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I'm not really a fan of Billie Eilish but her SNL performance was really cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn1Uwsg3eRQ
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A Bad Poster posted:He's the richest man in the world, what more reason do you need? The people have to piss in bottles because you risk getting fired if you take your federally mandated bathroom breaks thing? You cant tell me that a corporate culture thats fine with that kind of thing didnt work its way down from the top or when that kind of story came out there would be massive sweeping changes i havent heard about yet
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Bezos is super angry about unions, you should see how angry he is about unions, he gets SO MAD
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Amazon also has a major military component to its business, so they're at least as skeevy as any other part of the defense industry.
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Nov 7, 2019 07:32
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Vas....u....dus?
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Nov 7, 2019 08:04
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The simple answer is you can't be a good person and also be a billionaire.
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kraken! posted:Amazon also has a major military component to its business, so they're at least as skeevy as any other part of the defense industry. there is a whole separate AWS for the government
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Eej posted:The simple answer is you can't be a good person and also be a billionaire. This times a million
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mlmp08 posted:Sanders says the same kind of poo poo about how if they’re (Sanders or Biden) president, GOP will suddenly teamwork it up with Democrats, and they’re both wrong as hell about it. I believe his usual theory of power is more along the lines of "we'll win more seats than the Republicans, and then we'll have supporters go confront dipshits who aren't getting with the program wherever they go, and I'll tell my VP to ignore the senate parliamentarian and just pass whatever we feel like through reconciliation."
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Nov 7, 2019 13:11
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dubzee posted:Here, have another contemplative cover by a girl with pipes. It's helping me to listen to this again while digesting today's news fire hose. I'm also guilty of bypassing a lot of current music. Luckily, I teach kids just out of high school and since I play music to help them concentrate on their schoolwork I discovered Florence and the Machine among others. Googling lyrics in a goon's avatar led me to Arcade Fire which I love, too.
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I was in front of a TV playing a normal cable station for the first time in a year last week and every commercial break there was an Amazon commercial with warehouse workers just talking about how great their jobs were. Dystopian as gently caress.
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There's a Netflix mini-doc on Bill Gates that I found pretty interesting. He seems like a super smart/bookish dude (ditto his wife) who wants to tackle big problems. Like for example he reads a tote bag's worth of dense economics material in the span of a week, and that's pretty standard. Despite all his efforts he will always be hilariously out of touch by virtue of sitting on a gigantic pile of money with the support of the organizations he has built. It doesn't matter what kind of roots you came from- wasn't it the Starbucks founder who grew up in public housing who is now all about bootstraps? At that point you are in a bubble, and I'm not sure if you can extricate yourself or really empathize on the same level as someone who pays bills every month.
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Nov 7, 2019 14:29
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dubzee posted:Here, have another contemplative cover by a girl with pipes. It's helping me to listen to this again while digesting today's news fire hose. I still can't bring myself to listen to Black Star. I have it sitting on my shelf in the shrink wrap.
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Nov 7, 2019 14:36
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Bell_ posted:Florence and the Machine You found a diamond. She did a tiny desk concert for NPR a while back, I swear that dark gods of the sea gave her a siren’s voice for that set alone  e: there is still beauty in this world, despite everything. https://youtu.be/EkPrXL-H5Qc Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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Nov 7, 2019 14:37
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still my favorite tiny desk concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIjXUg1s5gc
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My favorite Act of Bezos is when he did an interview where he literally said he had no idea what to do with his vast riches amidst news of the poor benefits his company offered and the awful conditions his workers toiled in. “The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel,” Bezos said. “That is basically it.” https://bgr.com/2018/05/02/jeff-bezos-worth-fortune-philanthropy-charities/ Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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That was probably the same interview where he was basically like 'space i guess lmao' on future plans.
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Bezos is a turd but he brought back The Expanse and gave them a very large budget (in comparison to Syfy) and at least 2 more seasons so I can't be too angry at him
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Fallom posted:My favorite Act of Bezos is when he did an interview where he literally said he had no idea what to do with his vast riches amidst news of the poor benefits his company offered and the awful conditions his workers toiled in. His “winnings” get completely hosed
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Arven posted:I was in front of a TV playing a normal cable station for the first time in a year last week and every commercial break there was an Amazon commercial with warehouse workers just talking about how great their jobs were. Dystopian as gently caress. That's because they're going through seasonal hiring right now. They have better benefits and pay than most people working poo poo warehouse or retail jobs. Amazon has its' problems, but they're no Walmart.
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Nov 7, 2019 14:49
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Just embrace nihilism and listen to national socialist black metal so simple
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Nov 7, 2019 14:51
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:That's because they're going through seasonal hiring right now. Amazon employees have to piss in bottles because they're held to such extreme standards they can't afford to take a bathroom break. Amazon buys air conditioning for their equipment and not their warehouse workers. How many Amazon employees have dropped dead on the job from over working? Jeff Bezos has an insane amount of money he doesn't know what to do with. Amazon is evil. Don't defend them.
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I never had to piss in a bottle and had adequate times for breaks. Not everyone has to micromanage their bladder. I spent six months working in one of those places. poo poo like that doesn't happen everywhere.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I never had to piss in a bottle and had adequate times for breaks. Not everyone has to micromanage their bladder. I spent six months working in one of those places. Oh, well, it didn't happen to YOU, so it's fine, I guess.
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Nov 7, 2019 14:59
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If you get liberty mutual insurance you get a free Alexa! Also Spotify is giving away a free google home pod thing. I’m reminded of Jim Carrey in Batman Forever...
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Nephzinho posted:I still can't bring myself to listen to Black Star. I have it sitting on my shelf in the shrink wrap. It's fuckin' wild, man. I bought it on day one and was like "poo poo this is heavy". Then he died a few days later. Basically wrote his own eulogy 
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Dwanyelle posted:Oh, well, it didn't happen to YOU, so it's fine, I guess. Look, they're a poo poo company and whatnot, but plenty of other employers out there are easily as bad, if not worse. poo poo on amazon all you want, I never had a bad work experience there, besides walking 10-15 miles a day, but that's paid cardio.
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colachute posted:If you get liberty mutual insurance you get a free Alexa! Also Spotify is giving away a free google home pod thing. I got two of those with my Philips light bulbs, and used it for a month or so two do dumb poo poo like yell at it to turn the lights magenta, before I realized that maybe having an always on speaker with internet access in my flat was a bad idea, and haven't had it plugged in since. And then I realized that my phone does the exact same thing so I'm hosed anyway.
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dubzee posted:Basically wrote his own eulogy This + it being the last time I get to listen to a new Bowie album = exactly why I have it sitting there. It is going to be a very sad very drunk day.
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Nov 7, 2019 15:12
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Look, they're a poo poo company and whatnot, but plenty of other employers out there are easily as bad, if not worse. Whataboutism stops being a valid excuse at the age of, like, four.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Look, they're a poo poo company and whatnot, but plenty of other employers out there are easily as bad, if not worse. Great point, bet none of us here knew that. I guess nobody should single out how Bezos abuses his employees while whining about how the best way to spend his money is to literally explode it because the boss of a Pakistani shipbreaker crew offers even fewer breaks. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Nov 7, 2019 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Look, they're a poo poo company and whatnot, but plenty of other employers out there are easily as bad, if not worse. You’re not going to win this argument even if you are right.
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Nephzinho posted:I still can't bring myself to listen to Black Star. I have it sitting on my shelf in the shrink wrap.
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Nov 7, 2019 15:16
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Look, they're a poo poo company and whatnot, but plenty of other employers out there are easily as bad, if not worse. Of course there is worse. But Bezos made an obscene fortune off the back of those warehouse workers, and that's not something to be celebrated.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Of course there is worse. But Bezos made an obscene fortune off the back of those warehouse workers, and that's not something to be celebrated. Let's not forget an obscene fortune that he *doesn't even know what to do with*
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Crakkerjakk posted:I believe his usual theory of power is more along the lines of "we'll win more seats than the Republicans, and then we'll have supporters go confront dipshits who aren't getting with the program wherever they go, and I'll tell my VP to ignore the senate parliamentarian and just pass whatever we feel like through reconciliation." I've always thought this is a dumb as hell strategy. Reconciliation can only be used once per budget cycle, and if you gently caress it up, it's gone (See the Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare in 2017). The left's entire theory of action is that they need to prove to the voters the left will do for them what the Republicans won't, but you need to go FDR's Hundred Days for that poo poo, with constant coverage of new bills that will help people's lives. One bill a year is just not going to cut it.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Look, they're a poo poo company and whatnot, but plenty of other employers out there are easily as bad, if not worse. I guess they're pretty good by the standards of warehouse management. But that's like winning an award for being the nicest tyrant or the driest rainforest.
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the reality is that things are going to continue a steady decline of getting worse for most people, the only thing you can somewhat control is the speed and severity that it happens eat arbys
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In the minds of the main mattering men, the slow down before the speed up will add to the art of this artifice.
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