I like to look at who owns a news source and which country it is operating in to get an idea how reliable it might be.
It is also worth looking at the rethoric: do the headlines seem clickbaity? Do the articles cover more than one side to a story?
I also look at the kinds of stories a news source covers, and whether it seems like they push some sort of agenda from the things they choose to report on.
But yeah, I have come to find a bunch of sources I trust, and that I go to for news.
1.4% (I live in Germany)
Departing Scene in my ass
You will find nice people and potential partners everywhere. Even if only 1% of people are "your type" in a country of a few million people, that's still tens of thousands of potential partners. I'd focus on other factors instead.
42 is from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 69 is a sex position, 420 refers to weed
What? Which name?
I found "The Drug User's Bible" to be a genuinely useful ressource.
I think most humans have a certain desire to gossip, probably a side effect of us being social animals. I can imagine that gossiping can be somewhat beneficial if you live in a tribe or small town.
With our way of life shifting to large cities in which you hardly know your neighbour, and digitalization making sure we regularly see these celebrities, I can see how that might trick our brains into caring about their everyday lives.
The Forever War