• Re: Bezos & Zuck

    From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Mon Jul 14 07:25:01 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    I don't blame you or anyone else who uses it. They are picking on me
    for some reason. Mike P said it's probably because I didn't have enough people friended and I looked like a bot, but I think it's deeper than that.

    You probably pissed off one of the pink haired whackos who "fact check" things - which is pretty easy to do.

    The same scenario takes places in other industries too, like Facebook
    for example. Nobody can compete with it,

    For now. As long as Facebook doesn't make it too painful for people. Hence the Zuck's payment to Trump to try to make sure that people don't "Bud Light" Facebook.

    But, as Firefox found out after f-ing around, cross that line and people will drop you like a rock. And Facebook needs people, actually "enough" people to bring in enough ad revenue and such to make it go.

    If Google finds out that a new company similar to Amazon is
    being constructed, they'll do everything they can to screw it over
    because that's the kind of network the elite are running.

    Right. But in a free market if Google does something like that, people will drop Google - which is why the Left hates free markets. And, for Google, it's already happening. Google is no longer the runaway success for a search engine. People have seen the bias and no longer trust the results.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/200 to Ron L. on Mon Jul 14 04:59:09 2025
    If Google finds out that a new company similar to Amazon is
    being constructed, they'll do everything they can to screw it over because that's the kind of network the elite are running.

    Right. But in a free market if Google does something like that, people will drop Google - which is why the Left hates free markets. And, for Google, it's already happening. Google is no longer the runaway success for a search engine. People have seen the bias and no longer trust the results.

    A lot of people have figured this out but I don't think it's very common for people to fully analyze all these clues. More than 1/2 the country has rejected Democrats, which is great, but that's a baby step. Now we need them to reject Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, the "news."

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Tue Jul 15 07:04:41 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    A lot of people have figured this out but I don't think it's very
    common for people to fully analyze all these clues. More than 1/2 the country has rejected Democrats, which is great, but that's a baby step. Now we need them to reject Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, the "news."

    I don't shop at Walmart because I didn't marry my cousin.
    I avoid Amazon because they are Woke.
    I keep my Facebook "circle" very small and focused.

    So I really can't speak to whether or not people are starting to reject them.

    But we can see that the Media is collapsing due to lack of revenue. So people aren't trusting "the news" anymore.


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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Ron L. on Tue Jul 15 07:25:17 2025
    Ron L. wrote to Aaron Thomas <=-

    But I'm sure that if I "purchased" anything for their Swindle eBook
    reader or any of their media, I would have lost access to it.

    Sorry to interrupt the flow of political rants, but there are ways of
    backing up and de-DRMing Kindle books using an older version of Kindle
    for Windows, Calibre eBook reader and a couple of plugins.

    I backed up all of my Kindle books before they removed the ability to
    do so earlier this year and back up books I download incrementally.

    It's preferable to purchase ebooks from vendors who don't apply digital
    rights management or sell you a "license to use" a book.




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