I’m so fucking tired, bros.
Doomer
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stop paying attention so much. Like, don’t stick your head in the sand, but take a break from news for a while.
I went on a cruise last year and the news detox was absolutely amazing for my mental health. Someone read a headline about Trump doing something stupid and I was like, who cares? There’s literally nothing we can do about it, especially from the middle of the Mediterranean.
And when I got home, I realized it’s the same here. I feel like I need to know what’s going on in the world, but if I can’t make a difference, why would I bring more stress into my life? I just come out feeling worse, for humanity, for my own inaction, for the futility of goodness.
You don’t need to know the intricacies of geopolitics, the price of oil, if the Strait is open, or even who the president is to have a positive effect on your community.
Go for a walk and meet your neighbors. Some might be shitheads but you’ll be a better person for getting to know them.
Volunteer work can also reignite your pilot light of hope. I worked at a shelter and the other volunteers showed me the goodness in humanity.
There’s still a lot of good out there. Don’t let the news convince you it’s a lost cause.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
It’s not just the news. Every fucking thing is a grift scam. Can’t go buy some bread without wondering if the company sold out and cut corners since the last time you bought that exact brand. Can’t trust cvs won’t replace the doctors with some idiots who will tell you to drink water to clear an infection because they don’t believe in antibiotics. Every fucking time i walk out of my house some fucking American grifting piece of shit is trying to ruin my day and rip me the fuck off.
And I carry that suspicion now with everyone I meet to protect myself. Because 70% of this fucking country is nothing but loser cheating pieces of shit who learned to lie cheat and steal from the “leader” they vote and work for.
Oh and every fucking thing is made from the cheapest shittiest Chinese supplier these grifting losers can find. Just replacing our country with cheap shitty plastic that doesn’t even fulfill its intended purpose. I hate everyone!
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This is solid advice. New owners recently banned earbuds at work, which really sucks, but something curious happened as a result. I stopped listening to political shit on YouTube five days per week and I’ve never felt more calm. Now when I occasionally do pop in to Kyle Kulinski or something I see the world is still on fucking fire, but I got five good days of peace and my attention to the matter made no difference to anyone else.
BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You are going to die no matter what. There was never any outcome where you live forever. It doesn’t set you back, it sets you free.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
its not the dying i fear, it is the suffering along the way
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Dying would be a relief at this point. I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid for the 5 lives that depend on me to make through every dumbass decision this administration makes to line their own pockets while taking from mine. These fluctuations occur every Sunday to manipulate money markets and give some white dude a huge boner.
Your nihilistic views may sound cool in your head, but caring for a family in this economy is far more detailed than just waiting to die.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
In the past, despite death, you could look forward to leaving a legacy and a better world for future generations.
Nobody has such hope anymore. It’s almost universally agreed that our children’s lives will be worse than ours.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
only “ai takeover” that is going to happen is mass surveillance so billionaires can control us better, if we let them.
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
we’re gonna let them
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My profession has already largely disappeared thanks to AI. I’m not alone, either. Thousands of people are getting laid off each week. The surveillance is a fringe benefit compared to the savings that billionaires can achieve by replacing humans with machines.
It should be our savings, btw. Workers built every last bit of tech that is enabling this, billionaires just stole it.
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Personally, I think the real target is ownership of cyberspace/ computing as a whole, with the workforce cuts and the surveillance as fringe benefits/ part of the world domination plan.
Buy out all the processors and memory for a couple years, and all the retail market will be left with is net books and phones that are essentially e-readers. No more saving your files on your computer or downloading programs, everything becomes cloud/ web based and they have access to it all.
Just as important as AI tracking our every move physically, it will be tracking everything we see and do digitally.
axh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I miss the good old days when people were worried because some long dead calendar maker, didn’t bother to prepare the calendar a few hundred years in advance.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
They were pretty accurate about when the world would end. It’s just been a slow, gradual end since then.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe that calendar wasn’t the end of the world, just when the end started.
axh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So you mean it was the beginning of the end of the world?
SillyDude@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Oh, you can forget all of those things. Just get up now and go outside. Take everything in. Because soon it will never be like that ever again. Climate change is going to destroy so much.
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
If the infinite growth machine can't make a profit fixing climate change, it simply won't be fixed.
No amount of home recycling, power saving, water reduction, etc. you can do will offset the pollution generated by companies in the pursuit of money.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s honestly too late to fix most of it. The environment will continue to get worse for at least a few hundred years due to the damage already caused. Even if we stopped all emissions, pollution, habitat destruction, and overexploitation of natural resources today, we will still see catastrophic changes to the ecosphere we evolved in.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Environmental collapse laughs.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Just wait until we hit the ocean acidification tipping point where it becomes impossible for certain tiny creatures at the base of the food chain to form calcium-based hard shells.
The whole ocean won’t hit that point all at the same time, but once we get close, it will happen very rapidly, affecting most of the oceans in the world within a few years. Entire ocean ecosystems will rapidly collapse when the bottom of the food chain falls out from under them. Already-strained fisheries will suddenly run completely out of fish, quickly driving the last few populations to extinction. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for our problems. Those tiny organisms have a profound impact on the entire world’s climate and weather patterns, as well as being a huge part of the carbon cycle. When the oceans die, the effects felt on land will be extreme.
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Uh-Oh
BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
At this point I’m just trying to enjoy what I can in my immediate surroundings. When I am outside tending to my critters, I often wonder if today will be the day the sky is filled with a blinding light from the south then a very chaotic and consequential minute or two after that.
But deep down that is probably a fantasy. The world is not that exciting. Instead we get to slowly watch how many people the billionaires can starve as long as we still have a working internet.
Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget climate collapse!
Ringtail@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
The forgotten stove backburner is still on, but we left the house
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Nuclear winter will undo global warming. Global warming can be seen as a merciful preparation for global war.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nah, global warming is on much larger scales than nuclear winter. Well get a few years or decades of winter and then a quick rebound to warming. Even worse than just the warming, because at least that happens gradually and gives nature and people time to adapt.
Retiredtoflorida@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How about and environmental and economic collapse caused by ai, while fighting WW3, leaving us helpless to combat the next pandemic.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Polycrisis! I CHOOSE YOU!!
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Never hurts to have extra food and water
Emi@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Don’t need to worry about toilet paper when you have bidet.
Benign@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
You seem awefully sure about your water supply
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And a bidet.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m gonna wing it.
green_goglin@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
wildcard
fucmm@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
All of the above unfortunately
13igTyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’m not worried about a pandemic. If scientific experts with no connections to the Republican party say the Hanta virus is low risk to spread, then I trust them.
JamieDub86@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Same from scientists with no connections to the Labour party….I think were safe.
redsand@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Not Hanta specifically. The CDC has expexted a pandemic every 5-10 years since 2014
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Don’t worry about this pandemic.
But the next one, and the one after that? Maybe worth worrying about. Sooner or later, one that is a high risk will come around. And if it happens within the next 3 years or so, you can count on this regime doing exactly the wrong thing and making it worse than it otherwise would have been. Even if it happens later than that, with a responsible government in charge … there’s only so much that even a good government can do against a truly virulent plague.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You forgot nuclear war.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s pretty much implied by WW3.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Oh… thanks…
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
And the Yellowstone super volcano.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You guys can stop adding things now. Im tired already.
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 weeks ago
That’s like the best possible outcome.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Definitely all of the above.
AI takeover causes economic collapse. Economic collapse causes WW3. WW3 causes another pandemic. (And, meanwhile, climate change is slowly destroying the environment, accelerating the economic collapse, worsening the pandemic, and being accelerated by AI and WW3.)
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep, we’re already last the tipping point. Enjoy what ya got while it still exists because we are fucked
yilian@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
This is why I cry all the time.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
AI will fight WWIII while causing the economic collapse and giving you really bad medical advice that creates the next and last pandemic. The final frontier. Just as God intended.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ever since 2022 the jack-in-a-box music has been playing and Jack sure is taking his sweet fucking time.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do what I do. Stockpile stuff to get through the first 2-4 weeks. But have your house sabotaged in such a way that anything useful to anyone is destroyed, eat a fistful of sleeping pills and a deadmans switch to burn the whole thing down.
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah sounds like “single bearded alcoholic” is an apt username
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SingleMalt is a type of scotch
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ew
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Nah, if we get that far, I’m going out BIG.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
in trek, over 600million people died in a nuclear holcaust of ww3.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like those odds!
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s indeed not bad. Usual nuclear winter simulations have billions dying.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
None of the above. Living in ignorance of things you can’t fix anyway is comfy
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At this point I might just learn Uzbek and live in Uzbekistan.
ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
E ) All of the above.
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
why not get ready for a global happy society? Instead of preparing for doom, spend the time on making the world good.
fermuch@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
You can both work for a better future while also prepare for a bad outcome.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
There’s going to be a lot of starvation in the near future.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
HAMOND!
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 2 weeks ago
OK Doomer
redsand@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
The preparations for all of them are similar. Get off grid and self sustained
sirico@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
A ring called ‘irreversible and catastrophic environmental damage’.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
PFAS is gonna fuck us, but simultaneously is super useful. Not much modern indoor plumbing works without ptfe paste/tape somewhere.
I wonder if it’s one of the great filters.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Global Ecological Collapse” was the phrase used when I was studying biology 15 years ago.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
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Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh fook, has Peter Thiel launched another company!?
Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Yup, the rubber tree shortage. The ENTIRE modern world relies on this one renewable resource, and its in critical decline. We harvest them faster than we can plant to grow :)
te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No-one was prepared for the Starlink re-entry events. Humanity had been so busy looking outwards, but had failed to look upwards. From 2035, they had to learn to accept the regular and devastating reentry of this fleet of miniature satellites. Molten fire would rain from the sky, multiple times per day at any time or place. Many cities were destroyed during this period, with too many deaths to count.
happydoors@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
2026 Q4 robotic AI push