TerkErJerbs

@TerkErJerbs@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash Partners with Klarna for Deferred Payments—in Case You Need a Loan to Pay for Your Burrito⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Walmart also partnered with Klarna if that means anything to folks reading this. I’ve seen for years companies like Affirm (AFRM) being backed heavily by Shopify (they have exclusive deals at this point and AFRM is one of Klarna’s direct competitors). The BNPL universe is coming for everything, including basic necessities like food now I guess. Affirm is also close with Amazon.

  If you turn it on its side it’s a tunnel.

  • …yahoo.com/…/walmart-klarna-deal-impacts-affirm-1… (to be clear I’m linking to a financial jargon article to illustrate how fucking insane it is to offer BNPL (buy-now-pay-later) services for any level of retail, not just food delivery like Doordash ffs)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do spiders poop ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody poops

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look up how IBM, Coca Cola and Volkswagen (among many, many other companies that are very much still established to this day) got their boom-times during WW2 by supporting both the allies and the fash at the same time. They profited from everything that happened, in every way, and continue to do so.

  Fascism is good for business, so to speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brian Thompson and his co-workers murder hundreds of thousands of people with systematic neglect, spreadsheets, and lawyers. They murder in broad daylight, during business hours. And yet they’re comfortable, well paid, successful people who will never see a day in jail. What they’re doing isn’t even considered a crime.

  I hope he doesn’t get caught, also. Because the same laws that protect those fucking ghouls will crush him for bringing attention to the grift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jaimie Johnson who filmed the documentary [Born Rich](en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Rich_(2003_film) (and its sequel) pissed off enough of his family and peers that he was almost thrown out of high society for exposing its underbelly. He also lives a pretty normal life echewing his family fortune which is pretty dope. Might be along the lines of what you’re looking for. Good films either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone on this thread who doesn’t know who Ken Klip is, please check out his free Substack (and subscribe if you can). I wasn’t on Twitter very long (maybe 1.5 years before Elmong took over) but one of the people I value that I ran into on that platform is Ken Klippenstein and I’ve been following him since. He’s amazing at filing thousands of FOIA requests and doing the digging into them that no mainstream journalist does anymore. He also recently quit The Intercept because they were enshittifying far more than he was comfortable with, which for a writer is a huge thing to leave the umbrella of a company like that and a paycheck behind. Writers going out on their own in this climate is the only way we’ll stay even remotely unfucked in the post-information (or misinformation) age.

  Klip fuckin rules. Please give him some due.