We haven’t even made it to January 20 (Trump inauguration). We already have major fires in our second largest city, terrorist attacks, talk of invading Greenland/Panama/Canada. almost no one talking about what we really need to do to cut carbon. Hospitals are full in my area and people talk about washing hands, but not about masking. I am already so weary. I don’t know what is going to happen after January 21.
I found it a lot more peaceful once I started filtering out certain word combinations that indicate a ragebait bullshit headline. I considered just filtering out “trump”, but I want actual news to come through, so here’s the list:
Trump wants
Trump says
Trump will
Trump hints
Trump demands
Trump indicates
Trump claims
Trump considering
Trump tells
…and repeat the list for Musk and Vance. Those verbs target the nothingburger headlines only meant to attract clicks. Basically, we learned 9 years ago that he says loads of stupid shit that doesn’t deserve a headline. I might be interested if he signs something.
We need an AI agent that filters out all news articles that are just people flapping their pie-holes, whether that be the President-elect, or Twitter randos.
You forgot:
slams
decimates
goes to war with
blasts
fires back
drops a bombshell
“Goes to war with” might not be a great idea to filter on, because that fuckin imbecile will very probably start an actual war with a country that can hit back, now that he’s emptying out all of the career + nonpolitical people in the state department, DoD, and alphabet agencies who stopped him from doing that last time.
Probably, but the headline will start with "US invades“ or "US demands“ or something along the line. Filtering out anything that starts with “Trump” is safe
Add in “succinctly explains” too. That’s shorthand for “reduces complex issue to a paragraph”.
Paragraph? This is Trump we’re talking about. He can’t hold a thought for longer than two sentences, max.
I wasn’t talking about him, but more other people who - if you see a headline of “XY succinctly summarizes [issue]”, all it will be is distilling a messy, nuanced topic down to “You should feel A,” often with ragebait to convince you.
slams
blasts
Those are prime candidates too, I just haven’t seen them yet. I add them as I see them.
Is it possible for everyone to stop saying this?
My apologies if you happen to be a SLAMS/BLASTS/BREAKS HIS SILENCE bot and are just following your programming. It’s just beyond tiresome because we know. We fucking know. It’s a lazy and hyperbolic headline filler. But now we have lazy headline writing followed up with a lazy comment pointing out that the former is lazy.
And it’s starting to break my mind in the same way “This” did on Reddit.
One more apology for me being bitchy tonight. It’s not so much this comment, but every single identical one that came before it.
I’m sorry it bothers you. It was my coping mechanism for when I see that crap. I can see your perspective though.
Thanks for understanding. I think I was having a Norman Bates moment there: “we all go a little mad sometimes.”
I just filter trump and Elon entirely and read the news once a day. If the news is that big it should hit my local paper.
I couldn’t be bothered anymore, and a revolution isn’t getting organised in a Lemmy comment section under a Trump article
I’ve been growing my keyword filter list. Do you have any other suggestions?