What did Scar do for us?

Mr Grumpy Arse with a avatar of Donald Trump holding a sign saying Starmer is a Wanker. Classy.

You’re more than welcome, glad it helped. Stay positive, friend! 👍

And they all look basically identical to previous versions. At this stage you could just re-release the same renders year after year and no one would notice.

I kinda get the impression they bite, a lot.

Thank you 😊

You are 100% correct, negative news has a greater impact on people than positive: https://assets.csom.umn.edu/assets/71516.pdf

Media sites know this, and use it to drive engagement:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-facebook-twitter-politics-b1870628.html

And so, negative headlines are getting worse: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0276367

But negative news is addictive and psychologically damaging: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/why-we-worry/202009/the-psychological-impact-negative-news

So it’s important to try and stay positive:

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/benefits-of-good-news

If you want a break from the constant negativity, here are some sites that report specifically on positive news:

• https://www.goodgoodgood.co/
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
• https://fixthenews.com/
• https://positivenewsfoundation.org/
• https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/

And here’s 35 more: https://news.feedspot.com/good_news_websites/

Some communities on Lemmy you might be interested in:

• !goodnews@kbin.social
• !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world
• !goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works
• !upliftingnews@lemmy.world
• https://lemmy.world/c/hopeposting
• https://lemmy.world/c/worldinprogress
• https://lemmy.world/c/climatehope

Remember, realistic optimism is important and, unlike what some might have you believe, is not the same as blissful ignorance or ‘burying your head in the sand’: https://www.learning-mind.com/realistic-optimism-blind-positivity/

https://www.centreforoptimism.com/realisticoptimism

And doesn’t mean you must stay uninformed on current affairs: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-stop-doom-scrolling

https://goodable.co/blog/tips-for-balancing-positive-and-negative-news/

And there was me referring to The Punisher, lol

If you’re speaking of who I think you are, then I agree - he needs another season.

Odd question, but how much of it (and the newer games) are fully voiced? That was the main thing that turned me off playing them was how much of the content was just reading popup boxes of text.

Severance is amazing. Highly recommend.

OK, but what if you’re still haunting the house, but a new person legally buys it and then invites the Vampire in? Who’s preference takes precedent?

No, because you didn’t grant it consent to enter prior to death.

Pathetic, childish bullshit

Yes, Time Out, same as you.

Business groups accuse ministers of introducing a thicket of red tape as the government bans exploitative zero-hours contracts, ends “fire and rehire” tactics, introduces basic rights from day one and protects workers against unfair dismissal.

Amazing how it’s always businesses complaining when the regulations are designed to improve things for their employees, eh?

Yes, I’m having the problems with sh.itjust.works instance. I’ve moved to Lemmy.world whilst this issue is ongoing just so I can actually use Lemmy.

And I guess I should try out another client to see if I experience the same problems there

Are you on mobile? If so I tried turning off my WiFi and just using data and it seemed to help, which is even weirder.

I’m a little confused by your Signal comment though. Is there a Lemmy client with that name?

No, sorry, I meant Sync. Amended.

The government will argue that it is administratively unworkable to come up with specific measures to clean up individual rivers, lakes and streams as is required by law under the Water Framework Directive.

Under the water framework directive, the EU-derived regulations designed to drive a clean-up of rivers, which is part of British law, all waterbodies should achieve good ecological status or potential for good ecological status by 2027.

What the absolute fuck.