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Like I said, clock is ticking. You won’t be so happy go lucky when it’s your job getting a new CEO or a big platform like YouTube denying you access to a platform.

Clock is ticking. Just wait until the companies start fucking you over with this power you’ve given them.

Much of this could have been avoided if the US never invaded Iraq. If only I had a time machine…

Ehh. Lots of problems could be fixed by that, but not really this one.

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Read this guy’s post history, it’s hilarious to see a genuine angry Canadian nationalist.

"I believe this only underscores my point

I was caught peddling bunk folk psychology to peddle my conspiracy theory about we are all getting manipulated to serve the evil overlords and that only makes my point stronger

You didn’t engage with the study itself.

I don’t engage with flat earth bullshit or other conspiracy theories either. I engage with things that are worth engaging with. An Amazon pundit piece peddling crap about your free will being taken away subliminal messages goes into the instant trash with the other garbage.

When you start out with such a massively misleading statement like:

Industry is responsible for more than 20% of all emissions

When industry is literally stuff like cars, industrial equipment, oil production, basically all chemical production, and so on and so forth.

Cheap disposable plastic mall trinkets are not a major industrial sector. The vast majority of industrial spend is stuff that actually improves people’s lives.

If you’re going to start criticizing “products” then again you’re talking about stuff that for the most part people just want. And stuff for the most part that people would want regardless of advertisements.

This:

You have never been under your own motivation

Is what I’m talking about when I say it’s conspiracy thinking.

Maybe.

Just maybe.

People are able to think for themselves.

It’s extra hilarious that you link a study on subliminal messaging, which is one of the fields in psychology that have been embroiled in reproducibility issues and fraud.

Emissions. It’s a typo

We all understanding that department stores and companies sold us all kinds of things we didn’t need

The vast majority of this isn’t what makes up the economy or fossil fuel emissions and generally the people engaged in random department store shopping are doing it well under their own motivation.

Life pre department store era , we’re talking pre 50s, you’d be considered insane to have the stuff we do

Fantastically wealthy you mean. People in the 50s wanted to have all this crap too. They just couldn’t have it because the economy was tiny.

Yeah, they “convinced us” to want to buy things.

Dumbest Marxist conspiracy theory out there. People like having stuff. You can convince them to get different stuff but people aren’t going to go all hobbit and live a simple life if given the choice 9 of ten times

You greatly underestimate the incentives at play here. In France it wasn’t the wealthy who rioted over the gas tax. It was the average person.

The rich for the most part can afford and handle a transition, but the guy who is just barely making it now with the supercharged fossil fuel economy? They will not give up what they have in a million years. Not willingly.

There’s some issue with like big companies wanting to keep their business model and lobbying for it, which is a real concern, but that’s going to be a concern even with public companies with no “one percent” making the decisions.

So. I just wanted to put that out there for you two. Thank you for your time. Hopefully that helps you all out.

No. You have offended me and I am now very angry at you.

Basically eat everyone more wealthy than an income of like 2 dollars a day.

Or invest heavily in nuclear power, implement work from home like in the COVID days for all workers that can do it and force companies to adapt to reduce car use, continue to incentivize solar and other green energy, and institute a hefty carbon tax.

Invest heavily in insulation for old homes and apartments, require landlords pay half of tenant electricity use.

We could cut emotions like in half if we were sufficiently motivated.

the top 1% is creating around 25% of the pollution with their Jets and yacht etc

This is assinine and doesn’t even slightly pass the smell test. 25 percent is a LOT and private jets and such would have to be absolutely nutty to be accounting for that much.

In reality this number is based on a shitty study that counts workplace and investments as your emissions instead of consumption. This is basically saying:

You own a company that produces X, you’re responsible for those emissions, not the people who buy them.

At that point your emissions figures aren’t a measure of emissions, there a measure of stock ownership. Ending the emissions of the wealthy would also end your access to everything their investments produce, which is like… everything you buy.

What will you do when the rich are gone, emissions are still high, and your realize the scope of the problem is way bigger than any stupid obvious fix?

Having said that, I’ve noticed myself making mistakes. I’ve accidentally failed to scan an item, and I’ve accidentally entered incorrect codes for produce. When I notice, I fix them, but I’ve probably missed a few.

Stores are 1000 percent alright with this. They don’t want you to intentionally steal of course, but shit happens and people mess up, even trained cashiers.

The real problem occurs when people intentionally and maliciously steal, and these checks arent there to catch people like you.

You shouldn’t be using or browsing Lemmy ML anyway. Unless you love authoritarian dictatorships, because the devs over there, the people who run that instance, are massive tankies.

The problem is network effects. It’s very hard to get mass migration so managers of very large generalized communities can get away with a lot of bullshit when they own the platform uncontested

This would generally suck and result in centralization, especially bad if any of the big communities end up in the hands of people like the lemmy.ml devs.