This is a painfully bad situation. And what’s worse is that we shouldn’t even call it “fast fashion”, it’s really: “Shitty clothing that most people are stuck with because that’s all they can afford.”

Fast fashion makes it sound like bougie niche brands that 20 somethings put themselves into debt over to keep up with trends. But it’s also everyday people brands sold at Kohl’s, Walmart, Target, etc. I get the analogy intent (fast food, fast fashion) but it’s backfired in that everyone assumes the problem is uncontrolled selfish vapid people. The problem is all of us because we’re trapped without options.

(Bit of a terminology quibble)

The quality of the already shitty clothing is even worse now. Ex: a shirt I bought at Kohl’s in February had several small holes by the end of March - the dye hadn’t even started to fade yet. Same brand, same cut and style of shirt I’d purchased a year before (the bar was already low on quality), the likes of which I’d been purchasing year over year as replacements.

I have to shuffle my budget to find the money to buy higher quality – most people can’t.

I have to find a new retailer/brand with the style, material, and size options – online is fine for some things but most people aren’t like me, buying the same shirt on repeat, and frankly, I don’t enjoy buying clothing online as a non-man because no one uses a standardized measurement system for women’s clothing.

“Higher end” clothing is often garbage quality with a name that inflates the price – most people don’t want, nor should be expected, to become fabric and tailoring experts just to pick out their wardrobe pieces.

Don’t get me started on kids clothes.

Anyway, we can vow to shop used/secondhand all we want but this is a massive system problem that needs heavy regulation enacted quickly to force substantive change.

Someone needs a decaf.

This. This. This.

We have a reliable means that doesn’t require producing large animals that will, at scale, put more needless pressure on our collapsing ecosystems. Get insulin out of corporate pharmaceuticals and into a basic right to cost-free access model where we, society, fund the production.

+1

I was just fine today until I read this. THANKS INTERNET PERSON

Rest easy, Dave. And thank you. 💛

Same! I believe that others struggle with it but I can’t wrap my head around why their experience is so different from my own.

Need? No. But sometimes when I’m standing in a pool of people and despair and I can’t picture things getting better, I kind of just want a BFF little buddy like WALL-E or BD-1 who just gets me without judgement, and doesn’t require me to be its caregiver.

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Damn this is scary. How are we so dependent on the distribution (control) of software, especially healthcare related, through two corporations: Alphabet and Apple. I am not so naive as to believe the open internet or freeware is free of nefarious actors, but the testing and checks and balances would play out far safer than this for-profit stranglehold.

I have no idea how people who aren’t tech-interested, but dependent on these systems, stay sane. What a miserable way to live life.

wander around living seaweed, while being bright yellow.

I could get behind this little critter.

They’re so sweet. The trusting part gets me. Too pure for this planet! 💛

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Well said. There’s a part of me that desperately wants to know there is a true, pure species on this planet that doesn’t stoop to sick levels of cruelty, but that’s not reality. Bambi noms baby birds, cetaceans mutilate each other’s babies, and we do the unthinkable every second of every day. Depressing, but here we are.

Seriously, yes. I’m heartened to hear that this is being discussed at higher, coordinated levels. Right now I’m trying compost in a rotating bin I bought for this rental place because the landlord will not pay for food waste pickup even though it’s offered in our area (they also expect six units to share a single home sized recycle bin that’s picked up once every two weeks 🙄). We need a system change and stop leaving it up to individuals to figure it out on our own.

From the Beehaw sidebar: “We do want you coming here and sharing links to news articles, websites you find, starting discussions, connecting with others, and in general doing what you see on other social media websites.”

What if the focus of Beehaw and/or Lemmy in general is not as a link aggregation platform but instead a community of topic discussion? People are rewarded for posting links to articles with upvotes which only gives incentive to continue posting the same not-read content that they think the respective subs will like (upvote).

Instead, we should be rewarding people who are actively engaging with the community. Not broadcast posting the way it goes on mastodon or IG, etc., but actual back and forth interaction with the community.

Maybe take away the ability to upvote a link post and reserve that for the actual discussion parts that take place?

Truly it is. Trying to get that added weight back off when your over 40? Every miniscule advantage is appreciated.

^ The Libby app works great for audiobooks, too!

Seriously, this. I get stink eye because I portion no more than 4oz of beef per serving per person.

I would love to have options for ground beef with 50% or more replaced by mushrooms. I’ve had burgers made like this and they were better than a fully beef version. Make this widely available, and cheaper than 100% beef, and I could see that accepted faster than the highly processed non meat options like impossible or beyond brands.

It’s contagious as heck. I’ve never been to the South but somehow y’all fitted itself into my lexicon.