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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 04:57:30 JST StillIRise1963

   You are not above a daily diet of propaganda affecting you slowly, over time. STOP watching CNN.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 04:57:18 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Woodchaz
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     @johnlogic @Woodchaz @davejackson @StillIRise1963
     Do you think it’s important to eat a good breakfast? That breakfast is the most important meal of the day?

     That piece of common wisdom was literally the invention of the breakfast food industry: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfast-health-america-kellog-food-lifestyle

     People need to eat. Different people find that eating at different times of day works best for them. There’s nothing special about breakfast whatsoever. Complete fabrication.

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     John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 (johnlogic@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 04:57:19 JST John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺

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     @Woodchaz @davejackson @StillIRise1963

     I'm not sure what the answer is, though I'll bet you could get an answer from nine out of ten dentists.

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     Woodchaz (woodchaz@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 04:57:21 JST Woodchaz

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     @davejackson @StillIRise1963
     Sometimes I wonder how much of what I think I know came from advertising.

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     Woodchaz (woodchaz@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 04:57:28 JST Woodchaz

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     Another form of propaganda we don't acknowledge: advertising.

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     Dave Jackson (davejackson@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 04:57:28 JST Dave Jackson

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     @Woodchaz @StillIRise1963
     When I was at school in the 60's I remember a schoolmate saying every advert was an advert for capitism. I thought at the time yeh, that's pretty much right... And still do.

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     Woodchaz (woodchaz@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 05:57:56 JST Woodchaz

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     • John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺
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     @StillIRise1963 @inthehands @johnlogic @davejackson
     Also thinking about the way they make us - men and women - insecure about our bodies. YouTube is packed with that type of marketing. Diet, grooming, low testosterone, feminine & masculine soap & deodorant, cosmetics... It never ends.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 05:57:56 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @Woodchaz @StillIRise1963 @johnlogic @davejackson
     Heck, it’s not just consumer health & beauty! Why do scam diets sell?

     • Sense that problem is important
     • Sense of powerlessness
     • Experience w/frustration, failure, backsliding, breakdown
     • Peer pressure
     • Desperation for a simple answer

     All of that is a recipe for manufactured insecurity + hoax cures. And there’s a whole ••enterprise software industry•• that markets its services using exactly this strategy. Like diet pills for businesses.

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     StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 12-May-2023 05:57:58 JST StillIRise1963

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     @inthehands Yep. And, milk does not do many bodies good either. @johnlogic @Woodchaz @davejackson