Hear hear

It’s okay, we’re just a little more anti-corporate on average than most. Various events that led many of us here have contributed to that. :)

I mean, it’s called a “fake ad” but it’s basically just an ad. The punchline is “buy product”

Words, possibly numbers, letters, punctuation, and maybe some symbols

More sugar

I got 30hrs out of Animal Well and enjoyed every moment of it :)

Yes, though it was my sister in law who named her, and this was years before the Netflix version, if that might matter. I don’t know if it does or not, I didn’t finish season 1 :)

Adorable.

Can you pay the cat tax by providing an image of said cat? :)

We had a very special cat who did a lot of chirping and trilling, and at night in the summer we’d keep the back door open with the glass screen door shut, and all sorts of animals could come by and she’d watch them and make various excited noises to let me know when animals were around.

Possums, raccoons, other cats, groundhogs, they all brought excited trills to let me know we had a nocturnal visitor.

One night she was making agitated sounds, but before I got there to see what it was, she made a clear as day “uh-oh” sound, but with a meow. I hurried over to see a fox staring down through the glass at her, while she stared back nervously. Never heard the “uh-oh” before or after except that night.

Pretty sure that’s not a direct quote.

Yeah, no Ad blocker on my Lemmy Voyager app :(

Fascinating article ruined by ads overtop of the text on the website

Oooof, I hear that. Things are more political than ever at my work and it’s like, I just want to do my job and go home

Yeah, I absolutely get the anger. My wife in particular hates cruelty to animals, fictional, plush, or otherwise, so it’s a line she refuses to cross. That’s a totally fair outlook

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.

Was it fun though? Or was it awful?

My wife found out about The Elephant Scene and refused to ever play it as long as she lives

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.

11, so that when I outrun the bear, it’ll be 11 who dies, while 7 is waiting for me at home

Good thing that hype always delivers.

Lemmerites