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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 28 points 10 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I have the flipside version of that one:

[-] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago

Ragebait, clickbait and content mill... Its bad man.

[-] cuerdo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

what is content mill, i don't know that one

[-] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

Its not bait but its just articles of walls text of empty content.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Today, tomorrow, every day.

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

This is why I always get my news via casual meme scrolling.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

this 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!

[-] ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 7 points 10 months ago

Nah, 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.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hell 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.

[-] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is the way I do it. I still hear about everything, I just don’t need to seek it out. And I still feel very informed enough to vote.

https://vote.org

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

NO IT ISN'T YOU MORON I HATE YOU!!!!!

/s

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago

Would joy bait be better or worse? 🤔

[-] cuerdo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

it 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

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago
[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

You just have to roll with it sometimes.

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