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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 29-May-2022 08:12:52 UTC Aral Balkan

   Damn.

   • Humane Tech Now (humanetech@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-May-2022 08:12:45 UTC Humane Tech Now

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     • Bigolbootybuttcake

     @aral @Bigolbootybuttcake

     I advise.. go for the 5th state of optimism :)

     Just take the current situation and add your 2cts positive contributions wherever you can.

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   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 29-May-2022 08:12:46 UTC Aral Balkan

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     • Bigolbootybuttcake

     @Bigolbootybuttcake Haha, I believe it’s more rounding error than conspiracy ;)

   • bigolbootybuttcake@indieweb.social's status on Sunday, 29-May-2022 08:12:51 UTC Bigolbootybuttcake

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     @aral aye mastodons hiding the truth them sonsabitches, theres an odd number of votes

   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 00:05:50 UTC Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • Nate Cull

     @natecull @aral

     I was very cynical about the poll as "things can only get better" was used as a tagline by Tony Blair and New Labour in the late 90s. That said, what I am currently seeing isn't "end times" but a rollback to political and social conditions of late 1970s/1980s which are sub-optimal but survivable (I've lived through them before!), it just seems more annoying that humankind is choosing to repeat past mistakes..

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 00:05:51 UTC Nate Cull

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     @aral

     :(

     My heart tells me that "yes, eventually, things have to get better"

     but my brain tells me "eventually is a long time, things could get Quite A Lot Worse in the very short term (ie five to ten centuries) before they get better, and all the indicators seem to be currently pointing in the Worse direction"

   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 00:05:51 UTC Nate Cull

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     @aral

     But then, I've felt that things were trending Worse as long as I've been alive, ie from the 1970s on, with around two *very* brief blips to Better around 1990 and then again in 2000.

     (Obama should have been a blip but the financial crisis cancelled that brief hope out).

     I remember having a conversation with Internet liberal friends about this in the mid-2000s, and (despite the War on Terror being a huge thing right then) they just couldn't fathom how I could feel so down on the future.