• MNByChoice
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    15 days ago

    I used to think following the news would help me be prepared. It mostly has not.

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        15 days ago

        Don’t forget that framing things in ways that maximizes emotional response (fear, anger) increases views, which increases ad views, and directly contributes to their bottom line. They have direct incentive to increase anxiety and worry, so everything is couched in scary hypotheticals of varying often undisclosed amounts of credibility.

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        15 days ago

        This is the primary reason I stopped consumimg news that doesn’t directly relate to my interests. Eliminating news and advertisement from my life is the most liberating thing I’ve evr done.

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      15 days ago

      Occasionally I check the news, maybe once per month or two, just to see if the world is still on fire.

      Most of the time it is. Fair enough I guess.

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        14 days ago

        May 16th 2011… Pretty sure this is an April fools joke, and like everything in government it was a month and a half late.

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          Yeah. It’s a joke publicity stunt.

          But it’s also useful - the preparations given for zombie apocalypse are actually pragmatic preparations that can help during severe weather, supply chain disruption, pandemic, etc.

          I like to share the zombie article, in particular, because, while it’s silly, the advice in it is reasonable and useful to almost anyone.