The Yungest Onion
Challenge Defeatism. Resist Doomerism. Alt account @ Lemmy.world (now banned).
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13·6 months agoHardly surprising given the money donated to the Tories by the property sector:
Not sure how things stack up compared to Labour, but there’s most likely still a lot of money being thrown around to make sure builders make as much profit as possible.
3·6 months agoThe Telegraph did a response to this, make of it what you will: https://web.archive.org/web/20250102100357/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/02/no-brexit-not-costing-uk-economy-100bn-year/
71·6 months agoYou are 100% correct, negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf
Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html
And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0276367
But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news
So it’s important to try and stay positive:
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news
If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:
Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or ‘burying your head in the sand’: https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/
https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism
And doesn’t mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling
https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/
Some world news summaries can be found here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-37067259
https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week
20·6 months agoI’d call him a cunt but he lacks the warmth and the depth.
6·6 months agoPosts rarely make me laugh out loud, but yours often do. Please keep at it!
On today’s episode of Bullshit That Never Happened…
9·6 months agoWhy not both?
Let it on me bedroom
8·6 months agoSequel to Alyx?
102·6 months ago
14·6 months ago- Where’s your nearest water source? How easy is it to protect?
- Having enough room to grow vegetables is a moot point unless you have enough additional supplies to support you whilst you wait for the food to grow.
- What’s the soil like? What can you grow there? What’s the climate like?
- It takes about one acre of land to support one person, how many people are you supporting?
- The walls might keep shambling hordes out, but what about raiders and the like? Will you have enough people to secure it? Will you be able to feed and water those people with the space you have?
9·6 months agoGotta dream fast!
35·6 months ago-
Escort Section where the person you’re escorting moves at a slower pace than you do, forcing you to jog, walk, jog all the time.
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Want to quit the game? Sure go into the menu, click Quit Session -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Game menu -> click Quit Game -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Unskippable game title intro -> sub menu with Quit Game, Continue Game, New Game -> click Quit Game -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Desktop
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Ironlily’s stuff is pretty cute.
5·6 months agoThis looks like the armour you’d get as a quest reward in a ARPG.
2·6 months agoGreek Fire! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
12·6 months agoMaybe the real BDSM duck was the friends we made along the way?
That’s because USB is in quantum superposition until you try and plug it in.