Top YouTube comment nails it. We’re doubling and tripling down on obscene investments in environment-threatening infrastructure - and for what? For a pure convenience product that isn’t even reliable.

Probably too far out but I saw this on Lemmy recently as a response to HP’s subscription insanity: https://www.techspot.com/news/109674-open-printer-fully-open-source-inkjet-drm-free.html

…and all people will remember is that Dwayne Johnson lost a small amount if weight.

Came here for this 👍

In the tech bro / VC world “Harvard Dropout” equates to an MD title in a hospital. It’s instant credibility.

Nothing I say has anything to do with who shows up, but who the organizers target and attract. As I said above, Earth Day had diverse attendee groups but one clear framing. As did, seemingly, your protest. Congrats!

Clear example, if you look at just this year’s mass protests by 50501/indivisible in the US, for “Hands-Off” they had a plethora of defined goals ranging from foreign policy over trans rights to social policy. Meanwhile “No Kings” was just vaguely positioned against autocracy and Trump’s regime in general. “Hands-Off” had a global turnout estimated between “hundreds of thousands” according to international press and “three to five million” according to the organizers, while “No Kings” reached over 5 million in the US alone according to independent census.

And this is just the ones from the US that made their way over here, I could give you a dozen more crass examples of protests against the extreme right in Eastern Germany that don’t even manifest because the organizers can’t agree on where they stand on the Gaza conflict - which of course has nothing to do with opposing the extreme right.

Thanks! I read a few of their comments, I agree in principle, but saying Occupy Wallstreet failed because antagonizing the 1% isn’t broad enough is a wild take :D

Sure, protests have organizers that do marketing/pr, logistics and the official registrations for the events. Therefore most large and significant protest movements in history are marketed with a sole purpose and can be boiled down to one topic:

Women’s March= women’s rights 1970 Earth Day= environment George Floyd/BLM= police brutality Globally it’s the same, think of Fridays for Future for example.

Sure people went to Earth Day with peace flags or believing whatever but the framing of the event was clear.

No I’m complaining about groups with specific interests framing the entire campaign

Well, yeah. Be general. If I want to sell candy I don’t market it to 11-year-old claustrophobic basketball players, I market it to kids.

Every specificity that is added to the movement’s message scares away potential supporters that can no longer identify. This is global though. Every fringe group wants to add their message to the masthead of every protest. The left has had this problem forever.

Social media back then were also referred to as social NETWORKS. A network implies collaboration and interactivity, media are more linear, having a sender and a recipient.

As someone who was chronically constipated: A year’s supply of psyllium husks.

As someone who was overweight, depressed and had severe back pain, a yoga mat.

Yes, there you go! Good job, USA!

CooKieMoNSTeR :D

I agree in principle, but look at the number of interactions. I think there’s a fine line between creating safe spaces for urges and downright promoting and normalizing criminal activity. I don’t think this should be a) this accessible and b) happening without psychiatric supervision. But maybe I’m being too judgemental

I mean, maaaybe if you wanted children and couldn’t have them. But why would it need to be “beautiful and up for anything”?

Thanks, will do!

I saw something similar! Reported it to Google ads and of course they “couldn’t find any ToS violations”

I don’t even know why I’m shocked…

Paywalled for me, anyone have the text?