Once Jassy took over as CEO, there was a slow march of the executives and board abandoning the Leadership Principles and data driven values that made Amazon the beast it is today.

Amazon has left the growth phase of their business and is now in value extraction mode, which means they have to enshittify everything, treat their educated staff like shit, and charge more for all of it.

So glad to be done with that shit hole.

Aboit ten years ago I had XM Radio in my car. Came for free for the first year, then renewed me for $30 for the following year as part of the promo of getting the car. I occasionally used the service for Comedy Central radio and a couple other things, but was largely playing audio off my phone from Spotify/MP3s.

After those two years an XM rep called me since my subscription was about to expire. They wanted $15/mo or $150 for the year. I laughed and said the most I'd pay would be $50 for a year. They tried to argue with me before I cut them off and told them "Look, here's the deal. Either you find me some special that brings the price down to that rate and get some money from me or you get no money from me since I'll be canceling my service. You're selling a service that I don't need and has limited benefit to me that my phone hooked up to my car can't do.". After a few minutes they found me a special and got approval from their manager. That wound up being my last year of using the service.

It's dumb how much publically traded companies try to squeeze their" customers" and staff to drive up value for their true customers, the share holders. It's such a short term view on life and value.

Which makes your community toxic and your job harder.

How many reports did you get and have to filter through and ultimately ignore? If that's not an indicator from your community that something needs to change you're not listening to our needs.

Ughhhhhhhhh. Sorry, but I need to rant.

Those fuckers are so fucking sensationalist. They use the same simple-mined tactics as right-wing propaganda mills. A 20 minute video of theirs could be condensed into 5 without those tactics and actually do far more to push forward their "law based coverage".

I quickly put them in the "not worth the sensationalist propaganda" bucket after watching a handful of their videos

Vance was too young to be VP in 2016 thankfully.

Accidental admission it is!

Such a cool dad move.

That's because the anti-Biden propaganda coming from Russian bots & alt-right astro-turfing is effective.

The astro-turfers are everywhere (including the fediverse) , and a ton of them present themselves as "concern trolls" since it's a little harder to identify them that way.

Fun fact. Dippin Dots, the ice cream of the future, is stored at -40 degrees

Extra fun fact. -40 degrees is where the Celsius & Fahrenheit scales intersect!

Feet sweat. A lot. Like a pint (450g) of sweat a day or more if particularly active or you have larger feet.

So for me, daily at the least. On particularly active days, multiple times.

EPA regulations that car manufacturers used as a way to game the system by not focusing on ICE efficency, hybridization, transitioning to electric sooner.

This is the same reason sedans have gotten larger or disappeared in favor of "cross-overs".