I guess they’re better than horse chestnuts.

One thing I think people miss when political donations by company are listed like this is that it’s not the company itself making donations, it’s their individual employees.

Ever made a political donation? Remember when it asked for your employer on the form? Well this figure is from people who put IBM there on their form.

So when you read a stat like this that tells you one company overwhelmingly donated one way or the other, it’s really telling you nothing about the company itself, and more about the employees who work there - primarily the low level employees, who likely vastly outnumber everyone else.

Similarly, it means nothing as far as corruption is concerned when you look into a specific candidate’s political donations and see that, for example, oil companies overwhelmingly donated to them. It doesn’t mean oil companies literally donated to them, it means people who work at oil companies did.

It might be useful for gauging a company’s general culture, but even then I’d be cautious since the bulk of political donations for most companies is probably dominated by their low level employees.

Are you thinking of Snowden?

That doesn’t sound complicated at all

Mark Rober for me, seems like he wants to be Mr. Beast Lite or something lately.

Not to mention released the next day, and reportedly in good health and high spirits since. Like, talk about best possible outcome.

Sure, but it’s still a lot more reliable than something like the amazon review section, or a lengthy AI-generated article comparing the two products you just happened to google together that somehow manages to say nothing at all.

Honestly, I still just google for relevant reddit threads. Lemmy’s the only place I actively participate in, but this is one of the use cases it hasn’t been able to replace reddit for for me either yet.

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My attempt - it got there in the end at least

For those looking for the amazon link

$1000 to someone with $100,000 is like $1,000,000 to someone with $100,000,000. To make your point you’d have to do it backwards: $1000 to someone with $100,000,000 is like $1 to someone with $100,000.

Hi, this is Andy here, the Founder/CEO of Proton. As former scientists, we don’t do what we’re doing to make the most money (otherwise we wouldn’t have picked science as a profession). There’s no price which we would sell Proton to Google or Facebook. We also don’t need to because thanks to the strong support of the community, Proton has the resources to thrive and grow as an independent organization. Safeguarding this independence is how we ensure that over the long term, we can always put user interest above all else.

-Protonmail Founder, 2 years ago, for what it’s worth.

Just so we’re clear, which half was the good half?

What’s the joke in this one?

People are more than isolated tweets. He’s a man who’s made hundreds of public statements on climate change in the past, only one of which is contained in this tweet.

It’s a reference to the “Man in the Moon”. They, the Zorks, see a Zork in the Earth because their bodies are shaped kinda like the Americas.

And on top of that, they’re predictable hundreds of years in advance. We’ve known exactly when and where this eclipse was going to happen since before her grandparents were born. But somehow it’s a bad omen.

Do you have a good example of a story which doesn’t fall into this trope at all? One which perfectly encapsulates not doing this?

Bringing Harry Potter into this, the fact that they showed they do know how to do this, when Dumbledore and Voldemort fought in the 5th movie, makes it all the more annoying that almost every other fight in the series was just shooting blasts and energy beams at each other