Adventures in Greed (Megacorps vs Everyday people)

Society is bullshit. Everything is made up by corporations to hide you from the truth.

If you try to look up the ingredients for silly putty or "slime activator solutions" you see shit like this:

Q: What are the ingredients of Silly Putty
A: Crayola acquired the exclusive manufacturing rights to Silly Putty in 1977. The formulas are considered proprietary.

Proprietary? More like POOPrietary. So of course I start digging through safety data sheets instead...

Product has been certified as nontoxic by the Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc. and conforms to ASM D 4236 standard practice for labeling art materials for acute and chronic adverse health hazards.

Elmer’s School Glue is certified by the Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc. (ACMI) as non-toxic and child-friendly. Under this evaluation Elmer’s School Glue has been evaluated by a board certified toxicologist and has been determined to not cause acute or chronic health problems when used as intended

Gee I wonder who runs the supposed safety testing institute for crayola...

ACMI was initially known as the Crayon, Water Color & Craft Institute, Inc. It was renamed the Art & Craft Materials Institute in 1982. It adopted its current name in the late 2000s. ACMI was founded in 1936 and is currently headquartered in Hingham, Massachusetts.

The board of directors is all a bunch of people from Crayola and other pen and pencil companies........ https://www.acmiart.org/files/O_and_D_List_2020-2021.pdf

I want to live in an open source society that doesn't hide ingredients from me. It would be better for everyone if we knew what was in the products children and teachers rely on. Instead, capitalism has created bullshit certification companies that profit off of people's ignorance.

Edit: More links

https://www.reddit.com/r/wholefoods/comments/l8bb3w/how_to_bake_bread_the_whole_foods_way/

Welp, this turned into a real-time adventure in greed. This video was posted on reddit only a couple hours ago and it's already been deleted.

The video showed a worker at whole foods showing the process of "baking bread" at their store. She opened a box full of pre-baked bread that was shipped from another state, produced over a month ago. They take the bread out of the box and put it in the oven for 15 minutes in the morning. This allows them to legally say they "baked" the bread "fresh every day" without getting sued.

This is just another reason why Wetfish needs to automatically archive every video that people post on here. Holy shit.


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Edit: Hey it looks like the video is back!!! And now there's a new one too :)

How to make chocolate mousse!

Meanwhile, mainstream news outlets are trying to claim that WallStreetBets is an "alt-right" hate group, lol

Google removed Element messenger from their mobile app store without warning yesterday. That's the app some of our users use to connect to IRC from their phones.

https://element.io/blog/element-on-google-play-store/
https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013

Google suspended Element from the Play Store without warning or notification.  We submitted an appeal asking for clarification at 23:18, and at 05:31 received a generic update from the Google Play Policy team citing that the app has been removed due to content which contravenes their terms of use, and asking us to “make the necessary changes to [our] app” and “upload a new app using a new package name and a new app name”.

AKA, somebody said a bad word on a matrix server and you have to delete it. This is like deleting Gmail because somebody sent you a naughty email. Or deleting Chrome because somebody made a website with bad words on it.

Ultimately, what defines advertising is payment and control.

i don't know if this is greed.   I don't know what this is, but greed comes to mind.   police defending grocery store dumpster so dumpster divers can't take the massive amount of food thrown away
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/oregon-fred-meyer-food-snowstorm.html

whats the OSS alternative to youtube? gun nerds have been making alternate sites for a while.. Full30, Gunstreamer seem to be the new ones, but a lot of stuff gets uploaded to Pornhub

Not sure, there's been a lot of smaller attempts but it's probably really difficult to match the scale of youtube. Silicon Valley also buys up any credible competitor long before it becomes a threat. We badly need antitrust lawsuits before we see competitors to FAANG owned services

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1362515223886848003?s=21

CEO of TX gas company is giddy on call with shareholders over profits this week from storm. “This week is like hitting the jackpot with some of these incredible prices. We were able to sell at super premium prices for a material amount of production.”

Amazon will fire anyone who doesn't deliver enough packages in a day, so delivery drivers have to resort to peeing in bottles to not get fired.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7amyn/amazon-denies-workers-pee-in-bottles-here-are-the-pee-bottles

"Paying workers $15 per hr doesn't make you a 'progressive workplace' when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles."

"We're pressured to get these routes done before night time and having to find a restroom would mean driving an extra 10 minutes off path to find one," an Amazon delivery driver told Motherboard. "Ten to fifteen minutes to find a bathroom can add up, meaning 20 to 30 minutes there and back all together."

"Obviously we drink a lot of water throughout the day so this is happening a lot through the drive," they continued. "I can tell you that if I drove to find a restroom that I would be bringing back packages every night and that would eventually mean I would get infractions, which would lead to termination.

peeing in water bottles is pretty common for delivery drivers. ask around. yes, it sucks.

Ultimately, what defines advertising is payment and control.

hot take: facebook, google, and youtube are all ADVERTISERS. That's how they make their money.

it should be illegal to advertise to children.