i can't go to hell - i'm all out of vacation days. i watch space rocks and yell at computers for my day job. probably too old for any of this

 

i think i might be burned out on internet social. it's hard to keep doing it. it's hard to even maintain the amount of attention i'm already giving it

 

i am the cause of most of my own problems

 

furthermore, capitalism must be destroyed

 

birdsona: ?????

 

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i was at my parents' to grab free food they were offering me today and my dad had like streaming cable tv on his tablet in the kitchen and just like

it was five minutes of ads followed by five minutes of propaganda followed by five minutes of ads that are maybe well intentioned but weirdly jingoistic appeals to patriotism and so on and so on

and like the shitty quality of tv news aside, i curate personal spaces that are almost as ad free as possible and it just feels so intrusive to be around them, like, they're so overtly manipulative, it can't be healthy that we've decided to base an entire economy on them, that they should appear in every media object and every physical space we occupy


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in reply to @SomeEgrets's post:

I stopped watching TV like 10 years ago because the ads were too fucking obnoxious. I was also the only person who would mute them and people would act like I was interrupting their viewing experience if I did it while visiting family, because why have a conversation with relatives you get to see once or twice a year when you can stare in silence at muted commercials?

The entire internet is going the way of TV, except there isn't an alternative now.

yeah it's probably been the majority of my life i haven't had cable at this point, but especially the last 13 years or so and it's just such a disruptive presence

also it probably doesnt hell that dad is an old, retired, reasonably well off white guy and (maybe i'm being uncharitable here, but...) doesn't seem to have much else to do with his at-home time than watch golf and 24hr news

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