In order to not fully dox myself, I’ll just say the following: I came after Nils and left before Melissa did. Around early 2021, I found myself suddenly thrown in Ivo/April calls and feeling tremendously unhappy, not just because Pandemic Year II sucked in general and team dynamic went to shit but also because these marketing folks were discussing not-so-grand grand ideas and blatant GDPR violations while sending literal hundreds of inexplicable 👏 emojis into the chat window of every call.

That’s a rather uncaritative interpretation of my words. I left of my own accord.

Unfortunately, I fell out of the corpo brainwash cycle a bit before that.

Hm… Reading the names of Ivo and Spencer triggered something in me. There are good people there too. These two are pretty obnoxious. Granted, the mock-German is ill-fitting for the two though, with one of them being an American, the other a Bulgarian(?) living in Germany.

Gripes. Used to be an employee there.

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Why all the downvotes? I admit, the piece takes a very negative view, the bit about Gaza may be a bit of a distraction (from an environmental pov), and also the piece may be damaging to the Democratic bid for the presidency. But overall, it appears to be based in fact.

It’s pretty scary that these people were in such leading positions, with the USAID person even promoting her moronic ideology even abroad.

That said, the part calling calling out “pro-choice” as a term feels semi-true to me. Of course, that language is as much appeasement as it is a specific framing. And “pro-life” as the opposite term is at least as dumb because quite often it will lead to mothers being physically and mentally hurt or even death of the mother. Also, I do love the irony of women trying to take rights away from themselves.

In our estimations of what will be served … we believe we will attain this 50 percent plastic single-use plastic reduction," said Grenon.

The bottles poured into cups would not count towards this target, she added.

Everybody loves a good KPI.

I was reluctant to watch because Jordan Petersen. Hence my admittedly uninformed comment. :)

I was confused why anyone would attempt to convince this shill. But scrolling through the timeline, I see it’s apparently a mistitled debunking video. Which is fair.

If you’re ever in the EU, you might find this brand:

Can’t vouch for them though, I have never tried them. But as you can see, there’s a spicy variant (piri piri) too.

Pretty sure this has nothing to do with the new “conservative” NZ government either.

“We need to fly more, not less [for climate]” – EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren (source, German)

He really should just drop out now that he has nothing to prove to Biden.

Comparing himself to Biden is a side quest only, he really wants power.

It didn’t seem to be. The page even had this text in a box at the end:

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As a corollary: Don’t buy into specific vintage fads like “branded 80’s sportswear” – there’s a very limited quantity of these and there are fakes going around, that have none of the sustainability cred either.

Related: There is a replacement for cheese dip that’s basically just potatoes, olive oil, carrots, and yeast flakes.

Eh. Biden can just go out and have 4 of the 9 Supreme Court judges killed institutionalized, right?