The empire is collapsing in real times, imagine when climate change get worse :amerikkka:
Climate change is already making the evil empire crumble. We may be smug about the dumb Americans in other parts of the imperial core and pat ourselves on the back for being more civilised but the Texan collapse is just the beginning.
The US is the most vulnerable part of the empire due to decades of liberal extremists stripping the public sector and neglecting the upkeep of public services. In other parts of the imperial core social democratic reforms still holds society together.
But these reforms cannot hold forever. They are constantly being watered down and while they might be better able to handle an extra snowstorm now and then they will fail catastrophically when climate change turns most of Italy and Spain into a desert.
What we see today in Texas is the future that awaits France, Germany, Scandinavia, Canada etc.
when climate change turns most of Italy and Spain into a desert.
what will it turn Canada into?
Or we’re just becoming hardened to deaths from so-called “natural disasters” the way we did with school shootings a few years ago
Swing wildly between people will care and won't care.
People will care. They will be scared and they will fail prey to fascists promising them safety.
Excellently stated, venerable Goddess Demeter! I'm reminded once more of your vast experience - though, I think we all prefer our water liquidy, isn't that right, Nephew?
My grandparents 30+ year old ranch house out in bumfuck nowhere burnt to the ground due to an electrical fire causes by all the onoff oitages. They loste verything but are alive thankfully.
They could have done something. They chose not to. Remember that
Hahaha How The Fuck Is Water Too Cold To Fight Fires Hahahaha Just Melt The Water With The Fire Hahaha
Things are really going to get wild when the Gulf Stream stops warming Europe and we all discover one winter just how far north of the equator we all live over here
how long until libs start linking random shit to Russia in order to cope?
the Lincoln Project pederast guy is only being attacked because of Russian propaganda
As long as americans have someone else to blame this on other than the government things will continue to stay this way.
Crisis doesn't have a really great profit motive. Why we left the people in New Orleans underwater for weeks.
It's actually insulting to third world countries to lump the USA in with them. At least they can handle crises without the 1% picking off the carcass.
To think this was all caused by.... (spins the wheel) : Russian Hackers
I knew it was them. Even when I didn't think it was them, I knew it was them.
After dirty bombs went away, the big threat terrorism-wise became our godawful national energy grid and how vulnerable it could be to hacking. With that recent attempt to poison the water supply of a city with lye, only stopped by one employee seeing the percentages being off, that's also a point of extreme vulnerability.
I would be curious to see what hackers could do in a moment like this. One state is having a Hurricane Katrina-level crisis. If it was pushed just a little further, that could be months without power in the state with the second highest GDP. Other states, including mine which is facing a stressed power grid with fully winterised infrastructure, are vulnerable in a kind of freak weather event that will only become more normal. The state with the highest GDP, California, is now perpetually on fire and its water supply is essential to combating the thing happening around its electrical grid.
As a propagandist threat Internet Research Agency rooskies are liberal hysteria. How many nerds did we need to put in a room to attack an Iranian nuclear power plant though? While this crisis isn't Putin scheming on an island shaped like a human skull, I think it gives a neat/horrifying preview of what hackers could cause or exacerbate. You don't need to be 100% successful and have 100% control of the national grid to seize on a moment like this. Fuck up that last 10% of the grid that states are depending on and it'd be an unprecedented cascading crisis.
Russian hackers have surpassed hacking into The Cloud and are now hacking the clouds confirmed.
Tfw Capitalist innovation is just building everything out of petroleum
made me look at all modern residential construction in a new way. i don't know how to rent a safe place lol.
I had lived in one and it was the worst rental experience I've had. At least I didn't have mice. Now I don't want to rent anything built after 1980.
At least in my area, there were a few waves of building. I've lived in buildings built in the 60's, 70's and 2000s. The latter was the 5 over 1.
The older buildings are built lower, usually max 3-4 floors, but build with concrete cinderblocks and bricks, with wood framing inside for interior walls. This has a few benefits, less flammable, less noise between apartments, generally feels more solid, and any bugs have usually been worked out decades ago.
in the 5over1 apartment I lived in, you could distinctly hear other conversations anywhere in the apartment, the windows leaked like a sieve every time it rained, and I mean like a loot of water. I'd have to put bowls down because towels were futile. It was so big that you had to park far away from your apartment, which meant every time you bought groceries, it'd be a multiple pass hike up and down 3 flights of weather exposed stairs. The grass in the courtyard was plastic. Just built very cheaply but made to look "nice". So people with money flock to the 5over1s and neglect the older condo complexes which generally are nicer to live in without losing a single amenity, sometimes gaining them.
My old place we had to pay for a garbage service which would take a single bag from outside your door in their provided trash can each night except for weekends. In the older buildings, theres an easy to access trash room and condo fees pay for the trash to be taken a few times a week.
this is more or less a rant about my experiences but I'm still pissed I gave that corporate apartment company money. Landlords are trash but at least the smaller landlords through smaller property management companies tend to be easier to deal with and easier to get better prices with.
Please, even some "Third World Countries" guarantee healthcare and education to their citizens.
Anecdote: years ago I was in a conversation with a Chinese (as in, PRC citizen who came to the US on a visa) fellow grad student and the topic turned to the worn-down parts of the city our campus was in and near, dilapidated, neglected, and likely overly-policed neighborhoods lived in by predominantly Black and brown renters (including some African and Latin-American diaspora), the sort of "inner-city" ghetto neighborhood depicted in Black gangster films. He said walking through that neighborhood was like visiting a "fourth world country".
This probably happened because there's no fucking clean water, and you have to burn random shit to boil it.
