5d ago

I'm so tired.

I'm doing well. I have a good life. But holy shit, I'm so tired. The world is so terrible and I'm just fed up. I wish I could just check out and take a break, but it keeps going. Cheers.

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"I have a good life[...] The world is so terrible" screams "I engage with social media toxic to my mental health" to me but my context of your existence is 3 sentences so...
Take that as advice or criticism but the world has never been perfect and certainly will never be as close to perfect as the funnel of negativity online echo chambers and recommendation algos can be
- The only social media that I use is Lemmy. True that I've self-selected news and politics (among other topics), so I see a lot of Trump2 bullshit. I no longer read the articles to protect my mental health. I read the headline and maybe skim the beginning before I move on.
  
  Unfortunately, sometimes that's all it takes, especially when not diluted by opposing viewpoints, but let me--without any knowledge of the specific contents--take a crack at countering the negativity bias of those narratives:
  30% of the global energy generation comes from renewable now
  Social media is bringing the demand for better public transit to a fever pitch
  Trump 1 has a lot of news sources careful to investigate claims before platforming whatever a US president says because "who would abuse that power?" (anecdotal and European bias here but many of these outlets are accessible online for free)
  America may finally be joining the modern world with HSR between Canada HSR, that California project and the one connecting LA to Vegas (some rumblings about importing the Shinkansen to connect the Texas Triangle, too)
  If these sound relevant to what you're used to seeing, I'd recommend asking yourself if any of the communities can acknowledge improvement, in other words: if you're following a (hypothetical) community called "Don't Kick Puppies" because who wouldn't support that cause, well not only did you just sign up for a stream of puppy kicking content but one moderated by somebody invested in convincing people the issue is a pressing concern regardless of what the data indicate
- If you have a good life, and you're fine with loads of your neighbors not having a good life, you're a psychopath.
  I promise you, if you're American, there are people struggling to find their next meal less than a fifteen minute drive from your door.
  
  Sounds like something a golden dawn nazi fuckhead would claim.

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