Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by how the world is going this year?
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The exception to that is AI. I think I do need to change my own life in order to increase my chance of thriving in an AI-dominated future, at least because if some jobs will still exist then I’ll need to be able to do one of them.
I work in IT and have for the past 20 years, and I have 20 more to go. I'm preparing my exit and setting my sights elsewhere since it's obvious this little tower is going to crumble in a fairly short amount of time.
What are you going to do instead?
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Without selective pressure our brains won’t change, and definitely not on the timescale of thousands of years.
We have selective pressure. It just selects psychopaths.
So survival of the fittest, become one or find something more useful to become.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.It's not about how we feel but what we do about it
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.Nope.
There's nothing I can do to change it apart from trying to do good in my own little neighborhood, so that's what I do.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.Not at all. We still have it so easy compared to the rest of the world or anytime in history. If you ever feel like that stay away from the news. I promise things have been WAY worse in times past.
If you can hang on social media for 8 hours a day, I promise the sky isn't falling
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.All i know is i didn't start this fire
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Yes, so I am overwhelming myself with good stuff so I don't have as much time to let that stuff bother me.
I joined an animal rescue that I work at every Sunday and busy my butt there. I also started participating in community events with other people through my music teacher, so I've always got new songs to work on. These national protests also have a more uplifting vibe than I'd expected, so I'd like to participate in more of those too.
So I'm feeling better about my own actions, developing more skills, helping my environment, giving entertainment back to my community, and seeing hundreds of other people that also want this place to be a bit better.
Sure the news is still a total buzzkill, but I can only dwell on it so long. I put off doing these things for so long saying I didn't have time or energy, but now they are wonderful healthy distractions, and even if we do pull out of this tailspin, I'd love to keep doing all these things anyway.
Don't let jerks keep you down. We can't stop all of it, but we can all find some way to be useful and successful, and other people seeing you carry on will keep them motivated too!
I'm just doing my small part by raising kids who will act like adults when they grow up
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.Hoping to get into numismatics professionally. That or teaching. My SO is a teacher and there's a shortage hereabouts, has been for years.
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We have selective pressure. It just selects psychopaths.
So survival of the fittest, become one or find something more useful to become.
I almost bought this until I read your username
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I feel like we're living in a [Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire]
I don't understand why you'd say this. The US 100% did start all these fires. Not only did they start them, they keep adding wood to the fire. It's so blatant even a blind person could see.
Billy Joel has great song and I appreciate him as an artist, but I'll he damned if he isn't an imperialist justifier.
Is that how the song should be taken?
I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.I feel overwhelmed by how the world apparently went today
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.Honestly? I think if you had access to social media for any time in the last 100 years you would feel overwhelmed. The nature of the beast is there is ALWAYS something happening. There's ALWAYS something to be angry about.
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.3.0 will be done by the Fallout boys
My fav is the mailman
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I feel like we're living in a Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire song
2.0(Fall Out Boy did a 2.0 version of the song where they used more recent events.) 3.0 and the events in the song are happening at 1.25 times the speed of the original.No.
The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.
Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.
Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.
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Without selective pressure our brains won’t change, and definitely not on the timescale of thousands of years.
Bruh selective pressure to mate has these young men going full fascist mode
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No.
The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.
Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.
Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]We essentially have an oligarchy, or at least a growing list of authoritarian leaders. Kings in many ways except by name. Kings have been perfectly willing to destroy countries in furtherance of their egos, profits or other. Wellbeing of their citizens be damned.
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No.
The world is run by capitalism, and you have to remember that unhappy, anxious people spend more, while dead people don't spend anything.
Turn off the news. Turn off the social media. Go for a walk. It's nice outside. None of this shit has manifested there.
Well, unless you're in America and you look vaguely foreign. Maybe don't go for a walk in that case.
I don't know if just choosing to ignore this all is the correct response. I mean, it's not overencumbering, but it feels like it also is a way for capital to reign free.
Maybe I'm just reading badly into it.
The correct way to fight against capitalism is to get together with your neighbours and start building communities that aren't reliant on the Big Market.
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Is that how the song should be taken?
I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.
More specifically, singing as the younger generation about trying to live in the world their parents and grandparents seem intent on burning to the ground. And that's not just my perception. You can hear him tell it in his own words (starting at 1:52).
