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Comment · 2 years ago
because it's not? revenue was reduced a ton by the 2017 tax scam. The number one sign of a weak nation state is the inability to collect taxes from their elites.
Comment · 6 years ago
I am a pressure cooker proselytizer. Seriously, they can cook dehydrated beans in 35 minutes-no soaking required.

However, rice does poorly with my model. The grains are too small and can become lodged in the safety features.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is a terrifying weapon to me, because it's specifically designed to destroy only the people and organic life so the infrastructure can be reused.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's the classic conservative response, well you have a choice to go work somewhere else. That's not really the point.

You conveniently ignore that these workers have a right to organize, and it's illegal for Amazon to say they can't. Just like they have a choice to go work somewhere else, they should also have the ability to organize. Sounds like the free market at work to me, if they would have treated them better maybe they wouldn't have organized.

Also sounds like a cynical position to take given the company's strategy of opening warehouses in poorer southern cities like Memphis.

Also anti-trust law does deem what they do with search unethical.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is a classist argument. Labor, blue collar, lower middle class people have just of much right to better wages, conditions, treatment, as a tech worker or anyone else. In fact bargaining power is the only way employees can have somewhat of a say in any sort of negotiation with their employers, without it it's a completely one sided relationship.

Other than getting packages faster, what innovations are working class warehouse employees producing? The innovation of putting boxes together at blazing speed with no bathroom breaks in a poorly climate controlled environment?

How could outsourcing a horizontally consolidated logistics empire be cheaper than upping conditions by a bit? Unions on average only cost about 10% more than a non-organized operation. That cost could be sent to the consumer or taken from revenue, by selling shares, whatever.

Anything that goes against the status quo of unfettered greed, cold profit is all that matters attitude makes sense for the business. But part of why Americans enjoy such labor safety, higher pay, employer health care, etc is because of organized labor. Class consolidation is the best outcome for the most people and there are laws that facilitate it being broken by Amazon, in firing organizers.

It's not just their warehouse workers they treat like garbage either, they steal successful products on their page and drop the original company from their listings and showing up in search. They charge a kickback just to rank in the search, etc, etc.

Bezos is a very clever successful sociopath in my opinion.

Comment · 6 years ago
I broke my phone and bought a cheap burner phone, it was 20 dollars and honestly I'm not sure I'll ever buy a nice phone again. It's 720/1gig of RAM but it's only a mild annoyance, it's just as good as my old expensive one.

Anyway it came preinstalled with FB and I'm wondering now if, even though I deactivated it, it spies.

That's for sure why the phone was for sale at that price, it's subsidized with lots of bloat ware

Comment · 6 years ago
can confirm but I use latex or nitrile disposable gloves. they def stay warm but also your fingers will wrinkle from the sweat.
Comment · 6 years ago
I agree, Samsung doesn't deserve our money. I boycotted Samsung after they destroyed my perfectly good Galaxy s5 with software updates. Sadly, the Pixel I got next wasn't much better.

They dominate certain RAM markets though, and that's kind of unfortunate.

Comment · 6 years ago
the movie where he doesn't know how to use the 3 seashells?
Comment · 7 years ago
I've heard they grow the same strains but harvest very early. Additionally, there are strains that have been bred to only have CBD. So both are correct.
Comment · 7 years ago
ad nauseum Firefox clicks ads already, to pay the person advertising. and you never see them. it's great in mobile too
Comment · 7 years ago
discord is really advanced Iove it you can do group video chat
Comment · 7 years ago
I guess I see why it's controversial but that is a bodacious looking patch.
Comment · 7 years ago
The average central A/C will use 4000 to 5000 watts. I own the cheapest smallest window unit at the store and I just checked it's about 600W (4.8 amps @ 120V).

It's not horrible, but that's like half a space heater and most people spring for something bigger.

Comment · 7 years ago
F11 is full screen unless I'm missing something? It has been better than chrome in full screen for a while now bc if the floating Omni bar

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