silverbax @ silverbax @lemmy.world

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I go out of my way not to buy from Amazon. It's not some altruistic move - about 3 or 4 years ago I started noticing how little oversight Amazon was placing on the products listed, and you'd be lucky if anything (especially tech) was actually what you'd ordered and not some knockoff or used.

I think I've only bought one or two things from Amazon (other than digital books) in that time frame. I always look to buy directly from the vendor, if I can.

What concerns me is that I've started noticing more and more companies seem to only sell on Amazon. I see this as a mistake, as it hands over more control to one sales channel. I understand a new company doing this, but companies who are well established should maintain their own sales channel directly with their customers, even if they also sell on Amazon.

Recently I bought items from Wahl, Nike and Anker, directly from them. Wahl has products you can only get from their site. I always feel more comfortable just ordering directly from the company when I can, and I notice some companies seem to get that.

If I order directly from the company, I also get better support. I have an actual order number from the company, and correspondence/confirmation from the company. Special deals work better (the same deals on Amazon sometimes have hiccups).

ITT: People who don't realize this has been a gift to the US: They can wage war against Russia, the largest nuclear US adversary, on the cheap, without risk to American lives or running afoul of the UN or NATO.

OR - and hear me out here - the stock market was flooded with retail investors who all thought they were geniuses during a bull market, then as the market flatlined over the last 2 years, suddenly left the market as reality set in and those retail investors learned they weren't outsmarting the market.

I mean, Robinhood went public 2 years ago. GME short squeeze was six months prior. I'd attribute Robinhood losing users two and half years later would more likely be the market cooling - just as Schwab and TD Ameritrade have seen. (TD was just bought by Schwab , BTW).

The stock market is a lot bigger than one blip stock event nearly three years ago. On Wall Street, 24 hours is a lifetime.

My NC district is so carved up my very blue city zip code is sliced up to lump it with rural areas that cover four different counties just to eliminate my vote.

We really need a bot to chime in whenever someone shows up with Infinite Leftist arguments.

There are Policy Leftists and Infinite Leftists.

How do you think Microsoft generates the summaries of meetings, emails, contextual content, messages and attendee summaries for the 'Productivity Score Reports'?

Microsoft has stated if you block everything except telemetry, Teams won't be able to provide those. The source is Microsoft's own documentation.

Or, they would be forced to lower their prices to what people can actually afford.

Or, they could then figure out that lobbying for single payer health care will be more profitable than not being able to charge 'everything you own' but not be able to threaten you.

Teams is already sucking up proprietary data and running ML on it, any company stupid enough to use that and this together deserves how bad this will screw them in their markets down the road.

All of that data is worth billions to the stock market and competitors, and Microsoft is breached constantly.

I believe this may be one of the few times other car manufacturers would lobby the government in favor of unions, since they see Tesla as having an unfair advantage that hurts their bottom line.

I am simultaneously encouraged about the writers starting to take chances and completely baffled as to why they even bothered with an overall throwaway storyline.

I would also like some actual jokes thrown in. This is like...an outline of an episode that was never punched up in any fashion.

That's literally every company.

As a manager, you get frustrated because no matter how good an employee is,they won't let you rate them as high as they should be, for...reasons.

My advice to anyone heading to college: go to community College for at least a year, two if you can (I know it's tough to miss out on 'campus life'), get good grades and transfer to any decent college you want.

You'll save a fortune, the education is the same and in the end, you should be going to college to learn something that you can use.

You're right, it's religious splintering, just now in a very US way, with commercial consumer brands.

Where is the US code that designates the difference?

Wow, yet another industry-trailing company showing why they are no longer relevant in big tech. They just sell overpriced garbage tech to other old, falling behind companies.

Just like the people who most crow and beat their chests about 'loving the flag' are same people who desecrate it by wearing it as apparel, put it on their cars as bumper stickers or decals, beach towels, and so much more.

I mean, there's a US law - US code 8 - which covers all the things you can't do with the US flag and they break almost all of them. They are all just cosplayers.

Every move Elon Musk comes up with makes Twitter less relevant.

Like selling insurance that never has to pay a claim.

Apparently, I've debugged your code.