Slate journalists share their coping mechanisms for dealing with the stress of the election year, highlighting the importance of distraction and relaxation.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images, Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images, Hulu, Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Rebecca Noble/Getty Images, and Getty Images Plus.Here at Slate, we believe in the power of journalism. It’s our mission to keep you informed and help you decide how to think and feel about what’s going on out there, whether it’s But we also believe in the healing power of brain rot.
And for that, we journalists turn to trash TV, movies, and social media spirals—and really anything else we can consume (including in the most literal sense of the word) that might distract us. Coping mechanisms don’t change reality. But they do help us take breaks and tune out the news, if only for a little while. Here’s how members of Slate’s newsroom dealt with this election year when they weren’t on the clock. Tell us about your own favorite modes of distraction in the comments.Sometime in October, I redownloaded an app to my phone: Ball Sort Puzzle. In Ball Sort Puzzle, you are shown a screen featuring several test tubes that contain marbles of various colors. You must sort these marbles by color within the test tubes. There is nothing more to it than that, really. There are levels to the game, and on some levels, you don’t see the colors of the marbles that are farther down in the test tube until they are accessible. You can buy a little extra test tube to help your sorting process by watching about 90 seconds of ads. (The ads, they are … so bad.) The marble puzzles get slightly, but not extremely, more complicated as you move through the levels. But always, there is the very good chance of restoring order to your test tube universe.Let’s start at the very bottom, with some literal, rather than cultural, consumption: I spent $56.27 via Uber Eats for Taco Bell delivery on Election Da
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