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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What does smoking a cigarette here or there has to do with addiction?

Where did I or the original post mention anything about occasional smokers? This post is offensive to those struggling from lifelong addiction to cigarettes, which is almost never a choice.

Also wouldn't it be the best advice against addiction find the will in oneself to stop doing it? If addicted smokers know what their cigarettes do for themselves and others, then they might want to try search for help, to get them off their addiction?

Gee, that's such great advice! Why didn't the lifelong addict think of that one themselves? You just singlehandedly solved addiction.

Noone chooses being addicted to cigarettes. It's a mental health disorder just like being addicted to fentanyl or heroin, and a crippling one at that for some. Please educate yourself about what addiction is before defending posts like this. What you are doing is similar to shitting on people for "choosing" their sexuality or gender.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not the original commenter, but no need to apologise my friend. Nice work. Learning tip from me: give PEP 8 a read and save it for reference somewhere. It's the standard for how to format Python code, and future you will thank you for internalising it early on in your Python journey

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You just sent my ADHD brain into the depths of my music library for 2 hrs. It's early morning and I have shit do do man, why would you do this to me? There are soo many I could list here, ranging from Dubstep to Drum and Bass, to Bass Music and Trap and almost every other kind of electronic music. Most Techno, especially Trance basically revolves around building up and dropping one big and epic drop.

Personal bias and nostalgia, but Rusko - Everyday (Netsky Remix) has to be one of the sickest bass drops of all time.

If we start listing Techno drops here, this thread would never end, so I'll refrain. Here's just one example: Space 92 & The Yellowheads - Planet X

The same is true for Wave music, but here's a taster: Deadcrow - GT1000

Disclosure, Eliza Doolittle - You & Me (Flume Remix) is a masterpiece in its own right. But this brass band live performance of the track restores my faith in humanity every time I listen to it.

Some honorable mentions in a similar vein:

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I really appreciate your comment. Knowing I'm not alone in this feeling is so encouraging and has been eye opening. Gives me a sense of community and hope that we can do something about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just want to say thank you for writing such a detailed response. It's been quite eye-opening for me, I wasn't even aware that so many great resources and communities exist to explicitly counter this sentiment I've been feeling about negativity in news and other media.

It's very encouraging to see that I'm not the only one with this feeling, and even just the responses to this post are sending me on a whole journey of being more positive!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I will look into indy journalism, thanks for the recommendation! Never gave it much thought but it makes total sense. Is substack the best place to look or are there other places you can recommend?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a recommendation for uplifting news on YT?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Cool!! I came for gloom but found a happy bear family. And a really shitty game. But shitty in a good way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Where do I sign up to your feed?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Wow, I am super intrigued. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

Looking through my media feeds, including Lemmy, YouTube, News Outlets (Reuters, Financial Times) as well as news related to my profession, I would estimate that 85% of what I see is doom and gloom, i.e. reports about something that's going wrong in the world or might go wrong in the future.

I try to limit what I follow to educational and unopininated sources (as far as that's possible anyways) and some satire or a meme here and there. I don't like suggestion algorithms and don't use social media, because I don't want to be trapped in a self-reinforcing bubble. On YouTube for example, I use third party apps which show me only videos from channels I explicitly follow.

Still, it's mostly depressing information: how bad the job market and economy is, geopolitical threats, AI risks, symptoms of late stage capitalism. I am aware, thanks. But I didn't ask to hear these things over and over and over again, and it's negatively affecting my outlook on life. I've given up on reading the news entirely because I just get triggered by the enshittification of society, politics, the environment and daily life where I live. At this point I'd rather not hear about it anymore.

What I want to ask is whether you are having the same experience? Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? I don't want to be blind to what's happening in my/the world, but I want to have a positive and optimistic outlook on the future. How can I make that happen? How can I get away from an engagement economy constantly bombarding me with bad news without giving up on learning about the things that I am interested in?

 

Had some fun just tinkering in Blender. Didn't turn out too bad, using this as my wallpaper at the moment. Happy to rerender with different colors if anyone's interested :)

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