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- Comment on Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up 17 hours ago:
Remember when Visa and Mastercard made a big deal defending the right to buy guns on their platform? …yahoo.com/…/visa-won-t-block-gun-180848343.html
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 weeks ago:
The amount of power shareholders hold over every major (American) enterprise isn’t talked about in a way that presents a clear problem between increasingly expensive and shitty services, layoffs, anti-worker practices, political corruption and these shareholder groups. C-suite are part of this group but they’re also afraid of removal via hostile board takeovers and so easily justify acquiescing to shareholder demands. Perhaps it’s because the same investors hold the same sway over (American) media with the added benefit of using it to brand themselves as exceptional leaders. Lots to untangle there…
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 3 weeks ago:
Their business model has been to undercut and extinguish their competition for as long as they’ve been around. The ‘good’ you talk about is about controlling the market and leaving you with no choice as they’ve already largely done with your ‘nicer stuff’. Workers will be shit-canned without a second thought if they realize their ai/robot dreams. Drugs will become more expensive again once they capture the market.
The world depends on everyone voting with their wallets despite the inconvenience. You don’t have to be perfect, just make some changes. Pay more and support your small local businesses whenever possible.
- Comment on The AI-powered collapse of the American tech workfoce 2 months ago:
Agree, they usually like to blame the economy, ‘the market, or things perceived as outside their control and avoid taking responsibility.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 months ago:
I believe this is why tech execs and investors are so hot on pushing AI into everything. They’ll control everyone’s digital experience and you can 100% count on being force fed ads and paid propaganda. Embrace, extend, extinguish