It’s a balance. Someone brought up the pacific garbage patch. Nitpicking about the existence of the other garbage patches does not detract from the fact that one is being cleaned. Hurrah. However, if the clean up efforts were simultaneously releasing sea-life killing chemicals into the water, then yes that might be something worth bringing up. Understanding what is actually context for any given issue is great. Fluff news in the vein of !orphancrushing@lemmy.world are deservedly picked on. Legitimately good news don’t need the have shadows cast on them from issues that aren’t relevant. And even if something is somewhat relevant (like the existence of other garbage patches) one can frame it in a way that isn’t shitting on the first bit of good news. Like “oh, great, I’m glad to hear this garbage patch is getting cleaned, hope this success inspires efforts to clean up the others too” as opposed to “who cares, there’s more”.

There are these bell curve people who have surface scratch information about a million things because they spend so much time online, yet they lack the wisdom to know how and when to connect bits of information together.

Ah. This makes me feel very validated after observing some really questionable takes and obvious mod bias on their Ask Lemmy.

Real cork caps? You damn bet that I’ll keep those bad boys.