I have the exact same issue. I thought buying directly from the manufacturer’s site would fix it, but I still get Amazon boxes from some of them. I don’t buy from them again, but it still sucks. I have ended up buying even less, and I wasn’t buying much before.
I try to buy things used, but sometimes that’s just not possible. If it has to be new I try different sites until I find one that doesn’t go through them. You can even call customer service for some smaller sites and find out ahead of time.
I don’t agree with the “don’t bother” hopelessness in this thread. Trying to do the least bad thing is still worthwhile, even if you can’t do something perfectly ethical. I’m proud of you for doing your best.
I never fully lost my taste (maybe 80% lost during active infection) but it only partially came back. It feels like there’s a “section” or “zone” of flavor I can’t taste anymore. Like a blind spot. I am extremely saddened by it and have an even more complicated relationship with food now.
It also rewired my taste and some smell so some things taste really different. For example, coffee tastes like stagnant mildewy mop water and smells like a recently used litterbox. Only minor variations for brand, at home drip vs. barista, etc.
Going into a coffee shop smells like venturing into a crazy cat lady’s condemned home.
I would take that over to the thrift store and buy as many coats as I could get, or you could take it to a warming shelter and let them use as they need.
Thank you for being a kind human, I only wish I had the funds to do the same before this cold snap hit.
You are a kind person, but as others have said try not to take on this large burden yourself. Do what you’re comfortable with and be satisfied with that. This is an ongoing and largely intractable problem that you cannot solve alone.
Libby. If I am sitting for awhile, then I’ll make progress in whatever book I’m reading. I keep my library card churning with novels, science fiction, cookbooks and whatever book a friend has recently recommended. I mix in audio books while I’m driving. Average about two books a month or so.
Occasionally I’ll browse recipes and silly cat videos on Instagram if I’m just killing 30 seconds in line at the grocery. And then lemmy about once a day just for current events.
I advise that you just don’t give a fuck if the order is coming through Amazon or not. Who’s to say whether they’re more evil than some other company that might fulfill your order. The thing you’re buying was probably made with exploitative labour practices from unethically sourced materials anyway. Simply shipping it to you is probably dependent on a global logistics network of fossil fuels and colonialism.
Just don’t think about it. There’s no way to buy things in this world and “do good” at the same time.
Lol you can make one merch purchase a month with your YouTube subscription. IDC what you do and not trying to convince you just calling out that your logic is flawed.
Never said my logic is applicable to everyone.
Sure, I can buy another useless gadget or piece of clothing every 3-4 months instead of yt prem and sure I can just emulate all features with vanced (or whatever the new hot app is) and sure I pay Google a good hefty amount of cash for things that are already free.
My logic essentially is:
I can use 1st party apps without much hacking around trying to sideload apks on my Chromecast AndroidTV
I don’t have the ads
I don’t have any ads on any of my devices
No risk of compromise for my google account
I get all the features I need
My consumption of yt is way higher (daily 2-3h) than what I got out of Netflix etc. so it actually is at least somewhat worth it compared to other streaming services. I’d call this my replacement for linear tv.
I sail enough for 2 lives already with a seedbox, usenet, (formerly) tachiyomi so I am fine with paying for at least that.
You can’t avoid Amazon entirely but your order is still a drop in the bucket that tips the scales in the right direction.
For small brands trying to establish a presence, the first thing retail buyers and distributers ask is how their Amazon sales numbers look. Having an Amazon presence is not optional for small brands that are trying to grow.
If 90% of orders come from amazon and only 10% come from their own website, it frequently doesn’t make sense to both pay for Amazon distribution and keep their own warehousing and distribution capabilities. But if more people like you and I convince people to order directly and 40% came from direct orders, that math starts to bias more heavily in favor of setting up their own fulfillment.
So find some comfort in that you are playing a small part in paving the way to a better future for these companies even if they are beholden to the Amazon monopoly currently.
Why not create a logistics company to compete with amazon? It’s not the outsourcing of logistics that’s the problem — it’s outsourcing it to Amazon specifically because of their specific culture and nature as a company.
He fought the Italian mob because he was in the pocket of the Russian mob.
He shut down a lot of clubs and nightlife in NYC, basically ruined the underground scene there and left “clubs” to be bottle service for rich assholes.
He’s a fucking fascist piece of shit and he deserves to lose everything.
Those guys cross dress not because they’re closeted homosexuals, but because they’re like the friend showing up at the airport baggage claim with the big sign, the friend’s name, and something like “welcome back from your 10 year prison sentence for being an asshole” or some shit.
It’s not about them possibly being gay, it’s about them making a statement of derision about trans/gay people and the discomfort of the public display making it funny to like minds.
Shitting your pants in court, doing a presser in a landscaping company’s parking lot and doing another with shoe polish dripping down his face shouldn’t have partisan opinions. The man is a buffoon. Nevermind all the sexual harrassment, “middle-manning” for Trump’s corruption, stochastic terrorism and espionage.
But asking any sort of political question on here or on any social media is not exactly going to get you a balanced set of answers, is it? If you’re genuinely interested in the answer anyway.
New York is incapable of hiring a mayor who doesn’t suck ass. That’s just what they do. It’s like asking why Louisiana or New Jersey elects corrupt politicians. It’s just a way of life.
Jokes aside, though, crime was way higher back in the 90’s and he was a prosecutor who was “tough on crime” even though he was friendly with the Russian mob. The police union (which is unusually political in NYC) was behind him. No one knew that one day, he would beclown himself every day for the rest of his natural life
Better than as a presidential candidate and now Trump acolyte.
He got credit for navigating the city post-9/11. Which, ok, I think just about any semi-talented politician with a PR team would come out of that wrapped in a patriotic halo effect.
He discouraged going after undocumented immigrant students in schools, but pushed broken window policing tactics that disproportionally affected the same undocumented immigrants and people of color.
He seemed ok with protections and benefits for domestic partnerships (this was before gay marriage was legal) but also pushed for a school voucher system that would build up private and religious schools that were very clear and open about discriminating against LGBT people.
He was undoubtedly corrupt. But no more corrupt than any predecessor. So mixed bag compared to his peers and bad compared to the sort of politician I wish could be elected in a place like NYC.
Nah bro, him and Ed Koch were very deep into the mafia’s patronage system, which is important because it’s also how he so effectively sued the mafia out of control.
Terrible, lackluster mayor, but he slam dunked the mafiosos pretty good. Too handily, in my opinion, like he knew of key people at different points in the system he used to personally navigate.
Did bugging and tracking techniques just get that much better? Possibly. But what if a guy who used the system decided to get a halo for destruction of that system?
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