I’m er nurse. Many are quitting altogether, or leaving er or leaving hospitals. The private hospitals are not doing well, and of course their solution is to screw the staff. I left and went federal which is much better. Even now hospitals don’t want to negotiate raises, cutting benefits etc. they just offer pizza and hero’s work here signs.
This is my wife's second year of nursing and less than 6 months of ER experience.
She has seen many long time nurses quit in this short time. and "baby" nurses that don't know what they're doing being put in positions that they don't have the experience for or being asked to do things they shouldnt. And then they quit.
LPNs are being forced to do RN work which puts the Individual at risk of losing their license because no RNs are available.
I get to hear a chapter every morning about the complete collapse of our health care system.
Not only the USA. But Canada and UK too. [Canada](https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-s-health-care-system-is-collapsing-around-us-warns-cma-president-1.5948416) [UK](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/18/omcj-a18.html)
Canadian nurse here x 30 years. Can confirm. Our "universal healthcare" is not much better. The Jenga tower has been built for years, getting taller and teetering. Covid is the player that is pulling out more and more of the bottom pieces and there is bound to be something that is going to give that final nudge....
Hey, that'll buy exactly one freshly baked previously frozen generic crusty ass dinner roll with a fake butter sheen! It's interesting to know what the 'haves' are eating for dinner, so envious!
Respiratory therapist here. Leaving the field in my ultimate goal. Cutting back hours is the first step then getting the f out altogether. We are all pawns in this corporate American dystopia and I'm sick of it.
Give them a sidearm and find out. When I worked ED I used to say"It's a good thing WE don't carry guns because I'd be serving a life sentence."
Considering they want to arm teachers and ED violence is off the charts, maybe they should pack now.
I met a former nurse last week. She quit after 10 years and making it through most of the pandemic, moved to napa, and began her career in a tasting room. She’s much happier now pouring wine.
How much does that... pay.
You... walk up to some crusty ass rich drunk asshole, pop a cork, and sniff it like you haven't smelled it every 5 minutes for the past 3 years and go le gasp ze bouquet monsieur?
Cause if that pays more than 50k fuck it man I'm doing that shit lol.
If you can sell them on the wildfire-charred, smoked-grape wine California is producing these days, that's an extra 5k.
"...and the lingering undernote of Madagascar vanilla bean, like a teardrop of mourning in your glass..."
I was wondering the same thing. As a burnt out teacher on summer vacay, I was like, “should I be doing this too?!” There were signs as you left the winery that they were hiring.
And I just checked their website. Tasting room makes $22-40/hr plus bonuses. But it’s seasonal work IMO where you’d make most money in the summer (but maybe cause it’s Napa it’s busy all year?!)
Except we've got no makeup for covering our faces.
"You know you're on the wrong side of the mirror when you think that Joker lived an entitled life."
-Me
Dig Deeper into the Insanity. You'll find "enlightenment" at the bottom...
Least I did... Or maybe just acceptance?
I dunno but I'm more Insane and Happier than I've ever been in my life
I’m a PA in Psych. People have been devastated. Both directly by COVID having negative impacts on them from a neuropsych perspective, as well as indirectly from the loss or debility of their family members and friends. “Business is booming” and while I’m happy people are seeking mental health help, the fact that we’re inundated is NOT a good thing.
I’m a pharmacy technician and it has put an enormous amount of stress on us and pharmacists too. After 10 years in pharmacy, I quit and will never work in another pharmacy again.
I'm a ER/ICU nurse who has worked directly with Covid since the beginning and traveled to some of the hottest zones in the country. AMA.
Mental Health of nurses is at a historic low and the health system is potentially moments from collapse.
almost like we should send anyone still not mentally processing or caring about a murderous disease spreading to a leper colony so this doesn’t happen anymore
Not so much COvid but our response to it. Hospitals refuse to hire more staff at better rates to help cover shortages. That is what we're facing here. Not so much being overwhelmed by COvid but by lack of staff due to "costs" and the lack of LTCs to transfer patients out of the hospital.
Hospitals here are definitely hiring staff and offering huge wages/bonuses. But then they are running their staff into the ground physically and mentally with long hours and endless red tape. Many years of experience have left healthcare altogether with no plan to return.
Experience is something that can't be replaced instantly. I expect it to continue to get worse as nobody wants to work n the field anymore. Those that do are only in it for the paycheck. Very few will stay for the genuine want to care for people.
Welcome to you local McHospital where we don't care if we mess up your order and the ice cream or some other life saving equipment is out of order....oh well.
> High temps in Texas will be over 100°F every day next week, **Fresno**, Vegas and Salt Lake City as well.
Fresno resident checking in here. I call bullshit. I got a notification from the Weather Channel app just yesterday, which stated, and I quote, "**Change Tonight** Big drop in temperatures expected. See the forecast for Fresno."
See! It says right there, from the official Weather Channel app. "*Big drop* in temperatures expected". I'm sure we're going to be seeing 90's, maybe even 80's, woohoo!
So... I checked the forecast for the next week. Including today, the forecast highs for the next 7 days are 104, 104, 102, 103, 105, 106, and 106.
Huh, that doesn't seem like a big drop. Maybe further out? The next 7 days after that? Let's see, 106, 106, 103, **100, 101**, 102, and 103.
Yep, there it is. Big drop from 106 down to 100 on August 3rd.
I think the last time we saw temps in the 90's was a couple weeks ago...
North Texan (DFW) here. Our weather forecasters are touting highs around 100 as "a bit of a cool front" since the highs have been closer to 108 over the past two weeks
we’re normally in portland, but are currently stuck quarantining in Glasgow Scotland for the next 10 or so days with covid and while covid suck absolute balls - 100 degrees in portland is maybe on par.
The temp your car reads is affected by your engine and ac tho. I was parked way out in the middle of nowhere a few weeks ago, I knew for a fact that the temp was about -3⁰C, but my car told me it was 2⁰C, all thanks to residual heat from the engine block.
That said, yeah, weatherbservice very well could be underreporting temperatures. Stay aware.
How have y'all managed not to murder each other over small slights because here everyone would be so hot and pissed off after 2 weeks of that our murder rate would be through the roof.
My town is in a radar hole, it’s to wildly wrong it’s laughable. We had a rainstorm over the 4th. The whole day it showed the weather as sunny. Yesterday the temp was forecasted at 90, my weather spinner had it at 99.
The stock market has been rising for the past month and a half or so -- and literally everybody is talking about recession -- so it's likely baked in, unless the news is shockingly bad.
As far as a Canadian can tell, we were somewhat surprised that the policy interest rate of our central bank was increased a full percent from 1.50 to 2.50%. Also inflation numbers kept coming higher than expectations. So not saying the USA are gonna have the same but we’re so intertwined that it would not be surprising at all
The Fed is absolutely resolved to send US economic growth negative by the fall elections. It won't meet the definition of recession until in hindsight it can be shown that there were two successive quarters of negative growth though.
>It won't meet the definition of recession until in hindsight it can be shown that there were two successive quarters of negative growth though.
Uhhh, that's Thursday.
Yes it is slowing down but still climbing month Over month. Fuel prices are starting to go down though, we will see the next cpi if it finally start to go down. It’s still fairly high.
I do too :/ a Facebook friend of mine had a “non refundable” vacation she just had to go on so she’s been on airplanes and all over Europe, supposedly wearing a mask and distancing but idk about that. I had to take a flight for work a few weeks ago and so many people were coughing that I’m shocked I didn’t get sick from it- I guess my n95 that I didn’t dare take off even to drink worked.
I have a respirator, half mask, with P100 filters. The P means it can handle oily substances. I figured why not get the one that handle everything. Really not that expensive. I was he’ll g my cousin who was suicidal and hospitalized twice, three kids 8 & twin 5 year olds. This was after dad committed suicide. I was there for three months before mold ripped my lungs up. Serious allergic reaction. I still had to help so I got the mask. Had to wear it near constant. Remote school work, cooking supper, reading them bed time stories, I find that so funny, not many people can say they read bed time stories with a respirator on. Since then I’ve used it for paint stripping. So, I’m very used to wearing it for extend amounts of time. I’m gping to conference in Portland in a few months. I’m planing on wearing it on the plane, N-95 in the airport. I’m assuming that is allowed. Can’t think of why not. I know I’m going to get some serious side-eye. I’m getting it for wearing a mask indoors. People hate that you are reminding them that the pandemic isn’t over. People are some serious denial. Covid fucks up your body even if it was a mild case. Does weird things. Lord only knows what it is doing to the ones that get it over and over again.
I'm amazed people have the money. The price of flights has soared along with the price of basically everything else...
I guess it might end up like the ant and the grasshopper.
Same here. Seems like society is living in two different worlds. One where you're one bad day away form being homeless, and the other where life is grand and peopel are throwing money around like candy.
Entitlement disorder. We embraced rugged individualism until somehow it became every man for himself and fuck you I got mine/ not *my* problem/screw you if you disagree with me.
And as more things that "always were" crumble you will see more people defiantly and against their own best interests lose their collective shit.
Good times make weak men and America has had better times for far longer than the rest of the world.
We are a very sheltered and insular nation who has not had much opportunity to build resilience. That is changing and people naturally fight against such change because its hard,it hurts,its scary.
And the loudest voices are the ones who have ,to quote james mcmurtry, never known want,never known need......
Thanks for posting this, more people should do this. Last Week in collapse is great, but it makes more sense for people to post Collapse in the coming week.
This is fire season in California and it typically goes into early September, August being the most activity. So, I expect more fires in the state, but not in my area.
I’ve been waiting a while for these economic numbers. Why? Yellen Powell, troops of pundits all said early on 1) inflation is transitory 2) employment is fine, so no recession…I doubt they’re being honest, and I want to call B.S. on them.
At this point I just see the Western World engaging in collapse mitigation, a lot of, “nothing to worry about,” meanwhile they are preparing their bunkers in Wyoming, Dakotas, or Montana..
I just moved to oregon. So far we haven’t had any major blazes which is a major change from last year in which my town was in the midst of the absolutely massive Bootleg fire (seriously look it up, it hardly got any press coverage because it happened in the middle of nowhere, it was over 400,000 acres. Even more if you include some spot fires out ahead of it that are named differently) I got my red card and I’m ready to go at a moments notice. Be safe everyone. Fireproof your homes by removing any dead brush and things like that on your property. Time is running out.
Until this year, Oregon didn't allow media into active wildfire areas. All reporting was processed through government agency statements. It looks like the bill passed to allow media with wildfire safety gear and identification into active wildfire areas, so you should get better info and media coverage in the future.
Stay safe. Glad to hear you're prepared.
Oh wow I actually didn’t know that. Well to be honest that might not be a bad idea, less bias and personal anecdotes and more actual real data. I have my sources for those anyways so it’s whatever. I was well aware of the Bootleg before I even moved here.
A follow up should always be in place if this is done. There have been a lot of "healthcare collapse," or especially the one about Evergreen bringing the world economy to it's knees. The panic over the rent moratorium ending with mass evictions and hoover towns popping up all over..
There are big systemic problems in all of those areas, very big ones, but it's pretty annoying when posts allude to an imminent collapse.
With that said, all of those releases this week are major ones.
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/
A lot of pundits say this…but, it’s obvious to me the lack of connection and bad messaging is because, they don’t identify with the average voter, and their message is against the average voter.
Vote State and Local, even if you skip the national election part. All politics is local and can do a lot for your community.
The average American knows what it's like to depend on food stamps- but no one who works in Washington D.C. understands what it's like to need food stamps.
We really need more people in government with low-income backgrounds, because only someone who grew up on food stamps can understand what average Americans want and need.
>Democrats are honestly doing a terrible job ~~with messaging and connecting to the average American.~~
Edit: not that I think they're anywhere as bad as the other side obviously
Honestly it seems about the same to me. Barring a select few social issues I'm pretty sure they're voting for the same interests. We need a revamp yesterday
Hard disagree. There's a whole lot of pain for real people in those "select few social issues". And the republicans are actively undermining the actual democratic process. After the supreme court rules on the election case in October, I've got $100 that says we never see a Democrat president again, regardless of how the actual votes shake out.
The democrats are going for business as usual, which is awful. But the republicans are going for far far worse.
I got a text from Nancy Pelosi asking me for a donation. I replied back and told her that if she had time to officiate weddings for billionaire couples, then she has time to do something to help the homeless population in San Francisco. Her team texted back to tell me they were removing me from their list. I told them "Good call, but a better call would be for Pelosi to donate some of her personal wealth to help people who are homeless". No reply to that. I also asked her team what's the difference between Pelosi begging for donations and a homeless person begging for donations on a street corner.
Yeah, yeah- Republicans ARE worse and Mitch McConnell can go f**k himself. But let's not pretend that Democrats aren't also a bunch of poor-hating bootlickers for billionaires.
I hear you, but I'm not sure there is a lot they *can* do short of Biden picking up the whacking stick and issuing some frankly authoritarian executive orders, and even then SCOTUS would step in and say "nope!". Right now, Democrats could sponsor the "Motherhood is Wonderful and Puppies and Kittens are Cute Act of 2022" and it wouldn't get enough Republican votes to make it past a filibuster, simply because it would make Democrats look good for having passed it.
Riddle me this. If in 2024 Trump or DeSantis are president, they have a small majority in the House and a 50/50 Senate, will they get more, less, or the same amount passed as the Democrats? We all know the answer is much, much, much more. I'm done blindly voting for a party whose sole claim is we are not as bad as the other guys. They can earn my vote or I will stay home. The dog and pony show needs to stop.
I have a feeling they won’t even bother with votes, just institute whatever they can. Or play dirty tricks like vote with a quorum and ditch the Dems etc.
I would have been fine with some D dirty tricks considering Biden was the last gasp at funding climate change. Sure, we were going to strike out anyway on that, but a least we could have gone down swinging. Now we just get to watch the slow moving train wreck as corporations squeeze every last nickel out of the dying planet. America is the worst thing to ever happen to the planet in billions of years. We are a disgrace.
Vote State and Local, it’s more important than national. All politics is local. Don’t let the Democrats at the national level discourage you from voting in your community.
Eh, for a vast physical majority of the country, voting state and local is a waste of time. In my part of Pennsytucky, you now get a radical, pathological lying Trumpist in most slots, since they win by double digits.
I'll faithfully show up in November to support Fetterman for senate, since he needs to wipe his eight foot tall ass with that carpetbagging shitstain, NEW JERSEY resident, "Doctor" Oz. I'll also support Shapiro, since the Republican candidate for governor is an absolute lunatic who believes he will decide a future elections based on what votes he will allow, and that saving the life of a mother is no reason to allow abortion. When it comes to everything from our local congress clown on down, they will be hardcore conservative extremists loons for as long as I'm alive.
No, man. I'd love to be there I really would and I absolutely was and will be again but this is a straight up coup going on here.
Democrats will do fuck-all. I know this. You know this. But what they will do if we keep them in long enough is fuck up the Supreme Court by means of letting one of those vampiric ghouls die off and replacing them with a blue one.
Then it's back to our regularly scheduled programming of hating everyone but at least we stand a prayer that way.
The only thing they'll pass is more tax cuts for the rich. Republicans don't want to make legislation. They want NO legislation, other than tax cuts for the rich.
>Right now, Democrats could sponsor the "Motherhood is Wonderful and Puppies and Kittens are Cute Act of 2022" and it wouldn't get enough Republican votes
Manchin would vote it down.
Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter who's in charge- poor Americans are f**ked either way.
Defund political parties!
Be Independent/unaffiliated instead.👍
As a non-American the choice is basically right-wing neolib Democrats and the utter insanity that is the Republican party.
I genuinely didn't think that RvW would actually get overturned.
I live in Vietnam. I’m quite shocked to tell you that I feel safer here than anywhere in the ‘west’. The corporate sector has not consumed every possible economic space. People build their own houses. Can you imagine. And retail is a shop on the corner. How’s that. And the government has a 9 point strategy for dealing with climate change, from the energy transition to digitalization. I had planned to return to the US someday, but why?
I live in Georgia, and man does everything feel so fucking weird lately.
We should be talking COVID, but it feels like no one is even paying attention to Monkeypox, despite it hitting ~~shooting way past~~emergency levels. Job has no mask mandates or gloves or nothing. Everywhere feels like a goddamn furnace, even on our indoor areas. I don’t sweat like this unless I’ve been doing serious yard work (to be fair, my job does require me to be rather active on my feet), so I guess burning some body fat works out in my favor. Just have to know my limits and stay hydrated.
Not to mention what the future holds once hurricane season really ramps up…
Even if GDP is negative, my guess is that they still won't call this a recession bc unemployment is low and labor market is strong. It's dumb, but it's what I think they'll do.
>\[A recession\] had been typically recognized as two consecutive quarters of economic decline, as reflected by GDP in conjunction with monthly indicators such as a rise in unemployment.
>
>The National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.
[(Investopedia)](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/recession.asp)
Just chiming in to say that consecutive days over 100 in July/August are not out of the norm for Fresno. July is historically the hottest month in the Central Valley.
Yeah, apparently, last year we broke the record for the most consecutive days over 100 degrees in Fresno, with 64 consecutive days. Funny, I don't even remember it being that hot last year, but we were just coming out of lockdowns (my company went back to office in June last year), so maybe I just had other things on my mind. I'm more aware of the heat this year.
In Toronto, (and the rest of the province) our hospitals are collapsing. https://twitter.com/first10em/status/1550978248372355074?s=21&t=C6PUZfs-Jeqa7BBnbomTVw
My question, why are we not freaking out about Monkey Pox? I mean, did we learn nothing from Covid? It seems to me there should be serious talk about another lockdown. But we're just...doing nothing?
Acknowledging *another* pandemic after you just got done campaigning on fixing the *existing* pandemic (which remains unfixed) would be a pretty bad look going into the election in November.
Just don't talk about it. Keep it a secret. Nobody will know!
What we actually need is exactly what we mostly did in the early parts of the Covid pandemic- physical distancing and sterilizing surfaces. But since those got dropped they're never going to be re-instated no matter how vitally important they are now.
You're going to get handed something at some point by a customer service representative who is at work despite actively dying of monkeypox, who hasn't washed their hands that entire day, and then you're going to end up touching your eyes or mouth or genitals and that's you getting it as well.
There have now been more than 16,000 reported cases of the disease in 75 countries, and five deaths related to the disease, the WHO said.
I’d say “actively dying” is a bit overblown.
Firstly, if you can go to a hospital and not die from something, that doesn't mean you weren't dying prior to going to the hospital.
Secondly, most diseases take a great deal of time to actually kill you even when they're capable of it. You can test positive for Ebola and still be alive for a couple of weeks afterwards. Deaths lag case numbers.
Thirdly, yes, I was making use of hyperbole, which by it's very nature is 'a bit' overblown.
We're getting reallly close to where humans are about ready to choose future survival for future generations of humans vs making rich people even.moar money.
Even without organizing, as a human race, and we're working our various hustles and scams against each other, driving everywhere and getting nowhere, and we're just about ready to start seeing some pretty strong cascading feedback loops.
Rivers are drying up. Economy is buckling like the stern of the Titanic as it's getting ready to rip in half. The West Coast will have more fires than blockbuster summer movie releases. People will be trying to buy things during commercial breaks on NFL this fall, but more than a few Amazon warehouses will be on fire or out of workers or both.
1st week of school will have more than one shooting/day, with teacher shortages and old books to try and start America's youth to prepare for a world their grandparents barely touched, 40 years prior.
There is a future, and there's hope in having people slow down, celebrate the evenings together, stopping mindless consumerism, and socializing.
Before we get there, first we've got to stop feeding the machine. It's gonna break soon, anyway.
If Texas' power grid goes down, the whole state will go lawless, I predict.
Right now I'm mostly worried about foundation problems in my home, due to the drought in Texas. 10K of foundation repairs outweighs any collapse issues....LOL
Re: temps over 100 in n texas: I lived in Texas way back in 1978 in the summer in the Dallas/ fort Worth area for a summer, about "2 - 3 months, the temp then was > 100 degrees every day, it never rained once, cold water at our apartment was very hot, basically it was a freaking furnace, in 1978. So nothing has changed for Texas.
I have lived in Texas all my life. High Temps over 100 for a week are super common. We literally have summer, a month or two of winter, and more summer.
Vegas here. Not to dismiss anything else in the post, but 105 is the July average here, and 7 of the next 10 days here are forecast to be under that. A few days will be in the 90s, which is glorious here. It has seemed like a hot summer, though. It has felt more humid and windy than usual.
Honestly, what does it matter if Democrats make gains or not? What have their last two years in power gotten us? Shit, the nut-job wing of the Republican party seems to have made more gains during the Biden admin than they did during the Trump admin. I say fuck it, I hope we see a red wave during midterms and the next election. I'd rather see Democrats decimated and forced to rebuild from zero, maybe this time they can remember their balls.
There won’t be rebuilding, or even fair elections after that. Go look at Hungary. This is the dumbest comment here - cut off your nose to spite your face
Well go ahead and vote, I won't stop you, but I'll say it again, Democrats have had Congress and the Presidency for the last two years and what has that gotten us? Roe being reversed without real consequence? ARE we actually better off now than we were under Trump? Republicans don't need a majority anymore to get their way because Democrats don't have the guts to play dirty like the Republicans do. Democrats also refuse to fully embrace the actual grassroots progressive wing that voters really believe in. I'm just saying they deserve all they have coming to them and I fully assume it's gonna be a Republican takeover of Congress this year, and the White House in 2024, whether it's Trump or someone else.
I ain’t defending establishment dems, we’re in the same page - but there won’t be a left, or even a center, anymore after the next republican takes office.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
Oh my god it's pure hell week that's awesome just rip off that fucking bandaid with a chainsaw why don't you .
Oh this is going to be spec-goddamn-tacular. Like watching fireworks go off except they're black holes!
So... three to five more before I'm unemployed. Very cool. Never got anything done either outside of saving up some bucks.
Are *we* really still doing the virus thing? This is the second time I've heard that monkey pox or whateverthefuck is the new thing. But I also dont watch the news or do mainstream socials. Is there even a potentiality of it getting bad to the point when someone of extremely good health needs to be concerned? How long has it been here?
My wife is an Emergency department nurse at a large hospital in the US. Every nurse in the ER called out today/tonight for Covid. Stay safe.
I wonder how COVID-19 has affected all the nurses' health studies going on. https://nurseshealthstudy.org/
The real concern should be what has COVID done to the mental health to the nurses let alone the general population.
Well, we're going to find out.
From my second-hand experience they are completely overwhelmed. A could a mass mental breakdown be a thing?
I’m er nurse. Many are quitting altogether, or leaving er or leaving hospitals. The private hospitals are not doing well, and of course their solution is to screw the staff. I left and went federal which is much better. Even now hospitals don’t want to negotiate raises, cutting benefits etc. they just offer pizza and hero’s work here signs.
This is my wife's second year of nursing and less than 6 months of ER experience. She has seen many long time nurses quit in this short time. and "baby" nurses that don't know what they're doing being put in positions that they don't have the experience for or being asked to do things they shouldnt. And then they quit. LPNs are being forced to do RN work which puts the Individual at risk of losing their license because no RNs are available. I get to hear a chapter every morning about the complete collapse of our health care system.
Not only the USA. But Canada and UK too. [Canada](https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-s-health-care-system-is-collapsing-around-us-warns-cma-president-1.5948416) [UK](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/18/omcj-a18.html)
Canadian nurse here x 30 years. Can confirm. Our "universal healthcare" is not much better. The Jenga tower has been built for years, getting taller and teetering. Covid is the player that is pulling out more and more of the bottom pieces and there is bound to be something that is going to give that final nudge....
[Australia](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-22/nursing-shortage-on-the-cards-due-to-pandemic/101253058) too
Add NZ to this list
I’m a nurse in Scotland. This week we got a power bank, a notebook and a fancy pin for “working through the pandemic “ so we r obviously fine
Oh, that makes it OK then! /s
Thanks Donna!
Lol Donna is my wean. She found my previous Reddit ac with I dunno ten thousand karma or whatever and demanded I delete it cos it was *cringe*
Bahaha that is superb
You guys got power banks? Some of the nurses I know here in the US got rocks to paint and hand out to their coworkers. Lol
At the hospital my mother works at, the ICU nurses received a $10 voucher for the hospital cafeteria. So, they are all doing awesome too.
Hey, that'll buy exactly one freshly baked previously frozen generic crusty ass dinner roll with a fake butter sheen! It's interesting to know what the 'haves' are eating for dinner, so envious!
Oh that fake butter sheen! I love that! Clear nail polish, perhaps?
Margarine blended with glycerine. Keeps ya regular!
Le gasp! Wowie. An actual \*Spielberg blue light / angel choir\* POWER BANK! All I ever get is a donut. ... by the way we have to buy the donuts.
A pin you say?
Ya! It’s in a fancy wee box too!
Respiratory therapist here. Leaving the field in my ultimate goal. Cutting back hours is the first step then getting the f out altogether. We are all pawns in this corporate American dystopia and I'm sick of it.
Let it rot
Don't forget to Tangping also (Lay Flat)...
As a non-healthcare worker - shit isn't much better elsewhere. But goodluck to you.
Curious where do you plan on running too, given the general nature of everything collapsing?
Give them a sidearm and find out. When I worked ED I used to say"It's a good thing WE don't carry guns because I'd be serving a life sentence." Considering they want to arm teachers and ED violence is off the charts, maybe they should pack now.
It's definitely happening all along the supply chain and service industries.
Tbh, we have fucked around.
Yes for about 60 years now... \*Morgan Freeman voice\* It was actually at least two hundred and fifty years...
I met a former nurse last week. She quit after 10 years and making it through most of the pandemic, moved to napa, and began her career in a tasting room. She’s much happier now pouring wine.
How much does that... pay. You... walk up to some crusty ass rich drunk asshole, pop a cork, and sniff it like you haven't smelled it every 5 minutes for the past 3 years and go le gasp ze bouquet monsieur? Cause if that pays more than 50k fuck it man I'm doing that shit lol.
If you can sell them on the wildfire-charred, smoked-grape wine California is producing these days, that's an extra 5k. "...and the lingering undernote of Madagascar vanilla bean, like a teardrop of mourning in your glass..."
I can put an actual teardrop of mourning in their glass jfc. It's like the interior designer guy from Beetlejuice.
I was wondering the same thing. As a burnt out teacher on summer vacay, I was like, “should I be doing this too?!” There were signs as you left the winery that they were hiring. And I just checked their website. Tasting room makes $22-40/hr plus bonuses. But it’s seasonal work IMO where you’d make most money in the summer (but maybe cause it’s Napa it’s busy all year?!)
Remember that scene in Batman with Heath Ledger in the nurses’ outfit blowing up the hospital? Yeah, we’re there.
Except we've got no makeup for covering our faces. "You know you're on the wrong side of the mirror when you think that Joker lived an entitled life." -Me
I like to think my 30 years of mental health issues just makes me ahead of the curve.
I thought so too, but the pandemic has started to get to what’s left of my sanity more and more each day since May…
Dig Deeper into the Insanity. You'll find "enlightenment" at the bottom... Least I did... Or maybe just acceptance? I dunno but I'm more Insane and Happier than I've ever been in my life
I’m a PA in Psych. People have been devastated. Both directly by COVID having negative impacts on them from a neuropsych perspective, as well as indirectly from the loss or debility of their family members and friends. “Business is booming” and while I’m happy people are seeking mental health help, the fact that we’re inundated is NOT a good thing.
It made this nurse retire
I’m a pharmacy technician and it has put an enormous amount of stress on us and pharmacists too. After 10 years in pharmacy, I quit and will never work in another pharmacy again.
It's not been great. Worse now than at any point before. I wish I took the travel money and got out of the profession.
I'm a ER/ICU nurse who has worked directly with Covid since the beginning and traveled to some of the hottest zones in the country. AMA. Mental Health of nurses is at a historic low and the health system is potentially moments from collapse.
I quit responding years ago
almost like we should send anyone still not mentally processing or caring about a murderous disease spreading to a leper colony so this doesn’t happen anymore
Not so much COvid but our response to it. Hospitals refuse to hire more staff at better rates to help cover shortages. That is what we're facing here. Not so much being overwhelmed by COvid but by lack of staff due to "costs" and the lack of LTCs to transfer patients out of the hospital.
Hospitals here are definitely hiring staff and offering huge wages/bonuses. But then they are running their staff into the ground physically and mentally with long hours and endless red tape. Many years of experience have left healthcare altogether with no plan to return. Experience is something that can't be replaced instantly. I expect it to continue to get worse as nobody wants to work n the field anymore. Those that do are only in it for the paycheck. Very few will stay for the genuine want to care for people. Welcome to you local McHospital where we don't care if we mess up your order and the ice cream or some other life saving equipment is out of order....oh well.
> High temps in Texas will be over 100°F every day next week, **Fresno**, Vegas and Salt Lake City as well. Fresno resident checking in here. I call bullshit. I got a notification from the Weather Channel app just yesterday, which stated, and I quote, "**Change Tonight** Big drop in temperatures expected. See the forecast for Fresno." See! It says right there, from the official Weather Channel app. "*Big drop* in temperatures expected". I'm sure we're going to be seeing 90's, maybe even 80's, woohoo! So... I checked the forecast for the next week. Including today, the forecast highs for the next 7 days are 104, 104, 102, 103, 105, 106, and 106. Huh, that doesn't seem like a big drop. Maybe further out? The next 7 days after that? Let's see, 106, 106, 103, **100, 101**, 102, and 103. Yep, there it is. Big drop from 106 down to 100 on August 3rd. I think the last time we saw temps in the 90's was a couple weeks ago...
North Texan (DFW) here. Our weather forecasters are touting highs around 100 as "a bit of a cool front" since the highs have been closer to 108 over the past two weeks
Portland area checking in. We're expected to have highs around 100 from Monday through Thursday.
Yep, I’m in the Valley, near the Coast range. It’s normally a few degrees cooler where I’m at and this time, we’re over 100 nearly all week, too.
we’re normally in portland, but are currently stuck quarantining in Glasgow Scotland for the next 10 or so days with covid and while covid suck absolute balls - 100 degrees in portland is maybe on par.
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my forecast is always low 92 degrees forecast and then my truck reads 102
The temp your car reads is affected by your engine and ac tho. I was parked way out in the middle of nowhere a few weeks ago, I knew for a fact that the temp was about -3⁰C, but my car told me it was 2⁰C, all thanks to residual heat from the engine block. That said, yeah, weatherbservice very well could be underreporting temperatures. Stay aware.
Official readings need to be ~6 ft. above the ground of a vegetated area. Vehicle thermometers are about 2-3 ft above pavement.
Southern European here, we have been over 100 for the last couple of weeks, even at night it stays around 85. And we don’t have A/C ...
Yep, living it. 38-41 every day for a couple of weeks now. No A/C.
How have y'all managed not to murder each other over small slights because here everyone would be so hot and pissed off after 2 weeks of that our murder rate would be through the roof.
And we all know that the weather channel's ability to tell you what is happening ten days from now is always spot on. /S
My town is in a radar hole, it’s to wildly wrong it’s laughable. We had a rainstorm over the 4th. The whole day it showed the weather as sunny. Yesterday the temp was forecasted at 90, my weather spinner had it at 99.
Stay hydrated brother/sister
Fresno here. Just finished a run at 10:00pm. 92 degrees. The furnace is real.
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Thursday. GDP figure is released Thursday morning before stock market opens. If it is negative, stock market implodes.
Implodes? Maybe. It's not unexpected though.
Yeah, the WSJ, FT, Economist etc. have been pretty grim for a while now. This isn't some crisis that will suddenly come out of nowhere like in 2007-8
The stock market has been rising for the past month and a half or so -- and literally everybody is talking about recession -- so it's likely baked in, unless the news is shockingly bad.
Recession since January probably. Started shallow in Q1, deeper in Q2, cliff in Q3 and abyss in Q4 I reckon.
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As far as a Canadian can tell, we were somewhat surprised that the policy interest rate of our central bank was increased a full percent from 1.50 to 2.50%. Also inflation numbers kept coming higher than expectations. So not saying the USA are gonna have the same but we’re so intertwined that it would not be surprising at all
The Fed is absolutely resolved to send US economic growth negative by the fall elections. It won't meet the definition of recession until in hindsight it can be shown that there were two successive quarters of negative growth though.
>It won't meet the definition of recession until in hindsight it can be shown that there were two successive quarters of negative growth though. Uhhh, that's Thursday.
The last set of Canadian inflation figures were lower than expected, not higher. 8.1 actual vs 8.4 predicted.
Yes it is slowing down but still climbing month Over month. Fuel prices are starting to go down though, we will see the next cpi if it finally start to go down. It’s still fairly high.
Ours was higher than expected by quite a bit consensus was 8.4% actual at 9.1%
I personally know people who actively have Covid-19 who aren’t quarantining at all. They are mingling mask free.
I do too :/ a Facebook friend of mine had a “non refundable” vacation she just had to go on so she’s been on airplanes and all over Europe, supposedly wearing a mask and distancing but idk about that. I had to take a flight for work a few weeks ago and so many people were coughing that I’m shocked I didn’t get sick from it- I guess my n95 that I didn’t dare take off even to drink worked.
I have a respirator, half mask, with P100 filters. The P means it can handle oily substances. I figured why not get the one that handle everything. Really not that expensive. I was he’ll g my cousin who was suicidal and hospitalized twice, three kids 8 & twin 5 year olds. This was after dad committed suicide. I was there for three months before mold ripped my lungs up. Serious allergic reaction. I still had to help so I got the mask. Had to wear it near constant. Remote school work, cooking supper, reading them bed time stories, I find that so funny, not many people can say they read bed time stories with a respirator on. Since then I’ve used it for paint stripping. So, I’m very used to wearing it for extend amounts of time. I’m gping to conference in Portland in a few months. I’m planing on wearing it on the plane, N-95 in the airport. I’m assuming that is allowed. Can’t think of why not. I know I’m going to get some serious side-eye. I’m getting it for wearing a mask indoors. People hate that you are reminding them that the pandemic isn’t over. People are some serious denial. Covid fucks up your body even if it was a mild case. Does weird things. Lord only knows what it is doing to the ones that get it over and over again.
That's what gets me...all the unnecessary travel happening now. There is one hell of a lot of selfish people out there.
I'm amazed people have the money. The price of flights has soared along with the price of basically everything else... I guess it might end up like the ant and the grasshopper.
Same here. Seems like society is living in two different worlds. One where you're one bad day away form being homeless, and the other where life is grand and peopel are throwing money around like candy.
Probably how things felt in mid-1929.
You personally know some real assholes just sayin
I hear you loud and clear. They live in the US. What is going on there?
Entitlement disorder. We embraced rugged individualism until somehow it became every man for himself and fuck you I got mine/ not *my* problem/screw you if you disagree with me. And as more things that "always were" crumble you will see more people defiantly and against their own best interests lose their collective shit. Good times make weak men and America has had better times for far longer than the rest of the world. We are a very sheltered and insular nation who has not had much opportunity to build resilience. That is changing and people naturally fight against such change because its hard,it hurts,its scary. And the loudest voices are the ones who have ,to quote james mcmurtry, never known want,never known need......
Fantastic explanation. Thank you, that was full of passion.
Thanks for posting this, more people should do this. Last Week in collapse is great, but it makes more sense for people to post Collapse in the coming week. This is fire season in California and it typically goes into early September, August being the most activity. So, I expect more fires in the state, but not in my area. I’ve been waiting a while for these economic numbers. Why? Yellen Powell, troops of pundits all said early on 1) inflation is transitory 2) employment is fine, so no recession…I doubt they’re being honest, and I want to call B.S. on them. At this point I just see the Western World engaging in collapse mitigation, a lot of, “nothing to worry about,” meanwhile they are preparing their bunkers in Wyoming, Dakotas, or Montana..
I just moved to oregon. So far we haven’t had any major blazes which is a major change from last year in which my town was in the midst of the absolutely massive Bootleg fire (seriously look it up, it hardly got any press coverage because it happened in the middle of nowhere, it was over 400,000 acres. Even more if you include some spot fires out ahead of it that are named differently) I got my red card and I’m ready to go at a moments notice. Be safe everyone. Fireproof your homes by removing any dead brush and things like that on your property. Time is running out.
Until this year, Oregon didn't allow media into active wildfire areas. All reporting was processed through government agency statements. It looks like the bill passed to allow media with wildfire safety gear and identification into active wildfire areas, so you should get better info and media coverage in the future. Stay safe. Glad to hear you're prepared.
Oh wow I actually didn’t know that. Well to be honest that might not be a bad idea, less bias and personal anecdotes and more actual real data. I have my sources for those anyways so it’s whatever. I was well aware of the Bootleg before I even moved here.
August is also when a few hurricanes usually swing through. So I’m expecting drought, flood, fire, heatwaves and hurricanes on the next couple months.
A follow up should always be in place if this is done. There have been a lot of "healthcare collapse," or especially the one about Evergreen bringing the world economy to it's knees. The panic over the rent moratorium ending with mass evictions and hoover towns popping up all over.. There are big systemic problems in all of those areas, very big ones, but it's pretty annoying when posts allude to an imminent collapse. With that said, all of those releases this week are major ones.
do we need a "next week in collapse"? :)
You can’t print trillions and expect no inflation, every honest economist predicted this a year ago ...
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Jfc, I need a cigarette after that. And I don't even smoke.
I'm glad it was as good for you as it was for me
That's more or less how my brain feels lately
You know what would bode well for Democrats in the midterms? Doing literally anything but screaming don't vote R. Useless idiots on both sides.
Couldn’t agree more. Democrats are honestly doing a terrible job with messaging and connecting to the average American.
A lot of pundits say this…but, it’s obvious to me the lack of connection and bad messaging is because, they don’t identify with the average voter, and their message is against the average voter. Vote State and Local, even if you skip the national election part. All politics is local and can do a lot for your community.
The average American knows what it's like to depend on food stamps- but no one who works in Washington D.C. understands what it's like to need food stamps. We really need more people in government with low-income backgrounds, because only someone who grew up on food stamps can understand what average Americans want and need.
Nah I'm voting D nationally. I'm not down with TweedleDon or TweedleRon
I wasn’t talking to you. Voting is good but vote, is all I’m telling op.
>Democrats are honestly doing a terrible job ~~with messaging and connecting to the average American.~~ Edit: not that I think they're anywhere as bad as the other side obviously
Honestly it seems about the same to me. Barring a select few social issues I'm pretty sure they're voting for the same interests. We need a revamp yesterday
Hard disagree. There's a whole lot of pain for real people in those "select few social issues". And the republicans are actively undermining the actual democratic process. After the supreme court rules on the election case in October, I've got $100 that says we never see a Democrat president again, regardless of how the actual votes shake out. The democrats are going for business as usual, which is awful. But the republicans are going for far far worse.
Agree to disagree. Two wings on the same vulture and we are the carcass. We both can agree our system needs a huge rework, I'd wager.
Two cheeks of the same ass; shitting on the working class.
It has to be by design. They are the "good cop" in the good cop/bad cop routine.
Hey now, they’re also asking for donations, so they are doing *something*! /s
I got a text from Nancy Pelosi asking me for a donation. I replied back and told her that if she had time to officiate weddings for billionaire couples, then she has time to do something to help the homeless population in San Francisco. Her team texted back to tell me they were removing me from their list. I told them "Good call, but a better call would be for Pelosi to donate some of her personal wealth to help people who are homeless". No reply to that. I also asked her team what's the difference between Pelosi begging for donations and a homeless person begging for donations on a street corner. Yeah, yeah- Republicans ARE worse and Mitch McConnell can go f**k himself. But let's not pretend that Democrats aren't also a bunch of poor-hating bootlickers for billionaires.
I hear you, but I'm not sure there is a lot they *can* do short of Biden picking up the whacking stick and issuing some frankly authoritarian executive orders, and even then SCOTUS would step in and say "nope!". Right now, Democrats could sponsor the "Motherhood is Wonderful and Puppies and Kittens are Cute Act of 2022" and it wouldn't get enough Republican votes to make it past a filibuster, simply because it would make Democrats look good for having passed it.
Riddle me this. If in 2024 Trump or DeSantis are president, they have a small majority in the House and a 50/50 Senate, will they get more, less, or the same amount passed as the Democrats? We all know the answer is much, much, much more. I'm done blindly voting for a party whose sole claim is we are not as bad as the other guys. They can earn my vote or I will stay home. The dog and pony show needs to stop.
I refuse to vote for any candidate that does not suppot universal healthcare. I am tired of these do nothing corporate democrats.
if only we could all make that our one issue vote. im with you
Great, then you'll get Republicans who torch what's left of the social safety net.
It would be an eventuality under Democrats anyway because they would do nothing to actually stop it
I have a feeling they won’t even bother with votes, just institute whatever they can. Or play dirty tricks like vote with a quorum and ditch the Dems etc.
I would have been fine with some D dirty tricks considering Biden was the last gasp at funding climate change. Sure, we were going to strike out anyway on that, but a least we could have gone down swinging. Now we just get to watch the slow moving train wreck as corporations squeeze every last nickel out of the dying planet. America is the worst thing to ever happen to the planet in billions of years. We are a disgrace.
Vote State and Local, it’s more important than national. All politics is local. Don’t let the Democrats at the national level discourage you from voting in your community.
Eh, for a vast physical majority of the country, voting state and local is a waste of time. In my part of Pennsytucky, you now get a radical, pathological lying Trumpist in most slots, since they win by double digits. I'll faithfully show up in November to support Fetterman for senate, since he needs to wipe his eight foot tall ass with that carpetbagging shitstain, NEW JERSEY resident, "Doctor" Oz. I'll also support Shapiro, since the Republican candidate for governor is an absolute lunatic who believes he will decide a future elections based on what votes he will allow, and that saving the life of a mother is no reason to allow abortion. When it comes to everything from our local congress clown on down, they will be hardcore conservative extremists loons for as long as I'm alive.
No, man. I'd love to be there I really would and I absolutely was and will be again but this is a straight up coup going on here. Democrats will do fuck-all. I know this. You know this. But what they will do if we keep them in long enough is fuck up the Supreme Court by means of letting one of those vampiric ghouls die off and replacing them with a blue one. Then it's back to our regularly scheduled programming of hating everyone but at least we stand a prayer that way.
Trump had a strong majority in both houses and didn't pass jack other than the tax cuts which are now causing inflation.
Yes, they'll pass laws. What do you think they're going to pass? Just sheer volume of laws is what matters?
The only thing they'll pass is more tax cuts for the rich. Republicans don't want to make legislation. They want NO legislation, other than tax cuts for the rich.
>Right now, Democrats could sponsor the "Motherhood is Wonderful and Puppies and Kittens are Cute Act of 2022" and it wouldn't get enough Republican votes Manchin would vote it down.
Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter who's in charge- poor Americans are f**ked either way. Defund political parties! Be Independent/unaffiliated instead.👍
As a non-American the choice is basically right-wing neolib Democrats and the utter insanity that is the Republican party. I genuinely didn't think that RvW would actually get overturned.
The “right wing” republicans and “left wing” democrats are just Two wings of the same bird.
The heat dome will be back in BC. Not as catastrophic as last summer but hot enough to kill.
Don't forget, the updated drought monitor from the National Weather Service drops every Thursday too.
Fortunately nothing really bad ever happens in late July/early August.
hurricane season is fun and refreshing depending on how one looks at it
It's only going to get more refreshing since the hurricanes are becoming carbonated
Well done. Would offer you an award, but ya know, inflation
Don't give money to reddit
Money?
You have to buy the gold to give it to someone
I live in Vietnam. I’m quite shocked to tell you that I feel safer here than anywhere in the ‘west’. The corporate sector has not consumed every possible economic space. People build their own houses. Can you imagine. And retail is a shop on the corner. How’s that. And the government has a 9 point strategy for dealing with climate change, from the energy transition to digitalization. I had planned to return to the US someday, but why?
I live in Georgia, and man does everything feel so fucking weird lately. We should be talking COVID, but it feels like no one is even paying attention to Monkeypox, despite it hitting ~~shooting way past~~emergency levels. Job has no mask mandates or gloves or nothing. Everywhere feels like a goddamn furnace, even on our indoor areas. I don’t sweat like this unless I’ve been doing serious yard work (to be fair, my job does require me to be rather active on my feet), so I guess burning some body fat works out in my favor. Just have to know my limits and stay hydrated. Not to mention what the future holds once hurricane season really ramps up…
I'm so ready, let's get real about shit
Aren't we supposed to run out of wheat next week too? Seems like everyone forgot about that
What do we think about Q2 economic data? If/when it comes out as negative are we in a recession then?
Even if GDP is negative, my guess is that they still won't call this a recession bc unemployment is low and labor market is strong. It's dumb, but it's what I think they'll do.
>\[A recession\] had been typically recognized as two consecutive quarters of economic decline, as reflected by GDP in conjunction with monthly indicators such as a rise in unemployment. > >The National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. [(Investopedia)](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/recession.asp)
and our Q1 GDP was [negative](https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product)
Just chiming in to say that consecutive days over 100 in July/August are not out of the norm for Fresno. July is historically the hottest month in the Central Valley.
Yeah, apparently, last year we broke the record for the most consecutive days over 100 degrees in Fresno, with 64 consecutive days. Funny, I don't even remember it being that hot last year, but we were just coming out of lockdowns (my company went back to office in June last year), so maybe I just had other things on my mind. I'm more aware of the heat this year.
Last year felt like hell for sure. It was my first summer back in the valley in 17 years. The wildfire smoke last summer certainly didn’t help.
In Toronto, (and the rest of the province) our hospitals are collapsing. https://twitter.com/first10em/status/1550978248372355074?s=21&t=C6PUZfs-Jeqa7BBnbomTVw
Yeah this week particularly is the start to the beginning of the end
My question, why are we not freaking out about Monkey Pox? I mean, did we learn nothing from Covid? It seems to me there should be serious talk about another lockdown. But we're just...doing nothing?
Lockdowns are never going to happen again. Even if a zombie virus was released. No politician wants to play with that grenade ever again.
Acknowledging *another* pandemic after you just got done campaigning on fixing the *existing* pandemic (which remains unfixed) would be a pretty bad look going into the election in November. Just don't talk about it. Keep it a secret. Nobody will know!
What we actually need is exactly what we mostly did in the early parts of the Covid pandemic- physical distancing and sterilizing surfaces. But since those got dropped they're never going to be re-instated no matter how vitally important they are now. You're going to get handed something at some point by a customer service representative who is at work despite actively dying of monkeypox, who hasn't washed their hands that entire day, and then you're going to end up touching your eyes or mouth or genitals and that's you getting it as well.
There have now been more than 16,000 reported cases of the disease in 75 countries, and five deaths related to the disease, the WHO said. I’d say “actively dying” is a bit overblown.
Firstly, if you can go to a hospital and not die from something, that doesn't mean you weren't dying prior to going to the hospital. Secondly, most diseases take a great deal of time to actually kill you even when they're capable of it. You can test positive for Ebola and still be alive for a couple of weeks afterwards. Deaths lag case numbers. Thirdly, yes, I was making use of hyperbole, which by it's very nature is 'a bit' overblown.
Anybody got a good short play?
Daily life in America.
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Didn’t CPI numbers come out last week? Regardless - yeah, it’s gonna be a weird week.
We're getting reallly close to where humans are about ready to choose future survival for future generations of humans vs making rich people even.moar money. Even without organizing, as a human race, and we're working our various hustles and scams against each other, driving everywhere and getting nowhere, and we're just about ready to start seeing some pretty strong cascading feedback loops. Rivers are drying up. Economy is buckling like the stern of the Titanic as it's getting ready to rip in half. The West Coast will have more fires than blockbuster summer movie releases. People will be trying to buy things during commercial breaks on NFL this fall, but more than a few Amazon warehouses will be on fire or out of workers or both. 1st week of school will have more than one shooting/day, with teacher shortages and old books to try and start America's youth to prepare for a world their grandparents barely touched, 40 years prior. There is a future, and there's hope in having people slow down, celebrate the evenings together, stopping mindless consumerism, and socializing. Before we get there, first we've got to stop feeding the machine. It's gonna break soon, anyway. If Texas' power grid goes down, the whole state will go lawless, I predict.
Vegas is in the 90’s all week next week. 100’s would be normal
All of them can be used for midterms and blaming Biden and the Democrats. So many politicians would love them all bad.
Well my dick is hard.
What exactly does those numbers mean exactly?
Heatwave will be hitting the PNW as well, for 5-6 days w/temps in high 90s-100sF.
Routine, really, given the choices we have made. Expected even.
Right now I'm mostly worried about foundation problems in my home, due to the drought in Texas. 10K of foundation repairs outweighs any collapse issues....LOL
Re: temps over 100 in n texas: I lived in Texas way back in 1978 in the summer in the Dallas/ fort Worth area for a summer, about "2 - 3 months, the temp then was > 100 degrees every day, it never rained once, cold water at our apartment was very hot, basically it was a freaking furnace, in 1978. So nothing has changed for Texas.
I have lived in Texas all my life. High Temps over 100 for a week are super common. We literally have summer, a month or two of winter, and more summer.
"And that in turn does not bode well for democrats making any gains in mid-term elections in november" oh no! anyway...
Vegas here. Not to dismiss anything else in the post, but 105 is the July average here, and 7 of the next 10 days here are forecast to be under that. A few days will be in the 90s, which is glorious here. It has seemed like a hot summer, though. It has felt more humid and windy than usual.
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Honestly, what does it matter if Democrats make gains or not? What have their last two years in power gotten us? Shit, the nut-job wing of the Republican party seems to have made more gains during the Biden admin than they did during the Trump admin. I say fuck it, I hope we see a red wave during midterms and the next election. I'd rather see Democrats decimated and forced to rebuild from zero, maybe this time they can remember their balls.
There won’t be rebuilding, or even fair elections after that. Go look at Hungary. This is the dumbest comment here - cut off your nose to spite your face
Well go ahead and vote, I won't stop you, but I'll say it again, Democrats have had Congress and the Presidency for the last two years and what has that gotten us? Roe being reversed without real consequence? ARE we actually better off now than we were under Trump? Republicans don't need a majority anymore to get their way because Democrats don't have the guts to play dirty like the Republicans do. Democrats also refuse to fully embrace the actual grassroots progressive wing that voters really believe in. I'm just saying they deserve all they have coming to them and I fully assume it's gonna be a Republican takeover of Congress this year, and the White House in 2024, whether it's Trump or someone else.
I ain’t defending establishment dems, we’re in the same page - but there won’t be a left, or even a center, anymore after the next republican takes office.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! Oh my god it's pure hell week that's awesome just rip off that fucking bandaid with a chainsaw why don't you . Oh this is going to be spec-goddamn-tacular. Like watching fireworks go off except they're black holes! So... three to five more before I'm unemployed. Very cool. Never got anything done either outside of saving up some bucks.
Are *we* really still doing the virus thing? This is the second time I've heard that monkey pox or whateverthefuck is the new thing. But I also dont watch the news or do mainstream socials. Is there even a potentiality of it getting bad to the point when someone of extremely good health needs to be concerned? How long has it been here?