So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.
Amazon, SpaceX, TwitterX, TeslaX, Uber, Nestlé, Google, Micro$oft
TesLax, the luxury laxative for your wallet
Why SpaceX? I hate Musk and do not support any of his other… anythings. However, rocket go zoom then land without boom is fun to watch. I am genuinely curious why SpaceX is bad.
I completely agree about everything else you mentioned.
Destroying environments? Wasting money and fuel on false-promises (the Elon way)? I’m sure there’s a tonne of other reasons.
Name an environment destroyed by SpaceX
Space. They’re killing radio astronomy, endangering optical astronomy and threatening everything else in orbit, from telecoms, to earth observation, to the ISS.
They’re also spreading rare earth metal everywhere when the satellites burn up and wasting a lot of energy to get them up there when we’re facing an energy crisis.
Just one? I’ll do you a few better…
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The Falcon 9 rocket put a hole in the ionosphere
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Falcon 9 makes use of kerosene, which puts black soot into the atmosphere (if they used solely liquid oxygen or liquid hydrogen the only thing left would be water vapour)
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Serious damage at a Texas base (caused craters and debris to scatter around remote cameras)
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An explosion on the launch pad during a test caused damage
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Boca Chica…
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Massive amounts of dust, which contain toxic shit
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Destroyed the launchpad (scattering large chunks of concrete into delicate marine and coastal sanctuaries nearby)
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Really? “Yeah, boycott that jerk!! But not the silly rockets, I like em!”
Uh, no. Just, no.
However, rocket go zoom then land without boom is fun to watch.
Yeah, Musk is a true innovater by having them blow up the concrete launchpad on launch instead…
The government got more money from the patents NASA got then it cost to fund NASA. Privatizing space hurts everyone except the rich asshole who gets the parents.
For fucks sake.
I clearly said I do not like musk. I even went as far as saying I hate him but still that’s the first place you went. What the fuck?
Yeah, but there’s also the cognitive dissonance of you saying SpaceX is fun because they don’t explode…
But they do explode. Waaaaay more than NASA. Because if a NASA launch goes bad, everyone pays attention. If SpaceX goes bad, people just shrug
So by your own metrics you just said…
NASA is better than SpaceX.
No matter what position I took, it would have disagreed with your comment, because your comment disagrees with itself. Which explains why you think spacex is a positive.
Don’t forget Netflix and Apple
I’d rather boycott Disney and Amazon to death than Netflix.
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oracle
Isn’t that an unwritten given by now? If not why not?
Tf is oracle?
A really shitty tech company.
Oracle hires more lawyers than they do developers then they do things like “oh? You’re using this product in the cloud with the license you purchased? But you didn’t purchase the cloud license”
They also buy technology and proceed to violate whatever license it has, like ZFS.
Favorite thing I ever read is that oracle has hostages not customers
I’m going to steal that
They bought zfs? Ffs
Yeah long time ago. But they never contributed their chances back to the open source project basically leaving it to languish
Well… another reason, then.
Thank-you.
Stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, not officially but I like to think it is. It’s a corporation built around a database engine.
They have a well deserved terrible reputation based on their commercial practices, including but not exhaustive, shipping full fledged software with functionality locked behind paywalls, buying and demolishing established open source companies/projects, suing the shit out of their customers for license violation (see above), price gouging their customers who often have no other choice than to run their products.
The engine itself is nice and reliable but the business practices of Oracle drives a lot of companies to settle for the competition, at least, those who can afford to leave.I envy your ignorance on this.
DeBeers, Blackrock, Exxon, Disney.
Can we even boycott black rock?
Why not?
They own iShares which has some of the biggest ETFs on the market.
Although I don’t know if their competitors are any better.I didn’t know they owned an etf. I always say them as more of a hedge fund where they didn’t have a product for the average person to boycott.
DuPont, source of our microplastic nightmare
And 3M. They both dumped a shit ton of PFAS/PFOA into the ground at every one of their factories around the world.
And teflon and other chemicals used in large quantities while delaying the inevitable reports of danger they pose.
AT&T and basically all of the major US banks
Autism Speaks. It has a pro-eugenics mindset, so you’d think everyone would be boycotting it, right? Nope, in fact it’s partnered with the Jim Henson company.
Can you elaborate on the “pro-eugenics mindset” at all?
Tldr:
It’s founded and ran by two boomers who have an autistic grandson and were very very upset he had autism. That’s the generation that would actively try to avoid diagnosis and help because they thought the label was worse than the disease, preventing an entire generation from getting assistance.
So its less about empowering people with autism, and more fearmongering how bad it is and that someone with autism shouldn’t have any agency or choice in their lives.
I didn’t dig very deep, but yeah, I could see how that organization does a bunch of problematic shit
thought the label was worse than the disease
Autism is not a disease.
Go tell the people that support Autism Speaks.
I’d say go tell Autism Speaks, but that wouldn’t accomplish anything.
If you want more info, just read the link.
I got my local grocery store to stop partnering with them for donations.
The first problematic thing it does is have the name Autism Speaks while not in any way providing a voice to autistic people.
I’m guessing they encourage screening for genetic markers of autism.
Bayer-Monsanto, John Deere, Nestle
Ticketmaster
Microsoft, although regulators sure as fuck help them make that impossible
Wish I could. I use linux whenever possible but gaming, hdr and some drm features won’t work on Linux any time soon.
Gaming is most of the way there, except for some anti cheat engines. There’s usually still some performance hit though
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I’ve been on Linux exclusively for a decade now and I am super excited to get an HDR monitor when it gets implemented (there was some major work being done by redhat and others).
In the meanwhile, I am still having fun with games, hdr or other fancypants features won’t vhange that.
Meta, Fox Corporation/News Corp, X
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United HealthCare
Oh wait, you CAN’T boycott them. The ultimate monopoly.
As far as which companies “deserve” it, it would be quicker to list the ones that don’t.
Let’s have it
Chick-fil-A
Any animal agriculture company
Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the 224 (so far) comments… but another bad guy worth hating is
Hewlett Packard.
Their
“Hey, you need to have our proprietary ink cartrige in your HP inkjet printer plus scanner to print AND to scan as well. The scanner won’t work when you are out of ink”
Is just plain fuckery.
