BothsidesistFraud @ BothsidesistFraud @lemmy.world

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We're still here.

Generation discourse honestly panders to the lowest common denominator intellect. People who constantly talk about boomers or millennials are usually pretty dumb.

The reason you don't hear much about Gen X is "we" didn't cause anything culturally significant in an enduring when "we" were in our 20s.

Or maybe I just want to chat with people about my age

If people are repeatedly told that mental health problems are common and that they might experience them … they might start to interpret any negative thoughts and feelings through this lens,” Foulkes and Andrews wrote. This can create a self-fulfilling spiral: More anxiety diagnoses lead to more hypervigilance among young people about their anxiety, which leads to more withdrawal from everyday activities, which creates actual anxiety and depression, which leads to more diagnoses, and so on.

Exactly. The vast majority of people who are either formally diagnosed or self-diagnosed as mentally ill are only mildly so or not at all. And for people like this the last thing they want to do is spend a ton of time ruminating about whatever your condition is, watching influencers talk about it, etc. It'll only make it (if it even existed) worse.

Let me take a second to clarify what I mean when I say they may not actually be mentally ill or their condition may not exist. We have pathologized vast swathes of the normal human spectrum. The article goes into this. Every has anxiety, for example. Dwelling on mild anxiety makes it worse.

Negativity inflation is super bad too, which is why I find a lot of current events news and discourse around it, terrible.

Luckily this is within many people's abilities to fix, with better news and discourse hygiene.

LA has worse

So the BIPOC girl has to be the sex crazed one? Can we not please.

I'm not mad or picking a fight, it's odd you see such powerful emotions in a very normal internet discussion, perhaps therapy would help... No what I was doing was leaving you with a dumb joke because I understood that despite the huge and well known economic benefits, you still think TV is why people want to move here

Weird how so many still choose here then! I guess Marvel and Taylor Swift are just that cool.

Yep. 50 years to push for a law but they didn't.

Pretty much every immigrant already knows people here, whether closely or indirectly. They are not drawn by the rosy picture presented by the NBA or Marvel movies and presuming they are is really condescending and honestly embarrassing too. No - what they see is members of their families or friends' families succeeding and sending back massive remittances, or for the professional workers they have easy access to pay scales for the same industry in the US vs. their home country and a certain number of them are more than willing to trade distance from family for 2x to 3x salary.

Like punching someone in the dark

Why does US continue to attract so many immigrants across the economic scale and education level

Nothing will happen until there is a major crisis of some kind. Life is way too easy for most people. Occupy was a failure for this reason. You need Great Depression style suffering or better yet early 20th century labor conditions in order to get any ball rolling. Great Society was nothing really.

if you felicificly calculate it it works out

that sucks

Is there a way to block inline images

Perception of safety has a lot more to do with high profile random violence (e.g. the recent well-publicized NYC subway crimes) and general street disorder. Nobody expects to get murdered, but people know they could run into a mentally ill addict or have to sit in a subway car with someone behaving in a scary fashion. I probably have 2 or 3 incidents a month on the subway where I am rattled by someone's behavior. That impacts me more than murders in The Bronx.

Kids murdered gang shooting in the Bronx: sad but somewhere else

Guy pushed onto subway tracks in midtown: shit better watch my back

Oh FFS

Zuck sucks but this open letter is embarrassing. Dial back the smarm and self-righteousness a couple notches. I get it's marketing and not really an open letter but still, cringe

Can't decide if I'm annoyed that this poorly-disguised influence scheme will go unpunished, or if thrilled that many very deserving people will be separated from their money.