What is real now daze?

Paco Dennis

Paco Dennis

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This is a short vid showing a very frustrated woman who is having a very hard time finding out what is happening in the world. Most all of us are feeling this to some degree. I am spending about 5 hours or more going outside and getting involved in my surroundings than thinking about "world" events. It is fun and I seem to stabilize much easier. :)

 
Add to that "information overload - big time" - on the news of course but on the internet every time we engage - learn this password then another one etc etc - in the fast modern world of technology and our engagement with all that encompasses we are overloading our brains - requiring them to take in and remember too much information each and every day. Tv; Radio ; Internet and add on the rest? where we really designed to cope with all of this?
 
Good for you @Paco Dennis , you making me smile. :)
I have watched some wonderful personalities who can't step away turn into people I hardly recognize.
My neighbor and I have totally different beliefs on many things, we simply don't engage in those topics.
There is so much in life to admire and be happy for.
I have no idea how much time I have left and I am not going to spend it defending myself to remain myself.
Enjoy our world, there is really so much more to be amazed in a good way about. I knew today was going to be
a good day, you just added to it! Thank you! btw, I didn't watch the video, I already know when to step away.
 
Paco Dennis said:
This is a short vid showing a very frustrated woman who is having a very hard time finding out what is happening in the world. Most all of us are feeling this to some degree. I am spending about 5 hours or more going outside and getting involved in my surroundings than thinking about "world" events. It is fun and I seem to stabilize much easier. :)

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:) Sorry, she's a hysteric, a karen, a diva, a performer --just my opinion.
 
I don't watch YouTube videos about current events unless they're from a reputable news source. Too many of them are just click-bait, and now with AI generated videos, you don't even know if the people in them are real. I saw an ad the other day that I'm pretty sure all the people in it were AI generated.

That's where we're heading. Pundits are going to be AI generated, and current events are going to be staged using AI imagery and people. Real actors are going to become obsolete before too long.
 
Current news is just crap. It's either the many wars out there, what the man in the orange cap said right now or who won the football/hockey game. For real news I read the local newspaper. My iphone 12 is just full of terrible advertising and rather stupid headings that start with "And she came home and this happened........" They just want you to click on the story and I refuse to do it.

I used to watch a lot of news but today I just skip over the headings on a few sites. AI cannot be trusted.

Tonight I'm watching "The High Chaparral," Season Two. It makes more sense than current news.
 
Aunt Bea said:
Tune out, turn off, drop out! Should be the new catchphrase.

When I shut off all of the screens I get more done in a quiet calmer environment,

Sadly, I have definitely become an instant information junkie addicted to the search engine/social media world of news, shopping, connection, learning…

Thank you, Al Gore! 😉🤭😂
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StarSong said:
I have almost completely disengaged with the news for exactly the reason this woman described. Thanks, @Paco Dennis.
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same here. plus the majority of it is negative or they show stuff i can't bear to see so i rarely look at a newspaper anymore. i don't watch any local news at all. i am much calmer for it.
 
Jules said:
When I hear reasonably intelligent people saying they go to TicTock for their news, I just take a deep breath.
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Can't say I've ever heard any reasonably intelligent people say they use TicToc for news (or much of anything, for that matter).

My current news sources are limited to AP and The Guardian for overviews, Al Jazeera to learn what's happening in the Middle East, the NY Times mostly for in-depth articles but less so for breaking news because of their left slant, the LA Times for So Cal news and Market Watch for a financial overview.

I scan the headlines and occasionally click on stories. Oftentimes the first or last paragraph of a story gives me all the info I want or need.
 
I’m asking this as a sincere question — if you refuse to watch/read any news then how do you determine how you’re going to vote once you’re in the voting booth?

I too feel overwhelmed by the news both fake and true coming from all directions in the USA. Both political parties are guilty of fake AI photos, hysteria, and outright lies. I find myself having to search out news sources that hopefully are unbiased. I also skim sources that I know to be biased.

i do this because I think as an American citizen I have the obligation to enter the voting booth as fully informed as I can be. I know people who pride themselves on not knowing what is happening in the world. Are they just blindly voting for who they’ve voted for all their lives. Or who their parents, spouse ,or religious authority tells them to vote for. I’ve known people who won’t vote for someone simply because ”that name ain’t American “.

Sorry for the rant. I’m feeling frustrated, depressed, and scared at the news ( thus reflecting what may be my own touch of hysteria 🙄).
 
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