Comment on What MLK fought for

• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well yeah, sure. But nobody should like Starbucks

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I moved to uni last week (freshman) and the amount of times I have heard “were going to Starbucks” (there’s one on campus) is absurd. It’s like they’ve never heard of a boycott before.

    Like I’m not even that invested with my boycotts, I’ll still go to target for a pair of pants and buy groceries from Walmart despite knowing they’re horrible companies. I am a chronic Monster Energy consumer and still use Instagram. I just block out the things that are easy to replace like Nestle products or using a different web browser & search engine (still on the fence about Linux).

    But at least when I buy from a shitty company I feel guilty about it, they just have no comprehension that it might not be a good thing.

    Out of a show of hands for an icebreaker out of like ~50 people in a room only TWO had android phones, myself included. That was pretty crazy to me.

    despite that though I found a group of friends and somehow all 3 of us have android phones and all of us have side loaded apps. Both of them aren’t in comp sci either so that was a fun surprise. Pretty funny how we just converged without knowing lol

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Regarding Utah, if Brigham Young had gotten his way, Utah would have been the State of Deseret and these were his proposed borders:

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      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        wbut the fuck

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A very involved answer to my very shallow, snarky comment. I just meant that Starbucks simply sucks and I hate the snooty arrogance of the place. It’s a shitty product wrapped in pretension and high prices. But the kids, they love their hot milkshakes.

      Anyway, yeah it’s a shitty company but what isn’t these days. I have my own things I boycott (hilariously, any and all Google and Meta products/software) but at the end of the day you could not exist in modern society if you boycott every shitty company.

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