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  #3481066 15-Apr-2026 16:09
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Geektastic:

 

Greenwashing and virtue signalling on product packaging. 

 

I don’t care who made it, where it was made, how much you paid them, what race or religion they were etc etc. 

 

 

 

Particularly it annoys me when it’s there as an irrelevant statement like something not harming orangutans. This I found on a product that contains zero ingredients from Sumatra or Borneo. 


 

By that yardstick, German beer should have the same marketing logo!

 

 

 

 

In the AirNZ lounge you can't have a takeaway coffee because of packaging waste. So instead of carrying your coffee onto the plane in a takeaway cup you drink half of it and discard half in the lounge. Then on the plane you have another coffee in a  ... disposable takeaway cup.

 

AirNZ must be the most virtue signaling corporate in NZ.

 

 


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  #3481133 15-Apr-2026 17:14
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Geektastic:

 

Greenwashing and virtue signalling on product packaging. 

 

I don’t care who made it, where it was made, how much you paid them, what race or religion they were etc etc. 

 

 

 

Particularly it annoys me when it’s there as an irrelevant statement like something not harming orangutans. This I found on a product that contains zero ingredients from Sumatra or Borneo. 


 

By that yardstick, German beer should have the same marketing logo!

 

 

I feel like I must have mentioned the "plant-based" tomato sauce in this thread at some point...


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  #3481138 15-Apr-2026 18:01
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gzt: People complaining about the mainstream media weather forecast. I mean get realistic.. feel free to rely on Alex Jones or point to someone that gets it right every time..

 

 

 

The Met service has put out 6 orange or red weather warnings for Rotorua and not one has happened, its getting to the boy who cried wolf stage 





Common sense is not as common as you think.


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  #3481139 15-Apr-2026 18:01
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Geektastic: Particularly it annoys me when it’s there as an irrelevant statement like something not harming orangutans. This I found on a product that contains zero ingredients from Sumatra or Borneo.

Many food items contain palm oil which is the thing usually held responsible for orangutan habitat destruction in those areas. Maybe this is a marketing angle for a product without palm oil when it's competitors are using it.

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  #3481154 15-Apr-2026 19:19
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vexxxboy:

 

gzt: People complaining about the mainstream media weather forecast. I mean get realistic.. feel free to rely on Alex Jones or point to someone that gets it right every time..

 

 

 

The Met service has put out 6 orange or red weather warnings for Rotorua and not one has happened, its getting to the boy who cried wolf stage 

 

 

due to cyclone Gabrielle and the lack of warnings there which resulted in widespread damage they have gone the other direction. better to have one and not need it than need it and not have it in terms of support/warning before the "incident"

 

 


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