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HOLY SHIT STOP COMPARING EVERYTHING TO MADOKA MAGICA
the futile frustration of this post reminds me a lot of homuraâs struggle to save madoka
Exxon lobbyist confesses to his crimes
50 years ago, Exxonmobilâs scientists warned that continued use of fossil fuels would render our planet uninhabitable by humans. Exxonâs response? They buried the reports and embarked on a disinformation campaign modeled on the tobacco industryâs cancer denial.
#ExxonKnew
That campaign continues, even as floods-of-the-century crop up every month or two, as thousand-year heatwaves strike again and again, as wildfires stain our skies the color of blood and zoonitic plagues shut down all activity for years at a time.
https://exxonknew.org/
Exxon, of course, claims that theyâre good corporate citizens, committed to preserving the habitability of the only known planet in the entire universe capable of supporting our species.
Itâs a total lie.
Exxon spent millions on corruption: disinformation and influence campaigns (AKA âbribesâ) to make tens of billionsâââand imposed trillions in costs upon the rest of us, and incalculable losses in the form of lost human lives and natural wonders.
https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/30/based/#high-bidders
Exxon denies thisâââin public. In private, the people who direct these campaigns are immensely proud of their work and keenly aware of the fact that other large, corrupting industries are always on the lookout for talent who can corrupt on their behalf.
For the past eight years, Keith McCoy has been the top Exxon lobbyist in Washington, DC. When Unearthed (Greenpeace UKâs media arm) contacted him pretending to be a corporate recruiter with a lucrative offer, he jumped at the chance to boast about his corrupting accomplishments.
The resulting nine-minute video confirms everything that Exxonâs criticsâââand anti-corruption campaignersâââhave said for decades. Itâs a gleeful, boastful confession that catalogs the companyâs many lies and cheerfully identifies them as such.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1Yg6XejyE
In the video, McCoy describes how Exxon uses front-groups to sow doubt about the climate emergency and the need to eliminate fossil fuel consumption.
https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-exxonmobils-lobbying-war-on-climate-change-legislation
He names the senators whom he has (successfully) lobbied to blunt or remove climate protections from Bidenâs $2T stimulus. Itâs a heartwarmingly bipartisan parade of biddable officials-for-hire whom Exxon has helped out with an often lucrative side-hustle.
On the Democrat side, thereâs Joe Manchin (D-WV), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Jon Tester (D-MT), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ).
While the Republicans are Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Barrasso (R-WY), John Cornyn (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Marco Rubio (R-FL).
McCoy is especially fond of Joe Manchin, whom he calls âa kingmakerâ whose office holds âstanding weekly check-in callsâ with Exxon lobbyists.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1410432121710252037
McCoy speaks fondly of the Trump years, and invites the interviewer to google âtrump exxonâ to get a sense of just how many gifts his employer received during 2016â20.
He also frankly admits that Exxon front groups like the American Petroleum Institute are âwhipping boysâ sent to hearings in Exxonâs stead, to absorb the performative criticism of lawmakers who nevertheless fail to take substantive action to curb Exxonâs slow genocide.
And he describes how Exxon secretly funded âshadow groupsâ to âaggressively fight against some of the science.â He stressesâââprobably correctlyâââthat nothing that Exxon did was illegal.
He neglects to mention the work Exxon has done to ensure that this unimaginably terrible conduct remained legal.
But he isnât shy about Exxonâs ability to influence policy otherwise. For example, he admits that the only reason Exxon has publicly endorsed carbon taxes is that they know they can prevent any carbon tax from becoming lawâââitâs all a show.
Exxon corporate, confronted with the video, claimed that it was all reflective of Greenpeaceâs bias against giant, sociopathic polluting companies and asks who weâre going to believe, an oil company or our own lying ears?
Do watch the video, if only to hear McCoy describe how he baits the hook for senators and then âreels them in.â
âI make sure I get them the right information that they need so they look good. And then they help me out. Theyâre a captive audience. They know they need you.â
McCoy has since posted a groveling retraction on Linkedin, claiming his âstatements clearly do not represent ExxonMobilâs positions on important public policy issues.â He doesnât explain why he made those statements if theyâre not true.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6816098352954961920/claiming
Exxon has âcondemnedâ the statements and claims McCoyâââthe companyâs most senior lobbyistââââwasnât involved at all in forming policy positions.â
https://twitter.com/exxonmobil/status/1410389476199784450
RIP to a legend
Never Forget (when he singlehandedly ended Pete Butigeig)
RIP to a Real One
Legend behavior
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i think about this every day and its absolute accuracy
So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.
But specifically... I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one's own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!
This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between "things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)" (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and "things on the web" (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).
Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I'm interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!
If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!
Specific programs can access the internet; that's fine. But my OS's functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.
#someone in the notes mentioned shut up windows 10.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10Â
i havenât used this myself but iâll be looking into it
Literally spent multiple hours lobotomizing my Windows reinstall when I upgraded recently, the amount of awful shit they had in nowadays makes me long for the age of win98, when software was merely bad, rather than actively harmful.
the exact setting in shutup10 for this issue is "Disable extension of Windows 10 search with Bing" it's at the very bottom under misc.
yknow what fuck âoh whatâs ur secret talentâ i can never think of little things iâm good at so rb this and tell me what your anti secret talent is. just a little obscure thing youâre really bad at
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i dont know what an NFT is and im too afraid to ask
imagine if you went up to the mona lisa and you were like "i'd like to own this" and someone nearby went "give me 65 million dollars and i'll burn down an unspecified amount of the amazon rainforest in order to give you this receipt of purchase" so you paid them and they went "here's your receipt, thank you for your purchase" and went to an unmarked supply closet in the back of the museum and posted a handmade label inside it behind the brooms that said "mona lisa currently owned by jacobgalapagos" so if anyone wants to know who owns it they'd have to find this specific closet in this specific hallway and look behind the correct brooms. and you went "can i take the mona lisa home now?" and they went "oh god no are you stupid? you only bought the receipt that says you own it, you didn't actually buy the mona lisa itself, you can't take the real mona lisa you idiot. you CAN take this though." and gave you the replica print in a cardboard tube that's sold in the gift shop. also the person selling you the receipt of purchase has at no point in time ever owned the mona lisa.
unfortunately, if this doesn't really make sense or seem like any logical person would be happy about this exchange, then you've understood it perfectly
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people will be like âwow i cant believe how much worse i look in this pic from \a decade ago, before i started a historically professional level of makeup routine and also taught myself basic photo manipulation and correction techniques that are now basically compulsory for all photos online. just goes to show youj the power of positiity and drinking enough waterâ
this makes me want to cry
This is true, they painted everywhere, and most of the example of outdoors rock art is found in other continents aside from Europe. Some examples:
The Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, in Guangxi, southern China.
The Helan Kou Valley carvings, north of China.
Kakadu National Park, Australia.
Saimaluu Tash, Kyrgyzstan.
Gobustan, Azerbaijan.
Horseshoe Canyon (Utah)
Whatever they once said to their authors, they scream their message of no message across the millennia to us now.
The quote is from âWhat the caves are trying to tell usâ by Sam Kriss. Itâs a gorgeously written article and I highly recommend reading it.
Iâm so cold