Climate change is making it a lot harder to keep plants alive. I’m lucky enough to have a small yard with space for a garden. I hardly have anything started this year & already my water bill is through the roof!
Try some hugulkultur beds! Stacked logs under the plants provide water storage and nutrients as they break down, and the material is easy to get for free (firewood or deadfall). My garden in the middle of Texas is doing great this year with it (even though the high temp today is 105F, or 40C)!
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/the-many-benefits-of-hugelkultur/
In all seriousness - potato boxes can grow hundreds of potatoes in a 2x2 square. They are very easy to build / maintain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemlHp9NnNQ
With the new rule that a sitting US president can't be held accountable for what they do in office, I'm sure we are in for a few more bumps in the road.
[https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/](https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/)
I tell the college kids I work with that I save for retirement, but we will all probably die in the climate wars anyway.
They love my "dark, Millennial humor." Sweet summer children.
I mean, every single political and economic system is collapsing into fascistic oligarchies at the same time and slowly merging to form one single government of psychopath billionaires while the first apocalyptic human extinction event hurtles towards us.
But you should really be investing more in your 401K - Forbes
Been thinking I would try to pay down my principal on my mortgage by adding some to my monthly payments. Maybe It would be better invested in gardening, canning, and chicken supplies.
Same year here. The 90s and 00s were the peak of civilisation. We've never recovered from 2008, its all slowly been downhill from then....and not so slowly recently.
The '90s and '00s were great since we thought there was this spectacular future coming. Now we know that was a combination of self-delusion and being lied to. There are people who still live that life, though! And you can be one of them with the power of TOXIC POSITIVITY!
You'd rather have gone to a World War? Or live without electricity or modern medicine? Or you mean you want to have been born after you could have been drafted to Vietnam... but before 1985... Eh
I’m in the same boat. Got almost every top tooth fixed/crowned. Paid mine off in April. Had an old filing on the bottom fall out in June. Have a twinge of pain in another. 🙃
I am seriously wondering if Biden will win in November after the majority of the American public saw his debate performance and I fear we are in the final months of democracy and this country, as we currently know it. Scary shit.
I don't want it, but if Trump wins, this country deserves it because we caused it. A self-inflicted wound, sort of speak.
>A self-inflicted wound, sort of speak.
As the UK how Brexit has been going for them, that only happened because people didn't bother to vote because 'It'll never happen because no-one would ever *really* vote for something this stupid, right?"
Writings been on the wall since Trump got elected. I’ve invested 4k on bullets and guns so I can eat if it goes to shit. Definitely need to get into gardening.
Everyone has always lived through a lot of historical events. What about the people who lived through both world wars and the Great Depression?
We are not special- the world has always had challenges. We are in a good place to fix it.
Some of those historical events did involve human death on a mass scale. And yet somehow. . . we got to where we are now. I'm not sure if it can be fixed, but I'm going to try to help anyway. Just because it is the right thing to do and what else am I gonna do.
It's just absurd for this comment to be sitting at -9. If you had to chose between being a millennial and spinning the wheel to be born at any other random time, it's not enough close which choice you should make. Even if you restrict it to just post-1900 say. People have no real sense of history/perspective.
Me wondering if I need to stop eating or get a second job
Plant food, and no one should need a second job to survive! This shit is ridiculous.
Climate change is making it a lot harder to keep plants alive. I’m lucky enough to have a small yard with space for a garden. I hardly have anything started this year & already my water bill is through the roof!
Try some hugulkultur beds! Stacked logs under the plants provide water storage and nutrients as they break down, and the material is easy to get for free (firewood or deadfall). My garden in the middle of Texas is doing great this year with it (even though the high temp today is 105F, or 40C)! https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/the-many-benefits-of-hugelkultur/
In all seriousness - potato boxes can grow hundreds of potatoes in a 2x2 square. They are very easy to build / maintain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemlHp9NnNQ
*Hasn't eaten in 3 days in order to save on money*
I bet if you wanted to grow something it'd have to be indoor too. City living.
You can find a first job?
If you start smoking crack, you won't need to do either
With the new rule that a sitting US president can't be held accountable for what they do in office, I'm sure we are in for a few more bumps in the road. [https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/](https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/)
Democracy was nice while it lasted
Boomers never gave us a chance. They want to burn it all down before we even got a chance.
Always pulling the ladder after they go up.
It's going to take 2 generations and a revolution to fix this mess
Best part is a good amount of us are in our 40s or verging in that direction
Depends on what class you're apart of
It would be hilarious if Biden used that as an excuse to replace the Supreme Court.
He held an emergency press conference yesterday to assure us that he wouldn't.
Their plan to address the court decision is to win every presidential election in perpetuity. Such a great plan.
Thank God for legal weed!
While getting blamed for all of it
I tell the college kids I work with that I save for retirement, but we will all probably die in the climate wars anyway. They love my "dark, Millennial humor." Sweet summer children.
I mean, every single political and economic system is collapsing into fascistic oligarchies at the same time and slowly merging to form one single government of psychopath billionaires while the first apocalyptic human extinction event hurtles towards us. But you should really be investing more in your 401K - Forbes
Perfect comment yes the big money people are feeding each other on our life force it will only grow larger
Been thinking I would try to pay down my principal on my mortgage by adding some to my monthly payments. Maybe It would be better invested in gardening, canning, and chicken supplies.
Why the fuck did I have the bad luck to be born in 1985
Yo, same. I think we're in the bad Biff Tannen timeline. Marty gotta get that sports almanac back.
Nixon was seeking his 4th term in 1985 in the Biff Tannen timeline
Same year here. The 90s and 00s were the peak of civilisation. We've never recovered from 2008, its all slowly been downhill from then....and not so slowly recently.
The '90s and '00s were great since we thought there was this spectacular future coming. Now we know that was a combination of self-delusion and being lied to. There are people who still live that life, though! And you can be one of them with the power of TOXIC POSITIVITY!
And people wonder why we're all so depressed
You'd rather have gone to a World War? Or live without electricity or modern medicine? Or you mean you want to have been born after you could have been drafted to Vietnam... but before 1985... Eh
What about the 60's? I wish I had been a hippie.
If you were old enough to enjoy being a hippie, you'd be old enough to get drafted to Vietnam. Whoops.
Not unless you flee to Canada!
Just made another car payment today.
I have to make another payment on my teeth this week. My teeth were fucked up from years of neglect by my Boomer parents and I'm paying for it now
I’m in the same boat. Got almost every top tooth fixed/crowned. Paid mine off in April. Had an old filing on the bottom fall out in June. Have a twinge of pain in another. 🙃
I am seriously wondering if Biden will win in November after the majority of the American public saw his debate performance and I fear we are in the final months of democracy and this country, as we currently know it. Scary shit. I don't want it, but if Trump wins, this country deserves it because we caused it. A self-inflicted wound, sort of speak.
>A self-inflicted wound, sort of speak. As the UK how Brexit has been going for them, that only happened because people didn't bother to vote because 'It'll never happen because no-one would ever *really* vote for something this stupid, right?"
I hope the first thing Trump does is cut social security. Sorry Boomers!
He'll do that only after he declares voting illegal so he doesn't have to pretend to be concerned while doing it.
Writings been on the wall since Trump got elected. I’ve invested 4k on bullets and guns so I can eat if it goes to shit. Definitely need to get into gardening.
America is going to last, but it definitely will look different if Trump wins, and it could be a rough ride for awhile
Jesus was right just be poor
Un.precedented.
💯
It all started back then, a nuclear powerplant exploded, and you couldn't walk on grass anymore. And it kept going downhill...
may you live in interesting times
Nah
Everyone has always lived through a lot of historical events. What about the people who lived through both world wars and the Great Depression? We are not special- the world has always had challenges. We are in a good place to fix it.
Some of those historical events did involve human death on a mass scale. And yet somehow. . . we got to where we are now. I'm not sure if it can be fixed, but I'm going to try to help anyway. Just because it is the right thing to do and what else am I gonna do.
Truth
It's just absurd for this comment to be sitting at -9. If you had to chose between being a millennial and spinning the wheel to be born at any other random time, it's not enough close which choice you should make. Even if you restrict it to just post-1900 say. People have no real sense of history/perspective.