SolacefromSilence

Incoming pardons

Sin of omission?

I first became aware of the Yes Men after they apologized for the Dow/Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. Just wanted to share,

https://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_yes_mens_bhopal_hoax

They couldn’t get it right before enshittification has gripped everything.

The companies involved, the industry, and the regulators currently can’t be trusted; this project should be killed.

I use AliExpress for all the little items in my life that can fail without any real problem.

I need a comb and get 2/$1 to my door. $3/4/5 each in a physical store for the same. I don’t think you’re appreciating how often these are literally the same products.

The retail sector has long ago entered enshittification. I’m not blind to the real people working in the field, but paying more for a product does not increase the chance of any positive environmental or social outcome. Feeding the beast, feeds their investors.

There is no ethical consumption.