Not April fools.
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
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@chu Buy books from your local book shop. Via bookshop.org or similar, if you can't get there in person.
@johnhenrythe3rd @chu do you supply the difference in price?
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@chu Well, I'm from Bogota, Colombia, and all of this can still be done effortlessly.
Who knows how long it will last, but at least for now its not hard ask to do all of this here.
@glitchypixel @chu except for using an ai coding assistant from time to time, all those seem pretty easy for me here in Denmark as well
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
Made my last online purchase over 10 years ago and have never ever done anything else from your list.
Adding to your list:
Repeatedly write to your political representatives on all levels and demand to drop and finally ban the use of US tech fashs products and services (non-US resident here).
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@chu Why just for a week? Of this list the only one I do occasionally is online purchases and that’s only when the product can only be had that way. Even then it’s only a few times a year I do that.
I would give allowance on delivery for people with mobility and health issues. Grocery and take out delivery has been a godsend for my father.
Could your father order directly from the restaurants and supermarkets?
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
@chu I’d add, “Pay cash.”
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Could your father order directly from the restaurants and supermarkets?
@proscience For grocery delivery the orders are directly with supermarkets through their online ordering systems. For restaurants more and more are dropping their own delivery as the online delivery companies have swamped the market.
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
@chu
Lol this has been my everyday life since forever. I've never ordered mediocre food to my door or never installed any cab app into my phone. Also my online purchases are less than 5 a year. -
Email them? Is it possible to bypass the big ol' platform?
This is part of the problem
Can we divorce ourselves from their control?@chu you don't understand. You say "don't order online". But there are literally *a lot* of small indie store that have an online presence. You are saying to no patronize them with 1).
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
Point 2 is moot for a lot of people, including me. I couldn't even get DoorDash if I wanted to; I checked.
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@johnhenrythe3rd @chu do you supply the difference in price?
@LeoBistmans @johnhenrythe3rd @chu
theres plenty of archive sites that you can read nearly any book on, if you know where to look. plus (at least where I have lived) it is often cheaper to buy a book from a local bookstore rather than Amazon or equivalent. Check your local library as well if it is accessible! -
Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
@chu Good stuff, good list. Not just for a week, but my ongoing mission.
Among those who don't do food delivery, don't do subscription software, don't do music or TV streaming, still buying media. Don't do gig economy.
Occasional online purchases (rural location), but from manufacturers or small businesses, definitely not through Little Anthropomorphic Rocketman Jeff Bezos.
Mostly Linux user, adblock network w/ DNS filter, fuck AdTech and advertisers. Banned Google, Meta, Microsoft, my Internet is clean and useful. Lucky bastard, I never fell for antisocial media platforms, saved me living time. No AI, don't unlearn critical thinking - live my own life.
Keep learning, and keep helping and educating others to fuck the TechBros. Get lost, I won't do their bidding!
Love it
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@chu you don't understand. You say "don't order online". But there are literally *a lot* of small indie store that have an online presence. You are saying to no patronize them with 1).
These small businesses can't accommodate you by email? Are there truly small then?
The point isn't perfection. It's too reduce and do a check of how much of our lives we ceded control of.
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
@chu
Pay cash -
@tizziari @chu Yes, indeed, but remember that ‘these people’ is a dehumanizing term. https://stlholocaustmuseum.org/3-ways-to-confront-dehumanizing-language/
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
@chu this is not painful at all - other than an occasional online purchase because I can't find some things locally, I practice everything on your list. But, I also know it's a privilege to not need any of them.
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@chu this is not painful at all - other than an occasional online purchase because I can't find some things locally, I practice everything on your list. But, I also know it's a privilege to not need any of them.
I buy things online about a half dozen times a year.
One is by necessity Amazon sadly. They have a product I haven't found elsewhere so I normally do one purchase at the start of the school year.
The point of this though is to examine our lives and our systems and look at how much we can or can't divorce from the tech bros. How much power do they really have over us. Sadly, I think it's more than a lot of us realize.
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I buy things online about a half dozen times a year.
One is by necessity Amazon sadly. They have a product I haven't found elsewhere so I normally do one purchase at the start of the school year.
The point of this though is to examine our lives and our systems and look at how much we can or can't divorce from the tech bros. How much power do they really have over us. Sadly, I think it's more than a lot of us realize.
@chu absolutely agree - partially because we have few good choices left after the decimation caused by covid and partially because they're insidious.
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@johnhenrythe3rd @chu do you supply the difference in price?
@LeoBistmans @chu It was a few pounds more expensive to buy it locally. But in my opinion that's a price worth paying to keep local shops alive.
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️. Amazon Prime is an example.
