Log out. Find something you can do in physical space. I found that organizing with some people doing mutual aid really helped me feel better. Just refocusing away from things you can’t really do anything about, and towards things you can. In my case, it was helping feed and clothe vulnerable neighbors.

While big imperialist superpowers are quick to kill innocent civilians and sacrifice their own soldiers, the fear of their own death is enough deterrence to make them not use nukes.

Not to worry. Every time we have a nuclear war we all just wake up the day before it happened again.

Unless you’re one of the unlucky few who survives it, you’ll never have to experience a nuclear war.

Yeah we’re fucked. Take the average person and they’d sooner become a nazi when push comes to shove than believe in a better world.

It’s not if society is going to fall, that’s going to happen regardless of what you do, it’s if you personally are going to survive the fallout.

Play this game to understand more about the mindset of today and how people are losing trust in each other and how to solve it: https://ncase.me/trust/

I’m not trying to spread fear but the Doomsday clock is 90 seconds till midnight, during the Cuban missile crisis, it was 7 minutes before midnight.

That’s because they thought history was over in the 90’s, and effectively changed the scale. The CMC was so much worse. People thought of nukes as normal weapons and if an extra officer hadn’t been on a particular Soviet sub it 100% would have gone hot.

I have no idea what our chances are, long term. Unavoidable success and unavoidable failure are both possible scenarios. Short term, the Middle East could blow up and millions there could die, but I can’t see it spiraling into a nuclear world war on it’s own. MAD is strong and the rest can survive without them. Medium term it all depends on American politics, as well as AI if that actually happens.

Not an answer to your question, but for a long time I couldn’t enjoy smoking weed anymore due to the anxiety. After my state legalized recreational weed, I could talk to pros about it. Find either a strain that has equal or maybe even higher amounts of CBD to THC, or have a cbd tincture in your system before you smoke.

I missed smoking weed. It had been years. But I’m very glad to report that I fully enjoy it again, no anxiety. No shitty feeling associated with it. It’s all nice.

I also got my feet wet on this journey by just smoking hemp, which has a really, really nice effect all on its own. Just something to consider if smoking weed was something that used to help you.

Doomsday clock is mostly bullshit.the news only shows the worst of the world with the most sour spin.

The world will go on and for your own mental health you should take a break from the noise of world news and focus on finding enjoyment in your day to day life.

I’ve stopped caring really, humanity can go extinct. We don’t deserve this world. It will be a much better place when it’s just deers and wolves frolicking about.

Nah dude, we were all fucked from jump thats what a lot of people can’t face. We’re a slime mold on a mote of dust stuck to a spark flying through a cloud.

Just be glad you ever existed, selfishly existing to prolong your own existence is spitting in the face of everyone who ever died for something and dancing on the not even grave of all the people who were never born. You better go out there and live your life to the fullest, because it’s not coming around again, there is no next time, no do over. Just love and be honest, especially when it hurts.

No more than ever before.

All I’ve been thinking about is WW3 and this shit makes me want to vomit.

We lived through WW2, most of us anyhow. Some times are harder than others, but let me tell you something. One of favorite cartoons of all time has a fairly flat character, who’s catch phrase is, “We’re all gonna die.” It’s her custom version of yolo before yolo was a thing. No matter the choices, precautions or risks, we all have to die eventually. It’ll happen regardless of how much we stress about it. Or how little.

I can’t even smoke weed anymore without having a near panic attack.

Ah, that makes sense. Pot tends to heighten anxiety over time. Talk to any of the old guard, and ask if the ever struggle with anxiety since stopping, or when they are clear.

the Doomsday clock is

Is someone else’s crystal ball. It doesn’t hold any power over your future.

just stop for one day and enjoy one day of peace?

Turn your phone off for 24 hours, take a stroll outside when it’s daylight, and forget about anything but real life for a day. Step away from the news. Don’t talk to people about politics. Get some distance while focusing solely on the moments that come your way. That will be your day of peace, and whenever you need another, you know what to do.

These daily doom saying threads on this website are pathetic. No more weed for you friend. Time to turn off the news and touch some grass.

@lemmylem@lemm.ee dude we are so fucked. We are heading to a dystopian cyberpunk fascist future, so we are fucking up the planet and we fuck ourselves that way

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