<story><title>The Endless Doomscroller</title><url>https://endlessdoomscroller.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text>I picked up on this last year and what frustrates me is I feel like I can&amp;#x27;t override the population-level unconscious anxiety and despair that many continue to spread through their behaviors (often being fed by these doomscrolling news narratives).&lt;p&gt;Words can be consciously dismantled in the mind, but actions are subtler and speak something subconsciously...  It&amp;#x27;s like if you walked up to a pool and everyone was tiptoeing around it and not jumping in.  No matter how fearless you are there&amp;#x27;s still something deep that triggers your own apprehension.&lt;p&gt;With COVID people are still behaving fearfully and there&amp;#x27;s nothing I can do about it other than suffer the harvest of ongoing social distancing stupidity, the idiotic glass walls still up in every grocery store, the &amp;quot;contact-less whatever the fuck&amp;quot;, the lack of hotel room service... all the 100s of stupid anxiety-driven behaviors and changes that got implemented the past few years that were once never a thing.&lt;p&gt;Ahh whatever, back to doomscrolling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>411111111111111</author><text>Why did you expect the grocers to take the glass walls back down again? The item has already been purchased and even if corona is just a cold at this point... Why remove it now? You still increase the chance of infection for any airborne illness which would have the cashier go on sick leave. Literally no incentive to remove it now that the money for the purchase and assembly has been spent.&lt;p&gt;They likely won&amp;#x27;t put them into new stores but i don&amp;#x27;t expect them to go down until they&amp;#x27;re so worn down that you can&amp;#x27;t look through them anymore.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t buy your issues with the distancing either. There are a lot of people that always disliked others getting close to them. This group might&amp;#x27;ve increased now, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it&amp;#x27;s anxiousness because of corona.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re just noticing things for the first time and blame a sickness that was overly zealously warned against for a short time.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Endless Doomscroller</title><url>https://endlessdoomscroller.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kirse</author><text>I picked up on this last year and what frustrates me is I feel like I can&amp;#x27;t override the population-level unconscious anxiety and despair that many continue to spread through their behaviors (often being fed by these doomscrolling news narratives).&lt;p&gt;Words can be consciously dismantled in the mind, but actions are subtler and speak something subconsciously...  It&amp;#x27;s like if you walked up to a pool and everyone was tiptoeing around it and not jumping in.  No matter how fearless you are there&amp;#x27;s still something deep that triggers your own apprehension.&lt;p&gt;With COVID people are still behaving fearfully and there&amp;#x27;s nothing I can do about it other than suffer the harvest of ongoing social distancing stupidity, the idiotic glass walls still up in every grocery store, the &amp;quot;contact-less whatever the fuck&amp;quot;, the lack of hotel room service... all the 100s of stupid anxiety-driven behaviors and changes that got implemented the past few years that were once never a thing.&lt;p&gt;Ahh whatever, back to doomscrolling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tenpies</author><text>I find that reminding yourself to be charitable really helps.&lt;p&gt;We just had most of the West undergo 2 years of non-stop government psy-op.  Propaganda was constant.  Dissent was suppressed at every step.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s only natural that this has obliterated some people&amp;#x27;s critical thinking skills and their ability to operate in reality without being told by Authorities what reality is.&lt;p&gt;As for the hotels, I&amp;#x27;ve just chosen not to participate.  If you want to charge me 2X to deliver .5X that&amp;#x27;s fine, I just chose not to accept that deal.  We can go through a recession and when the conditions bring us back to the previous 1X for 1X, then I&amp;#x27;ll gladly book a room.</text></comment>