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Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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Re: Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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Post by tacticalturtle »

nmfisher wrote: post #446
tacticalturtle wrote: post #424

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The wave of X bans was so frustrating. Particularly for sports subreddits where that’s where all of the breaking news and team announcements happen. In fact NFL teams are specifically banned from having bluesky accounts as an official media channel, and r/nfl still banned X/Twitter. sigh

Why are NFL teams banned from having an official account on Bluesky?

It’s not an “approved social media site”:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/new...

Presumably there’s some money that needs to change hands between the NFL and a social media site.

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Post by hnfong »

vaccineai wrote: post #481
dralley wrote: post #153

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>It should be clear as day to anyone that is unbiased that fixing the US/Mexican border was ridiculously easy (it's essentially been done in 2 weeks and they didn't even have to finish building their stupid wall). The only reason it didn't happen till now was precisely because the whole thing is broken and not really an expression of the peoples' will. Fixing the border happened 8 months ago. Nothing meaningful has c…

> Nothing meaningful has changed at the border since June 2024 That's a big lie. border encounters dropped 60-90% since 1/20. https://newsfactsnetwork.com/fact-check/fact-vs-fiction-did-...

I don't know what you want to claim by the link, it literally says "Unverified – No official CBP data has been released to confirm Trump’s claim."

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Post by niceice »

input_sh wrote: post #273
niceice wrote: post #234

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I checked reddit recently for the first time in a while, and I was shocked by how radicalized its become. An echo chamber of hateful people and perhaps GPTs that are agitating the big subreddits. The contrast is stark with all the "no place for hate" in the rules and endless banning of microaggressions. I saw dozens of death threats. Even an explicit death threat thread with over 40,000 upvotes before reddit stepped…

That particular subreddit isn't shut down, it was temporarily suspended as the moderators simply got overwhelmed. There's no indication of bad faith from either the mod team nor the reddit admins, the floodgate was just too much for them to handle. It pretty much says so in the ban message, admins are gonna help them take back control and it will be up within a couple of days.

To be even more precise, here's the message from the source;

> This community has been banned

> This subreddit has been temporarily banned due to a prevalence of violent content. Inciting and glorifying violence or doxing are against Reddit’s platform-wide Rules. It will reopen in 72 hours, during which Reddit will support moderators and provide resources to keep Reddit a healthy place for discussion and debate.

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Post by vaccineai »

hnfong wrote: post #502
vaccineai wrote: post #481

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> Nothing meaningful has changed at the border since June 2024 That's a big lie. border encounters dropped 60-90% since 1/20. https://newsfactsnetwork.com/fact-check/fact-vs-fiction-did-...

I don't know what you want to claim by the link, it literally says "Unverified – No official CBP data has been released to confirm Trump’s claim."

Look further

Data obtained by fox news suggested that migrant arrivals at the southern border declined by 60% in the first week of Trump’s presidency compared to the last week of Biden’s administration. However, this figure differs from Trump’s 93% claim.

That's why I said 60-90%

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Post by scelerat »

genewitch wrote: post #373
scelerat wrote: post #363

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Examples, please. If you are trans, you were just de-personed by executive order and your passport was invalidated. If you also happened to be an incarcerated female, you are being transferred to male facilities. These are actions which will have life-altering consequences. That's only one thing among many others (ICE immigrant raids which also sweep up legal immigrants and citizens who don't "look American") just in…

so things that affect less than 1% in the former and less than 0.01% in the latter, of the population, that's what we're basing "large pain" on? I'm not entirely sure you want to play this game. edit: and vis a vis the USAID thing the former president of Kenya summed it up "Why you are crying? you don't pay american taxes! we need to take care of ourselves!" https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/us-aid-suspension-wa…

I’m more curious about what you think the “large pain” the previous administration was inflicting on people than learning about your indifference to minorities

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Post by JKCalhoun »

ge96 wrote: post #393
dbtc wrote: post #252

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My suggestion: music! Give the eyes a break.

I have music/noise on all the time, rarely in silence. I play the same playlist/song over and over when focusing. Unfortunately working in an open office it sucks people having conversions (to each other or to computer)

If I don't have music playing, a song will play in my head. Over and over....

I'm always growing my "playlist" though. One room of the house is where I auditioning new music. Another room plays my entire music catalog on shuffle.

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Post by purple-leafy »

Spooky23 wrote: post #500
purple-leafy wrote: post #496

I gave up social media for this reason. EVERYTHING is so politicised and agenda-centric on all platforms and news sites. It was effecting me really badly, to the point that I made the decision to leave the room when the news is playing, switch to a dumb phone, switch to an mp3 player, and get rid of all social media including reddit. So I don’t use a smartphone, and don’t carry it with me day-day. On my laptop I even…

I did the same thing but brought back Facebook and Instagram. The controls are great if you spend time filtering — I actually enjoy both now. If you want to stay informed. Apple News. Same deal, filter away. Ditch The NY Times and pick a few newspapers domestic and international. You’ll get news without the bullshit:

I don’t want to stay informed though. What’s the point? You can’t really do anything about events in life anyway outside your own family and yourself. You can only react. So I just don’t stay informed anymore. Ignorance is bliss

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Post by ge96 »

youainti wrote: post #463
ge96 wrote: post #127

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haha yeah that's where you inject custom CSS on the page to hide thumbnails, come to YouTube to see something? no thumbnails to distract your original intent

do you have a link to instructions on how to do that? It sounds really nice.

by chrome extension, chrome extensions are pretty straight forward to build but yeah, you just inject a CSS file that hides what you want

you don't have to release the extension, you just load it unpackaged by developer mode in the extensions settings

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Post by JKCalhoun »

awfulneutral wrote: post #205
boringg wrote: post #171

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User groups you would be interested in get hijacked by whatever the overall sentiment of Reddit is. Threads that aren't political suddenly get political for no reason. It's completely dead in there - content quality is brutally low.

I just bookmark subreddits for things I'm interested in, and visit them individually. I hardly ever see any political content doing that.

r/localllama, r/bambulabs ... Politics has a way of creeping in.

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Post by ge96 »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #506
ge96 wrote: post #393

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I have music/noise on all the time, rarely in silence. I play the same playlist/song over and over when focusing. Unfortunately working in an open office it sucks people having conversions (to each other or to computer)

If I don't have music playing, a song will play in my head. Over and over.... I'm always growing my "playlist" though. One room of the house is where I auditioning new music. Another room plays my entire music catalog on shuffle.

I feel that, can't play something new if trying to focus, but if doing chores/physical task can do new music passively in the background
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