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Hi from Marrickville - the plane silence has been glorious. My 72 year old mother has noticed that her neighbours are starting to talk to her, people she's see

Hi from Marrickville - the plane silence has been glorious. My 72 year old mother has noticed that her neighbours are starting to talk to her, people she's seen everyday for years but who have never engaged her are waving when she's out walking her dogs in the morning (while keeping her distance from others). She's also had notes through the door from people letting her know that they can help if she needs errands ran or if she just wants someone to talk to. Amazing to hear.

NoOneNew 7y ago
I've been seeing this to different degrees too. It's nice to know that to some level, "society" doesn't absolutely collapse into chaos from "inconveniences". I just think it's messed up that the chaos is what makes the news (at least in America) and is what we imagine is constantly happening, when it's not the norm. There's more good going on than what we're led to believe. While my faith in big media was already in the trash before covid19... at this point, if someone put forth that all news should be banned... yea sure. Obviously impractical and childish of a viewpoint. Maybe a limit to how big a news group can be? I don't know. I just know that the fear mongering practices of news sources has to come to an end fast and hard. Before, it was an eye-roll "whatever" response from me. Now, due to the covid19 reaction from the big news sources on both sides of their political leanings, I'm sick of their crap. None of them have done a good job of helping the general public and just want to focus on all the negative, spinning it to "See, the other political side made it worse!".
- mrfusion 7y ago
  Good points. Any ideas how to fix it?
  - NoOneNew 7y ago
    I don't know. I'm not qualified for that kind of decision making. What kind of impact would it have if you limit the size of a news agency? Would it actually be good or bad in the long run? If you put restrictions of language, topic and angle, where will the slippery slop end? How can all that be abused? What does that muzzle that shouldn't be muzzled? Maybe, at the end of the day, it has to be people who fight back. Kind of like how you have the political fact checks. What if there were organizations that did the same about the journalistic integrity of news agencies and calls them out on it? I just think the calling out portion needs to be hardcore and not pussyfoot around it. A lot of the political fact checking always seems so quiet finger waving. If a plumber screws up the install job of a home's system and floods out the house, there's no light finger waving. A politician making bad policy due to bad logic and a news agency scaring the shit out of the public is further widespread and can cause lots of indirect havoc. Makes me better appreciate the Yakuza idea of collecting fingers for mistakes. People don't fuck off as much after they lose a finger.
quickthrower2 7y ago
Lane cove here. It’s great but I might need to set a 6am alarm clock now as I relied on the planes to wake me up
- quickthrower2 7y ago
  Seems to be a lot more air traffic today. Maybe they want to unflatten the curve a bit before flattening it again.
TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
I'm in Launceston, Tasmania. Moved here ~6 years ago. Outside of the peak season, it blows my mind that I can go to a place in nature here and be the only people there. I often walk or jog around my suburb, and down through the walking track in the valley near my house, and ya lucky to even see another person outside. Will be interesting to see how / if any of this changes in the coming weeks.

NoOneNew 7y ago

I've been seeing this to different degrees too. It's nice to know that to some level, "society" doesn't absolutely collapse into chaos from "inconveniences". I just think it's messed up that the chaos is what makes the news (at least in America) and is what we imagine is constantly happening, when it's not the norm. There's more good going on than what we're led to believe. While my faith in big media was already in the trash before covid19... at this point, if someone put forth that all news should be banned... yea sure. Obviously impractical and childish of a viewpoint. Maybe a limit to how big a news group can be? I don't know. I just know that the fear mongering practices of news sources has to come to an end fast and hard. Before, it was an eye-roll "whatever" response from me. Now, due to the covid19 reaction from the big news sources on both sides of their political leanings, I'm sick of their crap. None of them have done a good job of helping the general public and just want to focus on all the negative, spinning it to "See, the other political side made it worse!".

mrfusion 7y ago
Good points. Any ideas how to fix it?
- NoOneNew 7y ago
  I don't know. I'm not qualified for that kind of decision making. What kind of impact would it have if you limit the size of a news agency? Would it actually be good or bad in the long run? If you put restrictions of language, topic and angle, where will the slippery slop end? How can all that be abused? What does that muzzle that shouldn't be muzzled? Maybe, at the end of the day, it has to be people who fight back. Kind of like how you have the political fact checks. What if there were organizations that did the same about the journalistic integrity of news agencies and calls them out on it? I just think the calling out portion needs to be hardcore and not pussyfoot around it. A lot of the political fact checking always seems so quiet finger waving. If a plumber screws up the install job of a home's system and floods out the house, there's no light finger waving. A politician making bad policy due to bad logic and a news agency scaring the shit out of the public is further widespread and can cause lots of indirect havoc. Makes me better appreciate the Yakuza idea of collecting fingers for mistakes. People don't fuck off as much after they lose a finger.

quickthrower2 7y ago

Lane cove here. It’s great but I might need to set a 6am alarm clock now as I relied on the planes to wake me up

quickthrower2 7y ago
Seems to be a lot more air traffic today. Maybe they want to unflatten the curve a bit before flattening it again.

TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago

I'm in Launceston, Tasmania. Moved here ~6 years ago. Outside of the peak season, it blows my mind that I can go to a place in nature here and be the only people there. I often walk or jog around my suburb, and down through the walking track in the valley near my house, and ya lucky to even see another person outside. Will be interesting to see how / if any of this changes in the coming weeks.