Hot takes are fast food for your brain: loads of energy, not much nutrition.

Strong instant opinions are built to feel satisfying. They arrive fully formed, need no reading and give you something to say, which is exactly why they travel; what they skip is the slow business of checking whether they hold up. You can get through a great many and end up knowing nothing you could defend. The sensation of being informed is not the same as being informed.

Pick one view you absorbed quickly and go find out where it came from. Read something longer than a post about it. Notice how often the energetic version turns out to be missing the complicated half.