What you were hoping for was no change in your life. You gave a scenario and a solution was provided to you. You’re taking no responsibility, and want no change in convenience. How can you expect the ignorant to move off of WhatsApp if even the informed won’t do it?

I did the method suggested above and the vast majority of my contacts eventually moved to Signal, those that didn’t switched to old fashioned SMS to contact me. You are not missing out by not being a part of one specific messaging app, there are many out there.

Nope. A rare few have perspex boxes that you can see through but most are just a wooden box. It’s removed in summer to allow people to see them.

Unfortunately with more extreme weather those with carvings are starting to wear away. The more beloved or prominently known ones are being encapsulated in boxes to preserve them but most will just wear away.

The boxes aren’t pretty either.

For example, The Maiden Stone normally, and boxed.

An example of the wear on the western face.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_atrocity_crimes

https://youtu.be/3bZzM4s0Hgs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punks_Not_Dead

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk

If the idea is to avoid American, and support European. Purchasing from a middleman European company is hardly supporting European.

Most of the money ultimately still ends up in American hands, just the tiny bit of profit added on during the final sale to the consumer remains European. Everything else goes back to America.

If I sold you a packet of bananas, and told you they’re Irish bananas because it’s an Irish company selling them, you’d call me a liar because obviously Ireland doesn’t have the climate to grow bananas. It’s the same principle.

If it’s not European, don’t put the star on, it’s pretty simple.

I won’t. You can’t kill rock and roll!