[DetectDefect]

> Does anybody get the looming impression that the probability they'll die in war is approaching 1?

No. If I had this level of anxiety, I would disconnect from news and online media for a little while to take a walk in the forest to clear my mind and calm down.

[happytoexplain]

As things get worse, this advice gets less relevant. You no longer have to be addicted to social media or 24-hour news to be worried about what's happening. You don't even really need to be paying explicit attention at all.

To call the headline "US threatens to invade Greenland" unprecedented would be an understatement. You only need to see it once to be justifiably anxious.

[sjw987]

I'm already there. I never use social media and I limit news consumption to once per week for catching up.

I'm seeing these messages in the real world. Adverts on the side of buses are telling me to enlist in greater frequency, and job sites have positions in the Royal Army pinned above everything else.

[IAmBroom]

This forum is social media.

[happytoexplain]

Not by colloquial usage of the term, which is often (and in this case) limited to the subset of larger global human-content firehoses where the problems inherent to that dynamic become more dramatic, e.g. Twitter, Facebook, shorts feeds, things like Instagram and Reddit maybe, etc.

[LexiMax]

Hacker News is Reddit with tone policing and a nuclear downvote button.

The only difference is scale, and with the increasing flood of bot users and throwaway alt accounts, that's starting to matter less and less.

[beAbU]

HN is just as much an echo chamber as any facebook group or subreddit. You are making a mistake if you think you are immune from groupthink and herd mentality by limiting your online discourse to this platform only.

[GJim]

Social media is where one shares ones social live; its in the name!

Whist there is often plenty of crossover (think car enthusiast forums), I'd hardly call a technical discussion site 'social media'.

[nullocator]

Unfortunately access to the forest is blocked by ongoing "immigration" enforcement action by masked secret police in the area. Stepping out of the front door under these circumstances may be treated as a crime, punishable by death.