I've only blocked a few communities and my feed is not only negativity.
It can be at times when something big drops in the news, but my feed is still flooded with fun memes and interesting articles.
Sounds like, at least partially, it's confirmation bias.
The American political system has done nothing but ratchet to the right for about a hundred years.
It's so far right that people think liberals are left wing. That shit is center right lmao
Sleep.
I want deep, restful sleep.
For 8-10 hours uninterrupted by anyone or anything.
Navi from Ocarina of Time.
Literally the Clippy of Zelda.
"Hey! Listen!"
How about shut the fuck up you stupid firefly from hell?
Everyone is just playing a role while at work. Humans are more than their function in a business or society.
If you're in the US, I'm pretty sure they can't fire you because of ADHD related causes. They can come up with other reasons, but your neurodivergence is a recognized medical condition.
The mindset these people have is the same one that is destroying the ecosystem: they do not care.
The long term is seen as merely a succession of short terms. Numbers going up is seen as proof of prosperity regardless of if those numbers signify actual sustainable growth or not.
https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/
Just gonna drop this here to try and spread some knowledge.
River Raid for the Atari 2600
I'm one of those people who has never really stopped having cravings. It only gets bad when I'm really stressed but it is low key there 24/7.
Thankfully, it's only really a battle when I'm stressed.
There's been a documented decline of about 70% in animal populations, the amount of weather and climate related destruction has demonstrably increased, there's traces of plastic and forever chemicals almost literally all over, Australia was on fire for half a year, wildfires are increasing in frequency in the western US, hurricanes are coming with increasing frequency and intensity from the gulf up the Atlantic.
There's also the fires that tore across Greece, the tornadoes forming in states in the US that have seemingly never had them before, the massive loss of ice from Arctic and Antarctic areas of the world.
This is just a small smattering of the things I remember from recently.
I'm not saying that next year everything is going to immediately collapse. But I can see the stability of the ecosphere dissolving in front of me and there are quite a few nations that seem like they are leaning towards collapse if history is any judge of things.
You're welcome. It's just so plainly obvious when laid out logically. I feel stupid for having not seen it in the previous 30 something years. Spread the word!
It's the same with a lot of us millennial people.
I graduated into a job market still largely crushed by the dotcom bubble bursting, had my entire life and career path destroyed by the GFC, then another destroyed by covid.
Let me just spend a third of my monthly food allowance on food I can make better myself to please the downtown economy god, I guess lmfao.