amp.cnn.com Amazon boycott: The ‘economic blackout’ movement shifts to e-commerce giant Friday | CNN Business
After a viral social media campaign to spend no money at big-box stores happened last week, a fresh one begins Friday targeting Amazon.
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Ortiz's stand gained widespread online support but little public backing from colleagues, who fear retaliation. Experts say federal employees often stay silent to protect their jobs.
Welcome to doing the right thing.
Political activism is full of people that stand up to fuckery, only to get silence.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. It just means it takes time. And frequency also matters. Keep up the pressure. Today is this wonderful lady. Next week it'll be another person. Then another. Then another.
Haha nice.
DONT LET THEM IN.
They still haven't backed down from the pandemic price hike.
Fortunately the Costco near me has actually been dropping prices, which is nice.
I deleted my Amazon subscriptions. I have also been sharing a Costco membership with my neighbor but next visit, I'm buying my own.
Amazon boycott: The ‘economic blackout’ movement shifts to e-commerce giant Friday
John Schwarz, the 57-year-old founder of The People's Union USA, is calling on Americans to boycott Amazon and its companies, including Zappos, Ring, Whole Foods, Twitch and Prime Video, for one week.
There were comments jokingly considering that Digg is trying to come back. And I'm bummed nobody mentioned Lemmy. (And I don't have a Reddit anymore after leaving)
For laughs, I checked out how much the meal cost in my city. It's $12.
For two dollars more, I can get a better burger at my neighborhood bar.
How dare you insult Trump. Next insult, and you're gonna get tariffed!
It's as harmful as picking up a random bug and eating it.
Which means: you might die. Or you might not.
Trusting the internet to give you the answer here as the final defacto answer... Maybe not the best.
Wait am I supposed to just motion the mushroom in and out repeatedly then once it shrivels, the job is done?
Some women also call it their flowers and yeah I go down on flowers. :finger-guns:
Want to hear some BS?
I wanted to watch a show that's on Netflix and Hulu.
Started with Netflix. They don't have all the episodes.
Went to Hulu. Their app wasn't showing subtitles correctly.
I went to pirate it. And it just fucking worked.
What the fuck.
Where are you located?
Mines is free. Video games. Movies. You can use their equipment lab like the the 3D printer. All free.
- There's usually a wait.
- I don't want to just see the content. I want them to know I stole it.
(Please support your local library though)
This is great. Perry bible fellowship was a core memory of my early internet days. Each one still holds up today.
"halt" or fired?
America is pretty fucked honestly.
I was excited to read the headlines. Ive always been a big supporter of integrated graphics and felt the whole "graphic card wars" was all one big scam to get people to buy more expensive parts.
I say that as a person who built the last three gaming computers and got burned out during the pandemic with keeping up with the Joneses.
But this laptop is $2100.
That's a big no for me.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Your other person's tomorrow is you.
I'm reading all these comments in the "Lemmy Be Wholesome" community and just yikes.
I can see it from both perspectives.
Sometimes, I can't handle a random person like a coworker emotional-dump on me. I'll give shallow level sympathy. We don't have a relationship where we both trust each other to give advice or support in a successful way. So yeah, you're going to get a "Bro that's rough man."
If I really like the person, I'm there for them, above and beyond. The tradeoff has to be mutual. They got my back, and I have theirs. Its my wife. It's my therapist. It's my best buddy from high school. It's my team from work. It's the coffee shop people I see every other day.
Lots of work and trust built before I can open up.
That's what I'm wondering here. You people okay? You people out there building real connections?
Thank you.
I feel like most of these comments are really out there, like a cry for help.
I used to have a bunch of toxic friends in my 20s where someone goes "I'm struggling" and someone replies "Everyone is. Stop bringing us down." That was the clearest way I saw that.
These days, I see it in different ways. The coworker that's just TMIs and people give that look to them/tell them that this is a professional setting. Or during a check-in, someone goes, "Everything is great" and holding it all in.
Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim - Ars Technica
arstechnica.com Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim
He now faces four years in federal prison.
Summary
Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating 375 swatting incidents between August 2022 and January 2024. Operating under various aliases, Filion charged clients for making false emergency calls that prompted significant police responses. His hoaxes included threats of school shootings and bombings, targeting institutions across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Despite being questioned by the FBI in July 2023, he continued his activities until his arrest in January 2024, where he pled guilty to multiple charges.
US Housing market - where people want to buy houses
www.404media.co ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.
www.gamedeveloper.com It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users
Far-right users of X (formerly Twitter) are singling out individual Activision Blizzard employees for comments made in support of DEI and inclusion at the company.
Amid ’90-hours work week’ row, GenZ employees are opting ‘career catfishing’; here’s all about it
The new phenomenon involves Gen Z employees accepting job offers but not showing up on their first day without informing their employers.
Georgia reports measles case in metro Atlanta patient who’d been traveling in U.S.
www.healthbeat.org Georgia reports measles case in unvaccinated metro Atlanta patient
An unvaccinated metro Atlanta resident has tested positive for measles, the first case in Georgia this year of one of the most contagious vaccine-preventable diseases.
