I’ve been a C-suite executive, and I’ve worked with executives (incl. CEOs) at public companies.

Not only is there often a thermocline of truth that stops “bad” information going up the chain, CEOs more often than not make decisions based on nothing but their own opinions, and they will more than happily discard any information that doesn’t already fit that opinion, and even if negative things do manage to reach them from the other side of the thermocline, they often discount it or explain it away

Your description is basically of a “spherical CEO in a vacuum”, ie. the ideal and abstract version of how corporations should operate. It has very little to do with reality

The joke (?) was the title combined with the picture

Reminds me of this meme

@javiwhite@feddit.uk had it right, and also it’s specifically a derogatory term; the Oxford English Dictionary gives the definition “US English derogatory a contemptuous term for a white person, especially an impoverished white person living in the southern US. Also called poor white”

Exactly.

People seem to think “if I don’t do X, that means nobody does X”

Are we pretending that lots and lots of people aren’t incredibly horny for AI right now?

I’m a slut for soup so this is perfect

I see no downsides here

I had to check, and it looks like at least as far as plastic goes, in Finland it’s sent to two domestic recycling plants, and everything they don’t have the capacity to handle is shipped to Sweden’s Site Zero in Motala (dunno where they go from there.)

But yeah, something like using shredded plastic for road surfacing definitely isn’t what I’d call a sensible way to recycle the material. It’s just adding an extra step before getting to “microplastic endocrine disruptors EVERYWHERE”

We can still get lucky and only get 1346 London

🤞

There’s a good chance that the next influenza pandemic will be kicked off in the US. Get ready for the American Flu!

the recycling system is broken and often just a complete lie in many places in the world.

In many places in the world, or mainly the US? I keep seeing this claim repeated but usually any proof is just about the US

As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I’m honestly not all that sold on whether that’s a good tradeoff.

Yay, you’re not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)

I keep saying this but it feels like the Dems are a Russia-style controlled opposition party.

Doesn’t mean 100% of them are garbage, but the leadership sure does seem like it hates the idea of successful opposition

Making friends, you say?

Maybe it’s neuropathy? Maybe it’s Maybelline?

Fabergé egg

What’s this from?!

Fun English facts: “apron” used to be “napron”, but “a napron” was eventually incorrectly split into “an apron”. Same with “adder” which used to be “naddre”, and “umpire” which was “noumpere”

It’s a weird hill to die on

But at least they’re dead