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Climate activists put out that easy? Wtf I love the environment now.
Quote from: BIONIC on January 18, 2022, 04:00:00 PMClimate activists put out that easy? Wtf I love the environment now.Only if you're a hot cop with a cockney accent.
https://twitter.com/moveincircles/status/1483069874020753411
Quote from: benjipwns on January 18, 2022, 10:57:03 AMhttps://twitter.com/moveincircles/status/1483069874020753411ngl, i took this seriously for a second
https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/1483917021616427008
------ is about to get more “inclusive,” with the maker of ----’s announcing its famed characters are getting modern makeovers and will have more “nuanced personalities.”-----, Incorporated, the company behind the colorful, -----, announced Thursday a “global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive.”As part of the new mission to increase the “sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025,”----- said the ---- characters — who serve as mascots of sorts for the brand — would be receiving fresh, new looks.The ------, previously seen in ads posing seductively and strutting her stuff in white go-go boots, will now sport a pair of sneakers. A description for the ------- on the --------- website says she enjoys “being a hypewoman for my friends.”“I think we all win when we see more women in leading roles, so I’m happy to take on the part of supportive friend when they succeed,” the ------- said on the promotional site.Another character, the ------, described her motto as, “Not bossy. Just the boss.”----- said in announcing the refresh that ------ — which were first released in 1941 — will have “an updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, welcoming, and unifying, while remaining rooted in our signature jester, wit and humor.”"As one of the world's most iconic ------ brands,” Cathryn Sleight, -----’s Chief Growth Officer said in a statement, “who better to commit to a world with more moments of fun by increasing a sense of belonging around the globe than ------ ?"
Quote from: Nintex on January 19, 2022, 06:06:22 PMhttps://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/1483917021616427008Labour laws are a state responsibility, so it would be up to them to individually lower those laws, not the federal government. Morrison can suggest it though.Going by that jouro's hair and the way she's phrased that tweet, I'm going to assume she has a pretty serious left agenda.EDIT: Lol, just checked the source of the image and it's The Guardian Australia. Far left shitrag.
Quote------ is about to get more “inclusive,” with the maker of ----’s announcing its famed characters are getting modern makeovers and will have more “nuanced personalities.”-----, Incorporated, the company behind the colorful, -----, announced Thursday a “global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive.”As part of the new mission to increase the “sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025,”----- said the ---- characters — who serve as mascots of sorts for the brand — would be receiving fresh, new looks.The ------, previously seen in ads posing seductively and strutting her stuff in white go-go boots, will now sport a pair of sneakers. A description for the ------- on the --------- website says she enjoys “being a hypewoman for my friends.”“I think we all win when we see more women in leading roles, so I’m happy to take on the part of supportive friend when they succeed,” the ------- said on the promotional site.Another character, the ------, described her motto as, “Not bossy. Just the boss.”----- said in announcing the refresh that ------ — which were first released in 1941 — will have “an updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, welcoming, and unifying, while remaining rooted in our signature jester, wit and humor.”"As one of the world's most iconic ------ brands,” Cathryn Sleight, -----’s Chief Growth Officer said in a statement, “who better to commit to a world with more moments of fun by increasing a sense of belonging around the globe than ------ ?"spoiler (click to show/hide)https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/590560-mms-characters-to-become-more-inclusive[close]
Nooooooooooo, the Ess Jay Dubyas ruining my milk chocolate candy by making the making the mascots less horny. We used to live in a society, a proper society.
Let the Green M&M Be a Nasty Little SlutThe recent push to rebrand corporate logos to be more inclusive has, for the most part, been a good thing. Making Barbie more body-positive? Great. Renaming Aunt Jemima syrup? About damn time. Yet in brands’ fervent quest to capture youth audiences and capture the woke zeitgeist, they may be going just a little bit too far. Case in point: the slut-shaming of the green M&M.Essentially, this is what happened: the CEO of Mars Wrigley, the company that makes M&Ms, announced today that it would be revamping the characters to make them more “current” and “representative of our consumer” (presumably, people united by their willingness to ignore the fact that they’re eating shittier Reese’s Pieces). How do they plan on doing this, you ask? By replacing the characters’ footwear.This distinction is pretty negligible for the male characters (CNN goes into detail about the changes, but frankly they are men, and thus I don’t really care). For the female characters, however, the changes are apparent and formidable. The brown M&M’s heels have been lowered to a more sensible Alexis Neiers-esque kitten heel, while the green M&M’s signature go-go boots have been swapped out for non-descript white sneakers, the kind that Melanie Griffith’s character in Working Girl changes into at her desk to signal she’s a Girlboss with a head for business and a bod for sin. Let the river run, ladies! (Mars Wrigley did not immediately return a request for comment.)For those familiar with the iconography of the green M&M, this change is nothing more than tectonic. I imagine it is similar to how the people of Wittenberg must have felt watching Martin Luther nail his 95 Theses of the Protestant Reformation to the church door. But it is also a major error on Mars Wrigley’s part, because the green M&M being a dirty slut, as signified by her iconic white go-go boots, is precisely what has engendered her a devoted fan base, particularly among similarly libidinous women and gay men who have embraced the character. Consider, for instance, this ad where she does erotic ASMR for no reason other than to give the male M&Ms a massive boner, then feigns ignorance at the impact her performance has. Can we, or should we, attempt to put a cap on such virulent, untrammeled female sexuality? Can you stop the wind from blowing? Can you prevent a dog from vomiting after eating too much cheese? Can you keep Twitter libs from being self-righteous about adhering to COVID protocols? No, you cannot.The green M&M has spent decades building her brand as a horny, sexy bitch, and for what? For her creators to give her Larry David footwear in the name of feminism? For Mars Wrigley to give themselves pats on the back and big fat fucking raises at the next corporate retreat in Palo Alto? Guess what: the green M&M is a feminist, and she’s a dirty slut. We are real, and we exist, and we refuse to tolerate this disgusting attempt at erasure. We are given so little, and we have tolerated so much. Let the green M&M keep her go-go boots. Let her get blackout and suck dick in the bathroom at Acme on a Wednesday. This is what we want. This is what we deserve. This is what she deserves.
Also, i love having to fumble around with a cartoon 3d milk carton, instead of quickly click "add to cart" on a browser page and be done in 2 minutes!
Quote from: Don Rumata on January 05, 2022, 10:17:30 PMAlso, i love having to fumble around with a cartoon 3d milk carton, instead of quickly click "add to cart" on a browser page and be done in 2 minutes! https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1485470169795342338
John Lennon's eldest son Julian is selling several pieces of music history from his personal collection.However, he will keep the physical items as each piece of memorabilia will be sold as a non-fungible token (NFT).
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https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1489013450244337672what could go wrong
Based on a new discovery by Jane Manchun Wong, though, Twitter is working on a new feature that would cater to the needs of those who want to share their thoughts on the website in one lengthy article. Manchun Wong, known for finding experimental features within apps, discovered the existence of a "Twitter Articles" tab. The name itself signifies a long-form format for the social network that has long only allowed people to post bite-sized text messages, but its exact nature is a mystery for now. It's also unclear whether it will be available to everyone, if it does make it to wide release, or if it will be exclusive to Twitter Blue subscribers.
The thinking behind the combination of the telecom giant and movie and TV studio was as follows. AT&T sells lots of phones, and Time Warner has a lot of movies and TV shows. What if… you could watch Time Warner content on your AT&T phone? For some reason, no one involved in the deal admitted you could already do this, and thus the main justification for the deal made no sense. But that was the thinking.At the press roll-out, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson breathlessly argued the deal would let AT&T deliver content on mobile phones, leading to “the next wave of innovation in converging media and communications industry.” This Epcot-style fake futurism of stuff that was already commonplace was probably not the rationale for the deal - Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes’s $400 million golden parachute had more to do with it.[...]It’s been three and a half years since the deal closed, and what happened? Just moving away from the antitrust questions for a second, the answer is that it didn’t work out, at all. In fact, this week, AT&T got shellacked by Wall Street because it is cutting its dividend and undoing the merger, splitting off its content arm from its telecommunications service. So by any metric, the merger was a waste of time, money, and creative talent.Of course, when it comes to whether the merger would reduce competition, it’s now clear the deal should have been blocked. To assuage the judge and enforcers, AT&T made many commitments on which it didn’t follow through. CEO Randall Stephenson, in response to government allegations he would raise prices, said “On its face, the premise is absurd.” The claim “literally defies logic to me,” he added. Naturally, AT&T immediately raised prices on DirecTV after the deal closed, which so enraged DOJ lawyers that they began calling the price hikes the “Leon tax.”That’s not the only broken promise. AT&T also made Time Warner content exclusive to its own paywall, which is something it pledged not to do. It said it would add workers, but since the deal was announced until 2020, AT&T reduced employment by 41,000. The firm killed the cheap $15/month deal for pay TV promised in the trial, and sold anime service Crunchyroll to Sony, which helped create an anime streaming monopoly. And the vaunted ability to compete with Google and Facebook didn’t work out.[...]And AT&T-Time Warner is the rule, not the exception. Big mergers rarely work out, even for shareholders. Financial analysts Taiki Morita and Nick Schmitz recently looked at all 268,350 mergers in CompuStat from 2000-2021, and found that “corporate acquirers in the US generally tended to underperform the market. And the bigger the deal, the worse the returns. The firms in the 10th decile generated a -23% premium relative to the market in the subsequent year.” In other words, the government enforcers trying to block the merger had a keener sense of the interests of AT&T shareholders than Judge Leon or the CEO of either AT&T or Time Warner.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jherrerx/status/1488957981547020288 without jobs
