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.
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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.
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.)
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?
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.
Government handouts for grain and meat production.
I think it's mass anxiety caused by uncertainty across the board.
Political uncertainty as far right and authoritarian movements pick up speed in various democracies.
Labor market uncertainties due to companies tightening their belts in the face of economic uncertainty, and trying to replace workers with AI.
Economic uncertainty due to wars disrupting energy and supply chains and the looming specter of recession/depression.
Geopolitical uncertainty due to several ongoing wars and several tense situations that could devolve into actual conflicts, not to mention the major paradigm shift happening where the US is actively ceding its position as a global leader to China.
Climate uncertainty as we refuse to address climate change and burn mountains of coal to power plagiarized chat bots.
The weirdest part is everybody is for the most part pretending everything is normal while silently being anxious on their own.
Those are symptoms not the problem.
The problem is we're densely packed and scarce on resources. Humans adapted for that, because we populate insanely fast and would constantly hit the limit that land could support.
The downside is that adaptation was us killing each other in the absence of natural predators.
It's all wired up inside of us, like the same neurochemical that causes group/family bonding making people (especially men) have very strong negative feelings about anyone they weren't exposed to when young, because those groups didn't make the cut for "in-group".
None of this is new and it shouldn't be shocking.
The oligarchs have been exploiting it for centuries. Everytime there's one dude with everyone else's money, he's always pointing to an out-group member and blaming them.
We don't have time to treat symptoms anymore, we need to fix the actual problem: oligarchs.
we need to fix the actual problem: oligarchs.
the problem is, nobody is angry enough yet to do what needs to be done.
there is no peaceful solution to this problem. as soon as the oligarchs stop deserving to live in houses with unbroken windows and unburnt lawns, we'll be ready for the solution.
Honestly glad it not just me that realizes everyone is pretending
Honestly a lot of people around me are not pretending when you talk to them. They acknowledge it. They just dont know what to do on an individual level, trapped in their individual situations.
That's been my experience as well. A lot of discussions that used to be an occasional hypothetical now happen more frequently and are a lot more brass tacky:
- what do we do if the federal government collapses / splits? Flee or hunker down? Either way, where?
- How are we going to get food and water over the next few years?
- how do we keep ourselves and our neighbors safe from the snatchers?
- how do we maintain supply lines for medications over the next few years?
We are all long on questions and short on answers. but the questions are bubbling up to the surface more quickly as more people catch on to the fact that the US is out of control. Donald Trump is literally building a bunker compound, or trying to anyway. He's not leaving that office without a fight. The situation on the ground in the US is bad right now, but it's going to get a lot uglier before it gets better.
I told my wife i was feeling really anxious today. I think that freaked her out more than anything. She was like, "but you dont get anxious!"
Well damn love, today I am.
It's the opposite for me. If I told my spouse I was feeling relaxed and calm she'd start to get worried.
Well fuck me, that'll do it
The largest empire in the history of the world is in the middle stages of Mad King Disease, that sort of thing has ripple effects.
Feels like everyone I know, myself included, has had some kind of mental breakdown in the past few months. Life has become fucking crazy.
I've felt everything was off since I could form memories. Just another day in the pointless cruel universe.
I've felt totally off since I got sick after a flight I took home from visiting my sister in Oregon last year, haven't really felt the same since, not sick anymore, just.. off. But a lot of the other people have great reasonings too.
Ya know a dr can do some tests for ya
What dose of GP1s are you on because they really do that
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.
It's not just you. In my area people are driving worse, people are being less patient, and folks seem to be getting weirder. Hell, I just had to delete an article about skinning a cat from a vegan discord group. I have no idea what's going on, but I'd guess it's stress, weather, and endless conflict weighing on people.
Can you give us any examples? Personally, I just finished doing a series of highly weighted uni assignments so for about 3 weeks everything was off in the world and suddenly jumping into traffic felt very alluring, lol.
Maybe it's just me or an American thing but everything seems like it's changed. People seem to just be surviving. Nobody wants to do anything anymore. Nobody can afford to do anything anymore. People don't really talk to each other much. Etc
It’s not just you. Majority of Americans don’t have even $1,000 in savings. The Iran war has been dragging for weeks and weeks and gas and groceries are only getting higher. People are feeling the pinch.
That struggle is very real and has been for a long time.
There are lawyers fighting for civil rights and elections happening, plenty going on, but there is also a mass disillusionment about the undeniable disadvantages of living in the US that you're picking up on.
I started living abroad 15 years ago because of the broken social compact in the US and it is shocking how much worse the US got so quickly since then.
It's very comfortable living abroad, way cheaper, better food, better medical care, better a bunch of stuff. Head over to Travel or shoot me a message if you're interested.
Which country to you move to?
All over. I like learning and exploring, so I move every few months. I'm in Mongolia right now.
Starting out from the US, Medellin is very comfortable, Cusco is great too. If you're up for Asia, Thailand is amazing.
You can also stay in a single country longer or permanently, I move around because I like to.
That’s been an ongoing problem since 2008
Not really, at least for me it's the same cycle of breaking into petting zoos that I'm banned from and getting kicked out/arrested or being told to stay away from people's pet's by angry and terrified owners
What's different for you?