Kristell

Website seems to be t-shirtwholesaler.com, gonna keep that in my back pocket for later, thank you!

Here is legitimately how I did it, no exaggeration. I sent the following message to all of the contacts I wanted to keep (or something similar, I don’t have access to the message anymore):

“Hey, I’m leaving Facebook permanently. I only use the chat function anyway, and I don’t want to use it given their business practices. Here’s my phone number, email, signal, and XMPP. Pick one, I don’t care which.”

And then I logged off for a month, logged back on, and deleted my account. I wasn’t sure if they’d still get the message if I deleted my account after, plus I have ADHD and wanted to give myself a chance to remember anyone else I wanted to keep in touch with. I lost one person in the move, and they weren’t someone I talked to that often anyway.

The earlier videos from Ember’s Ghost Squad on YouTube. Largely innocuous videos from a fan of a Danny Phantom character who would end up committing a mass shooting at their job.

Yoteslaya as well. Didn’t commit a mass shooting, but suddenly stopped uploading, and it came out that they ended up playing chicken with a train, and losing. Iirc there were 4 people in the car?

Even with people using more than they need we still overproduce by an alarming amount. Also someone wearing 5 shirts a day doesn’t contribute that much to consumption, just extra laundry detergent, which is a resource that can be stockpiled for a long time.

There are a lot of ways that we do over consume, though many of them just… Do kind of go away when we’re not run ragged constantly. Don’t need to buy shinies to numb the pain when the pain is gone, y’know?

A lot of overconsumption is fueled by industries doing it on purpose, too, clothing being a prime example of that. Clothes used to last, but that’s not as profitable as making things without enough seam allowance to alter them, and making them out of cloth so bad it falls apart if you even think of wearing it anyway.

Some of it is definitely personal choice, but I’d wager that most of it is down to the second one, with a runner-up being the first.