I hate to admit it but I’d love to go back to Covid times where I was forced to stay in my house and never leave. I don’t want people dying but I’m so fucking tired.
It wasn’t any different for me. I was one of those so-called “essential workers”. I still had to go to work. When I wasn’t at work, I stayed home and layed in bed and played games. People talked about isolation and loneliness and I was just thinking " First time, is it?".
How is this a shitpost? maybe lemmy depression ?
Me in France right now.
Being hit by a motor vehicle of some sort owned by a large company with deep pockets and suffering a horrific but ultimately temporary injury with absolutely no longer-term health effects that nonetheless results in a seven figure injury settlement
The New American Dream
The settlement isn’t gonna be as good if it doesn’t impact your lifetime earnings. I have a family member that litigates this shit 🤮
Isn’t this just winning the lottery with extra painful steps?
Yeah but instead of the state paying you, you get to increase a big company’s insurance premiums for a while
Rip king
Damn, and here I was thinking more like just slipping on a puddle in a store.
It’s easier to imagine a convenient bad thing happening than a good thing happening, I guess?
I think it’s simply that modern life is too far removed from what our instincts evolved to handle… A shitty life or death situation is something we’re more equipped to handle (at least in our imagination) than societal problems so big that are effectively impossible for us to influence.
I guess a possible part of the solution could be breaking these problems down into manageable chunks?
“Think globally, act locally”, as they say… and “locally” doesn’t have to be a physical locale. It can be a fedi instance or a niche group of some kind.
Sure, we do all sorts of things to function in modern society, doesn’t necessarily make it easy, or make escapism less attractive
Do we have a c/lemmyirl?
There is a c/me_irl on both .world and .ml.
Thank you!
Many, many people, including myself, embraced the shit out of COVID.
That was a pretty clear sign that our society and way of life sucks.
I was almost not at all affected day to day by COVID, I just went to work still because it’s isolated, no mask etc even needed.
But it was soooo much better with less traffic and less people at the stores. Even just, the “one way Aisles” at the stores were so much better. You go in, everything flows so much smoother.
Pictured: me longing for simpler times
This is the premise of Zom100: Bucket list of the Dead, the main character’s job is so shitty, he considers the zombie apocalypse to be a massive improvement over having to go to work and just starts living his best life and doing all the things he never had time for.
It’s very relatable.
I love Haro Aso so much, dude. Alice in Borderlands is just such a beautiful metaphor, I’ll never get over it. This has been on my list for a while, I think Im gonna have to read it now.
No joke this is me. I had a major surgical procedure a decade ago. It was a 3 day hospital stay to recover. It’s one of the most relaxing, peaceful times of my life, even with all the pain and nurses checking on me. I remember it very fondly.
I had major surgery last year. I was out of work for 2 months. It was the greatest decompression break from work ever, except I went back a week early and before I was really physically ready because I was only getting about 1/4 of my normal paycheck from disability and I was super broke (luckily I had managed to save up enough to pay my rent in advance). I read lots of books and stayed up all night playing video games and looking outside at the night sky.
It really sucked in other ways. I had 2 entire months where I only spoke to another human maybe 5-6 times and most of those were a coworker who knew I was lonely and would call me during downtime on their shift to check in and see how my recovery was going. It really highlighted how alone and invisible I am in this world and there’s nothing quite so sad as being like well my surgeon says I can’t lift any weight but I have to get groceries into my apartment somehow and take my trash across the complex to the cans and I have literally no one to ask to do that so I guess I’ll just pray I don’t rip open all my incisions and eviscerate myself.
Can confirm. This is me. Especially after the last two years. Everything just feels so hopeless, and I’m expected to spend most of my waking hours feeding a system that gleefully kicks us in the teeth every single day.
I was told my entire life that “the apocalypse will set us free”
They meant rapture. I have leaned into the idea of it meaning the societal collapse of climate change will bring about liberation.
The question is free from what? Free from scrounging and fighting for survival? Absolutely not. Free from modern medicine? That’s a guarantee
i always figured those folk were jim jonesing it
You don’t need an apocalypse to do that
Is that not a normal feeling? Because I felt that way long before things got this bad.
i have always attributed this feeling to the fact we live in a system where our contributions dont really matter, as in that we only work for a number to go up, and not because its actually needed (with few exceptions)
tldr: i think its capitalisms fault.
as alwaysi think our society is making us work in a similar way that a bodybuilder works out: it’s just about making [these muscles / that business] grow, even though they serve no purpose and could just as well just not exist, and things would be equally fine, but for whatever reason, we’ve made it a beauty ideal that these things are as big as possible, so we must max them! every! single! day!
We got the shutdown during COVID and I think it scared people because nobody enjoyed that. Accidentally did more to keep people invested in keeping the shitshow going than anything else.
The deaths caused by COVID-19 were terrible, but the whole lockdown thing was awesome. One of the best periods of my life so far.
We should have a lockdown for a couple of months every few years just to give everyone some time to unwind and relax.
I’ll be honest, for some of us “essential” workers it was hell. We didn’t get that time, we didn’t get bonus compensation, we didn’t get space. I lost multiple family members during those events and didn’t even get to say goodbye to them. I say this out of genuine but not negative jealousy. Be thankful for that time you had. The way people describe it to me makes me want to agree with you about the world should take turns shutting down now and then to give people time and space to connect.
I suffered alot during the lockdown, living alone without even a balcony was brutal.
For some people without family/support networks lockdown was a hell that they are still recovering from.
Imagine having to go out and work everyday when it feels like the rest of the world is baking bread, playing with/making babies, working on their novel. Then when you clock out there is fuckall to do but go home because everything is closed and you need to make sure your aging mother didn’t fall down the stairs.
It was some of the best times for me. At home with the family just hanging out and not getting sick. I realize a lot of people got sick and many died.
This is literally the plot of zom100
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