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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hell, I'm 46 and it's really hard to not be cynical these days. I want to believe there's still good people out there but I run into so many assholes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm also 40 something. Oh for the dizzy optimism of the 90s...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I will forever seethe that I missed out on the 1990s, especially considering how IT was a money printer back then & the rave scene was top notch. I just about caught the tail end of the old internet as well, even that has gone to complete corporate dogshit.

And owning a house wasnt a Pipedream : (

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I am over 60 and I can plainly see everything it fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I'm glad to see folks talking on here. Makes me feel better knowing we're here all going through it. Gives me that Band of Brothers vibe "We stand alone, together."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I wouldn’t be gentle. But then again both my parents are dead so I don’t actually have anyone to be bitter at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hello

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Hi!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Gan Lowee Lay Mun Hoh Ma

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Cool it with the down votes guys..

They are probably new to the fediverse and trying to understand how it works.

Glad you could join us, fren

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

hello

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

hello

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Yes

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's really sad that many young people are so pessimistic about the future. Despite some setbacks the last years, in many ways the world is still in a better place than it has ever been in human history.

Child mortality is still lower than ever, (extreme) poverty is still on a declining trend, we're actually on track to stop the worst climate change (thanks to massive Chinese investments), AI could vastly improve our lives in the future...

That said we do live in uncertain times, fascism is on the rise again, a nuclear war could still kill us all, fighting climate change is not done,l and AI could ruine all our lives; but pessimism is not the right mindset.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I do joke a lol, but things in many areas are so much better than 30-50 years ago and considering Brits in WW II had to turn out all their lights to hinder German bombings - most of us are being peddled fear by the media and it's not THAT bad.

Where did you get the climate hope bit? last articles I glazed over were 'we missed 1.5 deg target and instead put the foot on the pedal to make it faster' and 'climate migrations coming and mass famine'.

Sounder doomerism to me but I don't really have a good source to be optimistic at all.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In short, solar prices are declining exponentially and deployment is growing exponentially. There are even companies claiming to be able to make efuels from air using solar cheaper than fossil fuels by the end of the decade.

Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie is a good book if you want to read something optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks for this. I haven't been letting it get me down in the past, but having two kids can certainty start making me question what the heck their future will look like

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Extreme poverty may be declining but that doesn’t mean more people in the west are not being pushed into food scarcity due to stagnated wages and corporate greed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

It remains sad that in the world with enough artificial nitrate fertiliser to produce enough food for everyone in abundance and enough food in abundance to feed everyone in the west companies are still putting perfectly edible food into dumpsters and then covering them in motor oil to prevent freegans and dumpster divers while elsewere, famine still happens.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Everyone over 40: "Yup, social media has really fucked those kids' brains up"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Whereas the reality is that things are so fucked because these idiots get their news from Facebook. The Trump administration admitted to making a mistake deporting Kilmer Garcia - they’ll never find out because they’re too busy sharing OAN articles about that trans women they bullied out of fencing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Social media was a mistake. User age has nothing to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

I am well over 40 and I agree with OP. Then again, I didn't give up my empathy at the door to adulthood.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Judging by the typical Facebookfeed, I’d strongly argue the opposite.

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