br00t4c, to random
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Corporations are forcing Americans to pay more for less - in their own words | Matt Stoller

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/23/corporations-price-gouging-big-oil

br00t4c, to random
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NatureMC, to internet
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"No caring adult could have a problem giving their driver's licence or passport details to any social media website that asks for it ..." @firstdogonthemoon with razor-sharp cynism (as we like it):
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/may/22/its-moral-panic-time-thank-goodness-for-news-corp-who-continue-to-champion-the-mental-health-of-kiddies

br00t4c, to random
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br00t4c, to maryland
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BRoW_1937, to anarchism
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States and corporations have almost unlimited power over the life of simple individual. A madman on top of state hierarchy could kill 100 000 of innocents and get away with it, while you may have a prison sentence because of a comment in the web. If you, like us, anarcho-mystics – think, that this is unfair -Turn your mind into a weapon! Check our pinned posts for techniques.

dcjohnson, to random
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Governments allow people with money to set up corporations, in order to accomplish things the public want done. Why ELSE would a democracy do this?

(Executives of) Corporations treat rules & regulations that protect the public as an annoyance. They look for ways around those rules.

One of the ways around those rules & regulations is paying politicians to change or ignore the rules, resulting in harm to the public.

The US doesn't ban this. The UK doesn't ban this.

metin, to Humor
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br00t4c, to random
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Corporations avoiding politics during 'most toxic presidential campaign in modern history'

https://www.alternet.org/corporate-america-2024-election/

Nonilex, to microsoft
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touts new center on site of ’s deal

Biden will champion a new Microsoft Intelligence investment in on Wedn — showcasing the failed commitments of his political rival Trump, whose promises for a -rich Foxconn plant in the battleground state never materialized.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/08/biden-foxconn-white-house-trump/

Nonilex,
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Wielding a golden shovel, touted the flat-panel display factory as evidence of a broad revival stirred by his 2017 TaxCut which rewarded the [ & ] & on imported steel. “You know, 18 months ago this was a field, & now it’s one of the most advanced places of any kind you’ll see anywhere in the world. It’s incredible,” Trump crowed.

jrefior, to random
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"Leaders of the slaveholding South called the Declaration [of Independence] 'a most pernicious falsehood.' South Carolina’s John C. Calhoun called the very idea of equal rights a 'false doctrine.'..

"The influential 'second' Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish as well as anti-Black, which was why, unlike the original Klan, it flourished outside the South.. Christian nationalism has been a powerful force throughout America’s history"
https://wapo.st/3QonhLY

#GiftArticle

jrefior,
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"There is no reason to doubt that he [Jamie Dimon] spoke for many of the richest Americans and for other corporate leaders. There was no outcry among them.. They know that Trump’s White working-class followers don’t have to be paid off economically because most care chiefly about the culture wars. Trump can still cut taxes and reduce other obstacles to corporate profit.. Trump will want to make deals for himself and his family, as he did in his first term."

#inequality #corporations

persagen, to coffee
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Companies Use Poison to Make Your Decaf Coffee
https://newrepublic.com/post/181229/companies-poison-decaf-coffee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloromethane

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br00t4c, to internet
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madeindex, to Disneyland
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's vision of the future - in 1957 ! 🏠

A dream collaboration between 2 wonderfully evil , working hand in hand on the future we now live in:
"Is everything of plastic? - Almost!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUOTVPVQZNo

everywhere, () - even in schools 🥰 - A courtesy of... Monsanto!

https://foodscience.news/2023-12-27-monsanto-ordered-pay-7-people-exposed-chemicals.html

jrefior, to ai
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No one is more excited for AI than wealthy corporate leaders and investors.

shekinahcancook, to sustainability
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Podcast:
Crazy Town 86. Escaping Growthism: Wendigo Economics, Mystery Houses, and Becoming the Bear

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org May 1, 2024

"...Grow or die. It’s the governing principle of companies, investment portfolios, national economies, and even philanthropic foundations. Oh, and cancer. Asher, Jason, and Rob lay bare the stats on everything from human population, energy consumption, global GDP, greenhouse gas emissions, and the size of cars and cruise ships, before concluding that the global economy should be named after the Wendigo from Algonquian folklore. They turn to the natural world for examples of self-regulation, along with promising new economic frameworks and on-the-ground models, for how to end Wendigo economics before it ends us.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-05-01/crazy-town-episode-86-escaping-growthism/

br00t4c, to random
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Corporations have big climate goals. Return-to-office mandates don't quite match them.

https://qz.com/problem-people-back-office-carbon-emissions-1851446641

hankg, to mastodon

So as of today Mastodon now has a US 501(c)3 non-profit entity to go along with their German corporate entity that appears to be losing its non-profit status for reasons the don't know yet. blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/…

benroyce,
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@hankg

From my experience with , it's extremely rulebound. I don't sense any malice by the govt of , just overbearing bureaucracy

I like the fact has more rules in general than the for . but there is a limit, and capricious bullsh** like taking away 's status over, what I assume, is some tiny clerical error or minor rule discrepancy, is just embarrassing for Germany.

br00t4c, to random
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metin, to journalism
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From the ar(t)chive…

Stylized 3D illustration for a 2007 issue of the Dutch Elsevier magazine, about the expansion of the Dutch KPN telecom corporation.

The body of the "octopus" reflects the KPN logo, which can be seen on the newspaper and TV screen.

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br00t4c, to edmonton
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Edmonton condo at risk of collapse to be sold as corporate law clouds hope for court fight

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/castledowns-pointe-edmonton-condo-evacuation-1.7177727?cmp=rss

indubitablyodin, to Software
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I really hate that MS Word is basically the only app to use for business-level word processing... unless I want to use Google Docs. Like... yikes. I've tried LibreOffice and Word Perfect, but the biggest issue is that they don't actually handle MS documents that well. And these other apps tend to have a UX experience from the early 2000s.

strypey, (edited ) to Podcasts

"If you look around our country, there's almost no area of our political economy, and culture, and society, that is not being strategically planned by corporations."

, 2024

https://capitalisnt.com/episodes/ralph-naders-capitalism-8KbK0HGj

br00t4c, to random
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Stop raising interest rates & tariffs for problems created by corporations. There's a better way!

https://egbertowillies.com/2024/04/20/stop-raising-interest-rates-tariffs-for-problems-created-by-corporations-theres-a-better-way/

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