I wasn't looking at negative rage bait. I like to solve problems. So I'm drawn to solve the problems of world politics and war, just like I'm drawn to solve the problem of quantum mechanics making no sense. I wasn't enraged, I actually got some relief as my understanding gelled. I'm *much* more interested in understanding the nature of things than I am in judging them or taking sides; it is far less emotional. Of course when it comes to kids and hospitals I do get emotional, but I've been successfully not watching that shitshow recently, knowing it does no good to watch.

As for the Ukraine/Russia/NATO thing, I was still uncertain as to what is going on (well, I always will be, but I was uncomfortably so). Sometimes a few people on nostr will argue with me fiercely and emotionally about the normative questions: what *should* nations do, which side *should* you be on, who is in the right, and who should be judged as evil, etc. As to Ukraine/Russia/NATO I don't care at all about the normative questions, only the non-normative ones. I want to know what they are thinking, what they are doing, and what they might do next... without judgement or my desires being involved. So I don't know how to argue back with such people, such people just eventually frustrate me as they are arguing against viewpoints I don't hold.

But yes in general yes I am watching too many videos lately. Sometimes programming doesn't produce the normal amount of dopamine because I am not having the normal rate of successes. And those days are the hard ones, and the most likely days for me to turn to "drugs". So I take your words seriously. I've cut it out for the time.