“Reading the news is the new smoking” — and the comment section argues about whether quitting is a privilege (experimental-history.com)
The essay marshals the usual evidence — front pages dominated by wrongdoing, readers wildly overestimating violent death, fire-alarm fatigue — to argue daily news is a net negative you should simply drop, swapping it for long-form and local focus.
The thread refuses the clean exit. A reader in Ukraine describes a brain “completely broken” by news he can't look away from; a journalist argues opting out is how democracies rot.
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