I got a job at UPS. I'm pretty stoked about it. It pays significantly better than any other job I've applied to (and been rejected for), plus its union with good benefits. Perfect hours for me, too.
It's part time, but it's more than enough to cover all my expenses and I can keep doing gig work part time if I want the extra money.
I found a bug in the Walmart Spark gigwork platform, but I'm too much of a chicken to exploit it.
If a customer cancels an order after you leave the store, the app generates a return trip that makes it so you can't take another order until you return all the stuff. If they cancel an order while you're inside the store you can't leave with the items because you have to show an "exit pass" screen to the receipt checker at the door. But if they cancel while the "exit pass" screen is still on your device, no return is generated, even if you're outside.
So someone could have a friend or another account(it's really easy to make fake accounts and pay with gift cards), and place orders for expensive stuff like PS5s, switch, whatever and then have them cancel at the right time.
Free stuff if you're brave enough
I'm reading "No More Tears", a book about the Johnson & Johnson company. It's kind of unreal how evil that company is, yet we don't hear much about it.
They were more responsible for the opioid epidemic than the Purdue Pharma. Not only did they fund more of the research that led doctors to over prescribe, they also grew the majority of the poppies used to make them. Far more people overdosed on their fentanyl patches than oxycontin. They also continued creating and selling new opiates as non-addictive, like tramadol and tapentadol, despite knowing this was not true.
They also sold talcum powder 30 years after they knew it was contaminated with asbestos, and at least 15 years after they had evidence that talc itself was causing cancers.
They sold Risperdal despite knowing it was worse than the Haldol it replaced. They created 2 new markets for the antipsychotic, children and the elderly, despite the fact it was never approved for anyone other than those with schizophrenia. More than 1.3 million elderly people died as a result of Risperdal, the vast majority of whom were being drugged by their nursing homes. J&J knew that nursing homes were using the drug to sedate difficult dementia patients, allowing them to get by with less employees.
Was the video the one looking into cars4kids? Because that was a legitimately good video. Cumtown is barely mentioned in it.
Drug smuggling, drug dealing, drug related murders and a lot of overdoses as well.
Fairly predictable outcome when you create psychopathic murder squads and then make them completely unaccountable.
It's funny to me that raw milk was mainly a thing for rich liberals until COVID happened. Then right wingers absolute hatred for public health measures bled over into all the dangerous health quakery.
California should pass a law banning arsenic in cheeseburgers.
She has diabetes, but that's not a death sentence, especially when you're wealthy.
They're libertarian socialist.
I've seen some criticism of Rojava, specifically because they have private property rights, some Kurdish nationalist tendencies, and their status as sort of a US proxy. I don't know enough about the situation to say how true that all is, though.
https://linestruggle.medium.com/on-rojava-and-the-western-left-bac1b858173e
Checking receipts when you leave a store. They have cameras everywhere and they can access my receipt through their computer system. I already paid, this is my stuff, they shouldn't be able to detain me without suspicion I stole something.
I don't raise a stink with the poor person checking receipts, though, because I am not an asshole.
True crime communities become unhinged so quick. They get emotionally invested, posting about how sad they are, or vengeance posting about how the perpetrator should be SA'ed in prison. They start developing parasocial relationships with the people involved, posting memorial collages, etc. They overanalyze every new detail and draw connections between everything.
I used to enjoy following the Jeremy Dewitte case, the serial police impersonator who videotaped himself pretending to be a cop for years. It was fun, but the communities following the case went so hard into analyzing every little detail that they became convinced that everything was a conspiracy. A bunch of "influencers" started making channels pretending to have inside information, claiming to have sources inside the police or personally knowing cops involved in the case.
That's hilarious.
"Mozilla is allowing you the option to build Firefox without X11 dependencies"
"Mozilla hates freedom!!!"
If you're poor, I personally get to decide what you spend your money on