New people enter the market all the time.

That update is for those that don’t already have a Fairphone, presumably.

That said, I agree with your overall point. They should offer tablets and watches if they can.

Consumer activism, by itself, has rarely, if ever, accomplished anything.

The best recent examble was Tesla, but that wasn’t a mere non-buying action. Tesla action involved vandalism and a massive word of mouth campaign.

Basically if we want to fight for a future we believe in, we must stop playing patty cakes and fight like it’s a life and death struggle.

Symbolic resistance is not enough.

Don’t get me wrong, I still avoid buying Nestle products, and have for years, but I know this is not the way to real change.

I want us to stop suggesting consumer activism as a valid pathway to change.

I think both peace and war are profitable. But those that profit from war may be more pushy than those that profit from peace, and so may get their way even as an unpopular minority .

Unless, the left (usually more pro peace) learns a few lessons from the right and places good outcomes above the holier than thou moral purity. “I’ve never made anyone uncomfortable” is not the merit badge that some think it is.

Of course the left can never be a mirror copy of the right because the left cannot afford to give as few fucks about anything as the right (who represent the already-haves economic incumbents; it’s not called the “fuck you money” for nothing). But the left can be way tougher and nuancedly uncompromising and even calculatingly and carefully millitant.

Might does not make right but might DOES make POLICY.

You need both right and might to live under a good policy.

Lotta good it does anyone to be right and insightful on all the issues and have zero impact anywhere.

Quote from the video, “You can smell it as well,” refering to the turbine opetation.

They emit smell. That comports with the leak being gas and not just heat.

Crypto is a solution looking for a problem.

The people behind crypto never studied the history of the gold standard.

Crypto is a ponzi scheme virtual asset, not a currency.

Jury nullification.

Luigi is an idea. An idea is what the people appreciate. We must presume innocence until guilt is proven when it comes to Luigi as a person. But Luigi as an idea or as a meme is a separate thing entirely.

Forget empathy. Trumperinas do NOT vote their own interests.

MAGAGAs (make america great and glorious again) are poor and oppressed but vote to lower the taxes on the billionaires and to raise them on themselves, vote to take away public services from themselves, vote to remove the remaining 2 regulations on the megacorps, banks, and big landlords that oppress them.

In a world that made sense everyone in favor of deregulation should be forced to ride Boeing, and leave us, the sane folks, alone.

They got convinced that the interests of the billionaire class align with their own. That’s stupidity. You can’t fix stupid with empathy.

I don’t want empathetic people. I want people to rep their actual material interests, cogently and sincerely.

Right now we have people voting for the “leopards eating faces” party get surprised when their faces get eaten, because the morons wanted to believe they were the leopards too.

Servative trash. No mercy for the servatives. And I am tired of all the moralizing language. Kumba fucking ya. Horseshit. We ain’t gonna hug and kiss this shit all better. Morality is a fairy tale and we cannot base a world worth living in on a lie. Morality is a lie on the scale of religion. Morality is what causes people to self-restrict and self-censor. Morality is what prevents the guillotines.

If morality were against the status quo and against the interests of the billionaires, it would have been outlawed!

We all need to rep our material interests. Even one billionaire is a policy failure.

I don’t want *dormant* malware on my PC either.

“Why not?”

–Micro$oft, probably