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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 TiredOfLife »

joshdavham wrote: post #42

One thing to consider for those of us who are more sensitive to online outrage is to just quit social media all together. I’m technically gen z and I’ve been off of social media (aside from HN, WhatsApp and discord) for years and you wouldn’t believe how great it’s been for my overall state of mind. Reddit, instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, etc are all the equivalent of digital junk food and I’d argu…

In my personal experience from X, Facebook, Reddit and HN: The place with the worst takes, most rage inducing, most filled with conspiracy theories, falsehoods and misinformation is HN.

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Post by esafak »

logifail wrote: post #265

> "No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately. To me personally, it feels unavoidable: I can’t look down at my phone or glance up at a TV without seeing something that makes me upset." Umm no, I've not felt any outrage. Not because I'm particularly satisfied with any recent political events, but because I've stopped consuming daily news from outlets where generating out…

That's the perk of not being in a targeted minority.

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Post by esafak »

nsonha wrote: post #465

Funny this is a thing that people in some country need to work through. Personally, I have to fight the feeling of sadness and guilt every time I read about things going on around me that I should but do not do something to help. For the things that I am powerless against, honestly I have zero emotion, much less outrage.

So if Trump announced some action that would impinge on you, you would have zero emotion? Your stoicism may be a reflection of the fact that you estimate you will not be affected.

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Post by esafak »

_yb2s wrote: post #192
DFHippie wrote: post #114

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> If you're outraged by anything that does not directly impact your life you're doing life wrong. This is a pointless truism. Everything relies on "does not directly impact your life", and there's no useful guidance on that point.

It's not pointless at all- it's the core idea behind Stoic philosophy aka "the dichotomy of control," and has proven very effective at improving people's mental health through modern therapy methods like CBT and ACT. One can still do everything in their power to prepare for, and mitigate things outside their control, while still keeping in mind what is in your control and isn't so you don't become emotionally depende…

You do have influence. How much is up to your ingenuity and effort. You may choose not to exercise it.

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Post by esafak »

jsbg wrote: post #198
breaker-kind wrote: post #178

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First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller the goal of fascist political propaganda is to convince you that you…

> the goal of fascist political propaganda is to convince you that you can't do anything about the state of the world What are you doing about it?

Trying to motivate you?

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Post by wnc3141 »

warkdarrior wrote: post #404
zombiwoof wrote: post #374

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Isn’t this how they win? I mean the people in Germany in 1930 just said , this is crazy , it doesn’t feel right, but hey I have outrage fatigue so the concentration camps are just fine

Much of the German population in the 1930s and 1940s was not aware of concentration camps, and learned of them once the Allies arrived.

They definitely knew something was up. There were active roundups of victims and a staunch public policy of ghettos etc.

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Post by garaetjjte »

Tade0 wrote: post #665
myrmidon wrote: post #634

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Out of curiosity-- does "trumpists" mean PiS? Are the "trumpists" still in power? What is the current trend (toward trumpists or away?). > Get subscription of high value newspaper or magazine. Professionals work there, so you will get real facts, worthy opinions and less emotions. This is excellent advise. I'm worrying that post-paper news have a really strong incentive nowadays to drive outrage, and that the current…

They've lost majority in the 2023 elections. The current president (serving his second term) is a big fan of Trump though.

And current government is running to the right, which IMO is terribly short-sighted strategy.

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Post by mistermann »

majgr wrote: post #780
mistermann wrote: post #755

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When someone is hired into a professional job, is there something in the laws of physics that prevent them from doing wrong?

> When someone is hired into a professional job, is there something in the laws of physics that prevent them from doing wrong? No, but work of journalists is highly visible. Probably, this creates more incentive to write according to rules of the trade. There are examples of journalists who went with ruling regime and got monetary prizes. Some are switching to it now, betting that regime change again and their dedica…

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Post by nosbo »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #608
AznHisoka wrote: post #294

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I wouldn't care a whole lot if someone told me they weren't in IG, FB, Snap, Twitter, etc. However, if someone told me they never bothered with Linkedin, it would be hard for me to resist bowing at their feet.

I know that people here on HN love to dump on LinkedIn. That said, for some industries, it is the primary way to connect with headhunters and future employers. For me, I don't use any of the social aspect. I only post my CV details and wait for headhunters to contact me directly. It works well. Are there any women (in highly developed countries) under 40 who aren't on some form of social media? I never met any. I thi…

I have no idea how. But after I quit social media I managed to convince my wife to give it a go. That was 4 years ago. Has linkedin for work, and goes to a couple of sports related subreddits, but that's it.

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Post by tonetheman »

niceice wrote: post #234
ge96 wrote: post #123

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I quit reddit too recently, I still look at it for info but I'm not logged in/scrolling through it I find myself reaching for something when I have YouTube/chilling at my desk at the end of the day, can't code anymore/make something just on till I sleep. Sometimes have the desire to play a video game (I have a gaming rig too funny how that works) I've been trying to read HN or IEEE, TechCrunch stuff like that as my "…

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…

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