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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The online retail store Amazon actually loses money too, the main generator of profit for Amazon is actually AWS. Every other branch of the business is about market control.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

“It isn’t transparent,” said a woman named Elizabeth who wouldn’t give her last name.

What are you hiding Elizabeth?!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It also strongly encourages people to return their ballots in person likely because the GOP is already set to challenge mail-in ballots as "rigged".

[–] [email protected] 123 points 5 days ago (6 children)

That's why they're trying to take power. Billionaires would rather destroy the world and drive all life to extinction than to give up their private jets and yachts.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's not a "community", it's one person making all the posts because I guess they wanted to make hating Linux their entire personality. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Buying a social media network: $40 billion

Buying a US election: $0.13 billion

Democracy is fucked.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

What do you mean, corporations that have a legal obligation to maximize value for shareholders weren't passing money on to consumers out of the goodness of their hearts? Nobody could have seen that coming! /S

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where in the article did it say he was the CEO of Twitter? The article is about the upcoming Tesla earnings call and how the actions of Musk as Tesla's CEO could (or normally would) impact the company's outlook to investors.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I hope cyclists start riding together slowly in large groups in the middle of traffic lanes such that cars can't get around them, as they are legally entitled to do.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Yup, also American automakers get plenty of subsidies and bailouts from the government too. It was always about not wanting to make electric cars. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I find it ironic that the federal government sends out carbon tax rebate cheques and the majority of people hate it, but the provincial government sends out random cheques and the majority of people are going to eat it up.

I'd like to preemptively note that both cheques are in fact sourced from taxes. 🤷

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