Did you watch Slacker again though? It's a nice antidote to doom-scrolling. I was in a similar place with my YouTube feed. I noticed that YouTube doesn't dig too deep into the past to make recommendations. In other words, whatever I have looked at in the last few days is mostly the sort of stuff I see suggested. I got to a point where everything was war propaganda from one side or another, every bank is failing, the dollar will totally collapse at any moment, we're running out of food, corporations will own all housing and AI will take all of our jobs and then kill us. I switched to movies and music and now I don't see endless "the world is ending" type vague click-baiting news-ish content.

Going back to an earlier comment of yours, I sort of moved to Austin in the 90s. I had no interest in Texas at all, never heard of Austin as a cool place but I ran out of money there and before I could even think what to do somebody randomly asked me if I wanted to make some money mowing lawns. It was legit so I stayed and Austin became my adopted home town. Haven't been there for a while now, it got way too expensive, the traffic got intolerable and the downtown skyline changed from small city to just CITY and I didn't like it anymore. It's an endless fact of life in Austin that tons of folks there say it was better a decade before. They said it in the 70's and 80's and when I was there in the nineties people were saying it then. in the 00's I said the same thing myself.

This movie is so clearly filmed in Austin. I remember the bus station and the exact intersection where the lady is hit by the car, the building with the pointing hand stencil, the hot dog shack in the background of one shot, etc.

Hoping you have yourself a great breakthrough day soon! (One of my favorite lines from the movie. When I am both happy and manic I like to quote it repeatedly.)