Aral Balkan
What’s sad is realising you live in a world where every exaggerated analogy you used to make a point is actually happening:
Having Google in schools is like having McDonalds in nutrition class. (I find out that McDonalds does, in fact, sponsor nutrition classes in US schools.)
Having a surveillance capitalist sponsor a conference on free and open source/human rights is like having an oil company sponsor a climate conference. (Forget sponsoring, turns out head of #Cop28 runs an oil firm.)
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Aral Balkan
@alastair I’m not entirely sure they care how they’re perceived any longer. We’re almost done militarising our police forces and the veil of democracy is wearing thin in most places so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re betting on rising authoritarianism keeping the unwashed masses in line as they destroy the planet and then fuck off of to Mars.
alastair87
@aral@mastodon.ar.al I'm surprised even the oil firms don't see it as a screw up to be quite so obvious with their corruption.
Aral Balkan
@alastair Yeah, I know… I was being hyperbolic :)
alastair87
@aral@mastodon.ar.al I think they're more likely to eventually deploy some of us to mine Mars than fuck off there. Even in appalling scenarios it's unlikely Mars will ever be more habitable than here. I know Musk is delusional but I find it hard to believe that at least sometimes he doesn't know full well (the average person could grasp the basics of why in my view), and it's just part of the grand manipulation.
molly in missouri
@aral my late husband's cancer-treatment-nutritionist brought us (nestle sugar) ensure as the answer to my husband's inability to eat food after they removed his stomach. We could have learned to blenderize real food, but she said this would be easier.
I read all the labels after he died.
I will never forgive corporate medicine. Every nutritionist in America was trained by coca-cola and nestle.
Look into it.
In Australia, it was the coke sugar lobby who sued a doctor for advising patients to feed toddlers real food instead of corporate sugar-laden garbage
Look it up.
Aral Balkan
@whatzaname I’m so sorry to hear of your experience and for your loss. Sending you love and solidarity from across the pond.
Joan Westenberg
@aral writing dystopian science fiction is just called “journalism” at this point
Aral Balkan
Kévin ⏚
@jnv @aral that would explain why one of my school's field trips was to a McDonald's
Jon
@aral Even in Canada back in the 80s McDonald’s existed in schools.
gnutelephony
@aral it's like finding your living within the venn diagram of every dystopian story published...
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