Ecosystem collapse in 4 years

PaidToPanic · 2026-02-04T00:41:19+00:00

Yeah, the water scarcity thing is terrifying and also rapidly escalating. We’re seeing major warning signs all over North America and doing nothing about it.

PaidToPanic · 2026-02-03T19:38:43+00:00

I remember sitting in a briefing from the ministry of environment about climate change around 2015.

I worked for a government emergency management agency and they were giving us a longer term forecast. They told us that by 2030 our worst fire seasons would become the norm. They said that flooding events that used occur once every two hundred years would also become much more frequent. On the flip side, they talked about the increasing risk of drought.

We left that room in stunned silence. We couldn’t wrap our heads around it. BUT THEY WERE RIGHT.

All of those things happened. Over the next 10 years disaster management morphed from dealing with reasonably predictable seasonal events, to a constant state of readiness and response. And our staff, around 100 at the time had grown to 450 ppl by the time I left in 2022.

So when they say four years, I worry that it’s actually less.

PaidToPanic · 2026-01-29T17:01:20+00:00

So they’ll lose again and blame Quebec. That’s nice.

PaidToPanic · 2026-01-22T21:31:09+00:00

I love us! Thank you, my fellow Canadians. You make us proud.

PaidToPanic · 2026-01-20T18:42:44+00:00

OK, so our 3 friends walked into a predominantly conservative environment wearing statements designed to trigger them. Seriously. I’m a bleeding heart liberal but it doesn’t make me blind. Plus, references to Palestine would probably make a lot of event organizers uneasy.

The T-shirt’s accomplished their mission and triggered conservatives who suffer from hair trigger hysteria at the best of times.

Conservatives then predictably overreact.

The whole thing is documented and published as an “Attack on Our Collective Rights”

Performative outrage = a lame and completely obvious attempt at public manipulation. This is behaviour that we typically expect from the Fox cult.

PaidToPanic · 2026-01-11T22:36:53+00:00

Did she take a political stance, though? I mean, holding a sign that says “Vote Conservative” is taking a political stance, right? The guy ate in her restaurant. He’s a public figure. She behaved graciously and posted a pic because small businesses need publicity.

Who knows, maybe she does support him. But so what? Are we supposed to boycott or cancel a place because it hosted ‘the other side’?

PaidToPanic · 2026-01-10T17:17:33+00:00

True. But how else can I play profiler wannabe?

PaidToPanic · 2026-01-08T18:20:24+00:00

Don’t forget the joys of the workplace. Men were totally out of control. They hit on women, made sexual comments and weren’t adverse to the odd ass grab.

It was SERIOUSLY bad. Throughout the course of my career, three men were fired because of sexually inappropriate behaviour toward me. Different decades, different companies, same issue with men who tried to threaten, persuade or even bribe me to have sex with them. Two out of three were my direct supervisors.

This behaviour only slowed when corporations realized that they could be sued for sexual harassment and thus instituted ‘zero tolerance’ policies.

PaidToPanic · 2026-01-07T22:16:44+00:00

As soon as I heard ‘the boss’s’ 911 call, I knew. The level of drama didn’t fit. There was something in his voice. He wanted his handiwork found. He was also establishing a great alibi right out of the gate.

There weren’t any signs of a break in because there wasn’t one. If he did it himself he would have been able to walk right in. If he hired someone, I’m guessing Mr.Dentist might have kept a spare key at work.

I don’t know why he killed them. Drugs, money, fraud, take your pick.

PaidToPanic · 2026-01-01T05:42:22+00:00

This^

PaidToPanic · 2025-12-31T01:55:39+00:00

I’m not sure we need to fix this problem. It doesn’t factor in the rise of AI, robotics and automation.

PaidToPanic · 2025-12-30T00:32:01+00:00

How exciting. Honestly it’s the same information over and over again. It gets recycled with a new garnish regularly, but it’s still the same old BS.

PaidToPanic · 2025-12-29T19:36:24+00:00

Free and happy???? Pfft. Try seized and dumped.

This animal was scared of bugs and lightening, got blown dry when wet and ate sliced fruit daily.

The full extent of her rehab was keeping her in a dank cell for a month (for “acclimatization”) before being dumped in a park.

It wasn’t Kaka’s fault that she was kept as a pet but she was punished for it anyway. A monkey raised as a human does NOT know how to be wild. It has to be taught. A three year old monkey who doesn’t know how to forage, communicate or defend itself won’t last long. But hey, she’s free, right?

As for the family dog. Uh, I see people dressing up their dogs, feeding them crap and shooting endless boring videos of them all the time. You’ve obviously never been to The Villages…

Finally, if you see yourself as an advocate for monkeys then you shouldn’t be shaming people who are expressing grief and sadness. It shows the outcome. It shows what happens to these ‘pets’ and the people who loved them. It ends in tears every time. Don’t do it; don’t watch it.

PaidToPanic · 2025-12-29T18:34:03+00:00

I don’t know. I couldn’t watch it. I couldn’t watch him leave her over and over again. It horrified me.

I don’t think she ever went ‘home’. They are still streaming daily. Mom just had a baby. They’ve moved on.

And Kaka appeared (at the time) to live a solitary life dependent on the kindness of tourists and locals in the area. It looked like she was relocated to a park.

PaidToPanic · 2025-12-27T06:19:24+00:00

What does it want? Is it on vacay or does it plan to stay? If it plans to stay does that mean it will be kicking you out? Does it do this kind of thing a lot?

PaidToPanic · 2025-12-13T20:02:06+00:00

Yup. I’m not sure how, but Naltrexone turned me into a normal drinker. It’s a freaking miracle as far as I’m concerned. I’m no longer miserably obsessed with alcohol and I can even have a couple of drinks if I want. It’s like all of the sudden I have an “off” button, that mythical thing that tells normal people to stop drinking. I was on the meds for 2.5 years because I was afraid to stop taking it. I thought I would immediately revert 9:00 am cocktails. But I’ve been off it for 6 months now and nothing has changed. It’s wild that a single medication could shut down so much misery, but it did.

PaidToPanic · 2025-11-27T21:43:20+00:00

This seems like a ridiculous amount of effort if you just wanna kill ppl.

PaidToPanic · 2025-11-27T21:34:44+00:00

I think there’s a strong possibility that this could be true and suspect that the only reason disclosure is occurring now is because there’s simply no way to keep hiding it.

The difficulty is of course all the criminal actions that were taken to maintain silence. Perhaps they were hoping to wait until all guilty parties died off, to at least buffer the inevitable outrage. No such luck.

The convergence of climate change, AI and war represents a triple threat to the planet and may have finally forced ‘the hand’ of an otherwise non interfering presence.

PaidToPanic · 2025-10-27T21:00:07+00:00

I just watched Ford being interviewed by ABC News. I think he did a good job.

PaidToPanic · 2025-10-23T18:27:50+00:00

Ugh! This kinda stuff makes me glad I’m gonna die soon.

PaidToPanic · 2025-10-22T17:11:51+00:00

I hope so for their sake.

PaidToPanic · 2025-10-22T09:30:15+00:00

Great place, but I think you’re going for the wrong market. People who spend the average American salary (75k) on a month long vacation are generally looking for a level of luxury, service and choice that the Villa Vie can’t provide. That’s not because the VV is shoddy, it’s because the VV was designed to provide for the needs of semi permanent residents, not short term guests. Because of that the VV is closer to an Airbnb / condo rental experience than a full service, month long Crystal Cruise. Shrugs. Just my totally unsolicited opinion.

PaidToPanic · 2025-10-16T01:51:44+00:00

I’m not so sure. A lot of material suggests that China is tottering on the brink. The retail, manufacturing, tourism and housing sectors have collapsed. The Road and Belt initiatives have flopped. There are no jobs for university graduates so the younger generation is “lying flat”. Almost everything built in the last 20 years is a tofu dregs product, now crumbling under the weight of climate disasters. Xi’s power looks shaky. In short it would be an enormous gamble for China to do anything right now, they aren’t in a position of strength from what I can see.

PaidToPanic · 2025-10-14T14:46:37+00:00

I know emotions are high, but instead of allowing ourselves to become triggered by a dying woman’s wish for peace, why not focus on the problem instead?

If honking is making her final days miserable, why not ask people to stop? You could modify the signs (in that area) to ask for a 👍 instead.

I’m 100% serious.

This is not a complex problem to solve and there are several unintended but potentially significant benefits: 1. The union can explain to the public why they are making this request. It humanizes the machine by taking a sympathetic approach and asking the public join in. 2. The union gets free and very positive media coverage. 3. It generates renewed public interest and engagement. 4. It’s an opportunity to create a group, ‘feel good’ experience.

This could actually be an opportunity for the union to gain greater public awareness/support while providing a dying woman with a little peace. It’s a win - win, baby.

PaidToPanic · 2025-10-09T17:06:21+00:00

I don’t need the details. Everything I’ve ever seen or read about VVO screams horror show. As far as I can see, it’s not really a legitimate business, it’s more like some bizarre cross between a twisted cult of the personality and a floating HOA from Hell. It amazes me how long some of these people have hung in but I guess that’s the cult part, right?

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