And choosing to think about it when you aren’t doing anything about it is a choice too. A choice to willingly be upset about things outside of your control.

Do what you can, where you can. And recognize that your feelings alone don’t change anything.

I can be as upset as I want about what Israel is doing, but I can’t directly effect that. I can do my best to not support it by boycotting a bunch of different things. I could attend or even organize protests. But my feelings about it have no direct effect. I’m not going to wallow in news about it as if immersing myself in knowledge about the horrors somehow helps improve the situation in any way.

There’s a point, and it’s a lot earlier than most people think, where knowing more info and facts about something that doesn’t directly effect you and that you can’t directly effect yourself only results in messing with your own emotions.

News organizations live and die on how long they can keep people looking, to maximize ad impressions. It is within their best interest, and not necessarily in your own, to keep you hooked to the outrage and depression hose.

I’m not a particular fan of npm, but you’ll probably see this kind of thing with any package manager of similar size. More a matter of what’s the most attractive target than the package tech itself.

what can be worse than this?

Can you seriously not look at some of the poorest areas of the world, compare them to the US, and see how big of a gap there is?

We don’t ship our children off to literally live onsite at a factory in company housing. We don’t have people building towns out of garbage on top of garbage dumps because there’s so many of them with no place to go.

Those are just the two most immediate examples I can think of. Even compared to ourselves a few decades ago, on one level things are downright decadent here. Smart phones, the quality of vehicles, the ability to have food from roughly anywhere just brought to you in what amounts to a private taxi.

In a lot of ways, things keep getting better.

If you put your head in the sand and ignore the rot at the top, the corruption throughout the economic system, and the dying ecosystem then it can be very easy to simply appreciate how good many aspects of life are.

And a lot of people have very busy lives. Hour long commute each way, 8 hour workday 5 days a week (sometimes more), raising a toddler, basic household upkeep, a few “extracurriculars” on the weekend like swim lessons for the toddler… I could go on but you get the picture. When am I supposed to even have time to get upset about this when most of it only ever effects me indirectly?

I’m not saying any of this is healthy or right. I’m just trying to lay out some things I think you’re overlooking. Many people don’t have the time or the emotional bandwidth for this. Also for many people, the bad still somehow does not out weigh the good.

It should be incredibly telling to anyone paying attention that it’s taken the nearly undeniable proof that the ruling class is all pedos to start getting people talking about this shit more. A lot of the bad shit has been bad for ages. Ask why are people waking up now rather than why aren’t more of them.

Or even if you just get unlucky during. Don’t need it to fail to get jailed before the oppressors are ousted, or to be one of the piles of corpses from the fighting.

That’s a pretty important callout, especially when catbox specifically has a non-permanent sister site.

There’s no way of knowing. But it would be dumb to assume they aren’t. Fun fact: your subscriptions and up/downvotes aren’t private on lemmy either, due to the nature of how federation works!

The way some of you talk about mainland Chinese people(like we’re brainwashed bugs, NPCs, or extensions of the state) is dehumanizing. Full stop. You don’t speak this way about Americans living under mass surveillance, police violence, and corporate rule.

I’ve definitely seen this type of rhetoric being directed at Americans more and more as our current president continues to fuck up everything.