Reasonable to assume that, in fact, we might choose to fly to the moon when it's closer to perigee.

It's become very "I built this with AI" and "how your business is going to improve with AI" and all sorts of terrible content, and GAMES! WTF.

Strikes are usually conducted after talks break down. Amazon won't even come to the table. There's also the question of whether or not the Teamsters local can get enough people to strike and other considerations. Strikes don't always work in the union's favor.

There was an initial large disruption as they dumped a huge number of packages into alternate delivery systems that weren't prepared for the sudden massive increase in load. Within a few weeks, it had settled down, and shipping times had improved enough that same-day and next-day shipping were once again available, albeit with shorter "order by" windows. The quality of the delivery experience has dropped significantly (in terms of failed/late deliveries) due to them relying exclusively on "Intelcom" (a gig delivery service) rather than Amazons own delivery system.

My understanding of how it works, at least for Montreal (which used to have multiple Amazon warehouses in the metro area), is that all orders are shipped from the Toronto area, a ~6 hour drive away. Amazon loads orders onto big Amazon trucks (semi trailers) and drives them to an Intelcom distribution centre in Montreal, and Intelcom handles the last-mile delivery. Intelcom doesn't do inter-city delivery, and Amazon doesn't have any infrastructure in Montreal (or Quebec more broadly).

As for why Amazon services Montreal's orders from Toronto (a ~6 hour drive away) instead of Ottawa (a ~2 hour drive away), my only guess is that Ottawa (1.5m metro pop) wasn't big enough absorb all of Montreal's (4.3m metro pop) demand, but Toronto (6.2m) was.

That ultimately won't matter, because the workers have already been laid off, and the courts can't order Amazon to reverse the decision. The best case scenario is that several years down the road, Amazon will have to make a one-time payout to the workers.

https://github.com/apple-oss-d...

Or the kernel specifically: https://github.com/apple-oss-d...

One of Amazon's warehouses in the Montreal area (Laval) unionized. Amazon took the nuclear response and closed every warehouse in the entire province, seven in total. All Amazon orders destined for Quebec are now shipped from Ontario.

Not surprising in the least. The NLRB has no current regulations on the books governing how long a new union can be delayed during the initial bargaining process. There's been talk in Washington related to updating NLRB regulations to impose time lines on employers and unions to encourage swift completion of collective bargaining where no contract exists. So far as I know, nothing has changed yet. Amazon is on the forefront of abusing the negotiation process and ignoring all possible ULP complaints.

Depending on where you dispose of said filter, all that plastic might wind up back in the water supply along with some new contaminants.

Thought so.

Did Amazon charge a fuel surcharge in 2023?

Nice. Filtering that stuff out is going to be quite a challenge, though.

Let the courts figure it out. If licensed car skins were an issue, Ubisoft could choose to all the skins with Lada's, and release the server protocol.

If it's a clone it can't be brainless, unless you lobotomize it. That's evil in itself. Even then it will still have to have a functional brain if you need the body to stay alive.

Torpedo this idea. Don't condone murder. Did this guy gets his idea from 'The Island'?

It would also probably be less costly than starting a legal fight over license violations.