This is the level we need to be at. Now. The minimum level.

The production shelf space was the premium. By the time a distributor has it, it matters far less.

This isn’t a beginning. This is going to be a huge blow to the movement when nothing happens.

That is literally not how it works with people. They will feel like they did their job and move on. They will do this instead of actually helping. There isn’t any escalation. There’s a week (not long enough) hit on specific companies and other “days”.

There’s danger in wasting opposition efforts. People will lose hope when these nonsense attempts have no impact. People will spend efforts doing this and feeling productive without actually accomplishing anything. We really don’t have the luxury of throwing effort away.

You’re really forcing it at that point. Wine can’t run most of what I need to use for work. I’m excited for the day I can ditch Windows, but it’s not any time soon unfortunately. I’ll have to live with WSL.

This isn’t an economic protest. This is slacktivism. One day or a handful of days will have exactly zero effect. Every one of you advocating for it and defending it is actively hurting the effort. You are the fascists best friend.

I used to do production coordination. This isn’t an issue. If Tony expects to sells two peaches a day, but this week he sold three yesterday and one today it’s all the same. The amounts average out over time. You will have to hit them for much, much longer than a day to have ANY effect.

One day or a handful of days is meaningless slacktivism.

Yep. Learned to farm. We should have an overabundance of food this year. I’ve been teaching my local communities to be self reliant and collectively bargain. We’re close to community policing, community gardens and expanding firearms training.

Did you know Grainger and other companies are willing to make a deal with large groups, like HOAs or Recreational groups, and offer discounts on services and tools?

Power to the people. This is what real change looks like.

And what are they doing for that? Because there’s no plan for that right now.

This is a much better plan. Much better. We should be organizing longer pauses with different targets. We should have a different one every week or longer.

One day will do nothing. This is slacktivism. Every one of them is a useful fool for the fascists.

Stopping for one day isn’t a protest.

You’re not getting “good”. A one day pause is not an effective strategy in any sense. It’s slacktivism. It’ll placate people who would have otherwise taken actual action.

This is it. If we want to have any effect it needs to be much longer than a day. One month would make a statement. You could even cave out food. You could also have people cancel their endless list of subscriptions or just scale back their lifestyle for a greater effect than a one day pause.

People will stock up the day before and binge the day after. It’s not effective or realistic. This is slacktivism. It’s not pessimism to tell you that it’s a dumb plan.

It won’t work because people are just going to stock up the day before and binge the day after. No one is going to feel anything.

Civ 7 is pretty bad. The wife and I picked it up early so we could play it while we took some time off work. It’s neat and the new systems are cool. I like how Civs and Rulers work. I think the game flows really well now. Too bad they just had to iron out all of the fun to get it there.

Valid UI and customization complaints aside, the AI is miserable. Even on the default difficulty I found myself being forced to play the game it wanted me to play, not the game I wanted to play.

Right out the gate we restarted twice because the starting positions can be completely non viable. I was left on a 8 hex, not counting mountains, desert. My wife started near 5 city-states/barbarians the second time. Then my expansion to three cities was cut short when three separate AI players settled directly on my boarder, put one or two armies next to my cities each and swooped in and stole a city-state I had been spending influence to win over at the last minute. The barbarians attacking from the other side intensified. I had one army on each side. I easily had the largest army in the game and had spent the entire time trying to make friends. The AI players all chose some “policy” that made them all hate me and then they dogpiled my one city. I took them to the cleaners, but still lost. I was forced to play discount total war instead of Civ. I had to push for domination and won eventually. I couldn’t denounce people, they can uno reverse that. I would spend tons of resources winning over a city states for someone to swoop in, but then out and then the city state instantly starts slaughtering my people.

The same thing happened in two other games we played. I don’t even like domination victories. The AI isn’t even unintelligent or advanced. There is always a point when everyone you know shows up to your doorstep with an army and they just leave it there to attack later. Like clockwork. My warriors lost a 1v1 vs slingers. The game just isn’t completed. They’re clearly still working on customization, UI and AI.

I don’t want to min max. I want to casually play a game with my wife. We used to play Civ 6 and 5 on Prince. We used to have fun losing in those games, but we’re not having fun winning or losing in Civ 7.