* two weeks later
** unless another huge and horrible news story comes out within said two weeks
Perpetual horrors. It might be a sign of the times, or just the internet, or both even, but there is a notable increase in constant terrible news. Climate change and death and hunger and epidemic and wars and billionaires and fascism and so forth, it desensitizes people.
Years ago people were deeply disturbed by violence, now I can watch a random russian conscript shoot himself in the mouth after a drone strike destroyed his legs every other day and it’s probably not the worst thing I’ve read or seen on that day even.
Everything seems fucked, it’s hard not to become somewhat apathetic towards it.
It's probably a mix, but I'd wager it's primarily a side effect of the existence of the internet. Before you'd hear the bad things in your immediate community, the really bad things from your country/region/whatever, and really only the truly horrible stuff from the world as a whole. Now you can have a constant feed of every bad thing that happens everywhere. As you see more of it, you're bound to get desensitized.
But hey on the otherhand I have unlimited videos of cute puppies and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a pretty big upside.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but I really don’t know if unlimited puppy videos were worth it in the end. Damn now I’m sad.
Three hours you mean, right?
me, waiting to deploy my spy balloons: soon
Lemme know when you deploy them so I can claim one of my kids is stuck on it.
how many wars are going on again?
Yes.
Thankfully none for my country right now. We've been at war for half my life, and for some younger adults we were at war their entire lives until just a few years ago. Never on our home soil, but you still feel its impact as deployments mess people and families up around you.
I just wanna know what happened to the fucking aliens man
You should instead want to know what was happening during the period when they had everyone focusing on aliens, same as the last few times.
We're here, we're "chilling", but our methods of communication, systems of ethics, policies on warfare and the ideals of what constitutes a good life are so completely and wholly incompatible that we've given up trying to communicate with humans.
E.g: Talk to us for a few hours and you'll be unable to contain your despair, or anger. Humans are an extremely violent, opinionated, and anthropocentric species, despite their many redeeming qualities.
Only the staunchest of optimistics are still out here observing homo sapiens and interacting with them.
Months? Months? Try days sometimes.
Dicks out for Harambe
I'll put that shit on my headstone. Lest we forget.
the whole Taylor swift worshipping (from people and media) really irks me because I thought it was not so long ago that everybody was talking about her private jet use and carbon dumping, but apparently it was a long time ago and nobody cares anymore
literally 1984
OrWeLLiAn!
Sure, totally just forgot about the "next plague" everyone was talking about
Yeah wonder what happened to monkeypox.
Fizzled out before it evolved to be truly veriluent, like most local hotspots of infection. Mpox, specifically, was mostly spread by physical contact with infected lesions, so that wasn't too much of a suprise. The worry was that if it had become more infectious via the air, like its smallpox and chickenpox close relatives. The existing smallpox vaccine provided good protection against it, so it didn't really have time to evolve or spread. The panic surrounding it was much more media hype than actual scientific worry.
Not to mention only ever focuing on one story at a time.
More like 10 seconds later
Agreed, but it's not really like you're any different, is it?
Welcome to the wonderful world of propaganda
