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[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company in c/[email protected]
Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Thorium certainly does https://thorium.rocks/

When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Install a firewall app and restrict access for every app on your phone?

What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Gorgeous film

What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I thought the new trilogy were all pretty good tbh.

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

No problem 🙂

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You're welcome

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Shamelessly reposting this here, because it seems relevant:

Negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf

Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html

And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367

But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news

So it's important to try and stay positive:

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news

If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:

And here's 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

Some communities on Lemmy you might be interested in:

Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or 'burying your head in the sand': https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/

https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism

And doesn't mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling

https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/

Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Noted, thanks

Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You are 100% correct, negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf

Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4 https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html

And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367

But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news

So it's important to try and stay positive:

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news

If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:

And here's 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

Some communities on Lemmy you might be interested in:

Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or 'burying your head in the sand': https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/

https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism

And doesn't mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling

https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/

Seriously, wtf "living life a quarter of a mile at a time" does even mean? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

...Granny shiftin' not double clutchin' like you should. You're lucky that hundred shot of NOS didn't blow the welds on the intake! Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip apart the block, and replace the piston rings you fried.

Do you have kids? Do you want to have kids? Did you regret having / not having kids? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Absolutely fucking not. Me and my wife can't think of many things we'd want less, tbh.

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Is there something wrong with sh.itjust.works? (lemmy.world)
 

For a few days now if I use my sh.itjust.works profile comments are slow to load and often posts timeout and refuse to load at all. I even tried posting this question using my sh.itjust.works profile and it wouldn't post at all. Is there something up with their servers or something?

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