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New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping
05-15-2013, 04:42 PM
Nice, I like the idea. Just downloaded this app
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05-15-2013, 10:23 PM
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At the time, Burner created a mock interface for her app, but that’s as far as she got. She was waiting to find the right team to build out the back end, which could be complicated given often murky corporate ownership structures.
In other words, she was waiting to find men to do the real heavy-lifting, which would require some actual smarts and technical skills. I'm sure she got plenty of experience at MSFT leveraging men's work, though, fortunately for her--and it sounds like she had her hopes answered.
What's the intersection between frequent supermarket shoppers, people who know who the Koch brothers are, and people who are consistent app users? Effectively nill, no?
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05-16-2013, 08:00 AM
This sounds like a good idea. I would like the app so I can know what to buy to support the Koch brothers.
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05-16-2013, 09:12 AM
I would be concerned about it being abused, the way the Southern Poverty Law Center list is.
But it's just too fucking unwieldy to matter. Like anyone's got time to scan every thing they buy to see if it's politically correct.
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05-16-2013, 12:41 PM
Imagine the horror when you scan product after product and it turns out that all cereals and breads belong to Monsanto.
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