28I have the flipside version of that one:
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Ragebait, clickbait and content mill... Its bad man.
18what is content mill, i don't know that one
1Its not bait but its just articles of walls text of empty content.
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11do you think all news are ragebait?
maybe. anyways, how about starting a channel that focuses solely on data and science?
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Today, tomorrow, every day.
7This is why I always get my news via casual meme scrolling.
7NO IT ISN'T YOU MORON I HATE YOU!!!!!
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3this is so prevalent... and yet a friend told me that he "lost respect" for me because I said I am choosing to abstain from following the news this year.
he acknowledged there's nothing that I could personally do about the vast majority of it, but that I still have a duty to "bear witness". compared it to 1930 Germany and said if he were going down he would want to know about it!
3Nah, fuck all that. I've stopped following most mainstream news and my mental health has improved significantly for it. Having a neverending sense of anxiety and impending doom 24/7 is no way to live, and it seems as if that's exactly the effect that major news outlets are trying to have. It hasn't fixed my anxiety but it's a huge improvement not having it constantly exacerbated day after day.
If you had to take a break from that bullshit to avoid going completely insane, then good on you for taking care of your mental health, and believe me that is not a valid reason for you to be respected less.
7Hell yeah. Likewise to you.
I think as long as we 1) stay skeptical in our understanding of all systems whilst putting in effort at understanding those systems better and 2) act in accordance with our values in the political process, then we will be doing the good that we thought we would be doing if we constantly consumed news media and designed those beliefs/actions according to that influence. Except we're less influenced by that particular force and less demotivated by anxiety and dread.
The big stuff we're probably gonna hear about anyway. I learned that Trump got shot within two hours.
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Would joy bait be better or worse? 🤔
2it does not work, because we operate by the principle of "no news, good news" we are designed to gather information as precaution, to improve our defenses.
However media manipulates this basic instinct towards making us reindeer looking at headlights: all fear, no judgement
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Yeah, fuck the Oasis
1You just have to roll with it sometimes.
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