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Is everything the worst? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by boaratio to c/[email protected]

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I'm 43, almost 44, years old and went through a bought of alcoholism during the early part of the pandemic. I went through treatment and have been fine since. However, I can't help but feel that all the news in the last few months is just the worst. Between the AI bullshit, the wars, the effects of capitalism, and the political situation in general it's just the worst. Is it just me or have other folks noticed the same trend?

Edit: I should have also mentioned the enshitification of everything tech related.

Edit 2: Thanks for all the thoughtful replies. For some more context, yes I'm American and live in a state that's about to ban the wearing of masks in public. I haven't had a drink in over year and have been in therapy for 3 years. I don't watch any news sources and rarely read media websites. But yet, that information seeps into my life somehow. I donate blood, I make charitable donations, and try to live a good life. I have 2 amazing kids and a great wife. It's just hard to not end up in a doomer mindset at times. A Bitcoin company bought a power plant up here that has an existing lease to use a lake as cooling water, and it's heated up the lake to the point that it's killing fish.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think the amount of information is the problem, just the way it is presented to us.

IMHO, my mental health improved significantly after substituting Lemmy for Reddit and Mastodon for facebook/insta/etc. Or maybe I've just gotten better at being unattached to digital life and social pressure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I'll say this much.

You certainly know how to gling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thats a reference to a relatively famous linguistics study lol. A bunch of children were given questions such as "This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. He did the same thing yesterday. Yesterday he _____." or presenting them with a wug and then asking what the plural of wug is. The children had very consistent answers to these nonsense grammar questions, showing that grammar rules are mainly learned through experience instead of being memorized for each word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh! I might have guessed that, but it's always good to get a study to back up things.

So, "I have glinged", or "I have glung?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Glang was common, but so was glinged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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