I found myself among some Mister Rogers quotes and artifacts yesterday, of all possible things.
So just for today I'm gonna push back on this one a little bit. I think the goodness is out there, but unfortunately much of our society is kinda designed to separate us from our humanity and mental peace.
I avoid it whenever possible by setting my indoor lights to mimic the natural local light.
You use your electric lights to help counteract all that electric light exposure you get all day?
Are you thinking of something more specific, or are you rocking some kind of sweet adjustable gas lamp?
That hit me like a much much worse version of the XKCD comic about somebody's workflow and "please add an option to re-enable spacebar heating."
"I am set in my ways and find that my routine maintains my humours most divinely. Please just re-enable sleepy time CO, sandman soot, and funny fumes."
I agree with the others' sentiment that you need to be your own advocate (or be fortunate to have a loved one ego can do it) in order to get the best healthcare results.
That goes for all healthcare systems, and our horrid system in the US makes it even more necessary, not less.
Nice. Jellyfin fan here.
Sometimes it's like I'm living a double life because I'm married to a normie and we're active in the local community where normies of course abound. I got my piracy over here, and I pay for a couple streaming services over there as long as they actually get used, but I still take steps to keep ads away.
It's wild when my wife will just turn on the radio in the car when her phone isn't connected properly, or throw on some live TV stream (whether pirated or a plan somebody shared with us), and it will play minute after minute of ads that don't bother her.
On the car radio it usually doesn't take long before some annoying local dealership ad comes on that repeats the same loud annoying crap they did 20 years ago and I have to turn it off.
I love it, and now that you've said that I am going to be keeping mental notes to see if I have such an option. Fortunately, buying gasoline is a pretty infrequent thing for me.
I would also love to know where that habit lands you in the greater population's percentiles when it comes to avoiding advertising. I assume most people reading our comments are already the 1% because it's Lemmy, lol. (my usual is Linux + LibreWolf + ublock origin at both home and work)
I think most of the population has simply been conditioned to accept and even expect advertisements to be a normal part of everyday life.
Maybe it's a situation where ignorance is bliss, to not have ads pull your attention away from what you're doing, and not feel like they are violating your personal space and resources.
But that's also part of living modern life on auto pilot like The Shareholders prefer. Work, consume, engage with content, repeat!
Ouch.
On the plus side, I'm sitting here in middle age after spending several years putting constant daily effort into reverse engineering the instruction manual for this weird AuDHD scratch-and-dent brain I found myself with, and I have a son in elementary school who acts EXACTLY like me.
It gives me a unique satisfaction and adds a dimension to my relationship with him, being the one person on earth who has any understanding of his day to day issues and preferences. I hope to make it an "it ends with us" situation for all the related mental anguish as well as the loud angry conservative environments my wife and I grew up in.
Killed 'em with kindness like I have never seen!
That's an excellent user name as well, for what it's worth.
It's ultra-processed!
Jon Stewart made a point in some video not too long ago about how modern media presents us with a constant drip of ultra-processed speech and how it manipulates and harms our brains for our short-term gratification but the long-term benefit of others who don't give a shit about us. It is much like engineered ultra-processed food in that way.
Thinking of advertising through that lens, hell that industry has been at the bleeding edge of all kinds of manipulation and shady data gathering for decades! Ultra-processed speech and ultra-processed advertising are basically a package deal!
In near future Black Mirror USA I could see that being a real diagnosis but one of the checkboxes is that it only applies to rich patients paying cash for VIP boutique healthcare.
Anybody who needs to use health insurance or receive any kind of government benefits would never be exempted from any of the tried and true methods of control.
Cries in red white and blue American tears
The owner class, their paid shills, and their useful idiots had half the population convinced decades ago that all regulation is bad and that government entities literally cannot do anything correctly.
I started believing some of that stuff when I was young and thought that people in the media argued in good faith. Plus I was more accepting of the cornerstone conservative axiom that money and "progress" are the marks of good people and good societies rather than silly nebulous concepts like "being alive is a positive experience for as many people as possible."