Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] May 11
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Saturn_winter@reddit
Location: Eastern US
Work related. I can't say what I do because it's too identifying. We lost another one. We're stretched thinner than seran wrap for the last year or so and it just keeps getting worse because my coworkers are dropping like flies either getting fired for not being able to keep up or quitting. One of my favorites just quit today. I can't blame them. It's 8 hours a day being exposed to some of the most traumatic shit that most people will never witness or be a part of even once in their lives. And we're now down to just 6 people servicing around 1.5 million. I get home from work most nights lately and all I can bring myself to do is stare at the floor. I make 50k a year.
The violence, homelessness, and general stress we're seeing in the community is just exploding. I know it's bias because of what I do and I have the client metrics to show that despite things definitely increasing it's not quite as bad as it feels, but god sometimes it feels like it gets worse every day. I said it last week and I'll say it again, please be focusing on your community and checking in on loved ones. Talk to your neighbor, call that family member, and if there's warning signs that they're about to go off the rails please step in. If you gotta make a call somewhere because it's not something you can handle yourself (understandable) then make that call. We have got to be looking out for each other, don't let someone you know slip through the cracks.
nothankeww@reddit
thank you for your work.
I recently had a mental health crisis and my family was fucking useless. Most people are in denial of things getting bad so they don’t even wanna help the people closest to them.
Or they don’t know how or they’re just uncomfortable by the fact that my life sucks at the moment
Is basically like they’re uncomfortable of my situation. Imagine living in it!
Right-Cause9951@reddit
Once you boil it down you realize the only thing exceptional about human beings is the greatness achieved via cooperation.
We need to stand together regardless of how bleak the situation is.
Fragrant_Tailor9609@reddit
Location: USA
I go on cnbc mindlessly scrolling. Cisco cutting 4000 jobs.
The only thing reassuring to the investor class is the “k shaped economy.” A bullshit phrase that sounds better than inequality.
But even the “K” is a lie. White collar is struggling. AI is sucking up spend while ppl get fired. Big tech has negative cash flow from trillions in ai/ data center spend.
And claude fucks up basic things still. It can do some impressive things but black box LLMs are uninterpetable and way too expensive. Also zero edge/ moat for any model.
nothankeww@reddit
thank you for your work.
I recently had a mental health crisis and my family was fucking useless. Most people are in denial of things getting bad so they don’t even wanna help the people closest to them.
Or they don’t know how or they’re just uncomfortable by the fact that my life sucks at the moment
Is basically like they’re uncomfortable of my situation. Imagine living in it!
euro_trashh@reddit
Location: Poland
It’s the 11th year of drought. Each year It expands over a new region in the country. Poland is at the third out of four stages of drought (hydrological drought). Central Poland suffers the most and haven’t seen a significant precipitation since late december last year. Around 40% of the trees have stunted leaf growth. Around 20% haven’t sprouted leaves at all. It’s a known fact within the scientific community that central Poland is going through gradual desertification. The main cause is dysregulated atmospheric currents (due to the north pole ice sheet melting). The geographic location of central europe makes it the most vulnerable to these changes. And the local factor is horrible water management practices dated back to the 70’s when majority of the country was dried out using amelioration so that farmers can use the fields all year long. The issues with retention aren’t addressed by the state and a few days ago an important forest has burned down just weeks after it refused a regenerative project from a known charity that does water conservation. In the capital on top of drought conditions creating low water levels the river bed is deepening due to criminal levels of sand extraction that has recently been granted a permit for another incoming years.
The good news is that rain is finally coming to central Poland in the upcoming days. But without long term retention strategies and centralised planning for drought, water conservation etc. It might end up in collapse
eaterofdreams@reddit
What is the name of the forest that burned down?
euro_trashh@reddit
puszcza solska
trickortreat89@reddit
Hey but at least I heard that the economy is doing well in Poland!
euro_trashh@reddit
I suppose It is for the upper class but It doesn’t trickle down
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
I fear for the upper midwest in the US. The 70s and 80s saw drain tile installed everywhere to drain prairie potholes, sloughs, everything to have more farmland.
The dryness creeps east every year and if you weren't from here you would think it lush, wet, green and yet the soil gets drier and drier yoy.
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Is T Bone Pickaxe still strip-mining the Ogallala Aquifer for bottled water?
PhillyLee3434@reddit
Location: North Central Texas
Been awhile since I’ve posted on the sub, where to even start.
Not only is the job market the worst I have ever seen in my adult life (M33), but the economy and prices are straining many people already living paycheck to paycheck to breaking points.
We have entered a new age, the upper elite are on track to get away with possibly the largest sex trafficking, money laundering, murderous geopolitical scandal I believe easily in US history, possibly global.
We are lead by a complete clown, that many still support and admire while simultaneously turning the entire world against us for a foreign nation we are funding genocide and human rights violations with our own tax dollars hidden by the reality our world is run by criminals of the lowest existence.
The Strait of Hormuz is a much larger issue globally as we enter the new age of AI. AI requires massive, absolutely unprecedented amounts of natural resources to operate on the scale these large corporations are investing in. As we see daily the effects of climate change on the global scale, this course will only result in the increasing direction and speed of our demise as a species.
We have entered an energy crisis, sitting on the foundation of a currency debt spiral. Lead by a degenerate old man who has never had a every day Americans POV of food costs, rent and mortgage hikes, stagnant wages, inflation, but did bankrupt multiple casinos and get bailed out, and now, bankrupting this country while his family and friends make off with billions of dollars.
There is no left, there is no right, it is us, the common man, vs this class of elite politicians and lobbyists attempting to force an image of the world as they see fit. That world is a dystopian AI lead surveillance state.
These people are willing to let many of us starve and die, while they build bunkers, and the infrastructure needed to keep us in line and constantly under siege and division.
If we don’t wake up now, we will sleep forever.
Stock up on food, water, sharpen survival skill sets and make sure to build a stronger community amongst other likeminded individuals, as none of us can do this alone, WE, must come together to defeat this evil that is destroying our society, morals, values, soul.
I don’t know when, where, or how, but the time is ticking, they don’t fear us, we are to divided in our own little bubbles,
But the energy crisis we are entering is global, climate crisis already at our door step, economic debt and eventual collapse on the horizon.
Be ready, stay informed, tell the ones you love, that you love them.
And don’t kill yourself.
Godspeed to all.
TeaPrimary1147@reddit
Second last sentence. Why not?
BBR0DR1GUEZ@reddit
Because however this species has collectively chosen to squander it, life is a gift to be protected. Even yours.
summercookiess@reddit
But my existence is harming the earth's environment.
Mormanades@reddit
Taking your own life is a cowards way out. Use it for good and to help the world/those around you.
TeaPrimary1147@reddit
I understand this is a.popular sentiment but why is life a gift when it's constant suffering and easily able to be created by a crackhead under a bridge in a cardboard box?
Agreeablepeeable@reddit
You went full classist. I see that surprisingly often on this sub. It’s obvious that some of yall are lying hypocritical per-formatively progressive yuppy snobs
BBR0DR1GUEZ@reddit
Sentient life appears to be extremely rare. It doesn’t have to be constant suffering and losing it permanently could have consequences far worse than some drug abuse and unwanted pregnancies. I can’t tell you how to think; misanthropy is completely understandable.
TeaPrimary1147@reddit
Its not constant suffering, there are birthday cakes and sunsets and kittens thrown in. Enough to convince the average NPC that this is worth it. Im not trying to fight, im genuinely curious and searching.
BBR0DR1GUEZ@reddit
I don’t know man. You complain about NPCs but you focus on shallow cliches like crackheads under bridges. If your idea of happiness is kittens and sunsets then no wonder you’re still seeking. Kittens grow up and sunsets are short. You should try some crack.
TeaPrimary1147@reddit
Thanks for the laugh. I hear ya. Im good on the trying crack though.
fashionmelody@reddit
I don't see why I shouldn't, I'm a contributor to the destruction of the environment.
Vdasun-8412@reddit
Nunca pasa nada..
PhillyLee3434@reddit
Our quality will slowly and subtly decline over time, see it everywhere. Won’t be a wake up and SHTF scenario.
penguindows@reddit
Location: Pennsylvania
This spring we had alternating crazy hot (some times in the 90s) and freezing Temps. We would get two or three hot days followed by two or three cold. The rapid back and forth temp swings caused all the fruit trees in my area to bud, then lose all those pollinated fruit. I have a huge pear tree that I was looking forward to getting a big harvest off of. There are no baby pears left now. Several local orchards have already announced being closed for the year due to frost damage. The crazy thing is, on average everything is far warmer than it should be, but it was the frost from the temp swings that screwed us.
Intelligent-Cruella@reddit
This is how it's been in the Great Lakes region, as well.
Saturn_winter@reddit
my rose bush didn't even bloom this year 😞
JagBak73@reddit
Location: Missouri
Recently went to the optometrist. It was disturbing enough to have to listen to Christian pop in the waiting room, but what was even more disturbing than that was listening the receptionist tell multiple people that their insurance no longer covered eyeglasses.
Customer: "It was covered last year" Receptionist: "Insurance coverage changes from year to year"
The glib, unbothered, slightly condescending way the receptionist said that didn't sit right with me. Like insurance covering less and less every subsequent year is the natural state of affairs.
In other news, the Missouri supreme court of far right evangelical nutjobs upheld redistricted congressional maps that favor Republicans and then some. I'm not fucking surprised in the least because our shithead governor signed a bill overturning a paid sick leave proposition Missourians voted for last year. And despite the people voting for an amendment that relegalized abortion here, the repukes created a counter-amendment that will revoke abortion access and ban abortions for this 2026 election.
It's always one step forward, two steps back in this rednecky, backwards ass state. It used to at least be politically purple, but for the past 15 years it has steadily been taken over by far right evangelical grifturds. I have given up any hope for a better future, or at least a shred of sanity in this shithole.
And most here don't seem to care fuck one that their political voice, voting rights, and the legitimacy of elections is being curbstomped into a bloody pulp.
We're fucked and too few give a shit.
lavapig_love@reddit
Wow. Half of going to an optometrist is to get new glasses. They're the cheapest part.
Was it being cancelled by private insurance or Medicare and Medicaid itself, do you know?
Barbarake@reddit
I feel for you. I'm in South Carolina and it's the same here.
soitgoes75@reddit
Well, it sounds like Missouri is still purplish, and the will of the people doesn't matter. Let me guess, there's lots of gerrymandering?
JagBak73@reddit
This article sums up the problem.
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/why-missouri-voters-backed-liberal-policies-but-chose-conservative-leaders/
These yokels voted for progressive amendments and propositions yet chose to vote for Republican candidates.
Virtual-Internal9173@reddit
Location: Northern Illinois
Had a few weeks of bizarre lightning storms close together. One of the nights the lightning was a constant strobe light, lasting for HOURS nonstop. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life and I’ve always lived in this area. The storms keep getting more intense and more frequent.
rmannyconda78@reddit
As the world warms updrafts in storms will get more intense, causing the lightning.
qwtd@reddit
Thank you for the anecdotal information!
BitchfulThinking@reddit
Location: California, but also the ladysphere
I recently lost the matriarch of my family. She meant a lot to me, and I'm glad that she no longer has to witness any more of this... foolishness. The women in my family are nearly immortal (sighs...fuck), and she's seen A LOT. While dealing with my loss, I've been reflecting on what good things have been lost since her time.
She was a seamstress. She could cook from scratch with home grown vegetables and fruits. She made clothes for all of her children, and did all of their hair. Her home was filled with plants and crochet blankets. There was always a pound cake under the cake dome, and cookies in the cookie jar...
People wonder why everything is shit, and where all these niceties in life have gone, and it's because we stopped doing them! We stopped valuing homebaked pies and handknits, and outsourced our labor until we collectively, willingly, lost so much of this "common" knowledge.
Now we wear plastic, and also eat it.
We assumed there there would always just be cookies in the cookie jar. Not that the cookies have to be baked by someone, after sourcing the ingredients, that may or may not be available...
Domestic abilities were common knowledge (tailors were once the most common profession in this county!), but years of capitalist hustle culture coupled with its bestie, misogyny, has forced our very humanity to take a backseat. Manners cost nothing, but we forgot those sumbitches too!
Why is cooking, sewing, cleaning, and gardening associated with being a "Tradwife"? Everyone needs to eat, wear clothing, and maintain certain standards of cleanliness to avoid contracting and spreading disease. You don't have to make him a sandwich, but... I think everyone should learn how to make a sandwich. Knowing how to feed and clothe people shouldn't be frowned upon or thought of as being beneath anyone 😒
We also shouldn't be shaming or discouraging little boys and young men from learning how to do these things as well. Men taught me how to knit and garden, and I'm thankful that someone taught them.
The continued loss of our collective rights, the world over, is doing something awful to femininity itself. School children are using manosphere verbiage. More women are gray-manning in public for safety, and less of us are out in general. Women are being ostracized by society. Repeatedly being denied education about our bodies, and access to healthcare, is why anti-vaxx, raw milk, and other dangerous ideas managed to flourish in women's spaces. We need to fix this.
On a brighter note, I do love that many young people are getting into old crafts. They didn't like the lack of ethics in fashion, so they learned how to make their own clothes, and I think that's beautiful. They are keeping these skills alive in a time where DIY and homemade goods will be necessary for survival. We should be encouraging them, as well as learning from them.
While most things are truly out of our control at this point, I think we should still try to maintain some of the nicer things that made us human in the first place. It took great efforts to build a society. Teach your kids how to sew a button back on, plant some tomatoes with them, and teach them how to cook a meal for the family. They will develop the confidence to know that they actually can do things, and be more capable in future difficult situations. Even small acts of kindness can do so much for others.
A kind civilization is born from compassion and sweet treats 😁
soitgoes75@reddit
Very thoughtful post. As a gen x woman, it has been wild to see the unraveling of my rights before my very eyes.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
You should see the depression amongst the boomer women that fought for those rights, that protested, that showednup and filed lawsuits demanding decent treatment in the workplace.... I can go on and on.
They are.. depressed if not almost suicidal for the loss happening and angry too. I listen to their stories when i take them to the doctor ir help with somethingbon the computer. It is devastating to listen to.
And then i come to r/collapse and listen to all of yhe boomer hate and i cannot fathom why these women fought so hard for just the barest of decency and rights and this is the general response. My only conclusion is that people hate women. Women even hate women. Beyond my ken.
BitchfulThinking@reddit
If it's any consolation, your generation inspired mine greatly! I never would have traveled alone as a woman until my older cousins did, or stand up to the sexism in the religion I was raised in, if not for seeing Gen X women doing it and living to tell the tale.
FOX_NEWS_SUPER_ALERT@reddit
The ‘manosphere verbiage’ is bad. Even women are falling victim to those ideals!!
I decided to play CS2 recently.. voice coms are bad. I was literally kicked from my random team for answering yes to “do you like black people?” I hear the Hard R every day.
I’ve been gaming since the early 2000s.. it has never ever been this bad.
What the fuck is going on? Well.. I believe I know.. I’m just still absolutely shocked.
Epstein and co did well. They raised a bunch of bigots through micro transaction gaming..
BitchfulThinking@reddit
You're not wrong. I've been gaming since the NES (shhh don't do the math...) but the last online game I played happily was Animal Crossing, because everywhere else is filled with gross little Hitlers!
Every other post on the girl gamers sub is because someone was attacked by racist and sexist strangers, or a new game is being review bombed just because the main character isn't a white guy. I hate that story rich RPGs are fading because the microtransaction games make more money. I feel so bad for the kids now... Arcades and LAN parties made people come together and learn how to share 😟
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Yes. But you know why i say yes.
BitchfulThinking@reddit
I certainly do 😁
fedfuzz1970@reddit
My mother taught me to sew and cook. I ironed shirts for my roommates before parties in college. I typed term papers (.25/page) and sewed on buttons for 25 cents each to get through school. I cooked for flat mates during Naval flight school in the 60s. All good.
springcypripedium@reddit
Excellent, insightful post, thank you.
nothankeww@reddit
💐 I enjoyed reading this. and I’m sorry for your loss.
TummyPuppy@reddit
Location: North Georgia, USA
There was one single lightening bug out this weekend. Thirty years ago we could have spent hours catching and releasing them. There would have been hundreds just in my yard.
imhereforthepuppies@reddit
I’m somewhere similarly south. If you are looking to make a difference for the fireflies, please leave whole unmulched leaves in your yard this winter if you can. I’ve been doing it for a few years now and was thrilled to see the glowing larvae in the leaf litter in December!!
Also, any of those poster board adverts on metal spikes are technically litter if less than 3 ft from the road. I have helped clean up a lot of litter related to a local yard spray company lately.
StarsofSobek@reddit
This is so sad. :(
Remember everyone: leave your leaves alone in the autumn.
Lightning bugs nest in them until the next year.
Also: making a little wood hedge/stacked bug hotel, and piling the leaves you cannot leave alone into them, can help.
AlwaysPissedOff59@reddit
Fireflies do not nest in leaves through the winter. The adults die after mating and the larvae spend the winter hibernating, either underground or in the bark of trees. See here.
StarsofSobek@reddit
It depends on the species of firefly.
Either way, leave the leaf litter. It keeps the environment moist, warm, and ideal for the ones that live beneath our feet (in soil or in leaves).
TummyPuppy@reddit
I’ve started leaving my leaves this the last 3 years and it definitely makes a difference. Unfortunately, for lightening bugs, that difference so far is “1.”
StarsofSobek@reddit
The difference is 1, and, really - that can be huge in its own significant way. It's far, far better than 0. ✨
Right-Cause9951@reddit
Saw a single one by a fence post in a park I frequent. I was just thinking how lonely it must be the only one of your kind in such a big expansive place.
I was a big bug killer in my youth and well into adulthood. Now I literally try to move them out of my house or let them persist because I know how dire it is overall.
Frisian_Tea@reddit
Further north, we get ours in June. I am cautiously hopeful because I leave leaf litter out for them until a bit "later" in the mowing season than some folks do, and the neighbors on either side are not spraying their grass, thank all the Gods. Since moving to my home in 2019, I've had a good number of fireflies (a.k.a, lightening bugs) each summer. But it has also been crazy dry this year, despite dustings of rain today. I'm not seeing as many insects as I am used to. So I guess the verdict is still out (Mid-Atlantic region).
Palegreenhorizon@reddit
It’s because everyone uses pesticides on their yards and in agriculture. That and habitat loss. This is an everyone problem. I don’t want to live. A world without fireflies.
BBR0DR1GUEZ@reddit
I know someone whose property was just hit by an overspray of Round-up, it’s killing their plants and trees, they just had the state inspector in to start assessing the damage
alphasquish@reddit
Sad agree 100%.
alphasquish@reddit
North Fulton here - have not seen a single lightening bug. Makes me sad - used to love doing the catch and release as well.
Good_Stick_5636@reddit
Location: Japan
While the scandal with Calbee ditching the colorful potato chips packaging is covered elsewhere, i must point what the Japanese failure is more complex than naphta -> ink shortage depicted in mainstream media. Instead, causal chain
Sulfuric acid shortage -> Low-grade titanium dioxide shortage -> White paint undercoat shortage
is in play. On rumor level, pasta producers also petitioned Japanese government to abolish requirements to print in white ink nutrition data on transparent plastic packages. No white paint at all.
Next expected to be affected are goods dependent on sodium laurilsulfate, especially detergents. Japanese govenrment decree has placed sodium laurilsulfate production in same "non-essential" category as low-grade titanium dioxide.
PenguinColada@reddit
Location: Colorado, USA. Western slope.
Honestly, it's mostly climate stuff here. We had the driest winter in recorded history. Normally we get several feet of snow and in our area we didn't even get a foot total. The temperature was 70° in March, when it's still supposed to be freezing and snowing. Local flora started blooming months early. Our reservoir is no longer a lake, or even a river for that matter. It's a damn creek. Because of the lack of snow and the water drying up tourism has been awful this year, which doesn't help the economic situation here. Inflation is already bad enough. A carton of strawberries is like $7 now, when it used to be $3 last year.
Everyone is terrified for the summer. Nobody has AC here because we never needed it.
CannyGardener@reddit
I'm on the front range, and we similarly only have AC in houses occasionally. The house I'm in now has an attic fan, when the sun goes down in the desert it gets cool since there's no humidity to hold the heat. Open the windows, crank the attic fan all night, then in the morning before it starts warming up, shut the windows and blinds. When it is 100+ out, the house stays below 82F for us this way. Fans and damp rags make 82 bearable.
PenguinColada@reddit
Hello fellow Coloradian! I wish we had an attic fan. I used to live in the Ozarks, where it gets extraordinarily hot and humid, so much so that in the armpit of summer AC didn't cut it. But we had an attic fan when we lived there and did as you do by opening the windows overnight to pull in cooler air. The humidity trapped the heat, even after the sun went down, so it wasn't quite as refreshing as it is here, but it still made a difference.
I do love that even if it's hot during the day it gets cold overnight in Colorado. Almost like a little treat from mother nature and makes sleeping much easier to do.
CannyGardener@reddit
Haha we have tread similar paths! I grew up southeast of Kansas City. Had similar attic fan experience there Lol highly recommend a window unit "whole house fan" if you can't swing an attic fan. They are like little mini fans you jamb in the window pointing out, and it pulls cool air from every other open window. They are great =) had very similar thoughts about the reprieve that is evening in the desert. Kind of a treat for getting through the heat of the desert day.
PenguinColada@reddit
Haha that is hilarious! Definitely happy to escape Missouri myself! Though KC was pretty neat. We are saving up for a window unit but I do know what you're taking about. We used to have those window fans growing up. As I got older I'd just put a box fan backwards.
Practical_Hippo6289@reddit
Get a window unit. Have at least one room in your house that you can keep cool.
PenguinColada@reddit
That's what we plan to do. We are saving up for a window unit to put in our living room.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
If you can block off the living room, use wool blankets as curtains etc. wool is fire safe as well as often cheap at thrift stores
PenguinColada@reddit
I've done this in the winter for warmth, though with quilts, not wool. Sadly I'm allergic to wool 😔
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Ha, yeah, those allergic are better off with alternatives thats for sure!
PenguinColada@reddit
Yeah. It bums me out because I live in a very cold climate and most gloves just don't cut it. Wool is such a great insulator!
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Ooof. i love my winter woolens. I have a small collection of vintage stuff and man is it both nice and warm but breathes. I am so sorry you don't get to do that.
rematar@reddit
Location: Japan (Asia), US, Middle East
My post was flagged as local news and removed. An anonymous mod message told me to post it here.
This article is a continuation of his analysis of the Japanese Yen and bonds. https://open.substack.com/pub/dollarendgame/p/last-warning?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2lkom0
What I found interesting in the article was the details around Japan’s energy security.
They have over half a year of oil reserves, but LNG reserves are expensive to maintain, they have about three weeks of storage and produce 30-40% of their electricity from LNG.
Other Asian countries get a lot of their energy from the Middle East. If they run short on fuel, they will likely shutter industries that supply many building blocks for the global economy.
Regarding economics:
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Yes. Why do ya think japan bombed pearl harbor? they were squeezed by energy and felt as if economic war had been declared.
This time, i dunno, trains are cheaper to run than cars but you are correct, watching their indiatrial output will be the important bit.
rematar@reddit
I didn't know that part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
Thanks.
PrairieFire_withwind@reddit
Puts political decsions in a much broader light, eh.
Sad still, but hey, finite resources are going to cause a whole lotta pain.
rematar@reddit
It does.
Too bad it's going to be absorbed by many who don't consume a lot of of those resources.
isUKexactlyTsameasUS@reddit
Location: EU via UK
Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are facing a major political crisis following disastrous local and devolved election results.
The current situation is defined by several key developments:
Agreeablepeeable@reddit
Keir starmer is the guy who fucked over Jeremy Corbyn. Keir starmer sucks
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
To quote Matt Johnson from 1986: "The stains on the Heartland can never be removed from this country that's sick, sad and confused."
SomeRandomGuydotdot@reddit
I keep waiting for someone to make a post about it. Restore went 10 for 10, and reform ascendant... AfD is on the rise in Germany...
The slow collapse of the pollical center isn't looking slow any more. I'm starting to think that maybe neoliberalism was actually a bad idea guys.
bristlybits@reddit
if i was from the UK my flair would say Thatcher
Solo_Camping_Girl@reddit
Location: Manila, Philippines
For the past couple of days, the temperatures never dropped to lower than 30 Celsius, even in the early mornings. It does feel extremely uncomfortable to step out of an airconditioned room at 4AM and getting enveloped in warm humid air. Just this week, the worst heat recorded inside my room was 37 Celsius and a humidity of 65%. This is related to collapse as tropical nights are denying us of much-needed respite from the daytime heat.
We actually had two potential weather systems that can develop into typhoons, but another prevailing weather system to our country's northeast is preventing it from developing. I'd honestly be thankful for a typhoon right about now.
PorcelinaMagpie@reddit
Location: Indiana
I've struggled with substance abuse (specifically vodka) and today is the day I've decided to stop for good. A friend of mine in the area is stopping by my place later today and she will see me pour my last two bottles of vodka down the drain. I'm so excited to start my new journey.
Gas is still hovering around $4.25/gallon. Restaurants are packed. Stores are packed. People seem to be aware that we're not in normal times, but they also seem to not care. It's very strange to me.
qwtd@reddit
Alcoholism = collapse? I’m glad you’re trying to be better but how is this a sign of collapse? Also people are aware we’re not in normal times but they also don’t care? How do you know that? What would qualify “caring” to people in a store?
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rmannyconda78@reddit
Apathy man, it’s no joke. And good for getting rid of the alcohol addiction, that addiction is no joke.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Power salute in taking that first step (for lack of a better phrase).
festoon_the_dragoon@reddit
Wishing you the best. Check out the quit drinking sub if you haven't already. Helped me immensely when I first entered sobriety. I will not drink with you today friend 🙂
manicwizard@reddit
Excited for you! You got this
CannyGardener@reddit
Location: Colorado, USA Front Range.
Getting pretty fucked out here. All of my plants went to sprout and bloom in March when it was balmy and we had no snow, then last week as everything was setting fruit and finishing blooming, we got 12 inches of snow. My orchard lost half its trees to snapped limbs, and one broke at the trunk. The currants look like I was able to save a single row with a tarp...but the rest. Thankfully the gooseberries are still yet to bloom.
I raise rabbits for meat, and just read about a huge price hike/shortage of hay coming up due to the drought, and my normal hay vendor told me I should probably find someone new for this season. Went to Murdochs and Big red and they were both out as well, already. =\ Hopefully that is just a supply chain thing though...
On an unrelated note, I went to Costco for groceries yesterday, and the 4x1# butter for \~$13 was now 4x(0.5#) butter for $17. Half the product for 50% higher cost seems pretty fucked up...Anyone else seeing this?
possibri@reddit
FYI you might find this post interesting/informative re: hay https://old.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/comments/1ta8r3l/breaking_hay_prices_explode_to_483ton_as_western/
StarsofSobek@reddit
Ireland.
We have had weirdly fluctuating weather. Gorgeous summer-like temps in the day, and near freezing at night. I read today, that we may even be looking at snow in the next few weeks...which...is quite unusual for this time of the year.
Anecdotal: our apple trees usually have blossomed by now. One has been brave enough, the other two trees are staggering their blooms.
Despite having lots of variety and flowers that the local bees enjoy - I've seen a total of two bees. We do have other pollinators, thankfully, but the lack of bees is grim, and is likely due to the cold.
We left our garden to bloom and had a small field of dandelions and native wildflowers - and thankfully, our neighbours are also letting their gardens go wild. It's quite something to see the progress and awareness grow. Everyone seems to be talking about their concern for the bees and the lack of insects.
But...reports of food shortages are here. Too much rain (we had approximately 54 days of consecutive rain over the winter) and the war is causing both fuel and fertilizer shortages. Almost every neighbour on my street is growing their own garden of spuds or cabbages or strawberries or other foods to help cushion the inevitable. I have also been slowly noticing (and reading about) less food in the shops. Some items have been hiked up, others have been seeing food shrinkage and quality issues. There have been shelves that are glaringly more bare, more frequently, too.
We usually have a small family of hedgehogs eating at our backdoor every night (spring and summer is their time to shine), and, so far - we've had one consistent hedgehog visitor. It makes me sad and concerned. I'm hoping that maybe the others have found other places to eat.
There seems to be a general awareness about the knock-on effects of climate change, especially after Easter. The quality of chocolate (or lack thereof) was noticeable enough that many Irish forums and folks outright protested buying once-popular name brand name chocolates and eggs. There were even discussions with friends, neighbours, fellow parents, teachers, and even our postman. The awareness seems to kick in harder when comfort foods become expensive and inauthentic.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
What do hedgehogs eat? I never thought about it before I read your comment.
Chocolate - isn't it now "chocolate confection"? YUCK!!!
StarsofSobek@reddit
They usually love insects and slugs. Cat food and dog food often comes in when they can't find enough food. I try to toss out a roast chicken carcass for them every now again, too. It helps gather bugs and they eat the protein off the bones when they need to (I try to debone the carcass as best I can, to prevent choking or other hazards).
Yep. Chocolate is mostly made with oil. Some manufacturers are even trying to create lab-made chocolate. It's terrible. It's yucky. It's insanely priced, and not okay. A lot of the oils being used are palm and that comes with another can of worms.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Thank you. I sort of remember "Cat and Dog Food", but did not know insects & slugs. The chicken carcass is a kind thing for you to provide for them. :)
Ew. "Lab made chocolate". It's gotten THAT bad? You can literally taste the oils manufacturers are putting into the "chocolate confections". I'd rather not eat chocolate at all. Oh sorry - "chocolate confections".
BigJobsBigJobs@reddit
Location: Northeast Georgia, USA
We got gerrymandered in January and nobody let us know. Found out at the Board of Elections when I tried to vote in the primary. My cheat sheet was all wrong - I wanted to vote for the nice black scientist/doctor lady but now have to vote against the evil MAGA nazi ratfucker Andrew Clyde - maybe one of the safest Republican districts in the USA.
Yes, it's racial. It's Georgia.
We know what to do, but jeez it makes me feel powerless and angry and sad.
orsomeshitidk@reddit
Location: Eastern OK
I own 10 acres of rural land that our home is on. The majority of it is only lightly managed for hard wood growth and for pollinators. I only keep a grass lawn area for dogs and my toddler. About .75 acres totally of the 10.
Invasive wild hogs have continually come through, coming up off the river and rooting the whole thing up. Damn Spanish crown owes me reparations! Sick of it. Going to camp out tonight and kill as many as I can. Small potatoes in terms of the overall climate breakdown, etc. but consequences for decisions from hundreds of years ago still playing out now.
phidda@reddit
There's a fascinating documentary on PBS https://www.pbs.org/video/wilding-wiybgc/ about an English Estate that was turned over from an industrial farm to wild boars, cows, beavers, etc., and how those animals helped re-wild the land. By rooting around in the soil, the boars created habitats for biodiversity, etc. Fascinating stuff - I always thought of them as menaces to the land.
sherpa17@reddit
There is a beautiful hardcover book of the same name and on the same subject. A podcast too:https://knepp.co.uk/wildland-podcast/
qwtd@reddit
Damn those industrialists for sending wild hogs to your property!
orsomeshitidk@reddit
I don’t follow? Hogs were introduced by the Spanish during their initial expeditions to the ‘new world’ and was decidedly pre-industrialization.
rematar@reddit
You might be dreaming of wild game some day..
orsomeshitidk@reddit
I’m dreaming of native stuff rn. It’s just these damn invasive hogs I want to eradicate lol
nothankeww@reddit
I am in Chesapeake, Virginia, USA and I wasn’t gonna post anything but my third trip to Food Lion got weirder this week
The shelves are bare empty like how it was during Covid supply chain issue times… Fronting the same item across six empty spot sort of thing. Summer just plain empty I don’t know. Maybe it’s just that particular location but
I always take a look in the clearance rack area tucked in the back of the store. This time they were selling things from target. It was bizarre. I had to do a triple take. I was like this is a target brand.
People are buying a lot of toilet paper by the way
I’m glad I always read the geopolitical tea leaves and got my stock last week of a n95 masks because you know what? I might need them for the upcoming wildfire season just to exist outside anyway so you know
I have been unemployed since February 10 when I was let go randomly not so randomly, but that’s another story for another day and an EEOC charge
I was granted $29 a month for snap
I’ve been in technology sales for 12 years and now I’m too old and too much of a woman to get a job
I have been selling things on eBay and it’s been going decently to fill in the gaps
I took out my 401(k) a few weeks ago because I’m not playing any more of Trump’s gambling war games. Fuck you buddy. I’d rather just take my cash.
I need to pay rent somehow.
Luckily, I have a lot of credit, but I don’t want to use that until it’s last ditch
Consider considering selling my car because I don’t really drive it enough and I know it’s the last thing I own the only thing I own that’s worth anything so
Since I’ve been trying to apply for jobs, usually I never had a problem getting interviews, and I would usually have 3 to 4 to pick from but
Not these days. I must be too fucking old and too much of a woman.
But the thing is, I don’t fucking care about the rat race anymore so every day that slips by I’m like OK whatever… OK whatever I’ve already grieved the loss of my career. I’m actually happier out of the rat race. I’m teaching my brother about historians and clover and honeysuckle and birds. He just retired from the Air Force and he has a lot of Hopium and laughed at me and says I’m so doom and gloom. The depression isn’t coming.
I have to play nice nice because I might have to go live with him if I get evicted next year if I can’t get a fucking job and if shit really goes fucking sideways, but I’ll deal with that then
Today I just enjoyed a beautiful walk outside because the temperatures are seasonal and probably like how they normally should be
And I’m actually just happy enjoying it all today. The peonies are blooming. There’s no bugs or bees or birds. Well a few birds at least …for now.
this was written by ADHD voice text and not a word was written by AI
saint-delys@reddit
Location: Metrolina (You know, Charlotte, NC area)
I forgot how May is *supposed* to feel here. I remember it being shorts and capris season starting in mid-April. 2025 Memorial Day was very much a cold-for-May event. Normally it'd be a warm night and partying into midnight. In 2025, everyone was happy-but-disoriented, and we packed up around 8PM. We all had this feeling to "flee" something. It looks like that might happen again.
What I'm coming to understand is that the most consistent thing right now is that the Polar Vortex, having nothing to contain it, will be wobbling like that for a very long while.
My wardrobe looks very different. Lots of all-year fabrics. Lots of layering. Buying more sweatshirts and shawls these days.
Wondering what that will mean for the El Nino.
Sea_One_6500@reddit
I live in Pennsylvania. I have a suede and a leather jacket that I love. I never get to wear them anymore. Fall and spring have vanished and all we get are brutal summers and winters. I know it's the least important of our issues, but man do I miss wearing my cool season clothing.
saint-delys@reddit
I get it. I've got a studded leather coat that I can wear on those weird days where it's trying to attempt spring or fall. And even then, not for long.
rmannyconda78@reddit
Location: good ol’ Grant county Indiana, and online/the world. It’s too quiet over here. Temps have raised up into the mid 70s again, I hear some birds singing in my area, not as many mourning doves though, frogs are not as loud as they used to be, have not heard any grey tree frogs, I’m wondering if the extreme temperature swings killed a lot of them off. It’s also too quiet as people have not been acting too violent over here still.
On a wider thing people are definitely off these days, there’s a hantavirus that appeared on a cruise ship, the Andes strain to be exact, and it’s almost acting like it’s airborne (it was always human to human, but was close contact), I’m worried cause people are severely downplaying it, you shouldn’t panic but you shouldn’t downplay either, especially a deadly, potentially airborne (not as outright contagious as the flu or covid though) virus with a slow incubation time and asymptomatic period.
People are also incredibly apathetic too (will admit I’m guilty there) a guy walked out into an active runway at Denver international airport, got ingested into a full throttle engine on an airbus a320 on its takeoff roll, there were several people surrounding the wrecked, still smoking covered in human smoothie engine, gawking and taking pictures even, even ignoring firefighters commands a few times, one of the gawkers even had little kids with them. It brings up another major issue, deaths of despair, which sadly increases as things get tougher, why by jet engine though.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Was the person who died at Denver International Airport trying to unalive himself?
rmannyconda78@reddit
That’s my best guess, that plane which weighs approx 97 tons hit him at about 120 knots, particularly the engine. He did a lot of damage to the plane, I saw the pictures of that engine after the incident, it was completely wrecked, all fan blades gone, fan hub smashed, inside of the cowling was shredded, nothing left of the guy, to say the least. The scary thing is the missing fan blades, you know those shot out of that cowling at Mach fuck you, could have easily penetrated the cabin and killed people or worse ruptured a fuel tank or line and burned the plane down, those passengers and crew are very lucky, that guy could have taken 200 people down with him.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
EEK. Wow. Now I hadn't realized all that. Thanks for the response.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I feel for the pilots, could you imagine getting close to V1, seeing the guy for a split second followed by the impact, loss of thrust in the engine and fire warning lighting up on the instrument panel. That would feel terrible, knowing your plane basically vaporized someone and there was nothing you could do to stop it. Same for the passengers, there’s gonna be some difficult conversations and trauma that’s for sure.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
No question. :(
rmannyconda78@reddit
All I can say is, God help this society
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
We, as United States citizens, are not helping ourselves. Just like your posts about Marion illustrate our collapse and, dare I write this, decay.
rmannyconda78@reddit
That’s exactly what it is, decay. Not helping ourselves, nor others leads to it. Showing various signs of collapse to a hyper local level (in this case Marion, Indiana and grant county) shows how deep it is, you can see various stages of collapse in that little area.
koryjon@reddit
Location: Intermountain West, USA
For mother's day we planned a trip to go kayaking at a popular nearby park. Spent 90 minutes picking up and loading kayaks from parents, borrowing life jackets from siblings, etc. Only to get to the park and find that water levels were so low that the vast majority was a mud-addled mire. I've lived here for 30 years and never seen the dam fluctuate more than a foot or so.
We saw a few people playing in the mud. On further inspection it was filled with what looked like some sort of flat swimming worm. Other park goers played in the grass and ignored the dam like nothing was amiss.
The West is in trouble.
rmannyconda78@reddit
I’m actually getting ready to get my touring kayak out the lake when water temps get a bit warmer, I’m hoping it’s not too messed up, though Indiana has been swamped with rain and storms lately.
lavapig_love@reddit
Make sure all your family homes either have water filters on their sinks, or standing gravity-fed water filters like a Berkefield, in good working condition.
And then go to your local Walmart/ranch supply/hardware store and buy a couple of five gallon drinking water bottles with screw-on lids, clean and fill them up with fresh drinking water, and store them in your homes.
I agree. The West is in trouble.
Fickle_Stills@reddit
I agree with storing water!
But in what situation do you need a filter? I don't bother because my city doesn't even really treat our water outside of adding the requisite chlorine and fluoride. (And the chlorine seems to be from an abundance of caution). It's glacial ground deposits. Would a filter be necessary or is that more for people who have surface water sources?
Slipsonic@reddit
From what I know, flat swimming worms are leeches
StarsofSobek@reddit
Don't forget the reports of brain-eating amoebae in the western water spaces.
HomoExtinctisus@reddit
Also quite common where ever politicians gather.
koryjon@reddit
May have been! They looked different that what I usually picture a leech, but I'm definitely not an expert on the topic.
Susanoos_Wife@reddit
Location: USA, Lower 48 States, East of the Mississippi River
Somehow, we're almost halfway through May, a prospect which feels as surreal as everything else does nowadays. In a rare stroke of good luck, covid cases have fallen to about the same level they were in July of 2021, which, while still not exactl peachy keen, is still better than things have been earlier this year: https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php https://x.com/michael_hoerger/status/2052859324477681668
However, along with many other viruses, covid can cause a wide variety of long term health complications after infection and unlike many other viruses, we're still very much in infancy in terms of understanding what the truly long term ramifications of covid will be, since covid has only been around for about 6 years, so keep in mind that while things may seem survivable now, there's no telling what repeated exposures to covid will do ten, twenty, thirty plus years down the line.
For people who like information, here's some basic information about covid and how to protect yourself from it, otherwise, feel free to scroll on down for other news and ramblings.
General information about long covid: https://pandemicpatients.org/home/covid-19-resources/long-covid/
More information about long covid: https://pandemicpatients.org/home/covid-19-resources/lc-pcc/
How long covid can affect grades, attention span, and mental health issues in children: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-links-long-covid-kids-worse-grades-attention-and-social-life
The importance of taking mitigation measures to slow and/or prevent the spread of covid: https://whn.global/importance-of-systemic-public-health-measures-to-mitigate-airborne-infections/
Some information on how to protect yourself from covid: https://whn.global/breathe-safer-the-case-for-respirator-grade-masks/
More information on how to protect yourself from covid: https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/simple-precautions-to-avoid-covid-19-prioritizing-safety-measures/
An even more in-depth guide on protecting yourself from covid: https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/a-guide-to-masks-understanding-the-differences-and-choosing-the-right-protection/
In other health news, scientists are working on developing a vaccine for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, although it's too early to tell how successful they'll be: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-bird-flu-vaccine-humans-trialed.html
The news has also been filled with stories about the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship. Cruise ships have always been floating petri dishes in the best of times, and from a public health perspective, these time could definitely use some improvement.
Also, as has been stated time and time again by medical professionals, the evidence that vaccines don't cause autism, still, naturally, holds up under scrutiny: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/aluminum-vaccines-not-linked-autism-other-health-problems-study-finds
The weather in my area's been colder than average lately, with random spurts of sporadic rain here and there, but not enough to actually squash the drought my area's been in for the last several months.
There are still a shit ton of potholes in the roads in my area and the roads in general look like they've seen better days. Construction still continues at a breakneck pace in my area, though things take a long ass time to get built.
Food prices can best be described as a whole entire bucket of yikes. I don't even like looking at receipts after I go to the grocery store, and though sometimes having a low appetite can cause problems, I'm glad I don't get hungry nearly as often as other people I know seem to because with the way the Iran war is going, I doubt food prices will improve anytime soon.
Trump has always been something of a dim bulb, but he seems more and more slow and confused lately, and he always sounds like he's struggling to get words out when he talks. I'll never understand what people see in him, though I do wish that political ads would stop talking about him so much. Anyone who hates Trump at this point already knows how fucked up he is and anyone who doesn't hate him isn't going to be moved to vote differently just because another political ad says he's a scumbag.
There's been a lot of chatter about burnout and people just generally feeling frazzled, stressed, and run down lately, and trying to keep in touch with people feels like wading through molasses. My attempts to socialize with other people or even just chat with them feel like trying to water dead plants, I don't know if it's just me or what but it seems like most people don't even enjoy the company of other people anymore, it feels impossibly difficult to connect with other people nowadays and I wonder if it's always going to be like this or if maybe someday people will open up more. I can't imagine life was always this antisocial and cliqueish but then, maybe it was and I'm just not socially aware enough to notice.
Social skills have never been my strong point, although I've worked my ass off my whole life trying to figure out the magic key for being able to make and keep friends like a normal person, as I'd like to be able to participate in a decent community of people, especially in times like these when society is fraying at the edges and threatening to unravel like yarn on an old sweater from Shein (I don't buy anything from Shein, although I've seen some stuff from there in thrift stores before.)
Regardless, here I am, and if you read this far, here you are too. Congrats on making it this far if you found yourself here and stay safe, stay healthy, and don't forget to treat yourself with the same care and kindness you would treat someone or something you love. In the meantime, I'll bounce out for now and experience what's going on in the rest of the different parts of the world that make up my life.
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
I am not surprised you find Shein items at the thrift store(s). So much useless, poorly made with frail materials crap.
KingofGrapes7@reddit
Location: Massachusetts
Having had to go up to New Hampshire this weekend I think I can safely say no gas station, or at least 99%, is below $4.00. Or even $4.20. Some on my way to work are already testing $4.60 cause they are dying to hit $5. Absolute insanity. While I know the answer is ignorance or indifference on a personal level I have no idea how anyone can 'just buy gas' without flinching or finding even 10 cents cheaper. What used to almost fill my Camry now only fills half. No wonder the roads have been taken over by RAV 4 hybrids, I can't drive anywhere without seeing several. I am getting mighty tempted to try to trade in for a 2026 or 25 Camry when the 2027 line comes out just because pure gas makes even less sense now. But that's probably months away so plenty of time to talk myself out of it.
Starting September the Switch 2 will have a $50 price increase. Following the multiple price jumps of the Xbox Series and PS5 that means that all consoles are now more expensive than when they launched. And mind you the Xbox and PS5 are 2019 consoles. The prices of future consoles are fucked, as are their launch. Sony could maybe delay the PS6 only a year hoping things improve before the tech inside it becomes further outdated compared to the insane price. Nintendo fought this increase as long as possible, raising the price on console not even a year old is a bad way to get people into its eco system. They probably wanted to wait until Pokémon launched at least.
A coworker was talking about something that sounds insane to me. Her mother was in the hospital for something when she agreed to a 'hospital at home' service. As in she goes home but is considered a patient, the hospital brings in a bunch of equipment to the house, does medication, and then leaves until the next round of meds? But the stuff stays and the family has to keep an eye on the patient? Anything goes wrong they have to wait for someone to drive from the hospital to the house? What the fuck kinda healthcare is that? Sounds terrible for the patient and the family and probably the same cost as staying in the hospital room. Is this some new thing because I never heard of it before.
No idea what to think about henta virus. Even people here seem sure its not strong enough to become a new pandemic. But the poor response to it will be a good reminder of how fucked we are next true pandemic.
rematar@reddit
I have wanted an electric car for many years for fewer moving parts and to get away from supply chains and global pricing as things get weirder.
Barbarake@reddit
Have you considered an electric bike or scooter? Not necessarily as a car replacement but as a way to not use your car as much.
rematar@reddit
Yeah, I'd love one. But I'm in non-southern Canada and I moved quite a distance from the nearest small town. Distance and climate make a car much more practical.
Fragrant_Tailor9609@reddit
EVs are great and in Canada I think you can get a chinese one not too expensive. Who the F cares if China spies on you so long as you’re a regular person?
rematar@reddit
I heard on the radio that there could be bidding wars for the Chinese cars when they arrive. The price won't be aa cheap as they are in China.
https://drivechina.ca/complete-buyers-guide
Fickle_Stills@reddit
there's patient benefits to home care. The obvious is that they get to be at home :) but maybe less obvious is that for stable patients it can be safer. Hospitals are infection Hotspots.
bristlybits@reddit
if she's elderly it's called in-home care and isn't unheard of, depending what's happened to her.
me-need-more-brain@reddit
Berlin, Germany:
It´s so dry still from the last years, the hedgehogs are munching the catfood like crazy, it´s only 3 or four, but they eat like 5 cats, not enough bugs and worms, i did not mow this year yet, neighbors side eying me, grass is genuinly 60cm (2 feet), looks beautiful.
Infrastructure is collapsing slowly as always through the lack of maintanance. Train last Friday had a whooping 2h 13 mins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! delay. The train conductor could not take it anymore either and made our day with the followin inside:
" Dear passengers, a new highlight!!! 133 minutes DELAY !!! I will not excuse anything here because everyone on the train knows this is due to crumbling rails that are less important than the managers millions in bonuses."
Was weird to have this blasted through the whole train, refreshingly direct and a sign of collapse, because how bad does it have to be that the train conducter has to resort to this?
j12t@reddit
Approx in 1986 I was standing on a platform in Augsburg, Germany, waiting for my train, when I heard the announcement that some other train was late. That other train ran once a day on that connection, so every 24 hours, and it was late by — I kid you not — 36 hours.
In its defense, I believe it ran from Istanbul to London, so it had plenty of opportunity to hit snags, but still… I never found out whether next day’s train was in front or behind it.
lavapig_love@reddit
Two hours delay? For a train? That's reaching cancelled flight levels.
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
Probably has to do with infrastructure negligence and lack of maintenance for railways.
black_notebook@reddit
Location: Ireland
Certain migratory birds have arrived earlier than usual. Some haven't shown up yet. And some populations likely won't come back. We have also been getting weird vagrant birds lately.
Certain insects just... Haven't come out this year. By this time in May, we should have spittle everywhere on plants. Spittle/cuckoo spit is a foam produced by young froghopper bugs to stop them drying out and this time of year it should look like someone spat all over every garden and hedgerow. I have been looking for it everywhere. Asking friends, family, colleagues, have they seen any this year. Nothing. It's extremely concerning.
The sea is hotter than it should be, even at 10-15m depth it's averaging 1-1.5C warmer than it was this time last year. We've had a Greenland Shark and a Giant Oarfish wash up on our west coasts recently too. Ocean currents are changing rapidly, and none of this is covered or brought to the attention of our national media.
The thing that worries me most is the spittle. If anyone reading is from Ireland, have you seen spittle/cuckoo spit recently?
HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit
Poor Greenland Shark & Oarfish. :(
Ill-Product-224@reddit
I've seen none, just one froghopper (I think) in the grass yesterday afternoon.
Mackwiss@reddit
Location: Portugal
We had massive storms in Winter and an insane windstorm with winds close to 200km/h in February. There's still people without power and internet in that region.
That region is heavily planted with non-native Eucalyptus whom fell with the storm. Authorities are scrambling to clean the fallen trees before Summer as we're known for our massive fires in Eucalyptus groves..
In the South sea level rising together with the storms has heavily damaged the sand dune islands in Ria Formosa, we're talking the sea going inland a good 20 meters. The last high dune in Culatra is the last bastion keeping the islands interior intact. There will be an event where the island will split in two.
Adding to this we had a moderate warm April but a cold May, I'm having my fireplace lit all of this week given how cold it is. People are complaining "where is Summer?"
IronicHawk47@reddit
Location: UK
I have noticed how dry our spring has been so far. We had an incredibly wet winter but ever since spring its barely rained at all. Furthermore, the weather has been all over the place temperature wise. We have had some amazing summer like weather and some cold overcast weather it seems extremely random and the weather report often seems to get it wrong.
I have also noticed a lack of bees this year, we seemed to have loads last year but I have barely seen any this year. However I do remember seeing a massive bumblebee in early March which was very unusual and concerning. The plants also seem confused by the weather patterns and are not sure what to do. Certain bird species especially blackbirds seem massively down in number aswell.
Petrol is as expensive as you'd expect with no signs of coming down anytime soon. I'm expecting food to start going up more soon along with shortages. The closure of the straight of Hormuz and the lack of fertiliser for growing combined with a mega El Nino will likely be disastrous. I think a lot of people know that we are in for a shit show but seem to be burying their heads in the sand about it.
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
That's what is happening in my country's (Serbia's) capital Belgrade.
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Kitchen-Paint-3946@reddit
We need more people like you… I have been voicing this to friends and some just don’t wanna hear it. Don’t believe it. I’ve lost some connections because they didn’t wanna believe it…
Many are waking up, and some have looked to me for advice now..
Nazis didn’t start with death camps, it was one small step at a time..
lavapig_love@reddit
Location is likely the United States, but there are many countries this mindset applies to.
Jovan_Knight005@reddit
Location: Urban Settlement Ostružnica, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia.
Last week was a rollercoaster and a supercellular storm passed through the settlement an hour ago.
In terms of politics, the government is doing government things while many people in Belgrade carry on with their day as if the world isn't starting to collapse in many areas. That's as much as i have noticed, anyway.
On a personal note, i'm planning to start writing a personal diary which is probably going to be related to collapse, in a way.
humanspeech@reddit
Location: Saudi Arabia
It's been a really warm week all of a sudden, but I honestly don't remember a summer that it wasn't hot but after a month of very rainy weather it's very concerning.
I'm sure you've all heard but the NEOM super projects have become data centers recently, which I assume won't choke out the water supplies of the surrounding area.
I do find this very ironic because Saudi Arabia has some very lax laws about AI, but in the past few days there's been a surge in AI deepfakes of the Crown Prince, this article doesn't mention them specifically but it does touch on it. I've seen a lot of people get scammed out of money because of it, and I'm not sure it counts as collapse but I do think it falls under malicious use of AI that can lead to harm.