narwhal

joined 2 years ago
[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I recently bought a scale for weighting food and had a good laugh reading the manual when I saw "not to be used for illicit substance trade". I imagined some small time drug dealer reacting "damn it".

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did bump into this page, but it seems what they do is they buy air time intended for ads and place a kind of subverted piece in what is apparently called "culture jamming". I was hoping more for an organic kind of movement on social media that gets people to talk about the issues more clearly and rethink what is acceptable.

 

There are lots of cultural opposition movements online, like against work exploitation, consumerism, car culture, surveillance, intellectual property, etc. I can find communities on lemmy for all those topics. But regarding a more general opposition to advertisements and marketing, other than the occasional person telling others to use adblockers online (what about ads in every day life?), I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements. There is a lot that can be scrutinized. Ethical concerns such as manipulation, lack of consent and just the simple fact your attention is for sale. The effects range from damage to environment, to our mental health, to harming industries themselves, lowering product quality and maintaining monopolies.

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"Dictatorship vs Democracy" is the new "Savage vs Civilized". Words thrown around without explanation to signal friend and foe in the current ideological framework used to justify imperial conquest.

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No need to resort to imagination with a real verifiable genocide.

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Genocides are real things, so it's important we reliably identify them with factual evidence, not falling for atrocity propaganda. Incorrectly identifying something as genocide is irresponsible much like denying a case of genocide that is actually taking place.

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Where is the evidence? This article is an interview showing two people telling stories, one of which is selling a book, just like Yeonmi Park.
I can too volunteer for an interview as I tell how Greenland is genociding left handed people. But nobody will ever want to pay me for that.

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (18 children)

The people that try to equate fake genocide with real genocide are like the school staff punishing bully and victim alike. They are enabling the abuses. Also it must be deeply insulting to the real victims in gaza.

 

Bonus question: What is an invention that was really important and there is no telling how long we would have to wait for it to appear had it not been discovered by the one credited with it?