Farmer Almanac 2025: Weather Predictions and... Trump's SNAP Cuts?
Okay, so the Farmers' Almanac is calling it quits after 2026. Big whoop. All those heartbroken readers clutching their pearls? Give me a break.
The End of an Era? Or Just the End of Irrelevance?
Two hundred years of weather forecasts and "wisdom"? Let's be real, folks. This ain't some national tragedy. It's the slow, agonizing death of a product that hasn't evolved since, like, the invention of the printing press. People depend on the Almanac for gardening? Seriously? It’s 2024. We have the internet, weather apps that are probably spying on us, and actual meteorologists. Why are we still clinging to this… thing?
And the "wit"? Don't even get me started. I flipped through one of these things at my grandma's house last Thanksgiving, and I swear, the jokes were older than she is.
Someone suggested selling the intellectual property and website? To whom? Another nostalgia-obsessed company that thinks selling outdated information is a viable business model? Good luck with that. Offcourse, they could always try NFTs.
Nostalgia Ain't What It Used to Be (Thank God)
Look, I get it. People like things that remind them of simpler times. But let's not confuse nostalgia with actual value. The Farmers' Almanac is a relic. A quaint, dusty relic that belongs in a museum, not on my kitchen counter.
And the weather forecasts? Please. Accurate weather forecasting is hard enough with all the fancy tech and satellite data. You expect me to believe some folks using moon phases and "secret formulas" can do better?
The comments are killing me. "I depend on the Almanac for gardening." Okay, boomer. Maybe it’s time to, I don’t know, try a different approach. Like, reading a book written in the last 50 years? Or maybe just stepping outside and, like, looking at the weather? I'm just spitballing here.
It's like people who still use dial-up internet. Sure, it's nostalgic. But is it good? Is it efficient? Is it something we should be mourning the loss of? Nope.
I’m wondering if Peter Geiger, the Editor Emeritus, saw the writing on the wall. Sandi Duncan, the current editor, has got to be feeling the heat, right? Or maybe they're both just relieved to finally be done with this charade. Who knows?
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu
The fact that people are suggesting a GoFundMe to save the Almanac is peak absurdity. We're talking about a weather-predicting, joke-telling book that’s older than sliced bread. And people want to donate to keep it alive?
Then again, maybe I'm the crazy one here. Maybe I'm just too cynical to appreciate the simple pleasures in life. Maybe I should go outside, plant some tomatoes by the light of the full moon, and tell some jokes that haven't been funny since the Eisenhower administration. Nah.