Don’t you think it’s quite ironic that the subject I’m trying to avoid is being discussed in this post?
Oh. That means you’ll have some time on your hands for me to tell you about Arch Linux…
LMFAO. This made me laugh out loud.
To be clear, it is fully inclusive of lady-balls as well:-).
Fair fair 😂
Ovaries?
That makes sense - we’ll go with that:-).
I use Gentoo btw
I use Mac OSX so I won’t judge you:-)
Don’t forget game news though. And shitposts.
And naked people.
Way too few of those
Happy cake day!
Where???
Do go on.
Also behold these pictures of dudes in socks
I guess you are speaking of theses beautiful girls, on unixsocks
Hahaha thanks for the chuckle! This got me 😄
You joke but I’ve actually been considering it. Should I elaborate further or was that not a real offer of information?
*Our lord and savior Arch Linux
btw
Ignore the haters OP, your mental health is important and if these topics are making you feel burnt out, then you are more than justified in tuning them out for a while. Don’t be guilt tripped into staying perpetually outraged.
I’m not interested in US politics and Elon. I care about the Israel/Palestinian problem, but I don’t want to feel sorry for this situation every day, even though I don’t have a bit of power to solve the situation. Thank you for your understanding.
Not op, but i have filtered a lot more than you actually. Lemmy has a very specific demographic and some topics and talking points are insanely repetitive and exhaustively discussed at all times, particularly US politics which, as a european, don’t matter to me. Just tell me who won when it’s done
The American election propaganda machine is at full throttle and most of it is incredibly infantile, at least for the level Lemmy tends to be at in average on non-tribalist subjects.
If I wanted clubist cheerleading, my own country has an overabundance of football (soccer for Americans) coverage on the News and they tend to go out interview people wearing full-blown team colors at the entrance of major games and ask them “who do you think will win?” (which is about the stupidest question you can ask anybody who is obviously a fan of a club).
The only two things that all the political coverage in Lemmy is teaching me is that in America not all brainless simpletons are siding with Trump (as so much shit from the other side also is Highschool Playground level bullshit) and just how downright mindlessly moronically tribalist power duopoly fake democracies are - no doubt compensating for how little true choice they have - which definitely incentivises me to fight for genuine Democracy were I live and avoiding that the local backwards, unworldly and provincialist politicians get any more ideas from the US.
BREAKING NEWS: Musk posts misleading video blaming Netanyahu’s Gaza strike on Harris, causing The Donald to call on Vlad to intervene
I would not want to hide posts about Vlad the Impaler
Get it straight. Its Vlad, the Defenstrater.
I think they are okay with content regarding the historic Impaler. They just don’t care too much about the modern day defenestrator.
Add “linux” to that list and your front page will be empty.
No way. There’s always star trek.
And beans
And pessimistic negativity. So much negativity against everything.
Not unjustified but still depressing negativity. You don’t know about something like r/eyebleach (I think that’s the cute one?)?There’s an uncute one?
r/eyeblech i believe
Can’t forget beans.
It’s funny how many Americans don’t realize that there are people living life outside the US that also have access to the internet and Lemmy.
As someone living in an area where I can literally walk into 3 different countries (even if I need to hike a few hours) I cannot wrap my head around that exceptionalism.
If you’re not American then who let you on our internet?
Get your own internet.
It’s a government conspiracy. They did let in all the dirty foreigners just so they can tell you personally: America bad!
We’re too insulated to care too much, because it mostly doesn’t affect our day to day lives. And we have a pretty big election coming up in like 6 weeks, so it makes sense that most Americans online would talk about that.
Can’t remember the last time Germanys, Netherlands, Polands or any other election was this much or long in the news.
Not to mention Asian (excluding middle east because they are news non-stop) or African (not affiliated with middle eastern conflicts).Hell even Canads or Mexicos is much of any debate…
God please let us put a fucking leash on these assholes dominating our time. I don’t want to be convinced non-stop that you’re voting in my best interest, I want to see my best interests enacted. I want a representative democracy that allows me to trust that my representatives are going to represent my community as a whole, not some twisting tendril of black or white districts intended to game the system. And it’s so fucking absurd that we have somehow convinced ourselves that our Constitution intended for corporations to be treated as people or for money to be treated as free speech. Millions and billions spent convincing us that millions and billions need to be spent. It’s complete lunacy and we’re all cool with it?
Yeah but our elections are also stupidly consequential. It doesn’t help our ego any though.
sees propaganda from transnational corps, the Kremlin, and CCP
“Why are the american people assaulting me with this garbage!”
ITT: HOW DARE YOU NOT PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT I THINK YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO?!?
😂
Well the good news is, if you ignore Palestine it will eventually go away.
oof
Damn. This comment section really highlights who lives on Lemmy and it’s their number 1 source for everything vs. people that just use it like a social.
Half of me wants to be snarky and call you privileged for being able to ignore these types of things, or some string of expletives for choosing to ignore an ongoing genocide. But then I thought about it and damn, i really wish I could ignore this mess, and I can’t blame you for just giving in. Your mental health must have improved drastically after this. I would be a hypocrite to call you out while wanting it to end so badly.
As someone who is politically engaged to the point of being an activist, I don’t mind seeing political news, and I read a fuckton of it. But jesus christ do I want this election year to just end, this season has been insufferable and exhausting. I’ve been struggling to find a way to participate beyond the regular praxis I do, since I can at least find solace in my friends as we address queer issues and homelessness in my area. But going beyond that brings me into the purgatory of American politics in this hell year.
This doesn’t say that the OP ignores the mess, they may still be reading the news. However, there’s little value in seeing this content on lemmy. The replies under these posts are often filled with people repeating the same old jokes, toxic sarcasm, and other meaningless comments. Most political activists online are nuts, regardless of their affiliations. It’s unhealthy to bathe in that.
I’d argue it doesn’t have to be that way.
Lemmy is currently one of the few places online that can break free of media narratives because no corporation owns or runs it. It’s all volunteers. It could be made into a great place for open policy discussion, that serves the public interest.
People are so used to the vitriol promoted by 24/7 corporate media that it will take a long time to change that, but you have to start somewhere. You have to chip away at their influence, otherwise things will only be worse in 20 years.
I’'ve felt this way since 2016… And this is the first year I can actually vote…
Sometimes I need to ignore American politics, because I’m not even American and it makes me feel sick to think about how impacted the entire world will be by this election, and most of us don’t even have a vote. Makes me feel pretty powerless
It sounds like you already have a decent handle on juggling self care alongside your activism, but I still feel compelled to remind you to be kind to yourself and take breaks if you need them. Perhaps it’s because I know too many people who are working to save the world, who forget that they are a valuable and necessary part of that world that’s worth saving too.
🖤❤️
Eh, wading through the nonstop propaganda from the shills on lemmy.ml and hexbear isn’t helping anyone.
If you want to stay informed about these things Lemmy is not a trustworthy source at all.
Eh, wading through the nonstop propaganda from the shills on lemmy.ml and hexbear isn’t helping anyone
oh, shut the fuck up and go back to world
Don’t you think it’s quite ironic that the subject I’m trying to avoid is being discussed in this post?
You made a post about the subjects. You could have just blocked the keywords and moved on with your life.
Thanks! Just applied these to my lemmy client 😄
It’s perfectly on form for a modern citizen of a Western country to confuse denial and avoidance as inner peace.
It’s undeniably better for you to not worry, but also the ability to not worry is undeniably privileged since it means you’re not personally affected.
Also i just don’t think it’s true that we can separate our issues from the third world’s issues, they are connected, and the very uncomfortable fact is that the connection often is our benefitting from their exploitation. That’s not as true as it once was, colonialism is different now, but it’s still true, i own countless cheap items thatwere manufactured by exploited workers in other countries.
Why are you assuming this person gets all of their news from Lemmy?
I didn’t even reference “this person”, it’s a simple comment on Western culture, just like it purports to be.
After getting filters, Lemmy turns into just tech news, millennial humour, memes you have to read some dweebs theory to laugh at, and political posts that bypasses said filter
And opposums, bats, bunnies and NSFW.
