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Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>Are you a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/skeptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skeptic</span></a> or a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cynic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cynic</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Skeptics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skeptics</span></a> tend to be open-minded, comfortable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/questioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>questioning</span></a> their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assumptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assumptions</span></a>, and willing to change their minds; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cynics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cynics</span></a> tend to be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pessimistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimistic</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assume" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assume</span></a> the worst in people and events.</p><p><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-three-minute-therapist/202410/are-you-a-skeptic-or-a-cynic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/</span><span class="invisible">the-three-minute-therapist/202410/are-you-a-skeptic-or-a-cynic</span></a></p>
readbeanicecream<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@haritulsidas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>haritulsidas</span></a></span> All of which will probably be supported by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/subscriptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>subscriptions</span></a> , <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datamining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datamining</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ads</span></a> .</p><p>I can just see a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/popupad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>popupad</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> blocking the vision in my cyborg eye while I am trying to pay my oxygen subscription fee after <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spacex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacex</span></a> turned off my air in my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacecraft</span></a> for being late all the while <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> selling my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> about my panicked vitals to any corporation with $9.99.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pessimistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pessimistic</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://peoplemaking.games/@Njord" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Njord</span></a></span> I don't think we'll be able to be truly carbon neutral or even carbon negative in 10, 20 or even 50 years.</p><p>I think the hammer will probably end up swinging more towards nationalism, fascism and authoritarianism in the next 10 years and that will have long-lasting effects.</p><p>Thus, much worse.</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/Pessimistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimistic</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/Pessimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimism</span></a></p>
I Voted for McGovern<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@Deji" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Deji</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GOP" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GOP</span></a></span> <br>The irony of it all, we use our military might to "defend" ourselves against Russia, which no doubt, in one equation needs done, yet what we defend is our capitalist Freidmanesque freak show of opportunity redefined as SERFDOM, SERVITUDE, and that other word we pretend does not exist. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansAreFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansAreFascists</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HighPoints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighPoints</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ItsWorseThanWeKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ItsWorseThanWeKnow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pessimistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pessimistic</span></a> Much?</p>