tumblr is massively wrong about the Amazon strike and there are a few key people trying to get the right information out and y’all are too focused on sticking it to Amazon to bother getting it right. @brainstatic started noticing yesterday that the dates people were posting were funky and @janothar started posting that even the Spanish strike isn’t starting on the 10th and yet y’all are still spreading this like it’s fact. I honestly have not seen a damn thing about the strike literally ANYWHERE but tumbr so I decided to use our good friend google and here’s what I’ve found.
There are a handful of other sites reporting that the strike started on the 10th and that other EU countries are participating; however, as @brainstatic pointed out already, these all link back to the same .info site that is not reliable and is not backed by reliable news sources (unlike Reuters, which is a reliable news source). The .info site is also only a CALL to strike – it is NOT a statement of that anywhere other than Spain is striking. The Observer article that links to the .info site above also literally uses tumblr’s “the boycott starts on the 10th” as a source for the boycott starting on the 10th… meaning that TUMBLR started those rumors, not the Observer article, and there is no reliable source for the boycott starting on the 10th other than the fact that y’all made that shit up and some online news source picked it up and ran with it. You can’t use an article that sites you as the source as a source for your bullshit. Got it?
If you want to support the striking workers, know when they are striking and what they want from you. Know what the actual activists involved are calling for. Know when and where the strike is taking place. As of right now, the strike is ONLY in Spain, it is 3 days long starting on the 16th, and it is ONLY focused around Prime Day. It did not start yesterday on the 10th. It is primarily about raising wages and other similar issues in Spanish factories, which are unionized already. It is not about people dying in American Amazon factories. Having half-assed, half-researched boycotts here and there that do not correspond to the strikes and are not well coordinated is not going to make a point. Having an organized, well-informed, large movement is what gets your point across. So stop what you’ve been doing and do this right. Boycott Prime Day and stop spreading misinformation.
Everything I could find corroborated this information, but also… Jesus, can I just say how incredibly off-putting the holier-than-thou tone so popular with these correction posts are? Shit like “y’all are too focused on sticking it to Amazon to ‘bother’ getting it right” and acting like people are deliberately spreading misinformation because they’re malicious or don’t care or whatever is just OP being an asshole, because the culture on here is geared less toward informing people and more towards telling people of in entertaining ways.
OP is annoyed, I get that. Checking sources is important and Tumblr is infamously bad at spreading misinformation. But OP didn’t have to be a jackass about it. But it gives them that morally superior high, so… ok I guess.
Frankly, I think the added awareness about the shit that American and British workers go through at these hellish warehouses can do nothing but good.
THANK YOU. I was reading this and was like, being factually correct is all nice and well, but how is boycotting Amazon internationally and for longer a bad thing, especially given how they treat their workers? Go ahead and stick it to Amazon everyone.
I can hazard a guess as to that actually! Coinciding the boycott with the actual strike demonstrates a very decisive and clear connection TO the strike. It gives the strike more weight. It’s “you’re losing money because of this strike specifically” rather than “workers happen to strike vaguely in the middle of a downswing in sales”. Even if they KNOW damn well that the boycott is in solidarity for the strike, if the dates don’t coincide, they can say “oh that’s not really the reason, your strike is meaningless, your strike happened after this boycott, clearly unrelated”. Whereas if the dates coincide exactly, they have no excuses. It sends a strong, clear message.
Which is how OP could have chosen to explain it, but didn’t. And maybe I’m wrong about the reason, but this seems logical. This IS just a guess though, so you know… grain of salt with what I say here.
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Just as an FYI, if you live in the US this probably looks pretty disgusting. And we kinda have good reason to have that visceral reaction, as poultry production in the US is rife with salmonella, requiring us to live with chicken cooked to well done for a very long time.
In other countries that have a healthier food supply where you can expect to buy chicken without the risk of salmonella poisoning, rare cooked chicken is fairly normal. You can even get chicken sashimi in Japan, IIRC.
Yeah, there are people that like beef cooked well done too. Yeah, I don’t get it either, but it’s a legit preference.
Chicken cooked ‘medium rare’ is a thing in Japan – it’s called Toriashi – but it’s also got acknowledged health risks BECAUSE it is raw on the inside. Even in places with fewer salmonella outbreaks, you need to be prepared to accept health risks if you eat raw or ‘rare’ chicken.
This is extremely unlikely to pass. Check govtrack.us for a piece of legislation’s odds. Now, that said, the people represented by this bill’s sponsors need to hear from their constituents promptly and loudly. Do NOT call reps who don’t represent you, it does not help. Instead, make as many of their constituents aware as possible.
Why do some people add a bunch of slashes in front of certain tags? Particularly ones that might be triggering etc., it seems? Things like tagging “suicide ///” instead of just “suicide”.
Does it make it easier for someone to blacklist the tag? What’s going on?
I believe adding words to a tag or in the middle of the word is meant to stop it from showing up in searches.
not giving your money to a business that’s currently striking is literally an essential part of a strike.
Amazon brings in over 34 BILLION dollars every day. Even a one-day boycott could mean massive leverage for the strikers – especially if the boycott coincided with one of the most profitable days Amazon expected to have all year, as this one does.
Do not visit Amazon.com on 10 July 2018 (or July 15-16 in the US)!
While we’re talking about effective boycotting, boycotting Amazon means more than boycotting Amazon, because Amazon has subsidiaries that also help it make money. If you’re going to boycott Amazon, you also need to boycott the following subsidiaries:
AWS Elemental
AbeBooks
Alexa Internet
Audible
Blink Home
Brilliance Audio
ComiXology
CreateSpace
Diapers.com
Double Helix Games
Evi
Fabric.com
GoodReads
IMDb
Junglee
Mobipocket
Ring
Shelfari
Shopbop
Souq.com
TenMarks Education, Inc.
Twitch
Whole Foods Market
Woot
Zappos
A boycott is not effective unless you attack it on all fronts. This is why boycotting things like McDonalds or Coca Cola are so ineffective– they have so many subsidiaries and supporting businesses that they can afford a frontal hit and still make money from its “family” companies.
If you truly want to help this boycott, make sure to boycott Amazon and its subsidiaries.
Okay, I know that a good majority of us read fanfic. And AO3 is quite popular, I love that site.
I recently just came across a site on my laptop while I was looking some klance fics to read. I found one and clicked on the link which said it was an AO3 fanfic. Norton Security prevented me from accessing the site because it ‘may be impersonating AO3 to steal your personal or financial information’
If you find a link to a fanfic and it has ‘www.archiveofourown.com’ run for the hills. The true AO3 is .org not .com. It may seem obvious but it’s pretty easy to miss. Just letting all my fellow fanfic addicts out there know that there is a scammer.
I’m trying to tag all the fandoms I’m in so that those people are aware.
What kind of person impersonates a well known fanfic site to steal information. Such a heinous crime. I will admit, this person was pretty smart. All kinds of people read fanfics, especially teenagers. Just think of that and how easy it would be.
Please reblog to every fandom and if you find any other fanfic sites being impersonated please add them to this post. Some of us fanfic readers are close to being adults or are already adults, but there are still twelve year olds and younger who don’t pay attention to things they find on the internet.
Hey, Computer Science Side of Tumblr here with some good news! This isn’t some nefarious scheme to steal your AO3 login (though do keep an eye out for those). This is a poorly-implemented redirect from [ao3].com to [ao3].org.
Yes, if you go to www.archiveofourown.com, your browser should give you a big scary error. The issue here is the encryption certificate (that encrypts all traffic between you and AO3) doesn’t match the site you’re on. Here’s the domains listed for the encryption certificate:
See what isn’t listed? archiveofourown.com is listed, but it’s missing the “*” at the beginning. This means your browser sees the “www.[ao3].com” as a different site that isn’t listed.
Certificate doesn’t match? Better safe than sorry, throw the error!
So, end result? Don’t panic, you’re not being hacked. But do change that .com to .org.
I think it’s unfair to defend Scarlett Johansson is just “doing her job” when she takes roles not meant for her, she could very easily say no and make known why she did it, Ed Skrein stepped down from the movie Hellboy because the character he was supposed to play was asian, he received online outrage and later claimed he did not know his character was of asian heritage, he made his reasons known, said that by keeping the role the tendency to obscure minorities will continue and dropped the movie; after that, the studio could do nothing more but cast an asian actor to play an asian character. Actors can reject roles and do a lot, they only choose not to.
Plus, Scarlett Johansson is a HUGE star at this point. Much more so than Ed Skrein is. She can afford to turn down roles much more than he can, arguably, so the fact that he did and she didn’t speaks volumes.
I’m not saying it would be okay to accept a whitewashed role etc. if you’re a struggling actor, but I’d understand it more. If you’re really struggling to support yourself and establish a career, you have fewer choices. At this point though, Scarlett Johansson has a level of fame and success that gives her more options than many actresses out there. So we should hold her all the more accountable for it.
I’m going to point out that the specifics of a contract often preclude actors from leaving once they were cast except for specific reasons – Ed Skrein was able to leave, but a lot of other actors are bound by said contracts. Also, a lot of voice actors are not told what their role is or anything in particular about them (like ethnicity) until the product is done and they see the thing. I’m not talking about ScarJo here – she’s big enough that her contract is probably different and even if she did leave, she could handle that kind of trouble. But this is A reason why some actors (again, especially smaller ones) would have a much harder time backing out.
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