The Rehab Nightmare
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on October 18, 2020
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I'm on the cusp of leaving the succor and care of our medical industry for further adventures in Home Care, to see how "independent" I can actually remain before I need to be dumped full time into Assisted Care Living prior to buying my ticket to the great beyond. Unfortunately there is no assisted suicide parlors around here, so my meat package has to go somewhere in this limbo-land between life and death.
I get released from the rehab facility Monday. Not because I am healed, but because I have used up the 20 days Medicare pays for. I am still in terrific pain and have no idea really how I will manage to continue to live on my own as we move along here. I'll be getting some home health care, Physical Therapy and Wound Care amd I'll employ one of my UE neighbors for household tasks, but I'll still be on my own most of the time. This is a good time to have a family to fall back on, […] Continue Reading…
COVID Care Comparison: Rich vs Poor
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on October 14, 2020
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Collapse, you say? Part 2: Inputs and Outputs
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Published on The Easiest Person to Fool on September 29, 2020
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Waves breaking along the Lake Huron shore—and this on a relatively quiet day.
The title of this series of posts comes from the typical reaction you get when suggesting that our civiiization might be collapsing, "Collapse you say, surely not!" In my last post I said that I am convinced it is already happening or at least will happen at some point soon. Then I went on to explain what I mean by collapse—the process by which a civilization declines in its ability to provide the necessities of life to its members, the end result being that people are forced to fend for themselves or perish.
It seems to me that this is in fact happening today—that for all but a tiny minority at the "top", things are getting continually worse. The how and why of this process is the subject of this post and the ones that follow it.
The means of production and distribution that provide us with the necessities of life in modern industrial civilization require certain inputs and produce certain outputs. […] Continue Reading…
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Industrial Civlization in Intensive Care: The Generational Blame Game
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on October 7, 2020
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Before going on to the closing act of this ran't, I just want to express my thanks to the Lurkers and Viewers who don't post up much but when they do contribute they carry a Big Stick and they don't do it for the accolades or attention. Today's thanks go out to a Lurker from Poland and to another Krippled Kollapsnik doing the ExPat Tango down in Old Mejico. They are probably among the most financially challenged Diners, yet they gave among the largest of Donations this weekg. One thing you will always find true is that the poorer someone is, the more generous they are.
OK, let's get back and close out the rant.
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Industrial Civilization Collapse from Intensive Care: Trumpovetsky gets COVIDified
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on October 5, 2020
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In a long awaited and expected irony, the Denier-in-Chief has been diagnosed with Coronavirus. Trophy Wife Melania has as welll, and so apparently has about half the White House staff. Former NJ Gubernator Chris Christie has it and a whole Gaggle of Senators running for re-election do also . The main question is who will drop dead before election day, and also whether you can vote for a corpse?
At the left here you see a Photo Op for TEN of The Donald's doctors, possibly more including docs who got cropped out of the pic. Out here in the rel world of the not rich, not famous and not politically powerful, you don't even have 10 CNSs ("Certified Nurse Assistant") per patient, in fact just the opposite, each CNA has about a dozen patients to shuttle around to for changing bedding, cleaning shit buckets and so forth. At my current Jazzed up nursing facility, these folks aen't even the lowest on the totem pole, we have something called "Neighborhood Helpers" who are below […] Continue Reading…
View of Industrial Civilization from Intensive Care
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on October 4, 2020
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I have been recording vids while on my Death Bed here in Hospital but do not have my editing software on this computer nor do I have energy to edit the vids if I did have it. Just working up the energy to gfet the camera rolling and look cheery is a major effort. So I am just going to drop the raw vids on the Diner once or twice a week to catch up on the latest bullshit happening in the world surrounding my hydraulically powered bed. You may or may not find the stuff interesting.
In Good Newz but not covered as of yet in this video is the fact Trumpovetsky has joined me in Hospital, now diagnosed with COVID-19. This is the ultimate irony of course, the Denier-in-Chief himself coming down with the disease, in fact a strong enough case to already require Oxygen, so the NYT reports. Assuming he does survive, does this help him or hurt him in the election? Will the Repugnants run Pensky if El Trumpo is too sick during […] Continue Reading…
Sick of Collapse
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on September 27, 2020
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If you're not a regular Diner frequenting the tables inside our establishment, you may not know quite how BAAAAD my health problems actually are just from my Utoob vids where I try tlo put a bright and cheery face onto the Collapse of Industrial Civilization. No Cheery Face this week; not too many jokes either. Reason is I came in for a landing at the Mat-Su Valley Regional Medical Center nearly 3 weeks ago and have been stuck ever since. As Hospitals go, it's a good one, but Hospitals are a lousy place to finish out your life.
After a decade of following the progress of the Collapse of Industrial Civilization on the DoomsteadDiner.net and the CollapseCafe.com Utoob Channel, my body and physiology is starting to violently rebel against the non-stop flow of BULLSHIT being pitched at us by our "Leaders" on a daily basis. OK, to be fair this diagnosis has not been verified by any "doctors" currently treating my symptoms and failing epically to pave a smooth trip for me into […] Continue Reading…
Close the Skoolz
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on March 9, 2020
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Because dead people can't teach students to spell. If the point is to teach students to spell, dead people can't do it. The same goes for teaching anything at all. Dead people can't teach. What is hard to figure out about this?
The summer could have been spent figuring out how to pair educated and unemployed Americans with students furloughed by COVID-19. Doing this would eliminate problems caused by remote learning and keep lives moving ahead. Like lives matter.
The knee-jerk solution, remote learning, by itself has serious problems. The biggest problem is the mere suggestion of remote learning causes a person to think the problem is solved. Techno-narcissism creeps in and stops thought. Today we have remote learning and tomorrow we will have Mars. It takes a strong mind not to go fantastical. Particularly if you are an educated person who has used the internet to acquire a skill or two or three. You think everyone can do it and you don't see that you are unique, special and hooked up. You are […] Continue Reading…
The Last Steak Supper
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Published on The Doomstead Diner on September 6, 2020
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I toyed with many different titles for this article from "A Tale of Two Steaks" to "Birthday in Collapse", but in the end it got the title at the top due to some unforseen circumstances which came after I did the recordings and shot the pics. More on that in a bitt.
This week marked the beginning of my 64th year walking the earth as a meat package in this iteration of my immortal soul.. Many ups & downs through the years, some of which veteran Diners know from prior birthday articles and autobiographical ones as well. One consistent joy for me through all the years and trials & travails was FOOD, both eating it and cooking it. I love fine restaurants, although of course these days you can hardly find an open one. Not to mention up here where I live "Fine Food" is pretty much relegated to Pizza and Chicken Wings. lol. OK, to be fair there are a couple of decent restaurants here […] Continue Reading…
Food Preservation in Collapse: Cheesemaking
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 30, 2020
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Candles in Collapse
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 23, 2020
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More from Irv Mills and me on Collapse & Emergency Prepping, this time in the area of Heating & Lighting.
School Lunchrooms: A COVID Petri Dish
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 16, 2020
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Companion article to come later tonight or tomorrow.hopefully. I am too wrecked right now to write, it's been a rough couple of days here.
Some Old White Cripples Once Could Jump
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 9, 2020
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Tihs post fits under the category of my autobiographical articles which covered various parts of my life. The longest of these was the 5 part Over the Road series of articles which covered my years in the Trucking industry, but there have been many others, covering my early years in Brazil, my years at Stuyvesant HS in NYC and my years at Columbia University as well. I have however neglected one period of my life, the 'tween' years between when I returned from Brazil around age 10 until I headed off on the #7 Flushing Line Subway to Stuyvesant at age 13 or so.
There are a couple of reasons I am writing this post now. One is that at this time of year, every year, I get nostalgic for the days of my youth, when I was a fast and very coordinated athlete. My birthday rolls around at the end of the month. That's me in the pic at the left, doing a […] Continue Reading…
Collapse Food Preservation: From Cucumber to Pickle
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 2, 2020
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This week I am back together with my Hoser counterpart in Prepping in the Great White North of Canada, Irv Mills. This is the firrst of 3 vids, this one on Pickling. The topics covered in the other 2 vids will remain a clsely guarded secret until I actually publish them for the following 2 Collapse Cafe Sunday Brunch Specials. 🙂 A little Mystery & Anticipation always makes opening the Present more fun!
Actually, the three vids were all recorded in one looonnng session, but I know most viewers of Prep Vids don't have a long enough attention span, so I cut the vid into 3 reasonable size chunks. It also divided up quite nicely into 3 separate topics.
In this first vid, Irv explains the process first of grwoing the cucmbers, then the processing of those Cukes into Pickles. It's quite a complete tutorial on Pickle Making from the very beginning of the process of grwoing the cukes out of the ground to […] Continue Reading…
Moving On
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on July 30 2020
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There are days when rolling your own blog is worth doing and today is a day like that. Last week also had a day like that when I hosted my own video (extracted from a tweet I was shown) and sidestepped You Tube censors. That felt good, very good. If I did not have my own blog as a place to post my heart would have felt chilled. I'd be unable to express myself. No options. I would have been silenced and I know what being silenced feels like. The humiliation of being silenced without options is hard to take. I have been silenced before which is how I became aware of special attention for the first time.
s K-Dog Experienced? If it involves needles, no. But If I ever meet Edward Snowden I'd ask him
how many of us were getting the kind of special attention I was getting when he absquatulated. He would know.
Since then, I've posted an original Standing Rock video because I know someone who was there. My K-Dog for […] Continue Reading…
Sunday, Bloody Sunday 2
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on July 26, 2020
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It's been a Bloody Week in the World of Collapse, and inside the Diner as well. Never a dull moment inside the Diner, but this was an exceptionally strife ridden week. Things have calmed down now some though, since the 2 Diners causing the most havoc and making life unpleasant for everyone have decided to go Walkabout. These 2 guys are like the 2 guys from the original Star Trek series episode "The Alternative Factor". It's the same guy, but they come from different Universes, one made mostly of Matter, the other mostly of Anti-Matter. If they ever come in direct contact with each other, both Universes are instantly annihiliated.
They came as close as we have ever been to the annihiliation of the Diner Forum, but thankfully we survived it. 🙂 Together they did a better job of Nuking the Forum than all our worst Trolls of the past, known colloquially on the Diner ast Moriarty, Watson & F-Bomb. Somewhat amazing to me that 2 […] Continue Reading…
Education in the Age of COVID-19
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Published on the Doomstead Diner on July 19, 2020
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The Grand Reopening has turned into an Epic Failure, although not according to the Imbecile in Chief who gets on the Tube and spits out on bald faced lie after lie. Basically he believes if he says it, that makes it true. Fortunately I think this approach is losing its effectiveness even with his "base" Coronavirus isn't a political problem, it's a health problem and you can't sweep100,000 Dead People under the rug. They need to be buried, by the truckload. Bring out the Caterpillar Back Hoe for digging the mass graves.
The biggest of the many COVID issues to lately become the hot potato pollitical football is the Education issue and the reopening of the Public Skules in the fall. The normal reopening date is around a month away, and Trumpovetsky wants a full reopening, everywhere because in his warped mind, Amerika has won the battle against Coronavirus. This is of course preposterous as cases spike up in many states even without reopened schools. It's […] Continue Reading…
Collapse, you say? Part 1: Introduction
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Published on The Easiest Person to Fool on June 30, 2020
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New Bamboo
2020
Most of the writing I have done for this blog assumes that my readers are at the very least open to thinking about the collapse of our civilization, and more likely that they have already accepted it as probable and are interested in discussing the details of how it might happen and how to cope with it. But it is pretty clear to me that the general public, even in the midst of a global pandemic, are not ready to entertain the idea that civilization could collapse. If I bring up the idea, the response is most likely to be, "Collapse, you say? Surely not."
There are a number of reasons for that attitude, the simplest being a cognitive bias against change—the feeling that tomorrow is likely to be pretty much like today. This is aided and abetted by a lot of propaganda about how great BAU (Business as Usual) really is and the progress it promises for the future. Indeed, we are told that there simply isn't any better […] Continue Reading…
Bike Path Blues
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 5, 2020
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This episode of the Collapse Cafe began as a rant on Infrastructure, but I strayed pretty far amd wide in it in just 10 minutes of time! lol. You get to experience with me somewhat of what it's like to ride a Cripple Cart on a torn up Bike Path, although you do not get to experience the pain involved. lol. That is your good fortune here. For me, it took 2 days and a truckload of booze to recover from that shopping trip!
Anyhow, it's a short one so I won't bother with writing a synopsis. If you watch it, great. If not, you missed out. It's pretty funny, IMHO. 🙂
Electrical Resilience
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Published on The Doomstead Diner June 28, 2020
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This is a LOOOONNNG one folks. I suggest watching/listening in short segmnts over the course of the week. It is also not strictly about electricity. Many other Collapse Topics were chewed on by the Diner Kollapsniks during this discussion.
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