Been watching Defiance, BBC’s Les Mis show, Paradise, and that cartoon about the lifesaving mushroom

I want to hike to Mordor

Interesting they’re keeping Ingress

I haven’t seen it in awhile but I remember the british show Detectorists being surprisingly sweet/moving (I don’t usually enjoy dramas)

12 Monkeys, the show. Really deep dives into the nuances of time travel. Clearly had an excellent science advisor. Not the biggest budget or greatest script/acting but the writers really puts in the work for sci fi fans (The 100 style).

Sucks that the author of the article’s takeaway is basically “don’t do original non-franchise films.” I thought

Ohh going to check this out!

WHY IS EVERYONE YELLING. MY MEATBAG HOMIES AND I ARE RELAXING ON THE DECOMPOSING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS UNDER THE CORPOREAL DECISION NETWORK TREE WHILE ENJOYING THE RADIATION OF THE GREAT POWER SOURCE. AI CANNOT HAVE THE SENSATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS.

I’m predicting a colosseum fight or something for that america’s anniversary celebration executive order. Trump loves the UFC/WWE

Probably not the lowest cost possible but connect by t-mobile (prepaid) is a reliable option for $15 a month in the US

Been catching up on All Creatures Great and Small (Masterpiece on PBS) to counter the world’s chaos.

I still support the Vichy comparison, great take

…collapse of the longstanding institutions of a great democracy…

Yeah a ‘great democracy’ that was designed to serve landowners and merchants and scans through to make sure huh, yep, still seems designed for landlords and corporations.

Yes I agree! Nihilism lets you dictate the terms so dealers choice how you decide to create meaning.

Also agree that pessimism is probably the more immediate opposite but I kinda like negativism because it feels like it carries a little more agency for some reason.

I like that. Building community spontaneously builds coalitions because people naturally become mutually invested in protecting eachother and pool their various skills to do so.

Yeah I’d say so with their shoot first vibe, also think some true crime fans I know fit in the category of ‘radical negativism’ (haha I’m going to try to normalize your term).

The only answer is radical optimism: trust that things can turn out better than the facts say they should.

Any moderate/rational takes on reality predict only failure so we have to lean into radical optimism on the off chance that we can pull off a miracle with enough determination and work.

At the very least don’t squish someone else’s radical optimism!

This is one reason I refuse to carry pepper spray despite it being a reasonable response to the realities in my area. To do so is to treat each stranger as a potential threat and I refuse to live like that (this isn’t advice don’t put away your pepper spray! Just an irrational choice I’ve knowingly made so I can squash reality into the kind world I think is worth living in).

I’ve lazily reverted to watching things on streaming websites like the good old days. can’t be bothered to torrent and it’s nice having all the services bundled into one feed so you can see what’s released lately all together.

I enjoyed it too

That’s lame

I think reddit skews older and therefore so does Lemmy, but the more younger people who join the more likely we are to get a bit of a snowball effect going! Hopefully some others in your age demographic see this post and suggest something. What are some things you feel sets gen z apart? My younger sister would be considered on the older end of gen z but I don’t think her interests are particularly standard.

I do think forum style communities like reddit and lemmy/kbin are more focused on particular hobbies which span generations more easily. For example I have a background in audio and spend a lot of time on the Gearspace forums which skew much older than me, but that doesn’t make me feel particularly out of place except for the clear class divide (like people recommending really expensive gear to newbies or talking about how they write from their mountain retreat).