OS/2, surely. Or maybe BeOS?
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It really is a matter of degree, though. Even fancy perfume has horse piss in it. It doesn't mean you might as well wallow in the pigpen.
No maybe Mullvad can't control the flow of that money into dangerous hands. But the customers can, if they organize.
This is the core running gag of a lot of the tv series The Good Place.
The answer, of course, is just keep trying.
Critical thinking is based on treating problems as opportunities to improve. Endlessly.
Yes, absolutely! I have an ever shrinking list of suppliers for my business and the household.
It’s not an on/off situation.
The point of any such action dealing with complex consequences is simply a statistical approach. Deny custom with the oligarchs whenever you can, and it adds up in aggregate.
Buy local, barter, buy from vetted independent companies, use boycott apps, keep a shitlist and consult a company family tree if you are wondering about a product.
Smaller scale family farms are less likely to poison themselves, they live close to the fields; buy direct from them when you can. Farmer's markets. It's less convenient. It’s culturally richer.
There are hidden costs in cheaper products. It's not as big a sacrifice as it seems to avoid oligarchs whenever you see them.
Nope. It's Lions Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Most likely maps based on Natural Resources Canada data.
It keeps sending people up my driveway to a place that doesn't exist. Labels my neighbour's driveway as a road too.
Read more product reviews from more varied publications. You will see that there is a range of accountability in the sourcing of the product. Not all of it is direct marketing.
However, you can expect all of it to be ideologically consumerist.
That definitely happens some of the time, in some places. Journalism still exists, however.
Product reviews require more than a 'test drive'.
Nike's new IrisNet profit-sharing plan nicely puts a stylish glow on my shoe logos when the fashionably discreet LaceCam notices the right eyes noticing my shoes, and at this rate I will pay the shoes off in 54 months!
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