receiving this call
JagBak73@reddit
The fact that the brutal Iranian regime is more believable than the brain rotted clown show we have here speaks volumes.
Americans are truly clueless that we are in very deep shit.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Toddlers always hope mom and dad forget to dole out consequences.
Sadly, in this case, physics is the parent
LittleNor789@reddit
LOCATION: USA, Northern Wisconsin but I’ve traveled around the Midwest for hiking and see this everywhere. there are dead and dying trees everywhere. Some look as they have simply collapsed, some as if they have slumped over, some as if they went into shock and lost all of their color— so pale and grey- some have been chewed by insects which perhaps ate through the tree, recently, at such a rapid rate that you can see slivers of tree on the ground around it, light color and looking like sawdust. Some trees even look like they were torn apart by a b o m b. It will be difficult to see now with surrounding trees in bloom but as fall and winter hit, the devastation is so blatantly obvious… and actually quite horrifying
springcypripedium@reddit
Can second your observation as someone who lives in that area. Between the ice storms, wind storms, snow bombs, rain/hail bombs (climate chaos), diseases, the forests are looking horrible. Now there will be more logging as asshole overturns the roadless rule. It is like torturing a person as they lay dying on their hospice bed.
And the woods are so eerily silent--devoid of birdsong which should be in high gear this time of year. I saw ONE warbler, the only bird I could find in an hour's time when hiking the other day. I broke down and cried. This is it. Collapse is here, it is not slow, drawn out etc. ---we are in it, faster than many expected and yes, it is horrifying.
PhoenixRisingdBanana@reddit
Location: Chicagoland
Weather is still weird for spring around here. Everything seemed to bloom almost a month early - marigolds, tulips, other perennials. So much rain, and the crazy lightning storms have helped everything turn green. Local rivers are higher than I've ever seen in my three decades, some towns that have never flooded before are filling with water. We're already approaching a record year for tornados in the state, it feels like the air is charged.
I'm tired. There's never enough time in the day to do the things I need, let alone the things I want. Even writing this, I spaced out and stared at the screen for a few minutes. My job pays me shit, my partner only makes two bucks over minimum. Apartments are 50% more than in 2022 when I moved back in with family. It feels like I'll never get out, and it's a challenging cognitive dissonance trying to be grateful for the privelages I do have while being unhappy.
Anyways I'm gonna go walk around the building before my next meeting. Seems like the rain let up, for now.
Stay safe, wishing you all well.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Socialism for the wealthy and corporations, cut-throat capitalism for the masses.
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rmannyconda78@reddit
Location: Grant county Indiana.
I shit you not The local scanner freaks reported a call about a suicide bomber heading to a bank in Fairmount a few days ago, now luckily from what I’ve heard recently that threat turned out to be unfounded, and thank god it did. you don’t ever go saying stupid shit like that, EVER. There has also been threats being called at the wabash Walmart, really pisses me off when people do things like that.
Group of teens also randomly asked some kid on a bike if he has ever been kidnapped, which frightened the kid cops were called.
People being extreme dumbasses the usual, actual acts of violence have been mellow in area, probably cause of the repeated storms and lack of sustained heat. I recorded 4 separate supercells in 2 months, and a squall line, with another coming in tonight. Worst things that have happened so far was an unfounded bomb threat, a county commissioner getting a OWI and resisting arrest charge, and a bar fight that looked like a scene from the 1989 movie roadhouse.
On the bright side I got my protest footage back from the lab, probably my best one yet https://youtu.be/iiSnNkXmyks?si=t4Ad-J68y2mRbFjC
Actually speaking of YouTube and a sign of collapse, attention spans suck. I make both long and short form videos and thing is my short forms get way more than my long forms. Another thing I’ve noticed is the amount of copyright trolls out there, I had to dispute one because someone claimed it despite the song, and that particular recording of it being public domain, even worse my cousins who are rock musicians, and have produced music for 20 years have to dispute claims on their original songs.
Yeah things are messed up that’s for sure.
lFightForTheUsers@reddit
That is a pretty amazing idea rolling that like an old timey newsreel. My only "complaint" is the audio still feels a bit off and too modern, accent is good but I just can't describe it. But everything else about it seems interesting and pretty dang spot on.
DisingenuousGuy@reddit
Yeah I enjoyed this video. Seeing 4K black and white footage transferred from film is majestic!
I think if I can make a gentle suggestion, you might be able to achieve a closer to retro audio presentation for the microphone if you cut the low frequencies and high frequencies and only let 100Hz-5kHz audio through. That would be closer to the frequency response of the AM Radio.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I used my phone to record the audio, I actually don’t have a lot of stuff to record audio on or edit it, just something I got to practice at, and probably borrow a actual mic from my cousins (they are musicians), picture is my friend, audio tends to be my enemy. Now I do appreciate critique on my works because it helps me improve, sincerely many thanks. I’ll probably actually screenshot that comment so I can remember what to set the mic at. The film stock I used was Svema R32 along with a light yellow filter, a lot of people tend to say 16mm is like 2.7k, but I think with the right exposure, a good low speed film, and the right lens you could get it to 4k. If I had it I probably could push 35mm to 6.5k, 35mm is a bit expensive for me, and I find 16mm matches my art style best.
PhoenixRisingdBanana@reddit
The footage looks great, gives it a lot of character. I love the juxtaposition of using that medium to film modern life. Hope you're doing alright.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I’m doing good, I plan on shooting another newsreel July 4th. I’m on the fence about doing it silent or narration added, and shooting 16 frames or the standard 24 frames per second
klaschr@reddit
Mad props for shooting that in film! And that edit too! Was surreal watching that just now. Truly made this whole moment in time feel even more historical by virtue of it looking old, if that makes any sense....
rmannyconda78@reddit
That is one of the reasons why I choose b&w film. It feels like it should be in the past but it is clearly in the present, past and present almost always collide in my works, even in newsreels. I’m really working on trying to make a career from my filmmaking. B&W film is also very archival. This is the camera I used to make it with
The Bell and Howell Filmo 70 series of cameras has been doing photojournalism and war photography from the mid 1920s well to even now because of me though their mainstream use was into the 1970s, I may be the first one to use it for that in 50 years.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I got a radar image of that squall line from last night, it was vibrating my house, wind had a low rumble too it, wouldn’t be surprised if a QLCS tornado spun up out there, I’m in a single wide so it’s a bit scary.
rmannyconda78@reddit
The only image I got from that system, a small cell that fired ahead of the line.
Slipshoooood@reddit
South eastern Georgia, USA. EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!
SeattleOligarch@reddit
The rain yesterday was a godsend. Hope we get at least one of two more storms out whatever is rolling through.
Slipshoooood@reddit
Same!
KingofGrapes7@reddit
Location: Massachusetts
A Mobil gas station I have previously been surprised at holding at $3.99 just jumped to $4.46. Shameless bloodsuckers. Most of the other places have settled around $4.14 for now. Whatever places I can find still below $4 are $3.80. Among other things hit by this, summer travel is so fucked. A trip I had to make to New Hampshire last week took about half a tank, I was lucky that many of the stations actually on the highway were still before $4. Going to the mountains or other NH vacation spots means going even further than I did and not even my Camry sips gas that well. What used to nearly fill my whole tank is now filling half a tank.
Weather wise its been pretty rainy. We seem to get at least one rainy day a week and at the moment we are looking at two coming up. Grass is certainly growing but I have doubts it will handle what is likely to be another hot and humid summer. Likewise my hiking is likely to be limited by unsafe and unpleasant weather as much as sky high gas prices.
Assassins Creed Black Flag is getting a remake with QoL and new content. Maybe the world is healing after all.
MavinMarv@reddit
Do you have access to military bases? You could check AAFEEs gas prices. When I stationed at Hanscom AFB it was roughly cheaper on base than off.
delusionalbillsfan@reddit
Re: AC Black Flag - game devs can't beat anything that came out circa 2010-2015 so they just keep re-releasing shit from that era. It would be funny if it wasnt sad.
KingofGrapes7@reddit
Well its not perfect, one of many issues in modern gaming. But this has alot more effort behind it than I expected from Ubisoft, none of the slop that plagued the RPG games. And to be honest I will take this remake just for it not having those tracking missions.
DivaExMachina666@reddit
Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Summer has been so dry our bore water ran out for the first time. We've had to water with buckets from the dams.
Unusually warm and dry weather has made European wasp numbers explode. I've never seen anything like it. We turned over a new vegie patch and there were thousands flying around.
Our nearest Bunnings ran out of Jerry cans shortly after the Hormuz Strait closed. We went in to buy food grade containers for chicken feed and the cashier said she's required to inform us that they aren't suitable for holding fuel. She said the system also prompts her to say this to people buying mop buckets.
Dapper_Maybe_4203@reddit
Mop buckets for fuel, crazy times! I did see an article about a month ago that mentioned some people had used coke bottles for fuel.
No bore water is bad, I have family out west with a sheep farm who had to buy feed over summer for the first time. I haven’t spoken to them since but suspect it would be unsustainable if it’s ongoing.
DisingenuousGuy@reddit
Coke bottles for Gasoline is an actual thing that I have seen in my time where I was at South East Asia.
Though they use actual Glass Coke bottles, which seemed to contain the fuel well. They sell it to motorcyclists and other vehicles with small engines like scooters.
MavinMarv@reddit
Seen this in rural Cambodia and Thailand.
JagBak73@reddit
It's very common in the Philippines.
Susanoos_Wife@reddit
Location: USA, Lower 48 States, East of the Mississippi River
Covid cases have dropped to about an (estimated) total of 200,000 daily covid infections. This is a lot lower than covid case levels have been for the last few months. For context, back in 2021, Dr. Fauci stated that ideally, covid cases should go to around 10,000 new cases a day or less to justify dropping all covid precautions.
https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php
https://x.com/michael_hoerger/status/2047868500027302059
People enjoy getting into slapfights about all sorts of shit online and I'm certainly not innocent of that behavior myself, but in all seriousness, covid is more dangerous than the government or media has clearly communicated to the public. Despite the insane politicization of covid that's resulted in people fighting about anything and everything to do with the pandemic, covid has killed and/or disabled people for 6 years now, with the ongoing effects of long covid leaving a lot of people with significant health problems that may or may not even be able to be cured or treated. To that end, here's some very quick, basic, bare bones info about covid for new people/newer people/people who enjoy clicking on things.
All covid infections can cause serious problems: https://johnsnowproject.org/fact/all-infections-can-cause-serious-problems/
Some of the most common/most frequently reported symptoms of long covid: https://whn.global/long-covid-symptoms/
A somewhat more in-depth description of how long covid can impact your health: https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/the-unseen-epidemic-understanding-long-covid-and-its-impact-on-the-body/
FAQ about the state of covid in the post-vaccine era and what you can do to protect yourself: https://whn.global/yes-we-continue-wearing-masks/
The connection between long covid and POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome): https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/pots/
Some basic info about masks and how/when to wear them: https://cleanaircrew.org/masks/
Some more info about masks: https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/a-guide-to-masks-understanding-the-differences-and-choosing-the-right-protection/
More information on how to find masks that fit your face: https://www.projectn95.org/mask-size-guide/
In other health news, scientists are busy working on trying to make a bird flu vaccine, though it's too early to tell how successful their efforts will ultimately be: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-rapid-response-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-shaping-global-preparedness
Cases of the regular flu have slowed down and flu season is pretty much over at this point but unfortunately, 6 more children in the U.S have died of the flu this past week: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/cdc-6-more-us-children-die-flu-season-winds-down
With the end of another month and this year being about a third of the way over (weird but true, as unreal as it feels to me,) the news has been a flurry of sometimes bizarre, sometimes dystopia, sometimes straight up unbelievable headlines. Trump probably holds some kind of record for the number of assassination attempts that have been made against him in one term (or close enough, counting the shit that went down in 2024, but since he was actively campaigning at that time, I kind of count that as being connected to his current presidential term.) The war in Iran is predictably a mess and a half, and the vast majority of Iranian citizens inside the country have been without internet access for over a month now, probably closer to two months at this point if you also count what happened back in January, and oil prices are a whole entire clusterfuck of proportions that could very well prove to cause worse supply chain issues that the early period of the covid pandemic when lockdown measures were in place.
Weather patterns continue to be fucked up sixteen and a half ways from Sunday, with the temperature being like a roller-coaster for months at this point in my area. The last couple of days have felt like winter, but later this afternoon, things started heating up again, and we're supposed to get some rain on Wednesday, which may or may not put a dent in the drought we've been experiencing. (There was some rain last week too but it wasn't enough to kick us of the drought danger zone.)
In less personal news, RFK Jr cut off the penis of a dead raccoon, to "study" it (rumor has it that RFK JR is into taxidermy but I don't even know what the incredible edible fuck a taxidermist would need to cut off the genitals from a dead animal for.) I'm no stranger to observing the antics of unhealthily insane people but RFK JR is the type of person who would be considered too much even if he was plopped into the world of Warhammer or some shit like that.
To pivot back to a more personal (and more first-world) sort of trend I've observed, clothes and decorating trends have taken a sharp turn to being overbearingly gray, drab, and minimalistic. I don't even know if that's a word but fuck it, it's 2026 and the world is careening towards seven dozen different kinds of disasters that are vaguely conspiracy flavored and tinged with characteristics of incompetence, apathy, naked cruelty, and florid insanity. A poet, I'm not, but shit's fucked up, we all know shit's fucked, and even the "normies" (I'm not a fan of that word but my vocabulary is kind of strung out at the moment due to mental stress,) seem to have an instinctual sense that things just aren't right. Anyways, back to my rambling point, I feel like there's a conspiracy by the (lower level) powers that be to make everything drab and gray and as boring as humanly possible, maybe to prepare us all for what the world will look like if climate change pushes us into total FUBAR territory, with vast swaths of plants and animals going extinct and intense pollution choking out the color from the sky and the smell of fresh air from the atmosphere. I'm half joking about that last part, but watching the color being sucked out of everything from clothes to cars to furniture is an extra pint sized kick to the ass on top of everything else that's already spiraling down the toilet like the last few squares of toilet paper on the roll.
Regardless, while I may be on a mental roll rattling off my musings and thoughts of the week in a not so condensed format, I'll stop here to give everyone's browsers a much needed breather, stay safe, stay healthy, and floss regularly, I'm off to make other parts of the internet weirder, as is a time honored tradition of mine that I engage in by virtue of being alive and needing to limit the number of expensive hobbies I partake in for financial reasons-the internet can be a cesspool sometimes, but posting shit online is fairly cheap compared to a lot of other hobbies. Hopefully this week treats all of you well, see you next time (your mileage may vary, but if you like anything I post, you can follow me on Reddit if you want to get updates on whatever the hell comes out of my brain and winds up on this particular corner of the world wide web.)
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
I'm from a European country (Serbia) and i had a COVID vaccine shot along with my family, mainly my mother and we didn't get infected with COVID during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Vaccination is an important matter, yet many people either don't care or dismiss it.
trickortreat89@reddit
Location: Denmark
It’s getting dry and hot here, it’s very unusual.
Every spring around the same dates in late April I’ve been out watching spring flowers for the last 4 years now. It started mostly just as a botanical hobby but even just after the first year of observing spring flowers I noticed it’s a really good marker of how different the weather and temperature is at exactly this time of year, and how it affects what kind of plants that sprouts and when.
The first year I started observing was apparently a good year for spring flowers, cause that’s when I saw the highest number of different spring flower species and everything was looking very lush in general.
The three following years it’s been more cold or dry, so it’s been extremely varied from year to year what spring flowers are thriving.
I haven’t really measured this in any scientific way but maybe I should. It’s highly interesting.
This spring is again different from the last 4 years. It’s been unusual dry but still apparently warmer in temperature (even though I’ve personally felt it’s been cold and windy almost constantly for a month). Most spring flowers have already sprouted this year, but certain types have barely shown themselves at all.
The drought and warm temperatures is really a bit concerning I think. We’re on the same track this year as last year where we really had a major drought period in the beginning of the year, which severely affected the harvest of potatoes in Denmark.
I fear this year is gonna be… crazy… taking in consideration of the El Niño warnings that’s already starting to pop up.
The challenge with so much drought already early in the year is, that it should again take a lot of rainfall to “make up for it” the rest of the season. But the further we go into the summer, the more likely it is with much higher temperatures so even just a shorter period with no rain and very high temperatures can be very damaging for the harvest.
If this year is gonna bring us record breaking high temperatures and we already have a drought period it’s looking really bad for food production in the north.
I know we’re so privileged and we probably just import most of the food we eat here anyways, but it’s just another ominous sign that food production is getting more and more challenging with climate changes and it will eventually have huge consequences.
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
I live in a non European Union country (Serbia) and things aren't looking good here. This winter was warmer than what winter in 2025 was like. I fear that this summer will be warmer than what it was like in 2025, as well.
TheUpbeatCrow@reddit
Location: Colorado, USA
I find myself slipping more and more into distraction, into disassociation, as time goes on. I visit Reddit for my daily dose of horror and then head back to Hyrule, or Pokopia, or Mid-World, or anyplace other than the real world. I have less than zero interest in keeping up my yard, my bank accounts, or even my person.
It's a really good thing one of the activities that makes me happy is going to the gym.
No one I know wants to talk about what's going on. Everyone has kids and is hiding their heads in the sand about those kids' futures.
I feel like I'm just sitting here in Colorado, waiting for the next fire evac. People say things like "be happy…it's later than you think!" But who can be happy while watching this?
roblewk@reddit
As an older person, I find video games to be more depressing than climate change. The real world, for all it lacks, still has so much to offer. Real people, for all they lack, still hold my interest.
TheUpbeatCrow@reddit
I'm older, as well (50 here). I've been a gamer my whole life. 🤷🏻♀️
Frisian_Tea@reddit
Same age here. Not a serious gamer by most definitions, but I find myself turning to Skyrim for some semblance of sanity. Been enjoying it with a few mods, working on the extensive Dark Brotherhood quest that was out-of-character for my main. First time through. It's just nice to be in another world for a while.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
"Hi, hello I'm Terry and I'm going to enjoy myself first!" - Sorry, couldn't resist that Special's remake of "Enjoy Yourself".
itsgoodpain@reddit
I'm in Colorado, too, if you ever want to drink or toke and commiserate.
blacked_out_blur@reddit
I’ve dumped every ounce of free time I have into Persona 5 Royal in the last 2 weeks. Haven’t been this absorbed by a game in years… don’t know if it’s because the world is depressing or if it’s genuinely just a kickass game, but I recommend it. Sorry the world sucks, neighbor.
TheUpbeatCrow@reddit
Thank you. And I appreciate the recommendation!!
nate112332@reddit
Ever play uhhh... Cyberpunk? Metro? Animal Crossing/Stardew?
Just trying to think of other game worlds we both might've poured our souls into instead of reality
TheUpbeatCrow@reddit
I've put a ton of time into AC and played Stardew, yeah. But I've never played the other two. You recommend them?
nate112332@reddit
I would indeed recommend them both :)
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Location: Great Lakes State, US
A couple of relevant reminiscences this week.
Thirty years ago, a popular thing to do on Mother's Day weekend (the second weekend in May) was to visit a local botanical garden and view dozens of lilacs and crabapple trees in full bloom. The scents were wonderful and the flowering shrubs made for great photo backdrops of moms and their children.
The lilacs, crabapples and other May-flowering trees and shrubs have been blooming here for nearly a week. They've been blooming earlier and earlier over the past several years, but never this far into April.
When I was growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 60 years ago, the tradition was to plant tomatoes and cucumbers on Memorial Day (May 30th in those days). This was to avoid late frosts - so late some years that the last frost date was sometime in the first week of June. We generally planted the peas, beans and carrots around May 15th and would cover them if cold nights threatened.
The official last frost date for Milwaukee is April 24 (chart from the National Weather Service).
First frost date was in the first week of October 60 years ago. Now? November 3rd.
So this post led me down a weird (or not) rabbit hole - the official Federal records for last and first frost dates appear to have changed over the past year. I'm not relying on an increasingly faulty memory for this - I remember running that same chart in 2024 (range was from 1960 to present) and it showed last frost dates in June for some years and none in April for years earlier than the 1980s. Now? If I run that chart for 1930 to present it has many last frost dates in April and none in June. The first frost dates are also wrong. This chart is not accurate. I'll also note that the chart says "Milwaukee Area" NOT "Milwaukee Mitchell Field", which is the airport where official weather records have been taken since it opened in the 1920s (IIRC).
Somedays I feel like I'm a conspiracy theorist...
I've tried, and I believe that it is no impossible to find archived data such as a list of Normal High and Lows by day from any year before 2000. If anyone knows of such as site, I'd appreciate a link to it.
Enshittification and Propaganda continue in the US.
holistivist@reddit
Nope, you’re completely right. I’m further west than you, but I keep in my digital calendar all the annual dates to do things like “peak lilac sniffing,” “make cherry blossoms snow,” “forage fiddleheads,” etc.
I noticed a couple years ago that the dates were moving up, so every year I’ve been adding changes to the calendar instead of editing existing dates.
My calendar says:
Cherry blossoms everywhere - 3/9/26 Cherry blossoms coming in - 4/1/25
Almost a month early.
Perfect lilac picking - 4/23/26 Lilacs coming in - 5/1/2025 Perfect lilac picking - 5/5/25
That’s almost two weeks early!
The peonies are wild. Some are already fully blooming and with petals falling off now, but I have “Peonies coming in” listed as 5/25/25
That’s a full month early.
I’m outside all the time, paying active attention to flowers and bees. And it’s really concerning to me that I’ve seen only one bee and now the majority of the flowers have already bloomed and gone. I don’t have a bee calendar, so I don’t know if they’re on schedule but too late for the early blooms, or if something is wrong with them too. The California lilacs are usually swarming with them, and there are zero.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
I appreciate the confirmation. Native bees in my area are flying about, and our spring ephemerals were pollinated even though weeks early. Some of our pollinators are temperature-dependent, so they'll be active even in very early spring if it's warm enough. What I haven't seen are many butterflies. Typically, Mourning Cloaks, Commas, Question Marks and, sometimes, early Red Admirals will be out and about by late April. I've seen one Red Admiral and one Comma or Question Mark. The only other butterflies are the non-native Cabbage, which must've survived our mild winter. I haven't seen a Mourning Cloak here in years :(
Next Spring's Super El Nino will be horrifyingly interesting.
holistivist@reddit
Have you tried the internet archives?
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=oldfarmalm
shewholaughslasts@reddit
Is there a searchable repository for the Farmer's Almanac? Did anyone ever notice how accuate those reports were or record any of that? Best wishes finding more data!
Slipsonic@reddit
Here in montana in years past, the cottonwood trees would just be getting their initial small leaf openings on my birthday, May 8th. I've noticed its getting earlier and earlier. This year the cottonwoods got initial leaves almost 2 weeks ago.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Fellow midwesterner - you have my memories as well as the same frost date struggles.
I know the usda charts are a 'rolling' average but that ahould not mean the older charts are depreciated with wrong info. Makes no sense.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Sadly, it only makes sense if someone hired/appointed by this Administration is intentionally doing it to minimize climate change. Assuming that the data is stored in a standard format, it's actually not too difficult to implement code that takes the current date value and subtracts, say, thirty days from it, then stores the change. If the last/first days are calculated from a data set, then the code would get proportionally difficult to implement. But not impossible by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm guessing that if I'm right, then all the old data is completely gone at this point, never to return, which will forever affect US meteorological data accuracy and analysis.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Or someone was lazy and used AI.
Both are bad. With awful implications.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Good point.
_rihter@reddit
Location: Central-ish Europe (Pannonian Basin)
Orbán associates rush to move wealth out of Hungary after election defeat
A few rats are fleeing, but I don't expect lasting change because people who have been voting for Orban for 16 years are going nowhere. They are waiting for an opportunity to vote another morally bankrupt politician into power, in case the current government shoots itself in both feet, as the one that allowed Orban to come to power in the first place did.
Orban is just a symptom of a massive, unaddressed issue. Many people who remain in this region do so because they lack the education, skills, or language proficiency to integrate properly into a wealthier country. They are the most susceptible to right-wing propaganda, and it doesn't take much to buy their vote. People with higher education and who are left-leaning tend to move abroad and usually don't even vote after they move out.
Someone like Orban probably wouldn't even be allowed to clean public toilets in any Western European country, because he would keep stealing toilet paper and soap. He can only build a career in a corrupt and morally bankrupt environment.
I promised myself to stay away from media in my native languages because they tend to make me angry and/or sick and depressed. Owners of the media are aware nobody in this region cares about the environment and climate change, so they don't bother publishing articles they know won't get any views. And most media are owned by either local oligarchs or billionaires who also control media in the West.
Public education is getting wrecked because no one wants to be a teacher. There is a wave of teachers retiring, and nobody is there to replace them. The same goes for pediatricians. Working conditions and salaries are miserable, so it's a complete disaster. I think most parents do not even bother to look at statistics before deciding to have kids. Like, why would anyone think it's a good idea to bring a kid into the environment where nobody wants to be a teacher or pediatrician? It is as logical as bringing a polar bear into the Sahara Desert.
rematar@reddit
Location: Canada
My young adult children don't talk much about their concerns regarding their future. I hint that I'm concerned about today and the future and leave it open for discussion. We can talk candidly about most topics, I suspect it will come someday.
My friends and I say that we feel like we're going to be living in something like the 1930s, but then we decide not to talk about it more - it's too depressing.
Part of a recent conversation:
Going to war would be sick, I could die without committing suicide.
Then we talked about the reality of the horrors of war.
I wouldn't worry about PTSD. I wouldn't come home alive.
Then the risk of malnutrition.
If I had to eat, I could cook up a Russian. I've seen videos of what they do in war. If I needed some energy to keep going, I could do that.
I'd rather live roaming and trying to survive for months or years rather than working until I'm 65.
I realize it's some bravado, I was young once too. But I also believe they know what they're saying.
I have read about generational trauma. In mice it lasts for three generations. Two generations before me lived through the 1930s and WWII. My folks grew up in direct contact with the stories and behavior that followed. I'm not interested in being involved in combat, until recent moves towards fascist activities.
Maybe my kids thoughts are part of our violent delights. They're past the inherited trauma..
boneyfingers@reddit
I haven't read about generational trauma. But the idea of it reminds me of some reading I have done on the topic of epigenetetics, and the ways experiences can produce changes in gene expression that might be passed on to future generations. Do you have any interesting recommendations to read about heritable memories?
liberatethefuture@reddit
The book My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem explains this well.
rematar@reddit
I read about it while learning about epigenetics. I think this was the article I read.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.14272
delusionalbillsfan@reddit
There was a Japanese kid obsessed with caterpillars and butterflies who discovered the same thing. His first test was if memories pass on through metamorphisis. His second test was if the offspring still retain those memories.
Of course has it gotten the full scrutiny of something peer reviewed? I'm not sure, but he seems to have done a number of things right and he is being taken seriously.
abu_nawas@reddit
Location: KL, Malaysia.
Heavy rain though we're deep in April. They claim this is the La Nina before El Nino.
2026 will be the 2nd year to have reached 1.5C above pre-Industrial temperature. It may not sound like a big difference but life is precarious.
Kim_Jong_Unko@reddit
Could accurately tack this on to most posts these days
Dapper_Maybe_4203@reddit
Location: Approx 120kms west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
We moved to this location 6 years ago, the area was well known for being drought prone and was very dry for our first few months here. We made preparations such as installing multiple water tanks and then the climate seemed to change. It became very wet and humid and trees we planted 3-4 years ago are now as tall as the house or nearly as tall. We don’t spray so we also have experienced a huge increase in insects and insect eating birds. The area was listed as temperate so when I started growing my own veggies two years ago, that’s what I went with. It turned out that large portions of the year I can grow more sub tropical vegetables without issue. Talking to a few long term locals, I have been told that they haven’t seen weather like this before and it’s much more like Brisbane or further North East. The first frost historically has been during the end of April each year, we have not had a frost yet and there is no sign of one in the forecast. I have tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet potato and cucamelon growing very well at the moment. Yesterday I watched the AMOC collapse video from the Climate Emergency Forum and someone asked in the comments what will happen to the southern hemisphere during a collapse and the response for Australia was more La Niña like conditions will be experienced for the north and east and it will be dryer in the south. Well it feels like that has commenced already. My family west of Melbourne are experiencing the opposite to us, it’s very dry and they had a few fires and issues from the smoke from fires last summer. I am concerned about the upcoming potential super El Niño.
Outside of that, I have observed an increase in people behaving impatiently and aggressively on the roads and with each other in places such as the supermarkets, Bunnings etc. It feels like the cars are getting bigger and bigger, more ‘yank tanks’ we call them here. Started to notice this as we returned to ‘normal’ after Covid restrictions. Maybe I previously wasn’t paying attention.
Consistent-Risk-7802@reddit
Location- England. We are having weather that we would normally have in July. Blossom and plants generally are 2-4 weeks 'ahead' of normal. I am worried that we are in for a brutal summer.
Petrol has increased by at least a third. I'm not seeing much in the way of supply shortages, but prices are noticably increasing. I fear that food snd necessities will rise further and there may be shortages, once the full effects of war/Hormuz hit. Why is there always money found for war, but not to look after the populace?
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
The answer to that question is in your comment.
But to add to it. Capitalism is merciless and it destroys everything that finds itself in it's path. Always has been the case.
No_Candidate2195@reddit
the answer to that question is unironically in your comment
Mispict@reddit
Because war makes money for billionaires and caring for other humans doesn't.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
"Why is there always money found for war, but not to look after the populace?"
Lots of profit to be made for the former and virtually none for the latter. Same as it ever was...
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
Location: Urban Settlement Ostružnica, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia.
There will be a slight temperature decrease in Belgrade and across the country on Wednesday.
In other news, the President of Switzerland will be on a state visit to Serbia tommorow and on Wednesday. My country's president Aleksandar Vučić is going to be the host.
I listened to a song that is in the title sequence for the soon to be released James Bond game 007:First Light when i was coming back to my parent's house from a colloqium that i had at my college and i've accepted that i can't do anything about what's happening around the world. Some of the lyrics have hidden meanings that i have managed to discover on my own and they're horrifying revelations. I'll link the song to find out meanings behind some of these song's lyrics for yourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA82c4YkAZ4
First Light by Lana Del Rey.
RainbowandHoneybee@reddit
Location : England, UK.
Flowers in my garden are not doing well at all this year. Everything aren't doing great over all, but my cherry blossam tree that used to have full tree blooming had only had partial flowers, and leaves that normally come later come out at the same time. My clematis is awful. Used to cover whole wall, but only flowering here and there. And my Pyracantha tree used to have whole branches covered by balls of flowers consists of multiple tiny flowers, but now has only few flowes on few branches, and it's not making a ball shape it normally does. My garden isn't beautifu garden full of flowers it used to be.
Assume it's to do with weird temp going up and down, and no rain like normal spring. I took out my cactus couple of weeks ago thinking the temp was warm enough. But yesterday the temp in the morning was 4 degrees. Too cold for them to be out.