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Don’t know if it counts as sticking it to the man, but I adblock everything. Seriously, Ive got adblockers on my adblockers. Ive been adblocking for so long I don’t know what to buy anymore.
I’m sitting here in my empty house surrounded by my bags of money I don’t know what to spend on. Send help.
Same. I also treat cookies like a virus....no, no, and no again. Though I think my days are limited with that, a lot of websites now saying accept cookies or pay. I'll give up the interwebs before I accept trackers.
For articles which won't let you disable cookies there's usually an archived version somewhere. Or you use some current alternative to 12ft. Or you ask an LLM to summarize the URL.
12ft ladder has never worked for me, unfortunately. :/
Instead of manually denying cookies, you can deny all cookies and whitelist the sites you trust.
Edit: also note - websites that give you the 'option' to opt in or out may not have the same opinion on what cookies are 'optional' or 'mandatory'. Several don't even do anything and are just there to look compliant.
Send money to me. I will dispose of.
When I buy from a small business that I want to support, I will use cash. When I'm buying anything from a large company, I will always use the fanciest credit cards in my wallet.
In the United States, credit card processing fees are more expensive for fancy rewards credit cards and obviously there's no fee for cash.
That's why nobody takes Discover or Amex. Their fees are higher than Visa and Mastercard.
Amex is such a douchebag rich person flex. The credit card equivalent of a Laboubou collection.
Amex isn't exclusive at all. Anyone can go apply for one and get one. It's not special at all
anyone can get an amex. unless you're talking about a platinum or black card? those have minimum spending requirements per year to keep them.
amex is taken in 9 out of 10 places when I use it. it's usually small places that don't take it
I literally cannot think of any places that don't take Discover.
over here, the extra cost that comes from handling cash is enough that small businesses don't want to take it. counting till every day adds up.
Surprisingly not in the US. If you make 100 sales a day of $20 each, then over a six-day week, you'd pay roughly $360 in credit card transaction fees (assuming 2.5% + 10¢ per transaction which is average). If you instead spent half an hour a day counting cash in the till and then half an hour at the end of the week to go to the bank, that's about $98 in labour cost (assuming a labour cost of $28 per hour, which is roughly $25 per hour in wages and $3 per hour in tax), so the savings are $262 per week, which is not insignificant.
I used to do that, but here (Australia) passing on surcharges has sadly been normalised, and during covid heaps of businesses went cashless.
The salt in the wound is that there's not really any reason for businesses to push payment gateways for a better deal. They don't give a shit any more as they just pass it into the customer.
Some American states (not mine) have banned surcharging for credit cards in response to consumer backlash. But what's not banned is marking up everything by 3% and then offering a 3% cash discount.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, thats why I poop on company time.
I'm doing this right now!
I mute commercials.
I love doing this.
My kids an I make farting noises over them.
Also fuck liberty mutual for their vast ad campaign
I mute live sports, mainly American football.
I'll pay the extra football package price, but you couldn't pay me to listen to the play by play.
And I might pay a bit more to hear the crowd noises isolated, with ref announcements, if it was offered.
I'm nice to others.
"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." - Elon Musk
That's how you know empathy is important. It apparently affects the rich's bottom line. Plus, you know, if you have a brain, empathy is just a given...
I pirate my media. The way I see it, I will pull one over on any company I can get away with that would absolutely swindle me given the chance.
You mean you don't want to give the fascist David Ellison any money?!? Me either :)
Not everyday but every time I go shopping
Enter in cheaper fruits/vegetables at the self checkout if someone is watching and you can’t shoplift
Cosmic crisp apples at 3.50 a pound? I’ll just pretend they’re shitty 1.50 a pound apples instead (:
This is how I got my PS4 for $3.50/pound
At my Lidl they put the cheap pink salmon cans on the same shelf intermixed with the more expensive red salmon, so if you just grab a few without looking closely you'll accidentally get some of the expensive ones. So scan the cheap one repeatedly while putting the others in the bag.
Self checkout just confuses me so much, I'm prone to mistakes. If only there was a trained/paid employee to do it for me
As far as I’m concerned I should be paid for checking my own stuff out
I’ll just take it off the total
Everything is 4011. If I'm feeling generous, it might even be 94011!
Reject cookies.
About 5 years ago our town centre introduced parking charges, so now one of us goes shopping while the other sits in the car looking out for parking enforcement so we can drive a loop around the carpark. We probably pay less than once per year, but we park there at least once per week. Saves us ~£100 a year.
Call me dull but unless spaces are egregiously hard to come by, I'd pay ~£2 to not babysit a car looking over my shoulder and instead have a few extra minutes with my better half.
Torrenting and seeding, if i had more storage i would seed for the Anna's Archive
I say anti-CCP stuff to trigger my parents lol.
They aren't even involved in the CCP in any way, like they're just originary people never been involed with the party in any way, but they have like some weird nationalistic glass heart that gets mad when I say anything anti-CCP.
Like... lmao what, are they afraid of the China's secret police? Why do we have to continue pretending to love CCP? We don't live in China anymore lol.
Like if they piss me off, I'm just gonna say anti-CCP shit to piss them off. I really wanna like make a WeChat account, add my parents, then spam their accounts and get them banned.
I remember a few years ago, my mom yelled at me so much and made me cry, so I just used a permanent marker and wrote (graffitied) "消滅中共，世界和平" on a wall inside our/their house [in the US], it's still there, I didn't know how to write the characters, so I just typed it in pinyinyin and used traditional characters for emphasis, they couldn't wipe it off the wall. That is a permanent mark of our relationship. That writing on the wall represents the scars of my traumatic childhood memories.
Like wtf, CCP literally tried to kill me (long story short: One Child Policy, I was the 2nd child), and they still like defend CCP as if there's a CCP secret police here in the US watching us. Fuck them, who cares.
(I just had an argument with parents so this comment might seem very angry and like a rant, whoops, I trauma dumped on the internet again)
On the topic of China's secret police, what are your thoughts on the Chinese government attempting to repatriate Chinese Americans and Europeans through covert operations, such as Operation Fox Hunt? I remember hearing about operations like this a few years ago, and it always seemed really freaky to me.
I haven't personally witnessed a "Chinese Overseas Secret Police" agent yet being in the US for like... about 15 years, so idk how serious the supposed "threat" really is. I never got any threats from PRC, yet. Then again, I don't have much followers and I don't really show my face and I never mentioned my real name. It would take a bit of effort to deanonymise me (not impossible, just takes effort)
I think Russia probably has a worse M.O. like... they just poison their dissidents, like Alexy Navalny
Not sure if there are any recorded instances of Chinese dissidents being poisoned like Russia does to their dissidents, so like...
if I get coerced to "go back" I'd just refuse...
what what are they gonna do, drive a van and grab me and then somehow get me across the ocean? (do they even have the logistics?)
Idk, I'm probably a bit more worried about ICE at the moment.
I mean I say anti-CCP shit and I don't really feel fear as long as I never step foot in China again. But when it comes to... anti-trump speech, that's when I sort of self-censor a bit to make sure it isn't legally considered "threatening violence".
Kinda like Snowden, you know. He can criticize his former country, but isn't really in much of a position to criticize his current country.
I'm sort of in a Snowden-type of situation, I mean I do criticize the US, but I have to "tone-down" a lot of what I say about the US.
So, TLDR is: 没办法, I can't do anything about it, I'm not in a position of power to help other Chinese dissidents.
It sounds terrifying if they do decide to target you, that is; but there are a lot of dissidents around the world, they can't possible go after everyone, especially those outside the country.
I ride my bike everywhere. Don’t buy gas, need no license or insurance, can’t be tracked easily, no parking passes, and I can go where the fuck I want.
I say no to cookies
I geneally just whine a lot about code quality and post shit like this in the company slack for everyone else to see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B8vPXPjzA0
Bike to work!
rip a fart in the elevator as I walk out
I deny all the cookie banners
I have sex with my husband. He's a man. I stick it to him. Does that count?
