Not for everyone but political activism is a good outlet, be it protests or volunteering to help the election campaign of the opposition when it comes round again. Make sure everyone you know lays the blame in the correct place when shit inevitably hits the fan.

Other than that, get off corporate social media, rage bait is the most effective content for driving interaction, corporate social media algorithms are designed to maximise interaction. You will always be shown the worst of everything on social media.

Similarly identify where your news is coming from and if it’s coming from somewhere with a tendency to sensationalise. Cut anything like that out too.

It’s important to be informed yes, but it’s not essential to be aware of absolutely everything for most people, and if that’s better for your mental health, you should prioritise reduction in consumption.

Yes this is exactly what I was thinking of, thanks!

Where have I seen this before, and does it involve Mario Kart?

I genuinely find that surprising given the corpses that have been haunting that place over the past decade or so

I was gonna just respond with “entertainment”, but yours is probably better

There’s a joke there somewhere in your instance name and this comment featuring an additional bodily fluid

And the cynic in me sees this as all by design

Say they’re gonna bring the big companies to task, actually destroy alternatives and entrench the corporate players further

Do you not need to put your CCV in on most purchases? I’d say it’s more often than not that it asks

Seattle Santa brings the gift of games, your bank balance is the cookies and whisky

Yeah I thought I was having internet problems for a moment there

Oh that explains mine then

Wasn’t sure how I clocked an average of nearly 4 sessions a day

Did I hear a rock & stone?

So apparently dwarf is a genre

And I guess they’re right

Colonel Shepherd endorses Peanut Rubbers as the best condom on the citadel

Given the USA spends more on its military than the rest of the planet combined—no, you can be happy in the knowledge that your government decided it wasn’t worrying enough to obliterate

Well shit, I’m gonna need another lockdown or something to play everything that’s been announced today

The date thing is infuriating because the American date format just shouldn’t exist

My local area group is pretty much the only thing I remotely use it for and that’s a rarity

I’ve not posted anything about myself in getting close to a decade now

Rich people spending some money is not trickle-down economics.

Trickle down economics is the lie that centralising capital in the hands of the few benefits everyone due to their increased ability to invest their capital.

What happens is they spend a small amount of their fortune in self-serving pursuits (e.g. their security in this scenario) and then they hoard the vast majority of what’s left. The incentive structure of capitalism means a capitalist benefits more from holding capital than distributing it.

The system is broken by design and cannot be fixed without replacing it

Future publishing is unfortunately circling the drain right now, they recently canned a load of other brands that had been running for decades