If you want to see some change in the world you should consider "Resist and Unsubscribe":

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

If you want to see some change in the world you should consider "Resist and Unsubscribe":

https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/

You don't have to unsubscribe everything even just a few multiplied by many makes an impact.

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

Along with this, buying local will have the largest impact long-term. It is going to vary a lot by where you live but it many places you easily replace 50% or more of your regular shopping with local grocery stores, restaurants, bakeries, farmers markets, coffee shops etc

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

Buying books locally has gotten a lot harder. There are way fewer independent book stores anymore

https://bookshop.org/

is an option but it feels less than perfect.

I will still buy from the shop near me but it makes me sad it is not locally owned anymore.

[gwozniak@discuss.systems]

@shafik I'm lucky to have a wonderful local, independent bookshop. I can order stuff through them without any trouble, and they always have something interesting out when I choose to browse the store.

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

@gwozniak

Out local shop got absorbed by Barnes and Nobles. I think it was either that or close up.

[alison@burningboard.net]

@shafik @gwozniak In the Bay Area, I frequently attended musical performances at Medicine for Nightmares in the Mission, and Bird and Beckett in Glenn Park. Both of those are indeed bookstores! Neither made money on the performances, so I also bought books when I was there.

[shafik@hachyderm.io]

@alison @gwozniak

For sure there are still some out there but it is a shrinking number.

[jeffmcneill@hachyderm.io]

@shafik @shafik "economic decapitation" in the words of one author

[alison@burningboard.net]

@shafik I don't know about you, but I've never subscribed to any of these services. I do have a Github account which perhaps I should migrate . . .