If you have no qualms about pretending to be a sexual assault survivor, trauma counselor, and/or a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter, you meet the dictionary definition of a sociopath.

Freedom is not “being able to drive anywhere.” Freedom is being able to go anywhere with just your own body without a giant metal cage around it.

We laugh at the people of the past for putting lead in their wine, arsenic on their walls, mercury on their skin, and deadly nightshade in their eyes. The people of the future will have plenty to laugh at us for. The chemicals we use now will be named in shocking factoids of how foolish and ignorant we were, just as we do for chemicals people used before us.

And just as we might think the people of the past did not know any better, they absolutely did, just as we do for the chemicals we use now. Discontinuation of using a chemical comes long, LONG after science has rigorously documented its grave dangers, if it ever happens at all. People will continue to use it, and more importantly, businesses fight tooth and nail to continue peddling it, for far too long after we find out it’s deadly. Lead was known to be lethal even in small amounts as early as the Roman republic, yet the vast majority of cities today still have a non-trivial amount of lead pipes in their potable water infrastructure just like the Romans did, houses built just a few decades ago houses still used lead paint, small piston aircraft use leaded fuel to this day, and don’t forget that whole thing with lead solder being used in Stanley Cups, you know, water receptacles for drinking, because it’s ever so slightly cheaper (and some electronics enthusiasts vehemently swear by lead solder and absolutely hate how “everything is switching to lead-free nowadays and it’s slightly harder to get it to stick to the pins being soldered”).

Basically, don’t hold your breath that we’ll get rid of any of these chemicals just because we found out they’re lethal or crippling to human health or whatever. That has never once happened in the history of humans using chemicals.

Because hosting it in a place with all the necessary infrastructure already in place would have made too much sense. Like, oh I don’t know, that one Brazilian city that recently hosted the World Cup and then the Olympics, both with many orders of magnitude more people attending than a climate conference. No gotta spend a fortune building brand new shit for a once in decades thing.

How much you want to bet this is just an excuse to funnel public money into a private construction firm?

Found the real life Feng Huang!

Rich people tend not be good people in general

Always a good idea to delete a binutil right?

I’d argue things like IRC, usenet, etc were also social media, only the term hadn’t been coined yet.

Also, plastic “recycling” is a scam. It’s not like metal or glass recycling where the material is just melted and easily turned back into brand new products. Recycled plastic is extremely low quality, there’s practically no market for it as a material, uses more energy than producing the plastic in the first place, and generates more in toxic waste than actual usable material.

Also also, you know these icons? The plastic industry deliberately chose a symbol that looks like the recycle symbol to trick the public into thinking almost all plastic is recyclable. They just indicate the type of plastic, and there is no practical way to recycle the majority of the types.

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We can’t trust a terrorist organization like Israel to keep to their word

Ban all social media, return to pigeon mail

🚫 Tax the rich and redistribute some of their wealth

👉 Gulag the rich and redistribute all of their wealth

United States is literal hell on earth confirmed

In other news: Police dumping retired K9’s at the pound.

ACAB

Try it with a Soylent Cola!

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How much you want to bet it was a YouTuber or something trying to get views?

I’m not religious, but may Allah send them to the boiler room of hell. All the way down.

Nah have you read the bible? God is genuinely horrible.