The culture of corporate of PR insists that not only do meaningless canned responses help, but they’re invaluable. After all, the media will faithfully record those canned replies and reproduce them as though they’re salient information, no matter how empty and vapid the cloud of buzzwords produced.
Fascists be fascisting
Because humanity has a real issue with breaking down established hierarchies. Once a hierarchy is built up, there’s almost an implicit structure to it that we recognize and pay way too much heed to; which I have no idea how to fight back against.
$25K is nothing. Wake me up when it’s $25mil
Perfect, why the heck not, just remix the Bible however you feel. He already picks and chooses what parts to follow or ignore, so he may as well just change the text to fit his whims.
This is the dumbest timeline
Downed aviator?!
Sadly, this is the future of corpo news. Polymarket odds are not a reliable indicator of anything in reality; but if the odds tell a story that the corpo wants to push, you’d better believe they’ll run with it.
That website is a cancer
Here’s hoping. I’m not so optimistic about Europe really flexing their muscles, but I look forward to being pleasantly surprised!
I would like to know more
If it’s not working well without threats of violence, perhaps that’s because it simply doesn’t work well?
We need a democratic method that can be used by the public to oust a politician when they no longer serve the needs of the public.
That’s… Really passing the buck though.
Nothing is stopping corporations from doing The Right Thing right now except their own desire not for profit, but for maximized profit at all costs. Dare I say it, but if a company can’t make a profit without creating harm, it doesn’t deserve to make a profit.
It’s not just “they make products and services that people buy”, it’s that “they maximize their personal profit at the expense of people and the environment”.
It’s easy but reductive to blame consumers for consuming, when it’s worth noting that biodegradable packaging costs more than plastics that will never break down, so corporations will choose cheap plastic over environmentally friendly packaging 99.9% of the time.
The incentives are wrong. Instead of maximizing profit we need to ensure that profit is not maximized at the expense of sustainability, at the expense of pollution, and at the expense of the entire future of our planet.
Oh, because I hadn’t upvoted it yet.
Oooof, this “research” is just so very reductive.
Hot take: waving at a barista or witnessing a fellow shopper check avocados doesn’t count as “human contact”.
Shouting extra loud for the people in the back: We’re in the middle of an affordability crisis, you idiots, and there are way fewer Third Places around than ever before!!
Commuting solves nothing, and only exasperates a whole host of other issues.
If we’re serious about improving mental health, the last thing anyone should be recommending is Office Jobs