Removed by mod
I think a downloader will be neccessaire, it will cost too much money if we bought them all.
With Netflix already having ads we are now 75% of the way to “cutting the cord” going back to reinventing cable again.
“Again”?
I’ve still been out here since Napster. Welcome back aboard, we kept the torrents warm for you.
What are the cool kids using these days?
I was using torrents for years before I started messing with Usenet. Now I’ve got it set up it’s easy to grab pretty much anything and at higher quality than before.
Some of us never stopped sailing the high seas matey. Yarrrrr!
I had been considering cancelling my Amazon subscription. I don’t know what I’m really paying for, just for expedited shipping? I don’t even use Amazon prime videos since it’s mostly garbage. Thanks to Amazon for making my decision easy to cancel.
I actually realized I almost never take advantage of real prime perks anymore and the cost was ridiculous. Nearly $200 a year and all for maybe faster shipping?
I can get most the things on eBay or wherever anyways and it’s the same Chinese crap. Or free shipping anyway from Amazon.
Local is even better and maybe I can actually try shit on and not buy literal garbage. It’s hardly worth it.
i stopped using amazøn years ago. shop local & stop killing the economy. it’s just gonna get worse the more money you give them
Should I shop at the Target, Wal-Mart or the CVS instead?
There are no “local” stores near me. Just massive corporations who treat their employees like shit. Costco is the exception to the treating-their-employees-like-shit rule, but sometimes I don’t need a lifetime supply of an item.
Yeah, those behemoths all share responsibility for killing the mom and pop stores. It’s not impossible to shop around to local variants. But probably the best solution is to learn how to kick the habit that American culture has foisted upon us all of buying endless piles of useless crap.
I cancelled my prime subscription years ago. I occassionally restart it for a month at a time if I need some esoteric hobby thing and I would be forced into paying for shipping or for prime. Then I’ll watch some stuff on their streaming service. Last time I used it, it was awful. Half of the shows were gatekept behind some ad system. And the “Amazon Originals” are all just extraordinarily expensive shows with terrible writing. Uhg. I am making it a point to not have an active prime subscription when Christmas rolls around. We (the collective we, as in, humanity) don’t need more garbage.
Thats a lot of words to ignore the comment you’re replying to.
All those stores sell neccessities as well as junk, so distilling it down to simply not buying junk is reductive and dismissive. If someone needs clothes and Walmart and Target are the only places available, are they supposed to go nude? Additionally, you’re literally ignoring that they said that there are not local options available to them.
Nome of what you said is particularly untrue, it’s just completely ignoring the comment you replied to.
Yeah, where my Mom lives, the food options are:
- Walmart
- An erratically pricey local grocery, that rents its building (which has a leaky roof, requiring them to move product when it rains)
- Dollar General
- A farmer’s market that’s open once a week for a few hours before the afternoon heat, a few months a year, if no events have pre-empted it, having an inventory of which about 30% is bulk-bought supermarket produce with the labels (sometimes) removed
- A 90 minute drive; no trains, no buses (literally, no buses) to the next largest town
And she lives in a town people drive to, to get food, clothes, medicine, etc.
She gets as much as she can from the local grocer, for whatever that’s worth; the inventory is frequently poor, & about on-par with Dollar General so far as brand-representation, goes. When tourists ask if the store has something, they get pointed to Walmart.
Looks like it’s time to cancel prime
this was the last straw? it wasn’t workers peeing in bottles, or businesses being displaced to build warehouses, or tax avoidance, or sweat shop wages for international workers?
to the trolls below, I’m a full time activist, you’re just keyboard warriors
Have fun purchasing ethical power, food, textiles and electronics unless you’re already rich working at a non fortune-500 company lol.
Fortune 500 employees are some of the worst paid and most exploited. See Amazon, Walmart, etc. Even at the white collar level they get paid shit. The old “work for a Fortune 100” bit hasn’t been relevant since the dot-com boom.
Top level Devs at Amazon get paid 1m a year, plus stock options
Top level devs at Amazon would get paid that anywhere. They aren’t competing for a spot at Amazon, Amazon is competing for them.
That kind of undermines your original comment…?
How? People used to dream of working for a Fortune 100 company because landing one of those coveted jobs was a way to secure a well paying job with a nice pension. Those days are gone. Now you either make yourself priceless so that everyone is competing for your skills, or you work for a small firm that values your existence and sees you as part of the team. In a large company, with very few exceptions, you are just a disposable cog in the machine.
For context, I know a lot of developers that worked for Amazon. They all left. The mythological $1M devs are paid that to make sure the competition doesn’t have them. They aren’t employees, they are IP.
Laughs in boycotting Amazon since 2011.
