Well this has been a refreshingly calm and civil exchange of opinions.
10/10 would recommend.
jamesravey
joined 2 years ago
You can't boycott the businesses that aren't doing their part given that most businesses aren't doing their part and the ones that are produce stuff that's more expensive and/or less convenient.
Supply chains are also super complex these days and even the companies themselves don't always report on them properly out of either incompetence or simple denial. That's why every few years we get stories blowing up about tech firms using slave labour to build phones or food corporates ripping off third world farmers.
Working people are tired and worn down and poor and don't have the mental capacity or even the capital to be able to micro evaluate every single purchase decision they make and think "hmm does this company or one of is hundreds of suppliers do their part for the climate?"
For some people it's "I can afford to feed my kids if I use this cheap product from a company that does bad things or I can go without dinner this week if I only buy from ethical companies"
Strong top down regulation is the only practical way to make big companies behave.
Shrinkflation is so fucking patronising and misleading. I'd rather pay more for the same quantity than this nonsense.
Twitter rolled out a change requiring you to sign in to see any content at all so now even scraping won't work (unless one were to set up lots of bot accounts and use them to scrape)
Brownsville Texas
Apt I guess
It seems to be back now. I think it runs on a small server and quite often gets hug of deathed
Joining the seemingly national rush to get washing done, hung out and dried before the rain sets in this afternoon. Off out for steak at one of the two restaurants my FIL will eat at later. At least the man knows what he likes.
Same but it was just the humidity paired with the neighbours kids making high pitched screeching noises like tropical birds!
Great recommendation, thank you!
To be honest their 2007 Retrospectacle "Greatest Hits" collection is a really nice entrypoint. They are a band who were around for a little while and their sound changed. The first disk is their older stuff which has a softer jazzier balladic feel and the 2nd disk is more pop-rock/yacht-rock and is where you'll find The Logical Song and some other classics like Breakfast in America, Long Way Home and Goodbye Stranger.
Was chatting to a friend of mine last night who bought his dad a set of canvas prints of family pets over the years which is remarkably thoughtful and made me feel a bit shit about getting mine a moonpig card and a bottle of rum.
Can't wait to do absolutely naff all this weekend after an incredibly rammed week at work! Going into proper introvert mode and intend to avoid all outside life for the next 2 days.