On one hand, good. Great!
On the other hand, I live in the United States of Trumpistan. So many nincompoops here would be happy to drive a smoke-belching pickup truck to their office job while China speeds away from us with all their fancy book-learnin’ technology.
They are like a big coal-rolling tractor trailer rumbling past somebody on an e-bike and shaking their finger at you because you could be pedaling right now to save minuscule amounts of energy.
Telling others to conserve is free. They themselves conserving could potentially mean less money!
Maybe he started with 5 or 10 billion dollars left in the company!
Are any of you fine lemmings currently in business school or studying marketing?
I wonder if this whole branding debacle is already actively studied and discussed in academia.
Oh yeah, those darn progressives are always telling people what is OK to stick where and into whom, and freaking out about bathrooms and sports teams. I find their desire for genital checks especially gross.
It’s the conservatives who value individual freedom, privacy, and give each person the liberty to live how they want to, with whoever they want to. Just accepting people as they are without prejudice.
Or maybe I’m completely fucking backwards on that…
The details make the headline come across like “humans who refuse to acknowledge mental heath and emotional needs are at a higher risk of suicide” which tracks, especially from my American point of view. What passes for manliness, at least for some who really care about being traditionally “manly,” is essentially an excuse to act like a child and/or cope while in denial of mental illness.
With some people it seems like a subconscious addiction to self harm. It can be so hard to have compassion for oneself sometimes. At some point you have to give yourself permission to pursue the things that actually make you happy rather than the things you’re supposed to like. (Details vary based on the individual and their local culture)