Exactly. I just let other people obsess over news. They’ll filter through the 99% garbage and I’ll pick up whatever is actually important through them.
I know people in my family whose eyes are glued to news all the time and it’s kind of sad. Blowing all that attention on stuff that ultimately does not affect you.
I've found that I don't, nearly as much as I would have thought.
If people really want to talk about a current event, you can usually get a lot of mileage out of asking them to explain what's going on.
"oh yeah? I didn't hear about that, what happened?"
people like getting to be the expert, they usually don't care about our hot take nearly as much as we like to imagine them caring