Dating myself. Coca-Cola. New coke saga. Hit me at the exact point of developing a social consciousness. The absolute mercenary method of screwing around with their products.
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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Boycott? Nothing. Avoid like the plague? Apple, Windows, consoles like Xbox and PlayStation, Activision Blizzard and probably others I can't remember rn.
Nintendo gets a pass as I've grown up with them. Starting with a regular old DS Lite, then to a DSI XL, then the 3DS XL, and now a Switch.
airbnb, Chinese stuff as much as possible, newscorp, fairfax, a specific car mechanic who I caught out in an attempted repair extortion over 12 years ago now and I still badmouth them whenever the general topic arises
oh and one of my wife's acquaintances (fortunately less so these days) who is a self centred idiot, literally publicly cucked her husband and doesn't feel bad about it, just parks in the common driveway (literally the way in and out for the units behind ours) and makes excuses for her klepto kids all the time. by boycott I mean I refuse to acknowledge her presence if she's around unless it's to tell her to move her fucking car. again.
Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft because of their abhorrent workplace and business practices. Been boycotting AB since the whole Hong Kong thing, and Ubisoft since the sexual harassment allegations. It also helps that all their games for a while have been mid ow worse.
Still trying to decide if I should draw the line at not giving them money, or not using it at all when it's something I've already paid for
I boycott Twitter and Instagram and Reddit, Starbucks, most of the US save for New York state because of the politics, Kellogg's, and, Loblaws grocery stores. Those are just off the top of my head. I should honestly boycott more.
Israel and any company operating out of the occupied Palestinian lands that is Israeli operated.
Apartheid states that oppress people's in another land and treat them like prisoners in an open air prison don't get my money.
Steam, last year I logged in via browser to check something, and it was showing I've not been online for 8 years.
Fuck Steam and this whole drm/application crap they normalised. Yes others are worse, but I'm not accepting it.
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In and Out for banning mask usage at their stores in CA.
Keep in mind I live in California so it's kind of everywhere. And tasty. And cheap.
But it aint right, let your employees wear a mask of they need to or want to.
Oh chik fil a too but that's been going on for like... over ten years? I almost forgot they existed, with their overcooked chicken.