KillingTimeItself

it’s a conceal carry, i do nothing with it.

its uh, definitely one of the feelings of all time reading through threads like this, assuming these are actual real people, spending their actually real time, talking about these actually real things.

im not judging you for being incapable of using websites that dont start with amazon, and end in .com, you can do whatever you want, im just pointing out that you have a very silly opinion of how online retailing works.

It’s ok to lurk and just shut up.

yeah but then i miss interactions like this one.

if we’re talking branding, AMD, EVGA, asus, and a handful of other similar companies. You could argue they’re unethical if you wanted, but again, i’m literally not an ethical consumer. And also, there are no alternatives.

Buying things used/second hand subverts the ethical consumption problem from the get go. So.

What social media do you use?

lemmy and discord, i was an early adopter, and have given them 0 dollars.

What are your 5 major pieces of software?

90% of it is fully open source software. Very little is closed source, none is paid.

who are these amazing ethical retailers with a wide selection of available products that can be delivered virtually anywhere in the US in less than a week at a reasonable price?

> why does this large conglomerate mega corp not have any ethical small business competition

you need to reality check yourself, and either pay more for shipping, or just accept that sometimes things arrive a little bit slower than convenient. If you have amazon prime you already know about this.

IDK why people expect services that are entirely separate and different to be the exact same, it’s like they’ve never gone outside before.

As for your ethical reflection into my purchases, i do not care, as i am anti humanist. I simply do not have a leg in the race, whether i die or not is irrelevant. As for my phone, i didn’t pay any money for it, it was free. And my computer, or computers, are built by me, from hardware that i bought, with my own money.

With the exception of my thinkpad collection (entirely secondhand) most of that hardware has been purchased new, as that is generally how people buy computer hardware.

Also to be fully transparent, i don’t believe i ever stated that i am an ethical consumer (i am in some aspects, i just don’t buy very many things, especially useless things, i’m a utilitarian) but for the things i do buy, i don’t spend much time thinking about it for the aforementioned reasons.

yeah, if you’re buying from a single retailer. There are a lot of places that sell products online, and they’re all very accessible. The only thing stopping you from using them is literally your own laziness.

Physical retailers is more of a limit, since there are only ever so many. But that’s part of the utility of something like the postal system.

maybe its like a studio room, where theres a sign outside the door, that lights up “sex” or something.

i mean, technically by the most barebones definition of the word, they are anthropomorphic, and do technically count as “furry”

if you’re looking for a “harkness” test here, e621 allows humanoid characters, i.e. catgirls, therefore catgirls are in fact, furry.

maybe you just got really lucky and picked the statistically most optimal time for it to play three giggle sounds back to back, while you were jorkin it.

thats the thing though, at that point the USPS is already going to be a problem, in literally every form of online order you make.

Amazon even uses USPS in some places from what i can remember, they mostly use their in house shit when it’s financially competitive.

And yes, the USPS is fundamental infrastructure, it is critically important to the functionality of the US as a whole. It’s the sole reason mail based communication even works. Without the USPS the federal government and most state governments lose a lot of power.

i mean, if it’s not directly factually inaccurate, than, it is open source. It’s just that the specific block of data they used and operate on isn’t published or released, which is pretty common even among open source projects.

AI just happens to be in a fairly unique spot where that thing is actually like, pretty important. Though nothing stops other groups from creating an openly accessible one through something like distributed computing. Which seems to be a fancy new kid on the block moment for AI right now.

there are a lot of companies that sell things direct to consumer, using the exact same shipping infrastructure that amazon would otherwise be using, if it doesnt already.

If you live rurally, go campaign for funding the USPS more, trump fucked that one, you can thank him for that.

yeah, too bad circle jerking is only universally understood to create echo chambers.

Perhaps if garnering support and bringing people awareness to things they are already aware about, will make them do something. I believe all existing research, doesn’t support that though. Last time i checked it really only seems to lead to misinformation being spread, which is interesting.

ikr, if only saying things on the internet would manifest them into reality.

i mean, mining coal is also objectively terrible for the environment so…

i still sleep like shit unfortunately…

I blame carrying the weight of a failing humanity on my shoulders. Darned sociology ruining my life!

wasn’t most of the fossil fuel increase under the obama admin an increase in natural gas? Rather than oil/coal, in order to replace, said infrastructure, as it’s cleaner.

call me when you get inside the whitehouse grounds.

yeah this pretty much.

Polarized speech does nothing for anybody. If woman are talking about this bear thing to make a point, i feel like we would be better off actually making sure that people understood that it was about making a point, rather than a literal fucking interpretation of the problem

but no, funny internet points are more important, capitalism ruins everything it fucking touches.