doomer

It's just going to be crabs in a bucket until we all die, huh?

People are just going to get more and more fash, aren't they?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4672509

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However, scientists are increasingly concerned that carbon dioxide levels are not falling fast enough

The more interesting news is co2 levels are falling, when did that happen? Last thing I saw was us breaking through 430ppm.

Several countries in the region have already issued drought warnings, with upcoming harvests and access to water at risk for populations already facing longer, hotter, and more frequent heatwaves.

It urged countries that rely on the 12 major river basins in the region to develop "improved water management, stronger drought preparedness, better early warning systems, and greater regional cooperation."

"Carbon emissions have already locked in an irreversible course of recurrent snow anomalies in the HKH (Hindu Kush-Himalayas)," Gyamtsho said.

Born like this

Into this

As the chalk faces smile

As Mrs. Death laughs

As the elevators break

As political landscapes dissolve

As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree

As the oily fish spit out their oily prey

As the sun is masked

We are

Born like this

Into this

Into these carefully mad wars

Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness

Into bars where people no longer speak to each other

Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings

Born into this

Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die

Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty

Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed

Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

Born into this

Walking and living through this

Dying because of this

Muted because of this

Castrated

Debauched

Disinherited

Because of this

Fooled by this

Used by this

Pissed on by this

Made crazy and sick by this

Made violent

Made inhuman

By this

The heart is blackened

The fingers reach for the throat

The gun

The knife

The bomb

The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god

The fingers reach for the bottle

The pill

The powder

We are born into this sorrowful deadliness

Money will be useless

There will be open and unpunished murder in the streets

It will be guns and roving mobs

Land will be useless

Food will become a diminishing return

Nuclear power will be taken over by the many

Explosions will continually shake the earth

Radiated robot men will stalk each other

The rich and the chosen will watch from space platforms

Dante’s Inferno will be made to look like a children’s playground

The sun will not be seen and it will always be night

Trees will die

All vegetation will die

Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men

The sea will be poisoned

The lakes and rivers will vanish

Rain will be the new gold

The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind

The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases

And the space platforms will be destroyed by attrition

The petering out of supplies

The natural effect of general decay

And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard

Born out of that.

The sun still hidden there

Awaiting the next chapter.

• Charles Bukowski

I recently bought the family a new vehicle from an official dealer, needed for their contractor job and as a family car. The fucking sleazy salesperson used my contact information from the purchase to call me during dinnertime and try to sell me on this side hustle pyramid scheme FiNaNCiaL SeRviCeS seminar.

First of all, I just gave you a big-ass commission from buying this big-ass car with $10k of MarKeT AdJusTmeNtS. Then you have the audacity to use my PII from your job to insult my intelligence by trying to pyramid scheme me?

This got me thinking on the prevalence of the modern American "scam economy" and how it signals the ongoing collapse of the capitalist world. Not only are workers paid a penny for every dollar of profit their labor generates, they must take second jobs just to make ends meet (generating even more stolen profit) while being wrung out by seemingly endless scams.

Legalized online gambling, pyramid schemes, timeshare offers, payday loans, rent-to-own stores, endless side hustles, thrift store flipping, dropshipping tutorials, MLMs, crypto rugpulls, identity theft, US health insurance, TurboTax scams, student loans. I mean the list just goes on endlessly. Not to mention the "zombie economy" of simultaneous stagnant wages, increasing inflation, and decreasing quality of goods.

It's exhausting even while knowing exactly how these all work, I genuinely can't imagine how disappointing this must be for the average worker who can't even tell between a scam and a savior. Is ignorance bliss?

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the topic - any relevant reading recommendations? Lived experiences? I am trying to find my footing with local PSL after a move, but my plan has always been to stay armed and hope my organization can fill the gap once the liberal "rule of law" fails. However, it does seem like imperial society is moving more towards technofeudalism enforced by advanced surveillance and extreme violence that will maintain that veneer of liberal rule of law thus preventing total collapse and wide-scale revolution.

Will the workers truly only wake up when the mass starvation starts? Can the miracle of the early CPC's struggle for survival be replicated in modern times?

https://archive.ph/632Me

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2025/04/ending-cooperative-agreements-funding-princeton-university

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the Department’s financial assistance programs against National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (“NOAA”) current program objectives. In addition, the ending of these award programs will streamline and reduce the cost and size of the Federal Government, consistent with President Trump’s promise for his Administration.

The Department of Commerce is delivering on that promise.

Specifically, the following awards to Princeton are no longer aligned with the program objectives of NOAA, a sub-agency of the Department of Commerce, and are no longer in keeping with the Trump Administration’s priorities:

• Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System I: This cooperative agreement promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as “climate anxiety,” which has increased significantly among America’s youth. Its focus on alarming climate scenarios fosters fear rather than rational, balanced discussion. Additionally, the use of federal funds to support these narratives, including educational initiatives aimed at K-12 students, is misaligned with the administration's priorities. NOAA will no longer fund these initiatives.

• Climate Risks & Interactive Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Predictability: This cooperative agreement suggests that the Earth will have a significant fluctuation in its water availability as a result of global warming. Using federal funds to perpetuate these narratives does not align with the priorities of this Administration and such time and resources can be better utilized elsewhere.

• Advancing Prediction: A Regional Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model for High Resolution Physical Process Studies of the Air Sea Interface: This cooperative agreement has used its resources to assess risks associated with climate change, including alleged changes to precipitation patterns and sea-level rise. It also aims to address coastal inundation while other more targeted research efforts are addressing this issue. Additionally, the cost of simulating this program’s specific atmosphere-ocean-wave interactions is exceedingly high, diverting resources from more practical and cost-effective solutions.

For these reasons, the Department of Commerce will not continue funding these multi-year awards to Princeton University, saving the United States taxpayer millions of dollars in the process effective June 30, 2025. The Department will, of course, continue to review its outstanding cooperative agreements, grant awards, and other financial assistance on an individualized basis to avoid wasteful governmental spending—whether they be to Princeton or any other recipient.

In doing so, the Department will be doing its part to continue to “right size” the Federal Government. Reducing and streamlining the Department of Commerce’s external financial assistance programs is a key part of its efforts to be a responsible steward of federal funding from hard-working American taxpayers.

Bureaus and Offices

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

USDA.gov

Their disease filled wet markets vs our modern farming

It is just incomprehensible to me how I am asked to upgrade to a the next “tier” for something as simple as a data model shape. I’m not kidding when I say this is something you could easily create in something like paint (and/or apply the techniques from these ubiquitous LLM slop machines into an effective use case. Instead, you get priced at increasing 5 dollar intervals so you can now place an attribute with more lines.

I’m really trying to accept this shit, I really am, but it just becomes even more absurd the more I look into it. Doesn’t seem ridiculous to claim that a majority of the value we get from technology is predicated on people’s ignorance, and it’s kind of hard not to see at this point. But that’s ignorance that you and I have to deal with every day for the rest of our lives, especially as things become increasingly digital. The ominous nature of this shit continues to show signs at every corner, yet everyone in my life is still using it without a critical thought. I have many of those if you couldn’t tell.

I truly just want to take all of this shit I’ve learned about capitalism and tech and turn it all off.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has said northern and central states - including Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat - can expect maximum temperatures to cross 40C.

Northern India usually sees heatwaves between April and June, but in recent years, global warming and climate change have caused extreme temperatures to arrive earlier and last longer.

"We go straight from winter to summer; the spring season in northern India is shrinking"

India is/is going to be hit so hard by climate change. Its heartbreaking knowing what is coming. Things are going to get so bad in the coming decade(s).

1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination

2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids

3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally

4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

The source is this Bluesky post - https://subium.com/profile/elizabethjacobs.bsky.social/post/3lm5nwb3tzk2a

I had to do a lot of copy-and-pasting. Let me know if I screwed anything up.

Rant. It was so fucking dumb of Bluesky to clone the dumbest layout choices of Twitter.

I edited it for clarity. Axios's super-overly clever layout sucks shit.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. late Saturday was planning a hastily arranged visit to Texas after the state informed his department that a second child's death there could be linked to measles.

The death that triggered Kennedy's trip is under investigation. The child involved was a member of the same Mennonite religious community that in February reported the death of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who had had measles. Kennedy has been sharply criticized for downplaying the risk of the virus and the efficacy of vaccines for them. He's not expected to echo mainstream medical experts who are worried about his leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Details of Kennedy's trip to the Lubbock, Texas, area are being closely guarded by his press-averse department, but the White House was informed of his travel plans Saturday. "This was a surprise trip," an administration official said, noting it coincided with the "tragic" death of a second child that could stem from measles. Texas has the nation's highest number of reported measles cases — 481 since late January. The nation's first confirmed death of a child with measles occurred in Texas on Feb. 26.

The parents of that child are Mennonites and have said they stood by their decision not to vaccinate. White House officials have wanted Kennedy to travel more and take ownership of HHS, so his Texas trip could be seen as a first step in a more public-facing role. A spokesperson for HHS could not be reached Saturday.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/06/rfk-jr-measles-texas-trip

I'm graduating next month and I haven't been able to find a job in my field (biology). I've signed up for plenty of internships only for them to either reject me or say they're not hiring anymore due to lack of funding (thanks DOGE). On top of that, shit's gonna be expensive when I get out. And then I also reading and hearing about the injustices still going on, specifically the genocide in Gaza it just, I'm exhausted. I need bad things to happen to people in power immediately I'm just so fucking tired.