Asklemmy

Sounds like you need to lay down the weed and touch some grass bro

I do just need to point out that the Doomsday Clock is run by a media organization with no ties to any government. There's no hard facts about what the number represents, it's just a small group of academics who decide how close we are to apocalypse off vibes. While I think the problems they point out are valid concerns you have to remember that their main thing is to drive clicks. Of course this is easier if you're constantly scared.

I know it seems like we're in the worst time possible, but crime and violence is as low as it's ever been and the standard of living for human life in general is also as high as it's ever been. I'd echo the other commenters, sounds like it's time for a social media detox.

I mean, you could log out.

That isn't going to change the fact that the US is becoming a fascist state and the rest of the world will follow, but you can get a day of blissful unawareness.

I think this being an election year in the US also makes the whole world more wacky. It will decide if the world gets one more dictator or not, and one that would have a massive military at his disposal.

Some of us are most likely fucked, some of us are probably pretty lucky.

Same shit, different pile basically.

You can't control the world so you have to find your own peace and maybe find ways to make the world around you better, even if only in some small way.

I have multiple borders with Russia and it's alies and live kinda close so I am kinda fucked

I worry! Every. Single. Day.

I worry about my social media addiction, about the fact that I’ve read once books like a maniac, but hardly read any books at all now. I worry about Fake News and racists on the internet and about ignorance on the streets and fascists in the government. I worry about hot summers and warm winters. I worry about the future of my young nephews. I’m worried about war. I’m worried for the world and thus for the whole of humanity.

I’m fine! My life is good. I don’t have panic attacks. But there is always this slight worry in my mind and if I think about it, it gets bigger.

Others recommend a social media detox. That’s a start. Chill a bit. Relax. Enjoy the spring. Maybe learn a new thing, get a new hobby, like cycling or cooking. And then maybe, start doing something about the things you can change. I’ve learned a new phrase this week, it’s „productive restlessness“. You can’t do anything about world war 3, but maybe you can change other things.

And please, don’t allow others to take advantage over you, using your fear. Don’t buy a nuclear bunker for your garden if you can’t afford it, please don’t start believing in crazy conspiracy myths and tell the tankies to go to hell, when they try to tell you that you should vote for trump if you want peace.

A fellow worrier.

Not really. Just the firstworlders

I've stopped caring really, humanity can go extinct. We don't deserve this world. It will be a much better place when it's just deers and wolves frolicking about.

We, southamericans, have little to worry about.

Yeah we're fucked. Take the average person and they'd sooner become a nazi when push comes to shove than believe in a better world.

It's not if society is going to fall, that's going to happen regardless of what you do, it's if you personally are going to survive the fallout.

If you really look around things are way better than they ever have been, like hugely better in practically every metric.

It's OK to enjoy life

@[email protected] dude we are so fucked. We are heading to a dystopian cyberpunk fascist future, so we are fucking up the planet and we fuck ourselves that way