Link: https://ir.usembassy.gov/security-alert-land-border-crossings-february-5-2026/

badposting is a comm where you post badly

kids these days... i have seen ASCII horrors beyond mortal comprehension

[Covid] exposure is SO widespread, and the neurological damage [Covid] causes is really severe.

Just give it time, brother.

Human biology is not my speciality but I think it's safe to say it's worse, considering the immune damage and other morbidities. Not to mention the fact that we eventually made a concerted effort to stop lead poisoning whereas with Covid I'm not optimistic.

Yes, I am well aware because I work with ecologists.

The brain damage attributable to Long Covid is well documented, ergo I think it's safe to say such behavior is the likely cause. The other stressor is "just" alienation which has been getting worse since before Covid, and yet people are behaving much more erratically with reduced cognitive functioning in the years after 2020.

public becoming shittier drivers, and more impatient and short-fused in general

I'm pretty sure that's just Long Covid, unless that was your point

I can look past your irritating and self-righteous tone. Thank you for the information.

Literally opposite of the truth. Mid-20th century NY artists and intellectuals were communists.

Art history isn't my area but I'm gonna need a citation on which NY abstract expressions were communists. Pollock, Rothko, Kline, de Kooning... none of these people are communists. Probably my fault for not being specific when I used "milieu."

Abstract Expressionism is partly, and very deliberately went against the capitalist realism of the 40s and 50s.

Do you have a source for this claim? Not trying to start a flame war but I'm hesitant to believe this based on my discussions with art nerds over the years. My guess is you're confusing it with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism

I'm blanking on who I got this take from, but essentially abstract expressionism is a blank canvas. It's ideologically vacuous and leaves interpretation up to the alienated, atomized viewer. So not necessarily about artistic freedom but instead that the emptiness is the point. Plus also I think the general milieu of NY artists at that time was pretty anti-communist so funding inscrutable art had the byproduct of encouraging a "counterculture" that wasn't actually counter to anything of substance. Unfortunately I don't have sources for this and welcome other commenters if they may know where I got these vibes from.

Woah woah woah I think I found my escape plan from AmeriKKKa

This is a GOOD post, mods GET HER!

One of the bloomer ideas I cling to is Chinese tech helping to ease the burden of smallholders via cheap solar and battery-powered small tractors similar to the Italian BCS. Small scale ag can be made plenty more efficient without resorting to destructive broadacre agriculture like you see in the West.