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Less time spent to do laundry shopping. And who knows, there might still be some soul working at facebook who really believe they are building a better world.
by dvhh 6y ago
Less time spent to do laundry shopping.
And who knows, there might still be some soul working at facebook who really believe they are building a better world.
- leesec 6y agoshould someone who works on a cement tugboat have to believe they are building a better world. or can they just do their job?
- piva00 6y agoThey can just have a job. Now if you work on the tobacco industry, knowing full well the bad side-effects of tobacco consumption and keep working on it then you don't have any morals.
- leesec 6y agoLinking cement production to global warming issues is at least as strong a connection and similar scale as linking Facebook to whatever bad thing you think they're doing, which is to say, a very vague one.
- obscoth 6y agoCement releases a shitload of CO2. In what world is that a vague link? It’s literally the definition of the issue.
- piva00 6y agoCement production is not a vague link to climate change. [0] > In 2016, world cement production generated around 2.2 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to 8% of the global total. More than half of that came from the calcination process. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844
- obscoth 6y agoSo then Facebook engineers aren’t very bright, or are incredibly deluded. Either would explain some of the behavior we see.