Cars are expensive and necessary in areas without good public transit (read: basically everywhere except a couple of areas in specific cities). Most of us don’t have a year’s salary just sitting in the bank, especially when you’re young.
If you need a car to get to work, you’ll pay what you have to because the alternative is no job which means no home, no healthcare, and no food.
A lot of people started calling for violence against Musk’s cronies at DoGE.
I don’t know if it was “a lot” or “basically all of them” though, /u/spez is a trumpet so who knows.
Sure, butterfly a chicken breast and fry it over high heat. Or eat cheese. Or make succotash, or lentil soup.
All of our cultural defaults for breakfast are terrible for us anyways, we need to eat other things regardless.
I make a bunch of deviled eggs maybe once or twice a year. I don’t care for most other types of “easy” egg preparations and there are plenty of cheap beans, chicken, and cheap bits of pork for my protein needs.
Tbh I don’t understand why people don’t just buy something else. There are several good alternatives available.
The US military has actually been short on recruits for a long time now due to the obesity epidemic.
I mean we could stop maintaining an invasion force in basically every corner of the globe simultaneously, but we aren’t filthy communists or whatever.
I don’t know how common they actually are, but they should be fairly accessible. Most insurance plans provide them free or at a heavy discount.
According to the threads I found privacy guides:
It mostly just doesn’t work well.
It hasn’t been independently audited
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/add-jami/20052
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/why-is-jami-not-listed-in-pg/12500
checks current social media landscape
Yep, apparently!
Oh legality absolutely does not equate morality, although we obviously work to correlate them as much as possible.
I will admit, much of my reasoning here is driven by the fact that I live in suburban America, and if I expect to buy literally anything, I buy it from or using a company that does something horrific. It isn’t reasonable to boycott based on even something as simple as “don’t kill people”, because…well I don’t have an alternative.
This is probably a hot take in many circles, but I do not boycott companies.
The purpose of a business is to make money. I do not fault a business for doing something in pursuit of maximizing their money any more than I fault a goat for eating a tin can or a stove for burning my dinner.
I fault our government for not protecting the human rights of the people that business harmed, and I fault the individuals who work in that business for knowingly helping to cause human misery.
The sole exception to this is companies like meta, who have intentionally worked with foreign actors to subvert our democracy. That is treason, and by extension they have made their company an instrument of a foreign power. That entity should be forcibly dissolved and the people in power should be prosecuted under the relevant statutes.
Honestly I don’t know what the issue is on a technical level, I just know they are not encrypted and won’t be for the foreseeable future.
Consult privacyguides.org for guidance regarding new messaging and email solutions. I imagine you’ll probably want to ask your family to sign up for signal.
The only alternative to social media is the fediverse. The bad news is that the fediverse is not private. The good news is that frankly social media as a concept just isn’t mandatory, so if you need privacy, you can just…not. Once you break the addiction, you realize how unnecessary it all was.
Consult privacyguides.org for guidance regarding new messaging and email solutions. I imagine you’ll probably want to ask your family to sign up for signal.
The only alternative to social media is the fediverse. The bad news is that the fediverse is not private. The good news is that frankly social media as a concept just isn’t mandatory, so if nobody signs up, you can just keep in contact with your friend and family using signal.
We don’t need to match a billionaire. We just need to finance lawyers and advocates to work on our behalf.
As bad as things are now, think about how much quicker things would devolve without organizations like planned parenthood, the EFF, and the ACLU.
Ok, so serious answer for our friends who don’t live in places without an active culture of protest:
Vote. No, really. If people actually fucking voted, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Give money to advocacy organizations
Give your time and money to mutual aid organizations
Read the news (not just on lemmy either)
CALL your congresspeople. Emails and letters are better than nothing, but do not have the same impact.
Try to get your friends to do #1-5
My neighbor tries to break in regularly. Last spring, he was doing it successfully, and it took me a couple of weeks to notice.
I live in Texas. I warned him not to do it again when I caught him. If I catch him again, we’ll see what happens.
I was already planning on moving to Chicago next year, so…eh? I worry about our country for a lot of reasons, but none of them only apply to red state residents.
That being said, if I wasn’t already moving I’d be getting the hell out of dodge. I don’t have a uterus, but I know people who do, and I won’t be party to the state suppression of their healthcare on religious grounds.
Reddit has an absolutely massive wealth of community knowledge. If you want to find a community for $thing or gain obscure knowledge on $thing, that’s where you go (assuming there isn’t an old forum post from before Reddit killed forums).
Twitter is where a lot of people still are. If you’re the kind of person to care what a particular person says, that’s where you probably want to be.
Instagram is used by young people who have friends on Instagram.
It isn’t a great system, but it is the system that we have today. This is why legislation compelling Meta/Twitter/whothefuckever to act in an ethical manner is important. Social media is to some extent a natural oligopoly, and unless we get extremely, extremely lucky, the fediverse will always be a niche community.
Kroger and Safeway have been the absolute face of enshittification since the pandemic. They’ve also been accused of price fixing, and are trying to merge into a monopoly. They also regularly abuse disabled employees (at multiple stores in my area).
I have absolutely no doubt that they will do this the moment they think they can get away with it. In a fair economy, they would have been driven out of business years ago.
Methinks this is BS, I got 7/11 and I’m in my twenties.
It would have been 9, but even in the bad old days I’ve never known a anywhere it was acceptable to just throw little on the floor in a business, regardless of whether it was a cigarette butt or not.