• lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    33·
    11 months ago

    I wonder how that town in Ohio is doing after that massive chemical spill from that train derailment earlier this year

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    231·
    11 months ago

    Perpetual horrors. It might be a sign of the times, or just the internet, or both even, but there is a notable increase in constant terrible news. Climate change and death and hunger and epidemic and wars and billionaires and fascism and so forth, it desensitizes people.

    Years ago people were deeply disturbed by violence, now I can watch a random russian conscript shoot himself in the mouth after a drone strike destroyed his legs every other day and it’s probably not the worst thing I’ve read or seen on that day even.

    Everything seems fucked, it’s hard not to become somewhat apathetic towards it.

    • Alto@kbin.social
      91·
      11 months ago

      It’s probably a mix, but I’d wager it’s primarily a side effect of the existence of the internet. Before you’d hear the bad things in your immediate community, the really bad things from your country/region/whatever, and really only the truly horrible stuff from the world as a whole. Now you can have a constant feed of every bad thing that happens everywhere. As you see more of it, you’re bound to get desensitized.

      But hey on the otherhand I have unlimited videos of cute puppies and I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t a pretty big upside.

      • UlfKirsten@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I can’t believe I’m saying this but I really don’t know if unlimited puppy videos were worth it in the end. Damn now I’m sad.

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      You should instead want to know what was happening during the period when they had everyone focusing on aliens, same as the last few times.

    • Naz@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      11 months ago

      We’re here, we’re “chilling”, but our methods of communication, systems of ethics, policies on warfare and the ideals of what constitutes a good life are so completely and wholly incompatible that we’ve given up trying to communicate with humans.

      E.g: Talk to us for a few hours and you’ll be unable to contain your despair, or anger. Humans are an extremely violent, opinionated, and anthropocentric species, despite their many redeeming qualities.

      Only the staunchest of optimistics are still out here observing homo sapiens and interacting with them.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      Thankfully none for my country right now. We’ve been at war for half my life, and for some younger adults we were at war their entire lives until just a few years ago. Never on our home soil, but you still feel its impact as deployments mess people and families up around you.

  • 0xb@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago

    the whole Taylor swift worshipping (from people and media) really irks me because I thought it was not so long ago that everybody was talking about her private jet use and carbon dumping, but apparently it was a long time ago and nobody cares anymore

      • Kyval@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 months ago

        Fizzled out before it evolved to be truly veriluent, like most local hotspots of infection. Mpox, specifically, was mostly spread by physical contact with infected lesions, so that wasn’t too much of a suprise. The worry was that if it had become more infectious via the air, like its smallpox and chickenpox close relatives. The existing smallpox vaccine provided good protection against it, so it didn’t really have time to evolve or spread. The panic surrounding it was much more media hype than actual scientific worry.