I was looking at the latest meme on the internet about the news coverage controversy over some obscure TV show host I’ve never heard of versus the Puerto Rico death count and was thinking once again how glad I don’t own one of those television devices.👿

Not only do televisions consume a lot of power – most people leave them plugged in night and day – their bright fast moving pictures can warp the human mind. I had for a while an HDTV tuner adapter for my monitor until it broke 📺 but I rarely used it because I felt commercial television was all about advertising and selling products that I could never afford or even want. 💸I used to watch the PBS Newshour but lost interest in it after a short while. Television is such a waste of time.

While I don’t have internet for my laptop computer at home, I admit I do like watching YouTube videos down at the park or the library.💻 I kind of find some of the agriculture channels interesting, 🚜I do find the teardowns of electronics and education on the basics of electricity fascinating. I’ve learned a lot that way, especially about Arduino and other simple electronics projects🔌. I also enjoy checking out some of the off-grid living channels and learning how people survive and live the good non materialistic life in the wilderness. Half the time I have the videos playing in the background while I do other things. But I can’t imagine spending a half hour watching the commercial trash they broadcast over the air.

I do try to keep knowledgeable about the news on Facebook and Twitter and checking NPR.org from time to time. Especially in the morning I’ll put on NPR news on my transistor radio to keep updated on what’s happening, 📻although I will turn it off if I think it’s getting too partisan and political as I don’t need to be told what to think by a multimillion dollar enterprise.