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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.

As someone who has put a stop to his nightmares, there is lots you can do.

Because there is no fence between you and your nightmares, you can touch them just as they touch you.

You can intervene. I've intervened personally, but I imagine a therapist can also work assuming you are OK with collaborating.

In my view, and this is what's worked for me, becoming conscious that you are dreaming while you are still dreaming, is the best intervention. That's called "lucid dreaming." Lucidity is a choice. You can decide to be conscious instead of on autopilot for any one or any set of dreams.

Imagine you are having a nightmare, but unlike the usual automatic responce, your mind, which you have dilligently programmed during the day, recognises your state for what it is: a short-term nighttime dream. Even as the nightmare unfolds, you stop running, tave a breath, and say to yourself, "Ahhh, so this is a dream! I have a body resting in bed right now. I live in such and such city where the resting in bed body is. The name of the body in bed is such and such. And this circumstance here is a nighttime occurence, occuring in my mind while my long-term body rests in bed. I don't need to be afraid of anything here. This is my dream and I am free here. I don't have to buy into anything here. The rest is up to me." Now that nightmare either has no power whatsoever or at best a minuscule fraction of its former power.

That's not the only possible intervention, but that's what's worked for me.

This is an executive summary. The actual journey to conscious dreaming, aka lucid dreaming, is very involved, rewarding, and worthwhile. There is plenty of info on it if you search it out.

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.

They will if the cost/benefit equation changes. I don't only mean economics here, but I am using "cost/benefit" as a wide spectrum metaphor. In other words, once it's not worth doing, they won't do it anymore.

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

The only thing I want that a gym might have is a pull up bar. Other than that, two kettlebells plus cals plus running give me more than enough challenge. Gymnastics rings on a long belt plus a sturdy tree branch can stand in for a pull up bar.

Unless you are a pro and need access to a climbing gym, which is very hard to completely replace without a trip to a boulder, gyms are rip offs.

I exercise on and off all my life, with at least 20 exercising years. I did college gyms, ymca, paid gyms, and once even a bona fide body building club with a proper hulking ph. d. as a trainer. I have plenty of experience with many modalities.

My two cents, look into advanced cals, and running, and look up "dynamic tension" by Charles Atlas, and screw the gym. If you can, add some kettlebells and a pull up bar. With dynamic tension you can do pulling movements without a pull up bar.