pineapplefriedrice

joined 1 year ago
 

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If this sub grows it will need more mods, so please reach out if you're a perpetually pissed off person. :)

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!protest@lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/c/protest

 

As part of my endless and possibly futile quest to be a less pathetic version of myself, I've embarked on a campaign to stop watching TV and movies. For me it's low hanging fruit - some people really love movies, but I honestly can't remember the last time I watched something that I truly enjoyed. It's just something to fill dead time when I'm too tired to think. It BOTHERS me that I've spent so many hours mindlessly watching shows that I didn't even like. I feel like I'm wasting my life every time I watch TV.

I've tried reading and podcasts with limited success. They're good to a point, but the type of content I like is usually either pretty heavy or requires some thought (philosophy, human rights, law, etc. are my areas of interest), and I'm increasingly having trouble with my attention span too.

I already cancelled Netflix a long time ago, but I just never found a good replacement for it. Usually I find myself doomscrolling or watching the same few movies I already own or playing chess on my phone. I decided when I started that I'd let myself finish watching the shows I already followed, but just wouldn't expose myself to any new ones. Now one of the last two shows that I had been following has been cancelled (which is understandable, the last season was AWFUL) and the other won't have a new season for a while because of the strike (go strikers), so I'd really like to make TV and movies a non-factor in my life.

So I'm looking for advice here. What other activities are less of a waste of valuable time but not mentally tasking? Has anyone had success improving their attention span? I'd love to become a bookworm but goddamn is it ever hard to keep my ass on a chair long enough to get through more than two chapters. I don't even know why my attention span is so bad - I actually used to tear through book and had no issue concentrating until about 5-10 years ago.

Any ideas?

 

If anything, cannabis seems like a much better (and more profitable) drug around which to build a leisurely establishment.

 

TLDR: This is a list (incomplete) of companies that advertise with Reddit and put money in its pockets, and some contact forms for popular companies.

Brilliant Earth (www.brilliantearth.com - scroll to bottom and choose contact method)

Universal Studios (https://www.universalstudios.com/contact/general-and-miscellaneous)

Microsoft

Focus Features

Mitsubishi Motors (https://www.mitsubishicars.com/contact-us)

IBM

Intuit

Autodesk

Electronic Arts

Ally Financial

Discover

Up Australia/Up Banking

ClearScore

Noosa Yoghurt (https://noosayoghurt.com/contact/)

BMW Mini Cooper

Adobe (https://www.facebook.com/Adobe/)

Adidas (https://www.facebook.com/adidas/)

Adrenaline Australia

GameStop (care@gamestop.com)

H&M (https://www.facebook.com/hm OR https://www.instagram.com/hm/)

Liquid I.V.

Oatly (https://www.oatly.com/contact OR https://www.facebook.com/Oatly/ OR https://www.instagram.com/oatly/)

JOE & THE JUICE (https://www.joejuice.com/contact)

Excedrin (https://www.excedrin.com/contact-us/)

Rayovac (https://www.rayovac.com/contact-us/)

Nespresso (https://www.facebook.com/nespresso/ OR https://www.instagram.com/nespresso/)

Novo Nordisk

BackMarket

Caliber Fitness (support@caliberstrong.com OR https://caliberstrong.com/contact-us/)

Lucozade (https://www.lucozade.com/support/)

Moen

Uber

HP

Tezos

Truebill

Ulta Beauty (https://www.ulta.com/guestservices/contact-us)

MeUndies (https://meundies.kustomer.help/contact/how-can-we-help-HyfOyZn0o)

Lagunitas

Aviva

Beyond Meat (https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/contact/)

Bitstamp (support@bitstamp.net)

Hootsuite

Zoetus

Wolt (https://explore.wolt.com/contact)

Fineco Bank

Alienware

Tails.com (https://shop.tails.com/contact-us/)

Duracell (https://www.duracell.com/en-us/contact/)

Creative Assembly/Total War: Warhammer III (https://www.totalwar.com/support/)

Finder Australia

Virgin Galactic

Bungie

Discover Financial Services

Capcom

Allergan Aesthetics Coolsculpting

[–] pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

BEANS

Addictive carbs and salt, dirt cheap, and healthy as shit. Also convenient and compatible with most dietary/ethical restrictions.

If you learn to like beans when you're 20 and throw it into an index fund, you'll have a modest retirement fund just on the money you saved (yes, I calculated it based on money saved and growth of the S&P).

And not even a real internet forum with some connection to the world, like a forum for engineers or something, but just these generic cat video style forums that don't really add huge value to anyone's life. Your entire existence is to fill the 30-second void for people standing in elevators.

[–] pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is an objectively sad life. Imagine people asking what you did with your life and your answer is "I had imaginary power on a now-defunct internet site doing unpaid work day in and day out. I spent hours upon hours of my life creating charts that only apply in this digital universe to make myself feel important while people who scrolled my page for five minutes a day on the subway were out doing things in the real world".