I feel okay, personally (other than being horrified by the polycrisis taking place in the world), but share your sense that we’re in the middle of a tectonic shift. Multiple friends, usually talkative, usually stable, have gone silent, and I know several people who seem to be having low level mental health crises.
I’ve felt everything was off since I could form memories. Just another day in the pointless cruel universe.
were you born after the millenium?
1990, in a monoculture conservative prairies small town with a Baptist church co-founding mother. I didn’t fall for any of their shit so I felt out of place and wearing a mask to avoid being disowned at an early age. 8 or so years old is when I started to realise everyone was lying to themselves and me.
yeah its just like politically and socially and economically things got bad in the aughts and then like technology got bad in the teens which was like the only nice thing kinda left to distract. So fi your experience is mostly in this millenium you have not seen it even kinda decent.
Sure I see it the same way as you but that’s just local to us in our own time. Looking at global history outside of the sanitized lie by omission lessons taught by the school system reveals we’ve always been pretty monstrous throughout all of written history. The only thing that I can’t figure out is how things are ever allowed the breathing room to temporarily improve in the first place.
I’ve been vegan since 2019 and it’s hitting me lately that in those days things were looking bright for veganism. Now a lot of vegan restaurants are turning their backs on animals by serving meat then closing up shop a few months later after alienating their customers. It’s getting more difficult to find vegan options and it just breaks my heart.
(There’s also like 10,000 other problems I’m going through too.)
It kinda sounds like they started serving meat because they realized they were circling the drain and tried something desperate.
I mean they were always packed when I went. But one (Sage Bistro in Pasadena, CA) was hard to get into without a reservation. The owner just decided she suddenly believed in “regenerative farming” for whatever fucking reason.
probably veganism, vegatarian food isnt really profitable compared to meat based, eggs, milk products. its only a subset of people that will willingly go to these, perhaps. i think they are better selling vegan products to chain store.
How would animal products be more profitable if they cost more? Veggies are cheap so the potential profit margin is much higher no?
A vegan restaurant is not selling simple vegetables. Its like how vegan burgers cost more than normal burgers. Its mostly because we subsidize meat.
Government handouts for grain and meat production.
Eat the grain?
Yes livestock in US eats mostly corn and soy
But people could eat the corn instead
Probably making up the difference in the number of customers. Veganism is still a minority, depending on sources 1-3%(highest in inda up to 9%) of the population.
So running a restaurant and focusing only on a small minority might not be that sustainable if there aren’t enough people on the area or there is too high competition.
Adding in the general cost of life increases over the last few years reducing the number of potential customers as well.
And it kinda makes sense why restaurants are moving away from exclusively serving some specific group.
Inflation and restraunts generally struggling are the causes
Easier to not go to restaurants than deal with their shit. I don’t really mind if they die.
Before you buy food and it’s the price listed. Now there is a chance you will have to argue with someone to have a surprise service charge removed from the bill.
another virus is going around, people around me are getting sore throat, mildly painful, because people arnt vaccinating or isolating when they are sick, but not sick like flu, covid, or the cold. i do not want another covid infection, like i did last sept.
Is anyone testing for new variants in the H5N1 family?
i dont think you have to worry about h5n1 if you havnt been in a farm, or wild birds that were sick.
Had it more times than I can remember at this point
Husband had that 2 weeks ago. He said he felt like he was going to die. Couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, cold sweats, fever, etc. Took a COVID/flu AB test and negative.
RSV is was going around, but it appears to affect children more severely. and 50+yo can get the vaccine apparently.Oh yea and around feb i felt slightly under the weather, than suddenly i got 5 mouth ulcers at once on my left side. i do get allergies which can cause ulcers, but this pretty unusual to get this many at once.
So there’s something new going around…
someone at work mentioned they were getting slightly painful throat, multiple people did and some people started wear masks again this was around friday, i still have a very mild 1 side throat pain. apparently CPC mouthwash helps reduce the inflammation, people used it during covid(the blue mouthwash), it also works on mouth ulcers if its not too large.
Me with my wife got sick real bad in the end of March. Sore throat, coughing, blocked nose, no temperature but cold feeling, exaustion, headache. All these for 2 weeks for me and my wife and for some it went over 3 weeks. We spend 2 weeks at home barely going outside. This sickness was nothing I have experienced before. We didn’t test for corona but it also didn’t felt similar compared to our previous corona times.
We also know some people directly who got sick with a similar sicnkess (in our proximity and outstide of the city) and I also know from my friends and coworkers that some people they know got sick with similar sickness.
I am technically still recovering. My symptoms went away except coughing. I constantly feel snot in my throat and recently began to cough out fresh blood and not clots anymore. I been to doctors 4 times already and now am consuming double the does of some coughing pill that doc prescribed. I think it is helping but that is too early.
Surprisingly, we had guests at our home at exactly the days we got sick and none of them got sick in the end.
I may be an outlier. But this year it seemed that tons of people got sick with something they never been sick before which is not covid or anything simple as common cold or even bronchitis. Hope this is not pandemic 2.0
If US/China/Russia aren’t using gene-tailored bioweapons to reduce each other’s productivity I’ll eat my hat. They’ve discovered they can get away with it if it’s not too blatant.
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Ya know a dr can do some tests for ya
lmao
good luck with that
yeah I just went through how I can’t see one doc without a referal from a doc that has to be from the medical group but my primary care is not from that group but the group he is in has no one appropriate who will take my insurance so I need to change my pc to see if I can get a referal to see the doctor I need to. We have a grand country. Adding @etherphon@piefed.world to let you know how it would be tough even if you did.
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yeah wtf is that. so they would give you the shot if you had not stepped on a nail? what medical we have here is basically theater.
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Obviously everything is off, we’re falling into tyranny. Anybody wants to take action, look in my post history or PM me.
WB Yeats thought things were off back in 1919.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Michael_Robartes_and_the_Dancer/The_Second_Coming
Time freakin moves, buddy. Like MOVES. Like HAS motion. It’s crazy how quick the days/weeks/months freaking fly by.
Well Max Laughlin thinks that since the LHC went on we switched dimensions or some shit so maybe thats it
Gravity seems extra strong some mornings.
And yellow coloured things seem to whine at a slightly higher octave than normal.
I noticed that most articles have this strange AI feeling to them, I can’t say what specificaly, but I kust know.
off how?
Just a bit… Hinkey.
What dose of GP1s are you on because they really do that
Not on any of that.
Everyone seems scared to talk about what they’re scared of even though we all know. Even around the like-minded. It’s like saying it out loud makes it real and worse.
we are living in a panopticon and people know anything they do or say can and will be used against them, no matter how harmless or obvious.
It’s been off since covid for me. 2020 is where I lost a lot of faith in humanity. Masks off (literally) on selfishness, greed, fascism, and anti-intellectualism. Corruption blatantly on display. Decorum and civility have taken a massive hit. It’s been downhill since.
Masks off (literally) on selfishness, greed, fascism, and anti-intellectualism.
If only there had been a higher delta in survivability between the vaxxed and unvaxxed, the pro-plague nutters could have removed themselves more thoroughly and effectively from existence.
Unfortunately far too many of them still walk among us.
2016 for me. The moment a person like Donald Trump can win a presidential election is the moment that decency was completely dead. The worst people were suddenly empowered to be as terrible as they want to be. They felt justified in their racism, bigotry, disrespect for others, and hatred. It’s only been stoked more and more since then. Then, yes, Covid was the gasoline on the fire.
whats funny is it happened close to brexit. I had a friend were I was making fun like but I will be sober in the morning thing because we would just have the term and be done with it but then I found out it was not so temporary.
