And now you’re just insulting me, so I’m not going to respond further.

Awareness is not doomerism. I’m plenty aware of everything going on. It also doesn’t mean that I’m here saying the world is shit and going to shit and that everyone should feel miserable.

That’s so awesome, that’s a fun world to explore! I wish you many fun times exploring old bones!

God I’ve tried three times to enjoy no man’s sky and I just can’t. It’s just endless grinding, no real reward for it, and no way to automate any of the tasks so you can move onto more fun things

Same, I feel so bad for people whose spouses aren’t interested. I hope they’re exaggerating here, because the story is sad.

My story, I’m a giant train nerd. Any types, got model trains, ride them frequently, it’s my thing. For the first few years I was terrified to mention it, and man do I regret not doing it earlier. She is interested because I’m interested! She now shares my interests with me. We’ve gone on now 6 or so long distance sleepers here in the states and love it. I can’t imagine having a spouse who actively didn’t want to share interests

This is an astoundingly perfect reference, bravo

Surprise! You get your surprise spoiled by some rag article site. Aren’t you surprised?!

Agreed. I think if it’s not literally save the world they think it won’t sell, when some of the best movies I’ve seen this year have revolver mostly around personal relationships. Love, drama, tension. There are millions of stories out there that are ready for the big screen, they just don’t involve the end of the world so Hollywood doesn’t seem interested.

Guess that’s why my money keeps going to A24 and my indie theater.

When full anxiety takes over it’s very hard to go outside and just live normally, I was definitely like that. I had to look up movies ahead of time to see if they were apocalyptic and if they’d be triggering. They still are a bit, but I can enjoy things again. It’s absolutely a thing that Hollywood and big media loves playing up the end of the world and playing on those anxieties.

Could be, of course they’ve been saying that since the 50s too. Maybe time for some self reflection.

Healthy preparedness is having a few gallons of water on hand and having a filter ready. Being constantly afraid of losing water is fear. I hope they are now able to cope

Commenting and doomering is not being engaged. Interesting you assume I am not because I’m not a doomer. You should probably self reflect on those feelings.

Interesting, mine also came from my parents, I guess that’s more common than I thought!

I think 2016 is when it started for me too actually, and it was probably because of the upward trajectory we were on that then became obvious that we werent, at least not how I thought it would be, and I had to learn to cope with that

Thanks for sharing your story

Very well said. The new brings us everything bad and only weird feel good moments. I argue you can be completely informed and not watch the news. When someone tells me they’re anxious about the world, most of the time they watch the news regularly. Their business depends on you being glued to your screen, and anxiety does that well for them.

I was an anxious doomer all the time until I went to therapy. Something they said stuck with me.

The world is not binary, it is not going to be the best case or the worst case. Out of a range of infinite outcomes, focusing on the worst case scenario doesn’t make sense as probability says it won’t happen. What will likely happen is somewhere in that area between best and worst.

Eh they said it better, I’m having trouble remembering exactly. Point is, doomer’ing is a waste of time because it probably won’t happen.

One that got me in the 2010’s were the “Water wars”. People told me constantly only a few more years and we’ll all be at war! I legit had panic nightmares about it. Climate change worries me, and it set off anxiety. Turns out the doomers were wrong then, and continue to be wrong. Will it happen? It might. It might not. It’s impossible to know, but focusing on the worst case scenario is a waste of time.

It’s easy saying everything is going to hell, and to some it makes them feel better. It’s much harder to accept the weird grey area we continue to live in that’s neither good nor bad. So, if you’re like me and things like this immediately spring up a fear response, carry that with you, and focus on you the individual. Maybe this will be the year you get that promotion, or a new job, or start a new hobby, or meet the special someone.

My mother keeps spending 11 hours a day in Facebook and then sending me random shit from it.

Everyone always tries to pinpoint when Facebook got terrible. I was there for it. I remember it. While it happened over time the instant it was uncool and lame was when the first parent signed up.

The moment it was over for me was when my mother sent me a friend request.

I thought we all decided by the transitive property that we could complain about both and it would somehow both mean fuck reddit

Ironically, no. I’m saying your grandma sounds like that person who would call in the bins.

I’m saying that your scenario of the bins is the same as the bus stop. Just deal with it, ignore it, and live peacefully. It’s a molehill she made a mountain out of.

For everyone here, this is true, and I’d recommend buying a couple drives for quick replacements. If you don’t you’re gambling that 1) a replacement drive will be available and 2) that it will be affordable.

Keep a few spares lying around while we get through the ebbs and flows of the market. As K said, a person is smart, people are dumb and panicky. If ssd and storage prices rise, people panic and our hdds will rise too.

Prep now and thank yourself later.

Hold on, you never said residents. If this was a neighborhood-wide push then I would be open to it. The neighborhood may have a good reason to say bus stop should be here or there, if there were many home owners asking for a change then that is something I would agree with. Maybe there’s a coffee shop a block away that more people congregate at and it would be better used there, maybe people don’t want to j-walk to catch their bus. Those are reasons that make it worth changing - for the good of the public and the neighborhood.

However, if it was one house then as I’ve said and stand by, I view it as selfishness. I see it as one person dictating how many others can or can not go about their time on public property, and trying to dictate to the city where they can or cannot put public services on their own land. I don’t care if it was 70 feet or 700 feet, it’s one person with a minor, tiny, insignificant change. I said this elsewhere and I stand by it:

They didn’t want to see them out their window? Deal with it. You want privacy? Close the curtains or pay to put up a fence. Someone is loud? They’re there for 20 minutes max until the next bus. Or what is most likely from the photo - they probably wanted a parking space there. I don’t see any reason to push to move it that wasn’t selfish.

The best reason I heard is that maybe it was an issue with how loud the bus was, that one may have credence. However, pushing it closer to the neighbor doesn’t seem like a solution, and it seems like it should be a neighborhood discussion.