TheHalc

We all have to make decisions based on our own principles and with our own priorities, based on the information we have.

If I knew Tim was a murderer, I might not want to support his business. Up until I knew that, I might have enjoyed his products.

It's not our responsiblity to be all-knowing, but once you do learn something it becomes part of your decision-making calculus.

Then again, even if Tim's a murderer, his soap might be really good.

I know they're all as bad as each other.

If you're trying to provoke thought, think a little about this statement yourself. This is clearly untrue.

Just because you can always dig deep enough to find a negative, it doesn't imply any sort of equivalence.

I've done things I'm not proud of, but I've never committed genocide. Am I as bad as Hitler?

Now, does that mean that we need to research all of our purchases deeply enough to know every minor cost to humanity and the world associated with that purchase? No, but we can make the best decisions we can with the information we have.

This is, again, a false dichotomy. There are also companies from C through to Z that, despite operating within a system that allows or even encourages immoral activity, try to operate in a moral and sustainable way themselves.

Why not buy online from an individual who grows their own ingredients and makes their own, ethical, net-zero produce? Or go to vendors at your local market?

Pretending that "they're all as bad as each other" helps absolutely nothing.

I'm one of the people who was forced to close bank accounts, and yeah, it was incredibly inconvenient. I wasn't even able to resolve it overseas and had to travel to the UK to resolve it, being left unable to access my funds for months.

I also think Farage is a self-serving dickhead who is turning the molehill of his own self-inflicted inconvenience into a mountain just to rile up his base.

Still, is it really a realistic suggestion that he should be personally championing every cause that has come about as a result of Brexit? Sure, he bears a lot of responsibility for it happening and it's fair to point out that others are suffering in similar ways due to his actions, but his core failings have nothing to do with the fact that he's not championing those people.

Ethics aren't a binary. Everything comes in shades of grey, and that means that each person gets to choose what the threshold for them is.

Competely rejecting that choice because neither option is absolutely good is the road to nihilism.

The bikes were actually Ken Livingstone's idea...

I have a Withings ScanWatch. Almost all of that (except for custom watchfaces, because it uses a physical watchface).

It also does the heart tracking and ECG stuff, but that matters to me because I have a heart condition that it can help track.

This won't do anything to cut any costs.

This is all about enshittifying the free experience to push those on the edge to finally bite the bullet and start paying.

No worries, I guessed that's what you meant.

I was referring to how ULEZ was initially announced by Boris in 2015. Boris is awful, but that doesn't mean every idea he had was awful.

I actually don't really think it's a terrible idea, no matter where it came from. Air quality in London is way better than it used to be, but still not good enough.

I know it's mostly from the tube, but I always think of the black bogeys I'd get whenever I visited London as a child. My parents told me about how bad the smog was when they lived there in the 60s and 70s.

Wow, if they haven't already cleared this with the existing company or lawyers, this is embarrassing.

Wouldn't you do a quick search as an early step in any branding exercise?

At least in Uxbridge, single issue voters seem to have won it for them

People who are upset with Sadiq Kahn for the Ultra Low Emission Zone in London, despite the fact that their former MP Johnson actually kicked it off...