In what way is my suggestion that people should be environmentally conscious with their choices supporting oil companies?

So we should just sit back and wait for the oil companies to benevolently act on our behalf? Forgive me if I don’t feel like circling the drain without a fight.

They might wait an extra day or two to prove that they didn’t have any idea about there being upcoming midterms only three short months away

This girl was mad I didn’t let her eat her dripping wet pork bone inside.

I have difficulty accepting that corporations did this and therefore we should all keep going with the status quo. Although an individual’s choices don’t amount to enough in and of themselves, the choices of masses of individuals drive the consumer market. The more disposable shit we buy, the more disposable shit corporations make.

We as a society have normalized be everyone individually owning 17 appliances that are used 0-2 times per year, having 53 outfits made by overseas slave labour, and accumulating gigabyte after gigabyte of data that must be managed. And if you tell someone this, they will say it’s all necessary - what the pandemic taught me is the degree to which people cannot identify the difference between essential services and non-essential, as everything becomes justifiable based on niche situations and the blanket defense of mental health.

If we all forever point the finger and say that someone else is actually responsible, and therefore we refuse to make changes, then nobody is ever going to get started. Much like on a national scale how the US simultaneously blames climate change on China and India (“we shouldn’t bother doing anything, they’re bigger!”) and Canadian forest fires (although by the previous logic, a country with 1/8 the population should be incapable of changing their climate).

Yup, that’s me…my asshole dog ran away into the woods and stayed in a patch of poison ivy, refusing to come out. It could have been a nice day at the cottage…

Only if it doesn’t fuck you first

I do an annual forward and backward summersault just to see if I still can. Backwards is possible, but I’m starting to make creaking sounds

They’re slowly laying the groundwork to say that Canada has lost the privilege of sovereignty and that their invasion is needed to save us. I have little doubt they’ll eventually find some silly reason to justify needing Canada because in American exceptionalism, they always deserve to get whatever their whims demand.

It’s kind of a marvel that we all have the bulk of human knowledge at our fingertips, and instead of noble pursuits we largely use it for social manipulation and power grabs.

I guess there is just more population control in misinformation than there is in curing disease.

It’s more that the US is going to have to lay in the bed they’ve made, which is not likely to be a comfortable one. But Americans are impressively apathetic and good at blaming others for their own self-made misfortunes, so truly you’re right and your country will never really be sorry. Your government will just point a finger at someone else and insist that they need to be bombed to make life better.

I strongly dislike when a single book is turned into multiple movies. You get 1-2 movies of nothing but set-up and trying to turn minor events into a climax, then one manic movie of nothing but climax

If he made it himself, it’s a rather thoughtful and personal gift! I’m cheering for cheese man

Is this a joke that went over my head, or was it actually named Operation Dude Bro??

Oh shoot, I misread. Less surprising then 🤦‍♀️

I’m wondering how on earth moose fur, of all things, got in there? Are moose farmed for meat elsewhere in the world?

Horse shocks me less - beyond being culturally offputting to some, it’s no less morally acceptable or unacceptable to eat a horse than a cow.

This is all a national-scale grift, and he still manages to get people to cheer for stealing the food from their mouths

Ah yes, then they can spend thousands more on an even fancier sheet of paper. It’s a shame they are devaluing their degrees like this, because as the world catches on about how common this is, they will not garner much respect for having completed one.

Certainly when I’m hiring I have usually expected that someone with a university education might have good written communication or language skills. But now I’m realizing that this may no longer be sensible.

I’d love to have heard the argument from the two students challenging their failing grade for that

So now they HAVE to double down and fund this AI infrastructure, because sunk costs dictate that they can’t admit to a bad decision and hire back the terminated employees.

Just because it’s costly doesn’t mean they aren’t going to push forward with all their might, unfortunately

But by not voting for her, you also supported genocide? Perhaps it was implied rather than explicit, but the result is the same