When I don’t find information through a search engine, I go asking it from people themselves.

Discord is an easy solution for me to find this information at that point. Much easier than generating yet another user account in a website I might use once in my life, while I already use discord a lot.
By the way - you can search for messages you have sent and for messages that were pointed directly to you. Makes delving into old conversations much easier.

Of course Telegram and other services like that can help too.

Maybe the devs love keeping answering same questions over Discord? =D

I don’t remember when I watched the telly at home previously. Most of my entertainment are games and then some YouTube and movies not so often (lurking in friend’s online streaming services or googling “watch x for free”).

Stopped watching the television when too many ads erupted even between the movies that were my last interest in this service.

Most of my telly shows I see nowadays are at a friend’s place, and I’m every time annoyed about the amount of ads.

I bought a cat game where you need to find and click 100 of them! They had cute noises and every single cat was named!

I have over 300 wallpapers in my folder on the computer. I have told windows to change them every 10 minutes I recall. They are about games, friends, all sorts of characters, movies and horror at least.

My laptop has the default wallpaper - it has had it since from the beginning. My phone…I don’t remember where I got it.

Erm.

I recall a study about kids under a specific age that cannot get scared of looking at pictures of demons and other horror stuff because they don’t know yet what your everyday default person looks like.

So I’d argue that even people need to get accustomed to a thing before they could recognise or have an opinion about anything.

They might not know what organizations do, might have no better options, might think that no change will happen no matter what they do, might not care, might be brainwashed/tortured/made fearful…the possible reasons are endless.

Maybe we can come up with (new) cultural aspects that are involved with low consumerism?

I am “with” the church since I got the same religion my parents got when I was born. I haven’t left the church and I still pay the church tax, but that’s it. I’m not religious myself.

I don’t know religious people, there are none in my social circle. I don’t know religious people’s practices.

I know that fanatics can be found in many fields of life, not just religion, and I know that things can get messy in the bigger scale and that money and power are involved.
I don’t have anything against religions either. I’m against acts that hurt people though. If a religion is the reason someone causes pain in others, that’s not okay.

Are you saying that consumerism is the thing that mostly define culture?

More people means more resources needed.
But you can teach offspring to consume less 😉

The common societal structure is one thing. But on the individual level - it’s up to you how you want to live, and how much you want to consume.

We all have our comfort zones.
It is up to you how you wanna live, what will be your attitude and your view of the world.

I’m not telling you to stop consuming…or drinking beer. Of course doing those things less is generally good, bu who am I to stop you from fully living your life?

Oof. But I argue that you can enjoy those events consumer-free as well 🙂

EDIT: Oh well, not totally free, but you can lower it a lot.

What’s un-seekable

So only shorts are delivered? Who not “normal” videos as well/instead?

Sounds like exaggeration and I might get stuck on “that’s not the point” part of the message here; I believe America has things like Christmas, Thanksgiving and cultural events that origin from America’s history as cultural aspects.

Every group of people has their culture.

When we go down to the scale of individual, a religion can be a positive way of life/thinking that can give positive meaning to someone’s life.

Not every person who’s a believer is automatically evil.

Buying a (premium) service to get rid of something awful requires effort and resources.
Do you have the money? Do you get enough kicks out of the money you would be spending? Do you know the pros and cons of subscribing/going in a service (what will they provide for the money spent?)? Do you want to support the service - even so far to provide them money? You need to provide additional data of yourself to make the purchase and may even need to learn how to do it - are you ready for that?

Getting an (ad-blocking) extension to a browser to get rid of something awful requires effort and resources.
Do you know how to start using extensions in browsers and what to do if you need to troubleshoot them? Is it free (are paid extensions even a thing? I don’t recall seeing one)? Can you support someone you would want to support with a ad-blocker (some decent folks who make good content may be in need of the money they get from ads, but then again, there’s a chance you can send them money through other means)? Are you supporting a service that has an built-in feature that annoys you (in this case, providing ads for the users to see), endorsing such behavior (even more) even though you cannot see those ads yourself?

Both options may require research. Both options are influenced by other people and by their opinions. Both options have their pros and cons. Both options have consequences.

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I don’t buy any subscriptions. I wouldn’t have the money for that and I have bad experiences of them.
I can support someone with a grateful comment or sharing their content to others.
I myself stick with the ad-blocking services.

But don’t let me influence you with what/how I do it 😉 Make up yer own mind and act accordingly.

I’d just ignore such folks. Plus I have yet to meet those folks - even after 62 posts I have done!

I don’t go for Internet points only. That also fuels me to trying coming up with something of quality, but it’s also the good discussions and possibly providing something interesting to folks to read/look at and to make them even think about stuff that gets me going 😄 Kicking in some extra activity in these communities!
But the same can be achieved with comments - you’re right with that one.

Making a post can require more thinking and effort, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I have spent more effort on a comment than on making a post!
The feel and interaction is different with a post and a comment. A post can wake up all sorts of commenting and a post is “more visible” to people who sees it as they scroll away. Comments of course also provide activity within a post/community, may generally be less visible to more people (you have to click a post open to see comments) and they can also gain all the off-topic commentary on them - just like in a post.

Not saying that commenting is worse than creating a whole post. Both have their reasons to exist and their places to be used.