DoctorTYVM @ DoctorTYVM @lemmy.world

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Part of the problem came from the fight for economic dominance during the Cold War. The fight to prove which was better, Capitalism or Communism, made a lot of people go nuts with economic theories

Really, extras have been being replaced for decades with lots of ways. You don't need to fill a stadium with people, just use cut outs. Or CGI in an army instead of paying for a lot of people and costumes. This is the next logical step

Some of his fans will try to defend him and say he's being stupid and you're not supposed to listen to him, ignoring all the people who will.

beef tongue? How does it taste?

That wouldn't surprise me at all. This was the last project that they had in the can with him. Once it's out they can make some structural changes and quietly drop him

How sad life must be for you to be so powerless to affect even your own actions. I'm sorry

Holy racist Batman!

Maybe don't drop hate crime charges?

Kinda fucked that prosecutors are elected at all

You do realize that leaded gas came about because of market pressure right? That people had a choice at the pumps to choose from leaded or unleaded?

One he'll sign up to eat shit for and kiss the ring when Trump wins the nom. Same as the rest of them.

They have no credibility.

Agreed, they needed to have started production like a year ago at least to have a chance to meet that timeline

The good news is the at the last movie did so well that there's a good chance it follows through. kraven not so much

Kraven got pushed back almost a full year, from Oct 6 2023 to Aug 30 2024

At this point my working hypothesis for explaining why these catastrophic events keep getting ignored is that the Eternals etc all happened in an alternate universes.

That is my entire point. Companies only do things that get them money.

Consumers drive markets, companies follow markets. Change how you buy, companies change how they pollute.

Do you know how many cars were purchased in the last year alone? 13.75 million.

You may not be able to afford a car change but millions of other people are. Guess what oil companies see there? Dollar signs. Because the ICE cars make them money. If those 13 million people bought EVs don't you think maybe just maybe the oil companies would change tacts? Or do you think they're cool with their profits going down?

You've spent so much energy absolving yourself of responsibility here. Maybe of we put that energy towards somethingore productive like choosing a meatless meal or looking at government rebates for electric cars or volunteering for an environmental NGO we might see more progress

remaining 26% are used for plastic and other products.

I don't think you read your source. The little figure of the oil drum shows 6/45 gallons goes to other products, including some to pladtics. That's 13% not 26. And it's wrong to say all of that is plastic is hilariously wrong.

You could have saved yourself all that time and math and gone to a single source about how much GHGs come from domestic drivingbin the US. Here it is

The transportation sector is one of the largest contributors to anthropogenic U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

transportation accounted for the largest portion (29%) of total U.S. GHG emissions in 2021.

On-Road Vehicles account for 1,496.4 Tg CO2 equivalent

But maybe you're thinking that the money Americans spend on gas in a year is piddly. After all it's only $562 Billion a year. Pocket change for BP, right?

So do you think that eliminating that many tonnes of CO2 and that many barrels of oil from companies bottom line would have an impact? Maybe just a little itsy Bitsy tiny bit?

Or are you just going to keep pretending that consumer choices don't drive markets and climate change.

Ok, stop buying gasoline then. Because the vast majority of oil is used for fuels. Only a small percentage is used for plastics, like less than 1%. 50% is used for gasoline alone.

Simpler? Imagine if we could reduce oil GHGs by 50%. Just by changing the way consumers drive.

Just stop buying oil? Ok, let me go to the no oil store and buy a new car that doesn't run on gas

You mean an electric car?

There are options for consumers. Some of them cost more right now, others are an investment that pay off later. Buy those and not the polluting option and low and behold the markets change. Why do you think oil companies are starting to diversify more

Crazy. I don't associate Star Wars 1 and Tupac as being from the same era but development of the film started 2 years before Tupac was murdered.

Of course they will. Corporations do not care. They will only do things that make them money. Either because governments threaten to take away their money. Or because markets change and they're no longer making money so they have to change.

We have seen this with so so so many industries over the centuries. Consumers change behaviours and businesses move to fit their needs. If everyone here started eating less meat there would be more investment in plant based ideas. Because they don't care about what the impacts of their company are. They care what you and I are buying.