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Things to give up for Lent:
- Amazon
- Target
- Whole Foods
- Buying from billionaires
- Paying with a credit card
- Letting tech companies track you
Outstanding!
I'm a #Christian but not a #fascist and will be suggesting this to my family.
I'm not sure if this was meant to be humorous or serious but I find it a win either way.
@Impish4249 It's something that's been going around. I know Al Sharpton and some other black religious leaders have been proposing it especially given the rollback of DEI so quickly by so many large companies. Here's one article I could find.
https://religionnews.com/2025/02/26/boycotts-accompany-prayer-as-faith-leaders-prepare-for-lent/
Thanks!
That #DEI rollback thing is going to have some other unexpected consequences for the #MAGA crowd.
Businesses with a #monoculture end up missing so many clues that a diverse *and* included workforce provides. DEI is more than just an issue of #fairness & #morality it is a business value. Companies like #Coscto have made that clear. Fortunately for me I'm in a company that thinks like Costco. I'm not in the group that would be excluded, I need that group to help us succeed.
@LoganFive thank you! I would also suggest to extend this to #entertainment platforms (including also #worshipmusic. We can do better choices when thanking the Lord!)
That last is why I have (so far, successfully, but it's getting harder and harder) resisted getting a smartphone and dealing with all the apps. It's not clear how much longer I'll be able to sustain this.
But I've heard nothing to suggest that a smartphone (especially the Big Two) aren't just an unremitting data privacy nightmare.
@cavyherd @LoganFive There are some deGoogled Android distros out there.
From what I understand, they won't support many or most of the Mainstream™ "apps" that I'm fighting the use of.
And it's Yet Another Fucking Device to spend $$$ to buy, keep track of, update, charge up, spend more $$$ for the plan.... And I'm not sure how much that even would address the privacy issue when the primary function of apps, as far as I can tell, is data scraping.
No. Just fucking no. I'm growing to deeply hate the tech I already •have• bought into.
@cavyherd @LoganFive Installing apps in the absence of the Play Store requires a bit more work, but you have the option of running privacy-respecting alternatives to the data scraping apps, especially if you also add in hosting the server component on your own hardware. You don't have to miss out on everything modern tech has to offer as a cost of avoiding data harvesting.
God that sounds like a lot of work....