We haven’t even made it to January 20 (Trump inauguration). We already have major fires in our second largest city, terrorist attacks, talk of invading Greenland/Panama/Canada. almost no one talking about what we really need to do to cut carbon. Hospitals are full in my area and people talk about washing hands, but not about masking. I am already so weary. I don’t know what is going to happen after January 21.
Dude I was tired of 2025 nine goddamn years ago.
Yes I am exhausted. Most of all I am exhausted by the rapid rush to capitulate to and appease trump.
Nop. Plenty of energy here.
You should check your carbon dioxide levels at home just in case. Mood swings are common when these levels are too high
I’ve been sick for six weeks so all of January has been an endless round of trying to work, not being able to work, and going to the doctor for another note for work. I might have atypical whooping cough and am waiting for results. I do not have a cough but my immunologist friend tells me the spectrum of symptoms is wide, and it doesn’t always include coughing. I am vaccinated of course. But yeah, 14 days of January of not being able to talk above a whisper is fun.
I’m crashing the fuck out guys. I’ve put up with these shenanigans for way too long. I am now just waiting for whatever pushes me passed the edge.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I found it a lot more peaceful once I started filtering out certain word combinations that indicate a ragebait bullshit headline. I considered just filtering out “trump”, but I want actual news to come through, so here’s the list:
Trump wants
Trump says
Trump will
Trump hints
Trump demands
Trump indicates
Trump claims
Trump considering
Trump tells…and repeat the list for Musk and Vance. Those verbs target the nothingburger headlines only meant to attract clicks. Basically, we learned 9 years ago that he says loads of stupid shit that doesn’t deserve a headline. I might be interested if he signs something.
We need an AI agent that filters out all news articles that are just people flapping their pie-holes, whether that be the President-elect, or Twitter randos.
You forgot:
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slams
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decimates
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goes to war with
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blasts
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fires back
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drops a bombshell
“Goes to war with” might not be a great idea to filter on, because that fuckin imbecile will very probably start an actual war with a country that can hit back, now that he’s emptying out all of the career + nonpolitical people in the state department, DoD, and alphabet agencies who stopped him from doing that last time.
Probably, but the headline will start with "US invades“ or "US demands“ or something along the line. Filtering out anything that starts with “Trump” is safe
Add in “succinctly explains” too. That’s shorthand for “reduces complex issue to a paragraph”.
Paragraph? This is Trump we’re talking about. He can’t hold a thought for longer than two sentences, max.
I wasn’t talking about him, but more other people who - if you see a headline of “XY succinctly summarizes [issue]”, all it will be is distilling a messy, nuanced topic down to “You should feel A,” often with ragebait to convince you.
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slams
blastsThose are prime candidates too, I just haven’t seen them yet. I add them as I see them.
Is it possible for everyone to stop saying this?
My apologies if you happen to be a SLAMS/BLASTS/BREAKS HIS SILENCE bot and are just following your programming. It’s just beyond tiresome because we know. We fucking know. It’s a lazy and hyperbolic headline filler. But now we have lazy headline writing followed up with a lazy comment pointing out that the former is lazy.
And it’s starting to break my mind in the same way “This” did on Reddit.
One more apology for me being bitchy tonight. It’s not so much this comment, but every single identical one that came before it.
I’m sorry it bothers you. It was my coping mechanism for when I see that crap. I can see your perspective though.
Thanks for understanding. I think I was having a Norman Bates moment there: “we all go a little mad sometimes.”
I just filter trump and Elon entirely and read the news once a day. If the news is that big it should hit my local paper.
I couldn’t be bothered anymore, and a revolution isn’t getting organised in a Lemmy comment section under a Trump article
I’ve been growing my keyword filter list. Do you have any other suggestions?
At least it won’t be as bad as 2026.
2025 is the year my arduous journey of radicalization has been completed.
So +1 for personal growth.
well if a luigi copycat appears in the news and they find on him a fake ID naming him mario nintendioni, you know its me…
You know
its meit’s a me…FTFY
“My god, I’m exhausted! Aren’t you tired of always caring about everything?”
“No, Jinkx. I’m tired of other people NOT caring about everything.”
I am usually up on news and I had a political conversation with someone who isn’t. The person I was speaking with said talking to me was depressing.
Well, the subject matter, politics, is currently quite depressing.
2025 has been pretty good so far. Helps not to be an American.
Focus on what you can control is pretty cliche advice, but it really is all you can do in situations like this. Something I’ve started doing is a “news diet” where I sit down on Monday and basically skim through the last week of political news. Then I just try and ignore political news as much as possible until the next Monday. It’s not a perfect system, but it helps deal with the fire hose style news coverage the media gives to Trump.
This should be taught honestly. You can be a good person and want positive change without making everything your concern. It’s called compassion fatigue.
This should be taught honestly.
What OTHER way would it be taught? Dishonestly? Sneakily?
You’re not alone ❤️
To my recollection, this feeling happens every January. I’ve seen posts like this for years and years. January is known as the most depressing month. Many people fast from alcohol, maybe fast from media til 1st Feb? I don’t know if it’ll make you feel good. It might make you feel less bad?
