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Conceptually this is really cool, but the hole punch is oddly misaligned on my Pixel 6, so I can’t imagine it looking good.

The App Store is a treasure trove for Apple, it brings in about $85 of revenue, thanks to the annual fees that developers have to pay to host their apps on the platform.

I’m guessing they mean $85 billion?

Or start, in this case.

Gods know I’m not ready for another American election.

I think the logic here is that Biden, while endorsing genocide outside of the U.S., isn’t causing it inside of the borders. With Trump you’d have it both outside and inside.

Ergo, they see the choice as less genocide or more genocide. Both terrible but why choose more over less?

No!! Not the recursion!

I don’t know what prepper stuff you’re on about, I’m talking about simple bullshit like owning a home and working.

If you want to be safe from the elements and eat food, you need to partake in the BS corpo society we have. You can’t just go out in the wilderness, build a shelter and live off the land. You’re forever owned by and beholden to society, good luck finding a way out of that.

… Amazon … in Sweden since they’re particularly garbage and don’t really offer anything of value.

I don’t know if Amazon is uniquely crap here in Sweden or if they’re the same everywhere - if the latter, I wonder how they grew to such a size because they are shadier than AliExpress and Wish.

When they launched, they used the Argentinian flag to represent Sweden. Three horizontal stripes, light blue, with a white middle stripe that has a smiling sun on it. The Swedish flag is an off-blue with a yellow cross. Sweden starts with an S, Argentina starts with an A. I’ve legit no idea how they did this mix-up.

All the products are machine translated. I’ve seen cookware with 300 metre long cables and the ability to send internal emails. I’ve seen curtains depicting people frolicking in sexual assault. Tents that make for great gifts for a prostitute, grandchild, or little sister. Sluts for your yard. Spotlights for indoors commercial sexual intercourse. Lots of fucking-* products, fucking egg productions, fucking vacationdogs, fucking spoons, fucking mushrooms, fucking penis curry, fucking bovine poop in red wine sauce.

Needless to say, I do not have Amazon prime, nor do I buy anything from Amazon when we have much better and more reliable local alternatives that I know conform to Swedish and European regulation and legislation, and will have my back should whatever I buy end up being faulty. I can’t say the same for Amazon.

Slavery isn’t needed anymore, and no one is really free anyway. You can’t opt out of the system.

Ugh. Seeing shit like this makes me question what the point of life even is. I don’t want to partake in this bullshit. Sure I can basically boycott Amazon (unless you count AWS which half the web runs on - can’t do shit about that), and it’s easy to do so here in Sweden since they’re particularly garbage and don’t really offer anything of value.

But Amazon was never the problem. The system is broken. Amazon is just one symptom, and there’s loads of companies out there operating at different levels but doing basically the same bullshit.

I don’t agree at all. I don’t think any of these “app” jobs or gig BS should be a thing. Airbnb is screwing with the housing market, and when things with an Airbnb goes wrong there’s little to no recourse.

Hotels already exist, and they’re an established and regulated form of business. With a hotel you more or less know what to expect, and there are consumer protections in place.

You don’t actually know my standard. But here goes; a country where people like me are treated like lessers just because we happen to not fall into the cis-het normative. Countries where women are treated lesser than men. Countries whose policies are heavily influenced by religious bullshittery.

Shithole countries.

Sure I’d rather be in Hungary than the UAE, but they’re both shitholes.

I wish! Frogs are awesome.

Right. I’m not talking about it geographically. I know that it’s not a literal hole of shit.

Oh we’re still on about this NATO stuff? We’re halfway to another election and they’ve still not sorted it out.

Like I don’t blame the current government for Erdogan and whatshisface in that shithole being obstinate, but at this point I’m sure we could’ve put all that money and energy on more useful things than trying to appease a fickle dictator.

Would rather live in a pond than in Poland.

Yeah that’s precisely what I said. Great reading comprehension there. It’s not a raise if it doesn’t keep up with inflation. Workers deserve fair compensation, not crumbs.

If you’re on fire and someone pisses all over you, are you somehow supposed to be grateful? The rich are pissing all over us and expect crumbs to suffice.

Why are you not outraged that it’s such a pittance?

Airbnb needs to die.

Yeah it absolutely won’t happen. I’ll settle for the collapse of civilisation as the second best alternative.

Yes please.