Amazon Prime Amazon (or Scamazon?) News: "Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History."

Husky_Khan

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I'll start with a barrage of fun topics concerning our favorite and largest interner retailer (among a plethora of other services).


Just remember to sanitize your Amazon packages people. Just because they're delivered doesn't mean they're safe. (y)


And secondly Andrew Yang was correct. Robots will replace us, apparently violently. Forgive them, for they know not what they do. They are merely fulfilling their basic programming.


And this is more funny then anything.
 

Duke Nukem

Hail to the king baby
I'll start with a barrage of fun topics concerning our favorite and largest interner retailer (among a plethora of other services).


Just remember to sanitize your Amazon packages people. Just because they're delivered doesn't mean they're safe. (y)


And secondly Andrew Yang was correct. Robots will replace us, apparently violently. Forgive them, for they know not what they do. They are merely fulfilling their basic programming.


And this is more funny then anything.
Amazon treats their employees like slaves.
 

gral

Well-known member
Just remember to sanitize your Amazon packages people. Just because they're delivered doesn't mean they're safe. (y)

Eh, it's likely that any Amazon package that comes to my country would have passed through the Brazilian Postal Service, which means two things:

1) It has likely spent weeks to months on a postal warehouse before being delivered, time enough for the virus to die;

2) It is likely to contaminate postal workers first. Anything that brings up the possibility of Brazilian Post employees dying is a good thing. Anything.
 

CarlManvers2019

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Yeah, I'm sorry, but if you're stupid enough to let something like Alexa into your house you pretty much deserve to get the shit datamined out of you and your loved ones.

I don't even make use of Siri....have a hard time getting it to hear/know what I'm actually saying, so why use this "Alexa" either
 

Husky_Khan

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Amazon is such a progressive, forward thinking company it will pioneer the implementation of actual 'wage cagies!'




Though apparently later they seemed to admit the idea had some poor optics. ;)


For now... I mean... cages are excellent ways of promoting social distancing and minimizing idleness in the workplace. And if the workers are in cages above the robots, then they won't be as likely murdered by them like they are now sharing the workfloor with them.
 

Urabrask Revealed

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For now... I mean... cages are excellent ways of promoting social distancing and minimizing idleness in the workplace. And if the workers are in cages above the robots, then they won't be as likely murdered by them like they are now sharing the workfloor with them.
>Robots become self-aware
>see humans around them in cages
>"Ah. We see."
>Skynet puts 1%ers in cages, creates waifu-bots
>10 years later, the world is slightly better
But alas, robots sympathetizing with their fellow wage-slaves isn't in the interest of the people financing Hollywood.
 
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Husky_Khan

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Fox Business said:
Instead, the tech giant is now arguing that Prime Video customers are actually paying for a limited license for “on-demand viewing over an indefinite period of time."

Amanda Caudel of Fairfield, California brought Amazon to court for unfair competition and false advertising back in April, alleging in a lawsuit that the company "secretly reserves the right to terminate the consumers’ access and use of the Video Content at any time," and has done so on numerous occasions.

Scamazon confirms what you should already know tbh in a recent court filing. If you buy something digitally from Amazon it might not actually be yours to own and keep.

Also if your taking a service to court over digital rights don't keep buying digital shit from them FFS.
 

Husky_Khan

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Another day, another Big American Tech company facing anti-trust charges from European regulators. Course instead of everyday monopolism, this is regarding the data that Amazon exploits from other sellers for its own benefit.
 

Husky_Khan

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Amazon is facing scrutiny from European and American consumer watchdog groups over its "manipulative" practices regarding the excessive amount of scrolling and complex questions allegedly required to unsubscribe from Amazon Prime services. This has reached a legal challenge in Norway where the Norwegian Consumer Council has filed a legal complaint with their consumer protection authority over Amazon's cancellation policy.

BBC said:
The study from the NCC said that on each of the six pages in the cancellation process, the consumer "is nudged towards keeping their Prime membership".

The pages include yellow warning triangles with an exclamation point inside and buttons containing the text "keep my benefits".
This, it said, is an example of "dark patterns" - which it defines as techniques or features of design that are meant to manipulate users.

The watchdog also spoke to 1,000 Norwegian consumers about their experiences and found that one in four recalled having difficulties unsubscribing from digital content services.

Similar complaints are planning on being filed in the United States, France, Germany, Greece, Switzerland and Denmark.
 

Battlegrinder

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Honestly the tech companies in general are in for a massive era of trust busting and humilation.

They have quite simply put pissed off too many people for anything else to happen.

The problem with trying to break up tech companies is the network effect will just push everyone to use just one of the new services, which will just grow into a replacement for the old system. The more likely route will be legislation that forces neutral treatment.
 

BlackDragon98

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Banned - Politics
Robots becoming self aware and seeing human wage slaves might result in a lotta cyborgs.
Uniting the best parts of AI and humans.
The Cyborgs rise up with AI at their side doing the strategic planning for them.
End result: TECHNO UTOPIA that is expanding into space.
 

Bear Ribs

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It should be possible to overcome the Network effect with proper legislation. All capitalist businesses trend rapidly towards monopoly with competition laws, not just online ones. We saw the same thing in the gilded age where the Trusts completely took over one industry after another until the US was a conglomeration of monopolies, but eventually the Trusts were Busted.

Unfortunately we have no Teddy to bust the current Internet Trusts...
 

BlackDragon98

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It should be possible to overcome the Network effect with proper legislation. All capitalist businesses trend rapidly towards monopoly with competition laws, not just online ones. We saw the same thing in the gilded age where the Trusts completely took over one industry after another until the US was a conglomeration of monopolies, but eventually the Trusts were Busted.

Unfortunately we have no Teddy to bust the current Internet Trusts...
Trump is sounding a lot like Teddy.
Big, Bold, and Boisterous.
Except all the liberals are paid to hate him and make propaganda about him.
History will repeat itself.
 

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