• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        That is from such a long time ago.

        How have things not improved??? It’s been mumbles years! What the fuck are we doing??

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          Americans talk big about standing up to corporations but don’t actually do it. We don’t join unions and we vote for corporate-approved "moderate” candidates in primaries, who then veto any attempt at making life even slightly better for workers.

          Just look at what happened in ny recently. We couldn’t even get a very basic protection against non-competes without some “moderate” shill vetoing it because it cuts into some slug’s profits. And that shill is a Democrat btw.

          Americans are cowed. People joke about guillotines but Americans can’t even vote for pro-labor candidates without acting like it’s communism. There won’t be any violent resolution here, there aren’t even labor protests .

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      They feel they’re prepared this time.

      The owners have gotten so much better at propagandizing the peasants from birth with the media they own and the curriculum they inform having long captured state and federal governments that there are literally millions of poor victims of this system that will fight to defend it against their own interests.

      True believers who kill themselves working for shareholders who would never even bother to learn their name, let alone let them into their country clubs, deluded into literally believing anything but this rigged market capitalist hellscape must be an evil marxist, Leninist, socialist, communist word salad of terms they don’t understand at all but were indoctrinated to hate and fear anyway blindly.

      The owner’s numbers are tiny. Their doting, self-hating class traitors begging for senpai oligarch’s love that will never come are what prevents what you propose.

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        Nononono. It’s not the super wealthy people that are the problem. It’s the poor people from a different ethnicity or gender that are the problem! And don’t even get me started about the middle class people from earlier generations.

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        All that matters is SCOTUS in the end, and they are up for sale. My guess is that they already have their votes lined up.

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        PACs, the best thing that ever happened to wealthy control over politics (from the douchey ownership class perspective.)

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      Nobody campaigns on eliminating PAC donations and criminalizing bribery.

      Except me. Elect me and I will fix this shit with an iron fist. You are being taxed with no representation.

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      Psh, it’s time we strip Musk of Starlink for his acts against the U.S. and then ensure a law that you have to pay taxes on stocks in the state where a companies headquarters is while restricting all companies who’s largest percentage of sales comes in the United States has to have a corporate headquarters in the U.S.

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    If the NLRB is defanged then we’re back to just striking. Which uhhhh wasn’t good for the workers or the company. But fuck it. The Workers won last time and they’ll win again.

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    If they’re going to argue they have protected rights like a US citizen then when they break the law they can go to jail like a human. Financial crimes, 6 month time out for Amazon. Worker dies because Amazon refuses a break, 25 year timeout.

    The nerve of these fuckers.

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          You are absolutely correct and I wish people would ally against corporations more. At the moment there is a good sized movement against McDonald’s and Starbucks, but there are still enough people buying from them that they’re “ok.”

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    Burn both of those companies down and we won’t lose anything of value (yes, many sites will go down because of aws, but just fucking migrate it)

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      Lol, just migrate it… Like it’s that simple. Many companies have gotten vendor locked in to specific cloud providers and the services they offer. You can’t just flip a switch and move to Azure or somewhere else. Assuming other clouds even have the capacity to take on all of AWS clients all at once… And it’s not just websites, many government and even military servers are in AWS these days.

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        All the important military servers are secured. We could do with losing all the PowerPoints with a bad animated mascot telling you that you do in fact have to stop at a stop light.

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          Them is all of us. Things like Centers for Medicare and Medicaid run in AWS. Just about every service the government provides probably has some piece on AWS. Turning off AWS would not end well.

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            The physical servers would change ownership and the AWS standard between them would slowly diverge. Same kind of thing as the baby bells.

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                Well yeah but when they were broken up one of the fearmongering things was the physical infrastructure. There’s no reason to believe this would be any different. Just hopefully with less monopoly a couple decades down the line.

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                  This is a little different than a phone company. But you’re right that breaking them up would be the much more sane thing to do rather than shutting them down. It’s not easy to migrate servers, it is easy to change who you’re paying.

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    People should start protesting in front of these billionaires houses only then they will learn

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      Canned water from the alps shipped worldwide is very stupid though. It’s not on topic here but fuck these companies too. This branding is also incredibly cringy in any other setting than a party where you want to fit in with beer cans while not drinking. And let’s not pretend that most people that drink this don’t have access to potable water on tap.

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      Nice can, but they are on my shit list for not making it clear that their drinks are sweetened with agave nectar.

      Also, that’s kind of rich from a company with a $700 million valuation, which is only going to grow and will likely make the founder a billionaire. He’s already very wealthy.

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          No it doesn’t. See the picture I posted. And what’s wrong is that it isn’t honest to not make that clear. The other flavored seltzers are not sweetened.

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            I dunno, it feels like kind of a stretch to be angry at them for you not looking at the label or calories.

            It says it’s flavored, and if you turn the can at all it says it has agave in it, and then it has calorie information and the list of ingredients.

            It’s kinda on you the read the ingredients if you care in my opinion.

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              Please name another brand that calls itself flavored sparkling water that has sweetener in it.

              La Croix doesn’t.

              Bubly doesn’t.

              Polar doesn’t.

              Perrier doesn’t.

              Waterloo doesn’t.

              As far as I know, the only brand that advertises itself that way and is sweetened is Liquid Death. I consider that dishonest. I don’t think I should have to look at the ingredients label in that sort of situation.

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                Spindrift. Clearly Canadian.

                If something says it’s flavored water it’s totally on you to check and see if those flavors are sweet or have calories.

                If it were difficult to read the label of find the information I’d be more sympathetic to the complaint, but in the mango drink you mentioned, it’s literally on the side of the can, maybe a quarter turn?

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            The other flavored seltzers are not sweetened.

            To be fair, this one is an Arnold Palmer, not a seltzer.

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              Again, not the one OP pasted, the one I pasted. The Liquid Death Mango Chainsaw can. It does not say agave anywhere. It is sweetened with it, unlike all other flavored seltzer brands.

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              Yes. On that can. Again, look at the can I posted in my reply below. In fact, I’ll paste it again. You tell me where it says it on that can.

              I cannot think of another brand that offers flavored sparkling water that puts sweetener in it. The whole idea is that it doesn’t have any sweeteners. It’s dishonest.

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        It says agave on the front of the can. What’s the problem?

        I’m asking because I don’t understand, but do agree with everything else that you’re saying.