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[–] 41 points 2 months ago (13 children)

I stopped using Amazon like 8 years ago over various previous inhumane issues

Seems the rest of the world prefers slightly more convenience

What are you gonna do I guess

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    just remember. the planet is going to be just fine.

    1000004453

    remember how quickly wildlife came back when covid shutdowns hit? it'll be like that when the last human dies.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Great. The ants, cockroaches and rats will fight over world domination once we drove nearly everything else into extinction. That‘s so reassuring. I only ever cared about the ants anyway. /s

    I genuinely don‘t give a shit about the 99% of the planet that isn‘t it‘s outer crust so obviously I don‘t care if „the planet will be fine“ either. That‘s not mine or your world. Neither is anything that happens in millions of years after pretty much every species we ever knew is no longer there. It‘s such a straw man argument. Nobody is talking about what that clown was talking about when saying „the planet“ and he knew it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    you're thinking too small scale.

    in 150 million years after humans who knows what kind of life will evolve.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I ask people every now and then, the theme of the answer is similar: one stop shopping, it’s easier than looking elsewhere, answering with the question where else am I going to go? People tend to take the shortest path between A and B.

    There are some things you can only find there, sure, but there’s more of a shopping dopamine hit if you look around. Other retailers do exist. Most of the time you can find it elsewhere.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I do most of my shopping through eBay, although some of the sellers use Amazon for fulfillment. They're hard to avoid entirely.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    This has been a serious bugbear for me lately. I switched to eBay, NewEgg, Etsy to spite Amazon's monopoly on e-commerce but I have neither the awareness nor the "spoons" to sort out the vendors on those sites who ship through Amazon

    It deflates my spirit a little every time one of my orders come in with that damn smirking logo

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I miss electronics shops :( The chain and small hobby shops around me don’t carry things like resistors and capacitors. I checked every single one. Really.

    Then I bought a lifetime supply of resistors, like actual hundreds, and it was delivered to my doorstep in under 6 hours for $8.

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