Those people wanted irrelevance, and as far as I'm concerned, they got what they wanted. I don't waste a single moment of my day thinking about them. For all intents and purposes, they don't exist. They were pig headed and stubborn before, and they're certainly not going to change now. Focusing effort on them is a waste of time. Any path to the future goes AROUND nonvoters - not through them.
you lost contacts with 95% of your contacts you used to hear through apps. Last time you met a group of friends was when you randomly met them in a restaurant having a dinner together. “We invited you but you didn’t reply”. The 5% still calling you wants your money.
Having done that I don't miss 95% of that 95%. The real ones will follow you. The rest know how to find you.
Yeah. Not only can you ignore social media RIGHT NOW, it's quite possible the only way we save any part of humanity is to convince enough people to do just that.
See, THAT is not the slippery slope. STARTING to ban ANYTHING at all from legal transactions is the slippery slope. What happens when they decide R-rated films are distasteful? Or birth control?
Payment processors should have ABSOLUTELY no role in making ANY decisions about what legal transactions they process. Period.
Once your body is used to a healthy schedule it will punish you mercilessly when you try to stray. I've stayed up too late and had hangovers from nights where I didn't even DRINK.
You're not wrong. The meat industry plays dirty. But Beyond Meat could've done more to turn the playing field in their favor too - lobbying for carbon credits or for subsidies of their own for climate action back when we had an administration that valued that. Instead they partnered with fast food restaurants trying to push themselves as a lifestyle brand.
There is demand for plant-based meat... at a lower price point than real meat. It will never be a viable category at a premium price. These attempts to make it a prestige product have doomed it from the start. People who will not accept or change for moral reasons won't do so for STYLE reasons either - it HAS to be a pocketbook consideration.
Strawman much? I know better than to engage with such a disingenuous post, but I'm going to anyway.
It's not about what people DESERVE. Nobody DESERVES to suffer or stay somewhere they don't want to and I would love for everyone to be able to get where they want. But it's about the greater good. Everybody who can get out should, but when people who are most useful or potentially damaging to US government leave, it has a big impact. Navalny stayed in Russia. Is anybody better off for it? There is nothing more useful to the US government than for people it needs to stay there. When they leave, it gets weaker, and the forces that want to resist its actions get stronger. Nobody is helped by his staying in the US and having his app shut down and then having him forced into working to support the people he's trying to fight. Life isn't a movie. Sometimes the best action to take isn't the one that's going to win an academy award, but wins the war.
Democracy won the last war against fascism because people with the skills and talent needed to fight them left, both taking those skills away and using them against their origin. If they'd stayed in Germany they'd have either been forced to work for the nazis or been prevented from doing anything. People with skills and talent NEED to leave.
Those people wanted irrelevance, and as far as I'm concerned, they got what they wanted. I don't waste a single moment of my day thinking about them. For all intents and purposes, they don't exist. They were pig headed and stubborn before, and they're certainly not going to change now. Focusing effort on them is a waste of time. Any path to the future goes AROUND nonvoters - not through them.