No, it’s because those people have a deep mistrust of science and expertise, and using as much oil as possible is tied into some weird, macho, and at times oddly Christian identity, and suggesting that that’s harmful is threatening to them.
Encryption doesn’t help Unicode homoglyph attacks. I can send you encrypted messages all day long from google.com, even though they’re not coming from who you think they are.
Ah yes, so trivial. That must explain why millions of people are doing it and we have perfect privacy online. Who knew perfect privacy was one hackathon away the whole time?
Can we stop acting like work is a competition? People with shittier jobs don’t have a monopoly on complaining. Otherwise, I could say “oh yeah? What about people who worked with asbestos and died? You think welding is hard? What about dying from lung cancer, HMMM?”
Just because your work isn’t as grueling as someone else’s doesn’t mean you don’t get to be unhappy or dissatisfied with it.