I’ve been a C-suite executive, and I’ve worked with executives (incl. CEOs) at public companies.

Not only is there often a thermocline of truth that stops “bad” information going up the chain, CEOs more often than not make decisions based on nothing but their own opinions, and they will more than happily discard any information that doesn’t already fit that opinion, and even if negative things do manage to reach them from the other side of the thermocline, they often discount it or explain it away

Your description is basically of a “spherical CEO in a vacuum”, ie. the ideal and abstract version of how corporations should operate. It has very little to do with reality

manul

The joke (?) was the title combined with the picture

Reminds me of this meme

Instructions clear, but grok is still shouting about Hitler.

@[email protected] had it right, and also it’s specifically a derogatory term; the Oxford English Dictionary gives the definition “US English derogatory a contemptuous term for a white person, especially an impoverished white person living in the southern US. Also called poor white”

Exactly.

People seem to think “if I don’t do X, that means nobody does X”

Are we pretending that lots and lots of people aren’t incredibly horny for AI right now?

I had to check, and it looks like at least as far as plastic goes, in Finland it’s sent to two domestic recycling plants, and everything they don’t have the capacity to handle is shipped to Sweden’s Site Zero in Motala (dunno where they go from there.)

But yeah, something like using shredded plastic for road surfacing definitely isn’t what I’d call a sensible way to recycle the material. It’s just adding an extra step before getting to “microplastic endocrine disruptors EVERYWHERE”

the recycling system is broken and often just a complete lie in many places in the world.

In many places in the world, or mainly the US? I keep seeing this claim repeated but usually any proof is just about the US

Fun English facts: “apron” used to be “napron”, but “a napron” was eventually incorrectly split into “an apron”. Same with “adder” which used to be “naddre”, and “umpire” which was “noumpere”

It’s a weird hill to die on

But at least they’re dead

And at least there’s now one(ish) standard instead of N+1