• Aeao@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 hours ago

    This a more “a man” than “the man” but I had a boss I hated who was really into horoscopes.

    So I learned all about them so I could memorize every one else’s sign and continue to forget his.

    Good luck writing me up for that Rob. Oh wait you couldn’t anyway because I outlasted you!

    He also insisted I write “inspirational quotes” on the weekly sales paper for my team to feal inspired . nietzsche it is.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    22·
    13 hours ago

    When watching over-the-air television, I mute the TV and look away when ads come on.
    You can show me all the ads in the world but you sure as fuck can’t force me to engage.

    Tap for spoiler

    God help those fuckers when I finally fall down the TV Tuner + Jellyfin + TVHeadend rabbithole. I’m gonna “Live Pause” that shit or I’m gonna straight up DVR everything I wanna watch and skip the ads.
    And my parents watch much more OTA TV than me so you bet your ass I’m setting up every TV in their house with a cheap trustable Android TV stick and teaching them how to Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward. Fuck ads foreverrrrrr.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Start saving for a small pc and some large hard drives. It’s worth it. Or pay for a VPN and use stremio and just stream torrents.

      You can also buy access to other people’s Plex servers, watch anything

      Fuck advertisements. I’ve got pihole setup as my local DNS, ublock origin on all computers. Being bombarded every minute of every day to buy shit is getting real old really fast.

      • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Oh I got a home server setup with Jellyfin and a bunch of media already, just need to figure out the Live TV stuff (for live news, some soap operas, stuff that doesn’t get torrented much) for it to be 100% complete :)

    • mechoman444@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I get this and I also don’t engage with ads but at the end of the day they are what pays for the stuff you want to watch.

      It’s a shitty system and it’s become amazingly predatory. Needless to say I used revanced on my phone.

      • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        It would be ok if we didn’t have 5 ads on a 4 min video. They fucked their system and treated us like the bad guy. Fuck them for shooting themselves in the foot. There is a reason Google makes all their money from selling your personal data and advertising. Of course we’re going to work around it.

      • planish@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        6 hours ago

        Ads can’t be permitted to pay for things, though. One has a moral obligation to make sure that that strategy does not work, because it degrades both whatever the advertisements are inserted around (which becomes optimized to get attention at the expense of anything actually useful, like entertaining or conveying information) and the people who perceive it (because it creates capital inside their minds, in the form of brands, artificially alters their culture, and deliberately creates fear, mistrust of loved ones, and feelings of inadequacy).

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      There was this one time during a sprint retrospective that our PM said we were gonna do an ice breaker. This was a year and a half into my employment, and nobody else on the team had been there for less than 2 years.

      I fucked off for a good 20 minutes on my phone while they were talking about each other’s spirit animals.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    304·
    22 hours ago

    “A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
        91·
        15 hours ago

        I used to travel a lot in eastern Oklahoma, and left a lot of stickers at gas stations in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere towns. Probably less smiles and more anger honestly, but fuck them. Also did some on a trip to Missouri, where I’m pretty sure it was illegal for me to piss.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    22·
    22 hours ago

    Run every reasonable possible method of ad-blocking. From whole-house PiHole with uBlock, Privacy Badger, anti-tracking, VPN, and more. F/OSS software when possible.

    • wooffersyt@lemmings.world
      4·
      7 hours ago

      Firefox has an addon called AdNauseam that’s based on uBlock Origin but clicks on ads in addition to blocking them.

      Chrome had it, but google removed it because they can.