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.

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.

You think that you are already dead? Well that just gives you the freedom to do everything you are scared of.

There is no consequence anymore so do whatever you want. Just don’t make life worse for people that haven’t wronged you. That would just be bad manners.

Often a change of perspective is all you need to see that a piece of shit can be the groundwork for a beautiful flower.

If you really look around things are way better than they ever have been, like hugely better in practically every metric.

It’s OK to enjoy life

Not really. Just the firstworlders

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.

Stop smoking weed, maybe it’ll help.

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.

If we are all fucked, whatever, then why bother worrying? - you can’t change anything and it makes you feel worse. Enjoy what you’ve got left.

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.

As another commenter already mentioned:

There is a technique I call circles of influence.

You have „close“ things you can directly influence like things in your home, „near“ things which you can indirectly influence like your friends, family and local politics. Then you have the weather which you cant influence in any significant way.

The best approach I‘ve seen myself, friends and even clients do was prioritizing close over near and forgetting about the weather.

In other words: go ahead rn and change something in a positive way which you can absolutely influence. You will feel less anxious and more in control. If you have done enough in your immediate vicinity, you will feel a lot better. Then start influencing friends and family to do the same. Dont let up. Just repeat yourself and dont bother about the weather.

I‘m doing the exact same rn with you, stranger. Have a good one.

We, southamericans, have little to worry about.

@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

I went to therapy for almost this exact reason. I will tell you what my therapist told me. Just because these terrible things are happening, doesn’t mean you can’t have meaning and joy in your life. It can be hard to feel grateful, it can be hard to feel happy, during such times, but it’s possible. I would suggest reaching out to a professional if you can afford it.