June @ June @lemm.ee

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I’m underwater right now since interest rates jumped right after I bought. So no.

You’re discussing nuance for a company you like when what I being discussed I the baseline problematic nature of commerce.

Is fair phone a better alternative? Yes, and I’ve said as much.

Is it ultimately different from apple in its goal to be profitable? No.

Both things exist and that’s ok.

Fairphone had audits that prove it’s an improvement in both sustainability and worker conditions.

key word there is 'improvement'. it's still a for profit company and they will ultimately make whatever decisions are in the best interest of the company to make a profit.

they are undoubtedly better, but their baseline is still the same, to make money.

there is no nuance, at all, to the fact that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. it's pretty black and white. there are ways to be less unethical (e.g., fairphone), but not to be ethical.

yep, polyamory has redefined cheating for me and it's much more grounded now than it used to be. cheating is breaking established agreements. in a monogamous relationship that's typically defined as infidelity. in ENM it can be just about anything and it might be different with each and every partner. the key aspect is that there's a mutual agreement and that agreement was violated.

Lmao, I’m an apple user, all in on the ecosystem from phone to smarthome.

Good try though.

I bet she ends up in jail for the abortion while he gets a restraining order or something along with custody of the daughter.

She’s calling them out on it, not accusing them of it.

I tried to switch but the results were terrible. I ended up on bing which is still inferior to google but better than being google even if it is another behemoth data gathering company. At this point im just trying to stop centralizing who gets all my data don’t lest it’s a bit fragmented.

You have a higher net worth than most millionaires!

This is hilarious because there’s a comment just above yours that’s exactly the same, just turned on its head.

I said it to the android guy and I’m gonna say it to you: pot, meet kettle.

So you're going to tell me a company like fairphone is as unethical as Apple or Samsung?

Absolutely. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism and even fair phone is profit driven. Even NPOs are profit driven. No one works for a loss in western society. No one. So literally every company will do everything it does for the sake of profitability. Even fairphone.

You have to realize that fairphone’s whole model is a marketing gimmick. Does it happen to align with some good values? Sure, but it’s still a gimmick to separate you from your money at the end of the day.

Pot, meet kettle.

So wait…. Are you suggesting they were already planing to switch before the EU law was passed?

I know this will likely change as time goes on, but so far I’ve lost value and I’m under water by about 10% according to what I can suss out of the market value. And, my mortgage is 2.5x what I could be paying in rent most anywhere else in the region, which is its own stressor yannow. Everything is just a bit wonky right now.

I’m at least 30 years from $0 lol.

It’s funny how my net worth was higher when I was renting than it is now that I’m a homeowner that bought 18 months ago.

Conservatives won’t even hear about this. Their media doesn’t report anything positive on him.

Faraday cages are tuned by the porosity of the material you use to block specific frequencies. So it’s not surprising that the phone worked in the microwave.

This is what I was curious about. Thank you.

Yep. It’s not easy and a lot of people think it’s some amazing relationship goal and when they get there they realize it’s not for them and people get hurt. It’s relationships on hard mode.

Lmao so did I. I was so confused.