RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

This feels appropriate in the moment:

alopex,
@alopex@furries.club avatar

@RickiTarr When I was starting out on an SSRI, working up to the proper dose, I asked my doctor how I could tell if I was taking too much.

She replied, "If you feel dead inside and stop caring about anything, that's too much."

And I realized that that must be how the rest of the world survives without medication: just stop caring!

tuban_muzuru,
@tuban_muzuru@ohai.social avatar

@RickiTarr

I wondered what inspired JRRT's hobbits to insulate themselves in the Shire.

Yanno... Ricki... I don't wonder anymore.

Skyweacer,
@Skyweacer@mastodon.social avatar

@RickiTarr both are true
id recommend limiting the sources of your news to only a few and to try getting your news only from verified sources instead of from random internet strangers :)

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

@Skyweacer The verified sources are even more disturbing at this point, bad things are happening in the world, I feel sad for all the unnecessary death.

proedie,
@proedie@mastodon.green avatar

@RickiTarr What do you mean by ‘at the moment’? 😑

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

@proedie Ha yeah, there's always a moment

enoch_exe_inc,
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@RickiTarr Besides reading the news, I also like to read up on history, and what that tells me is that, despite there being generally fewer wars going on today than at any other point in history, the amount of violence inflicted by humans on one another has not changed much. Apparently, it’s always been like this. Or so my father tells me.

RickiTarr,
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@enoch_exe_inc Learning history gives you a preview and the realization that people never learn FROM history, they just repeat it

shadow,
@shadow@everythingbagel.social avatar

@RickiTarr What are we, hermits? Nothing wrong with being informed.

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed." — Denzel Washington quoting Mark Twain

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

@shadow Just hoping to avoid ww3 in my lifetime

RacerX,
@RacerX@mastodon.world avatar

@RickiTarr @shadow were things always this bad and we blissfully unaware due to limited access to information vis a vis tightly controlled journalism/ news delivery?

we spend all day every day in a state of confusion + fear + fury + disbelief + high alert + high anxiety about things we have no control over thanks to the Internet. society at large in a state of constant agitation.

The 5% who control 95% of the wealth prefer it this way.

cavyherd,
@cavyherd@wandering.shop avatar

@RickiTarr @shadow

Oh god what now?

New shenanigans? Or more of the same with variations?

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

@cavyherd @shadow Looks like the Middle East is at war, more than before

amiserabilist,
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LALegault,
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@amiserabilist @RickiTarr @cavyherd @shadow @RustyBertrand

I don’t think that really holds true for Israeli society anymore, they all very much support the war on Gaza— they just want a better government leading it, less sloppily.

LazaroDTormes,
@LazaroDTormes@mastodon.social avatar

@LALegault @amiserabilist @RickiTarr @cavyherd @shadow @RustyBertrand

Although there are also some Israeli citizens protesting against the genocide and the regime.

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

@LazaroDTormes @LALegault @amiserabilist @cavyherd @shadow @RustyBertrand

Agreed, all Israelis don't support the actions of their government anymore than all Americans support the actions of ours

LALegault,
@LALegault@newsie.social avatar

@RickiTarr @LazaroDTormes @amiserabilist @cavyherd @shadow @RustyBertrand

No one said all, but the vast majority do, and it is the inverse in America. I know it’s hard to fathom, but it’s true.

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

@LALegault @LazaroDTormes @amiserabilist @cavyherd @shadow @RustyBertrand Unless you live there and know every person that would be impossible to say, it's too easy to say most of them, we know where that leads

LeslieVS1965,
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@RickiTarr Unfortunately, I think it's already here

RickiTarr,
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

@LeslieVS1965 Sigh...entirely possible

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