Substack as always curates another boring and dull prediction. I wonder who puts together this stuff. Common Substack! You can do better. Do better in 2025.
Most of the writers listed, are incentivized by Substack for bringing their subscribers to Substack.
A good example is Yotam Ottolenghi. He has 212K subscribers with just 3 posts and been on here for a week and already has a verified badge. It’s obvious that Substack is paying content creators/writers to move to Substack and then promotes their accounts.
Love the term phoenixing. What a great term. Here’s to it becoming modern vernacular - so that I don’t have to argue with prescriptive text that it’s actually a word.
Yep sounds like we blew it big time by not going with care for everyone as a facet of American life. Now the corps are cutting corners and the CEO's are making more. How fun for us and how do we get out of this mess of dismal progress for all?
The trouble with an external promise of care for everyone is that a slave class of laborers would be required to supply all that care when it is considered "free".
2 in our family have been involved in emergency room care, and directly observe that the demand for services is stratospherically highest by those who personally have to pay nothing for the care, with the ER being mostly used as an walk-in care clinic. 5% are using almost all of the resources.
There's a need for people to have financial skin in the game to inspire most of them to take responsibility for their health maintenance.
In California we have so many people working hard jobs that are often dangerous and no, they don’t have healthcare and some don’t speak English. I have seen a man waiting for hours for care as he was seriously hurt by a truck during his work hours for a landscaping company. In a civilized situation he would have been transported by ambulance. He probably receives minimum wage but he is working his butt off, then this. He looked like this injury would keep him from working for awhile. I was appalled that he finished his work shift then was transported to the hospital and left. His employer didn’t care. I just can’t summon up any animosity towards a person like that. He was so grateful when his turn came, he was not an angry, entitled white person.
Being a mixed-up individual, I am unqualified and unable to participate in the race divide that it being pushed so hard, and I like to give people the benefit of the doubt rather than prejudge them.
Trauma and accidents is pretty much what an ER is for, so your landscaper guy probably isn't not regarded as a problem by most ER staff.
Rural people such as ourselves, cash payers, and those with high deductible tend to avoid using ambulance services whenever possible. EMTs often transport people inappropriately to facilities which don't handle trauma, then re-transport, and additional cost is incurred.
So your landscaper might have made the smart choice to avoid extra cost and misdirection by ambulance.
Probably because of the news media, California is perceived in flyover country as a place of the very rich and the very poor, with a relatively shrunken middle class, and becoming more dependent on imported laborers who are underpaid. I'm hoping that most of the state really isn't like that, and that the veritable slave class isn't very extensive.
One would like to think that the socially conscious, wealthier people of the state would not allow such mistreatment of the people who work on their properties.
Great observation! However we are entrenched in this practice and universal care would turn it on it’s ear, which would probably end up with less emergency room visits if the care was available everywhere for everyone with regular walk in clinics. I do also wonder what would have to change, but right now the ER is the only “universal care” for everyone. People who receive regular care result in fewer ER visits. In the end, take out all of the middle men, the forces behind denial of care, and we’d have a bigger budget for everyone to share in, pay people and make it dignified. Just my thoughts.
There have been programs to divert frequent flyers from the ER to preventative care and clinics. These have met with only partial success.
An additional factor is that people who believe they have a right to be cared for by others tend to disrespect the caregivers, even to the point of violence. (That's how people treat slaves.)
The healing efficacy of disrespected caregivers is lower because the placebo effect is obliterated.
Universal health care necessitates slavery, which is why it is doomed to implode.
The harshness of healthcare collapse is unfortunately going to be the way that convinces many people that they have no options other than participating in their own health maintenance.
I have only visited my ER a couple of times, I have never seen violence but I have seen a lot of people waiting and very, very grateful when their turn comes.
We can expect more hate and discontent. With tRump taking office, his forever job, due to congress changing the constitution, expect the end of the United States.
I think it’s important to be positive. A new administration, even if you didn’t vote for it, deserves a chance to succeed. As an American, I would hope we all have a vested interest in the success and growth of our country. Let’s give peace a chance.
I take heart that Johnson wasn't chosen first round. Someone is thinking. What a shock. Not all Republicans are gonna want to have themselves taken down by a bunch of incompetents. It will be interesting to see who has integrity, and who has a brown nose.
Thanks for being such an excellent recruiting sergeant for Donald Trump and MAGA. Thanks to you the woke fascist hegemony is one step closer to its end. Warmly appreciated!
I dunno I did take heart that the Republicans and Dems stood up to the idea of raising the debt ceiling. Gave me hope that our dictator to be will not be able to crush us.
Let’s hope we all can experience a great deal of “Phoenixing” this year, because I fear there has never been a year in America when we will have been more in need of it, ever.
Where is the nature or agricultural category? What about trends in this massive field where so many Substack writers like myself are lost in the void?
Can't lie, I'm feeling pretty disrespected right now. Over here busting my butt to grow food and save wildlife and not so much as a passing mention of anything related to the environment.
One other dark reason for making physical sex change unavailable til adulthood. What parent would want to be the source and take the blame for their own child’s agony if it turned out not to be the way the child wants to be? I would not want to be responsible for that as a parent! Your kid could sue you!
I use "woke" to mean the authoritarian pseudo-progressive usurpation of liberalism, manifesting as anti-White racism, antisemitism, the transvestite infiltration of female spaces, and the drugging and mutilation of children.
If you had a look at my Substack, you would very quickly discover that I think about woke rather a lot.
I'm not bothered by people's sexual preferences unless they involve children or animals. If I met a member of Gays Against Groomers, I would buy him a beer. If I met a woke gay man, I would treat him with open contempt just as I do anyone else who is woke. Are you woke yourself? If so, you're disgusting and you have my contempt. There is no place among decent people for antisemites, anti-White racists, or the supporters of child mutilation and the transvestite invasion of female spaces.
So, food and fashion are what these people think “change” looks like in 2025? Wake up people. The bigger change coming to America in 2025 will be FASCISM. But these people would rather not think that hard.
Yeah, it was a disappointing post. I thought we were better than that. We aren't Hollywood. We aren't gourmet food followers. Too shallow for most of us.
(Tone: Reflective & Playful) I think “Phoenixing” is jumping the gun. I’m a Dragon-baby, so I’ll be using the embers & ashes to keep my egg warm & I’ll hatch when I’m good and ready! 😎😇🤭💜🖤✌🏼
Don't care about sports, or fashion, I invested in good walking shoes for next year as I feel everything is going up up up in price. Overly wordy stuff, not interested. Yes on phoenixing. That is truly where I am at. Thinking of adopting another dog. As far as politics go, we are living in a bad soap opera. Turning my back for now.
Substack as always curates another boring and dull prediction. I wonder who puts together this stuff. Common Substack! You can do better. Do better in 2025.
Most of the writers listed, are incentivized by Substack for bringing their subscribers to Substack.
A good example is Yotam Ottolenghi. He has 212K subscribers with just 3 posts and been on here for a week and already has a verified badge. It’s obvious that Substack is paying content creators/writers to move to Substack and then promotes their accounts.
Oh the bureaucracy!
LOL @ Substack 🤣 a lame attempt to bury my comment by liking other comments to get the likes higher hahha.
Love the term phoenixing. What a great term. Here’s to it becoming modern vernacular - so that I don’t have to argue with prescriptive text that it’s actually a word.
Nope. Not into conspiracy theories they rob your life of joy and make you suspicious and paranoid - not how I want to live my life.
Health and wellness was completely missed
I agree. They should do a stack just on that! Cause we are moving and grooving and pushing the limits in this category
@womenshealth365collective
Let's gooo!
Absolutely Jess! I always write an article on wellness trends for the New Year in my online magazine The Herbal Collective.
And it’s going to be on everyone’s mind how to need less ‘healthcare’.
Yep sounds like we blew it big time by not going with care for everyone as a facet of American life. Now the corps are cutting corners and the CEO's are making more. How fun for us and how do we get out of this mess of dismal progress for all?
The trouble with an external promise of care for everyone is that a slave class of laborers would be required to supply all that care when it is considered "free".
2 in our family have been involved in emergency room care, and directly observe that the demand for services is stratospherically highest by those who personally have to pay nothing for the care, with the ER being mostly used as an walk-in care clinic. 5% are using almost all of the resources.
There's a need for people to have financial skin in the game to inspire most of them to take responsibility for their health maintenance.
In California we have so many people working hard jobs that are often dangerous and no, they don’t have healthcare and some don’t speak English. I have seen a man waiting for hours for care as he was seriously hurt by a truck during his work hours for a landscaping company. In a civilized situation he would have been transported by ambulance. He probably receives minimum wage but he is working his butt off, then this. He looked like this injury would keep him from working for awhile. I was appalled that he finished his work shift then was transported to the hospital and left. His employer didn’t care. I just can’t summon up any animosity towards a person like that. He was so grateful when his turn came, he was not an angry, entitled white person.
"Angry entitled white person" ?
Being a mixed-up individual, I am unqualified and unable to participate in the race divide that it being pushed so hard, and I like to give people the benefit of the doubt rather than prejudge them.
Trauma and accidents is pretty much what an ER is for, so your landscaper guy probably isn't not regarded as a problem by most ER staff.
Rural people such as ourselves, cash payers, and those with high deductible tend to avoid using ambulance services whenever possible. EMTs often transport people inappropriately to facilities which don't handle trauma, then re-transport, and additional cost is incurred.
So your landscaper might have made the smart choice to avoid extra cost and misdirection by ambulance.
Probably because of the news media, California is perceived in flyover country as a place of the very rich and the very poor, with a relatively shrunken middle class, and becoming more dependent on imported laborers who are underpaid. I'm hoping that most of the state really isn't like that, and that the veritable slave class isn't very extensive.
One would like to think that the socially conscious, wealthier people of the state would not allow such mistreatment of the people who work on their properties.
Great observation! However we are entrenched in this practice and universal care would turn it on it’s ear, which would probably end up with less emergency room visits if the care was available everywhere for everyone with regular walk in clinics. I do also wonder what would have to change, but right now the ER is the only “universal care” for everyone. People who receive regular care result in fewer ER visits. In the end, take out all of the middle men, the forces behind denial of care, and we’d have a bigger budget for everyone to share in, pay people and make it dignified. Just my thoughts.
There have been programs to divert frequent flyers from the ER to preventative care and clinics. These have met with only partial success.
An additional factor is that people who believe they have a right to be cared for by others tend to disrespect the caregivers, even to the point of violence. (That's how people treat slaves.)
The healing efficacy of disrespected caregivers is lower because the placebo effect is obliterated.
Universal health care necessitates slavery, which is why it is doomed to implode.
The harshness of healthcare collapse is unfortunately going to be the way that convinces many people that they have no options other than participating in their own health maintenance.
I have only visited my ER a couple of times, I have never seen violence but I have seen a lot of people waiting and very, very grateful when their turn comes.
We can expect more hate and discontent. With tRump taking office, his forever job, due to congress changing the constitution, expect the end of the United States.
Good Lord! What have you been smoking?
Amen. I think what we can expect is less tolerance for the knee-jerk negativity and childish political petulance.
I think it’s important to be positive. A new administration, even if you didn’t vote for it, deserves a chance to succeed. As an American, I would hope we all have a vested interest in the success and growth of our country. Let’s give peace a chance.
I take heart that Johnson wasn't chosen first round. Someone is thinking. What a shock. Not all Republicans are gonna want to have themselves taken down by a bunch of incompetents. It will be interesting to see who has integrity, and who has a brown nose.
Thanks for being such an excellent recruiting sergeant for Donald Trump and MAGA. Thanks to you the woke fascist hegemony is one step closer to its end. Warmly appreciated!
I dunno I did take heart that the Republicans and Dems stood up to the idea of raising the debt ceiling. Gave me hope that our dictator to be will not be able to crush us.
I was interested in absolutely NOTHING in this post.
Let’s hope we all can experience a great deal of “Phoenixing” this year, because I fear there has never been a year in America when we will have been more in need of it, ever.
Not just the USA...but the entire world!
I think it's going to be great! No more woke, no more identity politics, no more DEI. What's not to like?
Where is the nature or agricultural category? What about trends in this massive field where so many Substack writers like myself are lost in the void?
Can't lie, I'm feeling pretty disrespected right now. Over here busting my butt to grow food and save wildlife and not so much as a passing mention of anything related to the environment.
It's downright shameful.
Maybe if Euell Gibbons rose from the dead….
Definitely need an agriculture/natural resources/ nature category.
I’m here for the phoenixing! 🐦🔥
this felt like a warm hug thank you
Fascinating how much in denial, or perhaps just clueless, folks seem to be about the impending Trump tsunami our country is about to experience.
Shit gonna get real , real soon.
It's the end of woke fascism. Isn't it wonderful!
Wondered when one of those in denial / clueless folks would respond ... and there you are.
Wondered when one of those in denial / clueless folks would respond ... and there you are.
One other dark reason for making physical sex change unavailable til adulthood. What parent would want to be the source and take the blame for their own child’s agony if it turned out not to be the way the child wants to be? I would not want to be responsible for that as a parent! Your kid could sue you!
We finally agree about something!
Sad there you go resorting to name calling because you can’t come up with anything else. Very sad Richard!
Yeah me too. I still don't understand what "woke" means, it seems like "anti informed" is the best definition I can think of.
I use "woke" to mean the authoritarian pseudo-progressive usurpation of liberalism, manifesting as anti-White racism, antisemitism, the transvestite infiltration of female spaces, and the drugging and mutilation of children.
I think you think antiwoke justifies a wearing of blinders attitude. It encompasses everything you don’t want to think about if you are antiwoke.
How do you feel about gay men? Are they infiltrating the male species to the point where you are worried about it? Fear not!
If you had a look at my Substack, you would very quickly discover that I think about woke rather a lot.
I'm not bothered by people's sexual preferences unless they involve children or animals. If I met a member of Gays Against Groomers, I would buy him a beer. If I met a woke gay man, I would treat him with open contempt just as I do anyone else who is woke. Are you woke yourself? If so, you're disgusting and you have my contempt. There is no place among decent people for antisemites, anti-White racists, or the supporters of child mutilation and the transvestite invasion of female spaces.
That’s it? That’s what we are collectively expecting? Boring, period.
I’m finding people in the crevices of SubStack thinking about spiritual things and tuning into the natural world.
Ottolenghi must have read my mind - I just made a giant batch of chili crisp yesterday!
So, food and fashion are what these people think “change” looks like in 2025? Wake up people. The bigger change coming to America in 2025 will be FASCISM. But these people would rather not think that hard.
Yeah, it was a disappointing post. I thought we were better than that. We aren't Hollywood. We aren't gourmet food followers. Too shallow for most of us.
(Tone: Reflective & Playful) I think “Phoenixing” is jumping the gun. I’m a Dragon-baby, so I’ll be using the embers & ashes to keep my egg warm & I’ll hatch when I’m good and ready! 😎😇🤭💜🖤✌🏼
You forgot to mention something - anything - outside of America. Or climate change... Or technology... Or health...
Don't care about sports, or fashion, I invested in good walking shoes for next year as I feel everything is going up up up in price. Overly wordy stuff, not interested. Yes on phoenixing. That is truly where I am at. Thinking of adopting another dog. As far as politics go, we are living in a bad soap opera. Turning my back for now.