Off-Topic@Heyuri

I try to isolate myself from current news/happenings etc as much as possible to indulge in my hobbies. It's getting harder recently, but I'm trying my best

i get my news from memes

for the longest time it used to be /pol/ back when it wasn't so shit, then for quite sometime it was kiwifarms. now it's some local news publication, not really worth it, there's absolutely noting to be gain from being on top of the news...

i get my news from heyuri.net

I just look up the headlines and glean information from that alone. If I'm really curious or need elaboration, then I click on a few articles and skim through them to get the jist. Yes, I'm aware that that can lead to misinformation, but I read news with the assumption that everyone is a liar and is out to push some sort of agenda in one direction or the other. Even historical stuff can be politically relevant today, and therefore subject to revisionism, however small or big that could be. Of course, there is a limit to how much they can lie. So if one piece of information is consistent across all of them, then that's enough for me to understand the basic context.

That said, I don't look up news every day, just so every so often to get a general idea of what's happening. I even had isolated myself from it entirely a year ago like 131198-san has.

I just set up a small rss feed for random finance and economic news where I only glance at the headlines Unless it sounds interesting I don't bother opening the article to read it since I just use it to get a sense of what the current trend or main narrative is.

>>131196
4chan /pol/

I wasted almost all of my 20's getting riled up by things that won't impact me, or that I'll never do anything about even if they do. Any thirst for this superfluous knowledge I had is mercifully extinguished. I actively do not read news as it will not benefit me in any way. It's already made me a better friend and calmed me down.

public service, i trust their reportings more than any other global source.

>>131196
Local newspaper in the grocery or corner store. Read books on stuff you want more background on. That's how we are meant to consume news. Social media makes you insane.

every news source is just propaganda. there's no point in reading it and it's best that you don't. you'll naturally find out anything that you actually need to know just by living.

I know many Poles are on Heyuri - I recommend Dwie Lewe Ręce regardless of your political stance.

>>131315
Alright i'll trust you, i'll give it a try later and say if i liked it or not

>>131328
he's smart, but not that smart. Just like me. I would do that & get caught.

>>131196
I'm subscribed to three papers: A local one, the financial times (japanese), and the WSJ (American). I also pick up severeal of the free papers around my area since they print so goddamned many of them. For online news, I expect that in my few interactions over the Internet, I'll get news relevant to my interest and will decide if I want to look further after that initial "discovery". The whole system has worked out well so far
>>131255
There are a lot of levels between local papers and social media, just to let you know :^). Local papers tend to be pretty biased towards your local politicks/the editor's choice since there's not much review for the quality or diversity of articles and, at least relatively so, any Tom, Dick, or Nancy can send in an article stating their non-critical opinions.

all my news is shit said in passing on imageboards or YouTube being like "plane crashed in ___ yesterday" instead of showing me the usual

I effectively live under a rock, and I'm fine with that.

i think developing the skill of noticing what a particular news agency or article is trying to project onto you is more useful than anything.

So much of it, is an attempt to control your mind via framing the information in ways that make you have a specific opinion about the news. The news information may be correct, but they present it to you in a way that makes you come to totally different, sometimes unstable conclusions. Avoiding that is incredibly important.

If you get good at noticing "What are they trying to get me to think about this?" or "Who benefits from making me think about this topic in this way" you are inoculating yourself from a lot of what is ruining societies right now.

A lot of that is just reading comprehension...

>>131347
I've been told that before simply because I'm not as hooked up to the news cycle or any other trends as most everyone else. As long as you can process the information given in a conversation and relate it to a bigger/historical concept then you get a pass for being "stuck in the past"

>>131339
the financial Times is british it just belongs to a Japanese company