Sry, fresh out of those.

XD

You don’t need those pixels.

This is not the comment you’re looking for.

Oh and also, My landlady stopped paying her mortgage and defaulted so the apartment went back to the bank. so technically, not only am I broke, I’m also in a squatting living situation. Oh and I’m on several bad credit lists and will stay there because I refuse to pay a bank who charged me for existing and an ISP who didn’t let me stop their services and will NEVER EVER PAY THEM no matter how many lists they put me in or how much money i have because FUCK EM.

Yes, I am a financial consultant. I do sporadic company valuations for mid sized companies when i like the clients. Sometimes i do financial report automation… I like understanding how money works but have no interest in accumulating the poison myself whatsoever. While i do put efforts into making money, those efforts disappear when i have enough… until i don’t and then the whole cycle repeats.

As long as you don’t sell, you’re not losing anything except perhaps your peace of mind, but that’s up to you.

I’m gonna be losing nothing because I own nothing.

Don’t stress too much. If you care about the money you “lost”, this will likely lead to a stronger portfolio on the long run. While it’s a very bad moment to sell, it is a golden moment to switch, depending on what you’d like to bet on. Even if you don’t change and this gets worse, a trade war crash should pay for itself economy-wise within 10 years.

Would you rather have bad crashes for a few years and then a slow economic recovery or a safe and steady pace to the abyss of “oops now we’re not the world’s reserve currency” anymore? Cause with the second one you not stop being able to tax the world with inflation and no one has ever had to deal with that in the US for about 100 years.

Yeah, that’s what I figured! I just like extrapolating and thinking of the further downs.

At this point I honestly believe human eusociality is inevitable on the long run, even with several near-extinction events.

The first! I was thinking it would likely lead to an evolutionary period of transition from a pack to a hive biological paradigm, regardless of centralized reproduction taking place or not.

The way we see intelligent multicellular organisms collaborating in large numbers we can see a lot of in nature, but few of those cases are in states of balance as stable and effective as eusociality.

Just a wild guess here but maybe she meant propaganda that mostly incites people to oppose tendencies or groups rather than to support their own?

Oh and facts can be propaganda too and often are… In a universe with infinite facts, the ones chosen to be presented vs the ones chosen not to, the way the fact is framed in discourse and what is being suggested by presenting it… That’s where propaganda lives.

It’s more comfortable to think propaganda is about lies. There are a lot of lies of course, but most important is what is assumed to be understood as common truth when sharing a message. Subtext is everything.

If you want humanity to go eusocial, it’s most definitely necessary.

Lots of people are stressed and emotionally exhausted. Many can’t afford to care about everything that are probably a a good idea to care about because they’re emotionally overloaded, sick of being disappointed and/or fed up with putting effort or investing emotional energy into things day after day to see no difference whatsoever in the big picture.

I’m not saying they’re right but maybe put yourself in their shoes as well.

Existing on its own is very stressful to many people under difficult circumstances.

Supporting just causes is good but maybe don’t expect everyone to be able to emotionally afford to invest time and energy in all things that matter.

Not a bad idea but keep in mind you’ll also potentially be adding yourself to lists. i assume i just ended up in a few databases i’d rather not be in by doing this snooping alone. Hard to tell the sheep from the wolves. I’m not an american though and my country isn’t currently on “hardcore mode” political setting. Stay safe, friend.

It really does.

I’d go with buycott until something better appears tbh. I’m gonna see how it works for me. Too tired to keep snooping for today.

Yes this sounds right and it also makes sense.

Buycott seems promising cause campaigns and boycott lists are user-driven (which, you know… could also be faked I guess) and haven’t found anything fishy in their policies yet, but still snooping around on them. Gonna look into their ownership now.

Edit:

So umm… apparently Buycott was founded by a random 20 something year old LA dev (Ivan Pardo), a 2008 CS guy from Colgate University who basically coded it on his own. Boycott’s social media has been inactive since 2016.

Their business model is they sell access to their barcode API, which basically means they sell the pics of the barcodes and the product descriptions people add voluntarily to companies to do what they want. Not great but you know… better than digital marketing services.

Buycott is related to solidarity tech, which Ivan Pardo also founded, and is a CRM who claims to be “helping unions & grassroots organizations build people-powered movements that transform society…” which could be legit. They’re not free and they’re not cheap and they claim to cater to unions, advocacy orgs and non profits… but idk. Am I full paranoid delusional or does this sound like a honeytrap kinda thing? Like if I was an evil right wing politician this is exactly the kind of company I’d want to have leverage over to be able to sabotage opposition. And we don’t know who Pardo’s partners are. Only that he’s founder.

Oh, also, solidarity tech openly claims they give their customer info to Google analytics in their terms, which, you know… Kinda concerning when your “I’ll handle your grass roots movement” software sees no reason to not freely give your information to the most blatant and thinly veiled CIA front in contemporary history.

In their webpage they say they are “Trusted by Progressive Campaigns and Causes” and name a full total of 5 clients: Debt Collective, UAW, Pilipino Workers Central and CWA. As a non american I don’t know what these things are…

idk I don’t trust them. But I’m also running out of options at this point. Might as well use something. They seem like the best so far.

Oh. I completely misread this entire thing. Sry.

I checked out boycat.io

Searched a bunch of “everyone knows they’re bad” companies and the info they provided seemed accurate, reasonable and well sourced.

However, their business model seems kinda fishy. first of all they sell “I’m a nice company” certifications, which in itself s a conflict of interest, but especially if you can’t find who the owners of boycat are anywhere on the site or the internet, their whois information is private and if you look at their privacy policy, they allow themselves the right to track “usage data” (i.e. what you scanned) and “location data” which they later allow themselves to “share” with “service providers”, which are “companies providing hosting, data analysis, marketing, customer service, and technical support.”… so umm… Yeah. Basically same conflict of interest as the other company, but less explicit.

And again,. not once do they say who owns them, how they started or is behind them nor do they provide an explanation on why they don’t talk about themselves… Cause I could understand well intending devs trying to keep private to stop companies from threatening them, but tell the community this is why you don’t share your info. Their contact us doesn’t work either.

I would really like to see something community driven but i guess big companies could infiltrate something like that easily. I’ll look into other solutions and let you know if i find anything promising.

ps: 90% of their news were about Israel-palestine, which, you know… OK, good and important but ummm… I’d also like to know about other stuff.