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Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[-] sour@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

thumbnail ._.

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The image that appears for this story is a woman's vagina, which is... certainly... influential.

[-] fry@fry.gs 1 points 1 year ago

Yea, there's definitely some weird bug for some of the users. I just see the normal image from the article. I tried on lemm.ee and also just see the normal image.

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[-] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

"an advertisement for the oil giant Shell’s fuel rewards program."

THE FUCKING HORROR. LET'S BURN THEM ALIVE!

[-] Yendor@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Oil companies (via “independent film makers”) have been paying influencers to shit on Tesla, ever since Tesla became a viable threat to big oil and legacy auto. Nothing new here.

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

And tesla shits on public transport...

Btw its to late to save big oil, EU already stated that all new cars from 2030 on can't be Combustion Engine powered.

[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Big oil already has massive investments in lithium. Big oil is already ready to transition to big lithium, they're just squeezing out the last bits of cash they can in oil.

Did anyone think that as EVs became popular that industrial giants like ExxonMobil would just disappear? No, big oil is already positioned to be with us another 100+ years as they strip mine the planet for lithium.

Mass transit is what was always needed, but there's little to no profit there. With EVs, it's just the same song and dance as oil but with batteries this time.

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Nobody told them that lithium batteries aren't that future proof...

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