maloki @maloki@rage.love

it caused me psychic pain to write this. but heck if the universal marketing voice of late capitalism isn't doing its best to lay bare the mode of company-customer relationship, in which i am a farmed pig at a trough.

EU is pushing through a new law that will require phone manufacturers to support their products for a longer time, because so many phones are made useless when they would work for much longer without planned obsolescence.

Capitalist corporations need such expensive babysitters.

@dumpsterqueer several years ago, before everything became mashed together under "discourse" we would have called this wank, rolled our eyes and left them to their own bullshit. we've really lost the tiers and scales of how important something actually is and heightened EVERY. DAMN. ISSUE to immense levels of severity and half the time its just people rubbing their own shit on the walls.

"Extending lifespan of smartphones [by one year] would cut same CO₂ as eliminating two million cars"

Cool, make it more than just one year then.