Oof, you weren’t kidding.

This is the way.

Social media will jump from one super important and stressful thing that we all need to lose sleep over to the next with or without us. Yes, these things might be important, but a lot of online activism seems to be about who can scare more people into supporting X, Y, or Z with zero regard for the reader’s mental health, the rhetoric used, or even being 100% factual.

It doesn’t hurt to disengage every so often.

I try to watch what I read online, and it truly helps.

Do:

• Keep yourself informed by reading bland articles about climate studies with direct interviews from the scientists conducting them.

• Stay knowledgeable about who to vote for to support reasonable climate policies.

Do NOT:

• Read articles that inject opinions from the web journalist, terrifyingly worded headlines designed to get you to click, or anything written for a secondary purpose (e.g. voter mobilization).

• Get your info 2nd, 3rd, or 4th hand from social media personalities on tiktok, youtube, twitter, or any website with an algorithm than rewards the most extreme takes with more engagement.

• Let fear prevent you from living the life you want to live or making long term plans.

Imagine being a photographer and realizing that you captured the bullet in mid-air. I would have that framed and on the wall.

Am I getting my hopes up for nothing? =(

The pen?! Damn, that’s impressive.

The one I might use is a an old Galaxy Note. I wonder if I’ll have similar luck.

Whoa, I don’t know why I’ve never considered Linux on a tablet. I have a couple that are gathering dust in a closet, and if this is doable, it sounds like a fun project!

The pirate voice in my head nearly ran out of breath singing the post title.

They were working as a paramedic that night, in Nebraska.

I love that he called it “vger”

I mean, probably Linux at some point. I’ve dipped my toes in as a complete novice, but I expect I’ll take the full dive eventually.

There are problems in the world, but it’s important to remember that both news and social media get way more engagement when showing you doom and outrage, so the most extreme takes rise to the top.

It’s good to be informed, but don’t let the doomsaying scare you out of living your life.

That sounds difficult.

You know, I bet a software engineer could write up something to help with it!

inferior decorator

This one is going in my dad joke arsenal. Thank you

It’s important to remember that you don’t owe it to anyone to engage in a comment fight. If someone decides to be grouchy and try to pull you into an argument, you can just ignore it and move on with your day.

I post a lot of memes across Lemmy, and you’d be surprised (or maybe not) how often someone goes out of their way to be upset and attempt to bait me or others into arguing with them. I think some people just enjoy being mad, but I’m not one of them, so I’ve decided that it’s not worth the mental energy to engage with that.

Is this higher quality than just screenshotting and dragging the box around it? Asking for a friend.

It’s a meta meme, playing off of the format that usually has people doing something silly before the time something was invented. But it’s backwards because it’s BC.

Examples:

Lol, the joke is just that this is the inverse of how this meme usually works, since counting backwards in BC is forward in time.