What are ye Boycottin' today lads? - The Boycottening!

I boycott boycotts through a combination of unfussiness, laziness and stinginess. Anybody called Boycott is dead to me.

Why JCB out of curiosity?

I remember a friend of my wife's once waxing lyrical about an aloe Vera supplement for dogs that was specifically "cruelty free" & "not tested on animals"

It took her quite a while to grasp that her using it for dogs pretty much amounted to animal testing then 🤷‍♂️

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As for what I'm boycotting, Sodastream are probably my most visible. I do have a Sodastream that I use regularly but my boycott revolves around not buying or using their gas or syrups. I have a Co2 fire extinguisher for gas and my main use is for sparkling water or fizzy MiWadi.

I still do a little consulting work for a Telco and by extension FSI here and unfortunately a lot of that revolves around Cellebrite and other Israeli tech that I have for years, been trying to get replaced.

The Cellebrite, Telco and FSI/Gardaí overlap is massive and followed me even after I left full time employment. The capability of Cellebrite gear for "police work" is built on years of Israeli actions in the occupied territories. The ability of the "government only" gear, to not only extract data, but to generate visual representation of contacts and volume of Comms, that can be fed back to a database of other downloaded phones and create absolutely mission critical FVT visualisation is incredible. I totally get what and why it's important but it's tech built on foundations of oppression & occupation.

I left my accredited trainer status lapse during COVID and fully embraced retirement, no regrets. My last taste of similar work was 2021, there are now at least a few alternatives to Cellebrite but, from what I hear from folk still in the industry? They are still the gold standard.

Would a replacement component from a different company suit? Like this bin piston is from some Chinese crowd: https://www.amazon.co.uk/HOOMWELL-Piston-Strut-Storage-Replacement/dp/B0CJB71WZP/ref%3Dasc_df_B0CJB71WZP/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697283154397&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7367661260738325788&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007864&hvtargid=pla-2249296382621&psc=1&mcid=503dcd0216df3a0dbee8ce12cdeacddd&gad_source=1

Starbucks, Nestlé (as much as I can), any Israeli linked product (just found out Sudocream is f*cking Israeli now!), Supermacs & Spotify.

They're either called for boycotts or my own personal boycott, which I know means f*CK all in the grand concept of things, but I feel a bit better knowing I'm not contributing to it.

Since the time of covid outbreak from China back in 2020 many countries had to go into lockdown the economic costs of lockdown and then the human costs of covid all the people that passed away due to covid some of us may of knew someone that passed away due to covid; but ever since then any clothes or electronics I check where to see it made and if made in China I refuse to buy I simply boycott; the economic and human cost of covid China has never compensated any country for not properly containing covid within its own borders at the very start that is one reason I refuse to buy chinese .

The last tv I had to get I got a samsung made in South Korea.

And then there is presenting the ongoing organized animal torture on Chinese telegram groups; I hate to have to post about it but this is just a glimpse of what I am talking about.

Between the human and economic cost of covid ' the ongoing organized animal torture videos on Chinese telegram and human rights issues I cannot in good conscience willfully buy or purchase Chinese goods or products.

You should look into stents that cardiologists use. Maybe you’d like us all to boycott them. Most are made in Israel 🇮🇱👍

I have been boycotting the Irish media outlets like the Irish Times and the Irish Independent for the last few years.

I do read them from time to time, but I make sure to go through a proxy in order to deprive them of clicks and revenue.

Guiness to Guinness 0 to No alcohol at all, at least most of the time.

Guiness 0 reminded me how expensive going for a few beers is, what a pain in the hole it is getting home, how **** I feel the next day and how sick of drinking I am.

Thanks Guiness 0, I'm sure this is not the effect Guiness was hoping for.

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