

I haven’t given Amazon money in a decade or more.
Options:
- Local stores if you have any that haven’t been strangled by chains yet.
- The manufacturer of whatever product you’re buying.
- A non-Amazon retailer listed in the “where to buy” section of the manufacturer’s site.
- In those rare cases where a manufacturer ONLY sells through Amazon, just buy from one of their competitors unless the product literally turns lead into gold.
I’m seeing a lot of “but I can get it the next day” in this thread. If my options are to wait a week for a product or to put money in the pocket of a billionaire who is actively contributing to the destruction of the free press, democracy, and the QoL of the working class, like… I’ll find something to do for a week?














This is probably the edible talking but… I’m enjoying this through the lens of the sci-fi trope of humanity trying to cheat death by digitizing the soul.
We haven’t figured out the technology for ourselves yet, but here we have a person at their workbench, driven by empathy for a digital pet, going apeshit with a soldering iron to try and transfer their little friend’s ghost before its shell fails. That’s cyberpunk as fuck.