Promiseland

[Fetian]

Class done! We were supposed to get out early to take a quiz but Technical Difficulties have caused the quiz to be moved to next Tuesday -- apparently the college's system is getting hacked? And it's also got scheduled maintenance over the holiday weekend. So the teacher didn't have access to her teaching modules, wasn't able to take role, and we can't take the quiz (well, I could, because it's only affecting some students, but obviously you want everyone to have reliable access to it). So instead we were just let out early for funsies.

We did some more studying of kosoado words, with a detour on helping some students get a Japanese keyboard onto their computers/phones, and then finished off with an article about Valentine's Day and White Day in Japan.

I've got my homework turned in already and there's no new pages to add to anki, and Monday's a holiday so I'm good on class stuff for a week, aside from studying some more for that quiz. I do wish I could just get that over with, but it is what it is. I'm going to sit here for a minute before making myself some lunch and pilling the cat, and then I have travel preparations to do -- today laundry and some room pickup.

[Fetian]

ALL of the animals are full of BEANS today

[Fetian]

Alright, I did and put away laundry last night, so today I just need to
-Pick out what I'm travelling with and wearing on the train
-Shower and shave
-Pick up my room
-Record an arcadia

Tonight I need to
-Pack (clothes, toiletries, steam deck)
-Clean litterboxes
-Set Cael up in the guest room
-Put away anything I don't want the cats to have unsupervised access to
-Charge my headphones

I have written up a rough itinerary of things for us to do in San Francisco with a focus on 'we'll go to this area that has some things we're interested in, and just spend the day there doing whatever we feel like'. Which is mostly sticking with our original plan of 'the wharf, maybe the aquarium? Side trip to chinatown'

Anyway, that'll be my day as soon as I eat something

[Fetian]

I'm sorry but if you eat at chic-fil-a then you don't actually care about LGBT+ people. If you're aware that giving money to chic-fil-a in turn gives money to anti-LGBT+ groups but you eat there anyway because the food is just so good, if your morals are so weak that you're willing to give them up for the sake of a fast food chicken sandwich, then you don't actually have those morals and you're just paying lip-service in the hopes that people won't be mad at you.

Sorry, I don't buy it, I am mad at you. Grow a spine.

[Fetian]

"No ethical consumption under late-stage capitalism" doesn't mean "Fuck it, burn it all down, just do whatever you feel like and screw anyone it hurts in the process", it means that even if you try your best you're still going to have to participate in a system designed to cause harm. But you still have to try your best, for fuck's sake.

“You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it”

[knightofcups]

Yeah, this one I don't understand. It is a /very easy/ boycott to maintain. It is super super simple not to eat at /one/ of dozens of fast food places.

Like, I am shit at maintaining a Nestle boycott because they make /so much shit./ I do my best to at least avoid the obviously Nestle branded stuff, but I'm not nearly as strict as my morality should make me. But them? I just... go somewhere else.

[Fetian]

Yeah like, people who do this try really hard to make you believe that chic-fil-a is just, unparalleled in food quality and impossible to give up, and I've never eaten there* so maybe I truly am missing out but I would bet all the money in the world that it is in fact just a fast-food chicken sandwich. Those people just don't actually care as much as they claim to.

And also, yeah, like, butterfingers are actually a candy that is really good and you can't really get an alternative version of, but I still don't eat them because Nestle is the literal devil and I actually have the moral fibre to stand by my ethics.

 
*Actually Sor's family took us there once when I was visiting but I don't remember the food at all, so. Point made.

[Fetian]

Wait. Are butterfingers not owned by Nestle anymore???

[Fetian]

In January 2018, Nestlé announced plans to sell over twenty of its US confectionery brands (including Butterfinger) to Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA, for $2.8 billion.[11] The deal was finalized in March 2018, and the newly acquired brands were folded into the operations of the Ferrero Candy Company.[12]

Oh my god!!

I think the ice cream, if it's still being made, isn't Nestle anymore either

In 2002, Dreyer's was acquired by Nestlé.[2] In 2020, Froneri, the joint venture between Nestlé and PAI Partners, agreed to take over all of Nestlé's U.S. ice cream businesses, including Dreyer's, Häagen-Dazs, and Drumstick.[3]

They apparently changed the recipe for butterfingers so hopefully they're still good but hey I get to eat butterfingers again!

[Fetian]

Well, unless Froneri is really just still Nestle which it might be? Corporations are confusing. I will research