Honestly I think it's just people being told what to think and employing zero critical thinking. Dumbass arguments that on the surface seems reasonable initially convince them and then if they're challenged they push back - which frankly is human nature, nobody wants to be wrong. Right wing grifters have broken people's brains and there's no easy route back.
Take the migrants in hotels thing in the UK. "They're putting immigrants up in hotels" on the surface of it I can totally see why that annoys people who are struggling. "Why should they stay in a hotel and I'm getting things tight" is a valid enough question for someone hard up and skipping meals to feed the kids to ask. The agitators use that as a base. The reality is there's a ton of asylum seekers needing housed because the previous government stopped processing them to make it look like the immigration numbers had gone down, turns out putting them in hotels is the cheapest option to clear the backlog.
It's weird, in the UK there was a very popular trans character 30 years ago in one of the biggest soaps. I don't remember there being any intense outcry about it, she was in the show for 15 years. The casting was lacking sensitivity (cis woman cast in the role) but I think it's generally felt the role was sensitively portrayed (any trans folks step in to tell me I'm wrong here).
I see people now getting all worked up about trans people now who liked/ supported the character years ago (it's hard to convey how much these soaps impacted UK life 30 odd years ago, we're talking front page news campaigning to free a jailed character/the Prime Minister making comment on it kinda thing). I'm not commenting that things are better or worse for trans people now, just that this one thing always strikes me as odd.
Also lots of things were common in Germany 80-90 years ago, I'm not sure that justification works at all.
Has his operation gotten any more reliable? I thought about getting some of the powders to put in resin but there were so many stories of people waiting months and then getting ghosted.
Pretty much the single biggest customer they have. I was getting podcast ads a few weeks back about some fund or other pharma companies had started to help British patients because the NHS wouldn't buy their drugs. It sounded pretty desperate.
I don't get why they're pushing it so hard. Like it's costing a fortune, it's clearly half baked, it's not like this is improving the training because there's no feedback, how in the fuck does it make any business sense at all?
Yeah, like I can't disagree, I've spent hours at work producing decidedly shit documentation (that it's just occurred to me I should probably have done in PowerPoint) but equally I don't think I've ever used a WYSIWYG word processor I'd consider good either (or web design program for that matter).
Seems to be totally self inflicted tbh, they've discontinued the Fiesta and Mondeo in recent years, Focus goes at the end of this year and replaced them with an SUV/Crossover lineup named after old models that in no way reflect the old models they're named after. (Puma has become Fiesta crossover, don't even start me on the Capri)
They always used to punch above their weight in terms of value, were reasonably cheap to maintain and pretty solid cars. If there was a Mondeo estate in the lineup I'd literally go buy one this weekend.
From a practical standpoint (whether or not kids think this way) those $3-4 ones are mostly shit, the $6-10 dollar ones are more what you'd want to be using, you'd want at least 2 or 3 in case they run out when you're out and about and you'll need a charger too. The refillable tanks on that site (at a glance) use premade coil cartridge things that need replaced (though you'll probably get a week or more out of them) $12+ for a pack of those and the juice isn't free either.
I'm not pro Nintendo by any stretch, however in this particular case the guy seems to have been intent on speedrunning stupid any %. Ignored a cease and desist and then decided he'd defend himself in court. I sympathise to a point, but if a notoriously litigious games company asks you to stop, probably stop.
Honestly I think it's just people being told what to think and employing zero critical thinking. Dumbass arguments that on the surface seems reasonable initially convince them and then if they're challenged they push back - which frankly is human nature, nobody wants to be wrong. Right wing grifters have broken people's brains and there's no easy route back.
Take the migrants in hotels thing in the UK. "They're putting immigrants up in hotels" on the surface of it I can totally see why that annoys people who are struggling. "Why should they stay in a hotel and I'm getting things tight" is a valid enough question for someone hard up and skipping meals to feed the kids to ask. The agitators use that as a base. The reality is there's a ton of asylum seekers needing housed because the previous government stopped processing them to make it look like the immigration numbers had gone down, turns out putting them in hotels is the cheapest option to clear the backlog.
I could rant for hours. It pisses me off no end.