Talaraine

joined 1 year ago
[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago

You mean except for aid to Ukraine, which is desperately needed like, yesterday?

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

Yeah I would love to see Ford go back and dust off some of those sedan assembly lines. Like, what were they even thinking?

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

No man, credits to bulwark the insane rents people are charging will only cement the practice. Why does it take 3x your income to qualify to rent a place? Why haven't corporations and foreign investors been moved out of the single family home industry? Why hasn't a cap been put on Air Bnb and other short term rentals? How about changing the regulations to allow zoning changes which can allow more homes on existing lots?

The government, as usual, simply doesn't understand the problem! So frustrating.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, if there hadn't been settled lawsuits that proved the damage, maybe?

Look, regardless of what you personally think of Monsanto, every American has bought things that were defective or harmful in the past and presented the same argument when looking for a refund.

Caveat emptor is what we're told. Buyer beware. Do your due diligence. Bayer didn't go into this blind and I'm just curious why they should be any different than we are. Corporations are people, right?

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 28 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Bayer, you bought the poisoned pill. That's on you.

Now all the people in america who are already dying of this poison are looking to you for recompense.

Caveat emptor, right? Suck it.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is room in politics for a conservative point of view. If you're trying to nail down the conservative fake media push to fascism as this woman's fault, you might be barking up the wrong tree.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 46 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I like this woman already. She walks the walk.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago

Yo, Netflix! This one right here! Read it and understand plz

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe he's tired of wiping other people's spit off his clothes and face

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 19 points 9 months ago

I think there ARE other ways to combat this, and the main one is ending activist investors that empower the Jack Welch pump and dump doctrine.

If someone wants to invest in something because they like it, they should be able to do that. What they should NOT be able to do is overwhelm a company they may or may not even like with dollars and then tell the company how to run its own business. If you don't like what a company is doing, you SELL YOUR STOCK.

It's this incessant worshiping of the shareholder that is step # 1 of enshittifcation.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Cancelled two weeks ago, and while it's too early for me to have a fully informed opinion, so far I've noticed that if you just hold items in your cart until you reach some kind of threshold (and I admittedly don't know what that is) you can get free shipping anyway.

It's almost like I was paying all that money just so I could one off order anything on a whim. I'm an adult, I can exercise impulse control and stick it to Amazon in some small way by doing it. Win/Win.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Not to mention lower price which is.... the point.

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