@claytoncubitt This story never passed even the most basic sniff test. If I were a 2.1 billion dollar restaurant chain and I was losing a lot of money on one of my promotions I would give strong consideration to ending that promotion some time between "Friday" and "filing for bankruptcy".
Any time it feels difficult to do the right thing, to do the moral thing, that's a moment when you can spiritually measure the toxicity of the society you're embedded in. A healthy society would and should make it painless to be good and to speak truth.
@claytoncubitt I read this post immediately after finishing an article on Me Too at the Cannes film fest & French film industry. Mastodon timeline delivers.
A still from the Apple commercial entitled "Crushing," featuring an emoji face being squished by a gigantic hydraulic press. The face is compressed and the eyes are beginning to big out from the pressure.
Maybe it was a bad idea to let three dork billionaires capture humanity's collective online social interactions so they can hire a couple thousand fellow socially-stunted nerds to design and twist dials marked "racism" and "hate" and "confusion" in order to monetize moral rot.
Everything seems pretty new until your late 20s, when you start getting enough experience to notice the reruns and remixes everywhere. By your 40s you can immediately dissect anything into its constituent mood board elements. By your 50s you've seen every trend come and go 3x.
@claytoncubitt Hitting my late forties has really explained why I'd always felt that people in their late forties were so angry and jaundiced about everything