I don't think things are getting worse in everyway. I see things changing and I'm optimistic about the future.
My chosen apocalypse of personal belief is that of climate change. Even if we create a general peace on earth, do every single thing right regarding climate change, at this point, we're likely to only skirt absolute disaster. Some countries won't even admit it's a problem, much less take action to prevent it.
If there can be a silver lining in the heavy dark clouds of war, it’s that many countries are speeding up deployment of renewable energy to reduce their dependency on unstable or unfriendly nations
Like what? Literally everything I can think of is getting worse all the time. People on the internet moving further and further to extremes, technology getting more and more dumbed down and taking control from the user in favor of spying on the. My friends and family aging, getting sick, and dying. Everything is more expensive than ever and my wage isn't keeping up.. I could go on.
Younger people are more political active and engaged than ever. They are shifting policies towards the left. Unions are become more popular throughout the west and are achieving improvements in workers rights. People from all around the world are engaging with each other regularly on the internet which reduces us vs them mentality. Climate change is at the forefront of political discussion and is backed by the largest investment funds in the world. Technology is getting better, easier to use means it's accessible to more people. Your family and friends aging is unfortunately part of the human condition. The fact that we are talking about wages not keeping up with cost of living is a good sign it means we have identified it as an issue and politically the issue is already bring tackled.
There's a lot of bad things to dwell on but to say everything is getting worse is unhelpful and demoralizing. If everything was actually getting worse I can honestly say I would kill myself. I believe there is a future for us all to work towards.
With the exception of climate change, most of these issues have always existed to varying degrees, you're just constantly bombarded by the news of it now. Block all news sites and communities for a few weeks and see how you feel. I promise you will miss nothing. Anything important enough will slip through your filters online or in the real world.
Now check this out, we're seeing meaningful movement towards fair wages in places like California, and pretty much the entire world, across every industry is on strike this year. That's not bad news, that's great news! It means that people have been pushed too far and are finally pushing back.
Everyone gives the Boomers shit for problems they presumably created, but they were fucking active in politics as kids, man. They were constantly out protesting, fighting for improvements and changes. As a result their kids and grandkids had things pretty great for most of their lives and were complacent. That complacency led to companies and governments seeing how far they could push the limits and they've found those limits. People are fighting back now.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
--Frederick Douglas
Modern technology recently resulted in incredibly fast development of multiple vaccines to control a worldwide pandemic. Even just a few years earlier vaccines would have taken years and resulted in many more deaths
% of people living in extreme poverty.
Violent crime is going down for a long time now. So there's that.
People are also much more accepting and open to different people. Still a long way to go but I think we can appreciate the progress.
Taking lead out of gas did wonders for that, though there's enough lead in urban soil that it's probably not good to eat eggs from urban yard chickens, or some root vegetables like carrots, turnips, radishes, and beets if grown in urban soil. That said, other than some root veggies, garden veggies do not take up lead in the soil.
I worked in environmental analysis and projection for a mutli-national engineering company and I have bad news.
Right wing politics will destroy our planet.
I don’t think things are getting worse in everyway. I think the prevalence of optimism bias has stayed relatively constant.
This isn't optimism bias. Optimism bias is personal ("smoking causes cancer, but I should be fine.")
What you're referring to is not optimism bias, but optimism viewed as a bias.
For me it's important to be optimistic because it allows you to keep working on an issue. If you think it's over and everything is fucked you won't work on the issue. You need to believe the issue can be fixed to take the steps to fix it.
Ah, so you must be a political enemy.
Everyone is a political enemy to someone.
I'm using Lemmy, Godot just got a big boost in funding (thanks to the other engine debacle). Things could be looking up in little parts here and there within our impending apocalypse?
Okay but a very small Caveat about the Godot thing, the main developers of Godot also got a large boost in funding but that doesn't actually help maintain the engine because they have released statements that the two companies finances are separate and investment in W4 Games does not maintain Godot. This pissed off a lot of major contributors at the time.
That's fair to say.
Raspberry Pi is finally becoming available again, and they plan to ship a new model this month, for the first time in like four years
Raspberry Pi 4 is already four years old?
Wikipedia says June 2019, it really has been four years.
We were probably focused on other things these past 3 years...
The prices are ridiculous now. They used to be a cool little hobby project but now if I want a pihole it's like, an investment.
Im looking at the value of my 8 year old 3b, going for 40-50$. Im be like, daamn bro, its a shitty fucking ARM board, what is worth so much on it?
For that price you can buy used business PC with x86.
It's the small things that keeps us going
I know it's cool to circlejerk about doom and gloom, but in general things are better than they've ever been. Life expectancy continues to increase, people are less oppressed, technology progresses, there's less war, the only problem is that in an interconnected world you can hear about all the bad stuff you were previously unaware of if that's what you choose to hear!
the climate would like a word
Even for the climate, we’re finally taking action and the action is speeding up every year.
We may be too little too late, but we’re moving and we’re speeding up
True, it's fucked. But we're doing more to fix it than we were ten years ago, and there are far less people pretending there's no problem.
The proportion of people who can read about all the problems is high and gettingbhigher
-- https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/literacy-rate-by-country
-- https://www.statista.com/topics/1145/internet-usage-worldwide/#topicOverview
It would be kinda cool if there was a rule where you have to at least try to post a link to the original post. Especially when it's so easy to determine where it is by the picture.
But why?
The image conveys everything I need, I don't have any reason to load my browser up and visit a whole other website I don't even use, when I've already gotten everything I could possibly need from the quote already.
If it was original art or something, I would agree. But this is just microblogging for the amusement of others. It's not a work that takes real creative energy.
It's a legacy of reddit, facebook, insta, twitter, etc.
You weren't able to easily link to the original post there, so people simply screenshotted it.
I agree that there's no such excuse here. Thanks for linking to the original post.
I mean, to follow suit OP here has to make this repost worse than OOP. Perhaps that's their way?
I guess I should just start getting used to the people of Lemmy calling literally every picture file with text in it a meme, huh? It's kind of like how in the 80s my mom would call any videogame "Nintendo", but alas.
I guess I should just start getting used to the people of Lemmy calling literally every picture file with text in it a meme, huh?
You're in a community where every post is a screenshot of a microblogging hot take, what do you actually expect to see?
Yup the fact that a climate denier with 96 indictments has a chance to get into presidential office scares the hell out of me.
If only people would start supporting terrorism and genocide on social media…
Communist(but in a bad way)!
