Good analysis of the “nothing ever happens” Team Apathy trend.

It’s not that nothing ever happens, it’s that attention-spans are now a commodity and when you read so many headlines meant to capture that attention span like, “SCIENTISTS HORRIFIED BY STRUCTURES DISCOVERED UNDER MARS” or “EYEBALL PLANET FOUND IN SPACE” (both actual headlines I saw recently) and then it turns out to be just normal stories about science or the like, you start to feel like nothing is real, and if nothing is real then nothing really happens.

If you turn off your media feed and just seek out news on the things you’re interested in without letting the algorithm drag you around by the ballsack, you will be smarter and appreciate the amazing, terrifying fantastic and fascinating things that happen every day.

That kind of breathless nonsense doesn’t need a special sense, it’s glowing and shooting tanks out of every orifice.

It’s almost like a website that has the .ru suffix might be… LYING, could it be??

russophobia

links russian propaganda

hahahah

Lost tankies are cute.

Now go back to the front and absorb some drone strikes for your comrades.

People still sit in front the TV watching broadcasts while holding a remote control?

(Yes, they do, they’re generally over the age of 70)

And the amount of effort and space and knowledge you need to turn your love for gardening into a self-sustaining subsistence is utterly unfeasible for the vast majority of humans right now.

We tried it. We did it for eons. Then slowly, people started realizing they could trade what they have extra of, for things they needed, and that we could even centralize this trading system and cities were born, and then people were able to work jobs managing the trade of goods instead of just digging in dirt day and night and fewer people starved or froze every winter.

Our working world is, for the most part, objectively better than how we’ve lived for the last several hundred thousand years. What is making us miserable is our lack of community and connection, because we didn’t do all that stuff I mentioned above alone. We survived by making groups, families, communities and eventually cities and nations.

We are in the better timeline right now, but all ya’ll kids played Stardew Valley a buncha times and now you think you can go be farmers and be anti-social introverts at the same time.

What? You didn’t add 73,250 different disclaimers and qualifiers to your internet comment to make sure that your opinion includes all possible sets it applies to and none of the ones it doesn’t? How problematic of you.

edit: to the person who had a problem with this, you are part of the problem.

The internet has broadly become a really contentious shitty place where nobody can stand not being “right” about something.

It wasn’t uncommon to see someone wearing a cooking pot as a helmet

So you’re saying that people there are actually trying and making an effort to do the right thing instead of getting all bent out of shape that head protection makes them “less masculine”? I say the country has more hope than the US for lasting, effective change in policy and lifestyle.