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> it’s worse than my addiction to The Guardian. It's not :) Compared to other sites, HN is quite a healthy place. News are anxiogenic, and Twitter is as toxic
by yodsanklai 4y ago
> it’s worse than my addiction to The Guardian.
It's not :) Compared to other sites, HN is quite a healthy place. News are anxiogenic, and Twitter is as toxic as it gets.
Moderation makes a good job of keeping the place sane, and even if it's just reading the headlines and comments, at least we kind of know what's going in the tech world.
- ergonaught 4y agoWasting the one non-renewable resource that we possess (time) is a problem, no matter which comforting delusion we use to justify it.
- Jatidude 4y agoOnly waste if it's defined as such. People get to decide how "bad" spending time doing things is for themselves.
- lexarflash8g 4y agoToo much of our lives are in a reactive state -- responding to events rather than being proactive. Thats a good survival mechanism -- but it causes anxiety by overanalyzing, rather than living in the moment. I think limits and boundaries are important -- but its too easy to let emotions carry us away. Rationality is only one facet of human behavior.