Be careful with CNN. They went from “all Trump all the time” to “all COVID all the time”. As Fretful_Porpentine astutely points out, most TV news is designed to keep you steadily keyed so you will stay tuned-in and be exposed to the network’s advertisers.
I agree - stick to your local news - that is all you really need to know about anyway. I watch 30 min of local news every day or two and the occasional 30 min national newscast, and that’s it. Less is more, when it comes to news.
I don’t watch network news. I’m mostly get my news through progressive YouTubers. While I don’t often really listen to their analysis, I still like the ‘curated’ clips of outrageous shit people in government, media, & people of power, do and say the night before.
I also like The Hill, and get news from their through Facebook. So avoiding going online at all is more important than anything else.
Depending on your definition, sharks do have ears.
Sharks have only an inner ear , which consists of three chambers and an ear stone called an otolith. A shark’s inner ear detects sound, acceleration, and gravity. Sharks use sound to locate food. Sound is often the first sense a shark relies on to detect prey.
I’m at the far end of my measly 3 acres of woods, as far as I can get from civilization on my own property. I just shot up a bunch of cans with my pellet guns. That helped. Now I’m listening to music, drinking a lot of beer and sitting by the fire. Maskholes is good but I prefer “plague rats”. You are not alone, we are many. Hope that’s enough.
The shark talk is making me remember the cutest shark-related thing I ever saw on television.
It was an aquarium with divers feeding a chubby shark. You could see the shark had a weight problem. It had a double chin. Anyway, the narrator said, “This shark prefers squid, but the driver is trying to feed the shark mackerel, which has fewer calories…”
So the shark took the mackerel into its mouth from the diver’s hand, swam with it a little ways, then opened its lower jaw and let the mackerel drop from sight.
I swear, a spoiled shark spitting out mackerel is just the cutest thing you can imagine a shark doing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah… animal in captivity…bored and unhealthy…blah…blah…
Same boat. I even turn the old cognitive behavioral therapy on it, try and gauge if the level of rage I’m feeling at any number of things is appropriate. By any objective standard I’m not angry enough. So I got nothin.
Smoke a bowl and lighten the fuck up already. All you can do is make the best choices you can for yourself and your family. Other people will do stupid shit. It’s what they do.
I’m suggesting there is nothing we really can do. As Ambassador Kosh, a great American, observed “The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”
