I have one outstanding order that is already out for delivery. Once I get that, I’m closing my amazon account. I’m done. Buy nothing. Vote with your wallet. Edit: account is closed. get bent Bozos.
Just goes to show how corporations actually feel about diversity and equality. They’re all racist, sexist and homophobic but they all write their policy to appear like they aren’t until they are allowed to show their true colours.
The thing is they don’t have colours they just go where the wind blows.
Companies have no feelings. They just do whatever’s best for the bottom line.
I guarantee that we will see calls to repeal the Civil Rights Act if this continues, and comrade it’s just getting started.
Never heard of the Irish Star before. I went looking for a secondary source. So far CNN and MSNBC are not reporting on this. But interestingly the Washington post is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/10/amazon-removes-black-trans-rights/
Fuck this guy, with his own dildo rocket straight to any assteroid he wants to mine.
Oh good another company to not give my money to. I will be saving a lot this year.
I wonder what makes the author of the article think that Bezos did this. The CEO of Amazon has been Andy Jassy since 2021.
Bezos is still Executive Chair on the board of directors, who Jassy reports to. Nothing controversial would be done without Bezos knowing.
I think its because the largest individual shareholder is still bezos. Shareholders elect the board, and the board appoints the CEO.
You can live without Twitch. Once you leave, you have so much time to do other stuff. Stuff that are so much better than watch other people play games or eat ramen in Tokyo. Go play games yourself and see the world around you with your own eyes. You can also stop ordering useless new stuff. Visit thrift stores or buy second hand online.
Or watch via Twitch xtra.
Wtf. Amazon owns Twitch? The whole anti-monopoly thing is just a suggestion rather than a rule ig.
Just last night I was going through all my subscribe and save items and finding alternatives. I stored them in a spreadsheet (LibreOffice). My last order is already in motion and once delivered that’s it. Amazon is gone.
Other changes I’ve made or am in the process of making:
- FB + IG -> PixelFed
- Reddit -> Lemmy (lemm.ee)
- X -> BlueSky
- Tesla hasn’t been on my wish list for a while -> Rivian or another alternative… wish I could say Xiaomi
- YouTube -> PeerTube, LibreTube, piped.video, invidious
Where I’m stuck and looking for help: What do I do for my next phone? Android and Apple are both at the table supporting this mess. Linux alternatives seem like huge downgrades at the moment… any advice?
Anyone switching to a flip phone?
I have been thinking about getting a Murena Fairphone.
That’s a good idea. Keep in mind that you can also install other OSs on a FairPhone: LineageOS, iodéOS, CalyxOS (unfortunately not GrapheneOS). A FairPhone can be a good hardware choice, and with it you still have the ability to choose an OS.
I might actually try to install on my existing Android Fairphone.i have been very lazy the last few years in terms of installing Linux on my desktop and hacking around with stuff. I was also considering Sailfish but I think E/OS / Murena is the way to go.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/05/murena-eos-fairphone-4
Was wondering what you were talking about and found this article that explains the advantages and disadvantages of Murena’s e/os, so i thought id link it, in case anybody else is curious.
Wow - that looks like a very solid option!! I’m very interested… this may be my next phone! Thank you so much!
X -> BlueSky
Why not Mastodon?
Groups I follow are on BlueSky – happy to check out Mastodon as well though.
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
Anything samsung galaxy phones? I got a later model and don’t know if I can get anything other than the stock program.
to my knowledge there’s not a lot available for samsung hardware at the moment, maybe check out sailfish?
Is there a reason to choose Graphene vs Lineage (or any others I may not know about)?
I don’t have any experience with Lineage so I don’t want to speak to it. May just be hardware dependent in a lot of cases. I had a pixel when I got sick of googles shit and Graphene was the only option for me, so that’s what I sprung for. The experience has been very positive - installation was easy - the fresh start was welcome.
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.
I’m using f-droid now. A quick search shows Google makes money via play store and having some of their apps as default (to sell ads) – so maybe that will still work for me. I’ll dig in further. Thank you!
Get a 10 usd phone, like the old ones?
Are there any that will allow me to still text with my friends and family on Signal?
Just send an SMS, it’s not the end of the world
Alternatively, the next usual Lemmy suggestion is too isolate yourself and lose those friends
Vast majority of my friends are communicating via Signal. So far the best option looks to be to use/install a version of android that cuts out the google stuff. F-droid for apps to avoid $ from play store while also avoiding $ from ads.
People with social media don’t realize, they’ve already lost those friends. You’re keeping up with them superficially at best. If you quit the platform, chances are you will not notice that you’re no longer so superficially keeping up with them, you will not hear from them, and they will not notice either. Anyone that you actually want to keep in touch with, you can send a message through text, or call.
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?
If enough people do this, it will certainly make a dent exactly where they don’t want it to. I may be wrong, but I do believe it’s possible to reach critical mass. With that said, it also helps my conscience at the same time. I won’t comment on the other part other than it’s already been figured out and demonstrated. Best I’m willing to do personally is voting with my wallet.
That would imply that the republicans were right the entire time with their weapons zealotry
you need to see big picture. it’s not republicans that got shit done with weapons, it’s how 96% of human history was decided. this time is no different.
It’s always worth cutting ties with Amazon.
Just about everything is available from somewhere else, and probably cheaper with their enormous fees they charge the sellers.
If it isn’t available elsewhere, it’s probably an Aliexpress fire hazard anyway.
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?
Well I notice the £95 a year not spent on Amazon Prime.
Why are you copy/pasting this… joke?.. all over this thread?
because you children don’t understand how the world works.
we’re all lucky to have you here to educate us lol
Wait, rainbow capitalism wasn’t sincere?
I left the Amazon ecosystem a couple of years ago because fuck Bezos and it wasn’t a big deal, really. Accumulating stuff is a mindset I could reason myself out of. I call it the power of No, thank you. I buy mostly second hand now and it’s so calming. Saves me money as well.That fuck bezos link is gold, thanks for sharing.
Closed my account last night. Made my partner close theirs and cancel prime too.
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 generally agree, but I’m not going to knowingly give money to ghouls who are trying to make my existence worse. I’m not at all against using [redacted] but I do think the idea that boycotts are worthless isn’t correct. Boycotts have been successful in the past, it just requires some solidarity and that part is what has been missing from a lot of the wider calls recently. I do think we could impact their profits. But we can do both this and sabo-[redacted]
They’ll kiss whatever ring they need to kiss. The only moral these people have is “number go up”. Fuck this planet.
Okie-dokie.
I guess I can delete “slow down if I see Jeff Bezos crossing the street” from my policies.
Don’t worry guys, all these corporations will bring back those pretty rainbow logos for Pride Month™ and all will be forgotten.
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.
That’s a weird graph. Why does each label have 2 bars?
because saying 0-10% 11%-20% 21%-30% 31%-40% 41%-50% 51%-60% 61%-70% 71%-80% 81%-90% 91%-100% would create a label so fucking long.
It’s implied that each grouping is the top 10% and bottom 10% of each 20% range, to me anyway.
Especially with the tallest having an extra label stating “top 10%”
Probably lazy graphing. I think they’re trying to illustrate the difference between top 10 and 20 percent, then threw the others in as collective 20 percent bands. Pie chart might have been better.
to be more similar to the 10% 20% categories I would guess. the bottom 50% could probably be lumped together and it wouldn’t change much of anything.
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.
Personally I think graph is pretty egregious as long as we have a homeless or poverty problem to discuss, regardless of where the line of desperation is. We know people are under it, and not just a few. Not to mention the high percentage of middle class that are a paycheck or two from being unhoused.
Don’t get me wrong - I know there are many desperate people now. I’d just like to see the comparison to pre-revolution France to see just how similar the situation really is based on hard data.
Ah I get your point. That would be interesting!
