another rough week in the #WarzoneInMinneapolis
2022-Oct-02, Sunday 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI learned this year that 911 calls in the USA are erased from a smartphone's call history. It helps callers avoid additional domestic abuse. So instead, I checked social media for the last month. I called 911 several times to report nearby (within 2 blocks) gunfire. This total is a new record for such a short time frame. The time of day doesn't really matter.
It doesn't matter what day you look at the Minneapolis ShotSpotter map or what time frame to measure. I live in what is always the densest collection of markers. I came to the realization last night that most of the anxiety I feel about this problem is NOT so much about my personal safety. It's more the generalized displeasure that I know the system is terribly sick but I don't know how to create change, so I expect it will continue. I figure it's the same powerlessness that contributes to some of the violence itself, but I have the financial resources to not feel the same desperation.
Yet. I still need to find a job. I've noticed grocery shelves not fully stocked. I particularly noticed this week that pet store shelves are missing lots of food bag inventory, and what was there seemed unusually expensive. I'm well stocked in durable calories for myself, but I obviously need to increase the duration that I can feed my cat without restocking. Since... you know... I expect the covid brain problem to increase, the "sudden death" era of blood clots and opportunistic infections to increase, the resulting supply chain problems to increase thanks to disappearing workforce, and the primary supply problems to increase thanks to climate change.
But government here and elsewhere seems intent to teach us "You do you", regardless of the consequences. Government has given up actually helping, choosing instead just to advertise itself as helping even while doing harm. So rules don't matter to a lot of people here now. Most people (especially the "prepper" crowd) in the USA expect cities to devolve into Max Max anarchy. I expect that phase will be brief here in my area, if at all. There's simply too much of a community ethic here in Minneapolis and Minnesota. What I expect instead is guillotines. The corrupt cracks in the foundation are showing.
- October 01 Saturday 6am
- September 27 Tuesday 10:30am
- September 21 Wednesday 9:40pm
- September 20 Tuesday 7:40pm
- September 07 Wednesday 11:30pm
It doesn't matter what day you look at the Minneapolis ShotSpotter map or what time frame to measure. I live in what is always the densest collection of markers. I came to the realization last night that most of the anxiety I feel about this problem is NOT so much about my personal safety. It's more the generalized displeasure that I know the system is terribly sick but I don't know how to create change, so I expect it will continue. I figure it's the same powerlessness that contributes to some of the violence itself, but I have the financial resources to not feel the same desperation.
Yet. I still need to find a job. I've noticed grocery shelves not fully stocked. I particularly noticed this week that pet store shelves are missing lots of food bag inventory, and what was there seemed unusually expensive. I'm well stocked in durable calories for myself, but I obviously need to increase the duration that I can feed my cat without restocking. Since... you know... I expect the covid brain problem to increase, the "sudden death" era of blood clots and opportunistic infections to increase, the resulting supply chain problems to increase thanks to disappearing workforce, and the primary supply problems to increase thanks to climate change.But government here and elsewhere seems intent to teach us "You do you", regardless of the consequences. Government has given up actually helping, choosing instead just to advertise itself as helping even while doing harm. So rules don't matter to a lot of people here now. Most people (especially the "prepper" crowd) in the USA expect cities to devolve into Max Max anarchy. I expect that phase will be brief here in my area, if at all. There's simply too much of a community ethic here in Minneapolis and Minnesota. What I expect instead is guillotines. The corrupt cracks in the foundation are showing.