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DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

Yes, and when FC was written we had figured out how bad just pouring oil out was for the water table. I'm saying that the author may have been referencing the real PS tips that were severely outdated, when he made up this prank in FC.

Also, I'm pretty sure oil can still kill things, lead in the gas and paint notwithstanding.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Yes, I've read most of not all of Chuck Palahniuk's novels. This isn't in the novel.

    This is the late 90s/early 2000s Hollywood toxic masculinity version of a line from the book (I looked just now):

    For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

    So, when the movie was made, it struck a hard nerve with Douchbag guys who totally didn't get the point of the movie. In that vein, the era of late 1990s environmentalism came up against newly forming toxic male tropes. Prior to 9/11, even. After that, time changed dramatically, leaning towards the toxic masculinity side. What you're seeing is the seeds of this like rolling coal.

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