@Kelporama@laurieallee I mean, to be fair, you can have an allergy to WATER—it’s literally impossible to make a truly fully hypo-allergenic substance for everyone
@RunaTheRed @turnabouttess@shaun_vids And like if anything the wild racist af conspiracy theories hatched by both that some foreign criminal is waiting in a parking lot for hours in the blazing heat to snatch suburban women into sex slavery instead of it mostly being the known exploited is the same shit
@RunaTheRed @turnabouttess@shaun_vids I mean, I believe the same thing about men who pump information about guns and “city crime” and right wing media garbage and post-apocalypse fantasies into their brain 24/7
We said climate change is a hoax, we pushed conspiracy theories demonizing climate scientists, we insisted that more intense storms and higher floods coming more frequently was just random weather or not real, so why won't insurance companies cover property there, I don't get it.
A UPS driver has died in Texas after collapsing on a sweltering day with a 108° heat index.
Chris Begley had been with UPS for 28 years and was getting ready to retire soon, his family said.
UPS Teamsters just won AC in trucks after years of refusals by management.
One of the things about “just Google it” or “do your own research” (no shade or shaming anyone, I’ve done it often) is that the lack of media literacy means people don’t have fully developed research skills nor the practiced discernment to separate out quality information.
@jacksonvoss Also some of it is just plain being in-informed, forgetful, etc. You can directly speak it to someone’s face and a certain amount of the public is going to forget it immediately.
@allegoriest Like jfc my Mom had bright red hair her whole life and I didn’t, but nobody thought she was my nanny or called the cops on us because they thought she was snatching me or something 🥴
Perhaps it was a mistake for them to have proudly and publicly declared they didn’t need American writers / actors because they could just use people in other countries for less
WGA & SAG: “We would like to know how well the shows we work on are doing.”
AMPTP: “Of course! Oh my God, yes! We will allow you to send one tribute every year. They will be given numbers by two men: One always lies and the other always tells the truth. They both speak backward”