Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words

CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s unfair. I read The Guardian and the Australian Broadcasting Channel every day, and routinely check the Wikipedia Current Events page. I am up to date with the news. But I don’t come to Lemmy to get even more news about the fascist US, and their effects on the world.

  Being surrounded by it all day affects my headspace, and I’m aware of that. It’s not weakness that I protect myself.

  Now kindly fuck off.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So why not just not subscribe to news focused (especially US news focused) communities?

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    • zen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I primarily browse through All, that’s why. Otherwise that would be a pretty good suggestion.

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because it’s easier just to toggle on the keywords US, Trump, ICE and take a break for a few days.

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not “bad news”, it’s “negative noise”. Most of the time, reading about any singular instance or event does not actually inform people outside of the US.

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is a ridiculous take in my opinion.

    I guess if we are following the logic then we should also not study history as it generates a lot of negative noise.

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    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a ridiculous take that the political minutiae of the US is largely meaningless to people outside the US?

      Look, it’s enough for me to know that the USA has made a thinly veiled threat about forcibly taking over Greenland. This is of immediate concern to me.

      I don’t need to know the details of what the American version of Göring said in defence of the American version of the Gestapo this week.

      We have our own domestic nonsense that I’m sure you don’t get inundated with - why would it be so ridiculous for us not to want to get bombarded with yours?

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      • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Have fun with that opinion.

        I actually enjoy learning about what is happening around the world. No matter if it is a genocide, an obviously evil new law to strip away peoples freedoms, or new aide packages being sent to places that need it from countries a lot less wealthy than the USA.

        If anything, I hope the world learns from the fall of America. Although, mostly I’m excited about finally being able to use the metric system.

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• middlemanSI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good tip right here

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• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The art of not giving a fuck, which humanity has known for millennia, is pretty effective.

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