One way to block celebrities in your more practical day-to-day: install an image blocker on your browser. Set it so that no images auto-load. Depending on the addon you use, you can click on the image to load it, or you can turn it off for particular pages, temporarily or permanently. But what I find great about it is that when I click on a link to a news story that's in one of those semi-tabloidy venues like the New York Post or the UK Mirror or whatever, you can just scan the news article you wanted to read, and not be assaulted by dozens of scantily-clad, chemically-enhanced celebrities in the sidebar, begging for your attention. They don't exist unless you give them permission.
Picking up trash is one of those self-multiplying things. You think you're just picking up a few cups and wrappers. But the thing is, you're also preventing a ton more trash going there, when you do that. The initial trash might've blown there on its own, or been dropped by one of those 0.05% of totally antisocial people who don't give a crap. BUT, once there's visible trash on the ground somewhere, it's like it gives the greenlight to a much larger slice of not-quite-so-antisocial people to drop their trash there. Like, they wouldn't chuck their 32oz fastfood cup on the ground in a perfectly clean parkland. They're influenced by what everyone else is doing. But if there's already trash there... now it's OK. And then the trash accumulates much much faster. So I'm really careful about windblown trash in my yard, especially right after the municipal trash pickup. Because if it looks clean, people are reluctant to drop trash. But if they can already see trash... they start chucking things out their car windows into the looks-like-an-empty-lot next to our house (that's actually our yard). Make everybody feel like this is a no-trash zone, where all the cool kids use a trash can!
Around here, there is a very handy personality test you can perform on new acquaintances: take them to the Waffle House. I love the Waffle House-- not for the food, but for the ambience. Waffle house does not judge. Everyone goes to the Waffle House, but a lot of people think they are too good for the staff there. WH is the region's premier second-chance employer, so a lot of their staff at any given time are gonna be on probation or in rehab. These are people who've been through a lot, and are trying to make it better. Respect! So if you take someone to WH, you can get a really, really good feel for how they treat people they percieve are lower social status than themselves. Valuable info!
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One way to block celebrities in your more practical day-to-day: install an image blocker on your browser. Set it so that no images auto-load. Depending on the addon you use, you can click on the image to load it, or you can turn it off for particular pages, temporarily or permanently. But what I find great about it is that when I click on a link to a news story that's in one of those semi-tabloidy venues like the New York Post or the UK Mirror or whatever, you can just scan the news article you wanted to read, and not be assaulted by dozens of scantily-clad, chemically-enhanced celebrities in the sidebar, begging for your attention. They don't exist unless you give them permission.
Picking up trash is one of those self-multiplying things. You think you're just picking up a few cups and wrappers. But the thing is, you're also preventing a ton more trash going there, when you do that. The initial trash might've blown there on its own, or been dropped by one of those 0.05% of totally antisocial people who don't give a crap. BUT, once there's visible trash on the ground somewhere, it's like it gives the greenlight to a much larger slice of not-quite-so-antisocial people to drop their trash there. Like, they wouldn't chuck their 32oz fastfood cup on the ground in a perfectly clean parkland. They're influenced by what everyone else is doing. But if there's already trash there... now it's OK. And then the trash accumulates much much faster. So I'm really careful about windblown trash in my yard, especially right after the municipal trash pickup. Because if it looks clean, people are reluctant to drop trash. But if they can already see trash... they start chucking things out their car windows into the looks-like-an-empty-lot next to our house (that's actually our yard). Make everybody feel like this is a no-trash zone, where all the cool kids use a trash can!
Around here, there is a very handy personality test you can perform on new acquaintances: take them to the Waffle House. I love the Waffle House-- not for the food, but for the ambience. Waffle house does not judge. Everyone goes to the Waffle House, but a lot of people think they are too good for the staff there. WH is the region's premier second-chance employer, so a lot of their staff at any given time are gonna be on probation or in rehab. These are people who've been through a lot, and are trying to make it better. Respect! So if you take someone to WH, you can get a really, really good feel for how they treat people they percieve are lower social status than themselves. Valuable info!