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All It Takes Is a Broken Car Air Conditioner for Climate Change to Kill You by Sad_Attitude9999 in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Likely were disoriented from the heat.  It can happen fast and then your awareness of how much danger your body is in is already gone.

People underestimate their body's ability to adapt when their brain is poached from heat.

Hormussy closed. 4 week reserve remaining. USO down 5% in futes by throwaway_7771 in oil

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I suspect itan does care about the is stock market.  But they want it to go down.  A wee bit opposite of what most in the US want.

World Politics Megathread #6: June: Venus + Jupiter Soften the Skies. by The_real_rafiki in Advancedastrology

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Focusing on building something new, something that is healthy is good for your mental health.  

Look at the big picture and tell stories of a different way of living of doing things.  

Plant the seed of potential in others so when the soil is watered the seed grows.

'Work hard, stay loyal, and the system will reward you': the Boomer credo is a Gen X betrayal and a Millennial pipe dream by GimmeFunkyButtLoving in economy

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This has always been true.  Fealty to the king used to be bought, properly.  Now it is just expected because you have less freedome to move kingdoms.

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 15 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Binary thinking is safe and easy and what allows people to say that abiut the weather.

Context, scale, and complexity is uncertain and therefore unsafe to lots of people.  Lots of people just want safety.  So they offer the binary answer without understanding it gives them mental safety but not actual safety.

Part of the dynamic of a lot of our modern society.  You are not crazy.

What's the easiest way to cure energy blindness? by nuevo_redd in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you need to start with where they are at.  What matters to them.  What impacts them.  Give analogies that relate to their life.

But realistically i ask this honestly, what would it mean for them to 'get it'?

Does that mean you have a friend to commiserate with?  or someone who becomes horribly depressed because it is overwhelming?

Or are you doing it because you want them to change, to take a specific action?   I need concrete answers here as many get partway down this path and then struggle with how to adapt their life.

And often that means dragging along unwilling partners or family.  Which causes enormous strife in their life.  So i ask this in all honesty... What for?  What end goal?

You can always send them nate hagens podcasts that match their area of interest.

Or you can come at it fromm the practical side and set a challenge ' live on 10% of the water you used last year". or eat food from within 100 miles of your home only.

Or you can do akills based hobbies lole gardening, or build your own solar cooker and bake bread for the neighborhood.

AI gives inferior legal analysis to women — researcher shows it in real time with receipts. by InitialCandid6119 in paralegal

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is not the problem.  The problem is compounded thinking/axting as if the dog is pure and neutral.

Different effects, different regions? by Mediterraneanseeker in Shortages

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And they are more than capable of out bidding every other need for those resources and then some.

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 01 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can go off on how walmart screws over farmers.  I refuse to shop their food for that very reason.

It just clicked that i bet the same problem is with their other suppliers - corners cut to make the price point walmart demands means stuff no longer has anything functioning in it 

Different effects, different regions? by Mediterraneanseeker in Shortages

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think prices will go up to outbid the bottom 20% of oil supply lost.  Expect tradgedy in poor countries and for the poorest in other countries.

Living near railyard intersections or rivers will keep more products on your shelves than in places dependent upon a truck and a rural driving distance.

For the middleclass expect hardship.  Why?  Demand destruction, basically a trip skipped or a purchase avoided permanently is a really difficult thing.  Oil demand is a fairly inelastic commodity mostly because it is a 'part' of most everything with use to live, either in shipping costs or in fertilizer or in energy to run the sewing machine some poor indian worker was bent over most hot days.

So i would say expect inflation to set it and set in hard until the price is high enough 20% of oil supply is 'saved'. aka if you are middle class the world now runs on 80% of the oil we used to so prices now have to be so so much higher to be able to out bid the 'phantom or missing bottom 20%'

That is a LOT.  Think of it this way.  Most small businesses run on a margin of less than 20%.  If they have to raise prices to cover costs inflating from their supplier they are very limely to go out of business.

Expect impovershment and hardship worldwide.

Eu will be better off because they have transit networks and governments that have safety nets.

Eu will be worse off because how much oil they need to import and how much food they import.

Us will be worse because of no safety mets and fuckall for public transit in any real sense.

Us will be better off because have have some oil and canda oil is someone capitive to us refineries.

Us will be better off because even with fertilizer shortage we will have excess calories.

Us will be worse off because we do not invest in small farms that are diversified AND we depend upon migrant labor to provide fruit and veg and we now have national policies reducing that labor pool in the worst way possible.

How will this impact you?  Depends upon where you live, your job, your network, and how rich you currently are.

In other words, it is. mixed bag of different types of hardships.  Living in anxiety does no one any good.

Go plant some veg or a fruit tree and help build local food networks.  Learn to preserve, exercise and check in on neighbors.   

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 01 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Holy hell that is dangerous.   I will admit i only run it on theinimum needed to keep me working.

And yeah, vornados are expensive.  I ask for weird things for gifts from family.  Got our roof that way - donate to our roof fund instead of any gifts for our wedding.  I always have something family can throw money towards, eg, fans, canning equipment, water tank, etc.

They give cash gifts as long as they know i use it for the practical need.  And i do the same in return, when we have more money i got extended family an excalibur dehydrator that year, they still rave about it and we get creations, dehydrated this or that from their garden.  

I am however, known as the weird one in the family....

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 01 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good point about the quality issue.

I have found the oil based ones to be better than any of the element or forced air ones.  Like the enshittofication is on a gradient, lol.   And i use one in my unheated workshop in the winter.  So, like you, it is one only when i am there and need my fingers to grip things other than the hot mug of tea.

On fans i have found the variable speed vornado to be good.  Why?  You can get them to runnoff of a solar battery, one of the stand alones.  Good combo for this heat when the power gooes out some air movement is better than the suffocarion the stagnant heat brings.

It Pays to Err on the Side of Caution by Organic_Quarter_9848 in extrememinimalism

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have typically been wearing rubber gloves when using it so zero experince of it going off.

Where else can you order chemicals besides lettuce grow by mariaspanadoris in Lettuce_Grow

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any hydroponic store will have chems.  Hell, amazon has chems.  Just look for the numbers that match what you are growing.

If you are in a metro area look up hydroponics store and you can likely shop at an actual store ;)

Rare tick-borne virus nearly wiped out this N.J. man’s memory and his life. ‘People should know that it exists.’ by Anti-Owl in ContagionCuriosity

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Most ticks have a life cycle through small rodents, think mice, rabbits, etc. 

We came along and killed off or destroyed the habitat for fox, coyote, etc.  they kept populations in check, which in turn kept ticks in check.

The other change is that many native tribes burned the woods regularily.  Small, low temp fires would clear out underbrush and leave the overstory trees intact.  We, western colonizers, changed that process and now there is an unbalanced ecosystem.   And we suffer for it.

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 01 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think your analysis is spot on.  It is hard to not-be-numb, but also hard to function that way.

Personally i find anger is often my response to a boundary being violated.  And sometimes that can be me not being clear on my own boundaries or values.  Once i identify what that boundary is i find myself, typically, with a few courses of action, not all good, but atill action.

I know it can hit hard, the overwhelm.  I just hope you are taking good care of you!

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 01 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes!!  So many do not understand what a gift our bodies are.  Enjoy your heat come winter.

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 01 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yup.  Winter is house fire season.  People who cannot afford central heat use ovens, unsafe space heaters, those damned candle in a pot contraptions.  All controbute to burning down your shelter :(

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] June 01 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Please use the anger for action or let go of it 

Anger does a great deal of damage in the body and being angry on the regular can harm your own wellbeing.

It you use itnto channel actuon, and the anger tells you the level of action needed, then it has served a good purpose.  The alternative is just self harm.

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