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Uncool. Linux kernel is getting better all the time. Sure, they get regressions every now and then, no need to be a dick about it. /s
I’m using Lemmy, Godot just got a big boost in funding (thanks to the other engine debacle). Things could be looking up in little parts here and there within our impending apocalypse?
I don’t think things are getting worse in everyway. I see things changing and I’m optimistic about the future.
My chosen apocalypse of personal belief is that of climate change. Even if we create a general peace on earth, do every single thing right regarding climate change, at this point, we’re likely to only skirt absolute disaster. Some countries won’t even admit it’s a problem, much less take action to prevent it.
Climate change is not one of the things I see getting better. The only people who care about changing seem to be the people who don’t contribute much in the first place. The largest polluters are still polluting more and more.
Climate change is not one of the things I see getting better.
Then it’s hard to be optimistic about the future - if we don’t make a drastic alteration to energy then we are heading for rises in temperature that are going to make some parts of the planet inhabitable,. leading to water wars and huge displaced populations moving north. This will play into the hands of right wing populists and the political system will be under the kind of strain we haven’t seen in a century. That’s for as long as we can keep what might still pass for civilisation limping along.
We have time. I may not be optimistic about the outcome now but in 5 or 10 years I expect the political landscape to be very different. I can already see that many many many people care about the issue and are working every day to change things.
We had time 20 years ago. We no longer have time.
Yep, it’s the reason I don’t have kids. It feels selfish to have something for myself that will spend most of its life suffering.
It all depends on where the tipping points are, and there’s still a lot of uncertainty. If we can stop making things worse before we hit major irreversible changes to our environment, we can eke it out
We don’t have time - we had time 15-20 years ago and did less than the minimum required, so we will hit +1.5 degrees C very soon, which itself is bad, but we are easily on track for +2C and probably worse. That’s disastrous. And this isn’t factoring in other feedback loops that might kick in and make this irreversible, like widespread melting of the permafrost or the methane hydrates in the deep ocean (both of which have already started and will only get worse).
In the developed world, we have made gains in medicine and technology, but that just means this could be as good as it gets.
Is there hope? Sure. If China switched off all its coal-fired power stations and used gas, nuclear and renewables we’d be back on track for only hitting +1.5C and it would possibly buy us enough time to build renewables, make viable fusion reactors, etc. However, they already know this and aren’t making any moves to change when no-one else is - for example, Germany are looking to bring their coal-fired power stations back online this Winter.
If there can be a silver lining in the heavy dark clouds of war, it’s that many countries are speeding up deployment of renewable energy to reduce their dependency on unstable or unfriendly nations
I worked in environmental analysis and projection for a mutli-national engineering company and I have bad news.
Violent crime is going down for a long time now. So there’s that.
People are also much more accepting and open to different people. Still a long way to go but I think we can appreciate the progress.
That doesn’t seem true but I will believe you and not check data.
The only way to know is to check data, since the media is incentivized to report on it as much as possible to drive views.
Taking lead out of gas did wonders for that, though there’s enough lead in urban soil that it’s probably not good to eat eggs from urban yard chickens, or some root vegetables like carrots, turnips, radishes, and beets if grown in urban soil. That said, other than some root veggies, garden veggies do not take up lead in the soil.
Or tomatoes. Our pediatrician said for older houses you need to expect soil near the houses to be contaminated by lead paint so vegetable gardens (unless separated soil) are not a good idea, especially tomatoes
Edit: apparently lettuce too
https://www.soils.org/news/science-news/lead-contamination-garden-soils/
How many tomatoes would you have to grow to purify the soil
I don’t think things are getting worse in everyway. I think the prevalence of optimism bias has stayed relatively constant.
This isn’t optimism bias. Optimism bias is personal (“smoking causes cancer, but I should be fine.”)
What you’re referring to is not optimism bias, but optimism viewed as a bias.
For me it’s important to be optimistic because it allows you to keep working on an issue. If you think it’s over and everything is fucked you won’t work on the issue. You need to believe the issue can be fixed to take the steps to fix it.
Ah, so you must be a political enemy.
Everyone is a political enemy to someone.
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Countries-Regions/International-Statistics/Data-Topic/AgricultureForestryFisheries/Bees.html (honey bee population up by 47% over 1990-2021)
here have some disappointment https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/June-July/Gardening/Honey-Bees
Thanks, I needed that!
Raspberry Pi is finally becoming available again, and they plan to ship a new model this month, for the first time in like four years
The proportion of people who can read about all the problems is high and gettingbhigher
– https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/literacy-rate-by-country
– https://www.statista.com/topics/1145/internet-usage-worldwide/#topicOverview
I know it’s cool to circlejerk about doom and gloom, but in general things are better than they’ve ever been. Life expectancy continues to increase, people are less oppressed, technology progresses, there’s less war, the only problem is that in an interconnected world you can hear about all the bad stuff you were previously unaware of if that’s what you choose to hear!
the climate would like a word
True, it’s fucked. But we’re doing more to fix it than we were ten years ago, and there are far less people pretending there’s no problem.
Even for the climate, we’re finally taking action and the action is speeding up every year.
We may be too little too late, but we’re moving and we’re speeding up
If only people would start supporting terrorism and genocide on social media…
It would be kinda cool if there was a rule where you have to at least try to post a link to the original post. Especially when it’s so easy to determine where it is by the picture.
But why?
The image conveys everything I need, I don’t have any reason to load my browser up and visit a whole other website I don’t even use, when I’ve already gotten everything I could possibly need from the quote already.
To credit the creator and give people the opportunity to interact/follow them or the conversation on that platform.
If it was original art or something, I would agree. But this is just microblogging for the amusement of others. It’s not a work that takes real creative energy.
I mean, to follow suit OP here has to make this repost worse than OOP. Perhaps that’s their way?
It’s a legacy of reddit, facebook, insta, twitter, etc.
You weren’t able to easily link to the original post there, so people simply screenshotted it.
I agree that there’s no such excuse here. Thanks for linking to the original post.
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Communist(but in a bad way)!
