Yup, I experiment as well. It's very easy to see once you start looking. You can get reminders of unfinished projects out of it. "Oh Yeah! I looked for that a couple days ago." What I watch on yt appears on fb suggested group topics. I join groups like a fiend and it is amazing what pops up and why.
I have a Thai phone and I don't know if they know it's me. I watched the lady who sold it to me give me someone else's name. She was all sketchy about it, but I had just watched her fill the paper out for the lady before me and it was not my name on the new form. I was all for it. I'm not sure if she thought my ID would not go through or if she could not read it. I never use it anyway, but I needed one to get a bank account. Everything on it is in Thai and I just have $4 credit on it forever, I guess. I'm sure the only one in Bangkok without a phone though. People here can't believe I survive like this. If i get lost, I ask the nearest Thai person to please help me with google maps and that's that.
I got rid of tv about 20 years ago and can't even look at the screens with whatever they've done to them. They hurt my eyes and pull on my head. I do elder care and lots of old people have trouble seeing the new tvs and deciphering what's going on. They like the old tvs better.
I can't get rid of my computer though so they can just spy away. They very best thing about my computer in Thailand is that the majority of ads do not come through and the ones that do are in Thai so I don't even see them. This was immediate relief when I got here from San Diego. I was not aware of how much it happened until it stopped.
That Mcdonald's thing is nuts though. You would think they would be more refined by now. I have more than once read posts like these. "I just finished show xxx and now I need to go to fast food joint yyy and get food zzz." It is always fast food. Then they often run out and go get it and eat it. Good poisoning opportunity.
The way the picture is displayed on modern televisions is different than old CRT models. CRT refreshed at 29.97 frames per second while HDTV's refresh at closer to 60.
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OOOHHH! That'll do it. Jeez. I will stay on my "avoid" setting for sure.
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It also doesn't help that most television stations have sped up older programming so they can squeeze in another commercial or two per half hour. That can cause disorientating feelings while viewing.
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Oh my goodness! I had not heard that one. I listen to yt tutorials and 1.5 or 2.0 and sometimes i have to stop for just that reason. I do not know how anyone can watch tv at all but I guess it is addictive. So glad i never really watched. My dad was one to let us watch only one show and that was it. I never really got into it much. I got rid of it when my son was 5 and he did not want to do anything until the commercial came on. It only took a couple of weeks before we both no longer cared it was gone. He has thanked me a few times since then. He says it's hard to be friends with people who watch tv.
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It is certainly a change of pace not having television. We have it but I mainly only watch WWE wrestling, Ghost Adventures and the occasional childhood cartoon I own on DVD. We don't watch a lot of regular television back to back "binge" style like a lot of people do.
I believe television has a way of programming people over time. I don't think it is a government agenda, just simple marketing. People that watch certain shows like/dislike certain things and it has been studied before. Like the age old question - were you a fan of The Addam's Family or The Munsters? There have been studies that show a lot about you (basic stuff) depending on which you preferred. It is weird and unsettling.
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I have the idea of "protecting my psyche." With yt I either listen without watching or watch without listening. Doing both is too entrancing for me. I'm not able to watch movies in the theater at all. The last few I went to I just closed my eyes and rested. This was the last star wars and one of the batman versions for my son. In the 80's I did not watch Dallas or Dynasty and people at work actually pitied me for missing these works of art.
I am of the belief that "govt" is a front for evil doers behind the scenes. Only a few people own all the big media in the world.
Crazy info on the munsters/addams feud. I was a child in the 60's and my dad did not allow either one of them. I appreciate him so much more as I age.
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Sadly, money talks. Especially with government (in particular the United States government). That is how we ended up with so few owning so much of what the populace sees/hears/reads. The people in charge collected the money necessary to effect change on the laws that kept them from forming conglomerates and hoarding power. Now they have done that and well, you don't have to watch much television to understand the ramifications this has had on the United States.
I grew up in the 80's and watched my mom almost drool at the mouth watching Dallas. Looking back on it, it is sad. I watch a lot of wrestling myself but I have never been addicted to it like that - I leave it on and pay attention when wrestlers I like get a bit of screen time, otherwise I am plugging away on PR stuff trying to make a better future for me and my family.
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It seems like this is a good place to talk about these issues. I red-pill Americans about their toxic food supply even though I am not there anymore. In the last year or two I have finally started to get traction. I'm hoping that re-posting all that content here will make a difference. There is a lot to keep up with, but keeping yourself healthy enough to live another day should be on the top of the list. I'm very hopeful for my time on this platform :)
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