CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@neckspike @joeycastillo I want this sticker, i love it

@nuintari @pluralistic yeah totally. Not to mention the amount of times I’ve got counterfeit or misrepresented crap from Amazon. Life is so much better without them

@pluralistic One of the strangest unexpected joys in moving to Denmark was the unavailability of Uber and Amazon. And yet, online shopping in Denmark is a much nicer experience than in America and it turns out, I don't miss Amazon at all.

@mike I don't really understand why we listen to tech advocates any more at this point? They have no credibility. It's like when Elon Musk promises something, at this point, its like an anti-promise.

The structure of big tech promises has time and again revealed to be propaganda to cover their own anti-social ends, typically, accruing profits at the expense of everyone else.

@lordof1 Hair is a growth industry!

@davidaugust This was the episode if anyone was curious https://art19.com/shows/factually--with-adam-conover/episodes/15cde6ef-07e2-4833-b21d-ddf74c7d81a8

@davidaugust I liked Tim Wu's point the other day that private corporation in America are basically creating a "private tax", where they are being extractive and taking the profits while provide no value to consumers. His example of this was Amazon's pay-for-boosting merchants pay into, and that gets translated into higher consumer prices.

I wonder if you could analyze this "private tax", maybe the tax rate wouldn't be that different?

@varx man, this has hurt me a few times in the past. you should mark this one with #trauma