you know what, I think I was wrong.

McDonald’s yesterday reported that its global sales declined for the first time since 2020, with its net profit declining 12 percent compared to the same period last year. Starbucks announced Tuesday that sales in North American stores dipped 2 percent, and sales in the rest of the world dipped 7 percent. It also reported that its total international profits dropped by 23 percent.

It does seem like the majority of that hit is coming from predominantly muslim markets, not the domestic US market, and I think that bds org is US based? but regardless, significant dents are being made, and keeping the US movement in lockstep with the international boycott movements is important

I should have looked it up first

I gotta say, I feel like targeting the coke's and mcdonalds of the world is kinda... hopeless? like it couldn't possibly make a dent in their numbers at the current size of the movement. Maybe thats not true, idk, but I'd prefer to absolutely wreck a sabra or something than make coke take a 0.4% hit

I think it would be disappointing tbh. better to just organize in your area, if there are cool hexbears in your area you'll eventually run into them doing that.

you can link it if you just remove the tracking part of the url or copy it from a browser instead of the app

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH7JvolnqP4&t=2m57s

I really hope auto-removing tracking tokens gets added to lemmy

There's strong evidence in his body of work that he's at least on the left iirc, but yeah not an open communist

I think it was Miyazaki who at least historically was an out and out commie

its a fuckin real life strawman

"See how bad and expensive transit is?? (because we bulldozed the good stuff and purposely made it bad) We should do [Bazinga bullshit] instead"

yeahhhh... mixed feelings on that vid. it was highly speculative but still more or less compelling. I think the future will be both dumber and less interesting than what he proposes, but the undeniable fact is they can pretty much only make things worse

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-101-the-false-universality-of-common-sense

I dont disagree necessarily (though the algos here are relatively simple), but it would entail a lot wider changes structurally and socially than just ripping out those features

I'm not talking about the occasional person catching strays and being broken up over it and taking it personally. I've been there and feel for them. that's something I think is a misstep

I'm talking about the chorus of power users with a bone to pick that inevitably blow every misstep up into a grudge match struggle session with walls of text or people replying to every single mod or pro-mod comment prodding for a response. If the mods would stop making embarrassing missteps that would at least stop giving them ammo, but that isnt the root issue.

idk if people just need something to be angry about or what

I cant believe people are still so mad. I don't 100% agree with all mod/admin decisions but like, its fine, its just a temp ban from an anonymous shitposting site, you can make a new account, everyone needs to take a chill pill, mods included

This would break sorting and ensure nobody on federated instances would ever see our posts. You can have this experience now by turning off upvote totals and browsing by new. Its not horrible, but I dont think its really a solution

early on in site history there were attempts to make decisions by vote but the polls just got spammed iirc, there was no mechanism to stop cheating, and with open registration it was kinda impossible to determine 'real users' vs someone who made a bunch of accounts. not to mention the shitshow generator that was userunion

one of them has been arrested at least once in the short time I've known of them, which is one more than I ever have. And yeah, any group chat or other online space no matter how much encryption I have to assume is vulnerable

yeah this is probably the approach I should have taken. And same, if we get organized enough to merit a matrix server I do have the skills to run it, though I'm sure many would balk

Most of these things are only tangentially related if at all lmao.

except the middle line you're just describing wealthy people, who while they are class enemies, aren't just like, inherently, currently fascists. The only one I'd say is fairly solid is calling people terrorists but you do kinda get that from libs all the time, even unscratched ones

Yeah. It's just like, how do I even have that conversation when this is all happening in a semi-public setting where I don't want to implicate myself or others. In person it'd be awkward but I know what I'd say

yeah! and not including people they sell weapons to, just forces under active US command, like wtf

it's not fedposting, more low level crimes but most of the same principles apply

the thing is most people don't have the money, time, desire, knowledge, etc to keep a digital archive intact for 20, 30, 40 years by keeping multiple backups and being diligent, but similar longevity is often achievable with physical media just by chucking it in a box in the closet (obviously it doesn't survive a house fire or whatever that way, but hard drive failure, accidental deletion, etc. are far more common than physical destruction like that)

I mean I know how to run a server and I know how to automate backups and do all kinds of stuff like that and I still don't have good data practices

For mass media IMO the lesson is to sail the high seas early and often, and if you have anything rare or hard to find in your collection, share with the class. For personal or sentimental stuff, I've heard worse ideas than stuffing those files on DVDs and sticking them in the closet, though if they are large files there's probably better alternatives