Is the news cycle breaking anyone else's brains these days?

I literally can't keep up. Everything occurring at the state, national and international level is starting to sound like random noise patterns.

Do you have a strategy for keeping up with the current affairs?

I tend to scattershot my consumption with a bunch of Youtube channels about 70% on the conservative or former MAGA side and the remainder being independent skeptics' channels such as Jimmy Dore and Corbett Report. I especially gravitate to former military channels (big example, Shawn Ryan, but there are many others) because their analysis of events seems most realistic.

The last thing I do or would recommend is just listening to one side or one cluster of opinions.

I used to have a pretty good lock on reality. Up until maybe 2 years ago. Reality doesn't even seem like "a thing" now.

I'd say mostly Youtube. Tim Pool pops up on my feed and I'll check him out but get turned off by the click bait headlines. Bill O'Reilly surprisingly has a decent show and is objective. Sometimes network news segments will pop up. A few other random podcasters. What happened to Styx btw? Heard he was in some trouble.

I've been subscribed to all of Tim Pool's channels forever. Generally: the first 5-10 minutes of any shorter Timcast video (IE, not the 2+ hr lives) give me a great overview of a topic but after that the rest of the clip is banter and commentary. I consider him actually one of the most accurate "pulse of the nation" opinionators and he's very skeptical which I also like.

I've seen some O'Reilly videos and generally his takes seem good but I just tend to think of him as too mainstream to follow much. (I avoid most mainstream.) But I think he's OK, he's pretty much off the Fox plantation.

Styxhexenhammer666 has fallen off of a cliff. A year or so ago he was arrested for domestic violence in New Orleans, and he had quite a few videos where he's been back and forth for court appearances. I believe he's still wanted there. At home in Vermont he had a live in girlfriend who busted him in the face and broke out a front tooth which he has still not gotten fixed. Additionally he had charges for domestic violence and/or firearms in VT. At present it seems like he's living with a different girlfriend who has mental issues somewhere in NYC, basically avoiding being arrested on these warrants. Here's his Twitter - https://x.com/Styx666Official Just check out the comments on about any post.

He's a fucking mess right now, very broken and angry and on the run. It's very sad. I unsubscribed, his stuff has gotten so bad.

I have observed the same - that Tim Pool gives a great overview but then yeah it's full of banter and commentary just to inflate the length of the video. Many content creators are guilty of that. I guess they make more money when the videos are longer. What has turned me off a bit on him is his more recent sensationalist "all caps" headlines. I guess those types of headlines draw in the normies so maybe it works for him.

I always thought O'Reilly was too mainstream so it's more of a recent thing that I've tuned into him. He seems to be somewhat of a voice of reason and will call Trump out when he sees fit, even though he considers him a friend.

That's too bad about Styx. Perhaps his fame got to him. Seem like a rational guy but it's hard buy him as credible when he keeps getting himself in trouble. I do recall the last couple videos I saw that, judging by his comments, many of his followers turned on him. He's not as smart as he portrays himself as.

Oh I was watching Steve Bannon for awhile but haven't turned in lately. He's usually on when I'm working but he tends to drone about the same stuff over and over again.

Last night we watched a video where Tim was excoriating Trump for his executive action to protect and extend the product of glyphosate ("Roundup", the weed killer that is also a known carcinogen.)

Tim described glyphosate as a "dessicant", IE it dries out vegetation, and he said that big farms use glyphosate as a treatment on crops being harvested to help with harvesting.

BULLSHIT I thought. "It's just a weedkiller".

Then I hopped online and did an AI query about agricultural uses of glyphosate. BINGO *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* Timmy the Beanie was right!

Glyphosate is sprayed on all kinds of crops (wheat, barley, chickpea, canola, etc) to help with harvesting.

Glyphosate is officially in ALL of our corporate food. It's not an additive but it's used on living about to be harvested crops.

Do a search on "glyphosate inflammatory". Glyphosate fucks with your body. I have some chronic medical conditions and I've gotten very interested in "clean eating".

The point is, on even a minor geeky scientific point, he was 100% correct and I learned from his video.

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