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America Is A Commercial Hell Realm

     We live in a commercial hell realm. Adam Savage said that during the production of Mythbusters that the U.S. increased the amount of commercial time by about 4 minutes in the run of the Mythbusters show. MythBusters ran from 2003 to 2018 and over that 15 years the US broadcast of the Mythbusters was reduced by four additional minutes compared to the Australian version.      The Dead Internet Theory holds that in 2016 or 2017 the Internet became sterilized and now all content is generated by bots, and all aspects of the Internet are just designed to sell you things. Your job as a human is just to purchase, just to consume. So it doesn't matter if it's on television, or on YouTube, or on Facebook, everything is full of commercials, and everything is designed to sell you things.      In the last few years YouTube (owned by Google) has increased dramatically the amount of ads that are being forced into videos, and now DirecTV has eliminate...