Challenge defeatism.
But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. You piece of shit.
You’re always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it’s no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”. You piece of shit.
I hope whoever took this photo got to hold a baby lamb.
Would that we could all hold a baby lamb this day.
Simon Stalenhag vibes
A largeth shipe appeared in the skie and fireth didst rain down from it and lo! didst the town below collapseth ento great ruin. And the townsfolk didst run and didst scream, but it didst them no good because the shipe didst striketh them down with furious anger.
A reminder that these disruptive protests do work, and need to continue: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/disruptive-protest-helps-not-hinders-activists-cause-experts-say
Yeah, good to see optimism and hope pay off!
Excellent. This will both highlight those companies that are just performative in their actions and those ones who are really trying. A good move.
I understand. I don’t want to tell you how to live your life online, obviously, but if I may - please be wary of the influence that just being around negative content can bring. It sounds ridiculous, but other people’s negativity can bring you down as well. Misery loves company as they say. Just make sure you take some time out to look after your own mental well being, you know?
You mentioned you don’t have anyone else to share your feelings with online? I can’t promise it’ll help, but you can DM me if you feel the need to chat, OK?.
There’s nothing to be gained by looking at bad news all the time. You must balance it with good news, if for nothing else than to stay informed. There are more positive communities on Lemmy: [email protected] or [email protected] for example, but you’re right negativity, doomerism and defeatism is prevalent on the platform and you absolutely should leave if you find it affecting your mental health.
Please take the time to visit at least some of those websites I linked via my first comment. It does wonders being reminded that the world isn’t doom and gloom all the time like the media likes to pretend it is.
Doomscrolling or seeking out bad news is really bad for your health. https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/what-is-doomscrolling-and-why-is-it-bad-for-us/143139/
If you feel the (understandable) need to share your issues with others there are much healthier was to do this. Bad news is literally addictive and it is important to break that habit https://www.fastcompany.com/90269566/how-to-stop-your-brains-addiction-to-bad-news
If you still find it necessary to scroll bad news, maybe offset by ending with some positive news as well? https://www.groovnow.com/blog/where-to-find-good-news-online
It’s important to try and stay happy, friend, now more than ever.
Tbf there is only really anecdotal evidence regarding the benefits of flossing, anyway: https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/08/06/flossing-isnt-backed-by-science/
Well done for trying to avoid the Internet doom-spiral. Staying mentally healthy is important in this day-and-age. On Lemmy there’s [email protected] and also Climate hope as someone else mentioned.
There’s also these two websites that I often visit. The Futurecrunch Newsletter is definetely worth signing up to, which has a climate section:
Pineapple and ham on pizza is fucking great, and I’ll die on that hill.