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Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

appplication wrote: post #22
metabagel wrote: post #12

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This is close to correct. We should be aware of current events but not become too emotionally involved with them. They are mostly outside of our control, and we need to reserve most of our focus and emotional energy on what is front of us and our loved ones. However, we should still act on behalf of greater causes with the means at our disposal. Some examples... world in crisis - I donate to World Central Kitchen the…

I was recently massively downvoted on Reddit because I mentioned I didn’t really care about candidates stances either way on Israel/Palestine as it regards to a city-level election. I certainly have opinions and understand why folks have principles either way, but we can’t make every issue the issue we spend our energy on, and this doesn’t meet the bar for me for a city official. Sometimes online and election media d…

If I lived in 1930 I would definitely care about a city candidate's stances on Germany/Judaism. Even though that candidate couldn't do anything to affect the Germany/Judaism situation, it would still tell me a lot about that candidate.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

bonesss wrote: post #81
ViscountPenguin wrote: post #52

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Israel Palestine single-voterism is particularly frustrating to me because of the weird way it has to infect completely irrelevant topics. As a particularly crazy example, I remember people arguing about Israel Palestine in the context of the Australian Aboriginal Voice to Parliament debate, a debate about an internal representation mechanism for Australian Aboriginal people, incredibly few of which have any ties to…

That’s a feature, not a bug. Historically that tactic is used by ‘revolutionary’ and ‘liberation’ and reactionary groups to overwhelm and exclude honest debate. It’s a destabilization technique, aimed at gathering critical mass for revolt with no clear second phase. Occupy, overthrow, liberate, replace… Taken at face value, honest protest, it’s a hate crime against the victims and participants in the actual situation…

> Flotillas without aide aren't aide.

Is this referring to the flotilla full of food sailing towards Gaza that was invaded and kidnapped by Israeli pirates inside the national waters of Greece?

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

qsera wrote: post #31
metabagel wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is close to correct. We should be aware of current events but not become too emotionally involved with them. They are mostly outside of our control, and we need to reserve most of our focus and emotional energy on what is front of us and our loved ones. However, we should still act on behalf of greater causes with the means at our disposal. Some examples... world in crisis - I donate to World Central Kitchen the…

>We should be aware of current events I have come to the conclusion that there is no way a layman understand the truth about current events. So it is best to not at all be aware of any current events as reported by the media or popular opinion. For example you say "fascism in America", and I wonder is this guy for real? Fascism? If this was true how are all the people who insult Trump on social media still alive or n…

Did you know Hitler was the president of Germany for about ten years before he started the holocaust?

Was he a fascist during that time?

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

qsera wrote: post #57
cocacola1 wrote: post #47

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If there’s no way to know the truth, how do you know you’ve come to the right conclusion?

What conclusion? I am talking about not having any conclusions at all.

You concluded that America is not fascist.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by PaulKeeble »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #4

I only read local news. It’s pretty nice I don’t feel stressed at all. Turns out random shit far away has no significant effect on my life. And even if it did it’s not like I can do anything about it

I wish my local news wasn't mostly filled with people going missing and fires but at least balanced it with "this new restaurant just opened". If anything my local news is more fear driven than the national news.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #4

I only read local news. It’s pretty nice I don’t feel stressed at all. Turns out random shit far away has no significant effect on my life. And even if it did it’s not like I can do anything about it

You're here on Hacker News too though.

If there's a way to find happiness without social media, unfortunately, it won't be posted on social media.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by inigyou »

altmanaltman wrote: post #127
standeven wrote: post #6

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The closing of Hormuz caused fuel prices to go up around the globe. Voting differently in the US could have prevented it. So yeah, random shit far away can have significant effects, and sometimes you can do things about it. That said, focusing on local news does sounds like a great approach, but international news still needs some attention.

I don't think most Americans even knew what the strait of hormouz was, expecting them to vote differently based on that last November is wild. Trump constantly ran as the "no more wars" president and people fell for it. At that point, the blame is just for believing in that he was not lying. But strait of hormouz was a non topic for almost the entire world before the war.

November 2024 nobody could have reasonably predicted that the strait of Hormuz would be closed in February 2026 because Trump would declare war on Iran.

But they could have seen he was a fool and predicted that putting a fool in charge of the presidency would make something bad happen.

Last year we had stupid tariff wars, now we have stupid actual wars and a screw worm infestation. Who knows what's next? I don't, but I can predict it will be stupid.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by joe_mamba »

inigyou wrote: post #185
retired wrote: post #116

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For The Netherlands you are really constricted to the city you live in if you don’t own a car. You can forget about going to a concert, a birthday party or catching an early flight without one. Or if you want to do anything fun on a Sunday in the east. Most people I know have a social life or do sports that require a car. If your children play football you really need a car. Last time I used a taxi in The Netherlands…

Doesn't everyone bike everywhere in the Netherlands?

He obviously was talking about long distance trips, not just daily grocery shopping to the nearest supermarket.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Post by tremon »

retired wrote: post #116
IneffablePigeon wrote: post #112

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There are many places in the world this is not true. I would say about half the people I know who live in London don’t own a car. They travel plenty - probably more than the people I know who don’t live in London. If they really need a car once they get to their destination they will rent one, or use taxis.

For The Netherlands you are really constricted to the city you live in if you don’t own a car. You can forget about going to a concert, a birthday party or catching an early flight without one. Or if you want to do anything fun on a Sunday in the east. Most people I know have a social life or do sports that require a car. If your children play football you really need a car. Last time I used a taxi in The Netherlands…

You can forget about going to a concert [..] or catching an early flight without one

Those are really bad examples. Quite a lot of venues are easier to reach by public transport than by car, e.g. Carré, Luxor, Tivoli, Diligentia, Vera; even Pinkpop provides a dedicated shuttle service. And Schiphol has 24h train service, nobody cycles to the airport unless they work there.

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