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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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I've seen others recently, but the two I saw today are a Capital One commercial and a Progressive commercial.

In the first, the Capital One guy is talking to a couple of people. He is asked what he does for fun, and he does not know what to say. Then, they cut to him getting ready to sleep at the bank.

Another is the Progressive commercial where Flo talks with another woman about vacations. The other woman doesn't seem to know what a vacation is. Flo begins describing what one is. In the end, she says she doesn't really know, gives up, and says she's never been on one either.

I was thinking about them while driving and came to the title thought.

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[–] nevyn@lemmy.vg 86 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Your life will be much better if you avoid commercials, it isn't difficult, they creep me out whenever I am unfortunate enough to see/hear one, they are so contrived and so clearly aimed at people who have forgotten how to think.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I usually let them go for me out of laziness, but I mute them for my family to spare them the exposure. I also regularly discuss the problems with the way things are advertised with my kids so that they won't get sucked in by them. Crazy world. Hard to avoid adverts in the U.S.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 28 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I cut the cable TV cord in 1999. For whatever movies/TV we've wanted to watch, we've just gone to our public library to get DVDs and later on, streamed stuff.

uBO in all the browsers as well.

If you make a concerted effort, you can de-TV the household and it takes little time to find ways pick up on watching the things you like - w/o commercial interruption.. I could not imagine watching an evening of broadcast TV.

Given that the average show is now 40 minutes long - thats an hour of commercials between the 3 primetime hours of 8 and 11 pm.

I'm not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.

Fuck that shit.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

wait they're 40 now? i could have sworn we has 22s and 52s. fuck.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

You implicitely mentioned the internet, but I want to make it explicit:

I haven't had a need for linear TV for over 20 years. News and entertainment, much better to have a choice both in time and content.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.

WHY WON'T YOU LOOK AT ME??? I LEFT YOU A BANANA IN THE MICROWAVE!!!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

that was for op? sorry, i thought it was a gun.

[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

Look into setting up Pi-hole. Blocks ads and trackers. Been using it for years.

Also uBlock Origin as was mentioned.

Haven’t seen any ads in a very long time, and that’s only when watching over-the-air local TV and my finger stays near the mute button.

Advertising has become an omnipresent psychological assault.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hard to avoid adverts in the U.S.

Unless you watch live sports, it's really not.

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

I've watched NFL games for years. 2.5 minutes is engrained into my brain. Mute just before the fade out, and I just feel that the time has come where I can look at the screen again.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Your life will be much better if you avoid commercials

Yes, but far too many people don't know better, and they are the majority. They love targeted ads and especially that's why so many of them are radicalised by targeted political propaganda. That's why it's a Sysiphean task to tell people about this, tell them to dismantle capitalism because we're heading to its logical conclusion-- fascism. I didn't think that Brave New World's soma (the digital devices in our case) will directly lead to 1984's Oceania. And what a great combo!