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I have one outstanding order that is already out for delivery. Once I get that, I'm closing my amazon account. I'm done. Buy nothing. Vote with your wallet. Edit: account is closed. get bent Bozos.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

They'll kiss whatever ring they need to kiss. The only moral these people have is "number go up". Fuck this planet.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I don't think these jerks quite understand they ain't gonna shove black folks to the back of the bus again. Of course they wont start by trying that but its on their mind.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If only it were easy to opt out of things like AWS.

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Following in the footsteps of Elon.

[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Oh good another company to not give my money to. I will be saving a lot this year.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Member 10 years ago when tech billionaires sucked up to Democrats

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah... now Trump will give them everything they want as long as they kiss his ass.

[–] McPoops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Closed my account last night. Made my partner close theirs and cancel prime too.

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[–] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Good reminder to cancel my Prime membership. My New Year’s resolution was to not purchase anything from Amazon, and so far I’m nailing it.

[–] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Never heard of the Irish Star before. I went looking for a secondary source. So far CNN and MSNBC are not reporting on this. But interestingly the Washington post is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/10/amazon-removes-black-trans-rights/

[–] cotlovan@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Hahahaha!

Its funny how these corpos were praised when they raised the LGBT colors, back then they were the moral compas of the western societies, now they're "fascist".

Maybe people won't forget that the companies would do anything in order to increase profits. They never cared about anyone rights, else they wouldn't use slave labor in southeast Asia, or Sub-Saharan Africa.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Anyone have a good alternative to AWS S3?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Literally anyone else unless you're a giant business, S3 is super expensive.

I only have experience with on prem, but have heard good things about backblaze.

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[–] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

How do I leave AWS?

I use S3, EC2, SNS (or whatever they call it now), email, cloudfront

I want the same fast servers and CDN. I can probably pay someone else for email and sms services

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[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They have a lot of government contracts for AWS. There's a reason he's kissing Trumps ass. I'm not really sure why he and the rest of them are still involved with the companies at all and not just fucking off with their millions. I'd be somewhere else not dealing with political bullshit.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

I guarantee that we will see calls to repeal the Civil Rights Act if this continues, and comrade it's just getting started.

[–] NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago

Fuck this guy, with his own dildo rocket straight to any assteroid he wants to mine.

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can live without Twitch. Once you leave, you have so much time to do other stuff. Stuff that are so much better than watch other people play games or eat ramen in Tokyo. Go play games yourself and see the world around you with your own eyes. You can also stop ordering useless new stuff. Visit thrift stores or buy second hand online.

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Another reason to buy things directly from the manufacturer rather then from Amazon. It's generally cheaper as well.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is a shame it is always the same companies. I can only boycott them once.

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