Turns out if you cut yourself off from reading anything even tangentially related to US politics - cancel the subscriptions, delete the apps, delete the RSS feeds, skip the posts from non-news sites that so much as touch on US politics - you spend much, much less time on the internet. It’s almost as though the entire morally bankrupt modern journalism machine is engineered to make you hit that bar like a cocaine-addled lab rat for another dose of that sweet, sweet outrage. Fuck that, I’m out.
@tcn33 I've read two entire books in the last week, just because I'm not spending any time online now.
@tcn33 instead of giving myself existential dread every night reading all this shit, I’ve checked out and started playing all the video games on my pile of shame. Time way better spent 👾