Sometimes you see data and just know that the methodology had to have been shit.

The average response thought 30% of the US was in NY?! No fucking chance.

From a selfish perspective, why should the entire populace be forced to give up small luxuries in their increasingly difficult lives just so that a handful of large corporations don’t have to make any changes?

Why isn’t it that these large corporations should be forced to change, thus removing the need for everyone getting rid of their small luxuries?

Just seems ridiculous that the message is “everyone should give up their creature comforts and live as simply and tediously as possible so that billionaires don’t have to change”.

You’re standing by a factory next to extremely loud machinery and complaining about the guy whispering next to you.

The internet’s opinion of Israel is changing, not sure how much is actually changing in the real world. The last election should have been a wakeup call to a lot of folks that the opinions they hear in their online echo chambers don’t match the opinions of the general public. The average voter is uniformed and doesn’t follow the news.

What in the actual fuck is wrong with you? Go say that, out loud, in front of a mirror and think about your life.

Gotta make the plebs think they’re really sticking it to the billionaires. Look at any story about them and it’s always desperate to paint billionaires as secretly miserable or like they spend even a single second worrying about what “the poors” think. Any, even mild, resistance is blown up and treated like a massive unified movement of the common man against the wealthy class.

Look at Bezos’ wedding. If you believed the BS here, you would think the entire city of Venice was taking a stand and making it hostile for him and that certainly his wedding would be a miserable experience full of protestors and anti-Bezos street art. In reality, barely 100 people ever protested. All the floats and signs you saw posted were performance pieces, quietly removed by officials minutes after they went up. In reality, Bezos and all his rich guests had a great time and didn’t see a single protestor because security wouldn’t let anyone unvetted come anywhere near the wedding party.

But… They’re right? The NWS did send out a warning shortly after 1AM. It was local emergency officials who dropped the ball and didn’t pass on the warning until 7AM.

Is everyone just too far in their bubbles now that they reject whatever actually happened in favor of whatever narrative their side of the internet made up?

I hate it here.

I have yet to see a single item have a significant discount on prime day, it’s not even a sale.

At this point. I just block anyone I see using the em dash. Will a few false positives slip in? Sure, but I’m confident that I’m blocking more bots than nots.

It couldn’t possibly related to a global decline in tourism, could it? No, obviously it’s this obscure manga 1999 that’s responsible.

I soured on it when a guy shows up to this hyper advanced, futuristic, utopian society and goes, “I challenge the king to combat, and you have to let me do it, and then when I win, you have to make me king.” And everyone just shrugs like “Welp, thems the rules. Nothing we can do about it.”

A 2D image of a violin is not a violin.