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Blocking real-world ads: is the future here? (adguard.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Super clever project, but goddamn does this need feel so dystopian.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Work 8 hours
Sleep 8 hours
Play 8 hours

Old-school dystopias were a fucking dream compared to the modern world I guess.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Al Bundy peaked in highschool, never went to college, was a shoe salesman at the mall. Al Bundy had an, at least, three bedroom single family home in a nice neighborhood, supported a family of four plus a dog on his single income, had ample free time to spend with family and friends and to spend on hobbies.

Al Bundy: Failure and constant butt of jokes in the 1980s, unobtainable vision of success in the 2020s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, through my lifetime that "Work 8 hours" somehow evolved into:

Leave for work at 7am. Show up for work by 8am. Get an hour for lunch, unpaid. Leave work at 5pm. Get home approximately 6pm, if you don't stop to buy groceries or something.

I suppose commuting and lunch are supposed to be part of those "8 hours of play"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Eight hours of labour, eight hours of recovery, eight hours of preparing for labour/recovery.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm all for the "SLEEP 8 HOURS" bit though. I need more of that in my life.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

If anything this is an overly optimistic representation of consumerism given that they limit work to 8 hours and encourage 8 hours of play