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Apple-backed think tanks urge lawmakers not to vote for antitrust bills
Stop throwing that meme around. Psych drugs don’t fix damage done by toxic experiences or acculturation. They do not treat undesirable personality traits, but they *can* CAUSE them.red oak said:
Are you off your meds again?PDRPRTS said:Regardless of preference, there are laws and constitution that need to be upheld if we are to keep post-war advances in freedom for the people. These are already being attacked from everywhere at the moment.
Had these laws not existed - when Microsoft was having a shot at justifying their demise -, there is a high likelihood that there would be no Apple today. Certainly not the majestic and revolutionary company it has been.
If Apple and Google and the rest of the gang have their way with these blatant distortions of reality, they themselves will have no incentive to keep up their impressive work so far. Fair competition and plural offerings are the basis of our way of life. In this instance, these companies will still be able to do what they do, and everyone of us will still be able to have our telescreens has we wish to customize them. We will just have a choice, that costs the price of installing a couple of Apps in the name of freedom. Even though nobody seems to notice, and nobody seems to care, that little bit of effort from all of us who prefer these services e.g. Facetime and Messages like i do, sustains the possibility that new Apples and Googles and the lot can still come in and inspire us, just like Apple did, to Think Different™. Nowadays id be happy already with just Think™..
I also ask the moderators that this thread be verified for bots, other than me🙂 peace
Long-term use of psych drugs is statistically shown to lead to worse outcomes.
Rambling paranoia is known to be worsened by long-term use of psych drugs. The concept of so-called “relapse” is actually a withdrawal effect, not a “return of the disease process”.
Long term use of psych drugs for depression and other “undesirable behavior” is not evidence-based medicine. There’s no scientific validation of the “chemical imbalance” hypothesis, no matter what biased sources will claim. (That includes corporate bias in pharma-funded “studies” and emotional bias from the users of these substances who sincerely believe they’re helped by them, which is NOT how you attain scientifically-valid data)
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Amazon UK allegedly destroys millions of unsold items a year, including Apple products
Walmart and Amazon are WHY you don’t have other options for local retail.goodbyeranch said:
I'm on board with this, but if the choice is between having an $8.99 curtain rod show up at my door the next day or going on a city-wide hunt that will almost certainly lead to Walmart and sorrow anyways, then Amazon wins every time. Time, Gas, Mileage, Parking, Crowds. No thanks.darkpaw said:
Seriously, this fupping company. Cancel Prime. Sell your Kindle and Echo devices. Delete your account. Amazon is only as big as it is because we put it there, and we can put it somewhere else.
It is well documented how Walmart destroys independent and smaller regional businesses by using corporate wealth to undercut locals right out of business (and then they sometimes screw the whole community’s economy by arbitrarily shutting down a store after wiping out local businesses, simply because corporate didn’t like the profit margins at that Walmart).
Amazon causes the same issues, only they do it remotely.
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Amazon UK allegedly destroys millions of unsold items a year, including Apple products
This is whataboutism, not relevant argument. You don’t need to use every news item to defend Apple. Apple has plenty of lawyers. They’re not even part of this article.badmonk said:And the EU goes after Apple for generating e-waste… because of “non-standard chargers and right to repair issues.”
At least Apple makes durable long-lived products.
This is yet another example of politicians not seeing larger issues-like going after the Apple App store as a pseudo-monopoly on iOS when Amazon Marketplace is cannibalizing the entirety of the online economy and engaging in wholesale destruction of products, not to mention purposefully making products that directly compete with their sellers and undercut them. They are actively using their size to consume every larger parts of the economy.
We can address more than one type of corporate malfeasance at a time (and it’s absolutely necessary that we do). A failure to go after one company for abuses does not justify letting go of others who are currently under scrutiny. -
Amazon UK allegedly destroys millions of unsold items a year, including Apple products
That’s what I suspected. It’s best referred to as “waste of energy” (& pollution) then. Calling incinerators anything other than that is absolute bollocks.mknelson said:Energy Recovery = burned in a power plant.
CBC Marketplace did an episode on this subject last year:
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First Google Store takes an opposite approach from Apple retail
On first glance, it seems pretty & pleasant...
...until I looked slightly longer and saw that it has the same retro-modernist minimalism as Apple, at the structural level. That seating looks straight out of the 1970s brutalist architecture playbook, for example.
Corporations don’t know how to be ACTUALLY pleasant, because the nature of the beast is authoritarian control & conformity; especially when the core business model is to treat people like cattle.
