The Endless Doomscroller
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Words can be consciously dismantled in the mind, but actions are subtler and speak something subconsciously... It's like if you walked up to a pool and everyone was tiptoeing around it and not jumping in. No matter how fearless you are there's still something deep that triggers your own apprehension.
With COVID people are still behaving fearfully and there's nothing I can do about it other than suffer the harvest of ongoing social distancing stupidity, the idiotic glass walls still up in every grocery store, the "contact-less whatever the fuck", the lack of hotel room service... all the 100s of stupid anxiety-driven behaviors and changes that got implemented the past few years that were once never a thing.
Ahh whatever, back to doomscrolling.
They likely won't put them into new stores but i don't expect them to go down until they're so worn down that you can't look through them anymore.
I don't buy your issues with the distancing either. There are a lot of people that always disliked others getting close to them. This group might've increased now, but that doesn't mean it's anxiousness because of corona.
You're just noticing things for the first time and blame a sickness that was overly zealously warned against for a short time.
We just had most of the West undergo 2 years of non-stop government psy-op. Propaganda was constant. Dissent was suppressed at every step.
It's only natural that this has obliterated some people's critical thinking skills and their ability to operate in reality without being told by Authorities what reality is.
As for the hotels, I've just chosen not to participate. If you want to charge me 2X to deliver .5X that's fine, I just chose not to accept that deal. We can go through a recession and when the conditions bring us back to the previous 1X for 1X, then I'll gladly book a room.
My cynical take is that this kind of thing is just going to be gone because at this point it's just a (diminishingly) reasonable excuse to cut services aka costs.
I have a small storage unit I rent and the bathrooms have been closed for 2 and a half years "due to COVID" and at this point I'll be genuinely surprised if they ever reopen. Same reasoning as the "room service."
With Covid there are still hundreds of thousands of Americans who died in the past year, and probably millions more who were newly hit with significant chronic disease. Probably at least a hundred thousand more Americans will die from Covid in the coming year. Many people are either at high risk themselves or routinely interact with friends or relatives who are at high risk.
Acting carefully in times and places where there is substantial community spread is entirely reasonable behavior.
> all the 100s of stupid anxiety-driven behaviors and changes that got implemented the past few years
Tens of millions of people in the world have literally died, in the most significant public health crisis in a century, and you seem to think it is all some kind of joke.
Instead of just declaring that everyone who is different from you is “stupid”, perhaps try to be a bit more charitable.
HN might have a few idiosyncrasies, but it stands as one of the last places to go with a shared front-page and a high density of interesting and intellectual content.
In contrast, the algorithmically curated and individualized feeds of other platforms feel extremely claustrophobic to me... maybe because I know there's interesting stuff out there, but it's hard to find it when you have to fight through the giant mass of superficial and engagement-optimized posts and articles within the little personalized bubble that the feed algorithms think you belong in.
On the other hand, having such a high density of people who are probably reasonably intelligent within their subject (which I will broadly define as [Software] Engineering) has shown me that there is a very clear tendency to overestimate ones intelligence when it comes to topics that are outside that realm of expertise. I frequently get the feeling that comments will take on positions that are arguably contraire in what seems to be an attempt to show how deeply one may have thought about a given topic and to have come to a conclusion the majority of people can't even fathom.
It's difficult for me to pinpoint exactly. It is, however, a joy to see how respectful most discussions are, which I will also credit to the tight moderation on this site.
Politics per Wikipedia:
> the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
The problem is the reaction to covid19 has made virtually everything political. Can I go to the office? Am I forced to (illegally) share my medical records to do so? Am I skipped over for promotion because I’m not oppressed enough by society (so the company has to oppress me as retribution)?
These are political questions BECAUSE it’s how we govern the company. Imo it shouldn’t be the case, but this happened in every community, company, organization, etc.
I agree it’s good to avoid politics until that happens rather than bringing it up at the coffee machine. Keeping it to a minimum should keep most unnecessary drama out.
Granted, HN is not even remotely as bad as 24-hour news stations, but it still creeps in because that's the world we live in (today, anyway).
It's Not Getting Better
Situation Has Not Improved
Solution Elusive
Nothing is Built
Nothing is Back
Nothing is Better.
You literally did that yesterday. Textbook case of projection.
Well, as I said if you bothered to read my post "some issues naturally are political".
But more importantly: what makes you think I _don't_ consider myself a zealot? I never said I wasn't.
Lol. Textbook mindreading thought-error.
But thanks for being so obsessed with me that went through my history from another discussion we were in. I'm flattered.
This isn’t a new idea
You don’t need Kubernetes
Why do we need another JavaScript framework?
This won’t work, because of this one specific scenario
I guess nobody cares about performance any more
Developer compensation is ludicrous
This security issue wouldn’t affect you if you were on FreeBSD
I could do that with a 20 line shell script
Warning, PDF
Why does everything have to be about politics?
Etc, etc, etc..
I could do that in a weekend
Except it's It is as if you are reading Twitter
See also: http://endless.horse/
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"Lockdowns In Effect",
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People who were dooming about zoonotic viruses over the last few decades were right and we ought to have listened to them, climate change doomers from the 70s or 80s certainly look prescient and will increasingly more so in another few decades.
Rather than taking a three monkeys approach of "see no evil/hear no evil" I think a healthy dose of doom creates an appropriate sense of urgency to problems we are otherwise prone to sleepwalk into.
This combination is the difference between recognizing a problem and doing something about it as you describe (which is certainly a good thing), versus just feeling overwhelmed and sinking into stressful anxiety.
It is quite similar to the reason that tornado warnings cannot be too frequent, or they will not be listened to.
Eg the Nord Stream was sabotaged. We don't know who did it. We probably never really will. Keeping track of every single detail about it dribbles out is "glue eyeballs to screen" stress inducing territory so recognize that knowing every last detail about it isn't actually good for you. Back in the 1930's you'd have to wait for the news to even get to you via newspaper. Now there's sourced wikipedia page for every information junkie to gorge themselves over. Don't get me wrong, if you're having fun then by all means, learn all about Gazprom and the board member who was recently killed, along with details about every other company involved with building the Nord Stream - but stop when it's no longer fun. It's totally fine to be ignorant about which Dutch dredging company was involved in its construction.
There's just so much information out there these days, and you can't know everything, which means there's just tons you're ignorant about so there's no shame in that. I mean, I don't know everything either. Also there's a real opportunity cost to learning about subject A, because it means you're not learning about subject B or C or D, and you can't know that subject C won't end up being of geopolitical relevance.
The idea is you get a daily email with a 5-minute or so digest of the news, which you can read once/day, and then get on with your life. It gives you enough of the high-level overview to be informed enough to do your good citizen duty, without having any financial incentive to become a doomscroller. So far, at least, it seems to do a good job.
Don’t
Read books instead, real books, nothing published in the last 10 years.
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