Many thanks to my October donor, Cassandra, who suggests this month listening daily to Adagio for Strings (one of the west’s most famous concert pieces) while you read the C & E posts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450 (If you use the Brave browser it can play in the background even when not on that page, plus no ads!).
“Looks like 1.8C (and higher) over the pre-industrial baseline is incoming.
“We are all so much older now.”
[Prof Eliot Jacobson]
http://karstenhaustein.com/climate
“This morning’s GFS shows the Northern Hemisphere more than 1.64°C over the 1981-2010 baseline on October 23, which is more than 2.2°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
“The Climate 8-ball is smoking.” [Prof Eliot Jacobson]
https://x.com/EliotJacobson/status/1979210406024347886
“Recent trends in sea surface temperatures show warming around the perimeter of the Arctic Ocean in October. This is especially evident in areas with decreasing sea ice concentration/thickness (e.g., Chukchi Sea).
“For more information: doi.org/10.25923/9z9…” [Zack Labe]
https://bsky.app/profile/zacklabe.com/post/3m3gh7e4jpc2h
“This is a national security issue!“ says Dame Angela McLean, the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser, about the collapse risk of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre.
“Session on Forecasting Arctic Tipping Points – Building an Early Warning System for Everyone, at Arctic Circle.” [Prof Stefan Rahmstorf]
https://x.com/rahmstorf/status/1979115794777710839
“Parts of Scotland suffering significant water scarcity, warns Sepa…
“A spokesperson said: “2025 has been unusual both in scale and in the length of time dry conditions have persisted. Even now, rivers such as the Ythan continue to show stress.”
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/parts-of-scotland-suffering-significant-water-scarcity-warns-sepa
“Ukrainian potato prices rise as drought limits harvest…
“The increase is linked to drought conditions and compacted soil that limited harvesting in several regions. “This is not a second harvest. This is the first harvest that could not be fully collected due to the hard soil.”
“Sushi rice instead of potatoes? Swiss agriculture adapts to climate change…
“Higher temperatures, drought and intense, unpredictable rainfall are disrupting traditional crops, which suffer under the changing conditions. Plant diseases are spreading and yields of key food crops such as wheat and corn are declining globally.”
“France says cattle future at risk as lumpy skin virus spreads…
“The future of France’s livestock farming is under threat as the highly contagious lumpy skin disease sweeps through cattle farms for the first time in Western Europe… France is already battling the bluetongue virus affecting sheep and bovines that has spread across Europe. So are Italy and Spain, also hit by lumpy skin disease for the first time this year.”
“Europe’s climate is changing fast – here’s how it’s affecting people and the economy…
“For people living in Europe, the effects are already visible and personal. People are increasingly exposed to disease, pollution, and even premature death due to extreme weather. Homes and communities face destruction.”
“A storm leaves more than 60 liters per square meter in less than an hour and causes numerous floods in Íllora [Granada, Spain].
“Social media was filled with videos and images of the storm, especially the hail that fell during the afternoon. In Íllora, the streets were covered in hail and water was running violently through the drains…”
https://www.granadadigital.es/tormenta-inundaciones-illora/
“Algeria now! Heavy rains, torrents, and flash floods threaten 35 states…
“Urgent warnings from the National Meteorological Office to take precautions in the coming hours. Oh God, make them rains of goodness and blessings, and benefit the people and the country. Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRCIce_bkmc
“Widespread flooding continues across Nigeria as death toll rises to 238.
“Heavy seasonal rainfall has caused widespread flooding across 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states, leading to extensive destruction of homes, farmland, and infrastructure… More than 135 000 people have been displaced, with the total number of affected individuals approaching 400 000 nationwide.”
https://watchers.news/2025/10/17/widespread-flooding-damage-nigeria-2025-death-toll-rises-238/
“SOUTHERN AFRICA RECORD HEAT:
“Record heat continues unabated in Southern Africa with scorching temperatures day and night also at high elevations. Tonight the Minimum at Letlhakane in the BOTSWANA Highlands was 25.6C [79.7F], its hottest October night on record.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1979239284948262930
“JUAN DE NOVA AGAIN! 34.3C [93.7F] today in this tiny island in the Indian Ocean is NEW OCTOBER RECORD FOR ALL SOUTHERN FRENCH TERRITORIES.
“Juan de Nova has broken every record of all months of 2023,all rebroken in 2024 and all rebroken again in 2025 multiple times each one. Just insane.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1979164276993437772
“Türkiye records its second hottest summer in 55 years [of record-keeping].
“The highest temperature of the season was measured in Sirnak’s Silopi district, where the thermometer reached 50.5°C [122.9F] on July 25, marking a new national record for maximum temperature.”
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/lifestyle/turkiye-records-its-second-hottest-summer-in-55-years-3208510
“Iraq’s Water Salinity Crisis Devastates Farmers and Livestock…
“Last month, salinity in central Basra province climbed to around 29,000 parts per million (ppm), compared to 2,600 ppm a year ago, ministry figures showed. Freshwater should contain less than 1,000 ppm, while seawater averages 35,000 ppm, according to the US Geological Survey.”
https://www.basnews.com/en/babat/897088
“Extreme weather linked to child stunting in Pakistan…
“While poverty, food insecurity, and poor maternal nutrition are established causes of child stunting and wasting, the new analysis suggests climate factors like high temperatures and heavy rainfall also play a significant role.”
“Nearly half of India witnessed extreme rainfall in monsoon 2025: Climate Trends…
“Climate change has been making the southwest monsoon wetter, with five out of the last 10 seasons settling with above-normal rainfall — and in 2025 nearly 45% of the country’s landmass experienced extreme rainfall, according to a new analysis by Climate Trends.”
“Heavy rain batters Kerala’s Idukki; Mullaperiyar dam shutters opened as water levels rise…
“The hilly district of Idukki in Kerala witnessed extremely heavy rainfall on Friday (October 18, 2025) night, causing widespread damage.”
“EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN – unbelievable hot and humid night, hotter than mid summer.
“MINIMUM temperature 28.3C [82.9F] Moriyama and 27.4C at Miyagi, hottest October night in history and even close to the hottest ever for any month.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1979344053570539545
“Japanese fear for future as summers grow longer, hotter…
“The summer of 2025 was the hottest ever recorded in Japan, with the nationwide average 2.36 degrees Celsius hotter than average since records began in 1898. The central city of Isesaki, northwest of Tokyo in Gunma Prefecture, set a new national record high of 41.8 Celsius (107.2 Fahrenheit) on August 5.”
https://www.dw.com/en/japanese-fear-for-future-as-summers-grow-longer-hotter/a-74384753
“The most severe marine heatwave on Earth has developed off the coast of China, where ocean temperatures are up to 5.5°C (10°F) above normal.
“NOAA has categorized this as a beyond extreme Category 5 marine heatwave.” [Colin McCarthy]
https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1979271970635288802
“Thousands evacuate Philippine coast as Tropical Storm Fengshen approaches…
“Scientists warn that storms are becoming more powerful as the planet warms due to human-driven climate change. Fengshen comes as the country is still reeling from a series of major earthquakes and typhoons that killed dozens of people in recent weeks.”
“SE ASIA RECORD HEAT. Thailand, Indonesia & Philippines have been breaking records since early 2023 EVERY SINGLE DAY.
“October records today: THAILAND: 36.4 [97.5F] Koh Sichang, 35.4 Samut Prakan, High Minimums: MALAYSIA: 27.3 Kudat, PHILIPPINES: 26.5 Calapan, 26.1 Sinait, INDONESIA: 25.0 Pangakalanbum.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1979127716688396434
“Jakarta Warns Residents as Nationwide Heatwave Pushes Temperatures to 37.6°C [99.7F].
“The Jakarta provincial government is stepping up its response to extreme heat, launching weather modification efforts, accelerating tree-planting programs, and warning residents to limit outdoor activity as temperatures in the capital hit 35 degrees Celsius this week.”
“Northern Australia mining operations impacted by 4 million lightning strikes, severe heatwaves and fires…
“Intense thunderstorms have lit up the north Australian skies over the past week as a broad horseshoe shaped low pressure trough extended across the country. DTN APAC’s Total Lightning Network (TLN) detected over 4 million lightning strikes across Queensland, the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia over the past week.”
“October heat records could tumble in multiple states as hot weather sweeps east through central Australia.
“Oodnadatta in SA is forecast to hit a stifling 45C on Monday, while Birdsville in Queensland is expected to swelter through a five-day stretch of 40C+ temperatures… “Severe” thunderstorms, with potential “giant hail”, could strike south-east Queensland and north-east NSW on Saturday.”
“Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica…
“Physics is physics. As the planet heats up, more ice will melt at both poles, and recent research shows that Antarctica’s ice caps, glaciers and floating ice shelves, as well as its sea ice, are just as vulnerable to warming as the Arctic.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16102025/antarctica-greenlandification-ice-melt/
“Climate whiplash effects due to rapidly intensifying El Niño cycles…
“”In a warmer world, the tropical Pacific can undergo a type of climate tipping point, switching from stable to unstable oscillatory behavior. This is the first time this type of transition has been identified unequivocally in a complex climate model,” says Prof. Malte F. STUECKER, lead author of the study…”
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-climate-whiplash-effects-due-rapidly.html
“Mystery heatwave warms N Pacific Ocean to new record.
“The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record, according to BBC analysis of a mysterious marine heatwave that has confounded climate scientists. Sea surface temperatures between July and September were more than 0.25C above the previous high of 2022…”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3xynwwx4yo
“Typhoon disaster in Western Alaska raises questions around the region’s future…
“Coastal erosion, permafrost thaw, sea-level rise, intrusion of saltwater into freshwater systems – are combining with storm surges to dramatically transform the coastal area, damaging communities and the food resources that have sustained Yup’ik people for centuries…”
“Salmon advocates are warning the species could face extinction on the Columbia River [Oregon] as they urge a federal court to approve changes to dam operations.
“Environmental groups and the state of Oregon filed an injunction on Tuesday seeking to force federal dams on the lower Snake and Columbia Rivers to lower reservoirs and increase the amount of water they spill downstream, reported OPB.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15201811/oregon-columbia-river-salmon-extinct.html
“Parched Texas Is Giving Water Away to Oil, Gas and AI…
“Water supplies in South Texas, already stretched thin after a seven-year dry spell, are being further strained by thirsty oil refineries, petrochemical plants and other energy-related industries that have boomed in Corpus Christi in recent years…”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-17/texas-is-giving-water-away-to-oil-gas-and-ai
“Deadly floods in Mexico another sign of need for improved severe weather warnings…
“Authorities continue to describe the days of torrential rain last week that set off landslides and river flooding as unpredictable. Residents talk about never having seen anything like it. But researchers say what was considered normal before no longer exists because climate change has accelerated these events and made them more frequent.”
“Another crisis is driving Cubans to despair: More than three million suffer from water shortages on the island.
“Government authorities acknowledge that the country is experiencing ‘a very complex situation’ caused by drought and problems with the water system’s infrastructure. Some communities in Eastern Cuba have been without water for about five months.”
“Doctors from the IPK report on the spread of chikungunya and dengue in Cuba
“The spread of chikungunya and dengue in Cuba is attributed to uncontrolled urbanization, lack of water, and warm climate, specialists assert. The IPK warns about the vulnerability of children and the elderly. Hospitals are overwhelmed.”
“CARIBBEAN NEVER ENDING RECORD HEAT – absolute insanity going on in the Carib with records smashed every single day in all the area.
“Yesterday brutal Minimum of 28.0C [82.4F] – BARBADOS HOTTEST OCTOBER NIGHT IN HISTORY. All 2023/2024 Nino records in the tropics are being pulverized one by one.”
https://x.com/extremetemps/status/1979277388916887893
“Conred reports flooding in Santa Rosa and Quetzaltenango [Guatemala].
“The National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred) reported on its social media channels about damage reported in various parts of the country due to recent rains…”
“One person dead, landslides, flooding, and vehicles swept away by rivers: rains wreak havoc in the capital.
“Tegucigalpa, Honduras.— Several hours of intense rain left numerous tragedies in the municipality of the Central District and its surrounding areas on Thursday, October 16, causing mourning, fear, and leaving dozens of families homeless.”
“Floods hit Guanacaste and San José: CNE reports 152 emergencies on Thursday [Costa Rica]…
“According to Walter Fonseca, director of Risk Management at the National Commission for National Renewable Energy (CNE), the intense downpours caused flooding in homes, rivers to overflow, and public roads to be affected. “Yesterday’s heavy rains recorded high amounts in a short period, even exceeding 100 mm,” Fonseca said.”
“Rains have hit Mérida and Barinas again in recent hours, causing damage to homes, roads, and public services [Venezuela]…
“The rains also caused landslides that forced the temporary closure of Highway 008, along the tunnel section leading to El Vigía. In the municipality of Campo Elías, especially in Ejido, the rains were accompanied by hail and lightning.”
https://acn.com.ve/lluvias-afectaron-de-nuevo-a-merida-y-barinas-en-las-ultimas-horas/
“UN warns Colombia over mercury contamination in Atrato River…
“The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Atrato River basin has created a “serious and ongoing human rights crisis,” threatening the health and survival of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities who depend on the river for food, water and culture.”
“Illegal gold mining devastates 875,000 rai of Peru’s Amazon rainforest…
“Gold prices have surged past US$4,000 due to growing global concerns over financial instability. Indigenous groups have warned that armed groups are increasingly destroying forests and polluting rivers in pursuit of precious gold, turning once-dense green rainforest into barren land, with grey soil and stagnant green pools.”
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/world/40056961
“Bolivian city buried in hail after massive thunderstorm sweeps through…
“”This year is an atypical, very problematic year,” Torres Terzo said. “We’ve had fires, now we have ice.” In the video released by the city on Facebook, people were using shovels to lift the hail from the ground.”
https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/hail-storm-tarija-bolivia-damage
“Four national parks are fighting wildfires simultaneously: in Córdoba, 6,000 hectares have already been destroyed [Argentina].
“This concerning national scenario is exacerbated by high temperatures and drought that complicate the work of the firefighters… “To make matters worse, the national government defunded the Forest Law and the National Fire Management Fund.””
“The world’s oceans are losing their greenness owing to global heating, according to a study that suggests our planet’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide could be weakening…
“The findings, which also have alarming implications for oxygen levels and food chains, are based on a ground-breaking study of daily chlorophyll concentrations in low- to mid-latitude oceans from 2001 to 2023.”
“Landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions in tatters after US pressure [possibly good news re loss of dimming from aerosols]…
“US President Donald Trump had called the plan a “green scam” and representatives of his administration had threatened countries with tariffs if they voted in favour of it. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared the outcome a “huge win” for Trump.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vnl0yxg53o
“Majority of corporate carbon credits from tarnished project deemed bogus.
“After a two-year probe, the world’s largest certifier of carbon offsets has determined that most of the credits from a massive forest-protection project in Zimbabwe, which powered green claims of Volkswagen, Gucci, Nestle and McKinsey & Co., failed to benefit the atmosphere.”
“The hidden risks of forest carbon credits.
“In a recent analysis, her team found, for example, that many certification programs underestimate the risk of wildfire or disease, which can kill trees. Or they don’t adequately account for the possibility that protecting trees in one area could increase logging in another.”
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/the-hidden-risks-of-forest-carbon-credits/
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Shit. Is. Getting. Real. 🤯 😭 😱
Here’s another good collapse primer for your friends & family:
Climate-Changing Overshoot Apes: how our biological drive for Energy turned into a full-blown planetary catastrophe
https://open.substack.com/pub/predicament/p/climate-changing-overshoot-apes
Thanks, Cassandra. The author covers so much ground; it’s almost a perfect essay.
I’d only take issue with his claim that there is at least some potential for a “soft landing” – there is zero probability in a self-organising system like the global economy. This isn’t a machine with levers we can pull; it’s an emergent superorganism whose only coherent agenda is to maintain growth through energy and credit expansion.
The system’s adaptations are automatic, not rational – which is why “policy responses” always end up reinforcing overshoot. This is becoming blindingly obvious as we enter the “Drill, baby, drill!” era, where politicians become desperate to offset the economic/societal effects of terminal energy-constraints.
When the financial system fails we’ll have a sudden “phase-change” on our hands, unfortunately, and we won’t be able to “adapt with less travel, more local production, smaller economies.”
From https://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/:
‘There will always be clever – even inventive – twists and spins. But high-risk lending remains high-risk lending. Given time, old derided “subprime” will be transformed into new, enhanced, upgraded, modernized, sophisticated, but still “subprime” – no matter how much the enterprising proponents of new age finance apply heavy eyeliner, eyelash extensions, and Hermès lipstick to disguise the porker. There is no revoking the Credit Cycle.”
All of which have the same effect as reducing capital requirements for the banks: push the risk off the books of the entities that rake in the cash onto the taxpaying public that receives a big Zero when the risks pay off.
Re:overshoot
From the beginning of the article the author presents a flawed solution. It is not possible to produce less, at least not enough to make a difference, because the huge amount of the world’s population not employed in agriculture has to produce something in order to buy food.
If these people produce only enough to buy food then there would be no market for the non food items and the whole system would collapse. You would be left with a situation in which billiions of people are being fed by farmers who have to give their food away. Therefore the system as it is now has to more or less continue as it is now until the climate change and resource deplition cause everyone to starve or die fighting in a brutal struggle to survive one more year, then one more month, then one more day.
Yes. This is the crux of the issue. Our economic systems are not only creating climate change, they completely go against fighting it. People need jobs to survive, and within the system we have, jobs mean selling products, products means resources. We HAVE to sell and consume to survive. Until that changes, nothing will change.
How many meaningless job exist? I would say almost the majority. But they need to exist so people can have money to survive in our system.
“People would focus on endurance and meaning instead of growth.” I always come back to the same thing – we are not evolved to focus on “endurance and meaning” or anything else except maximising our genes in the future generations. If there are enough resources that inevitably leads to growth, if not then it leads to strife and conflict. There is no soft landing; overshoot is always followed by undershoot, if it’s deep enough, which it likely will be, that will result in human extinction, even if a few million population could be sustainable in the long run, but even that is impossible because we are heading to a hothouse with almost certainly no mammals larger than a house cat.
“October heat records could tumble in multiple states as hot weather sweeps east through central Australia.”
Yep, yep, yep (I am not a chihuahua). Australia is already at 1.5 C sustained, not threshold.
“Australia has already experienced 1.5°C of warming, on average, since 1910.” (source)
Turned on Cassandra’sSamuel Barber – Adagio for Strings again while writing this comment, for cope. And enjoyment.
James, our mean temp here in the UK from 2015 – 2024 has been about 1.6C higher than pre-industrial, and we’ve just capped that with our hottest summer on record in 2025.
With the sub-polar gyre teetering, though, it’s hard to know what to wish for.
Thank you, Pan.
I’d love to share a pint with you someday, if I ever come back to the UK.
BTW, Touring Scottish Highlands as a youngster… best feeling I ever had in my life. And the tour guide, one oft he most entertaining humans I ever met, … he introduced me to Tears for Fears, so…
Also, his Scottish accent was so much beter than Mel Gibson.
And I will end it here, before go cray cray like I did last night.
I actually didn’t think Mel did a bad job with that accent for an Aussie. Great director, too. Clueless about climate change, but you can’t have everything.
I thought it was a little too brutally ironic that his house in the Palisades burnt down literally as he was expressing AGW-sceptic views on the Joe Rogan show.
Also clueless about Scottish history.
That, too, Survivalist. Or at least very comfortable with manipulating it for dramatic effect.
Cassandra, thank you for the latest article link of “It’s Overshoot”. Recommend everyone to read it and scroll the others too. Not sure Friends or Family will be too receptive to the facts. That’s OK, not many have the mindset for all this here. A “thank you” for being a sponsor this month. P.S. I’m a music lover myself, poetry without the words.
You’re welcome. What? Your friends and family won’t be avidly reading and thanking you for that post after you share it with them?? 🤣
Yes, music is sublime. I agree with Albert: “There are two means of refuge from life — music and cats.” — Albert Schweitzer
Dogs come a close third. (YMMV)
Cassandra I must add to the chorus of thank yous for being this month’s sponsor! You picked a great record breaking month- in the hill country of Texas at my house it’s 92 (feels like 96). So, it’s summer all over the world. I just wanna know when I can plant my fall/winter garden. At this rate I’m guessing NYE!! Yeah baby 😂
Update, 94, feels like 98!
You’re welcome, Texas Guy! Panopticon’s tireless work has been an essential part of my education. I am truly grateful for it even though it’s damn hard being a realist.
Sounds scary in your neck of the woods,but as we know, nowhere is safe for long.
Thank you, indeed, Cassandra. You’re an angel. 😇
Texas Guy, I hope you have some top notch aircon.
Wonder what the carbon footprint of all unnecessary sports is this week?
Unnecessary, when something adds to the destruction of the habitat. At least No Kings protests were zero. 😉 Staying home, boycotting those that vote & donate against one’s best interest might be a low carbon footprint. That might work regardless of where one lives or what assholes they choose to boycott. Empty wallets will bring one out of their delusions.
‘Extinction is the rule . Survival is the exception.’ – Carl Sagan
I might be the only one to get a smile out of the horrors that this talk a lot & do nothing species has brought upon its self.
Yes, NASCAR racing is the epitome of stupidity and ego driven waste for entertainment and gratification of our need of primitive lizard brain power edge domination.
I also questioned the notion of gatherings for religious services. How much CO2 is added to the atmosphere because the higher power demands our presence in the “House of the Lord”, 🙏?
Of course, since we are still existing in the “Age of Plenty”, all is justified for one reason or the other, after all “We got to LIVE”.
Just saw this. TR, about a former Welcome Back Carter Sweathog…actor John Travolta
….https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/john-travolta-speaks-disgusting-photo-002500713.html
It’s a practical reason. I’m a pilot myself. … If I have one jet that’s inoperable, I have one to back it up,” Travolta responded. The lavish setup at his home, which includes a runway almost leading straight to his door as part of the Jumbolair Aviation Estates community he lives in, received backlash online just several months ago.
….For Travolta, it’s just a part of the lifestyle he’s built, and it was perhaps more understandable during a time when jet pollution and the effects of rising global temperatures were not as well understood — under the mentality of if you have the good fortune to hit it rich, you go ahead and spend the money however you want.
So there, good luck taking those goodies away, TR…
Vince, I think, as a Scientologist, Travolta believes the species will be stayin’ alive by colonising other worlds, so isn’t too worried about climate change.
Rather remarkable what humans concoct to make sense of it all and justify behavior or actions, no matter how absurd or brutal it may be…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon
No one enjoys the dreaded commute to work, and by 2045, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicts we’ll have robots to do that for us. After all, in his vision we’ll be venturing to other planets for our 9-to-5’s.
By Orianna Rosa Royle Associate Editor, Success October 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM Fortune.com
Throwing money at it will solve anything… we’ll even live forever
” ,I have one to back it up,” Just one? Poor Johnny must be having financial problems.
Caught this earlier, about poor, broke, ignorant 90%s. They must be ignorant to allow shit to hit the fan. Unplug the fan or stop the shit flingers, dummies.
I prefer to ignore stupid politics, just show me the numbers.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/new-study-nearly-80-trillion-redistributed-from-the-bottom-90-to-the-top-1-since-1975/
“When people lose everything & have nothing left to lose, they lose it.”
Hey American farmers & everyone else fucked by tariffs, when will you be getting your $40,000,000,000?
Test tomorrow! What happened to the powerful, rich, elites during the French & Russian Revolutions?
I just opened the mail box. (we were not at home yesterday) There was only one advertisement in the mail. But the advertisement, for a physical therapy business, said something nice. It said, yesterday is history, tommorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.
I hope that is an Oh man that something is going to happen today that makes me really happy, for the rest of the day.
“… today is a gift.” Perhaps that is why it is called the present, Curt.
As an aside, I recall that “Gift” means poison in German. I can’t find a source but I have a vague recollection that some post-WW2 care packages sent to Germany by the Allies caused great consternation amongst the recipients because they were labelled, “Gift.”
In other linguistic hilarity, Rolls Royce were originally going to call their Silver Shadow model Silver Mist… until they realised “Mist” means manure in German.
Those are correct. But the one that always got the most laughs in begining German class was Ausfahrt.