Sometimes I feel like whatever I'd do it won't be enough. What/where I buy or where I donate seem trivial in the larger scheme of things. From extreme power concentration to world hunger. From climate change to AI safety. Too many things that I'd like to change, but I feel powerless sometimes. The feeling comes coupled with a sense of guilt of not doing enough and not being enough. Do you guys get this feeling too? How do you deal with it?

I do believe in the necessity of optimism in order to affect change, but sometimes hope is hard to cultivate. How do you guys keep your optimism up?

Thanks for reading my mini-rant.

Also, the meme is not OC

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

AI slop meme

But having said that, this is the problem I have with the world today

Here I am doing almost irrelevant shit like separating my garbage for nothing because recycling companies (stilll?) would just dump it with the regular garbage.

I make sure to turn off the lights in rooms that o don't use, yet a complete office tower near me has dozens of complete floors with all the lights turned on to max without a single person actually being there. Data entry are built as it they're life saving devices, yet they now consume more energy than entire cities.

I'm sorry, I am not the problem

We need to stop allowing narcissists with psychopathic tendencies to become leaders of anything

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[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 point 4 months ago

Sometimes I read comments like this, and a small part of My brain says "Hey, we should institute mandatory psychiatric testing for government roles, and prohibit anyone who tests as neurotypical from holding office." And then I come to My senses and remember that I believe in equality, and I think that kind of policy would be a massive violation of privacy, highly prone to abuse. So that's not what I believe. But it can be the only way for Me to navigate the anger I feel at the neurotypicals who use ableist slurs to advocate for such hate. It's hard work to be better than these kinds of people.

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