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I would say it's most likely they were strictly earmarked. Aren't they always?

My friend, maybe you didn't read the article well. Enforcing regulatioand collecting the due taxes are exactly what they are proposing

No shit. That's because Amazon chokes all competition. Downsizing them gives competition a chance to come back alive.

Here is some hope: You have a great job and you love the actual work! Some aspects of it are bullshit, some of the time at work you spend on mandatory bullshit, and bullshitters who detract from your happiness exist all around the world, in every industry. But: All that doesn't completely cancel out the love you still have for your work - otherwise you wouldn't have phrased it that way, would you? Also a slice of good news is, you have some degree of control over how much you let the shitty aspects cancel out the good things. Admittedly, the control is never 100%. And sometimes, the bullshit and frustration can get overwhelming and does have the power to tip the balance into a minus. That's when it's time to leave. Prepare to ge into a new, more rewarding field now. That will give you a choice when you feel the moment has come (probably it's when you keep saying the above sentence to people in the past tense).

I need to make a meme out of this, combined with the situation when realized that I had already, unknowingly, made that decision to be broke more than twenty years ago when realized I'd make a great teacher, and started going down that career path.

Have you noticed how they react extremly slowly? That's an explicit setting they make in CSS so rejecting them is sure to waste a lot of your time.

I actually sometmies consent to tracking cookies, when its the site's primary source of revenue and they need to track my data to survive - like newspapers and other free online publications. But as soon as their cookie consent management comes up with this "legitimate interest" bullshit, I reject everything, just because eff you.

The point of the petition isn't the name though, it's constitutional change

I observe the exact same thing in my parents - it's as if they somehow can't see some things on the screen, or lose the ability to comprehend written text, when it's unexpectedly displayed on a screen. They always fixate on some irrelevant UI element, ignoring the one that's currently important.

Tech support over the phone is torture. Especially when people don't know what a home screen, a menu, a file manager or a browser, a tab is, that in order to leave an app you don't have to close it and so on...

When I found out that my dad doesn't know what the backspace key does on the PC keyboard. His whole life he's only ever used the Del key and always positions the cursor to the left of text he wants to delete. He used to work at IBM for over 30 years and learned to program back in the day when computer code was printed on punch cards. But I'm pretty sure keyboards already had the backspace key back then.

It's a generally recognised principle in economics that we want competition to take place, and for consumers to have a choice - for a plethora of reasons too large to list here. The most important IMO is a political one though: we don't want monopolies for the same reason we don't want monarchies and dictatorships. Being the sole provider of any very important product puts an obscene amount of power in the hand of a single corporation (or a handful of them). We never want that much power to be so concentrated in so few individuals, because it's fundamentally injust, and always leads to catastrophe. Also consider that if that power is a corporation or a "private" individual, they're not accountable to anyone but their shareholders (who, in turn never want the corp to be anything other than a money making machine). Even a dictator is more accountable to his subjects than a multinational corporation is to anyone. So there you have it, that's why we need alternatives.