A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon (preview)

Minion Death Cult

Alexander Edward

Dsa, Leftwing, Comedy, Democraticsocialism, Rightwing, News, Communism, Politics, Cringe, Socialism

4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today we're talking Alex's bad back and scheduling days off work for physical therapy while your boss pretends he has a say in the matter

and the Teamsters announce securing Air Conditioning for future UPS package cars. We talk about the merits, possible drawbacks, and address a few of the imaginative responses to this big step towards addressing safety concerns

Also: we study the weird, tan, Canadian, "Motel 6 CEO" grandpa who accused a 9 year old girl of being trans during a track meet. Turns out his son (Motel 6 CFO) is also extremely weird

Finally, in a story promoted in right wing media as "Amazon locks man out of his smart home after accusing him of racism," we check out the medium post of a smart-device-junkie whose amazon account was briefly suspended.

So he couldn't turn on his TV or his lights with his voice I guess. This is what they want to take from you.

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0:00.0	Tony, did you hear about the guy Amazon shut down his entire smart home because they thought he said a racist remark to one of their drivers?
0:16.7	No way. Is that this real? Kind of. So that's all. I mean, maybe this real? Uh, kind of.
0:22.2	So that's all, I mean, maybe, maybe, yeah, maybe I am pro.
0:25.5	Maybe I am pro smart home. Who knew?
0:27.2	Yeah.
0:28.2	Maybe I do want them to have ring cameras.
0:34.1	Uh, this is the headline. This is a headline that you can read 50 different ways.
0:40.3	And I don't mean like you can interpret it 50 different ways.
0:43.2	I mean there are 50 different versions of this headline going around in right wing media, which is like I just this one for example from Daily Caller, Amazon shut down a man's entire house
0:56.4	because someone called him racist.
0:59.4	And then the headline of the actual story is Amazon confirms
1:03.6	they shut off a man's smart home
1:06.0	because a random guy said he was racist.
1:10.6	Yeah, we're Amazon and we did it because a random guy said he was racist. Uh, yeah, we're Amazon and we did it because a random guy said he was racist.
1:14.8	Amazon shut down the man's entire house because someone called him racist.
1:18.0	He couldn't even poop.
1:19.8	He had a smart toilet.
1:20.9	He couldn't even poop.
1:21.8	They shut it down.
1:26.7	Uh, yeah, this is so fucking funny.
1:31.2	Listen, I'm not pro-racism, but everyone should be allowed to poop.
1:34.4	Yeah.
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