Time to stop shopping at backcountry.com. Using dark patterns to automatically add scammy "shipping protection" by Seel is tantamount to fraud. Seel does not cover anything that is not already covered by contract law.
Ukraine has disabled nearly half of Russia’s oil refining capacity through targeted operations, according to a Financial Times analysis. The report estimates that refineries struck by Ukrainian drone attacks have lost around 45% of their nominal production capacity, with damage at several major facilities remaining visible for weeks or even months after the strikes. #Ukraine
With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging.
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This is what’s known as governing. It’s a skill the Democratic Party has allowed to atrophy. And this is how one fixes it.
$9.8bn would be a good start.
One might say the Tate brothers are in cells
It’s probably time to stop buying Apple products.
As far as I know, this is still true...
I said this in 2015 and I'll say it again...
"Gig Economy" companies...really, companies that misclassify their workers as contractors...have displaced Wal-Mart as the largest source of Americans on public assistance.
And to these companies, that's a feature, not a bug. They are actively transferring a portion of their wage bill onto the public, and creating precarity among the working classes that drive them to accept even lower wages.
The real welfare queens in this country sit in corporate boardrooms and private jets.
Here we go…using humans as an accountability sink again.
Fantastic intro from Nick Hanauer that illustrates where we are as a society, and an economy. Well worth a subscribe.
So sad to see that landlord speculator rent hikes are killing another grassroots institution in San Francisco. This time it's Church Street Cafe, which has ben serving the neighborhood for 20 years.
This is fantastic...
I’m just going to lay here and look at you seductively until you magically make the treats appear.
Mexico’s minimum wage has doubled in five years. And its residents have universal health care.
The Onion has done an amazing job running #Infowars