I love those old school libraries that have amazing sculpture or art sitting around and old books and chairs and tables. If you’re both book readers and you can find one to lay next to each other as you read out the window or something. They’re normally next to a museum of some sort too
Dunno about normal, per se. I have adhd and when I’m not forgetting what I was about to do in the time between having the thought and picking up my phone, I am often diving down some rabbit hole. This might be a quick Google search in a definition, or to figure out where I heard a word. For example, a friend recently mentioned acid reflux. So my brain thought “GERD?”, “GERDY??”, “THE HERDY GERDY?!?” which led me to Wikipedia, then to a handful of rather cool videos on Youtube of people playing the instrument.
Er…
My point being: Use it as a helpful miscellaneous tool. Like a physical widget that can go along with near any activity.
Boost has it. I also have Elmo and Twitter added, it’s been much calmer since. Haven’t added X yet because I don’t know if it would block every word with an x in it though.
Move to Czechia! Amazon’s presence is negligible here, we have our own local alternatives (Alza.cz being the biggest one, but we also have a plethora of e-commerce sites in general).
In Switzerland we don’t even have Amazon. We can order from one of the neighbourhing countries’ Amazon, but they don’t always ship here. There are a lot of alternatives though.
Really it’s the internet that enables these monopolies. It nullifies space for information. Like a little pizza place can only have so much reach. But if the product is teleported, then that little pizza operation can just keep growing and growing smoothly and taking more of the market. And it can happen really fast.
Depending on where you live, just order less. Try to pick up the stuff you order or go to shops directly (or sometimes question if you really need it). Its not all or nothing, every single product less bought with them is a step in the right direction
This is how I’ve been shopping for years, but not to be woe is me, I’m a wheelchair user with a variety of medical nonsense that keeps me in the house. Trying to shop ethically online used to be feasible, but it’s increasingly impossible
I’m reading ebooks with ReadEra (adfree and unrestricted in the free version, bought it during some 50% sale to support the dev).
Else I’m reading news (news.google.com with a highly curated blocklist of >150 sites) and play a bunch of word games like Wordle, Dordle, Quordle, Octordle, crosswordle, fibble, symble, thirdle, warmle and whatever else.
Why not synthetics? Sure they smell worse than wool, but a synthetic fleece is very warm and will stay warm even when wet, and will dry faster than cotton.
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