Panic stations

yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
sufi said:
I heard from someone who experienced Somalia's disintegration that this is how it starts
Fuel and food panics

Obvs the situation is rather different from Somalia '91, but it's so telling that the UKgov can't reassure peopleenough to stop emptying the petrol stations and supermarkets.
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it's also what created the yellow vests in france, they lost some momentum but are still there.

something weird is going on at the moment. in europe the gas price is also soaring and the housing market is exploding, breaking records after record. everything is getting more expensive.
 
sufi

sufi

lala
yyaldrin said:
it's also what created the yellow vests in france, they lost some momentum but are still there.

something weird is going on at the moment. in europe the gas price is also soaring and the housing market is exploding, breaking records after record. everything is getting more expensive.
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Mass panic is an incredibly powerful social force - MPs and bosses and leaders are as chaff in the wind of a juicy moral panic,
as @padraig (u.s.) pointed out though, its very dangerous even more so when exploited by populists and toxic media
however it's also quite independent of established power structures and so has potential to smash the overton window into smithereens
we really need to hone our meme warfare
 
sufi

sufi

lala
Kill the pigs
www.theguardian.com

Up to 120,000 pigs in UK face culling due to lack of abattoir workers

National Pig Association fears ‘acute welfare disaster’ within weeks if farmers cannot get stock processed
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
now it's lack of staff - 2 weeks ago they were saying it was due to not having enough CO2 wtf ffs
www.theguardian.com

UK carbon dioxide shortage could force farmers to cull pigs

Soaring energy prices slow production of gas used to stun animals before slaughter in abattoirs
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

those pigs fate is sealed it seems, the gammons have truly got it in for them, full english brexit
 
sufi

sufi

lala
The pandemic has been so boring, we have forgotten how excited we felt when yeast was not available for 24 hours - my neighbour who works in sinburys smuggled us a packet, like we were gonna get starvated enough to start baking our own bread

weird times prefiguring the big squeeze we're apparently about to face
 
luka

luka

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i remember how brilliant it was walking into the mega Asda at Mudchute and the whole thing had been stripped out. totally decimated. it looked incredible. i think i was able to buy some organic brown rice though.
 
sufi

sufi

lala
Yeh, Palmers Green Morrison emptied out in April 2020 (ish) stripped shelves, smashed items, strewn litter and abandoned trolleys all over, only a few undesirable and obscure products left behind

those first few days noone knew how to behave, nothing like "social distancing" in the sprwaling fractious queues, everyone on the edge of panic, but with no script

Having never experienced anything similar, it felt to me most like that last desperate shop before the xmas hols, i wanted to tell people" have a lovely pandemic" see you in January, maybe january 2023 or maybe never
 
Leo

Leo

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people wearing rubber gloves at the market, and washing their purchases (not just fruit/veg, but boxes of things too) when they got home. have to admit we bought a huge jar of Nutella, figured what the hell, right?
 
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