#complacency — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #complacency, aggregated by home.social.
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Instead of thinking about hope, I think about possibility. When we hope, we have no control over what may come to pass. We put all our trust and energy into the whims of fate. We abdicate responsibility. We allow ourselves to be complacent. We are all just people living our lives as best we can, aren't we? It is easy to feel helpless. It is much harder to make ourselves uncomfortable by imagining the impossible to be possible. But we can do that. We can act, even in the smallest of ways.
-- Roxane Gay (NY Times June 6, 2019)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RoxaneGay #Action #Complacency #Hope #Possibility #Responsibility
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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@Old_IT_geek
Sure, #AlboPM is the best of three evils (#Labor, #LNP and #PHON) but there are alternatives if voters bother to think about it longer than a couple of minutes. And, I get your point about #SkyNews but would also point out it’s free to air everywhere. Here again, if voters were to think for more than a couple of minutes, the #Murdocracy wouldn’t have such a hold on their lazy brains.Sorry if I sound harsh, but choosing a lesser evil rather than working to get better representatives into #Parliament is just apathetic #democracy and there is an enormous price to pay for such #complacency.
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Offline: #Hantavirus — #surprise, #complacency, and #peril, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00963-3/fulltext
Safe and effective vaccines are needed, but none are available. These events are disturbingly familiar. They invite reflection about whether the lessons learned from COVID-19 have been truly absorbed by political leaders, and even public health authorities.
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We Are All Living In A Bubble
All of us here on LinkedIn are living in a bubble.
The majority of the world is not here. They don’t even know about the technologies we keep posting about. The 3D printed rockets being launched out of Sriharikota by a 200 person team in Chennai. The battery innovations being worked on across labs and garages. The carbon fibers being manufactured for everything from aerospace to wind turbines. The vision robots being deployed on assembly lines. And so much more.LinkedIn has around 150 million users in India. That’s roughly 10% of the country. A loud 10% that thinks it represents the conversation. It doesn’t.
But even within this 10%, we rarely get to know all the mind boggling research we are doing as a country. We are in silos ourselves. The FinTech crowd has no clue what the DeepTech crowd is up to. The startup folks don’t know what the manufacturing folks are building. Product people are blind to policy people. We scroll past each other’s worlds every day and somehow tell ourselves we are “well informed.”
I used to carry this misconception that the majority of Indians don’t have the time to explore and experiment. That people are too busy putting food on their plate. That curiosity is a privilege reserved for those whose stomachs are full and bills are paid.
The reality is starkly different.
Indians do have time. You can see it from the kind of reels that go viral. The kind of content broadcasters now produce, and the sheer quantity in which it gets pumped out. Hours of attention being burned every single day, by hundreds of millions of people. Time is not the bottleneck.
What we are actually surrounded with is complacency.
The world we see around us, or rather, the micro-communities we are a part of, are very tiny needles in a haystack. Silicon Valley is even more distant and far from the reality than we like to believe. The world is very, very different from the timeline you scroll. The conferences you attend. The Slack groups you belong to. The WhatsApp circles you orbit.
And yet, here is the part that should disturb anyone paying attention.
A further small tiny fraction of this ‘woke’ part of society living inside this bubble is the one running the show. They decide whether countries have food on the table or go to sleep hungry. Whether economies prosper or rot. Whether people live or die in wars they did not start. Whether the air is clean or carcinogenic. A small slice of humans, sitting in glass towers and group chats, deciding the fate of billions.
The bitterer reality is that the rest of us are not fighting back together. We are not banding up against the forces that profit off our exhaustion. We are fighting each other, over the same piece of bread.
The opportunity in this world is infinite. Look around. There is enough land, enough food, enough sunlight, enough talent, enough imagination. We are sitting on top of abundance and have somehow convinced ourselves we are in scarcity.
We invented the scarcity. We maintain it. We even defend it like it’s a family heirloom.
We lack critical thinking.
Even this very piece will be read by very few. There is just no clean way to make the masses aware of the narratives being sold to them. The narratives that make us fight over religion, caste, race, gender, geography, language, color, accent. Every single one of these is a human made construct. They were invented. By humans. First to organize, then to divide, then to rule.
The biggest enemy of humanity is humans.
We shut our doors at night not because we are afraid of lions and vultures, but of other humans. Around 440,000 people are killed by other people every year globally. Lions kill around a hundred. Sharks, fewer than ten.
And here is the part that really gets me.
We see more humans around us than any other creature on Earth. In any city, any town, any village, the species you encounter the most is our own. Humans and the animals we domesticated make up about 94% of all mammal biomass on the planet. We are everywhere. There are more of us than there have ever been. The streets are flooded with us. The trains are crammed with us. The malls, the temples, the offices, all us.
And we still can’t trust each other. We still find new reasons to bring harm to each other. We are the most populated species in our daily field of vision, and we treat each other like the rarest threat.
Where have we gone wrong?
Why have we checkmate ourselves into this artificial scarcity? Why does a species sitting on top of the food chain, with infinite capacity for cooperation, with the internet in its pocket and rockets in its sky, choose this?
It honestly feels like a prank stretched too far.
We can come over it in an instant. The moment enough of us stop buying the divisions being sold. The moment we stop seeing the next human as competition for the same loaf and start seeing them as the partner who can help bake a hundred more.
But for some reason, we are very fond of fooling ourselves.
The society is a joke. And the punchline is, we wrote it.Subscribe to get notified or follow the blog, and if you like what I write, please share it with your network 🙂
#Awareness #Bubble #Complacency #CriticalThinking #Culture #Humanity #LinkedIn #Narrative #Politics #SiliconValley #SocialMedia #Society #Technology #Truth -
Our society has learned to promote #complacency into a virtue. You call it a "moderate stance", and it's suddenly a good thing. Opposing evil is bad; it's extremist position, almost as bad as the evil itself. Complacency sounds bad too. But "hey, I don't support evil, I just keep an open mind, a moderate position here", and you're suddenly a praiseworthy person. Maybe "just a little, necessary amount of evil" is good, after all.
"I don't support slavery. I just want cheap goods, and I don't want to know how come they're cheap."
"I don't support animal cruelty, I just want cheap meat, and I don't want anyone to point out to me why it's cheap."
"I am tolerant of LGBTQ+ people, I just don't wanna see them."
"I don't want disabled people to die, I just expect that they find a job."
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"If it was not down, it would be up", Donald Jong Trumphomeiny Presidente en Actividad del جمهوری اسلامی ایران #FIFA #Peace #Prize Golf-Champion Winner, Best in the History in the Category of the Best in History "MAKE AMERICA OIL AGAIN" #uspolitics #davos #stability #adaptativenormalcy #complacency
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-- Albert Einstein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Complacency #Evil
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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I kind of hate everything about the WEF & to me, PM Carney is a huge disappointment on multiple fronts, BUT I kind of have to admit that this speech is kinda fire & I'm really glad someone pointed out that the emperor is wearing no clothes & nations need to get off their asses & do something about it.
"The power of the less powerful begins with honesty."
#Canada #CanPolitics #compliance #complacency #truth #internationalpolitics #trade #alliances #StrategicAlliances
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Complacency isn't just bad for quality and improving, it can also be deadly. Just because it's always been done that way or no accidents have occurred doesn't make it the best way or a safe workplace. #complacency #safety #quality #workplace #deadly #accidents
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#tl;dr "The #BanalityOfEvil shows how #OrdinaryPeople through #Thoughtlessness and #Complacency become complicit in #UnimaginableCrimes. In #Gaza, this #ComplicityKills — silence and inaction fuel #Genocide." #StopTheGenocide 💚 ✊ 🔥
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“The usual pattern, instead, is one of #market #complacency until the last possible moment. That is, #markets act as if everything is normal until it’s blindingly obvious that it isn’t.” #Trump #Fed paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
Why Aren’t Markets Freaking Ou... -
"Although the changing climate is the biggest problem, the way we react to or ignore the changes could make a bad situation worse, experts said.
Marshall Shepherd, a University of Georgia meteorology professor who previously served as president of the American Meteorological Society, said people tend to base decisions on how they fared during past extreme weather events, including storms that didn’t end up directly affecting them. This leaves them overly optimistic that they’ll also fare well today, even though storms have grown more fierce.
He points to the Texas flooding.
'That is flash flood alley. We know that floods happen in that region all the time. ... I’ve already seen normalcy bias statements by people in the regions saying, well, we get flooding all the time,' Shepherd said, pointing out that the amount of rain that fell in only a few hours last week was anything but normal.
People need to shift how they think about disasters, even if they don’t live in the most disaster-prone locations, said Kim Klockow McClain, an extreme weather social scientist at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research who studies communicating disaster warnings and risk.
'The message needs to be, if you’re used to some degree of nuisance flooding, every so often, look at what happened in Texas and realize that this is a shifting baseline,' she said.
(. . .)
As the weather has grown more extreme, our ability to prepare for and react to it hasn’t kept pace, the scientists said.
'Infrastructure is aging in our country and is more vulnerable given the fact that there are just simply, as a matter of fact, more people living in harm’s way,' Peek said. 'As our population has continued to rise, it’s not only that we have more people in the country, it’s also that we have more people living in particularly hazardous areas like our coastal areas.'
The Trump Administration’s mass layoffs and planned cuts to agencies that study climate and help warn of and deal with disasters — the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Weather Service and research labs at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey — could further worsen the situation, several experts said."
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Creative Problem Solving: from »No, But« to »Yes, And!« 👉 https://CreativeProblemSolving.EU
#Whatis #CreativeProblemSolving? 💡 #CPS is an #innovationmethod focused on generating open-ended ideas to complex problems through imaginative and exploratory thinking.
#Overcoming #Complacency 🚧 Creative problem solving addresses complacency in #business #organisations, pushing teams beyond comfortable routines to actively #innovate. (1/2)
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I was impressed by the number of #American #flags at our #protest
International observers you are entitled to dislike the #flag but domestically we must wrest the #symbol back from #MAGA
#Capitulation and #complacency towards what #bigots falsely claim as theirs is not acceptable
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Today's poem:
Old Houses of Charlottenburg
- by William Grecohttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/785698731228086272/old-houses-of-charlottenburg?source=share
#Berlin #Charlottenburg #house #architecture #surreal #futility #bourgeois #complacency
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https://qz.com/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase-trump-tariffs-wall-street-1851781473
Jamie Dimon says investors are actually being way too chill about tariffs
#JPMorgan #Chase #CEO #JamieDimon #Dimon #market #complacency #trump #tariffs #us #deficits #international #tensions #inflation #economic #collapse #SP500 #earnings #decline #investment #banking #revenue #trade #stocks #markets #equities #bonds #treasuries #yields #rates #interest #debt #creditcards #credit
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More focus on the current genocides would keep our elected leaders from such complacency, and more importantly, such political and economic support for them.
And maybe past ones...#Rwanda was a shit show and we were ringside.
Then there's decades of us eroding #Haiti.
Yeah, we're far from saturated.
People broadly don't know enough about even just these genocides. Let alone the rest.
#cdnpoli #canada #genocide #elbowsup #freepalestine #media #complacency
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Enough #complacency we need just five percent of people to pressure their #lawmakers to take a stand on #impeachment no reason we can't force a vote every day https://citizensimpeachment.com/fiveminuteimpeachment/ #trump #fascism #ComradeKrasnov
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@Ayman how not to despair at the world’s complacency?
> Hospitals, protected under international humanitarian law, have repeatedly been hit by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip
Despite the Guardian at least naming war crimes as what they are, such sentences hide the fact the Israel is consciously targeting the health infrastructure inside the world’s largest concentration camp since day one.
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Public servants, NOT Egyptian gods.
Yet indifference and complacency have allowed the most despicable of daemons to take over every system, every agency, every element designed to govern human society.
#Corruption #Greed #Capitalism #Nepotism #DirtyPoliticians #Society #Indifference #Complacency
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We can't know the future & so many are struggling in this world
Those who help most struggle most
Those who help least struggle least
The #middleclass produces despots by giving of themselves more to support #capitalism & #fascism, than ever to help those in #poverty
There's this state of #apathy & #complacency, built on fear, that keeps lined the pockets of those at upper echelons of #society
Like keeping those in power appeased, that they too aren't left with nothing
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→ Algorithms are breaking how we think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8GuA“[A]n increasing number of people are so used to algorithmically-generated #feeds that they no longer care to have a self-directed #experience that they are in #control of. [I]t feels like large swaths of people have forgotten to exercise their own #agency. That is what I mean by algorithmic #complacency. More and more people don’t seem to know or #care how to view the #world without a #computer #algorithm guiding what they #see.”
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Curiosity may have killed the cat, but complancy and a lack of curiosity killed the democracy.
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Well America is a nation in decline you see… made possible by Trump and the Republican Party… not so MAGA basically.
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‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot | DeepSeek | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/27/tech-shares-asia-europe-fall-china-ai-deepseek
‘Sputnik moment’, eat that Donald J. Trump
