Man, I fucking hate that song. "Happiness is the truth", god, what pseudophilosophical bullshit. It really is the manifestation of all that thoughtless feel-good philosophy pushed by hyper-captitalist dickheads.
I've heard Pharrell agrees with this read. From what I've heard, he was contracted to write a song for something and the execs kept turning him down, so in his frustration he wrote the most shallow cheerful song he could. He thought they'd recognize that and reject it to, but they loved it.
I was surprised by this because it sounds like one of those internet stories that isn't true, or was morphed so many times after multiple retellings. But a quick search shows me that this is completely true:
WILLIAMS: Well, after nine times of, you know, nine nos, like, nope, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, doesn't work, then I had to kind ask myself a rhetorical question. How do you write a song about someone that's so happy that nothing can bring them down? I'm paraphrasing. And the song ended up being the sarcastic answer to that.
Yeah, it's sarcasm. But I didn't realize that I was being sarcastic. It just was - like, that was just my sarcastic response to my rhetorical question. And it was just like, OK, let me just go with this. And before you knew it, it was that.
Kinda like how Sara Bareilles wrote "I'm not gonna write you a love song" in response to the execs asking her to write a love song and it was a hit. Now that I think of it, maybe this is a common excuse for artists who write corporate slop. They just blame the system and plead for "irony."
We could try to whoop him, but he’s got a truncheon, a handgun, and a small Christmas ham hidden in his hat and he knows how to use them. They make him happy, you see.
This was around the time of the 08 housing bubble collapse, a lot of people were dealing with worse working conditions and the sheer number of breakups and divorces that occurred in 08 still surprises me. Fuck Pharell and the wave of shitty music around that time, always seemed to be punching-down music intended for the entertainment of the criminal managerial class.
Hell, I wasn't even happy in 2014-ish when that song was raging. I think I went to the hospital for suicidal stuff that year BECAUSE I'M HAPPYYYYYYY 🎵
They are happy, OTOH. Happy in seeing how much further the West despairs and sinks in the quagmire of misery.
You're just giving them excuses to laugh at your despair.
A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information, the facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information...he will refuse to believe it...that's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
Y'all need some digital detox. Especially if you're the type of person who ruins his own mood and causes stress about things that will never, ever affect you and are going on at the opposite side of the world.
EDIT: Lemmy, please get your shit together. Digital detox means changing what you do online. Quitting social media, no longer reading news that are mostly just negative, etc. and not your daily responsibilities, higher gas bills or your kid doing something bad - that's not digital. Completely different things.
My point was that modern humans relatively consume so much negative shit daily that it starts to consume us. Objectively we are living in one of the best times in human history, yet are borderline the unhappiest. Science has also repeatedly proven the positive benefits of digital detox (especially no longer using social media like Facebook)
EDIT2: you people are weak. Now downvote me harder, daddy
Nope. Much of the world is doing worse than US. Trump regime is temporary and US will not collapse. Shit will pass. "As long as men die, liberty will prevail"
(I know you're joking, but) You're not going to be doing any solving whatsoever related to things you stress about besides fixing relationships with friends and family after being a grumpy old ass brainraped by fox news.
I meant that about people who are constantly grumpy and angry, people whose entire online activity is expressing hate and anger. I meant half of lemmy. I've noticed this platform is quite depressing in comparison to others. You could say "more politically active", but your hate means nothing when it's echoed in a bubble and eventually it becomes tiresome to others.
This meme is literally threatening to beat someone up for being happy. Jokingly of course, but still. Wake up, lemminos.
This meme is literally threatening to beat someone up for being happy
I don't think you understand humor. The mood of the world, not just Lemmy, has shifted and for good reason. This is a fact. Coincidentally, people are allowed to joke about that fact without someone ragingly inventing a lot of baggage to go with it.
Let me put it like this. Our gas price is around $8 per gallon. Our average wages are almost 3x lower. Government feels like a circus, our prime minister even recently stepped down. There's lingering threat of an invasion.
Life's good. Sure, I can't travel the world or buy expensive cars, but that's normal. Not too long ago majority could not afford more than a bed and few accessories, including in US. Can you imagine the world where everyone could fulfill their presumably capitalist dreams of being rich? What would be the consequences of mass consumerism and manufacturing?
Feels like you have lived in the golden age for so long you forgot how it's like to be normal. Enjoy what you have and stop stressing over shit you can't change.
Imagine laughing at a meme of beating up someone for singing happy and then getting hostile after someone tells you that you might positively benefit from change in environment.
Feels like I went from 4chan to reddit and somehow back to 4chan. Everyone is so getting used to shitty humans we are becoming one.
There are so many situations that a comment like this would make sense. But not this one, honestly. I just recently posted about Lemmy having a lot of toxicity. This post and this thread are not an example of it. It was just a joke that you took seriously and then got condescending about. That's all.
Do I get to stress because my TV is selling summaries of my living room conversations to the GOP?
Why did you buy a trojan horse in the first place?
Do I get to stress because climate change has moved tornado alley into my county at the same time we're destroying our ability to predict the weather?
I mean..no? Just be ready for it. Make sure your basement is ok, you got food and water reserves. Imagine stressing all your life about possible tornato hitting your location. Probably would live by 20 years less. I'm living under an threat of invasion by a much larger power, and even I don't stress about that. Got bags ready and set to jump ship if something happens.
Don’t be intentionally obtuse about the TV. People buy what’s available. Yes, there are edge cases, and no it’s not the argument you think it is to assume everyone has the foreknowledge, means, and wherewithal to employ one of those edge cases.
The U.S. government does not offer its citizens a right to privacy against corporate surveillance, and that is not something you can blame on the average person.
The fuck are you talking about? Do the things legal way digitally? Like, paying for news? Do you not understand what "digital detox" means? No, it has nothing to do with your life responsibilities.
It's about constantly consuming negative content, bad news, watching death, etc.. eventually it starts consuming you.
People know what a digital detox is, you're just getting an expected response when you yell commands at people while dismissing their valid worries. If you wanna pretend the world's problems don't affect anyone that's on you, stop trying to force everyone else's head in the sand like nothing bad ever happens to anyone, besides of course Internet-only negative content. It makes you look like a child on top of being unhelpful and annoying.
Man, this is a great example of "you're not wrong, you're just an asshole".
Does the internet in general(not just lemmy) constantly feed that negativity bias? Oh, absolutely. Hard agree that's probably one of the biggest problems in society in general right now.
Have people in general and especially in the west list perspective because we've had it so good for awhile? Hoo boy, hard agree again.
But uhh... yeah, this is a shitpost community. Time and place. Also, I know it seems a bit pedantic, but it is important; science doesn't "prove" shit. Science is a method and a tool to help us better refine knowledge. It's important you actually point to the studies.
That's actually... not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Bad yes, but once population growth reverses, rent will stop rising and basically everything else has increased less than incomes. Just need more old people to die, the young are already not reproducing much so that's all that's needed.
how so? the opposite is the case. CoL generally goes down as average temperature increases (at least until you reach southern europe levels). reasons are: less wall insulation needed for houses, more agricultural output per km², etc.
No offense, but your understanding of climate change is very severely out of date. The world isn't just going to get a few degrees warmer uniformly. Most people live places warmer than Europe and they won't just stay to die beyond wet bulb temperatures. Even Europe will see much worse instability, killing crops and impacting fresh water access. 39,000 people just died of the heat.
Whoever told you climate change will make anybody better off, you need to angrily yell at them for misinforming you so severely. Don't take my word for it either! Look it up on Wikipedia. This will either directly impact your survival, or directly impact how young people react to your words.
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Varesti@lemmy.zip · 89 pts · 1d
Edit to add higher resolution image:
yakko@feddit.uk · 38 pts · 1d
This gives me such an indescribable feeling. Woe and mirth, regret and pride, delight and disgust - indivisible. Is this how being a cenobite feels?
urthoughtsrbad@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 1d
Happiness was her truth 😔
M137@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 1d
But not having a working brain, apparently. You gotta be real dumb to post shit while you're driving.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 1d
It was the all-caps. She had to take both hands off the wheel to capitalize the whole word. tsk tsk
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
You can double tap shift to turn on caps lock on your phone
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 1d
She was on a laptop bruv
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1d
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
Sigh, ok.
SHE WAS ON A LAPTOP, BRUV!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
If that's a reference/meme, it's above my pay grade.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23h
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 23h
I can't reach the shift key with one hand
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20h
I have a s25+ and I almost always type with one hand. I am faster typing with two thumbs, but it's not easier, just faster.
Lumisal@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Is this real???
Varesti@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 21h
As real as anything on the Internet. 🤷
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-2614151/The-happy-song-makes-HAPPY-32-year-old-woman-dead-Facebook-post-driving-leads-crash.html
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 73 pts · 1d
Why's he wearing Smokey the Bear's hat
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 1d
Its up to him now.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1d
Only Pharrell can prevent forest fires… damn those damn cuts to the forestry service
ZeroCool@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Well he needs to step up his game then! The earth is burning and that MFer is just singing little songs about how happy he is. Nero behavior.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1d
He's smuggling his own popcorn into the cinema.
rem26_art@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1d
he's covering up his 8head
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d
It’s the arby’s hat.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 1d
Wabbit season
phant@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 1d
Fkn hated that song at the time anyway 😆
NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 42 pts · 1d
Man, I fucking hate that song. "Happiness is the truth", god, what pseudophilosophical bullshit. It really is the manifestation of all that thoughtless feel-good philosophy pushed by hyper-captitalist dickheads.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip · 69 pts · 1d
I've heard Pharrell agrees with this read. From what I've heard, he was contracted to write a song for something and the execs kept turning him down, so in his frustration he wrote the most shallow cheerful song he could. He thought they'd recognize that and reject it to, but they loved it.
ABasilPlant@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1d
I was surprised by this because it sounds like one of those internet stories that isn't true, or was morphed so many times after multiple retellings. But a quick search shows me that this is completely true:
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-s1-5001928/pharrell-says-his-hit-happy-came-from-a-sarcastic-place
TIL
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 22h
Well he didn't mean for it to be sarcastic really
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1d
oh the irony to be successful with exactly that
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 15h
Kinda like how Sara Bareilles wrote "I'm not gonna write you a love song" in response to the execs asking her to write a love song and it was a hit. Now that I think of it, maybe this is a common excuse for artists who write corporate slop. They just blame the system and plead for "irony."
capuccino@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 1d
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 1d
"Movie: no outside food
Me, concealing a rotisserie chicken"
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 22h
Oh we're doing memes en espanol now?
RichardNixos@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 22h
*mÃms
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 21h
Huehuehue
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 15h
I, too, took Spanish classes
jobbies@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 1d
Never forget that he also shares responsibility for 2013’s 'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke.
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 1d
I forgave this song for existing once it gave us Weird Al's Word Crimes.
jobbies@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d
Pharrel and Thicke got credits on the Weird Al version. They get a share of the royalties.
decolo@piefed.social · 10 pts · 1d
He must be brought to justice
Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1d
Get Lucky was on the air at the time too
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Ugh I always hated that song, the lyrics are so stupid coming out of Pharrell's mouth, it makes no sense.
Awooooooga@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15h
Sorry but get lucky is a banger
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 29 pts · 1d
Happy by Pharrel vs Happy? by Mudvayne
Monument@piefed.world · 25 pts · 1d
We could try to whoop him, but he’s got a truncheon, a handgun, and a small Christmas ham hidden in his hat and he knows how to use them. They make him happy, you see.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1d
I'd be happy too if I had a Christmas ham hidden in my hat
qarbone@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 21h
Better have some tin foil under there too unless you want your head soaked in ham juices.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 16h
If I'm keeping all that in my hat, I'll definitely line it with foil. How else would I stop them from stealing my thoughts.
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 16h
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1d
Pharrell with that Arby’s looking ass hat.
Atropos@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
That hat is actually an entire Arby's sign.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 16h
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 1d
i wonder what kind of song would capture the cultural zeitgeist now, if he were to write it...
because yeah it definitely would not be 'happy'
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social · 37 pts · 1d
How about "It's The End Of The World As We Know It"? :P
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
Devin Townsend wrote "Shitstorm" over 20 years ago.
decolo@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d
And what an incredible album opener. I have listened to alien front to back so many times and get something new out of it each time
tetris11@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 1d
I've seen the future brother, it is murder.
Things are going to slide
slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
Fuckin' LOVE Leonard Cohen!
ChexMax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18h
If you mean the zeitgeist in the US, is there a way to make childish Gambino's This Is America more apathetic? Cause I think that'd be it
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1d
Is he cosplaying as a RCMP?
TomMasz@piefed.social · 15 pts · 1d
That hat alone would merit a paddlin'.
fipto@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 20h
Imagine if Bruno Mars made "I wanna be a billionaire" in 2026
lemmygarden@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 15h
I think about the song, "lifestyles of the rich and the famous" by good Charlotte
And I wonder if Benji and Joel still believe what they said... Because I still believe it
Emerald@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15h
🎵I want to be in the corner of a shitty livestream
Listening to my ex's music, staring at the screen🎵
Context: https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/09/elon-musk-rage-quits-live-stream-trolled-listening-grimes-music-22875855/
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9h
My remix: "I wanna be a guillotine"
snoons@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1d
Someone has a case of the mondays!
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 1d
I already found it distasteful at the time ngl
myyass@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 22h
I'm not even Fappy these days.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 16h
Hell not even a little somber horney
myyass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16h
watch?v=ZsUDBTiz8gs WORK WORK WORK WORK
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 22h
Oh my!
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Crappy
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 18h
Being "happy" in the US in 2014 is fucking insane.
I left in 2004 because of how bad things were getting- a decision that has been continually justified every day since.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
This was around the time of the 08 housing bubble collapse, a lot of people were dealing with worse working conditions and the sheer number of breakups and divorces that occurred in 08 still surprises me. Fuck Pharell and the wave of shitty music around that time, always seemed to be punching-down music intended for the entertainment of the criminal managerial class.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 1d
Its a known phenomenon, seen with Shirley Temple during the depression as example. People tend to want entertainment counter to the world state.
Its how I know we are in clown world times, since not even this indicator seems to play out anymore.
boonhet@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1d
God forbid people have entertainment not designed to make them feel like they could be unemployed tomorrow.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 21h
Pharrell's song was specifically formulated to punch down on us plebs, donchaknow. So hating him for the song is mandatory.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
It was a bit after that. This song came out in 2013. By that point the economy was better and housing was still reasonably affordable.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 2 pts · 17h
Pharell doesn't deserve blame, according to this comment thread's sources:
https://lemmy.world/comment/25708186
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 16h
wasn't 08 around the time houses went down in price, aka the best time to buy housing?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
Now we know how he truly felt when he wrote the song.
CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 21h
Hell, I wasn't even happy in 2014-ish when that song was raging. I think I went to the hospital for suicidal stuff that year BECAUSE I'M HAPPYYYYYYY 🎵
B1tch_Pudding@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 18h
Kind of amazing people didn't beat his ass back then. Radio music is ass.
nexguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
Stomp along if you feel unhappiness is the truth...hey hey
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
They are happy, OTOH. Happy in seeing how much further the West despairs and sinks in the quagmire of misery.
You're just giving them excuses to laugh at your despair.
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 17h
Touch grass
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h
How ironic coming from you.
MacAnus@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
I don't get it.. Did I miss something?
kamen@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 23h
Yes: we're not happy any more.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · -31 pts · 1d
Y'all need some digital detox. Especially if you're the type of person who ruins his own mood and causes stress about things that will never, ever affect you and are going on at the opposite side of the world.
EDIT: Lemmy, please get your shit together. Digital detox means changing what you do online. Quitting social media, no longer reading news that are mostly just negative, etc. and not your daily responsibilities, higher gas bills or your kid doing something bad - that's not digital. Completely different things.
My point was that modern humans relatively consume so much negative shit daily that it starts to consume us. Objectively we are living in one of the best times in human history, yet are borderline the unhappiest. Science has also repeatedly proven the positive benefits of digital detox (especially no longer using social media like Facebook)
EDIT2: you people are weak. Now downvote me harder, daddy
Azazel@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 1d
Do I get to stress if it’s happening to me and my neighbors in my country perpetrated by my government?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1d
Colombia?
Azazel@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1d
Nope, land of the free 🦅🦅🦅
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1d
Hi, American here. My shit hole country is collapsing. Can I stress yet?
REDACTED@infosec.pub · -27 pts · 1d
Nope. Much of the world is doing worse than US. Trump regime is temporary and US will not collapse. Shit will pass. "As long as men die, liberty will prevail"
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 1d
Sick, pack it up everyone! It's been solved.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · -18 pts · 1d
(I know you're joking, but) You're not going to be doing any solving whatsoever related to things you stress about besides fixing relationships with friends and family after being a grumpy old ass brainraped by fox news.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1d
It's a joke, lot of assumptions here too.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · -8 pts · 1d
I meant that about people who are constantly grumpy and angry, people whose entire online activity is expressing hate and anger. I meant half of lemmy. I've noticed this platform is quite depressing in comparison to others. You could say "more politically active", but your hate means nothing when it's echoed in a bubble and eventually it becomes tiresome to others.
This meme is literally threatening to beat someone up for being happy. Jokingly of course, but still. Wake up, lemminos.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I don't think you understand humor. The mood of the world, not just Lemmy, has shifted and for good reason. This is a fact. Coincidentally, people are allowed to joke about that fact without someone ragingly inventing a lot of baggage to go with it.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Well that’s a bold comment, let’s see how it plays out
sukhmel@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1d
Goes well with your username for sure 🤣
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
This comment alone is probably dumber than anything I've ever written, and I'm sure I've said some shit stupider than I can even remember.
sukhmel@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1d
That's maybe true, but not sure if it's any consolation
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1d
Let me put it like this. Our gas price is around $8 per gallon. Our average wages are almost 3x lower. Government feels like a circus, our prime minister even recently stepped down. There's lingering threat of an invasion.
Life's good. Sure, I can't travel the world or buy expensive cars, but that's normal. Not too long ago majority could not afford more than a bed and few accessories, including in US. Can you imagine the world where everyone could fulfill their presumably capitalist dreams of being rich? What would be the consequences of mass consumerism and manufacturing?
Feels like you have lived in the golden age for so long you forgot how it's like to be normal. Enjoy what you have and stop stressing over shit you can't change.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
My father-in-law says the same thing. "The law is the law, just let it work itself out." The man's faith in the system is unshakable.
Edit: in response to your deleted comment, I'm referring to your belief that the USA will not collapse.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 0 pts · 21h
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1d
what worth is liberty if people have to die for it continuously?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 18 pts · 1d
With all due respect, go and take a flying fuck at a flying doughnut
REDACTED@infosec.pub · -9 pts · 1d
Imagine laughing at a meme of beating up someone for singing happy and then getting hostile after someone tells you that you might positively benefit from change in environment.
Feels like I went from 4chan to reddit and somehow back to 4chan. Everyone is so getting used to shitty humans we are becoming one.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
There are so many situations that a comment like this would make sense. But not this one, honestly. I just recently posted about Lemmy having a lot of toxicity. This post and this thread are not an example of it. It was just a joke that you took seriously and then got condescending about. That's all.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
Do I get to stress because my TV is selling summaries of my living room conversations to the GOP?
Do I get to stress because climate change has moved tornado alley into my county at the same time we're destroying our ability to predict the weather?
REDACTED@infosec.pub · -10 pts · 1d
Why did you buy a trojan horse in the first place?
I mean..no? Just be ready for it. Make sure your basement is ok, you got food and water reserves. Imagine stressing all your life about possible tornato hitting your location. Probably would live by 20 years less. I'm living under an threat of invasion by a much larger power, and even I don't stress about that. Got bags ready and set to jump ship if something happens.
Monument@piefed.world · 5 pts · 1d
Don’t be intentionally obtuse about the TV. People buy what’s available. Yes, there are edge cases, and no it’s not the argument you think it is to assume everyone has the foreknowledge, means, and wherewithal to employ one of those edge cases.
The U.S. government does not offer its citizens a right to privacy against corporate surveillance, and that is not something you can blame on the average person.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
Where do we apply to be allowed to worry? I'm just trying to do things the legal way, o wise one.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · -5 pts · 1d
The fuck are you talking about? Do the things legal way digitally? Like, paying for news? Do you not understand what "digital detox" means? No, it has nothing to do with your life responsibilities.
It's about constantly consuming negative content, bad news, watching death, etc.. eventually it starts consuming you.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
But I want to please REDaCTeD!!
People know what a digital detox is, you're just getting an expected response when you yell commands at people while dismissing their valid worries. If you wanna pretend the world's problems don't affect anyone that's on you, stop trying to force everyone else's head in the sand like nothing bad ever happens to anyone, besides of course Internet-only negative content. It makes you look like a child on top of being unhelpful and annoying.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1d
I said "especially IF it doesn't affect you".
IF
Pretty important in programming too
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
It’s ironic you posted this in a shitpost community. Kind of the point of this place ya?
NoTagBacks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1d
Man, this is a great example of "you're not wrong, you're just an asshole".
Does the internet in general(not just lemmy) constantly feed that negativity bias? Oh, absolutely. Hard agree that's probably one of the biggest problems in society in general right now.
Have people in general and especially in the west list perspective because we've had it so good for awhile? Hoo boy, hard agree again.
But uhh... yeah, this is a shitpost community. Time and place. Also, I know it seems a bit pedantic, but it is important; science doesn't "prove" shit. Science is a method and a tool to help us better refine knowledge. It's important you actually point to the studies.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1d
upvote for this line specifically lol
edit also you're right of course :) (about the rest of your comment)
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
What's the objective measure of best times?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
Savings account, retirement funding, cost of living, unemployment, many ways
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Could you be more specific? These many ways appear to be getting worse!
boonhet@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
That's actually... not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. Bad yes, but once population growth reverses, rent will stop rising and basically everything else has increased less than incomes. Just need more old people to die, the young are already not reproducing much so that's all that's needed.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1d
One might speculate that climate change could drastically increase CoL despite a shrinking population.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 23h
how so? the opposite is the case. CoL generally goes down as average temperature increases (at least until you reach southern europe levels). reasons are: less wall insulation needed for houses, more agricultural output per km², etc.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 9h
No offense, but your understanding of climate change is very severely out of date. The world isn't just going to get a few degrees warmer uniformly. Most people live places warmer than Europe and they won't just stay to die beyond wet bulb temperatures. Even Europe will see much worse instability, killing crops and impacting fresh water access. 39,000 people just died of the heat.
Whoever told you climate change will make anybody better off, you need to angrily yell at them for misinforming you so severely. Don't take my word for it either! Look it up on Wikipedia. This will either directly impact your survival, or directly impact how young people react to your words.
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
And then...