I think there’s a point to be made with harm reduction too- valve makes their drm easy to use and seems to be on the less invasive side

You can buy the cells, but you have to wire them into batteries yourself

They are good for just that though - some people on YouTube have find it and break down the process

I started by adjusting my expectations for myself

It’s impossible for me to become carbon neutral at this point in time - I might be able to survive in the woods, but without buying the land I’d eventually get arrested, and my homestead torn down.

So it’s a matter of harm reduction, or balancing the scales in the right direction. So I made a goal - I want to build a solarpunk community out in the mountains somewhere. I also want to spread good ideas, while reducing bad ones

I will never achieve either if I’m not in a good physical and mental state. So I forgive myself for indulging when I need to

Do what you can when you can. If you die and cut your footprint to zero, you won’t save the world… So at least attempt something that could help

But most of all, my guiding mantra is “if everyone in the world was like me, it would be a utopia”. Be the kind of person who could be part of the world you dream of

Uh… Gmail, Ad sense, search?

They’ve got like a dozen duopolies going on, they have far more control and ability to leverage it than Bell ever did