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    10 months ago

    If your rich and you pollute, it’s “fine”.

    If your poor and you pollute, “what a dick”

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      If you’re rich and commit a crime, that’s an inconsequential fine.

      If you’re poor and commit a crime, that’s crippling debt or jail time.

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          Yeah those are lab-made exquisitely engineered to tantalize all our senses and keep us addicted, popping one after another into our face holes, & keep buying more.

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            Haven’t had them in years. A distant memory, though a very pleasant one if I recall correctly.

            I liked that they were perfectly round too; the optimal shape for eating far too many.

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                I might be misremembering the size 😓

                Well at least they last longer that way

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        I always liken it to the anti-child/slave labor movement in the late 90s. Companies learned if they just sub-subcontract, they can use child and/or slave labor and just keep saying, “[GAP] vociferously objects to slave and child labor. And through our rigorous internal investigation, we have found that a company we hired has in turn hired a company that was participating in this disgusting act. We have officially severed ties with the contractor which so profoundly failed in their quality control and, in [GAP’s] humble opinion, in their morality.”

        [GAP] spits on the idea of slave labor pointedly

        camera flashes, press murmurs as spokesperson leaves stand

        [GAP] hires the contractor under their new LLC and continues profiting from slave labor

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    I have recently begun to think that all the super-rich are high on cocaine all the time. And that is solely based off of what I see on the internet.

    outbound photo on reddit of bezos and current wife looking like super villains

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      Interestingly, I’m pretty sure she got that “dress” (really, it’s panties and a corset with a mesh dress over top) on Amazon. I saw nearly the same thing just today. It was $25 and listed as a rave costume.

      So your drug hypothesis is supported so far….

      (Yes yes, I know it’s not actually the same thing, but it might as well be… normal people wouldn’t go out wherever in that…)

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    10 months ago

    “carbon offsets” brought to you by the people who sold you “a calorie is a calorie”

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    Always had the feeling there was something fishy about these carbon offset programmes. It just doesn’t seem like a problem that can be solved by throwing more cash at it. Sad to hear this is indeed the case for most of these companies.

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      Yeah, it takes having buyer and seller wanting to prevent emissions and using a third party auditor to verify. What we actually have is buyer and seller colluding with auditors to produce PR instead of emissions cuts