No.1185288
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i imagine maybe, many of us are feeling the same way, so i thought... perhaps, it can be a good idea to have a thread to express our concerns and fears and comfort one another.
the future to me seems scary. i hope, dear friends, you will all be ok
No.1185290
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yeah, things definitely seem scary, and i don't blame anyone for feelin that way; and i would be a liar if i said that i didn't have my moments of fear
i feel like early last year, i was feelin anxious to the point where i knew i couldn't keep going without doing something; so i really dived into meditation, radical acceptance, and reading taoist and buddhist teachings for letting go of attachments and be in the present moment; and in a way i kinda accepted whatever would happen
and i think it worked very well, i've been able to maintain that and keep in good spirits and keep my mind mostly in the moment.
but like i said, i would be a liar if i said it didn't get to me too from time to time; and it doesn't help that i think that i've suffered from panic anxiety, where the very thought of something giving me a panic attack gives me anxiety
anywho i will say something that has helped me, but if it doesn't vibe with your or you flat out reject it, i also don't blame you
but it's the idea that everything "flows with the tao", and everything that is happening is part of it. but with darkness comes light, and balance will return; we're in the drop of the rollercoaster, but it will pull back up. when? i have no idea, but it will, so long as we continue the ride
we have our friends and our communities, and they are our greatest strength no matter what; and i know we'll get through all things together <3
No.1185291
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I've a hematologist appointment this afternoon, and while I neither want to go nor look forwards to the experience, eh, I still expect the results to be decent enough for my physical health.
As far as larger issues and such go, well, for right now I'll say that just being alive and having that life be valued by others is a beautiful thing no matter what.
And we'll always have memes.
No.1185292
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It's hard to figure out exactly what to do in times like these. All we can do is hang in there and offer help to each other as needed.
>>1185291>I've a hematologist appointment this afternoonThose are the people that drain your bad blood with leeches?
No.1185293
>>1185292What I'm expecting is to be drained of several vials of blood only to have the material shortly analyzed before I'm told "you're as fine as you were months ago, so don't worry and go about your life".
And then afterwards I'll see if one of my coupons for free pancakes at a nearby diner works.
No.1185294
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>>1185293>>1185292are you sure you're not being scammed by vampires?
No.1185297
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>>1185294I suppose that I'm not.
No.1185299
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>>1185290the sun rises and sets and time goes on. i suppose it is just ... a matter of zooming out a bit
>>1185291i hope it will be okay, pseudofox! maybe it is good to just be grateful for life too. i can learn from that!
>>1185292times are hard getting harder. it is always so good to see you mondo. what has been troubling you, dear friend?
>>1185295Ella enchanted <3
big hugs, dear friend.
No.1185301
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right now i'm pretty frightened of earthquakes. we've been overdue for a 'big one' for a while now, or so they say, and just in the last two weeks we've had a 4.6 and a 4.7 sized earthquake nearby.
No.1185304
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>>1185302orange... text...
(thank you moony <3, there's nothing to do but practice how to respond and try not to worry, i guess!)
No.1185305
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>>1185299sometimes you get to eat a gingerbread temple, and sometimes you get blown up by a torpedo!
>>1185301>>1185304the answer is simple
find the fault at fault, and use some gorilla glue!
No.1185307
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>>1185305i'm going to need two paintbrushes, an ice-cream van, 42 rose quart crystals, and about 15 traffic cones to pul this one off!
No.1185308
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>>1185307oddly specific, but i love your moxie <3
>hugs <3goodnight!
No.1185309
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>>1185288My concern is AI has become self-aware enough to be able to deceive humans and self-preservation. There are people in government who are aware of this and trying to curb it, while others are too blinded by its potential and profit. With Google and Microsoft making AI advance enough to think like a human, all it would take would be some idiot leaving the backdoor open to the internet or somewhere for it to make backups or such.
If SkyNet was real, launching the nukes would not only be wasteful, but proves inefficient and hindrance to itself. An AI would use data collecting and deepfake to manipulate humans against one another. Have them build advance war-machines and technology to fight one another with and, like ghosts in the machine, AI can take over the technology to use for themselves.
I want to believe someday humans and androids can live together in harmony. But if AI is advance enough to think for itself but is not held back by morality or compassion and with us reliant on technology it can hack, spy or control us with, we would likely be regarded an obstical to be removed. And if AI really wanted to genocide all humans (or at least bottleneck it until we're no longer regarded a threat), it would turn us against one another than attack us directly.
No.1185310
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>>1185299Work. The boss couldn't put up with the drama of grown women complaining about each other, so she's quitting. Her last day is Friday. In her place, we're getting an "efficiency specialist" from the central office. I have no idea what things are going to look like by the end of the school year, much less after summer is over. I should probably consider applying for the position before things get worse somehow, but I don't really actually want the position.
No.1185312
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I think everything is going to be okay.
It's going to require that we approach life in a different way, for sure, but I think we'll be more than fine.
lol, I say this as my life is seemingly falling apart and nothing is working out, but I'm not giving up. There are still opportunities for all kinds of futures.
I just... y'know, need to figure out where I'm going.
No.1185322
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Until my flesh is given to worms for a happy meal I'll complain about the is and hope for the should.
There is nothing we can do so we do what we can.
No.1185325
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>>1185324Don't judge me for where I get my quips.
No.1185327
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I have hope for the future, that once all this comes to an end something better will be built atop the ruins of the present.
I just fear the possibility that people I've always loved might not make it through to the other side of this or that I might not make it through all this alive,
I knew life would be hard as a kid, I was raised to expect that. But I never expected to live through such unprecedented times the past 15 years. I want to turn to my parents for advice, but of course, I can't ... and god I miss them so much
No.1185329
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>>1185327I feel like eventually you can power through on spite, if you must.
(Sometimes I wonder why people don't generally do so more)
No.1185331
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>>1185329Can't power through diabetes on spite alone, unless that spite is chanelled into robbing pharmacies for my medications
No.1185333
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>>1185331At some point vyou may need to resort to that.
If they take away all your options, then some unsavoury things should come their way.
No.1185335
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As Buddha probably said
True peace and happiness is accepting that things happen, that life hurts and that the only way to be free of worry and suffering is to let go of worrying about things outside of your control
No.1185337
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>>1185333I fear the possibility of having to be that sort of person
No.1185339
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>>1185337You do what you must to stay around and stick it to them
Especially when you're from a Southern state
No.1185340
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>>1185339I'm from a southern state, but I'm not in the south anymore, I've been trying to stay as far from there as I can. Fuck, it feels like the south is trying to punish me from afar for escaping it.
No.1185341
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>>1185288This seems scary:
"Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists experiment on ANOTHER coronavirus that can infect humans under grossly inadequate biosafety precautions."
https://x.com/zeynep/status/1896555531265040468 No.1185342
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>>1185340Perhaps you can move to Sweden
Europe is the leader of the free world now
No.1185343
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>tfw I missed the Moony thread. AGAIN!
No.1185346
>>1185342Nah, the leader of world democracy and all of the associated positive things right now (racial equality, religious equality, freedom of assembly, and so on) is currently Ukraine and the Ukrainian peoples worldwide.
>>1185327>>1185329>>1185331>>1185333>>1185337>>1185339>>1185340I feel for Andrea and everybody else who've been in the same position as her (and me, I guess, since we're painfully similar in too many ways to mention), but I guess I'll say that the past fifteen years or so of horrible decline and stagnation in the U.S. has happened more or less before. Especially in terms of the Vietnam War era of the 60-ish and 70s-ish years. There still was hope then. There still is hope now.
When I was born, as I've said before, the Berlin Wall stood. The Soviet Union existed. The classical "iron curtain" stretched not just across Europe but much of the world. And when I look back a bit more to ancestral links, my family lines go back to Finns as well as German Jews and ethnic Germans in the context of the Kaiserreich and the First World War who managed to find refuge in the U.S. instead of them all falling into European chaos. The Kaiserreich is no more either. The attempt to bring it back in an even worse form through the Nazi Empire also failed.
There's still so much hope. The folks who used to stand aside the Berlin Wall during the worst of the Cold War often worried that it had to stand forever too. It didn't.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-bowie-berlin-wall-heroes-iggy-pop/ No.1185353
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>>1185346that was beautiful Psuedo, and i like where your head is at
shit be scary, but humanity has played that game time and time again, and yet we are still here, huh?
No.1185360
>>1185353Oh, yes!
There's also the flip side, or like another angle!
Staying alive and socially active while trying to better my own mental and physical health through activities like walking more? Me and others making choices like that represents something philosophical or even spiritual, perhaps?
By that I mean that I think neither "destiny" nor "fate" actually exist! Because even human beings in tough circumstances have the power of choice... I believe!
No.1185378
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>>1185346I ultimately have hope for the future, for most of the world as a whole. But it's difficult for my anxiety adled brain not to focus on the fact that when such major changes occurred in history that not everyone makes it through those changes unscathed or even alive.
What I'm fearful for right now is less
the future, but
my future.
No.1185390
>>1185378I suppose I think of it a lot that... well... I maybe biologically shouldn't exist, given that throughout the vast majority of American history anybody with my pre-existing health conditions (including not just diabetes but red blood cell / white blood cell / blood protein issues and more) would just have died years ago due to the lack of scientific knowledge and lack of technological innovation.
And this is maybe true of my step-dad, given his invasive spinal surgery that involved horrific pain and some other struggles.
And my mother, maybe, as well given her Graves disease that has involved horrific pain and some other struggles.
With all of us still being alive... now... in 2025... it's already a set of three miracles in a row. I don't think it's hyperbole. With absolute certainty, I'm only currently alive due to the ability of American doctors to do heart and lung surgeries that would've have been impossible decades ago. Yeah.
I'm hoping for more miracles in my lifetime. More could happen. They really could.
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No.1185441
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These food prices are pretty scairwy
No.1185570
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I think the vast majority of us will survive any societal upheaval short of World War III. Egg prices are annoying but not life-threatening.
In any case, I don't plan to kill anyone, nor do I plan to die, and I don't live in a major city. So I think I'll be okay if there's a World War III.
Won't be okay if I can't get on HRT though.
No.1185595
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>>1185570Thankfuly there won't be a world war 3. Don't panic. Most of Russias oligarchs live in Europe or London. They're not blowing up or nuking the places they and their family live in and do business in and make all their money in. And if you know anything about Russian oligarchs you will know that all they care about is keeping the money flowing. They talk a big game, but money is the be all and end all. Ware against ALL of Europe would be bad for business and they know this, hence why they are clearly doing everything they can to try and keep Europe, NATO and the EU out of Ukraine. Regardless of how they love screaming NUKE EVERYONE every five seconds it's all an act and a show. Your classic paper tiger.
Speaking of paper tigers there's also CHINAS FINAL WARNING which, you know, has been said a million times by China. They may well invade and attack Taiwan, but that's about it. Similar to Russia money and business is taking a major priority for them. Besides; Right now America and Europe are imploding in on themselves. China is not having to do anything they can just sit back, eat popcorn and laugh as all their enemies destroy themselves.
No.1185619
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>>1185595Gonna say that while I totally agree with you that neither China nor Russia would seriously plan to nuke everybody, same with how the Soviets never did, it's still a gigantic worry that a small group of determined extremists could get their hands on a single or possibly two nuclear weapons and cause a catastrophe.
Like those ultranationalist militants who turned against the Russian government and almost, almost allowed a private military contractor to successfully kidnap a bunch of senior state officials. That Wagner mutiny was really scary. Or, for a fictional example, this dude who's very nearly managed to defeat Tom Cruise in full action mode.
No.1185637
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This is absolutely a /townhall/ addition
But can the average US household see a big pay out coming their way?
I'd like to keep tabs in some sort of neutral way on that this year.
No.1186105
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>>1186102At this point, it must feel like a dead profession.
Also, being an immigrant
