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How often do you get existential dread? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm pushing half a century in an industry that is not kind to old guys. I try to fend it off but every now and then it hits me. I'm pretty sure this is not unique to my life experience, or it wouldn't have a term :-)

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[–] Sterile_Technique 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Used to get it every time I read an article on the current state of climate change. The dread has kinda just shifted to acceptance. Short of some miracle-tier scientific breakthrough or like literal divine/extraterrestrial intervention, we're just hard fucked and there isn't jack we can do about it.

Kinda adopted the personality of this dude:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been watching Station Eleven, The OA, and The Leftovers. The idea we're all just jumping around different timelines/dimensions, repeating the same stories over and over is kind of fun. But then I remember I've never seen any evidence that's even remotely true :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This man has the answers to Patrick's exit-pencils crisis.