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[–] WillFord27 27 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Lots of doomer posts lately

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably cause deep down we know something is happening and it feels like shits about to hit the fan. Ocean temperatures are skyrocketing and we can't pretend everything is fine like we have for the past couple of years

[–] paraphrand 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We hope and pray that those who doom are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hopes and prayers are famously good science

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 5 points 5 months ago

Which is why doomers don't science. They feels.

[–] TheBat 16 points 5 months ago

Have you, like, vaguely gestures at everything

[–] Cryophilia 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Seriously it happened very quickly, what's going on? Did lemmy get linked to some sad doomer community elsewhere on the internet?

[–] Boozilla 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think there was another reddit influx. Not sure how large. Or what prompted it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OP's account is almost 1 year old. This is easy to check...

[–] Boozilla 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was talking about the general tone of Lemmy of late, not the OP specifically. This is easy to surmise from context clues...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I tend to notice the Reddit Influxes because I get more people going "Religion Bad, Upvotes to the left!"

[–] TheBat 1 points 5 months ago

Religion do be bag tho

[–] pete_the_cat 8 points 5 months ago

Maybe, because, this shit is serious and we can't keep pushing it off?

[–] Aceticon 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Things in generally seem to be getting worse for at least a decade, especially for those born in this century.

Granted, the whole Ecological problems thing has been going on for longer, though there were some improvements in the 70s (polution controls that stopped acid rain) and the 90s (replacing CFCs and reverting the hole in the Ozone layer) but even some of those things were partially reverted in the last decade or two (the whole Diesel Emissions Scandal is to a large extent about emissions of the very same stuff that caused acid rain and hole in Ozone layer is growing again apparently due to CFC use in China).

As many have pointed out, the reversal of the trend of improvement in the median quality of life is probably because we've reached Late Stage Neoliberal Capitalism.

[–] uienia -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of "sticking your head in the sand" comments lately. Do you not like to be reminded of reality?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For some it’s doom and gloom for others it’s flourish and best times since forever. Such is life

Ancient cycle of bad good bad good as old as history.

Still, we are lucky to be born in first world countries, we probably share that in common, so our situation is from the start nicer than 80% of the world.

I recently discovered I suffer a lot of victim mentality which constrained me and probably made me partly insufferable so maybe it is something that troubles you too or not