78% of microplastics in the ocean come from car tires. EVs are heavier, and produce more microplastics. 10-20 bikes can fit in one car parking space. Bicycles and trains are hundreds of times more efficient than cars in terms of energy and space... And bike crashes don't kill over a million people per year globally.
It's kind of obvious. We can have a future worth living in, or we can have cars, but we can't have both.
Israel is not representative of modern Judiasm. It's representative of modern settler colonialism. There are a lot of Jews who have opposed the existence of Israel since the idea of Zionism came up. Don't conflate Judiasm with colonialism in it's name.
The oppressor determines which things are and are not "political." The ideology and politics of the oppressor is always viewed as "neutral," while the oppressed, pointing out their oppression, are "being political."
The oppressor maintains power by controlling language and expression, by denying the oppressed even the right to talk about their own oppression as it is "impolite." In the rare cases the oppressed is allowed to talk, the oppressor demands inclusion in the conversation to "make sure both sides are heard." The two sides being that of the oppressed asking for their oppression to stop, and the oppressor justifying the continuation of said oppression while criticizing the oppressed for "not being willing to compromise" on "some oppression" or "some genocide" but the oppressed making the "unreasonable" demand of "no oppression" or "no genocide."
I went to school in a dirt poor place. Like half of my graduating class joined the military. Recruiters were in the halls like every week. Yeah, it's absolutely intentional.
"Return to the office."
Uh... There aren't actually enough facilities here at the office because you downsized after the pandemic.
"Return to the office now."
Ok, can I get a dedicated seat so I don't have to adjust my monitor for 10 minutes every time I come in?
"No, there aren't enough seats for everyone to have one."
Oh....ok....
Employees aren't afraid anymore so companies are trying to reinstate fear.
Its time to start talking about "memetic effluent." In the same way corporations polluted our physical world, they're pollution our memetic world. AI spewing garbage data is just the most obvious way, but corporations have been toxifying our memetic space for generations.
This memetic effluent will make sorting through data harder and harder over the years. But the oil and tobacco industries undermined science and democracy for decades with it's own memetic effluent in order to protect their business for decades. Advertising is it's own effluent that distorts and destroys language. Jerry Rubin said it in 1970, "How can I tell you 'I love you' after hearing 'cars love shell?'"
While physical effluent destroys our physical environment making living in the world harder, memetics effluent destroys meaning and makes thinking about and comprehending the world harder. Both are the garbage side effects of the perpetuation of capitalism.
This example of poisoning the data well is just too obvious to ignore, but there are so many others.
This won't happen because no one is measuring productivity. If they had any way to measure productivity or even cared about it, there wouldn't be bullshit jobs. CEOs will never admit this, because it was never the point.
While I like the sentiment, it's not entirely true.
You can't convince people to change their core beliefs. That's not how deprogramming works anyway. Cult deprogramming starts by asking them to explain and asking questions that let them unravel the problem themselves. Pointing out people's internal contradictions tends to reinforce them, but when they run in to their own contradictions those absurd beliefs tend to unravel.
This is just a reminder that the rules are not intended to be followed or applied evenly. That's why none of the people who enforce the rules actually know any of the rules. The specific rules aren't really relevant to how the system functions. Instead, the concept of rules exists in such systems to justify the arbitrary exercise of power. You could literally show this to a TSA agent and probably half the time it wouldn't matter.
The whole thing was always theater with the bonus perk of getting folks used to fascism.
Biking in the Netherlands, you regularly see people with different mobility devices riding in the bike lanes. That's because bike lanes are also for people with mobility issues. The "anti-car is ableist" argument is actually itself ableist because a lot of people with mobility issues actually can't drive either. Continued investment in car infrastructure vs bike infrastructure traps these people at home.
He's a malignant narcissist. It takes a long time to escape that kind of programing. Being in a relationship like that is basically like being in a cult.