Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft workers have all pledged to strike on 9/20

[artsandsci]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwxk4/while-apple-is-launching-an-iphone-its-largest-competitors-are-going-on-a-climate-strike

[derrick_jensen]

I find it funny that this climate strike is happening the same day as the Area 51 raid, wonder if its some sort of diversion

[bdcravens]

Easily fixed: declare those days company holidays (it's a Friday anyways, when productivity tends to drop about 33%)

[pysxul]

Might be a dumb question but Google is supposed to have a carbon neutral footprint no?

[jsty → pysxul]

Yes: 100% renewable energy consumption, and carbon neutral since 2007

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.c...

(No connection to Google, I just remembered looking this up once before)

[aalleavitch]

Bad look for Apple here

[pixelbath → aalleavitch]

Is it though? Even the article itself goes to some length (almost half the article) to explain how Apple's already launching numerous envronmentally-friendly initiatives, and there's the free "iPhone 11 coming out on Sept. 20" plug from Vice.

Worded slightly differently, this article could have been an Apple press release.

[md2be]

Number of people who strike will be larger than the number of customers who care

[Phillips126 → md2be]

Sad but true... May receive a tiny bit of media attention but I don't expect anything to come out of it.