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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by mixmastamyk on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:49PM (#49216067)
Doomscrolling vs. no-news-at-all is a false dichotomy. There are calm sources of news. And nothing wrong with learning events from others a few days later. What would you have done with the Biden news?
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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by bee_rider on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:25PM (#49216417)
No-news-at-all was the suggestion in the post they responded to. It seems like a detox type idea (it doesn’t seem sustainable).

I think you are right that there’s some middle ground between 0 and doomscrolling that is preferable, though.

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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by base698 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @08:56AM (#49221442)
I saw this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

here on HN in 2013. I'd read "Amusing Ourselves to Death" so it particularly resonated with me at the time. I've watched the world get even more sucked in each passing year.

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