And now you’re just insulting me, so I’m not going to respond further.

Awareness is not doomerism. I’m plenty aware of everything going on. It also doesn’t mean that I’m here saying the world is shit and going to shit and that everyone should feel miserable.

Yeah, last time I went there was over a year ago and had a similar experience to op, now I go to my local shop. Same price now as mcds, but I get almost 2x the food and it’s better quality.

That’s so awesome, that’s a fun world to explore! I wish you many fun times exploring old bones!

God I’ve tried three times to enjoy no man’s sky and I just can’t. It’s just endless grinding, no real reward for it, and no way to automate any of the tasks so you can move onto more fun things

Sounds like the washer just needs to be cleaned. It’s not water it’s just old detergent. Go get some of the washer cleaning pods, home Depot has them, they’re pretty much everywhere. Run a clean cycle, then another one after that just to rinse it, everything will be fine.

Same, I feel so bad for people whose spouses aren’t interested. I hope they’re exaggerating here, because the story is sad.

My story, I’m a giant train nerd. Any types, got model trains, ride them frequently, it’s my thing. For the first few years I was terrified to mention it, and man do I regret not doing it earlier. She is interested because I’m interested! She now shares my interests with me. We’ve gone on now 6 or so long distance sleepers here in the states and love it. I can’t imagine having a spouse who actively didn’t want to share interests

This is an astoundingly perfect reference, bravo

We’ve been getting a lot of trolls starting new accounts recently. Reddits account age rules make sense when you bad actors like this one

Surprise! You get your surprise spoiled by some rag article site. Aren’t you surprised?!

Agreed. I think if it’s not literally save the world they think it won’t sell, when some of the best movies I’ve seen this year have revolver mostly around personal relationships. Love, drama, tension. There are millions of stories out there that are ready for the big screen, they just don’t involve the end of the world so Hollywood doesn’t seem interested.

Guess that’s why my money keeps going to A24 and my indie theater.

When full anxiety takes over it’s very hard to go outside and just live normally, I was definitely like that. I had to look up movies ahead of time to see if they were apocalyptic and if they’d be triggering. They still are a bit, but I can enjoy things again. It’s absolutely a thing that Hollywood and big media loves playing up the end of the world and playing on those anxieties.

Could be, of course they’ve been saying that since the 50s too. Maybe time for some self reflection.

Healthy preparedness is having a few gallons of water on hand and having a filter ready. Being constantly afraid of losing water is fear. I hope they are now able to cope

Commenting and doomering is not being engaged. Interesting you assume I am not because I’m not a doomer. You should probably self reflect on those feelings.

Interesting, mine also came from my parents, I guess that’s more common than I thought!

I think 2016 is when it started for me too actually, and it was probably because of the upward trajectory we were on that then became obvious that we werent, at least not how I thought it would be, and I had to learn to cope with that

Thanks for sharing your story

Very well said. The new brings us everything bad and only weird feel good moments. I argue you can be completely informed and not watch the news. When someone tells me they’re anxious about the world, most of the time they watch the news regularly. Their business depends on you being glued to your screen, and anxiety does that well for them.

I was an anxious doomer all the time until I went to therapy. Something they said stuck with me.

The world is not binary, it is not going to be the best case or the worst case. Out of a range of infinite outcomes, focusing on the worst case scenario doesn’t make sense as probability says it won’t happen. What will likely happen is somewhere in that area between best and worst.

Eh they said it better, I’m having trouble remembering exactly. Point is, doomer’ing is a waste of time because it probably won’t happen.

One that got me in the 2010’s were the “Water wars”. People told me constantly only a few more years and we’ll all be at war! I legit had panic nightmares about it. Climate change worries me, and it set off anxiety. Turns out the doomers were wrong then, and continue to be wrong. Will it happen? It might. It might not. It’s impossible to know, but focusing on the worst case scenario is a waste of time.

It’s easy saying everything is going to hell, and to some it makes them feel better. It’s much harder to accept the weird grey area we continue to live in that’s neither good nor bad. So, if you’re like me and things like this immediately spring up a fear response, carry that with you, and focus on you the individual. Maybe this will be the year you get that promotion, or a new job, or start a new hobby, or meet the special someone.

Agreed. Luckily with RAM, you know pretty quickly if a stick is dead. Yeah the test can run for hours, but in my experience if a stick is dead, memtest will go red almost immediately, most of the time not even making it 2 minutes.

In fact they should try. Due to dual/quad mode the only thing testing multiple sticks at once will tell you is if any of the sticks have failed. Only going one by one will tell you which ones or how many, otherwise you’ll have red herrings