Comment on Low cognition predicts unrealistic optimism. High cognition predicts realism and pessimism.

DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Fecundpossum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, we found our example of low cognition.

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  • Jeremyward@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean plenty of reasons to be depressed, we have destroyed our planet, we are in the middle of the biggest mass extinction in 140 million years, and we can’t afford anything anymore. But yeah it’s a mindset or something.

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We haven’t destroyed our planet by a large margin. Maybe you mean the global ecosystem. You know what doesn’t care what humans do on the 5km-thick surface? The thousands of kilometers of dirt, rock and magma below.

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      • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Topsoil and the stuff that it supports is pretty fucking significant, especially if human caretakers fuck off and die.

        Think of the all the biomass of agriculture, no longer getting cultivated, allowed to run amok: beef, chickens, pigs, corn, almonds, wheat, alfalfa, rice, etc. All of that now just there, growing uncontrollably, unattended. Ecosystems are gonna be fucked.

        Animal feces that toxify the land, nutrient imbalance for local flora, local water sources drying up.

        You might think that “the planet” doesn’t give a shit about the top few miles of dirt, air, and water, BUT WE FUCKING SHOULD YOU BLACK-PILLED WASTE OF SPACE!

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• PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Headline reader, your are

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• MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, the world is going peachy, everything is just fine. Not like we’re on the verge of jackpot, religious morons on the rise, wars, antivax stuff… it’s the mindset right right

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  • Steak@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair this is the best time to be alive ever.

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    • MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s certainly true.

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      • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s really not. The average IQ dropped for the first time, the average lifespan dropped for the first time… All data points to the 70s-00s as being the best time to be alive. We’re past peak.

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You should read the paper. It is saying something quiet different from what you think it’s saying.

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  • HeckGazer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t be too hard on them, it’s difficult to read with low cognition

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    • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      See? They’re so optimistic that they believe they know the contents of article through the post title alone!

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• interolivary@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can you point out to us who’s saying that they’re smart for being depressive?

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• Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pessimism is just a function of an unhealthy lifestyle and mindset.

  Can you elaborate your perspective? Do you think pessimism serves no useful purpose? Why do you think it exists?

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• FunkyMonk@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The magic rock you are bitching on was in fact, invented by people with SO MUCH DEPRESSION, go pull humanity up by YOUR bootstraps YOU coward, and stop pointing fingers.

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