Enforceability varies depending on the scenario. Some countries have law that holds employers accountable for tax evaded by workers. Employers obviously won’t gamble, so they refuse to pay cash and cryptocurrency wages because they are scared shitless of being accountable for an employee’s evasion.

I demanded cryptocurrency payment and my employer refused on that basis. I intended to continue declaring it properly and just wanted a bit of freedom from bank dependency, but nothing could overcome the employer’s fears.

This actually happened to me: I arrived at my destination and discovered my load was loose, ready to fall. There have also been times that I dropped something. And times that my backpack was mistakenly unzipped and I could have lost something worth keeping.

So if I operate with your assumption (that honking drivers are always assholes), then I lose the opportunity to pick up something I dropped or correct insecure cargo. Why should I give that up?

(edit) Since a horn is an ambiguous signal, in this circumstance of a car following a cyclist it should come to be universally understood to mean a cyclist dropped their phone or wallet, as this is the legit scenario.

Probably depends on the country

Exactly. No one is mentioning their country but it makes all the difference in the world.

In Switzerland, people must subscribe if they want a junk-free mailbox which costs them the equivalent of $/€ 30/year. I don’t suppose anyone is enthusiastic about paying that heafty fee, but the upside is that it works. If someone puts junk in your Swiss mailbox, it’s strictly enforced. The perp gets a fine, which I don’t recall if any of that goes toward compensating the victim.

In Belgium, it’s free to put a sticker on your mailbox. And it’s illegal for people to junk up your mailbox if you have the sticker. But it’s unenforced. So the level of junk mail drops a little with the sticker, but it never stops the flow of junk completely because everyone knows it’s unenforced.

The big one in the US is Amalgamated Bank. Others are listed here

It’s useful to cross-reference that list with the bad list. Amalgamated welcomes Tor users onto its sales website but if you register for an account and try to login you will be blocked.

That bank.green site may give a good starting point for short-listing, but it’s important to do further investigation. Note for example:

• Beneficial State Bank (BSB) writes car loans even for city dwellers. WTF? Yeah, not green.
• BSB also uses Cloudflare, which pushes graphical CAPTCHAs thus has an excessive CO₂ footprint.
• BSB also uses FedEx (the worst courier for the environment).
• BSB forces customers to get their app from Google playstore (Google, who helps Total oil company find places to dig).
• BSB uses a variety of Microsoft products & services (linkedin, email) and MS is obviously quite bad for the environment (e.g. partnership with Chevron).

Note these banks to avoid examples.

I heard that Belgium has mandated that all new house builds must be passive homes going forward. (very cool) Can anyone confirm or deny that? Have any other regions made that forward-thinking policy?

I spoke to a real estate agent in the US who didn’t even know what a passive house was, and after I explained it he was sure that no such house existed in his whole state. I was blown away by the gross oversight.

In another US region, someone who needed a new roof said they did an exhaustive search for a roofer who could install a vegetated roof. Not a single roofer in their city or neighboring city could do that. WTF.. how are people so not on the ball at this stage?

wtf are we supposed to do to solve all this?

Maybe nuclear fusion, but that’s down the line (~2030.. bit late) with some skepticism.

I guess my underlying assumption was that a dictatorship is not in play, but rather a gov elected by the people to represent them. I don’t see how the idea would come from the gov. The gov would be carrying out an idea from the people it represents.

Otherwise, what would you envision with the rejection of consumerism coming from the people? Do you mean individual actions like boycotts? I’ve been boycotting Black Friday for years but it’s not working.

I’ve also switched to a bicycle but this does nothing to get people out of cars. In fact by going to a bicycle, I made the street less crowded so car drivers are rewarded by my action. My individual actions don’t scale well enough. Nonetheless, I still take individual actions like consuming like a vegan more and more. And I hope it catches on. I hope the thread would inspire readers to boycott Black Friday. But I have little confidence it will make a dent.

EDIT: one thing I think I under-emphasized, which Europeans seem to pay attention to more than the rest of the world: Black Friday is a day off for non-retail workers. But retail workers don’t only have to work, but they also have a busy stressful and long work day while everyone else has fun. Those workers should have equal rights protections. I speak theoretically in a sense, because BF is a not a day off for anyone outside the US anyway.

Ban it and you’ll suddenly see a ton of “Day After Thanksgiving Sales”

Europeans ban sales by dates, not by language. You can call that day whatever you want, the ban would have effect on that day. IIRC in Belgium there’s a week in January and a week in July when sales are permitted. The laws refer to dates.

If you want to start changing consumer patterns, charge more for the waste. Also don’t ship it overseas. Let it pile up nearby.

Those are good ideas as well. I was just thinking about how Apple has that phone disassembly robot but Apple does not charge a deposit that would encourage people to actually return their old phones to Apple.

Is it a holiday? Where do you get a day off to observe Black Friday?

AFAIK, Black Friday is nothing but a sale. If you cancel the sale there will be no sale to draw consumers.

EDIT: ah, indeed that day is often included as an unofficial holiday by US employers because whenever you have a holiday one day away from a weekend, employers tend to give that day off so you can have a 4 day weekend. I would not propose interfering with that.. just the sales. It’s not an official holiday so in terms of a holiday there is nothing to cancel anyway.

That is way beyond acceptable use

Each server would have its own acceptable use policy. Also consider the social detriment of Cloudflare nodes. We could even say @bahmanm@lemmy.ml has a moral /duty/ to overwork the Cloudflare nodes :)

@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de: thanks for pointing out lestat. That’s one of the very few services of this kind to be responsible enough to red-flag the Cloudflare nodes. I hope @bahmanm@lemmy.ml follows that example; though it could still be improved on.

It’s misleading for any tor-blocking Cloudflare node to have a 100% availability stat just because by design it deliberately breaks availability to a number of users in an arbitrarily discriminatory fashion. https://lemmy-status.org/ and https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats do a bit of a disservice by not omitting or flagging #Cloudflare nodes.

It could be legit.

It might be interesting for #Lemmy to add a smart algo that checks whether a rapid sequence of down votes occurs in a short span of time and see if the set of accounts used for the down voting shows a voting pattern with other posts. Or even without timing analysis, voting patterns alone might reveal accounts used for timeline tampering particularly if the same IP address is used.