I did not read DigiShaman's posts because they were modded too far down for me to see without effort; however, I did want to comment on the Sharia law on all Americans thing.
Islam is designed to gather as much control as possible, as are some other religions. Sharia law is demanded by many (how many? can't give exact numbers) Muslims. Many places where a government is weak have implemented Sharia law, except Saudi Arabia where the government is strong and supports Sharia law explicitly.
Fearing that Sharia law will come to America is a legitimate fear. It is practiced in some Muslim communities in addition to regular "law and order" regardless of whether or not a government recognizes it.
The lack of ability to point to a specific American Muslim person supporting Sharia is not a huge problem. I am sure it would not be difficult to actually ask American Muslims if they would support Sharia law and find some that say yes. Here is a link discussing actual numbers but take it with a grain of salt: http://www.pewresearch.org/fac... as there is no number given for American Muslim support for Sharia. It is still safe to say that there is more than one.
All of that being said, hatred, stereotypes, racism, nationalism, religionism(?), sexism, etc are all repugnant to me.
Christianity (maybe others too?) teach that God is Love. That is respectable (but I am not Christian). If you act with love in your heart, you will find that violence and such is a VERY rare need in this "modern" world.
They are, well, yes, that's right, they're Nazis, and their so repugnant and evil that just about goddamned Republican out there is running from them as fast as possible...
With the exception of the Republican President of the United States.
I am curious. What makes you think that the President of the United States is not "running" from them?
I have read his words and see nothing supporting the self-titled "Nazis". I did notice that his words did seem to disparage the... anti-Nazis(?) but they applied equally well to the "Nazis".
Perhaps I missed something here but I see nothing that would lead a rational person to believe that the President offered ANY support to the "Nazis". I am seeing a hysterical amount of spin and bias along with a lot of innuendo... but this makes me even more suspicious that this outrage against Trump is being manufactured. Requiring him to "run away as fast as possible" is absurd. He is the President and should not be manipulable. Simple condemnation should be enough... and I read his words and they contained condemnation.
For the record, I wanted neither Trump nor Clinton for president and support neither of them.
FWIW, I work for Google and interview software engineering candidates. I have never, ever been told to go easier on diversity candidates, or indeed anything other than to apply the same rigorous standard to all.
Perhaps the filtering is happening before they reach you for an interview? HR is definitely allowing you to see only a subset of all candidates who apply... the question is: Is that subset based purely on qualifications or are there things beyond qualifications that determine who you get to interview?
An example (not based on real numbers): 100 Resumes are received. 90 of them are white males, the rest are spread across various races and genders. You get to interview 10 people. Statistics says that you should only be interviewing 1 non-white non-male person. Is the reality that you actually interview 5 non-white non-male people?
Hm. It seems to me that according to most Puritans you are very blessed. Pain brings you closer to God. Pain is good in that it removes most of the 7 deadly sins from your consciousness.
The people who are not such extreme in their Puritanical views think you should just die and stop bothering them with your whining.
The actual answer you will receive is that nobody gives a fuck if you are in pain and your pain is not a justification to opening the door to possible casual use of marijuana.
From me personally, to you personally, I have compassion for you and your condition and wish I could help. I did vote for legalizing medical marijuana so hopefully that helps you feel a bit better. Good luck. I hope the doctors can find (lol, yeah right, they won't even try) the root cause of your pain and address it directly.
It is a shame I already commented in this discussion. You are at +4 but should be at +6.
Honestly, the amount of change in ALL of the things I use is beginning to cause me to just say "fuck it, I don't care anymore. I will only use your product because I have no other choice." Microsoft is the WORST offender in that. They change things not because they want to, not because they need to, not because it is better. They change things just to make things harder for you. Go ahead and search for Screensaver settings on Windows 10. Most of the time, you will find nothing or logon screen settings. Oddly, sometimes, it will show you where you can change screensaver settings.
Firefox can't come back - this is a battle they cannot win.
You are so very very wrong. Not only can they win the battle, they can win the entire war. Easily.
Give control back to the users. Not features, not speed, not default UIs that are pretty. Control.
Let the user decide if they want a video to play. Let the user decide if they want a script to run. Let the user decide if they want to load images from other sites. Let the user decide if they want a status bar. Let the user decide if they want to use the URL bar as a search bar.
I could go on, but the point is, they are taking away control at EVERY turn. The other browsers never let the user have control to begin with which is why Firefox was popular and HIGHLY recommended.
I just do not understand the need of Firefox, Gnome, and KDE to take control away from the user. Why? What is the point? How is it useful? What makes you think someone wants to use your product if it only embodies your visions with all other visions specifically excluded, denied, or just not permitted?
I understand why Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc do it. I do not understand why Firefox, Gnome, and KDE do it.
Again, even with Firefox 54, the current stable release, it's still very noticeably slower than Chrome. But if you download the nightly build of Firefox I think the speed improvement is fantastic.
There is nothing that I do in Firefox that is slow enough to be an issue. I typically only want to see information. Displaying things is usually pretty easy.
I run NoScript. Religiously. Speed is not an issue for Firefox for me.
For example any driver who dropped off and came back when surge pricing started could simply not be given ride opportunities until the surge ended.
Another way of looking at this is that some of the drivers are unwilling to drive when fares are at "normal" price but figure it is worth it when surge pricing is available. Perhaps there is not even collusion in this and Uber is spinning it as collusion to introduce new rules...
But then, if those drivers were not willing to drive without surge pricing, changing the rules will not make them more willing to drive when fares are low.
"Any time I would question the process, they would threaten me with contempt of court proceedings," says Lackman.
Fine. I actually am in contempt of the court so you probably should find me in contempt. I will not be treated this way.
Fortunately, it wasn't me but that would have been my attitude. I would keep escalating until it became a full-blown terrorist campaign, burning down courthouses, shooting government officials, etc. The government almost always wins but it is important to stand up for yourself anyways.
Firefox with NoScript is the only reasonable way to use 'The Web'.
If the information I am looking for can not be found in that configuration, then I simply do without. There are important things to me, like breathing, eating, sleeping, fucking... and then there is everything else.
I want high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?
Actually, all of that sounds like fun except the smoking in the no-smoking area. If people do not want to be around smoke, I would feel like I am imposing on them by smoking in their vicinity. When walking down the street smoking a cigarette, i step to the very edge of the sidewalk and make sure I am not blowing out smoke as I walk past people.
I should be able to do what I want, but I need to make sure I do not physically affect others in doing what they want. That being said, if I am smoking and someone comes into the area I am in, fuck'em if they don't like the smoke. They came to me.
And yeah I do not care if they are offended by seeing my naked jello covered body with a huge boner while reading Playboy magazine; although, to be quite honest, it is difficult to read and run at the same time... but I assume you did not mean actual running.;)
Note that I'm in software, in London, earn a very good salary and have 20 years of experience - I'm a model candidate - and I've been told by some people over there that I may as well not bother and to "explore other options"...
You are the perfect candidate for what the H1-B program "should" be for. The H1-B program has been twisted to lower the average wages of all employees, in which case, you are ideally the WRONG candidate.
I wonder what they are doing with all of that extra money they are "saving"? Surely there are only so many castles and personal servants a person could own. I do not see the money going into new and innovative businesses nor improving infrastructure, nor, most importantly, increasing our understanding and ability to manipulate the universe through Scientific Research.
Is it just desirable to have utterly poverty stricken masses that can be abused and an upper class that never needs to worry about anything other than how their stupid narcissistic endeavors may end up destroying all of modern civilization?
I just don't get it. Life is more fun for everyone (including the upper class) if they have lots of talented and creative people willing to do talented and creative things. People in abject poverty can rarely achieve talented and creative things of note. There are no resources for such things. Sure, dancing, football (soccer or American), etc require talent and can be fun to watch, but I am thinking more fundamentally here. New literature that makes people think and possibly drives new cultural attitudes. Scientific questions generally need money to validate answers.
I dunno. It seems like we are in a war of absolute control while forgetting what life is really all about: The Experience... and creating new humans.
Seriously dude, I'll be worried when I see swarm of robots building killer robots factories, replicator style. Until then, humans worry me the most.
Humans meddling with biological organisms scare me far more than humans with mechanical weapons. After all, biological organisms already have factories to build more organisms.
Don't think of "weaponized anthrax", think more of a bacteria that has been pressured into evolving the need to eat iron and shit out arsenic. AI plus mechanical structures may be the next step in the war against oblivion but they are still a long way from being a general threat to humanity.
"Extinction-level threat" how, exactly? Is someone insane enough to build a self-sustaining robot soldier factory and then give an AI system complete control of it?
This should give you a chill: BioWeapons. Self sustaining and primitive "intelligence".
I think it was Fred Saberhagen (I should check) that wrote a series of stories about thinking machines that could replicate. I think the first book I read was called Berzerker. Really awesome stories.
Musk is making a living developing innovative technologies for transportation on multiple platforms.
Zuckerberg is profiting from selling information that YOU type into MySpace 2.0.
Is there really any comparison between the two?
Of course there is a comparison... it just does not flatter Zuckerberg very much. They are both leaders of large companies; but everything else goes downhill from there for Zuckerberg. lol
I saw your original post and understood it immediately. Even if the "special" character did not render correctly (it did) any Tolkien reader would have INSTANTLY recognized it for it was. Rather than defend your words against someone who is unfamiliar with Tolkien, I would just recommend ignoring the comment entirely since they will not understand it regardless of proper rendering of special characters.
Nazgul is the pure ASCII for the term. I can not even re-create the special character.
One of the most common attempts at applying AI has been diagnosis by doctors. That's not a low-skill job.
The majority of the work performed by doctors could be performed tech school graduates with some basic non-AI software. Unless the "injury" is obvious, such as getting shot in the leg, all a doctor will do is treat symptoms and send you to an emergency room if the symptoms persist and become worse.
I have two different issues that have been getting worse for years, every single doctor will only prescribe a steroidal cream for the skin issues (what causes the issue? Nobody knows or cares.) or nothing at all for the digestion issues; although one Gastroenterologist did try to give something that would attempt to hide the symptoms.
In short, myself with Google could do just as good as those doctors except Google can't prescribe steroidal scream.
I can't wait for AI to get rid of doctors. They just fill out paperwork and never engage their brains.
He wants to reorganize the FBI and put them under direct control of the president so he can politicize law enforcement.
Um... the last I checked, the FBI is under the Executive. Either your words make no sense or you will need to clarify further for those words to actually have any meaning.
A little clarification is on order here: The Department of Justice is an Executive Agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation exists under the Department of Justice; therefore, The Federal Bureau of Investigation is de facto an Executive department.
To be generous, I will offer the possibility that what you are speaking of is The Executive trying to remove the Department of Justice from within the Chain of Command for more direct control over the FBI; however, I do not think it can be that simple. There are many rules and regulations and purchasing processes and such that will require modifying to get very little gain.
At this point, and with the way Trump is treating Sessions
I have no idea how Trump is treating Sessions because I do not care about the minutiae of day to day White House dealings.
I do most sincerely hope that Sessions is being treated absolutely terribly. I hope he resigns as soon as possible. His mental makeup and "philosophical architecture" is not appropriate for the future. He exists solely on the thoughts and zeitgeists of the past.
I'd really not want to see Firefox wasting their precious development resources to make a ridiculous corner case as this one work properly
While I agree with you, I would argue that the software in question should handle hitting limits gracefully regardless of how absurd those limits might be.
I've been induated (sic) with ads for so long that I automatically phase them out unless it is something I am interested in. On ad spammy sites like click through articles I don't even see ad banners anymore. For unskippable video ads I just move over to another browser tab until it is over.
If you use Firefox, may I recommend NoScript? Your brain does a great job at filtering what you see, but your computer is not designed to filter the way you like it to and bad things can and do happen inside of the operating system.
Don't just focus on the visual abuse, pay some attention to the computational abuse too. NoScript can help with that.
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I did not read DigiShaman's posts because they were modded too far down for me to see without effort; however, I did want to comment on the Sharia law on all Americans thing.
Islam is designed to gather as much control as possible, as are some other religions. Sharia law is demanded by many (how many? can't give exact numbers) Muslims. Many places where a government is weak have implemented Sharia law, except Saudi Arabia where the government is strong and supports Sharia law explicitly.
Fearing that Sharia law will come to America is a legitimate fear. It is practiced in some Muslim communities in addition to regular "law and order" regardless of whether or not a government recognizes it.
The lack of ability to point to a specific American Muslim person supporting Sharia is not a huge problem. I am sure it would not be difficult to actually ask American Muslims if they would support Sharia law and find some that say yes. Here is a link discussing actual numbers but take it with a grain of salt: http://www.pewresearch.org/fac... as there is no number given for American Muslim support for Sharia. It is still safe to say that there is more than one.
All of that being said, hatred, stereotypes, racism, nationalism, religionism(?), sexism, etc are all repugnant to me.
Christianity (maybe others too?) teach that God is Love. That is respectable (but I am not Christian). If you act with love in your heart, you will find that violence and such is a VERY rare need in this "modern" world.
They are, well, yes, that's right, they're Nazis, and their so repugnant and evil that just about goddamned Republican out there is running from them as fast as possible...
With the exception of the Republican President of the United States.
I am curious. What makes you think that the President of the United States is not "running" from them?
I have read his words and see nothing supporting the self-titled "Nazis". I did notice that his words did seem to disparage the ... anti-Nazis(?) but they applied equally well to the "Nazis".
Perhaps I missed something here but I see nothing that would lead a rational person to believe that the President offered ANY support to the "Nazis". I am seeing a hysterical amount of spin and bias along with a lot of innuendo... but this makes me even more suspicious that this outrage against Trump is being manufactured. Requiring him to "run away as fast as possible" is absurd. He is the President and should not be manipulable. Simple condemnation should be enough... and I read his words and they contained condemnation.
For the record, I wanted neither Trump nor Clinton for president and support neither of them.
FWIW, I work for Google and interview software engineering candidates. I have never, ever been told to go easier on diversity candidates, or indeed anything other than to apply the same rigorous standard to all.
Perhaps the filtering is happening before they reach you for an interview? HR is definitely allowing you to see only a subset of all candidates who apply... the question is: Is that subset based purely on qualifications or are there things beyond qualifications that determine who you get to interview?
An example (not based on real numbers): 100 Resumes are received. 90 of them are white males, the rest are spread across various races and genders. You get to interview 10 people. Statistics says that you should only be interviewing 1 non-white non-male person. Is the reality that you actually interview 5 non-white non-male people?
So what fucking option do I have?
Hm. It seems to me that according to most Puritans you are very blessed. Pain brings you closer to God. Pain is good in that it removes most of the 7 deadly sins from your consciousness.
The people who are not such extreme in their Puritanical views think you should just die and stop bothering them with your whining.
The actual answer you will receive is that nobody gives a fuck if you are in pain and your pain is not a justification to opening the door to possible casual use of marijuana.
From me personally, to you personally, I have compassion for you and your condition and wish I could help. I did vote for legalizing medical marijuana so hopefully that helps you feel a bit better. Good luck. I hope the doctors can find (lol, yeah right, they won't even try) the root cause of your pain and address it directly.
It is a shame I already commented in this discussion. You are at +4 but should be at +6.
Honestly, the amount of change in ALL of the things I use is beginning to cause me to just say "fuck it, I don't care anymore. I will only use your product because I have no other choice." Microsoft is the WORST offender in that. They change things not because they want to, not because they need to, not because it is better. They change things just to make things harder for you. Go ahead and search for Screensaver settings on Windows 10. Most of the time, you will find nothing or logon screen settings. Oddly, sometimes, it will show you where you can change screensaver settings.
Firefox can't come back - this is a battle they cannot win.
You are so very very wrong. Not only can they win the battle, they can win the entire war. Easily.
Give control back to the users. Not features, not speed, not default UIs that are pretty. Control.
Let the user decide if they want a video to play.
Let the user decide if they want a script to run.
Let the user decide if they want to load images from other sites.
Let the user decide if they want a status bar.
Let the user decide if they want to use the URL bar as a search bar.
I could go on, but the point is, they are taking away control at EVERY turn. The other browsers never let the user have control to begin with which is why Firefox was popular and HIGHLY recommended.
I just do not understand the need of Firefox, Gnome, and KDE to take control away from the user. Why? What is the point? How is it useful? What makes you think someone wants to use your product if it only embodies your visions with all other visions specifically excluded, denied, or just not permitted?
I understand why Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc do it. I do not understand why Firefox, Gnome, and KDE do it.
Again, even with Firefox 54, the current stable release, it's still very noticeably slower than Chrome. But if you download the nightly build of Firefox I think the speed improvement is fantastic.
There is nothing that I do in Firefox that is slow enough to be an issue. I typically only want to see information. Displaying things is usually pretty easy.
I run NoScript. Religiously. Speed is not an issue for Firefox for me.
Mozilla has lost its way. I have very little hope that Firefox will ever be recommended by me again.
How do you expect us to run the stories you would like to see on the front page when you don't alert us about it?
Ummm... mind reading? If you had hired a mind reader on your staff, you could post all of the stories that people want but never asked for.
Is living in reality required or can we all just stay in fantasy world? (CAPTCHA referee, lol)
For example any driver who dropped off and came back when surge pricing started could simply not be given ride opportunities until the surge ended.
Another way of looking at this is that some of the drivers are unwilling to drive when fares are at "normal" price but figure it is worth it when surge pricing is available. Perhaps there is not even collusion in this and Uber is spinning it as collusion to introduce new rules...
But then, if those drivers were not willing to drive without surge pricing, changing the rules will not make them more willing to drive when fares are low.
"Any time I would question the process, they would threaten me with contempt of court proceedings," says Lackman.
Fine. I actually am in contempt of the court so you probably should find me in contempt. I will not be treated this way.
Fortunately, it wasn't me but that would have been my attitude. I would keep escalating until it became a full-blown terrorist campaign, burning down courthouses, shooting government officials, etc. The government almost always wins but it is important to stand up for yourself anyways.
Firefox with NoScript is the only reasonable way to use
'The Web'.
If the information I am looking for can not be found in that configuration, then I simply do without. There are important things to me, like breathing, eating, sleeping, fucking... and then there is everything else.
I want high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?
Actually, all of that sounds like fun except the smoking in the no-smoking area. If people do not want to be around smoke, I would feel like I am imposing on them by smoking in their vicinity. When walking down the street smoking a cigarette, i step to the very edge of the sidewalk and make sure I am not blowing out smoke as I walk past people.
I should be able to do what I want, but I need to make sure I do not physically affect others in doing what they want. That being said, if I am smoking and someone comes into the area I am in, fuck'em if they don't like the smoke. They came to me.
And yeah I do not care if they are offended by seeing my naked jello covered body with a huge boner while reading Playboy magazine; although, to be quite honest, it is difficult to read and run at the same time... but I assume you did not mean actual running. ;)
Note that I'm in software, in London, earn a very good salary and have 20 years of experience - I'm a model candidate - and I've been told by some people over there that I may as well not bother and to "explore other options"...
You are the perfect candidate for what the H1-B program "should" be for. The H1-B program has been twisted to lower the average wages of all employees, in which case, you are ideally the WRONG candidate.
I wonder what they are doing with all of that extra money they are "saving"? Surely there are only so many castles and personal servants a person could own. I do not see the money going into new and innovative businesses nor improving infrastructure, nor, most importantly, increasing our understanding and ability to manipulate the universe through Scientific Research.
Is it just desirable to have utterly poverty stricken masses that can be abused and an upper class that never needs to worry about anything other than how their stupid narcissistic endeavors may end up destroying all of modern civilization?
I just don't get it. Life is more fun for everyone (including the upper class) if they have lots of talented and creative people willing to do talented and creative things. People in abject poverty can rarely achieve talented and creative things of note. There are no resources for such things. Sure, dancing, football (soccer or American), etc require talent and can be fun to watch, but I am thinking more fundamentally here. New literature that makes people think and possibly drives new cultural attitudes. Scientific questions generally need money to validate answers.
I dunno. It seems like we are in a war of absolute control while forgetting what life is really all about: The Experience... and creating new humans.
After 30 years of budget cuts schools don't have enough...
This REALLY caught my eye.
Tuition rates are climbing much faster than inflation. We have an astoundingly huge amount of student loans at risk of default...
What exactly is going on here? More money is being demanded for fewer services? What is the money being used for?
The idea of automating murder sickens me and I fear that death may be trivialized if it's automated.
This has already happened. Nazi Germany, Jews, etc.
Everyone seems to be forgetting the lessons learned during all of that and are seeking to rebuild it all again.
Seriously dude, I'll be worried when I see swarm of robots building killer robots factories, replicator style. Until then, humans worry me the most.
Humans meddling with biological organisms scare me far more than humans with mechanical weapons. After all, biological organisms already have factories to build more organisms.
Don't think of "weaponized anthrax", think more of a bacteria that has been pressured into evolving the need to eat iron and shit out arsenic. AI plus mechanical structures may be the next step in the war against oblivion but they are still a long way from being a general threat to humanity.
"Extinction-level threat" how, exactly? Is someone insane enough to build a self-sustaining robot soldier factory and then give an AI system complete control of it?
This should give you a chill: BioWeapons. Self sustaining and primitive "intelligence".
I think it was Fred Saberhagen (I should check) that wrote a series of stories about thinking machines that could replicate. I think the first book I read was called Berzerker. Really awesome stories.
Yep. I just checked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Awesome stuff. We are much further away from that than biological organisms being encouraged to be a "problem".
Musk is making a living developing innovative technologies for transportation on multiple platforms.
Zuckerberg is profiting from selling information that YOU type into MySpace 2.0.
Is there really any comparison between the two?
Of course there is a comparison... it just does not flatter Zuckerberg very much. They are both leaders of large companies; but everything else goes downhill from there for Zuckerberg. lol
I saw your original post and understood it immediately. Even if the "special" character did not render correctly (it did) any Tolkien reader would have INSTANTLY recognized it for it was. Rather than defend your words against someone who is unfamiliar with Tolkien, I would just recommend ignoring the comment entirely since they will not understand it regardless of proper rendering of special characters.
Nazgul is the pure ASCII for the term. I can not even re-create the special character.
One of the most common attempts at applying AI has been diagnosis by doctors. That's not a low-skill job.
The majority of the work performed by doctors could be performed tech school graduates with some basic non-AI software. Unless the "injury" is obvious, such as getting shot in the leg, all a doctor will do is treat symptoms and send you to an emergency room if the symptoms persist and become worse.
I have two different issues that have been getting worse for years, every single doctor will only prescribe a steroidal cream for the skin issues (what causes the issue? Nobody knows or cares.) or nothing at all for the digestion issues; although one Gastroenterologist did try to give something that would attempt to hide the symptoms.
In short, myself with Google could do just as good as those doctors except Google can't prescribe steroidal scream.
I can't wait for AI to get rid of doctors. They just fill out paperwork and never engage their brains.
He wants to reorganize the FBI and put them under direct control of the president so he can politicize law enforcement.
Um... the last I checked, the FBI is under the Executive. Either your words make no sense or you will need to clarify further for those words to actually have any meaning.
A little clarification is on order here: The Department of Justice is an Executive Agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation exists under the Department of Justice; therefore, The Federal Bureau of Investigation is de facto an Executive department.
To be generous, I will offer the possibility that what you are speaking of is The Executive trying to remove the Department of Justice from within the Chain of Command for more direct control over the FBI; however, I do not think it can be that simple. There are many rules and regulations and purchasing processes and such that will require modifying to get very little gain.
At this point, and with the way Trump is treating Sessions
I have no idea how Trump is treating Sessions because I do not care about the minutiae of day to day White House dealings.
I do most sincerely hope that Sessions is being treated absolutely terribly. I hope he resigns as soon as possible. His mental makeup and "philosophical architecture" is not appropriate for the future. He exists solely on the thoughts and zeitgeists of the past.
I'd really not want to see Firefox wasting their precious development resources to make a ridiculous corner case as this one work properly
While I agree with you, I would argue that the software in question should handle hitting limits gracefully regardless of how absurd those limits might be.
I've been induated (sic) with ads for so long that I automatically phase them out unless it is something I am interested in. On ad spammy sites like click through articles I don't even see ad banners anymore. For unskippable video ads I just move over to another browser tab until it is over.
If you use Firefox, may I recommend NoScript? Your brain does a great job at filtering what you see, but your computer is not designed to filter the way you like it to and bad things can and do happen inside of the operating system.
Don't just focus on the visual abuse, pay some attention to the computational abuse too. NoScript can help with that.