I think the question is, why are you bringing up millennials when the issue of microplastics did not start with them, nor will it end with them.

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.

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.

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

Why? I haven’t been following smart glasses development at all, but a camera is one of the things I would just expect it to have, and would be surprised if it was missing. Like, isn’t that a requirement for some kinds of AR? Seems like if you are against smart glasses with outward cameras, then you’re really just against smart glasses period.

Pixel has a built in feature that screens my calls and sends spammers to a bot. Graphene has no equivalent to this.

Oh, see, you’re under the impression that this is about public safety. It’s not. It’s about giving insurance companies an excuse to deny claims.

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.”

The one that combusts material is worse.

Pole reversal only matters if you’re basing it off magnetic North and not true North.

You can’t use the age of the universe because the North Pole didn’t exist until earth formed, and that was only ~4.5 billion years ago.

Looks at all the previous lines in the sand, stretching far off into the distance

Why tf would you put that much work into it? Just file a charge back and move on with your life.

You don’t think it’s telling that the big example you gave for people still liking Marvel was a movie that shit all over the MCU and made fun of the boring, convoluted mess it’s become?

Let’s say my family is massively in debt. All the other members of my family are trying to find work, or going to local food banks, or planning a budget.

Meanwhile, I am using my time to scrounge in thrift stores and rub every lamp I can find to try to find a genie and magically wish everything better.

You may think my actions are useless, and a waste of time, and that I’m childish for believing it will accomplish anything; but I’m “still doing something as opposed to sitting around” and that makes it OK, right?

Yea, this one isn’t an issue. If you are dropping off passengers, you are allowed to stop in a fire lane because that is not parking.

The Times of Israel said Iran fired two ballistic missiles and that both were intercepted.

Does this make almost no sense to anyone else? If you’re going to violate the ceasefire, why would you only fire two missiles? Considering Israel’s success rate with shooting down missiles, these were almost guaranteed to be intercepted. Were they hoping Israel would just forget about their missile defense system? Even if that was the case, again, why only two? It’s like the entire goal was just to technically violate the ceasefire with no other gain.

It’s so simple a child could understand it; yet, it’s somehow impossible to many adults.