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Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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757 points headalgorithm | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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breakingrules3[dead post] ◴[05 Feb 25 15:49 UTC] No.42950224[source]▶
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Rygian ◴[05 Feb 25 15:56 UTC] No.42950346[source]▶
Your comment relies on the broken assumption that outrage is caused by the outragee having stupid opinions/being stupid.

It fails to account for the majority of outrage-inducing news where the stupidity is at the source.

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1. sceptic123 ◴[05 Feb 25 16:07 UTC] No.42950512[source]▶
Doesn't it rather suggest that it's stupid to get outraged at the news?