While I agree that we have a duty to avoid unethical brands whenever possible, there's just no way to escape them all. I live in a poor country and I there's a lot of "bad stuff" I have to buy just because it's what I can affford at the moment.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

The moment I start seeing Meta content here is the moment I leave. People are being very, VERY naive in thinking that the Fediverse is immune to corporate interest. Judging by the Mastodon response, we are already seeing that it's not.

We drive our cars and planes
And burn the fossil fuels
We ignore the scientists
And call them climate fools

We chop down all the forests
And fill the seas with trash
We melt the polar ice caps
And watch the glaciers crash

We suffer and we will die
From the heat as we get older
But hey, at least we created a lot of value
For our dear shareholders

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com

American solution: put the 3yo in prison for forced labour and arm all 1 year olds so they can defend themselves.

Work until you have no more energy left to live. Wait for your day off from work to live. Don't live because you have no energy left (plus the anxiety from having to work the next day). Feel like shit because you wasted your day off.

Repeat, repeat, repeat and die.

It's sad that the only two alternatives that you can think of are killing people or "letting them get away without anything".

He should be in jail, but it's a start.

I work with online sales and that's not what happens at all. Fake discounts just works, sadly, and people just won't learn. I don't really know why, maybe they use the "discount" as an excuse to themselves just to buy more stuff.

Last year in Brazil a rich right wing white man opened fire on the federal police and even threw grenades at them.

Here's a picture of him talking to the police after the shooting (he's the old guy on the left): https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2022/10/ED_VIS_241022_IL_PF_JEFFERSON_frame_935.jpeg?w=876&h=484&crop=1

I wonder what would have happened to him if he was a poor black man.

I'm poor, living in a 3rd world country, with no money for air conditioning. What the fuck am I supposed to do.

Guess I'll just have to enjoy (lol, like I can) the few years I have left.

When you don't have the truth at your side, you gotta resort to something else.

It's winter where I live. Temperature should be around 10ºC but some places registered 30ºC. And this week we'll have our 4th hurricane of 2023. My house is old and I fear soon I'll wake up without a roof.

My anxiety is so bad today. I keep trying to find new ways to deal with it, meds, meditation, exercise, but how the fuck am I supposed to keep up?

Shit, I already knew most of those graphs but I got sad anyway. I feel trapped.

So dont try so hard and go so far

"Freedom" can be used to justify lots of really bad stuff. Meta has too much money to be trusted, they WILL fuck the Fediverse up eventually for more profit on the first chance they get (and people with lots of money always get those chances).

And it's not just about morality and the fucked up stuff that's happened on Meta, Iike the Cambridge Analytica scandal. I stopped using Facebook years ago because of the low quality of the content being posted there. And last week I logged back in to sell some stuff and oh boy, the content managed to get even worse.

I don't want growth just for the sake of growth. We don't need big corporations getting involved.

My two cats died, vet's bill ate all my savings and today my car, that I use to get to work, broke and I got no money left to fix it. Got no family to help.

Not my best day for sure.

“esse protesto está me fazendo parar de usar o reddit”

Ótimo, então tá dando certo.

Dayum

It is possible, but Beehaw users won't see your comment (I may be wrong, this is still a bit complicated for me as well).