I have seen several threads now on this subject here in Lemmy recently and the number of people who are against it is disappointing. Years ago my wife and I decided to let our Prime membership lapse and to no longer buy from Amazon. I mentioned this on Reddit and the responses were similar to what I'm seeing on here now in regards to this boycott.
"That's not going to do anything"
However, in the past seven years, instead of buying from Amazon, we have sought out small businesses and put money into local businesses when we can. That's money Amazon does not have from us. Think about what the average American spends on goods from Amazon each year. If more people did this instead of naysaying then the economic impact would be much better.
So to those of you wanting to participate tomorrow, I applaud you. Be the change you want to see in the world. Money is all these greedy parasites know and if we can collectively stand up, one small step at a time, then the impact will be huge.
To the naysayers, either you're a bot or have nothing to contribute to the cause because I don't see any organizing from you. Find a positive way to contribute or shut the fuck up.
“Mighty Nurgle! Festering grandfather of plagues! Hear your servants prayer! Look upon the devastation I have wrought, the diseases I have spread, the unbelievers I have infested with you’re suppurating truth. I beg of your favor and your boon, that I might strive all the harder to spread your blessings across the stars.”
Just saying, the current Right wing zeitgeist frequently reminds me of 40k's Nurgle.
That's so nice to hear. Hopefully it becomes a yearly tradition to watch it.
We introduced it to our daughter this year. She was a little scared but enjoyed it nonetheless. I caught myself wishing there were more shows like it, but it's so unique and that's probably why I love it so much.
“Look, Laura Loomer is not affiliated with the Trump campaign. She said something about curry in the White House that I first read about this morning actually, because I knew that you would ask me about it...” [emphasis my own]
These guys are terrible liars. Between him and Trump, they sound like they have no idea what is going on.
This is correct. I work in bot detections. There are baseline checks for various browser automation used as bot frameworks like Puppeteer or Playwright. Then there is basic analysis of server side and client side fingerprints; meaning, do the fingerprints you claim make sense. There are other heuristics too and I imagine Cloudflare is monitoring movements that point to automation. All of this happens after you click. I personally prefer this over Google's captcha which frequently doesn't recognize me as a human but is easily bypassed by bots.
I have seen several threads now on this subject here in Lemmy recently and the number of people who are against it is disappointing. Years ago my wife and I decided to let our Prime membership lapse and to no longer buy from Amazon. I mentioned this on Reddit and the responses were similar to what I'm seeing on here now in regards to this boycott.
"That's not going to do anything"
However, in the past seven years, instead of buying from Amazon, we have sought out small businesses and put money into local businesses when we can. That's money Amazon does not have from us. Think about what the average American spends on goods from Amazon each year. If more people did this instead of naysaying then the economic impact would be much better.
So to those of you wanting to participate tomorrow, I applaud you. Be the change you want to see in the world. Money is all these greedy parasites know and if we can collectively stand up, one small step at a time, then the impact will be huge.
To the naysayers, either you're a bot or have nothing to contribute to the cause because I don't see any organizing from you. Find a positive way to contribute or shut the fuck up.