activistPnkBoycotting the US is silly. Boycott shitty corporations and you are already boycotting the US anyway, in effect. Nothing changes here.
We don’t need to go into all of these details. Cutting off the obvious few like ditching whatsapp for signal will get you 90% of the way there. But it’s a lot of effort to get to 91%.
Screw that, your energy is better spent elsewhere. Do 90%.
It’s a progression for sure. But there is no reason to draw an arbitrary line and give up. If you always look for ways to advance your ethical lifestyle, you will continually be able to feel a sense of greater progress from the former you.
I even nix whole cities. Oh, this city is uncyclable? Fuck that city; I won’t live there – I’m done with cars and the whole fucking car industry.
It’s not arbitary. It’s the line between reasonable and obsessive/wasteful
It’s the line between reasonable convenient and obsessive/wasteful ethical
^ fixed it for you. Everyone has a level of tolerance for inconvenience which can fall anywhere between 0% and 100%, to use your bizarre scale of percentages where a migration from whatsapp to signal is “90%” progress in solving the world’s problems. I cannot imagine how uninformed someone must be about all the surveillance advertising to think that 90% can be attributed to whatsapp, which uses the same tech that Signal uses. Yes, FB hired Open Whisper Systems to implement their tech in whatsapp. You’re talking about a change that is symbolic at best. It’s not even a fart in an ocean of significance.
.It takes 90% of the effort to get from 90% to 91%. You make a whole lot bigger impact spending that energy getting someone else to 90% too.
Stop pretending the world is black and white.
Learn how to save text files and use grep. It’s not that hard if you have some tech competence.
ctrl+F?
ctrl+F?
It’s becoming clear why the effort is so high for you. Loading every document into buffers where you can use control-f in each buffer is of course labor intensive.
Ahh, that’s the confusion. You think I bothered looking through this mess you made at all
You’re still confused. My post is not what you would search.
Do your own research. Make your own records. Search your own records based on your own criteria. Doing your own thinking is your job. Being at the extreme end of lazy has warped your perception of effort which leaves you w/absurd ideas around this bizarre 90% figure. Get off your ass and learn to use grep on filesystems. If you get that far then your bitching won’t kick in until 99%.
You took what I said too literal I think. This problem is the same as navigstion.
Then compare the amount of work and results. Sometimes, good enough is good enough. And more would not be worth the insane amount of effort
Agree, this is very political and obsessive. Its not what the boycotting is about.