Subreddits you are going to miss?
I'm going to miss AITA. Even if someone makes it a community, it will take a long time to populate.
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I'm going to miss AITA. Even if someone makes it a community, it will take a long time to populate.
People talk about "collapse" since I remember yet we are still here. Thinking about that changes nothing but instead makes you depressed. I don't see a reason to miss such community.
Supposing that we'll always be here because... we've always been here is exactly the kind of thinking that's fucked our species.
The fact alone that more people aren't concerned over the fact that we've passed +1.5C in La Nina years even with aersol masking is horrifying. Look up 'blue ocean event' or 'clathrate gun' or actually learn about the increasing ocean acidification or the break down of the jet stream and if you're any kind of intelligent at all (which your comment has me highly doubting) you'll see a reason to miss such a community. It sounds like you're just another one of those who'd rather stick their head in the sand and worship your monied betters, though.
Classic reddit migrant moment insulting other people's intelligence. I won't even reply to your arguments. Go back to shitditt as it's already up again.
🤣😂 omg, you're cracking me up, dude, quit... First of all, I don't think enough time has passed for there to be 'classic reddit migrant' anything, but I do know that either way you can take your pathetic little attempts at gatekeeping and go fuck yourself with them. 😁Also, if you have such a problem with people coming to lemmy, then why the fuck are you shitposting in a thread that's clearly not for you?
Secondly, I would contend that I can't insult something you don't have.
And I didn't ask you to reply to a single thing I've said, yet... Here you are. Those aren't arguments, they're called facts, junior. Now, please, get outta here with this sad, little man energy.
Even if you're not a big doomer, apocalypse theorizing and even planning/preparation can actually be fun and, if you're the kind of person to worry about that stuff, lower your stress. Feeling prepared for an emergency can reduce the amount of distress it causes, especially if you're already aware of the risk of the emergency.
Put differently: if you're concerned about the oncoming climate disaster, and find it causes you mental anguish, then you can either sit around and read more about doom, or you can find ways to release some of that tension. One possible way is to feel as if you're becoming as prepared as you reasonably can. This is much like, say, learning to swim because you're going on a boat. Yes, you probably won't fall in the water, but I bet you'll be much less scared of what might happen if you do.
Prepping and related stuff is indeed fun and useful but r/collapse wasn’t about that at all.
Perhaps not. I pretty much never frequented it, the only stuff I ever saw on the sub was from specific searches so I know it had that kind of content on occasion. Now I can't open it to see, haha
I had mixed results with the community. I got some great articles that I was able to share to raise awareness, some great book recommendations for everything from coping with stress to fiction to distract myself to useful sustainability topics.
But it also wreaked havoc on my mental health overall and I got downvoted for trying to find environmental communities that werent just big corporations in disguise or ineffective at their goals.
Overall definitely not going to miss it but a community that isn't afraid to talk about collapse while still trying to find some solutions (even if just small individual solutions) would be welcome imo.
Can you share the book recommendations? I’m always looking for good books.
Yea! What kinda genres are you interested in? Or what kind of genres do you avoid?
Love sci-fi buy will usually give anything a shot.
Hm. Top scifi recommendations are going to be Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (you probably already read that one though) Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is on my to read list. Parable of the Sower (its not really scifi but is good fiction that looks at our world post climate issues from the eyes of a 15 year old)
Not a book but an amazing three season sci fi series on Netflix is Dark (its German, the dub is not terrible)
Fantasy Recs: Any Ursla Le Guin Shadow and Bone (it has a netflix series too) Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel (Regency novel but with magic) Anything by Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (retelling of Korean folk myth that is a little romancey and not super deep but I thoroughly enjoyed reading especially since I was not familiar with the myth)
Recommeded by r/collapse (I have yet to start any of these) When things fall apart : heart advice for difficult times by Pema Chodron Where the deer and the antelope play : the pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside by Nick Offerman Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond (volumes 1&2) Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by S. Mitchell Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hahn Prosper by Chris Martenson and Adam Taggart The Fifth Sacred Thing A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers Station 11 How to Prepare for Climate Change by David Pogue The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of Our World by Iain McGilchrist
Non-Fiction: Deep Ecology (I will have to check my bookshelf for the author) The Sand County Alamac by Aldo Leopold Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation (funny and educational about mating habits of other species framed as an advice column)
Anyway I will edit and add to this tonight or tomorrow to add things I am forgetting from my bookshelf (if I don't remember to edit give me a poke, ADHD makes things hard)
Holy shit! Thanks for all the recs! Awesome reply! If you’re into si-fi May I suggest the red rising series, the sixth book in the series comes out next month and I believe there will be one more after that! There are also 3 graphic novels that help with world building.
Ooo I will definitely check it out. I love worlds that span multiple mediums.