Aaron Maté is a Canadian writer and journalist. […] Maté works as a reporter for The Grayzone, a far-left news website and blog, which publishes supportive coverage of the Russian, Syrian, and Chinese governments.

The title is a bit confusing at first, but good news once you understand it!

If that’s what is necessary let’s go

I didn’t know either, but it seems to be an often picked ‘random’ number by people. Here is an article about it, I didn’t read it though.

It hurts to see what countries like Lithuania do for the Ukraine while others cannot get their stuff together. It is probably a mix of solidarity and fear to be the next victim. It is a strong symbol, but the small baltic countries unfortunately do not have the financial power to make a big difference when the large ones are busy doing other bullshit

I’m not sure if that is a sustainable model for the whole society. Pirating as a solution for everything feels like giving up to me. Also I can’t pirate my vacuum cleaner.

What you say is true and I can understand it is frustrating. But I really don’t know how to convince people. Convenience is king and you need to have strong political opinions to abstain. I am a nerd, but still I often need double the time to find the “alternative” way of owning things.

I recently wanted to get the Harry Potter audio books for listening on my phone. I basically had two “official” options:

1. Buying all E-books as mp3 download for 235€
2. Amazon Audible for 10€ per Month

You can clearly see that in reality, the industry gives you only one option - audible. For 235€ you can have 2 years of e-book subscriptions.

Maybe you would say “hey, 235€ may seem expensive but in exchange you will get to own the stuff you pay for!”. The thing is: you can get the whole audiobook collection on mp3-CD for just 70€ on Amazon?

In the end I bough an external CD-ROM drive and bought the mp3-CD box used for 40€.

It’s not about that stupid Audiobook or whether the price is justified. The point I want to make is that the industry makes is so hard for individuals to own things, that I almost see this as a lost battle. The way I chose, took almost 2 weeks, days of research, a frustrated lemmy post, two online orders and 2 hours time to copy the mp3s.

And the thing is, it’s the same for everything else - you want to buy a vacuum cleaner? Oh better look if it comes with special cleaner bags for 30€ per bag. Let’s not talk about printers.

Every little item needs so much research, only for the aspects of planned obsolescence and true ownership. We do not even talk about social or environmental aspects…

How the fuck should I expect others to spend so much time on energy on consumption things? Honestly, sometimes I am a bit envious of the people that just do not care. But only sometimes.

Sorry, that somehow developed into a rant

It speaks volumes about this lemmy community that my comment is the first in 10 hours

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That was to be expected

It is not unexpected, but may be a risky move as Zaluzhnyi is pretty popular among the Ukrainian society…

First time on Lemmy, huh? People here will follow AJ even if (or as long as) it states IDF is eating palestinian children…

3,50€ for Döner in 2022 might be a Berlin thing, in other cities this price was more like 2012. A “major döner producer” is not a credible source for economical forecasting, hell it is probably one of the shittiest places to have Döner in general

Döner prices have gone up, as has everything else. Also there is no such thing as a right on having cheap meat.

Wow, qutting drinking and smoking, you must be a strong character. I don’t know you but I’m pretty proud of you. Wish you the best!

I’m proud to say I am 3 months smoke free, after 15 years smoking without a break!

The industry:

Putin is always pushing russian women to make more children in his speeches, as that would be the only way for a “strong russia in the future”. This cruel war crime is absolutely in line with his strategy. I’m very sorry for the poor children experiencing this injustice.

Not really a surprise.