If it makes you feel better, you probably also hold a stake in their direct competition.

The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.

You see this (or used to, anyway) from time to time with gas strikes.

If it’s just a month of “don’t buy,” it wouldn’t do much in the long run. All that does is time-shift demand to when the strike is over. If the company can anticipate well enough, they’d raise prices when the demand comes back and come out ahead in the long run.

You have to use/consume less, and for an extended time period, not just change when that purchase happens.

But yes, with that caveat, use less, and choose the lesser evil when you do need to buy something. The individual effect is small, but small things add up.

I was working tech support at my university when all these search engines first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.

AskJeebes dot com was a hardcore porn site.

I can’t give a first-hand account, but I’d think it should be enough to say you aren’t close with your family. The details don’t have to come unless things start to get serious, and even then, only what and when you’re comfortable sharing.

“My God thinks I should drink, and do drugs, and rob the blind and sick. I’m not entirely sure if that’s right, but I should do those things just in case I have to to get into his good graces.”

Even they have to think it sounds pretty silly when you turn it around on them.

The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine. I don’t want to do that. Right now, without any god, I don’t want to jump across this table and strangle you. I have no desire to strangle you. I have no desire to flip you over and rape you. – Penn Jillette

Shout out to my mom, who really drove us as a digital family when I was growing up.

She just turned 80 this week.

“Dealership” may be the wrong word, but they have “showrooms,” with plenty of stock, all over the country.

One that’s already purchased? I could go either way.

A lot full of cars at the dealership? All bets are off.

What Trump and his lackeys are doing is illegal. The thing is, people get away with illegal things all the time. Being illegal is only a deterrent if there are consequences.

So it’s up to the people to show Congress that there will be electoral consequences in 2026 if they don’t do anything in 2025. The Presidential election is over, and it’s incredibly unlikely that enough representatives/senators would do their plain duty to convict the guy. The people have to let them know that if they don’t at least keep things happening within the rules, they won’t be back.

Protests are more visible to the media, so they keep up the morale of the resistance, but it’s every bit as important to write, call, and otherwise contact your representatives in DC to let them know this is NOT OK. Be polite, but firm.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

A little tangential, but if someone knocked on my door and tried to sell me the patent for the cure to the common cold for $10, I’d refuse on principle alone. Stop trying to sell me stuff.

Unfortunately it’s mostly dead over there recently, but you may be able to find a few gems in the lists people have posted at !rssfeeds@lemmy.world

Nothing about being a mod is hard.

Would you like to play a game?

https://trustandsafety.fun/

Forget the rebels, why build the death star(s) in the first place?

It’s easier, faster, and waaaaay more effective to just send a few dozen small ships throughout the galaxy with an extra hyperdrive or two to be ready to blow up any planet with some space junk. Any time. Any place. No centralized base for the rebels to stop.