TrickDacy

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

All you have to do to believe your crusade was good: ignore the fuck out of reality

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Yes, allowing Trump to do exactly all the shit we warned about is so worth it. /s

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It obviously cannot be both! /S

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

I generally advocate against these absolute recommendations like when people say "you need at least 8 hours of sleep". Bullshit, some people need 6 or 7 and feel refreshed. But I think this post reads like you're planning a very unhealthy lifestyle. I can say with full confidence that you will burn out and you will perform worse without enough sleep (and without enough downtime).

I recently read a great book called Do Nothing, which advocates for a better work/life balance. It points out that research shows that you need idle time to be healthy and happy. In fact, the idea of even working as much as we do now is only 200 years old, and it's led to a sharp decrease in happiness and even productivity. Humans require downtime and relaxation, and those things will literally help you achieve more.

Throughout all of human existence until the industrial revolution, we've worked FAR less than we do now, yet almost all the technological inventions we benefit from today were invented and built with such a lifestyle. You're not going to be more productive on that much sleep. It won't even be close, you'll be far less productive than you would if you rest enough to feel relaxation.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

I expected a lot of this and worse. 3 more years of awful decisions remain though. That's why I say it's always worse than you think. Because it will always get worse, as long as he draws breath.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Have you used AppImageLauncher? Gear Lever sounds like it, only much better.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

This alone should cause an immediate invocation of the 25th amendment. It's not the writing of an 8 year old, it's the writing of a dementia patient.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I keep saying this... All of us who said trump was an absolute shit show of a human and unfit for office, were absolutely far more correct than we even knew. No matter how bad you think he is, he's worse.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

That's seriously horrifying.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yep. It feels just like politics. All the asshole pieces of shit keep the decent humans from wanting to be in those fields.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Maybe you should have cared about reality

 

For me, the only thing that works is spending time with my partner or friends and taking the edge off with cannabis. During the work day, I have felt a lot of despair for a long time. Trump fans and the public's reaction to vaccines and COVID in general lead me to believe that there's just no such thing as peace on a societal level. I'm not sure that ever existed in any way, but I think it used to be incredibly easier to delude yourself into thinking the state of humanity is much better than it is, or at least much better than this.

And I don't think deluding ourselves is even slightly a solution. In fact I think that's a major source of why society is so fucked today. People tuning out and letting shit get worse. Capitalism running wild while most people just shrug their shoulders if forced to address it, but typically never even thinking about it or how things could be better.

We aren't cut out for this shit. The effects of bad news streamed 24/7 like an IV drip has got to be worse for our health than smoking. I suspect I will die 15 years prematurely due to stroke or some other blood pressure related failure.

Another exacerbating factor is vocally negative people. No matter what happens, even if something good happens, there's always someone lurking in comment sections telling everyone how stupid they are if they see anything positive about that news. Some days I really think I need to be a hermit in the woods with no Internet. Because the load of the modern world is just too much to bear.

I've tried therapy and various drugs. Nothing's helped much or for very long. I think about changing careers but that has a lot of risks I'm unsure are worth it. In fact I'm not even sure it would help. Has anyone successfully changed careers and gone from feeling how I describe here to a much healthier state of being? Or have you found anything else that helps? I know hobbies can help, but I'm at the point today where I just have no motivation to get back to mine.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by TrickDacy@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world
 

Interview with formerly decorated lawyer under Trump's first term who is now sounding the alarm about lawlessness at the DOJ at direction of Emil Bove.

Former Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni speaks out about the disregard of due process and for the rule of law that he says he witnessed in his final weeks at the Department of Justice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSHMkyM0aE

This feels somewhat significant. Not the first one to serve and later come out against the Trump administration, but every day things seem to escalate further toward absolute authoritarianism and thus it is scarier than ever for whistleblowers to go public.

Thanks @9limmer@lemmy.zip for bringing this to my attention in a comment elsewhere in this community.

 

Nothing scary about this at all.

Update: apparently already backtracked: https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-preparing-executive-order-telling-education-secretary-dissolve/story?id=119499614

This might be the normal Trump tactic of floating horrible ideas, so don't be surprised if it comes back later.

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