• Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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    1 year ago

    Highly recommend to do “news breaks”.

    I really feel better since I started avoiding the news. I just read the headlines of some notifications on my phone and it’s enough for me.

    I feel almost as great as when I ditched Facebook a long time ago.

    Makes you realize how heavy the news can be to moral.

    Like the recent headlines about subsidized oil being very much a thing now. This is so very deeply disturbing I just can’t handle it. And I just read the headline I can’t even imagine reading a full article explaining to me that we are getting worse for climate change. We indeed are accelerating toward the cliff.

    Still, I feel still so much more relaxed not watching the news on any kind of video platform.

    Try it.

    • Peter G@discuss.online
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      1 year ago

      While I agree that getting bullied in the news cycle is not healthy, I feel like getting the information about what’s going on around you from memes is also not good. It lacks context and details to enable the user from processing the news with critical thinking. I don’t know what the answer is, but for people who exercise their power of a vote, I feel like they need to be as knowledgeable about the issues as possible.

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      1 year ago

      In can’t agree more. I pretty much eliminated any real in depth reading of any article. Most are just plastered in ads. I see a headline that catches my interest, then I do an actual Google search for more information rather than go to the news page.