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kegg-ca · 1 year

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As a community garden founded on the idea of donating 1/3 of our produce to the Healthy Kimberley Food Recovery Depot (because we believe local food production & local food security are initiatives that involve getting more of our hands in the dirt around where we actually live), KEGG could not be more happy to help get the word out about this great local gardening initiative that is being spearheaded by some of the wonderful humans behind (and in front of) the scenes over at Kimberley Food Bank and Healthy Kimberley Food Recovery Depot!

So… if you are seeing this post, please get involved with the ‘Plant A Row, Share A Row’ initiative in Kimberley yourself this year OR help spread the word to others who you think would be interested/able to participate (because spreading the word is a way to help plant seeds too)! And if you don’t live in Kimberley… ‘Plant A Row, Share A Row’ where you live too!

Because, to paraphrase something I heard Jack Kornfield say in a podcast within the context of not becoming overwhelmed by the overwhelmingness of all of the world’s problems (for example: mass food insecurity) and the way that our individual actions can feel so small & futile in comparison:

“It’s not up to you to save the whole world, that would be hubris — BUT — it’s a reality that you are only in control of your own actions… so focus more on tending to the parts of the garden that you can reach yourself.”

And given that this ‘Plant a Row, Share a Row’ initiative is literally about gardening… the meaning behind how there is always the option of taking individual action on things we feel are important WITHIN the communities we actually live in (ie. tending to the parts of the gardens we can actually reach ourselves), well, those paraphrased words seem to ring a little truer here.

So… plant a row, share a row, tell somebody else 🌱

Jeremy / @HI54LOFI

(KEGG’s chief compost turner & rememberer of social media logins)

#Kimberley BC #Healthy Kimberley #Food Recovery Depot #Plant A Row Share A Row #Gardening #food security #local food production #Food Bank

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feluka · 7 months

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eg mutuals i am putting together a spreadsheet with the names of *trusted* local alternatives to products under the boycott but i haven't tried a lot of them personally so if you know a local brand that you have personally tried and enjoyed drop me a DM. also if enough people are interested i could set up an open google sheet for people to add to

#i say trusted because you know how eg products can get #<had to throw out TEN KG of local cat food because it went bad wayyyy before exp date #and then later on fb i read that it made a lot of people's cats really sick

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trans-xianxian · 8 months

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"wearing leather/fur or eating animal products is unethical" SHUT UP SHUT UP WE ARE PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM!!!!

#is it unethical for a wolf to hunt? for a bird to use fur in its nest?#there are certainly problems with Industries being unethical I will not deny that #many corporations that produce animal products whether for food or craft employ cruel and unethical animal treatment practices #but wearing a leather jacket made from your local farmers cow made by a craftsman #is perfectly ethical #because we are animals part of an ecosystem and we are part of a chain that involves us killing other animals #66% percent of all animals on earth also do this #personally I wouldn't wear fur because I'd feel weird wearing skin #but theres anything Inherently cruel or unethical about it #I don't eat meat either #but believe it or not humans are omnivores!! we're supposed to do that!!!#if you make the personal choice not to eat meat/any animal products thats your choice and thats fine! I also made a choice not to eat meat!#but you cannot try to pretend that as a species on a biological level we are not supposed to eat meat. cmon now.#anyway.#ghost posts #text

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joy-yet-again · 1 month

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i've been a vegetarian for like 11 years but i still support the use leather bcs it's much better for the environment than synthetic leather which is essentially plastic & far less durable (harmful manufacturing process + ends up in landfills after a few years). a lot of popular vegan food substitutes are also terrible for the environment and/or for the people farming them (ex. quinoa & agave) idk i wish people would think critically about their consumption and stop assuming that vegan = more humane

#also like some people in some areas cannot cut out meat because other food is so expensive to import #not to mention health conditions #i definitely support people at least reducing their meat consumption or turning to more sustainable meat products #like poultry and tilapia and stuff #& supporting local farms #but i hate when i mention being vegetarian and people immediately get defensive. bro im not judging you im not taking some moral high ground #ive had the same pair of leather boots for 6 years and they aren't even scuffed

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starredforlife · 5 months

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If you fucking morons cared one ounce as much for palestine as you do for this horrid little show.

#SO YOU CAN ORGANIZE.#i am sick to death of people who love media more than real human people #I hope this show gets erased from streaming platforms and I hope everyone who donated to this instead of relief for an ongoing genocide-#-never feels anything but a deep sense of shame forever #ofmd renewal #star’s stuff #dl #HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTIONS DONT NEED YOUR FUCKING MONEY.#I’m sorry but also like. people just around you are suffering to. can you imagine what this 20k would do for a local food pantry #*too #it’s not so much where people’s individual money is going but it is. it’s the priorities. it’s the effort.#somehow your entertainment matters more to you and this is what you prioritize #y’all are sick in the heart genuinely #you all need to grow up and learn how to write and draw for yourselves to make what you wanna see instead of wasting your fucking money #commission an artist or fic writer with this money. you are doing more to help a fellow human out that way!!#and you get it tailored exactly to what you want without doing the work #AN AVERAGE OF $33 PER PERSON. holllyyyyyy SHIT

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magazinenerd · 7 months

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Hello dear readers!

This poll was requested by a reader starting their small business catering to vegan and health conscious people.

The products are gluten-free and plant based.

Currently available products are oat muffins, almond milk, iced tea almond milk.

More description in comment box!

Thank you so much for the support!!

#vegan #vegan products #veganism #go vegan #plant based food #my surveys #polls #green polls #support small businesses #small business #support your local business #please fill the form #vegan and green polls #almond #almond milk #oats #oat muffins #thank you so much

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happigreens · 2 months

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Link to the court document here

From the Guardian article:

Houston-based Inhance manufactures an estimated 200m containers annually with a process that creates, among other chemicals, PFOA, a toxic PFAS compound. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in December prohibited Inhance from using the manufacturing process.

But the conservative fifth circuit court of appeals court overturned the ban. The judges did not deny the containers’ health risks, but said the EPA could not regulate the buckets under the statute it used. The rule requires companies to alert the EPA if a new industrial process creates hazardous chemicals. Inhance has produced the containers for decades and argued that its process is not new, so it is not subject to the regulations. The EPA argued that it only became aware that Inhance’s process created PFOA in 2020, so it could be regulated as a new use, but the court disagreed.

Inhance said in a statement its “technologies … keep thousands of tons of harmful chemicals and fuels out of the environment, preserve product quality, and ensure compliance with many global regulations”. However, the company in 2021 admitted the creation of PFAS is “an unavoidable aspect” of its process [...]

#horrible #all the more reasons to grow your own food reduce consumerist demand for products in plastic packaging and plastic products in gen #and to blow up company numbers to complain that theyre fucking over everyone #also ur local and state reps. stop doing business w these fucks!!!#my greens #epa #environmental justice #pollution #plastic pollution #plastic #toxic waste #manufacturing #green link

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msclaritea · 4 months

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1 SELF SUFFICIENT ME: FARMERS UNDER ATTACK

2 GARDENING IN CANADA: ATTACK ON GARDENS

3 REDACTED: HANG ON, NOW BILL GATES IS COMING FOR YOUR GARDEN

Check out Jojo Mehta, founder of Stop Ecoside Now, actually talking with a straight face, about punishing people for farming. Another one wants people to adjust to Artificial Intelligence Food. All of this shite and very, very likely, billionaire-backed studies, slanted against independent food production. This is all coming from the same plague, that JUST unleashed Paganistic beliefs about Gender and sprayed the whole planet with those dangerous beliefs: the World Economic Forum. Davos. Israel. I will remind people that besides being a shady pervert, Bill Gates ' father was a lawyer for the MOSSAD.

"I call bullshit. I think this "story" is about corporate influence, control, and the continuing war on freedom, privacy, autonomy, self sufficiency and entrepreneurship. Homegrown food is just one of the examples of things that lunatics like Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates, hate." Twitter

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Hello, Nice to Meet Control You

Hello, Nice to Meet Control You: Introduction

Control. Control of others in one form or another has pervaded human history. Control has been exercised by individuals and groups over other individuals and groups. Thank you captain obvious.

This is a cursory look at various forms of control exercised over people. Both actual and possible forms are discussed. I do not pretend to be knowledgeable in the subject and are simply writing my thoughts. The footnotes and end notes are similar to references that I remember reading but not the actual reference. But I assume you know how to use a search engine. Also any typos and misspellings are due to my new gaming keyboard (not really but I need something to blame for my inability to type). Also I am using Libre Office to write this document and it has some issues with footnotes and endnotes or I just can’t use it as well as I use MS Word.

Humans have basic needs which are food, water, livelihood, and shelter. Control any one of these and you control the person. A newer and more effective route for control of others is media. Each of these topics will be discussed in turn. Additionally, the secondary means for controlling these needs will be examined.

I am not an expert in any field related to the topics nor am I any sort of revolutionary for pointing out these areas of control. I am exactly the opposite by discussing them I bring them to light so that they aren’t a problem.

The topics in this document are quickly developing. It may be obsolete before it is finished. I am not a writer. I am more verbally oriented.

Hello, Nice to Meet Control You: Food

We all eat food, all 8 billion of us. Think about that 8 billion people to feed. Most people do not realize that food distribution centers in major cities only have about three days of supply. The food supply is an attack surface for anyone wanting to control a populace. We have seen how easily the supply, among non-food things like TP, is disrupted by the Covid “pandemic”. As an example, the price of eggs rose to $5 per dozen from about $1.30.

This leads me to believe the food supply is a very frail and effective attack surface. Certainly anyone wishing to control a populations only need control the food supply chain.

The first obvious link in the food supply chain is production. Control how much food is produced and any condition from plentiful to famine can be realized. We have seen the direct attack on farmers using the specter of climate change. First in the Netherlands1 and subsequently in Germany2. The US isn’t safe from the assault on food as several animal rights and climate activist organizations have used climate change to to bolster their cause3. Claims of animal farming as being harmful to the environment is aiding the development of plant based “meat” produced in factories. This removes the production from a method that anyone could employ to one that is controlled completely by industry. The control of production is then complete once the end of animal farming is accomplished4. It is interesting that some of the very rich are buying farmland. I assume it is to provide raw materials to the food factories. Next stop distribution.

The dress rehearsal called the Covid-19 epidemic caused major disruptions in distribution of food and other comsumable products produced out side the US5. The most notable shortage was of paper products such as toilet paper. While it is true there were major supply chain issues the ultimate cause was a demand fueled by fear of shortage. In this way shortages are self fulfilling prophecies.

Controlling the food supply is a way to control the population. You can’t protest or fight back if you’re starving. Such bad behavior will be yield no food whereas good behavior will be rewarded with just enough to keep you alive.

Countermeasures

Grow some of your own food.

Eat nutritionally dense food if it is available. So that you require less food.

Source your food locally.

Counter-counter Measures

It will be made illegal to grow your own food. The argument will be the small farms produce too much greenhouse gases. Now we all know this is silly as home gardens do not require the burning of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel. You will also be accused of being selfish and an enemy of society. And someone named Greta will come to your house and punch you in the nuts (just checking to see if you’re actually reading this).

Doug Williamson Blogspot

1https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/11/30/dutch-farmers-could-be-paid-to-close-their-livestock-farms-under-new-scheme

2https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/15/germany-farmers-protests-berlin/

3https://worldanimalnews.com/250-groups-urge-the-usda-to-address-the-reduction-of-meat-dairy-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

4Interesting that no one is complaining about Mark Zuckerberg’s herd. He feeds his cattle beer.Yet fermentation produces a lot of CO2. https://nypost.com/2024/01/11/news/mark-zuckerberg-to-raise-cows-on-beer-and-macadamia-nuts-on-hawaii-ranch/

5https://www.freightwaves.com/news/disrupted-supply-chains-strain-trade-among-us-mexico-and-canada

1https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/22/carbon-footprint-homegrown-food-allotment-increase

The Netherlands will be the center for global food innovation with the Global Coordinating Secretariat (GCS)

On January 27, 2021, the Government of the Netherlands, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and several public and private sector partners launched Food Innovation Hubs at the Davos Agenda 2021 meeting. The Food Innovation Hubs will be a key multistakeholder platform that will leverage technology and broader innovations to strengthen local innovation ecosystems for food systems transformation. Supported by multi-year funding from the Government of Netherlands, the initiative will feature a Global Coordinating Secretariat (GCS) based in the Netherlands.

https://investinholland.com/news/the-netherlands-and-the-world-economic-forum-launch-food-innovation-hubs-initiative/The Netherlands and the World Economic Forum Launch Food Innovation Hubs Initiative

“Global food insecurity has been rising again. This stresses the need to redesign how we produce and consume food. The Netherlands is committed to forming partnerships that will catalyze the innovations that are needed to address the food system challenges. I am therefore proud to announce that the Netherlands will host the Global Coordinating Secretariat of the Food Innovation Hubs,” said Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

With the arrival of the GCS, the Netherlands will leverage its innovation-driven economy to help advance global food security. Boasting an extensive ecosystem of companies and knowledge institutions in agrifood, horticulture, breeding, high-tech and ICT, the Dutch are ideally positioned to play a leading role in shaping our planet’s food system.

The Food Innovation Hubs will be a flagship initiative of WEF’s Food Action Alliance leading to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, and beyond. The role of the GCS will be to coordinate the efforts of the regional Hubs as well as align with global processes and initiatives such as the UN Food Systems Summit.

Global center for food innovation comes to the Netherlands

The Food Innovation Hubs initiative places the Netherlands at the center of global food innovation and sustainability. Located in Wageningen at the heart of the Dutch agrifood ecosystem, the GCS will direct the further development of global regional Food Innovation Hubs from the Netherlands. The work of these regional Hubs is already underway, with more than 20 organizations leading the initiative across Africa, ASEAN, Colombia, India and the European hub in Foodvalley Wageningen. Oost NL, a regional partner in the Invest in Holland Network, will support the GCS in starting this work.

“Food sustains life and is at the heart of our planet. But if we are to feed 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary boundaries, the way the world produces and consumes food needs to change. Innovation is critical in enabling this systemic transformation,” said Dominic Waughray, Managing Director of WEF.

“As progress is accelerated towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, the World Economic Forum is committed to supporting collective action and promoting country led agendas through the Food Innovation Hubs in this pivotal year for food systems,” added Waughray.

With country-led approaches, the Hubs will drive both high-end and low-cost grassroots and other innovations that could have scalable impact, as well as innovations encompassing supply chains, partnerships and business models that can enable systemic change.

Source: World Economic Forum

28 January 2021

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heyitsellebell · 6 months

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elle’s dairy - Page 7 - 21/11/23 @ 10:54pm

hiya!!! We made it to a week! This has been so much fun to do each day. It’s kinda like a daily highlights reel and I love it haha. Ok, onto the happenings of the day:

I woke up late (around 2ish), I didn’t sleep well at all so I knew a sleep-in was gonna happen. That’s alright, my body needed the rest. I still have a sore throat and a cough, though the headache has been largely subdued. My mum made breakfast for me, which was really nice. She made me warm oats with weet-bix (Aussie porridge?). After that I slowly got ready, put on a nice comfy outfit of trousers and a t-shirt (slay), and began to sweep my carpet. Whilst sweeping a baby bird flew onto my window eave, it was so cute (pic attached)

After I finished that it was dinner time. My mum made φακή (faki, yes I know how it sounds) which is a soup comprised of lentils, carrot, red onion, bay leaf, garlic, olive oil, celery, and oregano. It’s soooo good, especially when you put some olives in it and have tarama (caviar) on bread on the side. It’s the perfect food for a sick human.

After dinner I worked on some music stuff! I started the next song off of my upcoming album. Got down the structure, chords, and tone of the song. I want this song to be warm, with a tinge of haunting/eerie/foreboding. I’ve put in some harp lines, clarinet lines, and piano lines, as well as heavy synths and eerie glitchy thingies. It’s sounding really cool, can’t wait to see where it goes.

Anyways, I did that for a few hours and now I’m chilling in bed with an ice pack on my neck (muscle soreness yayyy). I’ll put a POV of me writing this in this post haha. Hope you are well! Thank you for reading these <3 Gonna see if I feel up to working on the new song tomorrow. Other than that I’ll be focusing on making sure i get better soon. That’s all for now! Until next time.

Lots of love,

elle xoxo

#daily blog #blogger #music production #local music #electronica #electronic #indie artist #indie music #indie #birds #greek food #music producer #small artist #musicprodution #new music #musician

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kegg-ca · 25 days

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🗣 'Live for Local' wants to help you kick off the growing season with a seed and starter giveaway! Here are the simple steps to get yourself growing:

👩‍🌾 1. Fill out this Google form.

🌽 2. Pick up your seeds at your location of choice on May 16th.

🍎 3. Watch 'Live for Local' social pages for local growing tips (that's @ liveforlocal on Instagram and here's their Facebook page).

🌱 4. Plant your seeds and watch them grow!

🥦 5. Like, Follow, Share AND Tag a friend (or two!)

🌶️ 6. Share your failures and successes on your socials and —> you'll be entered to win a $50 Top Crop gift certificate for next year’s growing season (tag LiveForLocal on Instagram or share on their Facebook page).

🥕 7. Have a surplus? Bring excess produce to your local Food Bank or Food Recovery Depot (or share with a neighbour or friend)!

When it comes to the seeds that you can get, there are three kits to choose from (which you will select when filling out that Google form that was linked above):

• Balcony Growing Kit (please choose this option if you only have a balcony for growing) - contains the basics needed to start a balcony garden including pots, seeds, and starts that may include herbs, cherry tomato, nasturtium, and lettuce.

• Single Garden Plot - Small quantity of seeds and seedlings that may include carrots, beans, peas, radishes, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, basil, sunflowers, nasturtiums, parsley.

• Backyard Garden - Larger quantity of seeds and seedlings that may include carrots, beans, peas, radishes, beets, nasturtiums, lettuce, kale, swiss chard, sorrel, cherry tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, basil, sunflowers, nasturtiums, parsley.

FYI - there's a limited number of kits available… not to mention there's a limited number of growing days when living in Canada, so don't procrastinate on this great local food initiative and let's get growing 🙌

🚨 And a special THANKS to United Way for making this project possible! 📢

#kimberley bc #gardening #cranbrook bc #live for local #seeds #local food production

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thyme-in-a-bubble · 8 months

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currently in the kitchen making lasagne :) both my sibling and mom are coming over for dinner after they're done with work/school

#knock on wood but i think this one might be one of the best i've ever made #used this soy product i love but haven't before been able to easily get my hands on #but now one of my local shops started selling it! yay!#and also gonna use like 3 types of cheese #just all of the yum #it's gonna be cute #it's gonna be cosy #light up the pumpkin and put some gilmore girls on in the background #lea speaks #tw food #lea’s kitchen

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manuelfarcasdesign · 1 year

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Shopping day today and I got some products from a local dairy. They're not a small business, but I know all milk comes from farmers in the area. And their products are so fresh and got that homemade cheese taste!

#dairy #local food #local business #dairy products #cheese #farming #eat healthy #eat local #buy local

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rohirric-hunter · 2 years

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Let me spell it out this way. Google Chrome was released in September of 2008, and when it first dropped, it was a legitimately good browser. It was faster and sleeker than Firefox and Internet Explorer and generally more user-friendly, and it legitimately was a lighter load on your computer with more useful tools built in. Switching to Google Chrome in 2009 was a no-brainer.

What happened? Well it’s a little thing called profit motive. At the time, Google did not sell laptop computers. The first Chromebooks shipped in 2011 (and let’s be honest, they kind of sucked*). So it wasn’t for several years before Google also profited from selling computers on a large scale. And in those few years between the two releases, Chrome was good because it benefited Google for Chrome to be good. Their only short-term motive was to get people to use their browser, and obviously no one was going to download a new browser and delete their old one if they already had one that was as good or better. So Google had a real, serious motive to make Google Chrome better than the competition.

That all changed when Google started selling computers. Suddenly, they had a new motive: get people to buy their computers (and preferably more than one). These computers came with Chrome pre-installed, and in many cases they physically can’t run another browser, but they are lightweight and comparatively cheap, and Chrome already has a reputation for being better than Firefox because of those crucial three years**. At this point, the main work of getting the browser installed on the computer is already done, so suddenly Google had basically no reason to actually compete with Mozilla and other competitors, so they no longer had any motivation to make a good product.

In fact, it gets worse. Suddenly, Google found they had a real motivation to actively make a bad product. If you have Chrome on your computer, try opening it up for half an hour or so with, say, six tabs open and maybe one other program running, then pop open Task Manager and see what’s gumming up your disk usage. There will be probably around 15-18 iterations of Chrome running, and yes, it will be taking up the majority of your disk usage, and yes, they do this on purpose. See, most people aren’t super computer savvy, and if they have the money, when their computer starts running slowly, they just buy a new one without doing too much debugging. And if Google could manufacture this event earlier than it happens naturally, they could get people to buy more computers faster, which means more profit for them. Chrome isn’t the only Google product that does this, but it’s the one that most people are likely to have a run-in with.

This is just what happens when one company makes too many intersecting products. It’s the natural result of a lack of competition. And it is very much the reason why streaming services should be distributors only, and not make their own original content. We’ve all seen that thing where Netflix hypes up a show, commissions a bunch of advertising for it, makes two seasons, and then cancels it to make room for some new show they’re hyping up. Netflix doesn’t get their money from individual DVD sales or network views (which would require them to long-term develop a consistently good product), they get their money from subscriptions, so any excuse to get subscriptions is a good excuse. And this results in a lot of unfinished, low quality drivel that only exists to look flashy and get a bunch of people to sign up. There’s no motivation to make a quality product.

Like I said, I don’t watch Amazon’s original programming and I never have. But based on conversations I’ve had with people who do, it’s much the same. Their few wins tend to have the original creators extremely involved, and maybe if they always did that I would feel differently. But that hardly allows for truly original content, or adaptations of content where the original owners are for whatever reason unavailable.

* Let’s continue to be honest: Chromebooks still kind of suck. ** Firefox has legitimately stepped up their game since 2008 and is now a real alternative to Chrome in terms of UI and usability. I highly recommend switching to it.

#amazon lotr #is there a word for this #where a company tries to be absolutely everything #beyond like. your local grocery store having store brand pharmacy products #thats fine #theres still competition and a motive to be better than the competition #but when a single company tries to be creator supplier and distributor its kind of like back when companies had like #company towns and stores for their employees and trapped them in the situation by not paying them in real money #except theyve found a way to bypass having to actually hire people in order to get them into the trap #this is bad enough with television imagine if they figured out how to do this with like. food #pharmaceutical products

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