God i love the tag feature on voyager for lemmy
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch_recalls
The General Motors ignition switch recalls refers to February 6, 2014 when General Motors recalled about 800,000 of its small cars due to faulty ignition switches, which could shut off the engine while the vehicle was in motion and thereby prevent the airbags from inflating.[1] The company continued to recall more of its cars over the next several months, resulting in nearly 30 million cars recalled worldwide[2] and paid compensation for 124 deaths.[3] The fault had been known to GM for at least a decade prior to the recall being declared.[4] As part of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, GM agreed to forfeit $900 million to the United States.[5]
Hoarding living accommodation for the purpose of profit.
Landlording for an office or shop could perhaps be justified to be for-profit but housing is a human requirement and hoarding it for-profit is unethical. All landlords are bastards, unless by some unlikely chance they're running their business as a nonprofit.
The modern worker isn't really living.
We just follow our routines which are forced upon us to afford to survive. We're all sheep in a herd, alive but dead inside. Existing without truly living.
As long as everything in life relies upon money, we'll be stuck in this boring dystopia forever.
When the fuck did The Guardian become locked behind an account?
Sign in is the only way to view articles now? Fuck that.
No solutions other than offering a solution.
You're literally using a communist platform right now. Owned and run by "the workers", and free to use.
Yes, landlords do the things they do because of capitalism. Their existence is due to capitalism. But that doesn't mean they're not to blame. They choose to be landlords.
Your anecdotal experience of nice landlords doesn't cover the fact that landlords, traditionally, have been bastards to their tenants. There's a reason many countries have had to implement laws like third party deposit schemes and standards for things like smoke alarms, heating systems, etc in rented accommodation.
Landlords are bastards because of capitalism but that doesn't wash away the fact that landlords are bastards.
Charity shops. Fuck feeding fast fashion, poverty wages, and low quality materials for profit.
If the clothes have survived someone else's use and are still in good enough state that a) they were donated instead of binned and b) they were put out for sale instead of binned, then that implies the quality is good enough to last me a couple years as well.
I know my money is going to charity instead of some fashion CEO who will use it to exploit people as much as possible.
And, I'm reusing or recycling clothes instead of them having to be manufactured from new, thus reducing my carbon footprint.
Apart from no guarantee of what you'll be able to find, so finding something specific can be difficult, there's really no downsides. Although depending on your perspective this can also be an upside as it makes shopping less predictable, more spontaneous and thus more fun.
There's hundreds of charity shops to choose from as well, all with varying causes, layouts, quality, products, etc. Give it a go, make shopping fun again!
De-Google your life by purchasing Google hardware! What could possibly go wrong?
How do system wide ad blocking on Android?
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Because when climate change really ramps up and starts melting that icy land there's gonna be lotsa resources ripe for the picking and Trump wants them.