That seems about right, although Amazon famously fucks over successful small business brands on their platform by essentially stealing their ideas and putting out copycats under their own labels.

This sounds like some kind of venture capital bullshit to buy up those labels and put them under one. Think Softbank. I'm not sure how they compete with what Amazon is doing to their own retailers on their platform where they control all the information. From the bankruptcy filing, it looks like they don't.

They used AI to generate the ad that is on grubhub, it says WcDonalds with the logo and all the M's inverted. There is a picture of a Sprite that has what appears to be a fake Japanese-ish looking language under the logo too.

It's not clear if GH did this or the restaurant but either way it looks like some weird Chinese Amazon rip off version of the real thing. The restaurant is real, I've ordered from and been there before, this started literally in the last 2 or 3 days.

Do you have a DeCSS one?

You mean having their money stolen by an obvious fraud? I suppose, if you're that naive, but there are cheaper ways to learn that kind of shit.

who their customers are and how much they're using. Why don't they just ask them?

Crypto is a scam that does nothing useful and objectively, actively, hurts everyone.

companies, and one in particular, which are/were listed on stock exchanges where they turned out to be massive frauds effectively losing all the money with plenty of shady dealings, directly lying about trial progress on earnings calls all while C-suite gave themselves massive raises/bonuses, golden parachutes and a corrupt board of directors. Class action lawsuits that go nowhere, etc.

Where the fuck are the investigators for shit like that? The SEC being asleep at the fucking wheel is the reason why short sellers exist at all - particularly the really good ones like Hindenburg and Muddywaters.

I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the AI adds the cellphone to your hand in the picture they send. Everything is always about money, remember?

Alpine at this point. I've never used Alpine but I have used busybox for a long time.

I don't seek this trash out and I find it a very damning commentary on the vapid shallowness of society in general that this is one of, if not the most celebrated "art" event of the year every year.

"Get your shit today if you get $25 in the cart!". Get more than $25 in the cart. Go to check out. Get your shit tomorrow!

That's to say nothing of the shift sanding of promised delivery dates. I've seen them fluctuate by literally MONTHS.

Not likely.

William Gibson before that.

Is the water getting warmer in that pot? You know as soon as they think they've hit critical mass they will start spamming you with ads and sneaking shit in as much as people will tolerate and you're back to basic cable.

Netflix and Amazon are doing it too.

bro. Uhm, no. Fuck. Your. Ads. I don't owe you attention, nor bandwidth, nor time; at all. They will try to redirect to 45 minute ads on 2 minute videos, no joke.

Instead, how about Firestick w/ 3rd party sources enabled for slide loading + JSDownloader -> SmartTube

No Ads, Sponsor Block on by default (auto-skip intros and in video ads flagged by other viewers), lots of shit you get from premium including all the technical details of the video, thumbs up/down, comments etc. It's far superior to the official 'app'.

How is DoNotCall.gov working out?