Everyone has their own personal 100 room temp that exists on a spectrum

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No our systems are perfect the only issue is enforcing every facet of it onto the proles with an 18-karat boot

Politics aside, naming places after someone who’s still alive is gross

Because Microsoft knows if it can sell the product to your manager, that’s all that really matters

Individuals are relentlessly marketed to by targeted ads psychologically designed to get them to purchase disposable, useless slop, but sure let’s just say it’s their fault for falling for it.

Make sure you turn off the Internet box when you’re not using it too! It fires out those microwave radiations faster than you can whatchamacallit

Karl D. Marx

Back in the day they would also be angry though, these men at least seem polite enough to leave a thank-you card

If you drop-in replace “x does not consent” with “x is being exploited” (making necessary grammatical adjustments), I feel like I’m still basically saying the same thing with the same takeaways

Consent violation and exploitation are fairly intertwined concepts, but exploitation generally sells better as a term to highlight injustice. For that reason perhaps it would have been better to use that term instead, but I’ve already spent enough time on my writing half-baked analysis on a 20 second clip from regular show

As the core of veganism is consent, there are several elements to consider:

1. Consent of the substance’s sentient source: The coffee bean seems more than willing to give this up… almost too willing. I don’t think there’s a direct issue here, but definitely warrants further consideration when other parties are involved.
2. Consent of the substance’s consumers: neither Mordecai nor Rigby seem to want what’s going on. While Rigby signed the contract, and could be held to its terms under ideal circumstances, it’s a rather predatory situation since it’s presented in a language he doesn’t understand. Mordecai didn’t sign anything, did not consent even on paper, and is a complete victim here.
3. While mostly related to point #2, contracts are often wielded as a tool of the powerful against the weak, and in an inequitable exchange ends up being little more than a justification to continue a coercive arrangement one party would back out of if given the choice.

So I’d say while the events depicted are not vegan, but the coffee itself as a substance is most likely vegan. It’s a little hard to say for certain without more context tho, for instance if the bean is also coerced to act this way by outside forces.

They plan to collect it in the form of El Salvador concentration camp labor, compensated at like five cents an hour.

I dunno, when did you stop beating your wife?

In the article it seems they’re equating the two and… want both forms banned.

When I say advertising, I also mean propaganda. Propaganda is advertising for the state, and advertising is propaganda for the private. Same thing.

Charge said countries a regular “user fee” for membership inside this new order.

Literally trying to implement big tech enshittification but with international trade policy… What could possibly go wrong??

Try spending less on police?

I think it’s useful in describing part of the dynamics with rhetorical dogwhistles, but it absolutely telling on oneself if one’s only issue with bigoted language is that they didn’t use the euphemism version.

Beazza

Probably predominantly from that mountain that Rio Tinto/Kennecott Copper continues to decimate

edit—from the article:

The mine is owned by Rio Tinto Group, a British-Australian multinational corporation.

So yeah

I was once in a discord where chat was slowed down to like 5min per message in general, 30min per for bug reports/complaints, at a time where the launcher had a bug with a fairly simple workaround that would be easy to direct the deluge of users towards… If you could speak more than once every 5 minutes. People were constantly shooting their once per 5min shot, and the answer was constantly being drowned out by a combination of yapping and new people asking the question. The answer was not pinned, tho even if it was you couldn’t just tell people to check pins because you couldn’t send them a reply to begin with.

They put the timers in to deal with the influx of people complaining that they couldn’t play the game. I couldn’t help keep the answer in view because I wasn’t a moderator, and all of the mods/admins only wrote a few messages an hour telling people to shut the fuck up 🥴