puppinstuff

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[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The Day the World Stops Shoppong examined this and found that it doesn’t take a whole lot of concerted action to tank the consumption economy.

Buy nothing days are good but less good if you return to regular habits and redouble your consumption after the boycott is over.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 16 points 19 hours ago

My kid has been enjoying “Auntie Dolly’s” free Imagination Library books since he was born. In Canada. That woman is a treasure.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Whichever party can promise another season or two of Anne will secure the majority government.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I always thought the only reason they can choose to charge so much is because countries respected pharmaceutical patents. In a trade war the PM could just say that they won’t be enforcing any domestic generic drug copies.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

I’d say he’s headed for his billionaire bunker but he likes golf too much to follow the scared dictator playbook.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I think it’s harder to find the signal from the noise of sameness.

I used to be able to find interesting bands and artists by watching The Wedge on MuchMusic or listening to my local alternative radio station. Now those stations all play Top 40 and TV shows got replaced by algorithmically curated beige.

As much as I am complaining I’d love if somebody could recommend some useful sources for somebody who wants to navigate away from Apple Music and Spotify streaming land.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

It totally did. I am old enough to remember laughing at Abe Simpson and now I am become!

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I’m liking this dude’s content more and more over the last month.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

NAAATO, assemble!

I like it.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I am fine with environmentalists who care about clean earth, air and water that’ll we can all enjoy making it harder for polluting companies to make more money that they hoard for themselves.

Inb4 corporate taxes and trickle down—it’s been 40 years and there’s no trickle. And there’s orders of magnitude between the tax rate and the cleanup or remediation costs that usually are left to the provinces to figure out.. if at all.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (19 children)

I remember when modern music was interesting enough to want to pirate.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

I eat meat, too.

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