@5aef4a62 Hear, hear!!
Not only are big businesses no longer serving customers, they're using and manipulating us as part of their profit-making mechanism. Check out your own purchases, read your own meter, present the item with barcode facing upwards, "sign up" to use our services, or agree to us using all your personal information and accept whatever deceptive crap our AI serves up to you.
@b354784a Even if that were true for all Indigenous Australians in the present day, the First Peoples had running water and readily available food before Europeans arrived.
One of the first things colonists did was cut off access to natural food and water sources by fencing off grazing land and watering their stock at traditional water sources, where the animals fouled the water.
As well, colonists literally poisoned food and water as a way of "clearing out" (eradicating) indigenous peoples.
If their descendants have access to food and water today, they've paid a terrible price of deprivation and murder for it.
#Voice #auspol #VoteYes
@ab25e353 When I get back to my car I rip off plastic packaging and any other packaging I consider to be excess and leave it in a trolley. I did not ask for that stuff and I'm not going to take it home.
@62f0b330 I've still got mine, stowed in an old trunk. Not the very first one with the 500k floppy drive, a later one with (gasp!) a built in hard drive!
I can't bear to thtow it out. Maybe a collector would like it.
@7dfc084c Hoping the Qantas experience shows that there's a limit to how far the pursuit of profit can be taken before the company starts to die from its own poison. I hope this applies to all companies.
#auspol #QANTAS #Australia
@df298e92@b2e37e2e@daf2a02e@ab4225d3@ae0b092a When I had a secondhand bookshop I used to hand out free bookmarks with "It's not hoarding if it's books" on them.
When AI ruins all knowledge and communication, books printed pre-AI will become the only reliable literature, so hang onto them!
@1186f2ed Well I'm happy to mention the enormous contribution air travel makes to carbon in the atmosphere.
STOP FLYING! IT'S KILLING THE PLANET!.
Consider it mentioned.
@bc697b09@32351832 When you say "marketed to" are you saying consumer preference has nothing to do with what sells? Don't companies do market research to find out what consumers want?
@a6fbe814 Yes, you did say "chooks", I should have realised. I'm just in the habit of writing an alternative in case people don't know what I'm talking about.
Australians can use both Australian English and American English because we've grown up watching American TV, but Americans seem unaware that we speak a different language or that we're culturally different.
@bc697b09@32351832 If it's just about the use of a vehicle, why are people driving cars way, way bigger than necessary, especially in the US where your SUVs are about twice the size of those in Australia?
@98042630 ALT text: a photograph of union members assembled at the gate to Paramount Studios. Many are carrying signs saying "On Strike". Star Trek actor George Takei is seated at the centre of the group. He's making the Vulcan hand sign with both hands. Many of the picketers are also making the hand sign. Smiles all round suggest that the picketers are enjoying Takei's visit and support.
@53de482a@46cd5609 They get tired and disinterested, but don't want to be without the money and prrstige so they keep going long after they should have stopped.
Youd be better off chatting with someone unqualified but with long life experience, intelligence and sensitivity.
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