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  • Libra00@lemmy.mltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world...
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    1 day ago

    Nah it’s not. I’ve been living with chronic back pain every day for 20 years and it hasn’t made me cranky. I have definitely lost some patience with blatant stupidity and what other people think, but my default interaction mode is ‘be chill and get along with everyone’.












  • In the US Gulf War in 1991 they had journalists embedded with soldiers broadcasting live as the attacks were launched. There was a fairly well-known incident (which I can’t seem to find anything about just now) in which some dumb-ass on CNN said where the group he was with was and what they were about to do on live TV and there was a big stink about it. I dunno if anyone was actually hurt as a result, but the potential was definitely there.



  • For sure. I was a very angry person for a lot of years, I hated the world and everyone in it, and it took changing circumstances and reading a lot of philosophy (especially Camus) to make me realize that all it was doing was making me unhappy. Fortunately I’m in a much better place these days, I’m generally pretty happy and forgiving of others. I’ve even switched to being what someone described as the most cynical person they’d ever met when I was 17 to being something of an optimist.