Don’t know if it counts as sticking it to the man, but I adblock everything. Seriously, Ive got adblockers on my adblockers. Ive been adblocking for so long I don’t know what to buy anymore.

I’m sitting here in my empty house surrounded by my bags of money I don’t know what to spend on. Send help.

Push Nestle and Goya products way back in the shelf / turn them around / grab non- Nestle/Goya equivalents and put them in front of the Nestle/Goya shit.

Goal is to make their products less visible to other customers.

When I buy from a small business that I want to support, I will use cash. When I'm buying anything from a large company, I will always use the fanciest credit cards in my wallet.

In the United States, credit card processing fees are more expensive for fancy rewards credit cards and obviously there's no fee for cash.

I work in ads and I use ad blockers.

I ride my bike everywhere. Don’t buy gas, need no license or insurance, can’t be tracked easily, no parking passes, and I can go where the fuck I want.

Always pirate content from large corporations.

We buy almost nothing new except consumables. I could spend an hour, probably two, showing you around our house and pointing out all the things I made, found on the road, bought used or was given, etc. Our vehicles are 2002, 2004 and 2014.

Not sure we've ever bought Christmas stuff. Our house is lit up like none other on the block this year. Wife toted home a milk crate packed with lights the other day, free. The nice tree in the living room? No idea where it came from, sure didn't buy it at Walmart.

Tried a new coat today my wife got for $1, had to cut the tags off. Damn it's soft and warm! Had to make myself stop buying shoes and clothes at the thrift, have way too many.

Just got done making my own soap. Still not curing for some reason. :( Got some borax and will try making my own laundry soap next.

This year I grew loofa sponges. Got at least a year's supply of scrub pads, kitchen and shower, won't spend a dime on that shit. I'd have a 3-year supply, but made mistakes learning. I'll grow next year and probably skip a few years after that harvest. Also, the seeds sell for $5/20 on eBay. I have hundreds, if not 1000+.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, thats why I poop on company time.

I'm nice to others.

I pirate my media. The way I see it, I will pull one over on any company I can get away with that would absolutely swindle me given the chance.

I have sex with my husband. He's a man. I stick it to him. Does that count?

Sail the high seas

Torrenting and seeding, if i had more storage i would seed for the Anna's Archive

I mute commercials.

Linux and buy tech second hand only when the wheels fall off. I don't buy branded clothes. Sail the seas. I boycott a lot of places/brands too.

I use rags to clean up messes instead of paper towels. No reason to buy unnecessary things because capitalism says I need to throw away something dirty. Just throw them in the wash

I steal at least 1 item every time I am in a Walmart.

Support right to repair.

Edit and add to the Consumer Rights Wiki

Buy things I can actually own (not modern cars / smart fridges which can have features remotely removed at any time.)

Use solar power + house battery + V2G.

Automate everything with Home Assistant.

Provide free source code for all of my projects.

I say anti-CCP stuff to trigger my parents lol.

They aren't even involved in the CCP in any way, like they're just originary people never been involed with the party in any way, but they have like some weird nationalistic glass heart that gets mad when I say anything anti-CCP.

Like... lmao what, are they afraid of the China's secret police? Why do we have to continue pretending to love CCP? We don't live in China anymore lol.

Like if they piss me off, I'm just gonna say anti-CCP shit to piss them off. I really wanna like make a WeChat account, add my parents, then spam their accounts and get them banned.

I remember a few years ago, my mom yelled at me so much and made me cry, so I just used a permanent marker and wrote (graffitied) "消滅中共，世界和平" on a wall inside our/their house [in the US], it's still there, I didn't know how to write the characters, so I just typed it in pinyinyin and used traditional characters for emphasis, they couldn't wipe it off the wall. That is a permanent mark of our relationship. That writing on the wall represents the scars of my traumatic childhood memories.

Like wtf, CCP literally tried to kill me (long story short: One Child Policy, I was the 2nd child), and they still like defend CCP as if there's a CCP secret police here in the US watching us. Fuck them, who cares.

(I just had an argument with parents so this comment might seem very angry and like a rant, whoops, I trauma dumped on the internet again)

Linux and piracy.

Lemmy.

Not everyday but every time I go shopping

Enter in cheaper fruits/vegetables at the self checkout if someone is watching and you can’t shoplift

Cosmic crisp apples at 3.50 a pound? I’ll just pretend they’re shitty 1.50 a pound apples instead (:

About 5 years ago our town centre introduced parking charges, so now one of us goes shopping while the other sits in the car looking out for parking enforcement so we can drive a loop around the carpark. We probably pay less than once per year, but we park there at least once per week. Saves us ~£100 a year.

ass pennies

I peer pressure many of my friends into using adblockers and other tech stuff that gives them more agency.

Something that I'm especially chuffed with is that a I actually caused a friend to switch to open source software for scientific research. She's doing a psychology PhD was getting frustrated with the online experiment setup on the no-code experiment builder she had been advised to use. The platform didn't allow her to input the experiment parameters she needed and she was complaining to me, and so I had a gander at it, out of curiosity.

I expected there'd be some documentation showing how to use the experiment builder, but there was nothing I could find. Everywhere I looked, there were just more sales pitches. It seems that my friend was only using it because the university had a license for it.

I exclaimed that the lack of documentation and features was ridiculous, given that there's almost certainly an open source equivalent that does more, is free, and almost certainly better documented. I said that flippantly, but then went and researched that. I showed her a few different options and she ended up going for one called PsychoPy.

As one might be able to gather from the name, that's not a no-code experiment builder, but rather one that uses Python. However, for my friend, this was a feature, not a bug; although she didn't already know Python, she was keen to learn — "what's a PhD for if not to learn how to do actual science?".

I found it quite affirming because I don't know if she would have had this thought if not for me. I'm very much a jack of all trades, master of none, due to having many different interests and being spread relatively thin between them. I'm a better programmer than the majority of scientists in my field that I've known, but probably worse than most people who actually write code for their jobs. However, gaining expertise in the more computery (and in some cases, philosophical) side of science makes me feel like I've "diluted" my scientific expertise compared to my peers. It's nice that this problem was one at the intersection of my knowledge areas.

Bike to work!

I'm actively working towards a passive income, and I am very low consumerist. I decided I don't need anymore devices (asides from solar panels/other forms of power generation).

Once I have mycrop, passive income, and elrctricity, "the man" is fucked without lube, because my plan is to rabidly "jailbreak" anyone who will listen by getting them to the same state.

Minimum bills, minimum subscriptions, own food, own power, anti-consumerism, mutual trade.

Do you see how this would affect an exploitative system once you have the option to just not participate in it?

The government would be forced to treat their people better, and so would the companies trading with them, because they are no longer as important.