Wigglet

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[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

So like a fully plastic Pickman?

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you looked at the green list jobs? A lot of companies pay for your move and with an offer dependents isn't a problem. Pets can be tricky though. Definitely not easy!

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Not easy outside of high-skills or wealth.

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I live in Aotearoa New Zealand so we are lucky enough to still have a lot of local owned brands and i live rural so I have neighbours farmstalls and my own produce options.

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

No worries 😊 i hope they work for you too!

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These are honestly really really good. Like a fudgier oreo

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 21 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I'm doing a full boycott of all American or American owned Mega corps. Pride themed cookies isn't enough for me, I want to a fair pay structure at all levels of their supply chain, more accountability on their environmental impacts, and a stance against facisim. Until then, I'll just buy as local as I can and bake my own 🫤

 

HOT TIP: when boycotting, try dupe recipes at home to share with friends. Sometimes there isn't a local alternative brand available but there is always someone with a recipe blog on the internet. I can still have doublestuffed mint chocolate sandwich cookies without funding the capitalist machine crushing my American friends ☺️

This recipe I used 1 cup butter substitute (i used a canola spread) 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour ½ cup cocoa powder (i use trade aid or donovans) ½ cup golden syrup 1 teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix in a food processor then set in the fridge for 25 minutes

Filling: ½ cup vegetable shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup powdered sugar 1/4 cup flour Mint extract to taste

Or just do a small spoonful of peanutbutter as a filling

Roll out the dough to about 5mm thickness. Stamp and cut.

My oven is a joke so not sure the temp but i turn it on and bake for about 8-10 minutes. It will be a low temperature, probably like 170c. They are still soft when i pull them out so I let them sit on the pan to cool before filling and stacking

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there a way to add brands i want to avoid that aren't on their list? I live in Aotearoa so I'm not sure if the list will have everything included

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

You hurt their donors. You strike at your regular job but it only works if the majority do it or in key industries. It's why the US has worked so hard to dismantle and discourage unions. Unions give the people power they can leverage.

Hard boycott is to stop consuming products from companies that donate to the administration. Dont buy them. Find alternatives where you can and go without when its not a necessity. It's really really hard but its the most powerful non violent method available

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Strikes and hard boycotts are incredibly effective. There are other less favourable options too, but you should probably start with the strikes and boycotts.

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We have different values, I guess. I don't think tolerating intolerance is acceptable. I think tolerance of intolerance is essentially condoning it. I don't see how silencing hate speech will "come back to bite me" any worse than the environment it creates. Allowing violence in language encourages violence of other forms, slippery slopes and all that.

You can point the finger in the other direction, saying silencing speech is a slippery slope to limiting all speech, but I'm still confident in my beliefs that tolerating intolerance is the greater of the evils to me.

[–] Wigglet@beehaw.org 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Paradox of tolerance. At this point in history it's important to draw hard lines. It will be up to police enforcement and since generally police are sympathetic to white nationalism, i don't think it will be used outside of public displays of clear intention.

 

I've been wanting to get a proper microscope so I can do my own spore examinations to identify local fungi but it's been out of budget. This looks like a much more affordable option so now off to find some plexiglass and laser pointers at the dump.

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