summer of 2020, any odd things you are noticing?

More bugs than usual. First time in decades I've seen ants in my house.

So much more peaceful here, than it was during any other summer.
The sky is bluer and the air smells fresher.
People honking their horns at the neighbours more, when coming by the house.
OPP cruiser poaching across the house for more speeders..
Otherwise everything seems normal around here.

Haha!





I thought of something that seems really strange and sad to me. In those lines where you have to wait to get into the grocery store, even though everyone is spaced 6 feet apart, nobody talks to each other. I try, and will say something like - hey I like your mask - but it goes flat.

It's like being around a bunch of broken spirits.

There was a little kid that was watching me in line today and I put my hand up and waved to her and she waved back.



Last Edited by ~Sloane~ on 06/17/2020 06:32 PM

Awww, broken spirits, that's exactly it! My kids and I went hiking the other day and some lady and her kid walked past and they said "hi guys" and it was like they were our friends and it was sad my kids couldn't play with that little girl.

AND THEN, on the radio they made an announcement that in July all new Christmas movies are going to be on the Hallmark channel I think. WTF

:byefelicia:

There’s a sale stores they called, “Christmas in July”.

:lmgrumpysanta:

Yes, I noticed people are desperate, especially single people who want to steal someone’s spouse. It’s like they know it’s the true end...

Anywho, not happening on my watch. Home wreckers can fuck right off into their lonely h3ll.

You're an idiot voting for a demented pedophile talking gibberish, then?

my mum is blooming. Started a week ago... the sun blinds and burns more and more fiercely... Oh yeah, and it's beginning to look a lot like Communism

Hey those are nice napkins! For now they can serve as a summer covid virus print and in the winter a lovely snowflake.

I actually like them :)

Im noticing that people are not worthing uniting with and fighting for.

Civilization was a con job, not falling for it anymore.

Caveman here.

Thread: Supply chain issues from an insider.

That is both sweet & a bit sad. It makes me realize that kids don’t get to see our expressions much, now. A few years back, I started noticing a lot more kids seemed to need speech therapy and were unable to verbally communicate at the age you’d normally expect. It took them a good amount of time to get up to speed, and caused various struggles.

At the time, I kept wondering what was going on... then realized how much time their families spent on their phones. “Talking” with friends was primarily texting, which limited the children’s exposure to spoken language.

Now, people are also gravitating away from TV. And they have headphones on much of the time, personalizing their content to watching videos that they like and the rest of their family may not be interested in. Several people in one room can be seen with headphones on, laughing to themselves.

A child in that environment is largely left out, but often given an old phone or tablet to play with. Their “friend” becomes the device, because it responds and interacts in ways the humans may not.

Now, add to this the layer of very distanced and impersonal interactions when they are out shopping. No friendly strangers to converse or joke with. Many times, not even a friendly cashier to assist with their purchases. No expressions to learn from. Just people staying suspiciously away from each other, covering their faces and looking away as they grab what they need, hurry to the front of the store, and proceed through self-checkout.

What effect does this have on developing kids?

Fire? Oh sorry that's so lame

Wondering how the sweaty salt is doing in the oceans.

I see compliance fatigue. Most people are following the guidelines well but also most are really getting sick of it.

Also - we listen to the scientists...

Really - and these scientists are what? economists.

BBC had one thing right - schools should be first open last shut.

First thing I've noticed is building materials are hard to find, here in New York State.

Lowes, Home Depot very low on basic construction wood and fasteners.

I'm heading back to the mason supply dept, wiped out.

It's frustrating, I won't be bidding on any jobs because without materials...

And where are those Mexicans labor types at, they are not in the parking lot anymore, seriously.

This is the Canary in the coal mine.

And yet the parking lot is full o cars and trucks.

WTF?

The humidity seems lower and thus the heat seems lower here. It's surprising as it would be fine camping weather far more frequently than normal. The typical heat absorbtion into a thermal mass like a large rock seems less.

I truly think a mini-Ice Age is coming.

same with fireflies, only saw a few outside this summer - normally some summers ive looked into a field and they make it almost dreamlike

they are there trying to be a freezer finding out there arent any

buy*

it's trauma based mind control.

the mask thing is possibly the worst kind of oppression because it hides behind plausible deniability and is soft and subtle in the way it silently crushes humanity beyond a millimeter of cotton.

it's not out in the open and obvious where people would be unified in condemning it. it's genius level tactics of tyranny.

back before aldis made masks mandatory, when i still shopped there but during the full hysteria a few months ago - a little girl was struggling getting her quarter out of the cart she returned. i offered mine and she took it without hesitation with a nice thank you. incredibly refreshing. she hadn't "learned" this twisted fear of others that the media has foisted on us. she just did what was natural and normal without hesitation.

fight for the kids - they are after them more than anything.

everything is odd this year

Whole Foods looked like a grocery in a slum in a third world country! Empty shelves. ALL the bins that are normally filled with nuts, etc. empty. Isles now cavernously large. Cashiers almost non existant with lines to pay very long. Communist commissaries with rationing coming quickly i’m afraid!