When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they’re surfing on their browsers. I’ve just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.
We’ve heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they’re surfing without extensions. Whether it’d be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.
By this point, I’ve long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would’ve long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.
I wish it was acceptable to call older folks out as lazy if they refuse to learn how to text, email and otherwise use the internet. It’s fine for them to call millennials lazy if they can’t drive a stick shift or balance a checkbook, but if you’re giving me bullshit like “I’m 68 years old, I don’t text and I don’t email” you are just a lazy, stubborn bastard. I’ve met plenty of 90 year olds who are perfectly capable because they aren’t lazy old fucks.
Seriously, of all people they’re the ones that have been around since the internet’s inception. They’ve had more time to adapt than anyone.
I’m not sure that flies for boomers. That’s the X’ers: my adult life pretty much matches the history of PCs, so I better know how to use them.
However my parents were older when PCs appeared, and at the time there seemed no reason to learn about them. Ok, my Dad was an engineer who built them, but my Mom never had any reason to use a computer until the Facebook era, when lots of regular people started to use email. It was still quite common at the time for adults to not see a purpose, so I give boomers a pass
Even if someone doesn’t regularly use computers, it doesn’t hurt to gain some experience in communicating in ways you’re not used to. Like, I don’t like ‘typing’ on a mobile phone. The interface is small, customization is limited and you’re prone to constantly make spelling mistakes. But I adapted and can at least now type on mobile half the speed I can on a keyboard.
Generational gaps need not apply. This is simply just a learning thing that is applicable to all.
The importance of digital privacy and freedom. The way capitalism ruins everything you like.
Worked at a major tech company as a data engineer, constantly warn everybody that major tech company is doing crazy surveillance, nobody cares. Told everybody my job was taking economists and research scientists python models, translating them into production code for data pipelines that would operate on terabytes of streaming data and it would change our recommendation system on the fly to keep you on the page. It was designed by academics to prey on basic human instincts. Tons more sketchy stuff, but I always felt like that was the most predatory. All we need to know was your zip code and gender and we knew how to recommend you stuff you wanted, and then people would voluntarily give us more identifying information.
The dangers of conservatism/fascism.
If not for conservatism, humans would be proactively addressing global heating. Conservatives oppress the innocent and vulnerable in every country where conservatives have power. If not for conservatism, there would be no genocide. Conservatives are the gullible, deadly foot-soldiers of the billionaires.
Conservatism is the single biggest threat to life on earth. Eradicating conservatism would be the single most positive change we could make to preserve life on earth.
Conservatism should be used as a moderator. If Libertarianism is left unchecked it will try to solve all the problems all at once, running out of resources before even achieving a proper solution. Ideally the Parliament should be roughly split into 5ths with each part representing an important area (environmentalist, economist, socialism/communalism, etc.). Then through coalitions, in which conservatism should always be a part of the most relevant problems can be targeted in a moderated sense.
Vaccines. I gave up trying to gently educate my coworker and instead am waging an outright campaign via Facebook to terrorize her into vaccinating her poor sickly autistic son. Every journal article and news piece on preventable disease, I’m posting it, and am having long winded chats on my page about how measles wipes your immune memory and how a kid died of that in the community a few months ago. Parents of antivaxxers should have their children apprehended by CPS. It’s child abuse.
I wish it was socially acceptable to call people lazy for certain computer-related woes.
I often have to “rescue” my mother because her computer ‘broke’. – What is actually happening is that windows is doing the usual Windows thing of nagging you about updates/microsoft edge/whatever. It’s a matter of reading what it’s saying, but she just… Doesn’t read the message or look for the button. This woman has a PhD. Like. She isn’t stupid. She’s incredibly smart, actually. But she just doesn’t want to learn.
Like, the computer itself can tell you a lot of stuff. You just need to read and click around. But when it’s a computer screen it’s like some people develop selective blindness. I legitimately wonder if people who are 60+ have some eyesight thing going on where content displayed on a screen and specifically on a screen is unreadable to them. Because if anything is in a different place or it does something unexpected, they just lock up like a deer in the headlights instead of like. Reading what is on screen.
When you’re at a fast food drive thru and they offer to round up for a charity cause, YOU can claim that write-off donation on your taxes, not the restaurant. Of course virtually nobody would do that unless you save your receipts and tally them up next year… but you can!
Related, I tire of explaining tax deductions are over valued. It’s a net loss to you to spend money on something deductable and claim the deduction. If you have $100, the government takes $20 and you get $80. If you give that $100 to charity, you have $0, the government gets $0, and the charity has $100.
Deductions are only good if you value the thing that the money went to.
I thought you couldn’t even write off charity unless it was some stupidly high amount. Last time I looked into it, it basically just seemed like a tax grift for rich people
I think it’s because for most people the standard deduction is way higher than itemized.
You need to have enough to make it worthwhile over the standard deduction. That’s 14.6k in donations, mortgage interest, state taxes paid, and other things like that.
You only get a percentage, depending on your state. It’s not much… not many people bother (big market for boomers lol)
but then you have to do itemized deductions which takes forever and unless you’re mister moneybags or in an unconventional life situation, the standard deduction is almost definitely better. also tax write offs are not free money, you still gave the money to some sketchy “charity” it’s just the government doesn’t get a slice of that.
All true… I’m just pointing it out because people are constantly railing about how the donation is supposedly a “free writeoff for the big businesses!111” when in reality isn’t true. I hate shitty big restaurants as much as the next guy but this ain’t it
I never thought about that, but it makes sense
Actually two things:
First: Capitalism is bad. It gets so bad it will destroy people the worst way: both mentally and physically. And it will destroy our planet more sooner than later. We need to get rid of „the rich“, switch to a social stable System and actually care about our environment (aka climate) immediately to stop the worst. It is already way too late to stop the catastrophe entirely, but some of us still can survive.
Second: Voting for faschist and racist parties will hurt you badly. They don‘t want what’s best for the common people, they want power.
I wish we fucking lived longer so the people who doomed our planet would be alive when it starts burning. I hate that their selfishness will go completely unpunished, and that they get to die happy and comfortable in their beds after sentencing billions to death.
That the covid pandemic is still going full tilt and still demands a very aggressive worldwide response.
Everybody (over the age of 4–they were born in 2020!) knows it, they just deny it like crazy because they don’t have the balls to deal with how unpleasant it is.
Which makes it infinitely more unpleasant because we aren’t lifting the weight together. But anybody still denying the pandemic is consciously deciding to do it, and an explanation isn’t going to make them un-decide, because it’s not a lack of knowledge.
Influenza typically accounts for 1.5% of deaths at its peak every year. Covid has been hovering around 3%. So it’s currently about the same level as a bad flu season. To me this indicates endemic levels. If there is a strain that suddenly starts killing more people, it will make headlines. I’m not trying to be in denial, this is just where I’m at. I’ve had it, and my immune system is doing what it is supposed to do. I’m not worried about contracting it again, unless the a new deadly strain comes out.
This is where I’m at too. I was literally just talking to my friend about this last night.
We both know of several people who feel very strongly that the pandemic is still in full swing. They won’t go out of their house without a mask, they get their groceries delivered, they won’t come to any social events for fear of getting sick, and they only work from home. They’ve basically trapped themselves in their house, out of fear.
In my opinion, which is only an opinion, I think these people have an undiagnosed mental illness. Some sort of excess anxiety that was triggered by the events of lockdown and the early pandemic, and now they are unable to reset back to normal.
I don’t mean that in a bad way or a rude way, I’m legitimately concerned for these people and don’t know how to help.
For your average Joe, COVID is just a reality we live with. I don’t want to get it, but I can’t afford to lock myself down, nor do I think it would be healthy for me mentally if I did.
I don’t think it’s good for you physically either. I have been exposed to Covid, probably every few months. The immune system needs to actually see viruses in order to keep making antibodies.
Even in mild cases of COVID in healthy younger people it has cognitive impacts. What you believe is false.
I’m aware of long covid risks. My belief to which you are replying is that exposure to viruses is important to continue making antibodies. The study indicates a 25% risk of cognitive impacts from mild COVID cases. I’m not alarmed by that number, and I’m not seeing how it should change my belief about immune system health.
By the year 2100, ambient CO2 will reach 1000 ppm (1 ppt), which is associated with a 10-15% decline in cognition. In many indoor spaces, CO2 levels are much higher than this. I actually got CO2 up to 1800 ppm just driving my car with the air turned off. Anybody who works indoors in a building is at risk of impaired cognition.
Even having a mild case of COVID has cognitive impacts in healthy people. It’s really really really actually very terrifying.
Is it still full tilt?
Looking at CDC graphs of excess deaths, it appears we’re back at baseline. That is, assuming I’m reading this correctly which is very much not a sure thing.
Everyone all denial about diseases and serious illnesses until they get it. Unfortunately, during the pandemic, some of those who did get COVID and denied about it, still downplayed it like it was just a simple cold. Until you know, some of them actually died because of how much they didn’t anticipate the probability of getting it.
Dude wake up, Covid was the biggest scam in history of humanity!
You dropped this: /s
Looks at Republican party
Seems nobody will ever put sanity and social safety over their feelings. People don’t really understand the social contact anymore. They think that’s for everyone else.
Third party voters, trying to explain feminism, trying to explain planned obsolescence, explaining that you need to check more than one source for information, ad blocker,
These answers reek of superiority complex. These are less “educating” others and more that so many of you have decided something specific is a big deal to you and in a proselytizing fashion you preach to others and when they don’t give a shit or perhaps just dont have the emotional capacity to ALSO care about the thing you brought up, you take that as ignorance, when really it’s just some people don’t feel like caring that much about that specific concern you decided is uber important.
People aren’t built to endless worry about every little horrible problem surrounding them and the world every fucking day.
Also, this whole forum feels like overreaction too. Just because “some” people didn’t care for your input doesn’t mean all didn’t, but a lot of people overreact online. It’s coupled with the usual “am I the only one who…” kind of crap. No. You aren’t. You aren’t the only genius who understands the world is shit and we’re fucked.
Reading more than a headline.
I use Firefox for over a decade now never had any problem with ads and if it occurres it’s very easy to sort it out
