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New comment by unhingedcrouton in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

unhingedcrouton — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 01:04:40 +0000

Hell yes. Advertising is legitimate interest but it has become completely degenerate with social networks and the attention economy.

It is the root cause of many modern issues and _something_ definitely needs to be done about it. It even erodes capitalism itself by making consumers the product, which has been known for a while but the generalization seems non-obvious - that this happens every time when to the producer-consumer relationship is introduced a third party that changes the financials incentives of producers.

I probably wouldn't go as far as making advertising completely illegal but I'd like to see it regulated and probably limited to spaces specifically made to be "advertising hubs" both online and in the physical world.

New comment by unhingedcrouton in "Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests"

unhingedcrouton — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 18:08:47 +0000

It is extremely difficult to get an ADHD / autism diagnosis and the needed support as an adult. Look up clinics dealing with these in your area, then exclude the ones that deal with children only, then exclude those who don't accept new patients unless in acute crisis, then check the wait times to be seen. Then try to actually message the few left and again, exclude those for more.

New comment by unhingedcrouton in "The Intellectual Obesity Crisis (2022)"

unhingedcrouton — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:08:31 +0000

> What we need is better filtering.

Better filtering, while useful, is a fools errand. What we really need is to remove the incentives to produce junk content. I have no idea how but I am pretty sure it is related to digital ~~cancer~~ advertising.