Yeah, the Guinness pint is now 14.9 fucking ounces in the US. Relatives of mine in Ireland confirmed that if they did that shit there, they’d have another rebellion.

One of my public utilities just updated their ToS to waive a right to class action for users. Utter shit.

People like having choice, it was never about saving space in phones. I like my wired bose headphones that I’ve had for 15 years and will likely last at least 15 more. Those wireless ones are the definition of planned obsolescence.

In these cases, how about a wild third alternative: nonviolence.

As someone who has peacefully protested along with hundreds of others, where that was used on us, I wonder how you think this is not escalation. “to the point it causes harm” is escalation. FWIW, these weapons were first tested on Palestinians, to force them to leave their homes so Israeli settlers could assume their land. None of this is without escalation, it is precisely the point.

De Beers: always on the right side of history. 🫠

Solidarität.

Agreed. It is classic deflection propaganda. When you do horrific things exponentially worse, scream loudly about the opposing side and their actions. To be clear, raping women is absolutely wrong and those people should be arrested. 16000+ dead in a genocide should be the thing being spoken about. Instead this provides cover for never speaking about it.

International groups like the UN and Amnesty International talk about ongoing genocide. It is Israel that is committing this genocide. What you speak of is also terrible and sad. But Israel chooses this path, not Palestinians. So long as a group of people remain harshly oppressed, without food, water, education, healthcare, infrastructure, jobs, freedom to travel, freedom from being caged in, having homes taken from them at gunpoint or by bombs, we will continue to see bloody resistance with asymmetrical reaction.

Israeli quote from an open letter in Haaretz newspaper in 1967 right after the 6 Days War: “Our right to defend ourselves against annihilation does not grant us the right to oppress others. Conquest brings in its wake foreign rule. Foreign rule brings in its wake resistance. Resistance brings in its wake oppression. Oppression brings in its wake terrorism and counterterrorism. The victims of terrorism are usually innocent people. Holding onto the territories will turn us into a nation of murderers and murder victims. Let us leave the occupied territories now.”

Yeah, actual facts. Simply trying to stick to actual genocide instead of illusory projected genocide.

Yeah I agree, Israel should stop actually committing genocide.

Couldn’t pay me for a v1 of this thing.

Streisand Effect

Free Palestine from the river to the sea.

Photoshop neural filters might help out there. There are quite a few options in that set.

Source: https://godforsaken.website/@Shrigglepuss/111482466182637440

I suggest becoming informed and read about other economic systems yourself. There is a bit of ad hominem in your question. For many the materialist concerns of the current dominant economic system is why people complain. Those complaining aren’t the cause and should not be rebuked. The rich are getting richer and the poor; poorer. The chasm between the two only grows wider.

That said, many folks on the political spectrum would at least like to see the US end of neoliberal capitalism and a return to Kantian/welfare economic capitalism. You see flavors of this in European Democratic socialist countries, albeit even those are succumbing to neoliberalisation.

If you get into rights based discussion, many in that spectrum and further left would like to see positive rights enshirined constitutionally as well as the ERA. This would bring about many of those kantian economic mechanisms by default.

For many more on the left, we literally want to seize the means of production and distribute wealth equally among the masses. Bring about socialism to progress to communism. The DSA believes in a change and revolution from within, and have a national platform and a growing base. There are also the PSL, which demands a more revolutionary overthrow of capitalism into communism. Briefly put.

North Face typically has a pretty good policy on repairs and such. Could contact them and see what they say.

Capitalist self help psychobabble.

This is to appease regulators, it is not a viable solution for their users.

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t