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Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists
  • "The rain didn't get the tiny flecks of wheat out of the cracks" Yet somehow it's clean. Why are you continuing to act like this is comparable to actual paint? You're whining about something that's literally not a deal in the slightest, you really should stop making free propaganda for oil companies

    slight wording edit at the start

  • Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It's clean and ready to rock the solstice
    apnews.com Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It's clean and ready to rock the solstice

    Stonehenge monuments that have stood for thousands of years appear unscathed after climate protesters were arrested for spraying orange paint on them.

    Stonehenge not visibly damaged by protest paint. It's clean and ready to rock the solstice
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    Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists
  • Nobody's first thought when they read "paint" is corn flour that easily washes off. Headlines written like this play these kinds of semantics games with their headlines to drive angry engagement, or even to push a political agenda sometimes. The Guardian seems to run articles critical of the oil industry fairly often so maybe this isn't sinister like that, I'd have to do more research on The Guardian and the article's author to get an idea

  • Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists
  • I am for sure, all the articles I've seen on this have called it paint and it's really disingenuous and frustrating. The way they describe it makes it sound like they took a can of paint and splashed it on the stones. I interpreted it that way at first and got pretty mad, imo there's no good environmental message that's sent by destroying the ruins of long dead civilizations. At least defacing classic European art can be seen as a protest against the colonialist attitudes that led to climate change, Idk how actually effective it is at forcing change but part of me gets some morbid satisfaction from it :3

  • Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists
  • Not misinformation, disinformation. You read the article, yet choose to act like this is comparable to spray paint or something else that won't immediately wash off. This is like getting indignant bc somebody threw a couple eggs at a great pyramid. It's stupid and irrelevant to climate change, but sharing articles where the title says they threw acid instead of eggs is just fucking wrong, and serves no purpose besides discrediting climate activism

    Edit actually this article says nothing about corn flour, sorry for accusing you of ignoring that. That's super shady and shitty on the Guardian's part, a detail that majorly changes how actually harmful this act was

    Double edit you're still acting like they threw actual paint, so nvm my apology. Stop being such a blatant oil shill

  • Stonehenge Sprayed With Orange Paint One Day Before Solstice
  • I mostly agree, but imo classic art is a much more valid target than Stonehenge or other historical sites. Some oil squirted onto cloth by an old white guy who's been dead for 200+ years can be very pretty and can have some historical significance, but their loss isn't anything close to a tragedy. What happened at Stonehenge would be inexcusable imo if it were coated with real paint that couldn't be removed without ruining old carvings and stuff on it, as it is it's just a stupid target. Fuck classic art, if people genuinely care more about preserving doodles made by slave owners than the environment, they should become climate activists to protect their precious art

  • Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder paint by Just Stop Oil activists
  • Not paint, literally orange corn flour that'll wash off with the first rain. Stop spreading disinformation for big oil pls. Idk why they went for this instead of classical art, but acting like this is some terrible evil crime is exactly what oil companies want you to think, they want you to root against people protesting climate change, no matter how tiny their vandalism is in the grand scheme of things

  • Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?
  • What the heck is with all the reactionary libs on lemmy lately? People who blatantly project about how other people are liars who support genocide in the exact same breath that they claim Biden has never supported Israel and call you a fascist for pointing it out. Is this what liberalism actually is or are there just a bunch of zionist assholes on here?

    I'd find it funny but this shit is rally gonna fuck biden over. They're like vegans who think the most effective way to really people is to tell them they're nazis, it just makes a lot of people mad at liberals and less likely to vote for them. I'm really struggling with that myself, every new bit of reactionary bullshit I see from biden, his administration, and his cultish voters makes me want to tell them all to go fuck themselves and never vote Democrat again. I certainly won't after this election, liberals have thoroughly proven the last couple administrations that they're almost as bloodthirsty as republicans when it comes to killing and oppressing minorities (but only people in/from other countries so it's ok)

    Edited for spelling and small addition

  • Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?
  • Uhh actually netanyahu is just waging a normal war, if he wanted to wipe out Palestinians he could've just done so by now! Fascist lefties like you are devaluing the term while unfairly discrediting biden !!!

    There is no genocide in Gaza

  • Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?
  • Don't bother, they and pugjesus are blue MAGA fuckers who will call you a fascist for mentioning that Biden is going above and beyond to directly support genocide. Liberals are reactionary cunts who want genocide and are too embarrassed to admit it, you can tell bc they project just as hard as any reactionary (calling everyone a liar while lying about their support for genocide). If I gave half a shit about my mental health I'd block them all instead of just most of them (:

  • Just a reminder
  • The same, but faster and with a lot more direct support. I'm agreeing with you that AOC isn't a good ally to Palestine, I also don't know of any liberals that are any better. I'm clearly not advocating to vote for Republicans who wanna "finish the job", I'll prob still vote for Biden even, I just hate that almost all Democrat voters and politicians are so desperate to cover up the evil shit being done by the IDF with American weapons, and are convinced acknowledging that will make Biden lose (tbh they might be right, I get the strong feeling most democrats wouldn't vote for Biden if he did anything meaningful to slow down genocide in Gaza)

  • Is it just me or have half the images posted today not loaded at all?

    No matter how long I wait they just don't load. Usually I can see all of them just fine, even if some take longer to load.

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    AI is not rule

    KICK TECH BROS OUT OF 196

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    The better machine learning gets, the more people who think everyone else is an NPC are going to be correct (at least on the internet)

    I'm sure we'll see more and more advanced bot accounts and customer service and the like (assuming it doesn't learn from other ML-made content until it becomes incomprehensible)

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    Wtf is with all the blatant transphobia?

    Edit I'm just gonna delete this soon. I posted it and made most of my comments while angry and looking for blood. yea a lot of cringe stuff got said on that post but I don't think my post is contributing anything to the sub other than anger, and possibly driving people away. Sorry to the people I snapped at, I hope yall have a good night🐕

    The comments are full of people saying transphobic shit and op doubling down on his "making your trans partner feel dysphoric is fine" shit. He'll that pic was a re-upload from one of the mods here. What the fuck!!!! This is fucking 196 why are we out here defending blatant transphobia? People are in there calling trans people karens with a persecution complex, there's tons of defense of treating trans men like shit, "allies" telling trans people they're overreacting, all kinds of inexcusable shit. If this is how lemmy 196 is gonna be I hope this place crashes and burns

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