Chongqing: reversal of zero Covid policy means that those working in related industries are now unemployed. Riots at a factory producing COVID tests over mass layoffs. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
hard to think of more poetic way for zero covid to end than proles using covid tests as weapons against riot cops
I think people may be misreading this a tad. The point isn’t that people aren’t buying Alexas - they bought a shitload! It’s that Amazon manufactures them as a loss leader but can’t find ways to turn them into long term revenue streams, even if it spies on you.
It’s important to understand that most of Amazon‘s products and services have historically been unprofitable, and the company didn’t make consistent profits at all until AWS allowed it to truly balloon in the late 2010s. And even then its margins have always been razor thin.
The original idea behind Alexa was that if you had the ability to make impulsive purchases with just your voice enough people would do it to cover the cost of manufacture and cloud service. But of course most people just use it to play Baby Shark and not order dog food.
Americans truly are psychotic when it comes to guns, huh. Not psychotic in a violently crazy way (though it often comes to that), but a more subtle refusal to accept anything beyond confirmation bias. Only country that comes close on the issue is…Brazil?
We dont even know yet if the shooter was involved in fascist politics to any real degree. Off top of my head I imagine he was like large amount of mass shooters - vaguely right wing, severely mentally ill, saw online subcultures goading him on, and surrounded by automatic guns