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[–] 20 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Makes sense, but why not also include ads for alcohol?

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Why not ban all advertising. It's all a waste of energy.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Many companies like websites, tv, radio, etc. depend on the revenues from advertisers to pay their workers and expenses. If they didn't have that, everything would likely turn to susbscription or a regular pleading for money so they could continue.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    If companies need advertisements to inform potential customers, let them do that in an appropriate place. For instance, an adds booklet.
    Allowing companies to use the public space to advertise is not in the interest of the populace: it stimulates overconsumption and it creates distracting stimuli in an environment that is already very busy. It also facilitates unfair competition when advertising space is sold to the highest bidder, since company wealth supersedes product quality or utility.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago*

    cool, so they should still ban ads entirely. it's a waste

    while their at it, also ban a lot of the bullshit they put on products too.. zero sugar you claim? why is number 3 on the ingredient list... sugar? ohhh that's right, you manipulated the serving size so math stoically there's 0% sugar... but it's a lie so ya know...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    There are already some nationwide restrictions on ads for alcohol, though not (yet) a complete ban.

    I guess it wasn't part of this specific initiative, since it was aimed at carbon-polluting industries, whereas alcohol is a different type of problem.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Finally someone broke this barrier! Who’s next?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    There go my dreams of opening a combination burger joint / gas station in the red light district

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  • 9 comments in c/vegan@slrpnk.net view that post
    [–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

    I don’t think it’s normal to see murdered animals on billboards.

    greensicko-laser

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Is "greensicko-laser" a placeholder/alt text for an image? It looks like you just say greensicko-laser and I have no clue what that means

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yes, it’s an image/emoji. Trying to view the post from slrpnk it seems most of the images aren’t loading and I can’t tell if that’s a temporary thing, or if Anubis is unhappy with me, or if in addition to that issue you’re using a screen reader.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    No screen reader, and no clue why, it happens often, though many times it's just a delay, this time nothing seems to happen to load it..

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Looking at the source text, the URL has a triple image proxy. From slrpnk to lemmy.ml to lemmygrad.ml to hexbear.net. The actual image URL is

    https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1ceffa01-463e-46e2-8a88-ff68ffb8baa7.png

    I don't know the technical details behind it, but I wouldn't expect the image being proxied three times to work well. Maybe slrpnk has defederated from one of them and that breaks the chain?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago

    I’ve had issues in the past when the pictrs server most recently proxied from is struggling, but usually the number of proxies shouldn’t matter because each pictrs server caches the image, so slrpnk requests should have only gone to lemmy.ml to populate the local cache, but not beyond because ml has already cached all the images from grad.

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  • 1 comment in c/vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone view that post
    [–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago

    I don’t think it’s normal to see murdered animals on billboards.

    greensicko-laser

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  • 1 comment in c/veganism@lemmy.ca view that post
    [–] [S] 0 points 6 months ago

    I don’t think it’s normal to see murdered animals on billboards.

    greensicko-laser

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