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Wow 9 million a year die prematurely. The environmental crisis is manifold: we have the destruction of species and habitats, the global warming problem, and now also just trash - overuse of plastics is a huge problem, air pollution is pretty terrible.
I'm sorry, but I'm totally over this type of nonsense. "Expert says" just signals bullshit to me at this point. Clickbait. I'm exhausted at this point.
Then maybe stop going to news sites? Give yourself a break and re-engage when you think you can deal with it again.
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Lockdown was bliss for pollution here in London. Air smelled totally different. We don’t want more lockdowns but we need to fix society so we don’t have to travel so much on a daily basis.
As a foreign tourist in london, london needs to fix its infrastructure. The amount of fine dust in the tubes is criminal.
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Then maybe stop going to news sites? Give yourself a break and re-engage when you think you can deal with it again.
We've both been on this site for a long time. I've signed off from the typical news for quite some time at this point, but it keeps seeping in. This site used to be full of enthusiasm, but it's changed.
I'm sorry, but I'm totally over this type of nonsense. "Expert says" just signals bullshit to me at this point. Clickbait. I'm exhausted at this point.
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We've both been on this site for a long time. I've signed off from the typical news for quite some time at this point, but it keeps seeping in. This site used to be full of enthusiasm, but it's changed.
It is what we make it. And yes, it has changed, this has been observed many times now in the last couple of months, but that's no reason why it can't change back.
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It is what we make it. And yes, it has changed, this has been observed many times now in the last couple of months, but that's no reason why it can't change back.
How do we get it back?
Also: the 'New' page has a 'more' link at the bottom, this really should be used more often, the new pages moves ever faster as more stuff gets submitted to HN so plenty of good items scroll off the new page before they catch enough upvotes to make it to the homepage, so you can have a disproportionally high impact by voting for something that is at 3 or 4 upvotes on page 2 or 3. (The 'new' page only gets a fraction of the traffic that the homepage gets.)
Another lockdown possibly ? /s
Of course, alarmism is excellent at driving engagement and ad revenue so I might as well have asked for someone to write a program that solves the halting problem. I don't know how inventives can be put in place so that the news industry is an asset to society rather than a liability but I wish I did.
I'm sorry, but I'm totally over this type of nonsense. "Expert says" just signals bullshit to me at this point. Clickbait. I'm exhausted at this point.
The fact that air pollution kills massively is not 'new'. Should we stop reporting on it? Should we continue, but use other headlines?
Because the solution can't be "keep chugging along as if nothing were".
I'm heading up infosec in our company, and it's a similar "inconvenient truth" type of situation. My approach so far is to appeal to "coherence". You can pretend that disk encryption isn't necessary, but only if we all agree that leaking data is not an existential threat.
That's what this type of article does: put in context the number of Covid deaths, and ask "is that coherent?"
I'm sorry, but I'm totally over this type of nonsense. "Expert says" just signals bullshit to me at this point. Clickbait. I'm exhausted at this point.
Then maybe stop going to news sites? Give yourself a break and re-engage when you think you can deal with it again.