I completely get you. It's a very strange feeling, and I can't imagine what that must've been like for people during WW2. Maybe you were in one of those few regions of Europe where there wasn't any fighting and you're just going to work like normal except the newspapers talk about this apocalyptic meatgrinder happening barely a few hundred miles from you.

I felt like absolute shit in the opening salvos of the George Floyd uprising in late May/early June. Literally couldn't sleep, eat or do anything except doomscroll powerlessly for hours on end feeling sick with worry. I don't want this to get any worse than it already is, but we all know how that works, don't we?

Last time I felt this way was when I had to text my boss, “hey gonna be a couple min late, roads closed due to school shooting down the street”

I use the word like dissociate.

Dissociation (psychology)

Dissociation (psychology), an experience of having one's attention and emotions detached from the environment

yeah, we've managed to hit the most boring kind of apocalypse where everything's going to shit within a century but we also have to go to work

Does any one else feel extremely depersonalized when shit like this happens and you’re just going to work where the mood is just “everything is fine get back to work”?

Yes.

That said, if you don't live in Ukraine (and for many, even if they do), then, realistically, everything is actually "fine" (i.e. at least no worse than yesterday).

The only material impact this will have on your day to day life is higher gas prices for a while.

it just doesnt feel real because its too stupid to be real. nation state territorial dispute in 20 fucking 22 when anyone who has done enough thinking to make it to this website is acutely aware that modelling society on the basis of competing nation states can only spell planetary suicide

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Yeah I get what you mean. I’m gonna be at work today doing the same shit. People might be like, “y’all here bout Russia and Ukraine” but mostly nothing.

Yes