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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (www.sciencedaily.com)

submitted 1 month ago by W4nd3r3r@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.world

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Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

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[-] specimen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Absolutely, lemmy has such a downer vibe to it, it’s not doing me any good using this platform lately.

[-] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We need more jokes around Lemmy, this is all communism this and that gays blahblahblah trump yapyapyap, holy cow. Sometimes I can't help but doomscroll on Reddit, missing the community and the jokes and the friends I had there.

[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Voyager has the ability to filter anything you want, the moment you see some toxic bad news you can remove a keyword. The only reason I haven't banned .world outright is because there are meme channels