Please try to follow these guidelines if you're making an informational post.

1. Moderators will choose one "cause" at a time to promote to the community (coming soon). If you'd like yours to be considered, please message the mods.

2. Title: Tell people who you're talking about and what they should do (e.g. "Why You Should Stop Buying Meat From Tyson Foods"

3. Give Background: Explain to people what the entity in question is, and what they have done to piss you off, especially if this is a recent development.

4. Tell people what to do and HOW: Should they stop buying a particular product? Should they share something on social media? Remember that people are lazy, so you need to spoon feed them if you want to maximize your impact. If they should email a company, provide them with a template. If they should reach out to the company on social media, provide a link to their page. If they should avoid buying a product, tell them where they should look out for it and how to identify it.

5. Provide Evidence: Tell people who you know this to be true. Wherever possible, offer some media articles from reputable sources, or offer the strongest evidence possible. Do NOT make false or exaggerated accusations, as this will lead to the removal of your post.

My vision for this community is a space where people can encourage others to vote with their dollar and with their feet by educating them on the fucked up shit that people and companies are doing. When the community reaches 500 members, mods will also select one "cause" at a time for the community to support.

If this sub grows it will need more mods, so please reach out if you're a perpetually pissed off person. :)

Thanks for joining!

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https://lemmy.world/c/protest

As part of my endless and possibly futile quest to be a less pathetic version of myself, I've embarked on a campaign to stop watching TV and movies. For me it's low hanging fruit - some people really love movies, but I honestly can't remember the last time I watched something that I truly enjoyed. It's just something to fill dead time when I'm too tired to think. It BOTHERS me that I've spent so many hours mindlessly watching shows that I didn't even like. I feel like I'm wasting my life every time I watch TV.

I've tried reading and podcasts with limited success. They're good to a point, but the type of content I like is usually either pretty heavy or requires some thought (philosophy, human rights, law, etc. are my areas of interest), and I'm increasingly having trouble with my attention span too.

I already cancelled Netflix a long time ago, but I just never found a good replacement for it. Usually I find myself doomscrolling or watching the same few movies I already own or playing chess on my phone. I decided when I started that I'd let myself finish watching the shows I already followed, but just wouldn't expose myself to any new ones. Now one of the last two shows that I had been following has been cancelled (which is understandable, the last season was AWFUL) and the other won't have a new season for a while because of the strike (go strikers), so I'd really like to make TV and movies a non-factor in my life.

So I'm looking for advice here. What other activities are less of a waste of valuable time but not mentally tasking? Has anyone had success improving their attention span? I'd love to become a bookworm but goddamn is it ever hard to keep my ass on a chair long enough to get through more than two chapters. I don't even know why my attention span is so bad - I actually used to tear through book and had no issue concentrating until about 5-10 years ago.

Any ideas?

So I grew up poor-ish, and my parents were always looking for a way to get us a bit of fun because most of our money went towards essentials. A childhood staple of mine was take it or leave it bins in various forms. One was at the garbage collection place (we had to take our own garbage because it costs money to have a garbage collector come in some places). People would put anything there that was still usable. We got furniture, electronics, and one time even one of those children's outdoor playground sets that would have sold for hundreds new. My mom would drive me to the local swimming pool (random place right?) where there was a take one leave one book place, and I would get a new book and drop off an old one.

Now I live in an apartment building that has an informal system like this. There's a basket/shelf thingy, and people leave stuff there, and someone else scoops it up. It gets cleaned at the end of every month, but most things get taken. I got most of my kitchen supplies that way, and have also given tons of stuff (the other day I saw someone wearing a dress that I gave away). I would honestly consider this one of the #1 selling points of my building.

Where can I go to find more of these? I'd love to trade in something I don't need for something that I'll use, or that I want to try out to see if it's useful. They are so in line with minimalism - rehome what you can't use, take what brings joy and utility. It's a shame that they aren't everywhere.

Everyone knows the classics. Only use cash (eh). Wait 30 days before making a purchase to see if the impulse wears off. Track your expenses. Save X% of your paycheque. But what are some more interesting ones?

Also, request your data people: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

If anything, cannabis seems like a much better (and more profitable) drug around which to build a leisurely establishment.

I'm not a digital nomad myself, just curious about the lifestyle. I've spent significant periods of time abroad, even working abroad, but I always had a place to come back to, usually the tiniest shoebox apartment somewhere.

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https://lemmy.world/c/yourlifegoals

TLDR: This is a list (incomplete) of companies that advertise with Reddit and put money in its pockets, and some contact forms for popular companies.

Brilliant Earth (www.brilliantearth.com - scroll to bottom and choose contact method)

Universal Studios (https://www.universalstudios.com/contact/general-and-miscellaneous)

Microsoft

Focus Features

Mitsubishi Motors (https://www.mitsubishicars.com/contact-us)

IBM

Intuit

Autodesk

Electronic Arts

Ally Financial

Discover

Up Australia/Up Banking

ClearScore

Noosa Yoghurt (https://noosayoghurt.com/contact/)

BMW Mini Cooper

Adobe (https://www.facebook.com/Adobe/)

Adidas (https://www.facebook.com/adidas/)

Adrenaline Australia

GameStop ([email protected])

H&M (https://www.facebook.com/hm OR https://www.instagram.com/hm/)

Liquid I.V.

Oatly (https://www.oatly.com/contact OR https://www.facebook.com/Oatly/ OR https://www.instagram.com/oatly/)

JOE & THE JUICE (https://www.joejuice.com/contact)

Excedrin (https://www.excedrin.com/contact-us/)

Rayovac (https://www.rayovac.com/contact-us/)

Nespresso (https://www.facebook.com/nespresso/ OR https://www.instagram.com/nespresso/)

Novo Nordisk

BackMarket

Caliber Fitness ([email protected] OR https://caliberstrong.com/contact-us/)

Lucozade (https://www.lucozade.com/support/)

Moen

Uber

HP

Tezos

Truebill

Ulta Beauty (https://www.ulta.com/guestservices/contact-us)

MeUndies (https://meundies.kustomer.help/contact/how-can-we-help-HyfOyZn0o)

Lagunitas

Aviva

Beyond Meat (https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/contact/)

Bitstamp ([email protected])

Hootsuite

Zoetus

Wolt (https://explore.wolt.com/contact)

Fineco Bank

Alienware

Tails.com (https://shop.tails.com/contact-us/)

Duracell (https://www.duracell.com/en-us/contact/)

Creative Assembly/Total War: Warhammer III (https://www.totalwar.com/support/)

Finder Australia

Virgin Galactic

Bungie

Discover Financial Services

Capcom

Allergan Aesthetics Coolsculpting

Please message if you're interested in moderating this community!

Basically the title. I'd like to build a community where people can give away and receive free clothes, and rack up stars for every item they give away. This is just an idea, it may or may not take off. I've built some of the underlying infrastructure.

Please message me if you're interested. This community would focus more on planning out bigger life goals rather than day-to-day goals.

This absolute treasure is for you.