[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 31 points 17 hours ago

I wonder which way many of these new voters lean. Willing to bet on the general direction of the group as a whole. There's always outliers, but I'm pretty confident on this one.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 24 points 21 hours ago

The "issue" is that after receiving backlash for their public support of Trump, they publicly tried to state that it's not an issue because they also have people that support Biden... then the official company account is responding to pro-Trump posts on social media with heart eyes emojis.

It proves the original response they made trying to reduce the backlash from their political commentary, with subsequent reduction in sales and massive negative publicity, was only a platitude. They fucked around, found out, released a half-assed response to try and reduce the damage... and now apparently think it's been long enough that people forgot so they're publicly posting shit supporting Trump again. They're now being called out for the blatant lie to try to save the company.

Also, what is a “sticker mule”?

A company that sells things like custom stickers. One of many similar companies. They don't produce a unique product, it just happened to be a company that was a decent price, fast, and reliable. No issue until they themselves decided the right thing to do was to have the company wade into politics supporting a massively controversial person... for whatever stupid reason.

For further context, I recommend reading some articles about the original email. A few quick ones pulled from Google randomly since I know most people won't bother to search on their own, but may click a link provided.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2024/07/19/sticker-mules-political-stance-undermines-workplace-inclusion-and-customer-trust/
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/18/sticker-mule-trump-2024-email-productive-discourse-expert.html
https://slate.com/business/2024/07/sticker-mule-ceos-pro-trump-maga-email-surprised-employees.html

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago

They stopped his vehicle after he fled the scene and have him in custody according to the CBS article I read a while ago.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

I assume that's what they were referencing. Trump has mentioned Taylor several times in the past, and none resulted in a response like this.

She may not have publicly endorsed anyone if Trump had not retweeted that clearly fake shit implying that Swift was endorsing him. Not responding at all to something so egregious would be seen by many as an implicit endorsement.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

NY style pizza also isn't anything particularly amazing. New Yorkers are just louder about it, like with everything they do.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 100 points 2 days ago

Considering tomatoes aren't even from Europe the Italians can think whatever they want about pizza, they're not experts, they're just as wrong as everyone else.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

With massive decisions like this that fundamentally screw up the company's perception by clients, the CEO isn't the only one to look at, they're just the scapegoat.

Always need to see what happened with the rest of the Board of Directors. Are those the same people? The CEO works for the Board.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Because politics isn't simple in reality, there are a lot of different reasons things are approved or not that may not even be relevant to the actual issue at hand.

On top of that, the parties are very different on how they handle things. The Republican party generally will fall in line as a group, they treat politics very simply. Seemingly because they all have closets overflowing with skeletons that they're all hiding for each other and they'll be exposed if they don't follow the group. You're either part of the group and they'll defend you at all costs, or they tear will you apart.

The Democratic party on the other hand are like herding cats. They might be working towards the same general goal, maybe, but they won't just fall in line because the group says they should.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago

More likely because it has nothing to do with the topic of discussion.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Some people seem to forget that younger generations get older too.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's complicated, and Congress is taking advantage of that to keep him there. The nine-member United States Postal Service Board of Governors has sole authority to fire, and hire, the Postmaster General. At the moment there are only 7 members, 3 Dems, 3 Reps, 1 Ind. 6 members are required for a quorum.

Biden has 2 pending nominations and a pending reappointment of an existing governor. There are still 2 governors remaining from Trump's administration at this point. The Senate confirmed 3 seats in July 2021 and 2 seats in May 2022, and nothing since. They seem to be doing the absolute bare minimum to intentionally delay any possible changes.

Note that these are not full time government positions like the Postmaster. They only meet once a month usually.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

Those systemic issues are there by design. And it's a design they want.

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NASA and Boeing officials pushed back Friday on headlines that the commercial Starliner crew capsule is stranded at the International Space Station but said they need more time to analyze data before formally clearing the spacecraft for undocking and reentry.

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When in Summit settings, searching for "mu" causes an immediate app crash to home screen as soon as the U is typed. No option to report issues or submit feedback.

Only have this device to test at the moment, but I can get it to do it every time.

Pixel 6 on latest official Android 14 update. App version 1.21.2

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