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> I don’t think you should live without news. Being informed and discussing things happening around us is a natural expectation of community. I suggest find a balanced way to consume some so you can be reasonably well informed.

Except everything is an emergency. Did you hear the latest X said about Y thing? Did you hear what is happening in X-istan? What about the climate?

I don't care about any of it. At the end of the day being more informed about the comings and goings of every atomized point of the world only causes me more existential stress. If I'm being honest I really only care about what happens in my locality, and by extension my state. If it's big enough, maybe I'll care what happens at the country level. But very, very few things rise to meet this and cause me to have a need to burden myself. What Trump, or Biden, or Zelensky, or whoever is in the media circuits today says has literally zero bearing on my life in my community. Sometimes it's best to turn off the brain melting box in the corner of the room.