What keeps you hopeful?
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It had only been 14 minutes when you took that screenshot
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Scientists working on very specific issues that might not seem impactful atm but taken with all other papers of similar rapport, they represent a somewhat unified front working against the destruction of everything we know and love.
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Any time I engage with my community.
It's easy to stay home, doom scroll and think there is nothing we can do. I know I'm lucky to live where I live, where the doom is just distant thunder. But joining community events makes me realize we're not going to go down without a fight.
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Idk maybe if I just sick around a bit longer, maybe something good will happen.
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Progress in AI. The sooner we build a machine god to judge us, the better. But seriously, it's exciting to see something so new and different being built at a time when so much human effort is dedicated to destruction.
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"Keeps"?
Someone is making a lot of assumptions about how the last decade of being terminally online has gone that reality isn't willing to sustain.
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It had only been 14 minutes when you took that screenshot
Still funny
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Weed has gotten so much better
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The awesome people in the world. The loud, mean ones are easier to spot and spew their crap confidently, but the less obnoxious, actually nice people are everywhere.
Don’t let the media and Internet fool you.
PS: And if you can help a decent human in need, please do.
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The world is both bigger and smaller than our problems. There always ways to make things better — which is what hope is, right? The idea that if we just stick with it things will get better?
My wife is out of town with her dad, our oldest, and grandson. I'm here taking care of our youngest two. I could be lonely, but yesterday I took my daughter to a state park and we walked some trails. I had hoped we'd run into some horses for her while we were there and damned if we didn't do just that. 3 Fresians and a Paint — looked like the only ones there based on trailers, and not only were we there at the same time but we crossed paths.
Thrilled my daughter and she got to tell me all about her plans and efforts to own a small farm and horses some day. If anyone else told me without any history of farming they were going to take it up I'd be skeptical, but if anyone can, she can. I'm hopeful for her. This world might just burn to the ground, but that one will achieve her dreams before it happens.
Today between my back and my feet after that walk I can barely stand, but I'm on my deck with a cigar and a beer and a bright sunny day and.... the world doesn't care about me. It has no expectations. Nothing is riding on my shoulders. I can just exist in this moment and look at nature around me and realize all the fire and ice and devastation that must've passed through here before has all given way and been rebuilt to the beautiful day in front of my eyes.
It's hard not to be hopeful, really. There is so much beauty in this world that exceeds the ugliness of this little screen in my hand.
Your mileage may vary.
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We're going through a shaky patch in the UK right now, with fascist wannabes like Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage rising in popularity. It's sad because I thought we were better than that but then Brexit happened and I wouldn't be surprised if our next government was a Reform majority. And if they get in they'll do everything they can to secure power forever.
What keeps me hopeful, in the face of this shitstorm, is the sense of community in my neighbourhood. People on my street look out for each other and support each other.
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I work at a college and young adults are far more accepting of each other.
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Weed has gotten so much better
And in civilized places, you can do it without fear of imprisonment
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Feeling that everyone's just searching for unity, even tho some ppl are going about it ass backwards and thinking they have to go thru an exclusion phase first
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Not to lie, basically nothing. I'm struggling really bad.
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The Grim Reaper sharpening his scythe for geriatrics Trump and Putin
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And in civilized places, you can do it without fear of imprisonment
Not true, it's legal in Missouri.
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Not to lie, basically nothing. I'm struggling really bad.
Hey, talking to a counselor or a therapist can seriously help. Even just having someone to bounce thoughts off of, totally worth it. Please consider it.
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My existence being a constant thorn on the side of basically evil person on the planet
(Im queer btw)
