Chloé 🥕

versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes

you’d be disappointed… we still consume a lot of american media in quebec. more and more untranslated, too

of course, this is just my experience, not a study, not sure how it compares to english canada either tbh

we’d probably consume more quebec media if less of it fucking sucked lol

with the liberals trying to pass shit like bill C-2, frankly, i wouldn’t be surprised if they started to subsidize gardaworld instead

i remember when they announced that tumblr would be migrating to wordpress for the backend, and both tumblr and wordpress engineers said in unison “this is a terrible idea”

my point is that the narrative is being used to justify war with Iran: “we need to attack them harder before they get their revenge!”

by talking about “Iranian terrorists” as if that’s an actual threat, the media is contributing to that justification for war

ah, so the liberal media has already fully accepted the “Iranian terrorists are coming to kill us all!!!” narrative, huh

tbh, the real reason to use paper straws instead of plastic is that they’re much more biodegradable, not so much the CO2 use. we should use way less plastic in general, imo

and it bears mentioning that the CO2 released by private jets still pales in comparison to what the airline industry produces; the average global northerner’s overseas holiday is still very destructive for the environment (tho obviously not as much as a rich fuck using a private jet)

according to this wiki article, over its lifetime a plastic straw will release 1,46 grams of CO2, while a paper straw will release 1,38 grams of CO2. that’s a saving of 0,08 grams.

and according to this article, a private jet releases 4,9 kilograms of CO2 per mile.

so: assuming you are using one straw per day, a year of using paper straws instead of plastic straws offsets about 0,006 miles of one private jet, or a bit more than 10 meters.

that’s fun.

this reminds me of the Hippocratic License, which comes with a bunch of modules restricting the use of software based on ethical considerations (for example, there’s a module forbidding the use by police, and another one forbidding the use by any institution on the BDS list)

i think the FSF, in their eternal and unchallengeable wisdom (/s), also declared that it wasn’t foss