Well, there are sociopaths who don’t have significant wealth.

All billionaires must be sociopaths, not all sociopaths are billionaires.

Maybe I’m getting whoosh’d, but isn’t that just from AMC’s The Walking Dead?

How can it ever be consensual? Plastic can’t think, feel, or communicate?

How can mannequin consent?

It would certainly be simpler if propaganda was definitionally dishonest, but I don’t believe that’s the case.

Propaganda can be completely truthful, it just rarely is.

All definitions I’ve found suggest that dishonesty, loaded language, presenting limited selective facts, and calls to emotion are all tactics available to propagandists, but not required to meet the definition.

I love URLcheck for this.

Mothcub, her and Henry (Big/Little Joel) are relationship partners AFAIK.

OK, but the pedestrian buttons generally DO have a function.

There are lots of intersections (in Canada at least) where pushing the button is the only way to make the lights change.

And I know it works because there have been multiple cases in the past where I forget to push it, and I end up standing there for a long time, like an idiot.

It’s not just a placebo, and it’s weird to imagine that cities would spend all that money on more infrastructure only for the buttons to… do nothing?

Buttons aren’t free.

!thenightfeeling@lemmy.world

I thought Dick Grayson was the circus acrobat. The whole Flying Graysons thing?

They didn’t have the same origin for 2 separate Robins, did they?

Please for the love of our timelines…

Please crop your memes.

Funny, the messaging of the lyrics is nominally anti-AI, but somehow… everything was made using the same Slop Generators they deride?

Strange choice.

Fun!

How was that dark tho? Seemed pretty nice.

No, no, you don’t understand. BlueSky has a sign on their lawn that says “We’re the good one, actually” and also “Not like Twitter, we’re better and cool!”

So yea, they’re a good alternative because… they said so!

Something something booty?

Please for the love of our timelines…

Please crop your memes.

Fair enough, but Climate Town is a very well researched and put-together channel, and they cite their research. If any of this has changed significantly in the market he’s explicitly talking about (North America), then I can see your frustration. But I don’t think it’s gotten much better, especially not in the USA.

A big part of the video, if you get around to watching it is about how plastic recycling is objectively something born from an industry scam. It’s a scam because they knew the recycling couldn’t work how they were promising it would, and they pushed it anyways to evade accountability.

Some countries surely handle things better than North America, but that doesn’t automatically make plastic recycling a completely legitimate venture that isn’t laden with deception and and bullshit. I’m Canadian, and I know we don’t handle recycling in the best way. Do I still sort my trash, and recycle everything I’m able to? Of course! Anything is better than nothing, and Rollie explicitly says so in the video…

But it’s still accurate: the idea of recycling plastic is born from deception & lies, for the sake of money. If lying for money isn’t a scam, I don’t know what is.

Is that… Bad somehow? What’s wrong with a slightly older YouTube video?

Yes, summer is indeed more hot.

It’s hotter than the other seasons, and it’s hotter than it used to be.

I don’t like the hot.

I prefer the cold, and my comment was saying I prefer the cold, specifically because I can’t handle the hot well.

I was saying it’s very silly to claim something along the lines of “The only reason people think they prefer the cold season is because they haven’t experienced real cold.”

I’ve experienced the cold. I prefer it.

I still see no contradiction, but maybe I’m just dense?

Edit: Minor structural change, less ambiguous wording.

Please humor me, where is the contradiction?

All the mfers saying “I can only get so naked” haven’t experienced the cold.

I grew up (and still live) in a part of Canada where it regularly gets below -40°C in the winter, and… no. I 100% will say stuff like “I can’t take off any more clothes.”

Winter is fine, I can always add another layer. Summer sucks now, it didn’t get this hot nearly as often in the past, and I mostly hate summer now.