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Don’t work weekends. Don’t read the news. Spend time with loved ones. Make art or enjoy art.
by rufius 5y ago
Don’t work weekends. Don’t read the news. Spend time with loved ones. Make art or enjoy art.
- Markoff 5y agobetter advice than whole long article though how should I find out about important news without reading the news? like what are current COVID/travel restrictions etc? it's easier to just check news site once a day than check dozens of gov sites
- unmole 5y agoWhich part of the world are you in where there are Covid restrictions changing on a day to day basis?
- Markoff 5y agoEurope, there were almost weekly changes through the pandemic and you still failed to answer my question where I will find this information without checking the news, I find much easier check daily the news than check them once a week trying to catch up what I missed in whole week looking for some summary, that's not what I would call efficient use of my time
- stefandesu 5y agoI think what they meant was not reading news on the weekend. You will still get updates about those things during the week.
- Markoff 5y agothat would be reasonable but there still can be important news on weekend and it takes literally seconds to skim through headlines
- stefandesu 5y agoIt's less about the time spent and more about the mental impact of reading about all the bad things in the world. For a while, I literally consumed no news at all, but important news still reached me through friends. (Now, I'm back to reading the news almost daily, mostly because of the war and because there are big changes regarding COVID regulations in Germany at the moment.)
- Markoff 5y agothe impact is really up to you and how thick is your skin, whether you are getting angry/scared when reading the news or not news through friends work only if you have many local friends and not friends scattered across the world, so they won't have much useful news for your day to day life and these days I try to avoid small talk about news with local people, because almost everything is way too controversial unless you agree with MSM propaganda
- unmole 5y agoWhat you chose to do not not do on weekends or even weekdays is none of my business. I was just curious about where in the world Covid restrictions were still changing on a day to day basis.
- omgmajk 5y agoI haven't actively read news for over a year and I still manage to get this information, try not reading the news and just check what you need to check. The news comes from sources that you can check instead and if anything big happens it will find you anyways.
- Bancakes 5y agoBe like Haskell and check things on the spot.
- rufius 5y agoMy 2s response is “don’t read the news” doesn’t necessarily mean don’t consult the news ever. Just not worth making a habit IMHO.