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do you guys shop on places like aliexpress/Temu and if you do what items have pleasantly surprised you? (lemmy.world)

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I'm curious what sorta finds you guys have had

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

yeah you're right, we should just throw in the towel? tf? im gonna guess you couldnt give af about slave labor either?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

No, we shouldn't throw in the towel. That's just giving up! We should actively pour fuel on our neighbour's house fire and admire the pretty extra destruction it creates while we can. Immediate gratification is worth burning everyone's house to the ground, including my own. /s

Sadly apathy is a common reaction to huge overwhelming problems. And it makes sense, emotionally distancing yourself from the suffering of others can be necessary to still function in horrible emergency situations like natural disasters. Unfortunately it also makes this problem, like many others, worse.

But we all do it, to different degrees. And it's human. We can't fix everything simultaneously. Those of us who are still able to empathise with strangers to some extent will have to do more work, or we become the problem too.

Sorry. This post isn't targetted at you personally, I just am sad about the destruction of civilisations and the suffering people can inflict and this post came tumbling out. My coping mechanism is loud spontaneous complaining.