I'm dipping in an out of complete darkness and have been for a while. I rather like it! I find that news mostly serve to increase my stress levels, and most of

I'm dipping in an out of complete darkness and have been for a while. I rather like it! I find that news mostly serve to increase my stress levels, and most of the things I read about are stuff that I am completely helpless towards (like current war in Ukraine). I find ignorance really is bliss, however there are drawbacks. I usually hear about big stuff from friends talking about them, so I have yet to miss an election for example, but I have on multiple occasions found myself on election day not knowing who is even running. I have on those occasions asked a trusted friend who to vote for as there simply wasn't enough time to read up on all the politicians running. I guess I come across as a bit clueless at times, but it's usually when the topic of conversation is centered around either celebrities of some sort, or recent politics. I find I'm not actually very interested in those topics anyway so I'm ok with being clueless there. Whenever I do come out of complete darkness I usually stick to tech focused sites, like HN and arstechnica, as I find they usually have less stressful content than "regular" news sources.