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Dan's avatar

I was convinced by your argument that reading the news doesn't meaningfully improve my life, so I mostly stopped. I still read a few things now and then out of morbid curiosity, but I'm grateful to not be doing it regularly.

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How can you not get good advice from a guy named Bryan? The most concrete example is how I stooped worrying about the impact of immigration on "our way of life" when one of your posts made me realize that my grandchildren have more in common with their first- and second-generation immigant friends than they do with me.

And recognizing social confirmation bias has shown me how little some people I know truly think about the issues they seem so passionate about.

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