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Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by rpastuszak on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:34AM (#42949944)
Easier said than done. Bear in mind that the way information is served is meant to trigger strong emotional responses, skip the prefrontal cortex and tickle your amygdala. You can limit how much it impacts you, say, through reducing exposure, but you can't reason your way out of it.

(this is a response to the comment, not the article)

Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed by gergo_b on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:01AM (#43069024)
You cannot logic someone out of something they didn't logic themselves into. 90% of what we feel is primal in-group survival.