Yeah I was being obtuse

Google has a browser now?

The real welcome to minnmax is always in the comments

I’m on 3 active forums and 2 lemmies and 2 mastos and I just leave myself logged in. It’s nothing like that. Somehow that’s still a better user experience than discord

If I’m being charitable I could presume that they left them so as to not disrupt sting operations

Thank you for sharing. That’s a rich article for topic hopping

Involves a cat, well known meme vehicle for millennia

Why is it weird to have different rules for computers and humans? They’re pretty different…

You can be shit without being shitty.

This is just the shittiest example of punching down on people who are really suffering.

Oh I can see how the word “option” could read like that. Glad you brought it up, to give me the chance to clarify

I am agreeing with op. Corpos and govs are the ones who have to do something. We individually and collectively also have to do something. Nothing changes for the better unless we have buy-in from individuals. The binary you’re presenting is one I didn’t intend with my comment. I was saying we should watch out for green washing, when functioning as a consumer.

That is, If you can avoid doing business with companies which are harming the environment then you should. The same goes for doing business with companies which are half-assed or insincere in their efforts (though these are naturally preferable).

So if you can’t avoid a purchase, and there isn’t a good choice, then obviously you should pick the most ecologically sound option available to you.

My main point is no one should feel virtuous for picking, like, “eco green Coca Cola” just because 5% of the proceeds go to saving the rainforest. They’re a reprehensible company, so far better to just not fuck with Coke in the first place.

Strikes, boycotts, or anything that hurts their donors’ wallets. There actually is some political will for it too, just not enough for individual politicians to push through. They need to be able to point to external unrest.

Yeah I remember it felt like fun, until I found out it was bad for you. That along with any kind of asphyxiation - who knew! You’d think just being able to look up “is huffing chrome bad for you” on the internet would inoculate kids against this kind of stupidity.

By way of explanation, we were all quite poor and ignorant where I grew up.

File under “green washing.”

If a company offers a more expensive “choice” of a greener option, rather than just being ecologically responsible by default, then you are being sold a product. That is, you get to express your superior “green” ethics by identifying with your purchase.

The company doesn’t actually care about the environment. They’re just doing the minimum to capture extra $$$

I would amend the quote to say “voting alone isn’t going to do shit.” IMO without direct action it’s just a slower slide into fascism.

Agreeing with both of you basically. I just don’t want anyone thinking that voting on its own is sufficient to address the problems we’re seeing

You don’t have to listen to it all day. I like checking in in before and after work.

But if all the stations in your area have ads, then ofc nah, don’t listen to that garbage.

I used to think that. But the amount of people hiding it, or just coping, is probably higher than you think.

Like I live in a pretty small city with an average gay community, and all it took was one person coming out as trans for a bunch of others to go “oh you know what me too - let’s do this,” so now we have like a whole posse of trans men that I see at the gym all the time (with their gains and their cool names lol).

I’m not saying this is always the case by any stretch, but if someone is super butch or super femme, they might not be cis.

but my cat is vegan don’t get mad it’s their choice I’ve tried!!

POV you’re the fifth person in a row to bring potato salad with eggs to my vegan potluck after I specifically wrote “PS and no potato salad please haha xD” on the rsvp

My request would be Every Single Futurama Episode Except for Jurassic Bark. 😪