The pocket argument wouldn’t convince me.
But it plays porn you say?
Imagine if Obama wasn’t a disappointment, the movement we thought he was bringing was real, and trump never got elected and instead got laughed out of every room he gave a speech in. Some of us might still be mistakable for the guy in the top panel.
My previous phone unexpectedly became a brick, that I haphazardly tried to reanimate and probably made whole situation worse.
On a new one I proceeded to not install most of doomscrolling apps I used, and my main source of news now are my 70+ y.o. colleagues. Quality of life significantly improved, zero regrets.
I also want to have the privilege of ignoring the news, and everything will be fine.
Except while I do that, some people actively make our life worse. I still experience the consequences, just much later and firsthand.
Sounds nice, except for this part:
my main source of news now are my 70+ y.o. colleagues
Since people their age will generally tend to get their news from Faux News and/or the worst parts of Facebook…
Stderrnia
…you alright?
My bad. I must have nodded off on the keyboard.
I’ve decided to shake up my news gathering, and will now only take on board what my 75yo mother in law has read on Facebook.
What could go wrong?
All that stuff is still happening whether you see it on your “nightmare rectangle” or not. Sticking your head in the sand doesn’t make the nightmare end
But what are you going to do about it right at this moment? Presumably if you’re like me you already know who you’re going to vote for, or at least certainly who you’re not voting for. Anything major will pop up in some feed somewhere so you don’t have to listen to whatever dumb shit Trump said on Tuesday.
I get a daily digest from NPR and that’s enough. A 15 minute browse then I’m done with the “news” for the day.
Yeah but what good’s all this tech for if you can’t reduce your own mental state by force feeding yourself doom
What can you personally do about what’s going on in Gaza? Can you personally assist the people who died in the flooding in Nepal?
If the answer to those questions is ‘no’, then what value is there in actively sticking your face into the biting nest of news all day long?
We didn’t evolve to be able to tolerate that. At best, we’re able to comprehend the struggles of maybe 100 people around us. Not the entire planet’s worth of hardship.
It’s absolutely insane how many oled screens have TikToc burn in. The amount of hours just on that screen has to be absolutely astronomical.
you should get rid of all short form content from your life.
Penis joke
