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Former arsonists, industrial polluters lead new push to fix climate change.

codespin 4y ago
That's a thought provoking way to put it. Part of the problem is however that only internal employees fully understand the destruction that was going on.
- RodgerTheGreat 4y ago
  Intimate familiarity with how you started a fire doesn't necessarily correlate with the skills to put it out.
  - apengwin 4y ago
    sure but in general i feel like it would help a lot
  - afro88 4y ago
    ... But can help others put it out. "It's a chemical fire" leads to people putting it out with a radically different substance.
  - tedk-42 4y ago
    It's always funny to see how defensive people get about criticism. More that likely this 'fix' for social media will either fail or just end up being another social media platform with the aim of attracting engagement and selling user data / screen time for ad space.
- upsidesinclude 4y ago
  Only former employees were fully complicit. Anyone with a critical view of these organizations has seen exactly the extent of the harm. The endless news releases should be an adequate trail to follow. People, at large, have chosen to ignore all the unbelievable actions so they can continue to stalk others online -cough cough- I mean, keep in touch with grandma.
baby 4y ago
I hate this types of comments because as an ex-fb I did care deeply about communication tools and social networks.
- olliej 4y ago
  It doesn’t matter how much you care about those if your business model is still just to stoke extremism. If I come across someone that has Fb on their resume I’m going to be considering the period of their tenure in my assessment of their character.
  - tomnipotent 4y ago
    So your answer to extremism is more extremism? Maybe the thing you should be taking away from Facebook in their resume, is that they're no longer working there. There's nothing to be gained from crapping on ex-Facebook employees that doesn't seem to boil down to ego-stroking and making sure people know how high your moral horse is.
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    - olliej 4y ago
      No, I'm going to look at the period of their tenure - if they made the choice to go to Fb when it was well clear what it was, that's on them - if they started before and then left once it became clear that would be a positive. All in all, if you choose to work for a shitty company, or doing shitty things, you should assume people will use that as part of their opinion of you. I do not get how that becomes any extremism of any kind - that's just standard outcome of reading someone's resume?
      - baby 4y ago
        And if you write comments like this, you should assume some people are going to think your a judgmental and closed minded person
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nowherebeen 4y ago
Yep and they are using the money earned from it to fund their project (and possibly get rich again in the process). It's blood money.
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That's a thought provoking way to put it. Part of the problem is however that only internal employees fully understand the destruction that was going on.

RodgerTheGreat 4y ago
Intimate familiarity with how you started a fire doesn't necessarily correlate with the skills to put it out.
- apengwin 4y ago
  sure but in general i feel like it would help a lot
- afro88 4y ago
  ... But can help others put it out. "It's a chemical fire" leads to people putting it out with a radically different substance.
- tedk-42 4y ago
  It's always funny to see how defensive people get about criticism. More that likely this 'fix' for social media will either fail or just end up being another social media platform with the aim of attracting engagement and selling user data / screen time for ad space.
upsidesinclude 4y ago
Only former employees were fully complicit. Anyone with a critical view of these organizations has seen exactly the extent of the harm. The endless news releases should be an adequate trail to follow. People, at large, have chosen to ignore all the unbelievable actions so they can continue to stalk others online -cough cough- I mean, keep in touch with grandma.

baby 4y ago

I hate this types of comments because as an ex-fb I did care deeply about communication tools and social networks.

olliej 4y ago
It doesn’t matter how much you care about those if your business model is still just to stoke extremism. If I come across someone that has Fb on their resume I’m going to be considering the period of their tenure in my assessment of their character.
- tomnipotent 4y ago
  So your answer to extremism is more extremism? Maybe the thing you should be taking away from Facebook in their resume, is that they're no longer working there. There's nothing to be gained from crapping on ex-Facebook employees that doesn't seem to boil down to ego-stroking and making sure people know how high your moral horse is.
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  - olliej 4y ago
    No, I'm going to look at the period of their tenure - if they made the choice to go to Fb when it was well clear what it was, that's on them - if they started before and then left once it became clear that would be a positive. All in all, if you choose to work for a shitty company, or doing shitty things, you should assume people will use that as part of their opinion of you. I do not get how that becomes any extremism of any kind - that's just standard outcome of reading someone's resume?
    - baby 4y ago
      And if you write comments like this, you should assume some people are going to think your a judgmental and closed minded person
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nowherebeen 4y ago

Yep and they are using the money earned from it to fund their project (and possibly get rich again in the process). It's blood money.

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