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.

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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Don't Abbot and Boston Scientific make them here in Ireland as well along with many other interesting life saving devices ?😁

According to the spiel from Bioinnovate Group in Galway 80% of said devices are produced in Ireland now .

If your not providing a good source, your post is more suited for here.

Supermacs: Can't support that tight baxtard who pays min wage and takes lunch out of the wages even if you don't eat their food. You've to pay for the uniform and while everyone was locked down he was fannying about on holidays with his family and recording it for everyone to see. Could do for Galway hurling what JP has allegedly done for Limerick hurling, but he's too tight and just wants his brand on the jersey. This extends to any Circle-K that has a Smacs on it because he owns them too. I don't use hotels and don't own/rent property so covered there.

The Beard Struggle: Previous douchey dudebro controversy aside, I do like the products. But their EU orders ship from the UK so until they get an EU based base, I no longer buy from them. On a side note, anyone recommend any decent beard products, preferably Irish produced!

Google: A hard one, as Google are everywhere, but they're no longer a search engine, they're an ad engine. So my boycott is by saying I'll "search" something instead of "Googling" it.

The nestle one is interesting. They own a lot so I reckon it's actually impossible to boycott them. I do like me a Lion bar, aside from shrinking they still taste the same as they always did, unlike most other bars which no longer do. Oh, yeah, let's add Tubs sweets to that mix, picked up a box of the chocolate white/pink mice. They're smooth, no grain like they used to, so they feel weird/waxy, and the taste is all wrong. Ate about 3 of each color and threw them away.

My boycotts are smaller than most…

If you REALLY care about boycotting companies that directly or indirectly support Israel you should be boycotting all tech corporations, even get off the internet and stop using computers altogether.

WTF is that a jihadi using click bait titles and alt right style youtube videos?! When I thought I saw them all…