Starting Volunteer Position and Seeking Financial Support

April 22, 2025, 9:00 AM. rswfire is in his living space, making morning coffee and preparing for his first day of volunteer orientation. He is experiencing acute financial pressure with internet service potentially being disconnected.

Energetic Signature

steady navigation

Field State

strategic positioning

Orientation

toward community resilience infrastructure

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April 22, 2025

6:36

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

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[0:00]Good morning, YouTube. It's 9:00 in the

[0:02]morning here. Making some coffee,

[0:05]getting my day

[0:07]started. Uh, today is my first day of my

[0:09]new volunteer position. So, I'm going to

[0:11]be going through orientation and

[0:15]um paperwork, stuff like that. Learning

[0:16]my role, learning what my hours are.

[0:18]That's important because once I know

[0:20]what hours I'm working, I can look for

[0:22]work in town.

[0:24]hoping I'll be able to work like maybe 8

[0:26]to noon and then I can get a job for

[0:27]like afternoon

[0:29]and that's what I'm going to try doing.

[0:31]I know that there's a convenience store

[0:33]in town that's hiring. I'm going to try

[0:35]to um see if I can get a job there.

[0:37]There's a gas station that's hiring

[0:39]also. So, I'll apply at both.

[0:44]Um so, that's what my morning looks

[0:46]like.

[0:49]I'm I'm just going to ask. I need help,

[0:52]guys.

[0:55]I keep asking because it's a need. It's

[0:57]a real need that I have and I'm just not

[1:00]getting the support that I need. So, I

[1:01]have to keep

[1:03]asking. At some point, um, all of this

[1:06]is going to be solved

[1:09]and I won't be asking anymore, but I'll

[1:12]also be a little bit better because I

[1:13]feel like my audience has abandoned me.

[1:16]So, if you can help, please help. All

[1:18]right. I need some help.

[1:21]not going

[1:23]to gravel, you know. I'm just going to

[1:26]tell you these are real needs I have. I

[1:28]need groceries. My my internet bill is

[1:30]due. That's

[1:31]$150. It's probably getting shut off

[1:33]today or tomorrow. I'm not sure

[1:35]which. Without my internet, I can't work

[1:38]on my homepage. I can't work on trying

[1:41]to find freelancing jobs, you know, like

[1:46]it's just

[1:50]I'm navigating life the best I

[1:53]can and I just need some

[1:56]help. So, the reason I started this

[1:58]video is because I was just thinking

[2:00]something

[2:01]new. Um, yesterday, last night, I posted

[2:05]a video about the direction I see

[2:08]society taking where we kind of

[2:10]bifurcate

[2:11]and a small subset of

[2:15]humanity exists in

[2:18]you know, these smart cities,

[2:21]these these places of of structure and

[2:24]stability while the rest of us are

[2:29]navigating life

[2:32]without

[2:34]the things we've learned to depend on

[2:37]throughout our lives. you know, without

[2:40]reliable energy production, without

[2:43]functioning water systems, you know,

[2:45]that clean our water and

[2:47]um without our food just showing up at a

[2:50]grocery store and you know, all of that,

[2:52]like all kinds of things. And I was

[2:54]like, you know, I'm not here offering

[2:55]solutions because I feel like if there

[2:58]were

[2:59]solutions, we would have been working

[3:00]towards them throughout my lifetime and

[3:02]we haven't

[3:03]been. But I did take that thought a

[3:06]little bit further this morning.

[3:09]So the other day I was just browsing

[3:11]Facebook and this ad came up for an

[3:15]energy company that was offering free

[3:17]solar for people with homes who had

[3:19]houses. They would set up the you know

[3:22]all the solar

[3:24]infrastructure and attach it to their

[3:27]grid. And you know, I I looked at that,

[3:29]I thought, you know, this is a way of um

[3:33]making a distributed power generation

[3:35]network that is still owned by the power

[3:38]companies. It's not owned by the

[3:40]individuals. Maybe, you know, you'd have

[3:42]to look at the contracts and they're

[3:43]probably all different. And I did

[3:44]explore this a little bit with AI, but

[3:48]um more than likely, you know, these are

[3:51]also very smart systems. they, you know,

[3:53]they're connected to the internet and

[3:54]they can um take the power from your

[3:58]batteries and put that onto the grid if

[4:00]they want to. I mean, you know, this

[4:01]these are systems that they're not

[4:03]really built for the user. They're built

[4:05]for the networks that, you know, you're

[4:06]supporting a network

[4:13]and

[4:15]that on the surface looks like a really

[4:18]good solution because it's a way of

[4:19]generating power.

[4:22]um using renewable energy and

[4:25]distributing it across a community. This

[4:27]is actually a really good thing except

[4:30]that it's owned by the power companies.

[4:31]So you're not really

[4:36]um you know there's still the profit

[4:38]motive, right?

[4:40]So but I was thinking, you know, as

[4:42]things go on, maybe 5 years from now, 10

[4:44]years from now, as things start

[4:46]destabilizing even more, some

[4:48]communities are going to be more

[4:49]resilient than others. And that's

[4:50]something you might want to look into.

[4:52]You might want to research what

[4:53]communities feel

[4:54]like maybe they'll survive longer. I

[4:57]mean, you're going to have a lot of

[4:58]problems to deal with.

[4:59]But I think

[5:04]that that might be one way that we adapt

[5:07]in the future where communities do have

[5:09]systems like that. And they're not owned

[5:12]by power companies. are owned by the

[5:14]community, by the governments, by

[5:17]whatever government you guys form in

[5:19]your

[5:22]community. So, you know, it's an

[5:26]interesting world we're about to enter.

[5:27]And, you know, I'm always thinking

[5:30]about I mean, I don't spend all my time

[5:33]thinking about this stuff. This is

[5:34]what's on my mind now. And I just the

[5:37]culmination

[5:39]of just seeing that ad on Facebook and

[5:43]what I discussed last

[5:44]night just kind of melded the two into

[5:47]this new thought that I'm having. And

[5:49]that's basically how that happens,

[5:51]right? So, just thought I would share

[5:53]it. So, anyways, I'm having like issues

[5:56]with my eye. Like I I was I took my

[5:58]contacts out last night, but I couldn't

[6:00]find this one. I keep looking at my eye

[6:02]and I'm like,

[6:04]um, I don't see it in there. So, I'm

[6:06]like, what happened to this contact? But

[6:08]my eye feels kind of weird. And so, I

[6:11]put new contacts in this morning cuz I

[6:13]was like, okay, well, if there is still

[6:14]a contact in there, the second contact

[6:16]is really going to react with it. And

[6:18]maybe that will tell me, but I don't

[6:20]know. My eye is all messed up. Like, I

[6:22]just don't even

[6:23]know. I guess that's a minor concern I

[6:26]have today. This is part of wearing

[6:27]contacts, whatever.

[6:29]So, I'm going to get my coffee and then

[6:32]start my day.

Summary

rswfire begins his first day of a new volunteer position, going through orientation and paperwork. He plans to work morning hours (8am-noon) and seek afternoon employment at local businesses including a convenience store and gas station. **Financial pressure is acute** — his $150 internet bill is due and may be shut off today or tomorrow, which would prevent him from working on his homepage or finding freelancing jobs. He directly asks his YouTube audience for help with groceries and bills, stating this is a real need and expressing that he feels abandoned by his audience.

He reflects on a previous video about societal bifurcation, where a small subset lives in smart cities while others navigate life without reliable infrastructure. This morning he connected this concept to a Facebook ad he saw for free solar installations. He analyzed how these systems create distributed power networks still owned by utility companies rather than individuals, and speculated about future community-owned energy systems as adaptation strategies.

He mentions a minor issue with a contact lens that may be stuck in his eye, which he's monitoring throughout the morning routine.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission holds the architecture of simultaneous engagement with collapsing institutional systems while mapping emergent community-owned alternatives. The ontological position is one of pragmatic sovereignty - neither fully embedded in nor completely severed from existing structures, but strategically navigating both domains while identifying points of potential community resilience.

Dominant Language

real needsdistributedowned bycommunitiesresilientadaptnavigate

Symbolic Elements

gridnetworkthresholdbifurcation

Ontological States

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transitional
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pragmatic
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mapping
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resourceful

Subsystems

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cognitive
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infrastructural
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relational

Transmission Details

Source Type

youtube

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