I’ve been noticing over la last few years that is is becoming more and more difficult to login to accounts, whether a bank account, a membership account, sometimes even browsing websites for shopping, through my VPN server. Is this just my impression or is there something going on now whereby there are services that keep list of VPN servers that are then sold to backs so that these parties can keep out anyone from trying to login via a VPN. It feels like the general consensus is VPN=malicious rather than "VPN=“this guy is just trying to protect his privacy”. I use AIRVPN but was wondering if there are VPN services that are more sophisticate and try to circumvent these VPN server blocks? It becoming a real pain to the point I’m wondering what it the point of paying fro a VPN is I’m finding myself having to login through my ISP IP rather than my VPN IP.
In most of the USA healthy food is not a luxury. There are luxurious or expensive healthy foods, sure, but the main issues I see is a lack of nutritional science education and lack of personal control.
People will still buy"lite" food full of sugar because they are told they are low on fat. Or will eat stuff full of artificial sweeteners because they are told they are low on sugars. Despite the fact that we know that artificial sweeteners are bad for gut health. We know seed oils ate bad, bit you have literal magazines obfuscating this with BS stories where they will try to put lipstick on a pig and confuse less Academic readers with weird takes that may go over the years if people who have not studies the subject. It is insidious, if you ask me. It is hard to thinkk or see that money interests do not have a hand. I mean, changing things for the better would 100% affect their bottom line. So, why not lie or obfuscate until they absolutely cannot?
The reality is that eating healthy takes some work and personal accountability and people can also be lazy. Since corps go out of their way to lie to people, either fully or by omission. Just like most tech corps do.
Most legalese is not hard to understand. But people are too lazy, or ignorant, to bother or care. Anyone who is reasonable and took the time to read say Apple’s or Google’s ToS would 100% try to avoid using them as much as possible. Why? Because trying to care about your privacy is work and can be less convinient. Sometimes people want a shine device for ego points. So no common sense needed. And the acri9ns needed to minimize those corp’s surveillance takes a bit of work too.
The USA has a capitalistic, convenience problem that has been propagandised by Corps in order to give them the impression that why bother XYZ if we can make it easier and convinient for you, it will only cost your privacy. And since privacy can be at times an abstract concept to many it does not register as important or as serious a risk to lose it.
People who live in say, countries like the old Easter block are far more aware of the propaganda being thrown at people today, for example. The way the UK and Germany are are not that different in many ways as the CCP and the old soviet union. You are 100% correct with the bias for instant gratification.
I try and give the general population a little more credit on these food issues - it appears to me that the main factor is time. People do not have enough time and energy to prepare every meal from whole fruits/veggies/whatever. Certainly laziness/lack of food education is an issue, but working eight hours plus an hour commute each way (like in the DC region) knocks out ten hours of your day already. Now adding on top of that the time it takes to think of a meal idea, purchase the goods, and prepare them, and this becomes an exhausting affair - one that never ends! And three meals a day? People need more free time to take care of themselves.
Fair. Time can also be a factor. Albeit you would agree that coupled to that there is also a sense of misconstrued set of priorities. Being fit is one of those things that there are no shortcuts for. Also, one had to pick and chose want is best and sometimes compromises must he done. Which I think it is a big issue who have been sold the lie that they can do and be whatever they want, which is for one not true. Also, there are only so many hours in a day, so clearly something had to give. Which in general to many it may he their health, whether they are aware of it or not.
There is also the fact that today’s society is not focused overly in quality of life but in profit and production. That is a grander issue that need to be address or we are just going to have unhealthier people who just die earlier.
From my own point of view, I have studies nutritional science and do not find it neither hard nor stressful to plan my diet. That is just me, bit I also took the time to learn. Again, time is once again the tricky one. Maybe I watch less TV, maybe I play less video games, or spend less time on my phone, but that time to take of my health has to come from somewhere. Again, we cannot do it all.
Yup, it does not end until we die. So, the best thing we can do is cherry pick what priorities matter the most to us and that we not happy but content.
Sorry to hear about the commute, commuting is one of the worst things in western culture and studies were done that showed that commuting was one of the most dreaded things adults do today.