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A “viral video” is practically the definition of a meme.

Yes, it’s literally in the definition. Even ideas are memes.

A meme is to culture what a gene is to biology.

Akhchually, they were called “memes” since 1976. It’s just that the word didn’t get popular with them damn kids.

Would you say the same about black lives matter or the current anti trump protests?

If it was a couple of dudes every single time? Yeah, of course I’d say the same, because it’d be the same!

But it wasn’t, was it? Both BLM and the anti-Trump protests where properly organised, MASS protests, so it was very different.

You are being hyper selective

And you’re very judgemental of the person you imagine I am. Maybe wait until I respond to your questions before doing that in the future?

The message with the art is that it won’t exist if big oil isn’t stopped. It’s also an easy way to get in the papers without actually damaging the actual artwork

Yeah. It also just so happens to be considered a minor infraction every time, so they mostly get off with a slap on their wrists or a fine. No biggie. If they tried doing something that actually mattered, they’d also face more consequences.

Most of the ordinary people don’t need to be convinced any more. We’re already using the damn paper straws. It’s the big industry that needs to be stopped.

And now we find ourselves in a situation where common people think protesters are the enemy and countries are powerless and can’t help the situation because it’s all the fault of global industry.

That’s an insane take, my dude.

People think the protesters who go against ordinary people are the enemy, because the ordinary people are already doing whatever they can - voluntarily or not - to limit emissions. Recycling, LED bulbs, paper straws, paid bags, all that shit.

And yeah, everybody feels powerless because big business is to blame and nobody seems to be going after big business - including the Stop Oil idiots.

Guess we could just give up and forget about it if those pesky villains weren’t constantly throwing paint on bullet proof glass

The people who understand the issue don’t want to give up and want governments to finally do something about the industry. The people who don’t understand the issue don’t give a fuck and are just annoyed about the paper straws, etc. Stop Oil annoys both those groups while simultaneously doing nothing to stop the actual problem.

You are a mouthpiece for the oil industry and part of the problem.

Again talking to your imaginary friend and not me, mate?

They would be looked upon more fondly if oil companies didn’t pay for a massive media campaign against them.

THEY are making the campaign against them, mate.

Them gluing themselves to roads blocks ambulances from reaching people in need. There’s already been one case where a person died because the ambulance didn’t get there in time.

How exactly am I, a random dude who enjoys looking at art, supposed to feel about them when they throw paint on art in galleries?

And, most importantly, what does that accomplish?

They piss off regular people, they attempt damaging art. And for what?

A couple of years ago I did some maths - if a 40 million European country went zero emissions for a year - not reduced, not “net zero”, just null CO2 emissions - they’d have “saved” enough CO2 for fifteen minutes of what global industry is spewing into the atmosphere.

You won’t stop oil by making a dude get late to work, and I fail to see Stop Oil activists in factories. So, fuck them.

Oh, hey!

I’m glad to say that Vivaldi is my go-to on my PC.

I’m sad to say that I still use Edge on my laptop, because Vivaldi just refuses to implement Precision Touchpad gestures support. You know, two-finger swipe right for “Back”, etc. Drives me nuts. :/

Perfect timing for THIS.

The cars have a factory installed SIM-card that allows remote control AND remote access to the integrated phone system (without giving any notion that somebody is listening in on you in your car).

everybody also “knows” that the Facebook app listens to you

https://www.estiponagroup.com/blog/shhhhhh-facebook-actually-listening-surveillance-marketing-explained

As for China - THIS the bog-standard procedure for any tech-related company when an employee has to travel to China. Give them a burner phone and laptop, zero company data on them, zero access to critical company data, after they return, just throw the gear away.

I honestly don’t now what other proof would you need, when we know them spying on regular people has been happening for decades.

New cars are pretty much computers on wheels that collect data

There’s a difference between what telemetry a German car gathers, and what a Chinese car gathers. And where is it sent.

The data from EU companies is anonymised and private. The data from Chinese companies is always available to their government.

I mean, fuck China and the genocide of the Uighur. It’s terrible. But I’m pretty confident that capitalism killed a whole lot more people throughout history

Ah, I guess it’s fine then. Since throughout history more people died because of capitalist policies, then we can support China with a clear conscience!

I do 100% agree with this, though:

Ignorance is bliss I guess?

Correct course of action is to disband the police and create well-regulated militias (regulated by the people themselves, not the state).

The vast majority of people in smaller, more rural areas are 100% happy with what’s going on.

What you’re suggesting would mean that any time you’d drive through a new municipality/town/village, you’d have to learn a new set of rules and laws. You’d end up with “legal” lynchings in some smaller communities. It would be absolute chaos.

The evidence is in the fact that it’s a Chinese company. They are required by law to provide the government with all the data they collect (and we know they collect data).

Every new car is a piece of shit spy ware device that collects and sells your data

Fuck me, it has to be sad living in this paranoid state…

I’d rather china have my data than a fucking capitalist company or America

Ignorance at it’s best. You’d rather support the state that is committing literal genocide than capitalism.

Sure, capitalism is cancer and sucks, but I don’t think it’s worse than genocide, mate.

Lemmy is weird. As long as you’re on the dogpile against the current “big bad” of the week, you’re good to go. Fuck Tesla? Then let’s buy Chinese products.

It’s insane, but it’s where we are.

It’s authoritarian spyware, period. There are more options than these two - ww don’t have to choose the lesser evil.

Let’s not forget that they are actively committing genocide against the Uighur. I don’t think they are the “lesser evil”.