It shows how little I care about FA journals that my last journal post was literally last year's equivalent to this journal. Last year I wished for 2022 to 'suck less', and you could - maybe - say I got my wish... from a certain point of view.

While there's undeniably a lot of things still going down in the world, it's moved along a bit, from global problems to more regional and localized issues, and 'bad' is not the same bad for everyone like it once was. It's not exactly a good thing, and a little too dangerous to risk complacently ignoring issues because "It's not happening to me." (and as a straight white suburban male, a LOT of things don't happen to me that happen to other people)

But, in a very basic sense, you could say that, for me personally at least, 2022 sucked a little bit less than 2021 and 2020. I'm well aware that is far from a universal thing. For certain individuals or groups, this last year was a step down, a net loss. For others, like those from Ukraine, it's been many many MANY times worse. So, once more, I will ask for the coming year to suck less than 2022 did, and suck less for many more people around the world as well.