2026-02-23 02:47 UTC
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@darklamer@feddit.org 2026-02-23 03:17
This book is currently boosting my morale: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453652/not-the-end-of-the-world-by-ritchie-hannah/9781529931242
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@artifex@piefed.social 2026-02-23 03:22
Physics -> chemistry -> biology. The further you zoom in, the more you come to grips with the just staggering number of hugely improbable events that lead to us being here. I feel bad for people who need to invoke religion to explain this, as it really hides the beauty of it all.
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@partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 03:22
The world is in a bad place right now, but it was even worse of when we are right at the edge of global nuclear war in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Before that the world was on the verge of falling in the early 1940s to fascist rule of Hitler and the Emperor of Japan with most of Europe occupied and concentration camps exterminating thousands of innocent people a day. As bad as it is today, we’ve had worse, and we made it through it to better times. It won’t come without effort, but humanity will get through this too.
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@BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 03:37
So like a reverse Last Week Tonight?
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@SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 2026-02-23 04:14
Rage Against The Machine
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@MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 2026-02-23 05:34
This book is full of them The author also had a few great TED talks on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
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@LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 06:16
Rainbows after rainstorms make me feel like the world is gonna be ok although humans keep trying to destroy everything.
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@partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 06:49
Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen. I’m not sure if you know the history of how close we came to nuclear war in October 1962. It was the first time in history the USA ever went to Defcon 2. We had 25 nuclear bombers in the air with the rest of them on 15 minute standby. Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries. As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet? That’s Hitler’s number of murdered innocent people. We have been at worse points in history than we are right now.
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@venusaur@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 06:57
This could go both ways so trigger warning to people with depression and if you’re religious we will not agree on this, but I find a great liberation and happiness from knowing that in the grand scheme of things, none of it really matters. Humans are not the end all be all species of the universe. Our solar system is one of theoretically infinite solar systems. Make the world beautiful, or don’t. At the end of the day, or even a million years, it doesn’t really matter. Just do what makes you happy and live your life the way you want to live it, Hopefully you’ll let others live the way they want to, but again, it doesn’t really matter what you or anybody else does. Rocks in space won’t remember any of us.
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@venusaur@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 15:41
If you zoom out, it doesn’t matter.
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@BryyM@lemmy.world 2026-02-23 17:00
All of the different avenues of gene editing tech that helps with previously incurable diseases, Huntington’s disease being one of several with promising results
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-02-24 12:27
Socialism is currently rising while imperialism is dying away. This knowledge helps with maintaining optimism.
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@AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2026-02-25 10:44
Not sure which world you are from but here on Earth the more you know more terrible it seems