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Man, that fucking sucks.
I lost my sense of smell for about a month when I got Covid for the first time and it was torture.
Man, that fucking sucks.
I lost my sense of smell for about a month when I got Covid for the first time and it was torture.
The scale on this graph cant be accurate.
Its not a similar jump in effot between a parakeet and a cat as a cat and a horse.
I get what you mean, but my statement wasn’t really about how someone can escape the matrix by seeing enough advertising to realize that its poisioning society and wanting to escape that.
Its more that people would still talk about their commercial products even if there werent ads for it. Thats just a human experience thing.
Advertising muddies the water a whole bunch here because someone has taken that moment of human connection where you talk about a tool that fixed a problem you had, or some food you tried that was really good into something to make money.
Basically your choices are:
Talk about the things with people and ignore the commercial implications.
Be riddled with anxiety over a conversation accidentally making a few extra dollars for CocaCola or Amazon.
Somehow totally dismantle the capitalist system and remove the profit incentives from human conversations involving things you can purchase.
TLDR: you can’t totally avoid capitalism so focus on your own happiness rather than worrying about who might be making money from the things youd be doing anyway.
This is mostly a symptom of being online too much and seeing enough ads to think critically about them.
People have talked about the tools they use for about as long as we’ve had both tools and language. I think its fine to just talk about stuff and not need to worry about your impact on capitalist society while doing it.
He also claimed Ottawa’s push into pharmacare could dismantle private drug insurance and leave Canadians with inferior coverage and higher taxes to pay for it all.
Cool, my private insurance currently costs $103/month. How much will my taxes go up? If its less than that, then its a good deal.
“Im sorry you’re having trouble, but understand that we are doing the legal bare minimum to help you people out”