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      11 months ago

      Other way around: check the memes first, read and watch more in debt about the subject matter that warrants it.

      If I had found out about Kissinger from the regular news rather than lemmy, I would have had to slog through a hundred articles by idiots and cowards calling him a genius before I got to the correct take from Rolling Stone:

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      I live in northern Europe. I like to time how long it takes for the news that became memes hit the news over here.

      It’s between three days and two weeks.

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      too much clickbait and paid content for me to enjoy regular news. news lemmy is at least readable