TheSambassador
@TheSambassador@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘The damage is done’: Trump’s tariffs put the dollar’s safe haven status in jeopardy 2 weeks ago:
It’s an important distinction that the majority of America does not want this, they’re just paralyzed for various reasons (many of which are self inflicted, but many of which are due to the greed-fueled erosion of our societal connections).
- Comment on Ben Starr recieves Balatro's BAFTA award in a clown costume 2 weeks ago:
Chess is a war game. Killing and violence in general are devastating. It’d be interesting to compare the brain activity of a murderer with a grandmaster player. I have my suspicions about what we would see.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
Eh, still about 50-50 with these people. I’ve sent an email with 4 nicely formatted and numbered questions and had them respond only to question 3. Like… You read some of it, decided to answer one, and then give up with no other acknowledgement? Shit is wild.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
It’s obviously not great for the type of community that’s about knowledge sharing and learning, and it does suck that a lot of communities went there.
But it’s a great platform for simple social servers that are just about communicating. It’s super easy to sign up and set up a server. A lot of it just works well for chat.
Them going public probably puts a timer on the service though, so if it happens Discord probably just will get worse.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 5 months ago:
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I’m pushing back on this viewpoint wherever I’m seeing it. Humans are certainly flawed in a lot of ways, especially in how easy it can be to mislead us, but this cynical worldview that most people are actively wanting others to hurt is not based in reality. Honestly it sounds like me when I was in the depths of depression.
I think we have a major problem with how we share and consume news. Stories are shared as screen-capped headlines that emphasize the Bad thing that happened, and even if you find the original article, it’s stuffed with ads that make you not want to bother. Random one-off bad/stupid things that one person did somewhere far away are reported as world news without statistics and context.
The result? Increasing cynicism. The good, uplifting stories rarely come through. People begin to base their worldview and how they interact with other people on this “fact” that most people suck. This culminates in them becoming the thing that they think everyone is - they go through life scared of or angry at other people by default.
It isn’t an inevitability. Maybe I’m wrong, but believing in people is a much better existence, even when they occasionally let me down.