Ah, human rights abuses. Got it. That’s been common knowledge for quite a while now. If you had to have John Oliver point it out to you, you were living with your head in the sand.

I thought it was some new information about it containing lead or something.

Look, damn near EVERYTHING these days is tied to human rights abuses. Food, rubber, electronics, clothing, meat, chemicals. As humans, we just aren’t evolved to handle the sort of horrible complexity that our society presents. Trying to be an ethical consumer takes a crazy amount of research and sacrifice and, to be blunt, doesn’t change a god damn thing. It’s all too interconnected and people don’t have large enough attention spans.

Here’s what I mean by that: Let’s say everyone suddenly decides that yea, cocoa harvesting practices are a big problem and we should all stop buying chocolate. Well, large corporations don’t really care about the day-to-day opinions of consumers. They have contracts that are often up to a year long specifically to hamper things like boycotts. So it doesn’t matter if demand drops, they still get to sell X tons of product at Y price. Now, you can say that when it comes time to renegotiate the contract, they might get less. But when have you ever seen the public rally behind an issue and have it be relevant for more than 3 months? After a year, most people will have forgotten or stopped caring about the boycott and demand will be right back where it was before.

How many times have people tried to boycott companies like Nestle or General Mills? Just last year there was a boycott on Starbucks for their anti-union practices; people that were ADAMANT that they’d never have starbucks again flocked to the stores for their latest holiday special drink.

I guess my point is, we no longer live in a society, we’re held captive by it. I’m going to keep eating chocolate.

I wish they had taken it just one step further and brought some of the parrots together to see if they recognized each other in person bird. That would be fascinating

Takes a special breed of racist to discriminate against Native Americans.

I wish I could. Sadly my local library has been taken over by homeless people doing drugs.

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Considering the worldwide trend, do you expect a reduction?

There are a few acceptable times to immediately get up and rush when the plane lands

You have a connecting flight that is already boarding

You really really have to shit

The person next to you is extremely annoying and if you are near them for one more God damn second you might snap.

Long story short, don’t shop on Black Friday for deals in electronics.

Note, this does not apply if you use responsible stores like Micro Center.

The Palestinian Authority in Gaza is Hamas, and they really don’t allow moderates to have a say. You’d be asking for them to pretty please just arrest themselves.

They have tried to ask neighboring Arab nations for help, the response has basically been “Fuck the Palestinians, we don’t want them”. And it’s not exactly an unreasonable response. The last time Jordan took in a bunch of Palestinian refugees, the Palestinians killed their king and tried to take over the country. No one trusts them anymore.

Copyleft violences.

Hey bro, you a shill for big oil or something?

You’ve posted a shit ton of content in a short amount of time that seems to be placing most of the blame on average people while giving just a passing glance to the actions of large corporations.

The idea of individual action being responsible for more than a drop in the bucket is a myth created by oil companies to push the blame off of themselves and onto everyone else with a BS “we’re all in this together” mentality.

This kind of post is the same trite. No, the person who goes on vacation is not the problem because they choose to fly. The corporations fighting tooth and nail to keep things like oil and gas subsidies alive, and deny subsidies to emerging technologies like wind/solar/batteries are the ones who are the problem. The handful of corporations who are responsible for more emissions than 80% of the rest of the population combined are the problem. The lobbyists who push to obfuscate climate science and lead a narrative that climate change isn’t real are the problem. Trying to say individuals are the problem is like complaining that a housemate keeps leaving lights on while ignoring another housemate who keeps 18 space heaters plugged in and running all the time.

Yea, yea “no raindrop thinks they are responsible for the flood”. But while we’re all raindrops, the corporations are the ones who have been chipping away at the dam walls for years.

None of these toilets have seats and they only fit in circles, not rectangles. Unusable!

Hey, you’re right! That IS the exact opposite of what I’m asking for!

Retrieved, not reused.

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If it did, it could only have been a positive effect. From a logistics standpoint, what happened that day is nothing short of astounding. Less than 3 hours after making the decision, the ENTIRE US airspace was cleared of all commercial traffic. 4500 planes were re-routed and grounded at a time of extreme uncertainty. It may have been his first day, but the guy did his job flawlessly.

Why make it look handwritten when it’s not? This is just a font.

It’s almost like a bunch of people in the last month discovered “war” for the first time and are appalled to learn exactly what that entails.

That and companies like EA where a big chunk of their income comes from various sports games that they half ass a remake of every year. PC gamers don’t touch those, but there’s a large number of people with consoles who only use it for things like FIFA and will continue to dutifully buy the new ones and spend dumb amounts of money to unlock their favorite players.

LGBT Pride is not for those who celebrate it.

It’s for all those who couldn’t or can’t.