No, Cadbury Hasn’t ‘Removed Easter’ From Easter Eggs.
No one's removing the word "Easter" from packaging, chocolate eggs have nothing to do with Christianity in any case, and some very sinister groups are trying to convince us all that Muslims are offended by much loved British traditions and trying to get them banned.
https://monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-cadbury-hasnt-removed-easter-from
But yes, in conclusion everyone's life would be better if we understood that everything new isn't a threat.
Except with software. Then it probably is.
@afewbugs I remember a while back that there was similar fuss because sainsbury’s and a few others switched to a different sort of packaging for minced beef. (Softer plastic so presumably less waste.)
People were calling it disgusting and unnatural. Idk, if you’re uncomfortable with meat I can sympathise but I don’t think it’s the packaging to blame here.
@afewbugs I once had a train seat across from a table of white middle aged men who were chatting loudly and I was like "aw man here we go" but they got talking about women's football and all agreed that they preferred it to the men's because the quality of play was so much higher.
It's nice when people don't live down to stereotypes. :)
they were still talking too loudly.
@afewbugs TIL mithering. I like it.
But yes that. It’s an extra thing. You might like it. Or not, then simply keep watching the old thing that nobody took away.
@afewbugs I had a boss who was a huge women’s ‘soccer’ fan, and preferred it to the men’s.
“Well, they’re easier on the eyes, aren’t they?” he said.
I felt the reverse, of course, but I couldn’t really argue the principle involved. 😇
@wav3ydave @afewbugs And, as I'm watching Andor S1 again in preparation for watching S2, I'm reminded of the quote, "The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it..." When people are being engineered into a state of perpetual outrage, they aren't paying attention to the grift and how the 1% are hoovering up all the resources despite having most of them already. Never mind the insider dealing, WHAT ABOUT THE EASTER EGGS?
This is why education is the enemy of fascism.
@ravenbait @wav3ydave @afewbugs Very funny thing there... My LinkedIn feed looks a lot like my Fediverse feed, if very slightly more narrowly focused. Despite the majority of my LinkedIn connections being people I've worked with, what I see there are anti-genocide and anti-fascist posts, public health posts. Only rarely anything else.
Here I get to see more animals and crafts, more technology and geekiness. More general fun in addition to entirely reasonable reactions of horror. But a quick glance shows that the algorithm there isn't wildly far off of my self-selection here, despite the connections there being significantly more numerous.
I'm far happier here. I feel like I can be myself more.
@mason @wav3ydave @afewbugs I can't really comment on LinkedIn. I pay zero attention to it. I surmise there's more of a requirement to seem professional and consider what potential future employers might think, whereas other places might be a bit more like being angry down the pub.
I wish we could get people in those other places to think, "If I read this in the Sun, would I believe it?" Random Internet Person is the modern Sunday Sport.
I agree that it's much nicer here.
@ravenbait @wav3ydave @afewbugs There's definitely a concern with LinkedIn about what employers might think, but I'd come to the "do you know what you world have done during the Holocaust?" realization and it made it hard to burble on about how great everything is, and I skewed from the environmental and technology stuff I'd post before to posting about the genocide and the attack on DEI and ICE crimes and so forth.
I moderate what I say and never boost attacks, never make blanket condemnations, but I post some uncomfortable stuff there. I'm sure I've limited career options, but my soul feels easy -I'm definitely trying to be part of the solution. And I don't want to work for a place that can look at some of the stuff that's happening, shrug, and go back to planning quarterly growth strategy.
(I post about doughnut economics sometimes, re: quarterly growth and the popular illusion that endless economic growth is somehow allowed by the laws of physics.)
@mason On economics, I've been reading up on the Growth Duty in the UK lately, and the UK government guidance requires regulators to take into account medium and long-term growth. They have redefined "sustainable economic growth":
"‘Sustainable economic growth’ ensures that current-day economic growth can be achieved without undermining the ability of future growth."
Which is not what the UN says at all, even though they refer to this.
@mason It does my head in that government thinks there's a magic spell that will mean we can continue getting more and more STUFF and people will get more and more MONEY, and the proper measure of how well a country is doing is how much is in the bank account, not "are people fed and safe and happy?" or "are we adequately balancing the needs of nature and biodiversity with the population having enough?"
@ravenbait @wav3ydave @afewbugs It's easier to understand the attitudes and behaviours of folks who believe in limitless growth if we think of it in one of two (not mutually exclusive) frames:
1. It's religion, and they are taught not to question.
2. They're aware but selfish, and it doesn't need to be sustainable as long as "I got mine".
@mason @wav3ydave @afewbugs For non-UK persons, the Sunday Sport was the tabloid of all tabloid presses. It was more like the National Tattler from Red Dragon than anything resembling a proper newspaper. You can see some of the "fun" headlines here (not my flickr account):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62440303@N04/albums/72157626637970276/
When Sunday Sport returns to newsagents across Britain on May 8, you can expect plenty more amazing headlines such as this classic. The paper will boast even more topless babes, outrageous headlines, topless babes, shocking true-life stories, topless babes, sport, puzzles, topless babes, monkeys, frankly less-than-respectful headlines for celebrity deaths, some more monkeys, topless babes, amusing foreigners, topless babes…and some news, probably. There’ll also be some women in it. Without their vests on. Sunday Sport on Facebook - www.facebook.com/sundaysport Sunday Sport on Twitter - www.twitter.com/thesundaysport
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So hard to know how much of this faux outrage is engineered.
Given events in the US: a lot.
How does anyone live in the US or the UK as a Christian and manage to feel oppressed?
I say this as a Christian.
But then they think that the oppression is going to be something oblique and subtile? Which only shows a total lack of imagination or experience with religious oppression.
Which is happening now to Muslims and to Jewish people in both the US and UK.
Meanwhile I can start talking about Jesus at any moment and nobody cares.
@futurebird @afewbugs it's not really 'people' it's a very established, well funded, right wing press that constantly churns out flimsy outrage stories like this and has done for decades.
Don't think anyone would independently come up with this idea themselves.
Edit: specific example I remember was 'left wing councils are cancelling Christmas' in the mid to late '90s. Found it on wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterval
@catch56 @futurebird @afewbugs of course, in the UK, despite our King being head of the Church of England as well as head of state and Anglican bishops still voting in the House of Lords, as of our last census Christians are actually a (very much not persecuted) minority in England and Wales (46%) and those of no religion are a majority in Scotland (51%). This compares with 74% professed Christians in the (constitutionally non-religious) USA.
Time we disestablished the Church of England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom
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