My favorite quote on fanaticism applies here:

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim” - George Santayana

You’re not going to hurt my feelings by using words improperly lol

We’re talking about astroturfing, so yes it is quite literally the difference.

You’re not guaranteed a place where your opinions are the only ones expressed, ever in life.

TikTok is significantly larger and more worth it then lemmy

I do in fact disagree with you, yes. I am not, however, paid for it

Your company has a vested interest in pushing sustainable disposable single use bags over reusable bags, your data is biased

This is not accurate. We could pivot to totes within 24 hours.

In fact, I argue in favor of legislation promoting totes like one comment away.

Even better, let’s start making reusable totes in the US and cut that ratio down, so this is no longer true.

I can say, with insider knowledge, that the reusable packaging industry could start cranking out totes any time, should demand (or, better, legislation) prove sufficient.

Wouldn’t hurt the industry at all, either, as sustainable single-use packaging - much of which is shifting to paper -is heavily on the rise

Sustainable packaging has almost unlimited growth potential and is seeing massive private investment, and we should leverage that market to curb both pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Assuming it is picked up and dropped, the fediverse is completely unchanged. That’s my point.

User adoption here is also “basically zero.”

Lemmy is a rounding error in population versus larger sites. It’s a walled garden.

Tell that to the astroturfers simping for FB/Threads…

No one is astroturfing lemmy. People who disagree with you are not paid actors. They just disagree with you.

I don’t disagree, I just thought that was a fun fact.

I work on sustainable packaging, and it’s something not a lot of people think about. The company is extremely passionate about supply chain efficiency (both as a cost and as environmental impact), so it’s something that comes up with us pretty regularly.

Fun fact:

In terms of total greenhouse gas emissions, you’d generally have to use around 400 disposable bags made from sustainable products to equal one reusable tote.

This is because the vast majority of those totes are imported from southeast Asia.

Right. The really early oughts, when trolling was still a real thing, were so radically different that it’s hard to explain to people these days

Hell way back in the day, 4chan was one of my go-to websites, before the joking and trolling on /b/ really wasn’t joking and trolling any more.

It’s pretty standard 4chan-NEET fare, for anyone who is wondering. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, trad wives, and quasi-pro-nazi shit.

Not worth your time to check out. Small community of sad nerds.

IDDQD is a cheat for the original Doom, as a random fun-fact. God mode, iirc.

People who sell things that are in high demand and necessary for survival generally are not in the practice of denying people access to those things.

What a bizarre interview process man. Sorry you even had to be part of that. That’s so dumb.

Their recruiter sucks, because that should be one of the first discussions you have after initial qualifications.

I am genuinely curious how often this is policy vs just recruiters being bad at their jobs. Maybe they’re incentivized to generate leads/candidates instead of actual hires? That kind of makes sense if senior leadership is dumb enough.

You don’t qualify a lead before talking to the person. That’s rule 1 of sales efficiency.

It’s far better to waste an hour once figuring out a job posting was a waste of time than to waste 5 minutes 200 times finding out job postings are a waste of time.