I can go to any sporting goods second hand store and walk out with a great set of gear for any outdoors activity that I want for a few hundred bucks and then kayak/rock climb/hike/whatever to my heat's content.
I can go to a Lowe's or Home Depot and get a pretty capable set of tools for woodworking for less than $500 and build a deck or remodel a house or whatever I want.
I can hop on Amazon and grab Arduino-compatible microcontrollers and sensors and motors and actuators and LEDs and whatever I can imagine for $100, download the software for free, and build any experiments I can think of.
If there's something you want to do at a hobbyist level, you an do it. It's cheap, it's accessible, it's easy. Just fucking do it. Mega corporations aren't stopping you. You don't have to live on bread alone ... though I do understand that you're not from the US so maybe whatever shit hole country you live in doesn't have these options.
Why is it, for example, that Gillette pushes the most absurd nonsense imaginable?
Yeah, it's annoying. But I don't think it's a function of Gillette and P&G being "too big to fail." Plenty of small businesses in my area are also happily flying the progressive colors, and were doing so long before the big corporations latched onto it.
I think we are prosperous enough to be able to sacrifice a small part of our well-being in exchange for not being domineered over by these corporate tyrants.
So do it? Go buy your shit from one of the smaller, slightly more expensive boutique outlets that I mentioned in my post.
How do you figure this is a response to me?
I can go to any sporting goods second hand store and walk out with a great set of gear for any outdoors activity that I want for a few hundred bucks and then kayak/rock climb/hike/whatever to my heat's content.
I can go to a Lowe's or Home Depot and get a pretty capable set of tools for woodworking for less than $500 and build a deck or remodel a house or whatever I want.
I can hop on Amazon and grab Arduino-compatible microcontrollers and sensors and motors and actuators and LEDs and whatever I can imagine for $100, download the software for free, and build any experiments I can think of.
If there's something you want to do at a hobbyist level, you an do it. It's cheap, it's accessible, it's easy. Just fucking do it. Mega corporations aren't stopping you. You don't have to live on bread alone ... though I do understand that you're not from the US so maybe whatever shit hole country you live in doesn't have these options.
Yeah, it's annoying. But I don't think it's a function of Gillette and P&G being "too big to fail." Plenty of small businesses in my area are also happily flying the progressive colors, and were doing so long before the big corporations latched onto it.
So do it? Go buy your shit from one of the smaller, slightly more expensive boutique outlets that I mentioned in my post.