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  • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Being hit by a motor vehicle of some sort owned by a large company with deep pockets and suffering a horrific but ultimately temporary injury with absolutely no longer-term health effects that nonetheless results in a seven figure injury settlement

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    • Gerblat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The New American Dream

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    • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn, and here I was thinking more like just slipping on a puddle in a store.

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    • chocrates@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The settlement isn’t gonna be as good if it doesn’t impact your lifetime earnings. I have a family member that litigates this shit 🤮

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      • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah that’s why it’s a dream

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    • ScrotusMaximus@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t this just winning the lottery with extra painful steps?

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      • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah but instead of the state paying you, you get to increase a big company’s insurance premiums for a while

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  • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Source. Attribution is cool.

    Full post of the Instagram image posted by OP, but without the username cropped off. Post by user frayafalke which is an image of text, reading, “I think it’s crazy how many people secretly fantasize about something terrible happening just so they can finally stop. Getting sick enough to escape work. A disaster that shuts everything down. Even a complete societal collapse, because at least then nobody would expect them to keep showing up and pretending everything is fucking fine. We’ve reached a point where people would rather imagine the entire world falling apart than imagine having to live the rest of their lives like this.”

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    • j4yc33@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Never expected to See the one true @rob_t_firefly on Lemmy!

      Only because I See you on Mastodon all the time!

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      • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hello! I’m always popping up in all sorts of places.

        [Horror film suspense music intensifies]

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    • return2ozma@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you! I saw it on bluesky

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    • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Chances are, they didn’t write the text.

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      • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I see no evidence they didn’t write it, I have yet to find an older source for the text, but at any rate this seems to the original uncropped version of the image posted here.

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  • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Covid time was personally great for me. Vietnam locked things down. We had food delivered. We didn’t get sick. At home with the wife and kid. Watching movies and tv. Playing games. Making the second kid. I worked from home for something like 6 to 9 months because my office is in a neighboring province and VN didn’t allow travel between provinces until a later relaxing of restrictions after vaccines became available.

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I loved Covid, like not the disease or people dying. But the rise in WFH. My company finally wants to cease all WFH and it fucking sucks. I’m ready for another pandemic.

      I can’t really do offices, I burn out way too fast. It’s not my kind of environment. Covid let me be a functional member of society, it gave me a taste of normalcy. Now all that is being taken away because middle-management needs to justify expensive offices. Offices that also drive up property costs so no one can afford homes.

      Yay~!

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  • Varesti@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lemmyrealpost

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  • IamMoonPie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hate to admit it but I’d love to go back to Covid times where I was forced to stay in my house and never leave. I don’t want people dying but I’m so fucking tired.

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    • daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It wasn’t any different for me. I was one of those so-called “essential workers”. I still had to go to work. When I wasn’t at work, I stayed home and layed in bed and played games. People talked about isolation and loneliness and I was just thinking " First time, is it?”.

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”

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  • the_artic_one@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the premise of Zom100: Bucket list of the Dead, the main character’s job is so shitty, he considers the zombie apocalypse to be a massive improvement over having to go to work and just starts living his best life and doing all the things he never had time for.

    It’s very relatable.

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    • finnie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I love Haro Aso so much, dude. Alice in Borderlands is just such a beautiful metaphor, I’ll never get over it. This has been on my list for a while, I think Im gonna have to read it now.

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  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just getting silly here, but what if the people who are harmed by the system come together and abolish the system, because they are the majority?

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    • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They can’t; they’re too busy posting online daring someone else to do it.

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That would require a level of solidarity that doesn’t exist and a solid plan for what comes after, which no one has.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most likely a bunch of stupid, selfish, assholes will co-opt whatever rises out of that and things will get just as bad only with worse infrastructure this time.

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  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We’ve hit the point where people find the end of the world is more likely than the end of capitalism

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Me in France right now.

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Many, many people, including myself, embraced the shit out of COVID.

    That was a pretty clear sign that our society and way of life sucks.

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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    • AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was almost not at all affected day to day by COVID, I just went to work still because it’s isolated, no mask etc even needed.

      But it was soooo much better with less traffic and less people at the stores. Even just, the “one way Aisles” at the stores were so much better. You go in, everything flows so much smoother.

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  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No joke this is me. I had a major surgical procedure a decade ago. It was a 3 day hospital stay to recover. It’s one of the most relaxing, peaceful times of my life, even with all the pain and nurses checking on me. I remember it very fondly.

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  • ravelin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s struck me is how in America, the reality is the opposite of those fantasies. What’s that? The nation’s capital is being stormed by fascists attempting to kidnap lawmakers and overthrow the electoral process? And I’m still expected to just work like it’s just a normal day??

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was literally stuck in a fucking Zoom meeting watching the insurrection in another window. Fuck this timeline.

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  • FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can confirm. This is me. Especially after the last two years. Everything just feels so hopeless, and I’m expected to spend most of my waking hours feeding a system that gleefully kicks us in the teeth every single day.

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  • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I honestly loved covid. Am I crazy? I got to stay in with my girl, be comfy, work from home, then watch movies and play video games, all with zero fomo.

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    • IamMoonPie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I lost my grandma during covid and I’d still rather go back to that then this hell scape. At least with Covid I didn’t have to schedule my breakdowns.

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    • BreakingBigfoot@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Great for me; I’m “neurodivergent” anyway. Perish the thought of being forced to deal with sociopaths and other stressed-out employees I’d need to work with all day, every day until you die? Now that’s my idea of going crazy!..

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  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also because people come together during major crises.

    And unfortunately, it does not look like we’ll be able to get rid of capitalism (and more importantly capitalists) without either a mass uprising or a devastating catastrophe (like total ecological collapse).

    Currently we’re about to reach the latter, which I don’t think is preferable, but perhaps it’ll turn out well in the end. I sure hope so.

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    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also because people come together during major crises.

      Since COVID I no longer believe this. Where I live, people immediately started hoarding essentials, threw low-paid retail workers under the bus, refused to follow even the most basic precautions to keep others safe (and had full-blow childish meltdowns and screamed in the faces of anyone who tried to ask them to comply), overwhelmed the healthcare system unnecessarily, burned down cell phone towers etc. Just a complete orgy of idiotic fuckery right from the start.

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      • redballooon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I agree. Since covid I lost my long held belief that humans are basically good.

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  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s easier to imagine a convenient bad thing happening than a good thing happening, I guess?

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it’s simply that modern life is too far removed from what our instincts evolved to handle… A shitty life or death situation is something we’re more equipped to handle (at least in our imagination) than societal problems so big that are effectively impossible for us to influence.

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      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I guess a possible part of the solution could be breaking these problems down into manageable chunks?

        “Think globally, act locally”, as they say… and “locally” doesn’t have to be a physical locale. It can be a fedi instance or a niche group of some kind.

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that not a normal feeling? Because I felt that way long before things got this bad.

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    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i have always attributed this feeling to the fact we live in a system where our contributions dont really matter, as in that we only work for a number to go up, and not because its actually needed (with few exceptions)

      tldr: i think its capitalisms fault. as always

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      • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i think our society is making us work in a similar way that a bodybuilder works out: it’s just about making [these muscles / that business] grow, even though they serve no purpose and could just as well just not exist, and things would be equally fine, but for whatever reason, we’ve made it a beauty ideal that these things are as big as possible, so we must max them! every! single! day!

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  • EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m at work and this hit me like a freight train. and I like my work.

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    • j4yc33@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like getting hit by a freight train would be a little too far, but like … at least my kids would get enough money to be OK?

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      • EmptyAsparagus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was more talking about the emotional freight train :D

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  • AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like to refer to this state as “Existential Apathy”.

    At some point, you just stop giving a shit and want to stop having to pretend to give a shit more than anything else.

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  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do we have a c/lemmyirl?

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    • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a c/me_irl on both .world and .ml.

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      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My therapist told me that, in fact, it’s not normal to wish to be hit by a bus on the way to work every morning just so you could escape from going to work.

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    • Blah463@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am bad about not looking when I cross at crosswalks. Someone asked me about it once, “If they hit me hard enough it won’t be my problem anymore.”

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  • tigermountain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s clear these people aren’t thinking big enough. We need a very large asteroid to hit the earth. I don’t want society to fall apart, I want it all gone. There won’t be an apocalypse to survive because everyone would be dead.

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    • Markus29@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bonus points for enough dust in the air to reverse global warming

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  • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “We’ve reached a point where Americans would rather the world fall apart than get off their cowardly asses and do something.”

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    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s always the same

      The fact that plenty of them, most famously that poster-boy for 'Murican shit Henry Ford was a huge fan of Hitler and his bullshit gets glossed over

      They sat out the war until they were pushed

      And it will happen again and again, even when the problem is in their own house

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  • sunbytes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Watch for when Zombie/apocalypse movies start getting popular again.

    It’s absolutely a sign of mass despair at “the system”.

    Zombies make everyone equal again. The executive actually becomes dead weight compared to folks who have spent their lives doing physical or practical labour.

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  • Consensusallthewaydown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was told my entire life that “the apocalypse will set us free”

    They meant rapture. I have leaned into the idea of it meaning the societal collapse of climate change will bring about liberation.

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    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The question is free from what? Free from scrounging and fighting for survival? Absolutely not. Free from modern medicine? That’s a guarantee

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i always figured those folk were jim jonesing it

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, being killed in water war II after decades of suffering can be considered a liberation, but that’s not a great type of liberation

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  • endless_nameless@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think one of the biggest issues is that nothing is real anymore. 90% of what 90% of us do is utterly meaningless. For the average person, life is entirely solved. Our problems are mostly by choice, be it ours or someone else’s. The only real things in our lives are tragedies that we’d never have been able to prevent or resolve anyway.

    An apocalypse is enticing because then our actions would have direct consequences. Right now, the consequences of our actions are filtered and diffused through a trillion layers of bullshit where the positive and negative effects are basically invisible unless you make a ridiculous amount of money very quickly, or like, kill someone with your car.

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  • adhdsergio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes but somehow I would guess people in war zones, say for example in Ukraine, somehow wish for this boring normality we seem to be tired of

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    • tooclose104@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The ol’ grass is greener on the other side paradox. I get it though, I sometimes catch myself thinking it. I don’t even hate my job, it’s just exhausting for reasons I’m working to resolve.

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  • captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What we would get instead: being sick and still forced to work after societal collapse, and pretend everything is fine

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m knocking on the door of 60 but this has always been an idle daydream of mine.

    As I’ve got older I’ve come to realise a. that I’m no longer young enough to be the heroic, plucky survivor of my teenage daydreams, and b. just how utterly horrific societal collapse would be.

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