YungOnions

No problem 🙂

You're welcome

Shamelessly reposting this here, because it seems relevant:

Negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf

Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html

And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367

But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news

So it's important to try and stay positive:

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news

If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:

• https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
• https://fixthenews.com/
• https://positivenewsfoundation.org/
• https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/

And here's 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

Some communities on Lemmy you might be interested in:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• https://lemmy.world/c/hopeposting
• https://lemmy.world/c/worldinprogress
• https://lemmy.world/c/climatehope

Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or 'burying your head in the sand': https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/

https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism

And doesn't mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling

https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/

By-and-large Lemmy has a babies understanding of debate. Everything is black or white, bad or good. No nuance, no subtly just 'you bad, me right'. Dare to be different from the hive mind? Break out the low effort insults.

Thanks, I hate it.

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

Absolutely. It's never too late to keep trying and every little helps:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/06/too-late-climate-crisis-myth/

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/can-we-stop-climate-change

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-never-too-late-to-take-climate-action/#:~:text=Scientists%20warn%20that%20we%20are,the%20planet%20past%20these%20limits

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240206-hannah-ritchie-sustainability-data-spreads-hope-not-doomism

https://plana.earth/academy/is-it-too-late-for-our-planet

Regardless of whoever came up with the idea, recycling does help and you should do it:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230317-how-recycling-can-help-the-climate-and-other-facts

It may not save the planet on its own, but it is part of the solution.

If you ever need some more good news, here are some places to find it:

• https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
• https://fixthenews.com/
• https://positivenewsfoundation.org/
• https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/

And here's 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

Yeah, likewise. Felt like a missed opportunity.

They're back! And they listened to you, apparently: https://youtu.be/b9hxwgH2tN0

Dunno, maybe some people have different opinions on a game than you do? Imagine that? Imagine if people liked different things? Crazy...