My brain wanted to ask what Lego set that was...
latenightnoir
joined 4 months ago
Oh, how the true vermin emerge again...
Up next: Nintendo thinking of suing everyone with a Mario tattoo into slicing off affected bit of skin.
If I were The Aliens, I would've stopped coming here somewhere around 2013-2014. And I don't say this with any kind of undertone, I just feel we haven't developed in significant ways over the past decade. They most certainly haven't presented any social interest, so it's a study. They'd only need vertical slices every half century to a century or so.
Well, I assume the girlfriend knew the guy REALLY liked Ol' Reliable, right? In this case, screaming "do what you want to me," while clearly indicating a desire for something else, has been 100% respected.
If you want something different, say it specifically. Our pee pees are touching, kinda' late for being Victorian about it...
Which snap apart the instant you try to carry more than a laptop and some chocolate wrappers with'em...
Man, Rotten'll have a renaissance if they plan on keeping the propellers like that...
Thanks so much!
No problem with the translation, can handle those myself, thankfully. Can even handle some minor editing if needed.
Funnily enough, my life is falling apart in just the right way to allow me to involve myself in stuff like this, so yes! If nothing else, I'll stockpile and reach out to some old connections, spread them around.
Agreed, but I'm thinking of the people who aren't fully digital, which make up a large portion of the population (at least here in Romania).
The nice Auntie next door who barely watches anything on TV beyond the evening news and folk music shows most likely won't catch word of this unless I tell her about it (and if she will, she probably won't really get it). And I am absolutely certain she'd love chatting about groceries for a while!
Just want to add that we shouldn't neglect word of mouth as a useful transmission vector. Anecdotal, but I've started dropping the idea in conversations with the people I know (most conversations inevitably drift to the state of things, so it's not that hard to squeeze it in), and most started focusing on that. A couple of explanations and memes later, and they started reconsidering their shopping habits.
I think we're reaching the point where the level of degradation is high enough to be immediately noticeable, which means people are becoming receptive, if only through survival mechanisms. As you've said, most people are simply functioning based on incomplete data, and this particular boycot is like a lite variant, mildly irksome at best. Easier to switch from Coke to American Cola (I'm not kidding, this is an actual fizzy Coke clone made by European Drinks - now discontinued, I believe...), or whatever else there is.
I do completely agree that a public, official campaign for this would speed things along greatly. I'd second trying to see if Volt wouldn't be interested in including this idea in some of their campaigns. Could also talk to local councils/whatever form of local government is available about this, maybe it could even merge with promoting local products in some areas (my home town has a lot of supermarkets which import apples, even though it's actually pretty renown for its apple orchards and natural apple juice, it's downright stupid...). This would imply creating some reading material at least, but wouldn't need to do much more than explain the movement, then send the readers to an accessible (and mobile-friendly!) web page with more info ("buyeuropean.eu" has a nice vibe to it).
Edit: another long shot would be trying to talk to local businesses and see if they won't carry some info material, like have a "Pop!" poster with the concept somewhere, or even carry pamphlets. Most local businesses are very good nodes for transmission because everyone knows the local shopkeep, and the local shopkeep knows everyone. Sure, it's not in their immediate interest to have people refusing to buy their stock of American products, but the process should be slow enough to allow them to adjust their suppliers. A 1-2 month timeline, thereabouts. Unless they have longer-term contracts, but I don't know how those stand now that Liberation Day has happened [Heh, remember ~~Michael Bay's~~ Emmerich's (my brain is melting...) Independence Day? Yeah, they called it Liberation Day, too. Better plot than IRL...]
Edit 2: I'm an idiot! These exist, apparently. Yeah, we need a campaign=)))
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