Bezos deletes 'LGBTQ+ rights' and 'equity for Black people' from Amazon policies

That fuck bezos link is gold, thanks for sharing.

except this will be the start of the year they stop doing that, because now it becomes the "popular" side to not support it.

Oh, you know trump will issue an EP revoking Pride Month, and all the businesses will forget about it. It makes me sick.

Companies have no feelings. They just do whatever's best for the bottom line.

The thing is they don't have colours they just go where the wind blows.

I think its because the largest individual shareholder is still bezos. Shareholders elect the board, and the board appoints the CEO.

Bezos is still Executive Chair on the board of directors, who Jassy reports to. Nothing controversial would be done without Bezos knowing.

maybe it helps your conscience but it's not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won't make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your 'protest'. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya'll gonna figure this out?

X -> BlueSky

Why not Mastodon?

I've closed almost every account as well. I like Bluesky and PixelFed so far. As far as phones go, I'm just going to keep my same Android for now. It's old and I will not upgrade until I have to. I use fdroid for everything. I though of switching to Apple, but as you said, they are kissing the ring too. Sad times.

GrapheneOS

With android you can avoid the google play store so they don't get a cut of ad revenue. I don't know whether Google gets a cut of phones they didn't manufacture just because Android is on it, considering Android is open source and the manufacturers are responsible for updates.

Get a 10 usd phone, like the old ones?

Anyone switching to a flip phone?

maybe it helps your conscience but it's not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won't make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your 'protest'. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya'll gonna figure this out?

I'm actually doing the same. I'm going to really consider, to the best of my ability, and with the best information available, the political background of the things I spend my money on. If I -need- a semi-frivolous thing, I'll buy from a blue state or used on eBay. No hiring of the trades for me; if I can't do it myself, I probably don't need it that bad (I live in a red state). No Amazon, Facebook, and especially no Tesla (not that I was ever interested in the first place). I will try to support artists and other people who have a politically agreeable mission, however.

What's the worst that can happen? I end up with a giant pile of money I would have blown? I'm fine with that.

I'm glad people like you exist. I've cut down spending through COVID and have been mostly in bunker mode living well below my means and paying off my mortgage. I don't owe anything to anyone outside of land tax and some utilities. I'm late to the game removing Amazon from the picture, but my last order has already been made. What sucks is I thought after a few years of hunkering down things would finally get better and I'd be in a great position to move forward. I hope more and more people join this effort. I see this as being AS important as the 2nd amendment. The right to bare arms is useless if you have to fight an entity with most of the money, major parts of the supply chain, and all the intel.

We're you asleep a couple months ago... They were welcomed back with open arms...

Yeah... now Trump will give them everything they want as long as they kiss his ass.

maybe it helps your conscience but it's not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won't make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your 'protest'. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya'll gonna figure this out?

Wtf. Amazon owns Twitch? The whole anti-monopoly thing is just a suggestion rather than a rule ig.

Or watch via Twitch xtra.

God I hate it so much

It is easy.

Maybe not convenient, but it is easy as fuck. Just don't use anything and build your own web infrastructure. Easy peasy

Not sure if DigitalOcean stacks up in similar ways or not. Also not sure what their politics are.

I'd be curious about options as well.

You learn how to hack multiple other services together, and you coordinate with multiple third parties + their different applications. There are no other feature complete competitors. The S in AWS is what defined it. The AW part doesn't matter; anyone can do that with enough cash, effort, and skill. Welcome to the global monopoly, thank you for your support by using AWS.

maybe it helps your conscience but it's not going to affect any of these massive corporations. it won't make a dent in their revenue and they will go on oblivious to your 'protest'. if you want to make a difference, the only way is [redacted]. when are ya'll gonna figure this out?

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That would be quite a task. It is wild how many internet services rely on AWS.

The problem is that a significant violent minority refuses to call people with more melanin in their skin than them that.

Makes them easier to identify and target.

more like mask flip season. they will implement it back with the same speed they unimplemented next time democrats take charge. I think one should collect all these news and keep them for four years so one can compare the news four years later side by side with these. that is if Trump doesn't go full monarchy on USA's ass

I did my best by not being born in America

I think the vast majority of Americans on Lemmy did the same.

same here homie, same here.

Deleting LGBTQ policies is nothing compared to the slow drum of global warming that might wipe us out as a species.

I tried to save y'all by advocating for third parties, who would actually bring in the same level of EO you're seeing from Trump but instead to focus on education, military cuts, and moving towards green and nuclear

"I tried to save you from the empire by voting for the empire"

Honestly, fuck Americans and their insane discourse. Absolutely psychotic, delusional, brainwashed bullshit. You have NO fucking clue what is happening on this planet. This society is a plague on the world, just unleashing an endless series of massacres, and none of you even understand why.

The fact that you would vote for someone complicit in genocide, without even figuring out WHY, and actually think you did something GOOD. My fucking god. And nobody reply to me with this "Trump would have been 5% worse" bullshit, because I'm done hearing it. You are not the heroes of the story. You've been indoctrinated to support "global military empire lite" with your fear of "global military empire original". You sacrifice the lives of the victims of the empire for your illusion of democracy and quality of living, that never existed in the first place. Stop fucking patting yourselves on the back.

Ew, this comment is gross.

Greedy people didn't survive the French Revolution. Just saying.

Maybe someday I'll be a millionaire. Hopefully it won't be at the same time a loaf of bread is $100 and a million dollars is poverty.

I wonder where the line of being able to afford food and housing would be in each graph and what is the percent of people bellow that. I think that's the important factor signifying how desperate people really are.

That's a weird graph. Why does each label have 2 bars?

I've held off for a while because I'm somewhat rural and I do order a bunch of stuff, but I can't keep paying this asshole.

Just sucks I'm going to be spending a lot more now that I'll have to pay for shipping costs :(

I mean we can all do our small part. 🤷‍♂️ Something is better than nothing.

Yes AWS is the standard for most of the internet, but do you think Amazon won't notice if a whole bunch of users en masse decide to stop buying things from their warehouses?

They have much more built out offerings, but smaller hosting providers and on-premise are always an option regardless. Obviously not including "Azure".

I'm over a year ahead of you. Dumped prime when they announced ad tier is default for streaming.

The downside is waiting 2-3 extra days for them to ship something you order, if you do order through amazon. They make sure to not release any order whatsoever without prime for days to entice you to bribe them for standard service.

Unfortunately, you are still making money for companies that then pay AWS with the money you give them. Not saying you shouldn't do what you're doing, but it's basically impossible to escape Amazon entirely and use the internet now.

Every little bit helps though.