[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

America's darling Jeff Bezos exploited a flaw in his book suppliers policies to gain an unfair edge on competitors in the early days of Amazon. Best business man ever: give him the key to the city and a dick-shaped rocket ship.

He also got rich daddy and rich friend money to get money for his totally original and non-derivative idea of "selling things online". Maybe that's where this guy went wrong? No rich daddy?

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

WOW, what will the incredible Elon come up with next!? Dude comes up with all the great stuff we should have invented like ~50-100 years ago.

/s

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Have you tried eating dog food to help the shareholders yet?

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

I imagine the discussions in the board room went something along the lines of "holy shit we're screwed... Who can we call to cash out something while we still can?"

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Communism is covert fascism? Why then did fascists round up and kill communists? The two are wholeheartedly opposed to each other.

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

OH SAY CANNN YOUUU SEEEE

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perhaps the whitewashed, watered down MLK would beg to differ. He's been reduced to like three quotes for people to slap on their Facebook profiles; for companies to paste on their messaging in February; to be trotted out once a year like Weekend at Bernie's so people can feel the warm fuzzies inside and ignore actual, real-world racism and violence that is happening right now.

It's like anytime someone mentions anything above a megaphone and a cardboard sign there's always one of you that comes out of the woodwork and is like "MLK... Checkmate 😎". As another commenter said, MLK was not the civil rights movement of his time. The reason he is the poster child for that movement in that era is specifically because his personal convictions about non-violent protest are safe for the system as it is.

Slavery can still exist, albeit in a different form. (Not chattel slavery) Racism can still exist, albeit in different forms. People who are victims of these systems are dismissed out-of-pocket because that's the goal: the system never wanted to change, and by making MLK the summation of "the civil rights movement" in the eye of the public, they infused passivity into the discourse. They tell you to make your signs, and get your megaphones, and write your blog posts because that's what is safe for the system to continue on as it has always been.

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The pitfalls of our current systems preclude us getting to the point of utilizing space to any meaningful extent. Better to forgo the hypothetical Star Trek romanticized fiction and just fix what we have here; then maybe we can think about that stuff.

At this stage, the mere mention of any such possibility is a distraction from the gravity of the situations we face. It's a mere tool to keep the apple cart going, while people are literally dying from our own collective hubris.

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Show me where activitypub actively tracks how much time you've spent looking at content, what content makes you stop scrolling, factors that contribute to you interacting in content, or any demographic information about you, etc.

Privacy is given up on the fediverse when you choose to post such information, (e.g. "I live in Ohio") not actively harvested as a means to craft ads for your eyeballs and sell to whoever has money.

Your comment is akin to "oh you don't like eating spoiled yogurt? And yet, you eat bananas... Curious."

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You could try to find content you enjoy on a community instead of just browsing All... It's a big topic right now so of course you're gonna see a lot of that when you're scanning everything.

I've seen plenty of posts that are original, or are at least as original as they would be on Reddit.

[-] Ruxias@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I'm excited to see what new and interesting features will be implemented that we never could have gotten on Reddit. FOSS (free and open source software) has a history of being an environment where innovation can be fostered, unrestrained by the whims of the market.

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On 6/30/23, UPS and the Teamsters have resumed contract negotiations.

From the press release: "We break our backs working for this company. UPS needs to recognize our sacrifices not just with empty words, calling us ‘essential workers,’ but by putting the pay, benefits, and protections we deserve into a contract,” said Cesar Castro, a part-time UPS Teamster with Local 396 in Los Angeles and a member of the Teamsters National Negotiating Committee. “Every UPS Teamster expects this by July 5 or we will be ready to strike.”

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