in real life i don't expect anyone to understand anything about how the world works or have any particular principles, but if you are going to comment on my blog I expect you to be AT LEAST manhating and intelligent. And for god's sake have a spine
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It should scare you that the US government is trying to force ByteDance to sell TikTok during an election year, while they are partnering with a certain country to commit genocide under the guise of “self defense”, when TikTok has been such a major center and push for the online ceasefire movement.
It should terrify you, no matter if you think it’s funny to shit on TikTok. They are trying to control the narrative we are exposed to, and attempting to flood American owned companies if they refuse to sell and they succeed in removing the app from the store.
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I have managed to start hating Amazon so much more.
I honestly don't understand how something that's such a pain to use managed to destroy all other forms of shopping. (Yeah, I know, it used to be less awful.)
My husband was given an Amazon giftcard, so when Canada Computers didn't have the kind of RCA/HDMI adaptor that we needed, we stopped looking for a place to buy it and just got it off Amazon.
But we couldn't just buy it. Despite me knowing that this was free shipping, and it should have cost less than the gift care was for, Amazon said that the cost would be $3.32, and I needed to enter a credit card. Note that it wasn't actually displaying the price yet, despite having one in mind. (I know it had one in mind, because the "sign up for Prime and we'll give you $50" had a little bit in it, showing me that once I paid the $3.32 I'd have $46.68 left over). So once I navigated all the traps that it's trying to trick you into clicking on, and confirmed that I was telling it to apply the gift card I'd figured out how to enter (and I'm guessing that they sell those gift cards on the assumption that people just won't bother carrying through with figuring out how to redeem them), I entered my credit card number. Oh, wait, I added a credit card to my account. (I guess that's part of how they justify asking for my credit card before telling me how much I owe? They like to act like it's just filling out account information, not payment info?)
Then once I had managed to avoid all the add-ons, and select the correct shipping method. (No, charging me money to send it to me in a harmfully short amount of time will NOT make up for the fact that I'm not buying this in a store. It just makes me hate you more), what do you know! I didn't owe them anything.
So I had to add in the credit card and then remember how to take it out (I hate hate hate companies that make you jump through hoops after every purchase in general, not just Amazon. And they way they like to act like I'm the unreasonable one for not wanting my payment information stored in the app, "oh, we follow best security practices", as if I have the ability to do a proper audit on them. Or as if their security is the only problem with that practice). And I didn't need the credit card after all. But I guess that they couldn't admit to that. Because then they would have missed a chance to maybe get me to forget and leave them my credit card info.
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