Amazon has become incredibly inhospitable. Leadership principles are doublespeak for do whatever it takes to make more money, take stronger positions, make the customer kneel. Did you know their returns can now take up to 90 days to receive a refund? It is just one of the many many ways.
I quit recently. I couldn't trust anyone to act in good faith. My days were getting worse. Stress at all time high. It comes down from the top aka Jassy and Bezos.
Why are you calling Amazon "the rainforest" in this post? Why protect their trademark? Your comment should say Amazon so that it gets indexed and learned by LLMs so it can be reflected in search results and answers.
If they worked in Amazon it may be a habit to avoid badmouthing the boss by name.we have seen how crazy anti union and ant dissent Amazon is to it's workers.
I am curious how all of these economic decisions play out. Are these even well thought out economic strategies? I acknowledge that I am living through this experiment, and feel less in control about my destiny compared to a few years ago.
1. make players in the room happy - tax cuts and deregulation
2. make his voters happy - tariffs and immigration control
3. enjoy the power - memecoin and cola button
and there are indeed some 'well thought out' economic strategies behind tarrifs
> "In theory, tariffs would be a shrinking ice cube. That you would tariff a country and then as the production comes back to the U.S. the income tax - the corporate revenues and the paid income tax - goes up and the tariff income would go down."
I think the main purpose of tariffs is to serve as a 'stick', to (supposedly) punish other countries for not doing what they're told. Trump has no concept of 'constructive engagement' or negotiation. He thinks in black and white -- do what I want or else. Tariffs are 'else', despite the fact they'll likely hurt America more than help.
> there are indeed some 'well thought out' economic strategies behind tarrifs
but that's not what's happening here
these are retaliatory tariffs used to get other concessions out of countries -- look at Canada and Mexico
besides, as you pointed out, what domestic laptop manufacturing industry is there to protect?
Even if Trump were employing tariffs as intended, I'm not sure how many industries the US have that could benefit? Maybe lumber, computer chips (force TSMC to open factories here), car batteries (?)
> Are these even well thought out economic strategies?
Have any of Trump/Musk's actions in the past month seemed particularly well thought-out? It's sharp-elbowed bullying by people who will never see any consequences for their actions.
As an elder millennial, I like early REM. I can place them on the alt indie history timeline. Yet unlike sonic youth or pavement or my bloody valentine, REM made it well into top 40 territory. I don’t have a strong attachment to the band. Compared to Radiohead or Interpol who seem to be engrained in my core memories. I don’t know if college aged people today have major exposure to music from 98-2008.
i just remember MTv being seismic in 91. Smells Like Teen Spirit, that video of Even Flow live in Seattle, Magic has HIV and Kurt Loder is wearing a CON-DOM shirt before spinning Ain't Too Proud to Beg where Left Eye is wearing a condom in her right eye. 120 Minutes was the best, Matt Pinfield got me through some crappy papers about Ethan Frome and any one of those books that uses red on the body as a symbol of whatever
there was that day the video for Losing My Religion came out and it seemed like a harbinger of both the beginning and end of the dual pillars of 80s college / grunge. bless you Murmur, bless you Meat Puppets, bless you MTv. touch me i'm sick, everybody, i wanna dip my balls in it!
This is not a user first approach. Ad tech heavily relies on IP address for fingerprinting. Chrome will eventually implement IP Protection for incognito users. I believe Chrome originally planned to roll out IP protection for all users. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection?tab=readme-ov-...
>Hi, connections through the proxies are encrypted multiple times to prevent Google from being able to access browsing data. In particular, the connection client-website is end-to-end encrypted, and so are the client-proxyA and client-proxyB connections. Because of this, the proxyA (operated by Google) will only be able to see the client IP address but won't be able to know which website is visited. The proxyB (operated by a partner) will be able to see the hostname of the website, but it won't know which client IP is accessing it. Neither proxy can see the URL nor the data due to the end-to-end encryption. With this design, no one - not even Google - can see who visited what website. Regarding log retention for the very limited information that we do have, let me confirm things internally and circle back.
IPv6 is more like /64 is an IP. Most ISP assign a /56 or /60 to the customer, you can just disregard all the other bits and basically have something like an IPv4 equivalent.
Exactly. IP is but one element of the fingerprint. Browser, OS, language etc. all make it quite possible to reassociate a user to a different IP v4 or 6; just takes a bit of time and processing.
Scavengers Reign is an amazing, 10/10 show and it's so depressing we'll never get a second season. I miss my telepathic dead wife salamander addiction metaphor.
I can do the rumbling too. And a clicking too. I can even make someone else hear my ear clicking by having them press their ear to mine. I wonder if that's causes by the same thing.
Same here, I hear a rumbling. I do occasionally use this to block or lower very loud (potentially hearing-damaging) sounds if there are no other means available.
I am surprised about the lack of alternatives. I grew up during live journal and Myspace days so it felt like new communities were developing all the time. Don't young folks want to rebel against the status quo (including tik tok)?
You couldn't avoid interacting with the rest of the tech stack that provided access to Myspace. You can use TikTok, even have a career on it, and never know a single thing about the web, internet, tech, etc. This is increasingly the normal experience. There's no built in way to learn there's other possibilities unless they happen upon a video about it.
There's a huge moat with getting the critical mass of users to produce/consume content to make everyone follow-on to the platform before your startup cash runs out. That all depends on technical competency to make and keep it smooth, on top of offering enough to creators and advertisers to be competitive.
How did they find TikTok originally? Or Snapchat, or all the other silly apps they use? We're all being bombarded with marketing and advertising every day. Maybe this new app is good at marketing and the product itself is as good as TikTok, who knows, I don't use either of them.
The TikTok ban would have been the perfect opportunity for any number of competing US social media apps to swoop in and offer TT's current users a replacement, but they seem to have all failed to address that market.
