Things have gotten better and progress has been made from times past, it just seems worse now because we have more access to information. We’ve come far, and have further to go!
Glass half full guy 😂
I think that things are going to be okay as long as we allow them to be okay
It really is easy to lose track of how far we’ve come until we look back. Thanks for this!
If the only positive things you can come up with are lies and half-truths, maybe keep it to yourself.
The average American didn’t die at age 51. And, while the average life expectancy might have been 51 years, that’s a Spiders Georg moment.
The life expectancy was thrown off by all the child mortality. If you lived past 10 years, you were likely to live to 70.
Yep, and now there’s not a deluge of dead children dragging the average down, which is objectively pretty great
Look, I feel like “children dead before 10” is a pretty upsetting and relevant statistic.
I have noticed lately people on the Internet starting sentences more with “Look.” Is it just me or is this becoming more of a trend? (Not trying to judge or anything, just wondering if I am going crazy)
I start with look or listen a lot, idk why
Don’t worry the Anti-Vax movement is looking to bring back those numbers!
Hooray! :(
Sure, but it’s not the same as 25 years old being mid-life.
I feel like you’re just excited to share a fact about a common misconception rather than actually paying attention to what’s being said. Infant mortality is still a bad thing. While it’s true folks lived about as long less infant mortality is still a net improvement.
I’m paying attention. I feel like you just want to point out that it’s a common misconception rather than engage with the fact that dying at 51 is very different from child mortality.
Yeah if I had to choose how to bump up the life expectancy, reducing child mortality would definitely be my first choice.
Correct; “average” and average can be different things.
Yeah, in particular the “average age of death” might be 51 if the average includes a lot of people who died as children. OTOH, the average person dying at 51 is fundamentally different in how you think of it.
Life expectancy at, is used by academics when relevant. Average at birth, adulthood and even once they’re over the hill have utility. Like identifying outliers.
Regardless, the average person is going to use average as a nebulas concept occasionally informed by science but hearsay and superstition on an average day.
*nebulous
Ayy, meaningless feel-good bullshit! Yep, everything’s hunky dory.
It’s not like we don’t still have problems to fix, but always only focusing on them doesn’t show just how far we’ve come.
The real problem with ignoring progress we’ve made is that it gives the false impression that what we’re doing is worthless, leading to demands to tear down everything we’re doing.
People are constantly clamoring to replace our systems with new ones “that actually work”. This is a result of being blind to the ways our current system works.
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I’m not arguing for good enough. You’re framing this as a false dichotomy between completely ignoring all the accomplishments of past generations and all the valuable aspects of our current system, and completely giving up.
What we can do is decide to recognize that parts of our current system work really well, and stop always talking about trying to uproot what we have and replace it.
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What I mean is: our current system has value, and we should recognize that and not destroy the parts that bring us value.
The problem is that the line between “we’ve come a long way” and it’s corollary “therefore why are you upset/why do we have to address [insert issue]?” is razor thin.
Celebrating success is great. Using it as a cudgel to stop further success is not.
Yeah definitely. But only thinking of the worst everything all the time is bad for mental health and isn’t reflective of reality.
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But the bad news is what social media and news amplifies.
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Im as cynical as they come and I want to see more posts like this.
I still have an urge to be cynical, but less so.
factfulness
Refreshing to see this instead of the usual screeching here on lemmy. I really need to stop looking at 99% of this bullshit on here.
Atleast for 2 minutes I believed the average quality of content will not go to the shitter like reddit.
What’s the 99% of this site that is bs to you? And why are you hanging around if it’s that terrible? Genuinely asking.
99% of lemmy is: bashing and memeing rich, companies, conservatives. Posting outrage and celeb articles. Honestly these issues are not even on my mind a fraction as much as it is for most guys here.
Im mainly hanging around for my preferred topics to reach a critical level so that it will be enjoyable.
As of right now, even main lemmy sites like technology is not even about technology but this bullshit “how Musk fucked over twitter at this moment”. And look at that. Wasnt this trend taken 1:1 from reddit. I cant clean up properly because this spam keeps leaking into my feed. I cant subscribe to my only preferred communities as they are too small.
Celebrity articles? What the fuck? I do not see that at all and I’m here every day.
… So it’s a lefty/progressive space and you don’t like it, so you claim that the platform is derangedor some shit.
What do you think would happen on a platform where most people are just fed up with late-stage capitalist enshittification?
I grant you the being left/progressive part, but I never said a word about that being an issue did I. I am heavily left leaning if you want to put a badge on it, but I have nothing to do with character assasination attempts and bashing certain people all day. That is just shitty conduct. Celeb news level of bullshittery.
I never encountered any character assassination attempts. At least not on the memes community (where you commented, after all).
As I said: people being fed up with late stage capitalism is a valid reason for class conscious comedy.
sounds like you need an echo chamber, friend! Truthsocial sounds more up your alley
Does a site like that have proper communities for things like spirituality, Zen, audio equipment and drugs?
I think its pretty self explanatory that we are already in an echo chamber since I never fucking said anything about what my political beliefs are. The current lemmy community is kind of okay to keep up with the events in the world, but still dogshit. And I want to look at the conservative bullshittery even less.
I have high standards.
Dude, you’re in a meme community. Just don’t come here if it’s too leftie for you.
As if memes need to be political, no, they don’t.
They don’t need to be. But some of them inevitably will be. 🙄
What does anything “need to be”? We need to eat drink and fuck. That’s about it. Trying to define things based on need is weird and misguided
I never fucking said anything about what my political beliefs are
Lol you absolutely didn’t have to
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Nonsense. Don’t read something that was never said. Really simple. If you need to bring it up, formulate a passive, neutral question.
That never worked out for me. People feel attacked regardless. They might not comment (in any meaningful way) as they have no way of reflecting on my argument, but they still downvote.
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Truth Social is technically a Mastodon instance! lol
The extreme poverty one is laughable especially when criteria to define extreme poverty is ridiculous. Extreme poverty in places where you earn less than $1.90 but can still have subsistence farming and community doesn’t make sense - also if living in San Francisco and earning $2/day isn’t extreme poverty… I don’t know what is.
Poverty shouldn’t be tied to capital but to standards of living - that would be a completely different story.
the last two are easily debunked. I hate shit like this because it reinforces an idea that time = progress. There are influential and powerful people alive today who would reverse any of these trends if it meant money in their pocket.
Yeah thought it didn’t sound right.
How is the last one debunked?
It’s not about time = progress, it’s about showing that there was progress even if feels like we’re in a shitty downward phase currently. I don’t validate the numbers, just the intention.
It’s fair to want to be optimistic and to want to fight against doomerism. I think OP was misguided at best.
To be fair, I don’t think I was as clear as I could have been either. It’s just that post just has smells of neoliberalism has fixed the world propaganda. These are the same kinda statistics they use to justify an immoral and unethical economic system. I think a lot of people agree and get slightly triggered seeing these same untrustworthy statistics paraded around.
You know what? I did like this post, thanks.
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humans are an invasive & overpopulated species
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people can read but still choose to be ignorant
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Americans working til their 60s is sad
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Because of the rising population, there are more homeless people than ever before
-Overpopulation is a fascist lie
-no one chooses to be illiterate
-agreed
-homelessness is not caused by increasing population but by psychopathic policies.Overpopulation is not a fascist lie. There are not enough resources to support the 8 billion and counting people on this planet.
Global fresh water reserves will be 40% over capacity by 2030, and 90% of global top soil and arable land is at risk of depletion by 2050.
Humans are bad for the environment. Luckily we have a drop in birth rate… less like rats, more like whales please.
lol toxicbubble
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