Vaguely gestures as the United States
More points emphatically at the USA with a bit of side-eye for the UK.
And Eastern Europe, and the middle east…
Oh god, yes, them too. And then there’s China…
Send help.
My extraterrestrial friends said they will come and do an invasion to hit the reset button. But they want all your cows in return
Yup. That’s totally our fault.
Just you. How could you let this happen!?
they didn’t thots and pears hard enough
I think thats when trumps things were starting to become obvious. At the first no kings I remember talking to folk on I can’t believe people don’t seem to get how messed up ignoring due process was. that was the date of trumps birthday military parade. July was when the big bullshit bill was passed.
Are you trolling for America hate? Because this place is already infested.
It’s only because they deserve it.
One yank’s ‘infested’ is the rest of the world’s ‘appropriately proportioned’.
AI Overview
People might have Googled “Worst timeline” from July to September 2025 due to a combination of severe and compounding global crises, including major humanitarian crises, a series of devastating natural disasters, significant geopolitical instability, and widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the internet and search engines.Humanitarian and Conflict Crises
- Gaza War Escalation: The humanitarian situation in Gaza reached catastrophic levels, with reports from the UN and aid agencies in July and September confirming widespread starvation and mounting evidence of famine, leading to significant global outrage and diplomatic shifts. A UN report in September went on to state that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
- Worsening Global Conflicts: The Sudanese civil war, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a gang war in Haiti, which saw gangs take control of over 90% of the capital, all continued or escalated during this period, causing immense suffering and instability.
- Mass Casualties in Pakistan and Iraq: A fire in an Iraqi hypermarket killed at least 61 people in July, and monsoons killed at least 63 in Punjab, Pakistan. A building collapse in Karachi later that month killed 27.
Natural Disasters and Climate Events
- Extreme Weather Events: A deadly heatwave hit Europe in early July, and flash floods in Central Texas killed over 100 people. Severe monsoon rains and landslides also caused numerous deaths and widespread damage in India and South Korea throughout July and September.
- Devastating Earthquakes: In September, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan killed at least 2,200 people, with a second strong quake the following day interrupting rescue efforts.
Geopolitical and Societal Instability
- Political Turmoil: Donald Trump’s administration faced numerous domestic and international challenges, including an unproven claim linking autism to a common pain killer, the indefinite suspension of air defense and weapon shipments to Ukraine, and a controversial increase in military presence and a subsequent military strike near Venezuela, which drew international condemnation.
- Global Diplomatic Shifts: Several Western countries, including Belgium, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Portugal, announced their support for Palestinian statehood, leading to strong reactions from Israel and heightened diplomatic tensions.
- Internet and Technology Frustrations: Many users found Google search results to be significantly worse in 2025, saturated with AI-generated content, aggressive ads, and clickbait, making it harder to find reliable information. Google also rolled out two significant, messy algorithm and spam updates during this time, frustrating website owners.
These interconnected events created a pervasive sense of global crisis and unpredictability, making the search query “Worst timeline” a likely expression of public sentiment.
If I wanted to talk to AI bots I’d visit the comment section on any AP News Instagram post
Posting an AI overview is proof this is the worst timeline.
That seems to be one of the unwritten rules on Lemmy.
Using any kind of AI, or even supporting the idea of using it, will result in downvotes. If you openly hate LLMs, you’ll be rewarded with upvotes.
I second that
There’ve been occassions here on Lemmy when people have responded to questions with AI overviews or chatGPT. They acknowledged that source for the copied text, which I thought was good, and while the answers were generally too vague and hedge betting to really be of massive help they were sometimes at least providing something of an answer to questions for which there could be a definitive or at least actionable answer. The responses were not received well, a lot of downvotes and chiding, there’s a sense that, choosing to do that showed a kind of contempt for the original poster and rest of the forum. Usually the commenter was silent after the downvotes but occasionally would defend on the grounds that they were just trying to be helpful. Assuming good intent, I could empathise, sorta, especially when there were basically no other answers being provided by anyone, though I absolutely have sympathy for the offended in that context too, it really does feel pointless and dismissive more than helpful.
This brings us now to this specific context, on the face of it it could be a question with a definitive answer, like maybe there was an actual specific reason why that particular phrase and not just many similar constructions was being googled at that time, maybe a popular figure said it, or it appeared in some work of narrative fiction and resonated. Had that been the case and had the AI told you that and you copied it here, then providing that answer and even, perhaps to a fault, being so honest as to cite AI just for a simple statement of fact might have been helpful and laudable. However, unsurprisingly it appears to be a much vaguer and more open ended question, or at least it doesn’t seem to have a straightforward answer. That leaves only speculation and discussion, in lieu of hard facts and that’s something for which a forum is well suited. That you got an AI overview on the topic and it had no specific insight only musings makes its inclusion far more aggravating because you’re essentially outsourcing the theoretically enjoyable job of discussion and human connection, for which a forum is ostensibly for, to a machine, for no gain to anyone. I don’t know if you had genuinely good intentions of trying to be helpful, but the sense that, you didn’t have to say anything at all, yet you still felt the need to basically phone it in will inevitably rub people the wrong way. If you didn’t particularly want to engage with this topic or connect with the rest of us and didn’t even have anything useful to say either, what’s this for?
Unlike a lot of Lemmy I don’t think it’s inherently bad to have made use of an AI overview in the initial forming of an opinion or finding information to help you contribute, but since it turned out to be a dead end, that is, it didn’t really know, then simply not saying anything here was always an option.
You’ve raised a valid and important point. The purpose of a forum is human connection and discussion. Outsourcing that interaction to an AI, especially when no factual answer is found, can feel dismissive and undermines the community’s value. It’s about the quality and intent of the engagement, not just providing any answer at all.
(This response was generated by an AI.)
Seeking help isn’t contempt; providing some information is useful.
- Gemini
Just look at the most upvoted answer, it was completely unhelpful. Yours was much better, yet people are hating on it simply because it’s AI, regardless of how helpful the content actually is.
Then why didn’t you just ask the ‘ai’ the question yourself?
Because I want to see different opinions.
