I always mute and go off to do something else (meaning, I’m not watching, either). One of my worst hells was when I had to take care of my MIL for 2 months last year and while she watches YouTube non-stop, she does it with all the ads. I hadn’t realized how bad the ads there actually are these days. I almost didn’t make it.

I never went to the emergency room (was traveling where there weren’t doctors of any kind), but I was bitten by a black widow spider and was sick as a dog for days afterwards. Not sure if this counts for the question?

True, true. I also roast mine now, usually with just salt and olive oil. This is true for broccoli, as well. In this case, not boiling frozen garbage broccoli and instead steaming it just until bright green made a huge difference. The only thing that just changed for me was cilantro. Even as an adult I used to hate it but now love it. That one I have no explanation for.

This makes me more likely to actually visit here. I’m sick of reading propaganda and people spouting propaganda from all sides, and I come to spaces like this for funnies, interesting topics, and so on. My political interests go elsewhere. I appreciate not having to wade through them here.

See if the command line utility “detox” removes it. I use it in a bash file that tidies everything up for me before I do my daily backup.

Go to the directory you want to clean up and type:

detox *

If you don’t want to clean up everything, you can limit it. For example, if I only want to clean up PDF files, I’d do:

detox *.pdf

Detox replaces all the ugly characters with underscores. I personally hate underscores for most everything and use dashes instead. So after detox runs I also run:

rename ‘y/_/-/’ *

Then, because I want every file named only with lowercase letters, I also run:

rename ‘y/A-Z/a-z/’ *

(edit to remove duplicate info)