Ask HN: Is it just me or has everything stopped happening in the world?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30970964

by logicallee • 4 years ago

6 33 4 years ago

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It seems there aren't any world events anymore, other than my own personal matters I haven't noticed anything going on in the world. Is it just me or is there nothing going on in the world anymore?

Thin_icE• 4 years ago

You mean besides the pandemic that has been going strong for the last two years and the impending WWIII?

logicallee4• 4 years ago

yes I've stopped seeing news about what you call the impending WWIII.

AnimalMuppet• 4 years ago

"I'm not seeing it" is very much different from "nothing is happening". I'm seeing things happening all over the place.

What's frustrating, perhaps, is that nothing is getting resolved. Neither the pandemic nor the Ukraine invasion are resolving, and may not do so for months to years. It's frustrating. It's not the same as "nothing is happening", though.

andi999• 4 years ago

Dont forget the upcoming end of this year world famine (not in the news yet). Way too little fertilizer was produced to to gas pricing since autumn last year. (i think)

trifit• 4 years ago

Yeah and it’s beautiful!

taubek• 4 years ago

A lot of things are going on. Try to look at some new news sources. I'm sure that you will find something interesting.

jstx12• 4 years ago

What do you think was happening before that isn't happening now?

logicallee4• 4 years ago

examples of things that were happening before that aren't happening now:

- I read great deep analysis of Putin,

- I read great deep analysis of sanctions, price of Ruble vs USD

- I read about Putin's inner circle

- On a different subject I read analysis of Xi's political thinking and international relations

- On technical subjects, I read interesting new hardware benchmarks

- On technical subjects I read about new protocols, new types of compression, different things about blockchain and even the darkweb

- I read about issues of free speech online, the effect of platforms on speech, etc, things like that

I haven't seen anything like these high-quality subjects in a while now.

Ambolia3• 4 years ago

Well, that's because slow collapse is what is happening. And you are not allowed to point it out.

There's too many overproduced elites, and if you are not willing to play ball, there's 80 guys willing to "denounce" you and take your job.

[1] https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/crises-of-elite-c...

afpx3• 4 years ago

Maybe people are tired of publishing free content.

jstx12• 4 years ago

You understand that you’re listing what you’ve been reading, not events that have been taking place in the world right?

detaro• 4 years ago

Seems more an issue with what you are reading than with what is happening.

Epiphany212• 4 years ago

There are still world events like disease outbreaks and wars, but they're all negative and a lot aren't even worth paying attention to. So I sort of get what you mean. I have definitely noticed that most people are much more socially isolated. Economic troubles compound this by leaving people with less disposable income, and it can be hard for many to transition into free or less expensive hobbies on a short notice. The extroverted types who used to congregate at bars or festivals or sports games are now struggling to fill in the gaps created by the lockdowns last year.

These are just my personal observations, but it makes perfect sense that collective negativity colors the zeitgeist a certain way. Just find friends where you can and do what makes you happy. You can't change everything wrong with the world in a day.

logicallee4• 4 years ago

negative or positive, just high-impact things would be good to read about. I feel like if I download a porn video it'll be the only thing that happens this month. even just idly thinking staring at a wall, it seems that's the most interesting thing going on in the world and I wouldn't read about anything more interesting. just my impression, it didn't used to be this way.

Fatnino• 4 years ago

These sound like depression symptoms.

yuppie_scum• 4 years ago

Read your local paper of record, The Economist, NYT and WSJ (skip editorial pages on both).

pizza• 4 years ago

The natural instinct to information overload is hyper-desensitization. The more that is told, the less you can hear.

toomuchtodo• 4 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

logicallee4• 4 years ago

this is great! lol @ "EU High Representative Josep Borrell announces that the European Union and Italy will resume their diplomatic operations in Kyiv following the end of the war."

Like, radiation cleanup operations will resume once radiation has reduced to a safe level. um, little problem there chief.

tootie• 4 years ago

It is just you.

wodenokoto• 4 years ago

It’s really hard not to be sarcastic answering this. And I don’t even read or watch the news.

I don’t know where you live but I’m honestly surprised that Covid or the Russian invasion of Ukraine hasn’t had an impact on your day to day life.

mise_en_place• 4 years ago

This is the correct approach. Cultivate your own garden and ignore the external noise.

krapp• 4 years ago

No, you're right. Nothing is happening. Go back to sleep.

Jemm• 4 years ago

10 billion people on this rock, you’d think they could at least entertain us.

navjack27• 4 years ago

Having some depersonalization, derealization issues? I suggest you get out of your reality tunnel for a bit.

Ask HN: Is it just me or has everything stopped happening in the world?

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