Me 2 myself, upon discovering some new media to consume: i will like this a normal amount :) it will be casual this time :) just some light entertainment :)
Online advertising uses over 100 TWh of electricity per year, about 1/10th the consumption of the entire internet, and produces about 60 megatons of CO2 as of 2016
Junk mail destroys over 100 million trees every year in the US alone. 44% of junk mail is discarded without even being opened, and only about 22% is recycled
Each digital billboard consumes about 30 times more energy than the average American household, and there are almost 9,000 just in the US
All of this for an industry that objectively makes people’s lives worse, that everyone openly hates, whose only goal is to manipulate people to buy things that they by definition do not need. And this isn’t even including TV and radio ads, conventional billboards, posters, construction, maintenance, design, all the countless hours of labor spent polluting our public spaces and our minds with the sole purpose of making the rich richer
one of my favorite genres of discourse is when people try valiantly to take fictional (and often fantastical) scenarios and compare them to real life standards to make them more problematic
The funniest implication of the reveal of the three vampire women living in Dracula’s castle that at some point Dracula probably had to explain to his roommates that he was going to have a human guest over and he needs to keep up the ruse that he has servants, that he doesn’t live alone here, and all three of them looked him in the eyes and said: “we’re not doing that.”
And all three of them just sat there watching as Dracula uses his superpowers pretending to be the entire wait staff.
Weekly War - I email you a single page of War and Peace a week, with projected end in year 2043.
Frustratingly Frequent Finnegan - I email you each word of Finnegans Wake, seperately, at average reading speed (250 wpm) in completely random order.
Inescapable Idiot - I post the entirety of Dostoyevsky's Idiot in a single unbroken post and pay tumblr 10.000 dollars to blaze it onto every user's dash.
Atlas Absent - I don't email you anything, you avoid reading Atlas Shrugged.
#dada dadadadada da circus dada dadadadada da afro #circus afro circus afro circus afro polka dot polka dot polka dot afro #every other commercial I swear to god #it’s burned into my memory #you know everywhere at the end of time? #if I had a dementia simulator based on my memories this would be in it #this and education connection
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