The vast majority of news will never directly impact my life. While I care a lot about people in general, I can’t spend my time worrying about everything. Leaving (major) social media was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
this shit is really 6 and a half years old
Even if so, it aged not only very well, but not at all. Everything in it is current
yes that’s what my comment implied
well, everything except the state of twitter
Fair enough, i guess everyone read it as you bitching about an older comic being posted
My mum to me, when I haven’t heard about some recent event: “where do you get your news, tetris?”
I don’t. I’m often behind on current events, until it bubbles up and spills over into my periphery, and then I go do some reading usually after the hype bubble has burst. It’s great, but lonely.
For a moment I thought your mother was implying you got your news from playing Tetris.
I mean I broke the news about the Israel-Palestine conflict to some dude in an online game. They were very receptive about it.
While we’re reminiscing, I remember learning about the first Russian attacks on Ukraine when I was slinging Ethernet cables at a hospital at 2AM. Drove back the next week to a bunch of Ukrainian flags everywhere. Work must continue I suppose.
I’ve been detoxing from “news media” and this is the dream I strive for. I feel the main pain comes from the news having to be exciting or angering or biased to make a profit. If they didn’t have to play to your emotions I’d bet staying informed would be a lot less stressful.
Why is Obama with that lady?
