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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34912703

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/26297841

I'll note that the article as originally published contains a typo; Ruth Porat is the CIO at Google, not the CEO.#

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[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These people are genuinely evil.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

b-b-but the old slogan

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 8 months ago

This is what "doing no evil" under capitalism looks like.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago

CEOs still haven't learnt to keep their mouths shut because they keep getting shot!

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

At first I thought she meant 'fantastic' in its literal sense and I was optimistic. No, of course the former CFO of Morgan Stanley is a ghoul.

"Burgum, a Republican, used his speech to criticize Silicon Valley for having supported 'the climate extremist agenda,' which he defined as the idea that 'a degree of temperature change in the year 2100 is the thing that we should drive every policy in America.' Burgum added: 'I’ve always been a little offended by that.'"

Well it's like 3 or 4 degrees at this point, which is civilization-ending. Real, "we're all going to die anyway" energy here. Glad we're doing this to hallucinate the next Amazon show and not slow down the approaching catastophe or at least give poor people food or some shit. Is that a little offensive?