yeah it can be irritating to sift bullshit no matter where you are looking

coworker is encouraging me to take a sabattical from current events for a period of time to cleanse my soul or whatever. haven't done it in forever. not sure if ever. you guys have experience with that at all? how's it gone?

I tuned out of current events from roughly the Paris terror attacks to that spooky clip of Hillary Clinton fainting in public and them bringing out an obvious double afterwards.

I don't follow current events

I let them filter down to me

if you're going to take a sabbatical, do it from pretty much all media I would say

and not just current events

I quite enjoyed my time.

she didn't faint

she locked up

she was propped up like a plank, completely rigid

but she would have been conscious

Locked up? I wish. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

heh

But I get what you mean.

she has Parkinson's or a related condition

the coverup of that alone should prove to people how fucked up the media, the state, everything is

I'm hoping this whole Trump/Russia episode will make the US "deep state" more apparent to ordinary people

I was watching a video on Alex Jones' (?) YouTube channel of some TV presenter lackey engaging in some hardcore apologism for why it was not a big deal that she fainted.

yeah he originally said all media

just focus on work and maybe old music or something, ambient music.

Unfortunately Tumblr, Facebook, etc. will filter news down to you.

Especially Tumblr...

Do not use social media platforms that have wide purchase regularly

Even specifically themed blogs sometimes get political on rare occasions.

I suggest not doing it at all

don't use facebook, don't use twitter

don't use gab

not just a sabbatical, forever

https://youtu.be/JLYouBqJm3g?t=280

Hah, I found the apologism.

yeah i wouldn't use social media. i already don't have facebok for years now.

I need to get rid of my Facebook. Force my friends to get Discord 😄

there is nothing you need to know on time

facebook purely for maintaining a close circle of relations is fine

i cheat though cuz the wife is on it

I don't use it for that either

but I could

or say if you "need" to do it for work related reasons

i'm gonna start with 1 day and take it from there

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/159264981001/the-syrian-gas-attack-persuasion

especially with Trump fucking with my head on this Syria nonsense i feel like retreating.