Pandantic

@Pandantic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A religion is just a meme that people take seriously.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Religious sects are just factions with differing headcannons about their religious text’s characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re taking about OP, I get what you’re saying. It’s a lot to get mad at the ignorant or the struggling because of something that isn’t being widely reported. Many people are “ignoring” something that they don know whether to believe, if they even know about it at all. I do stand firm, however, that once you know about an atrocity that a company has committed, continuing to use it either indicates you don’t care or (if the atrocities are ongoing) are complicit in their activities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they really come off as an angry jerk when they’re telling us not to be jerks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, what you’re asking is for normal people to step outside the media they normally consume and seek other (sometimes untrusted) media to come to these conclusions. Some would say, “If this really happened, why isn’t the media reporting on it?” I know why, you know why, but the regular person out there thinks it must be an extreme view if their preferred media outlets are not reporting on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you think we should attack the system? Isn’t boycotting exactly that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What you are talking about is not the same as what OP is talking about. Following the analogy, it’s not like you should stop using shovels (or knives, or water) because someone bad used them (hell, Hitler was a dog lover, and I’ll be damned if I stop loving dogs because of that asshole). Rather, it’s that you shouldn’t just use the shovel you know murdered someone because the person murdered didn’t matter to you. Stepping out of the analogy, it’s not about the tool used (though the case could be made for some things) but about the companies who made them and how they used them or knowingly allowed them to be used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Want To Use Things But Not Own The Consequences Of Its Use.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it difficult to initiate change to big companies without user pushback? What impetus do they have to change when their user base accepts what they are given? Sure, regulators and legislators should do something, but they aren’t going to do it on their own. People need to do their part, and mass exodus is something the media reports on. I’m not asking anyone to abandon these places entirely, especially if their communication with certain people relies on it, but anyone can move away from them to some extent. Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s not with doing. Also, in no way am I saying that it is the users sole responsibility to bring down or hold these companies accountable, but it usually takes some grassroots to get something started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨K12 Admins powerwashing their Chromebooks for a new school year. (Summer 2023, Colorized)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a teacher who teaches students with Chromebooks, I concur.