Trash collection
Police
It is funny that you get down voted as this is likely one of the only posts here that is accurate.
Most of the “riots” people have complained about in the past 5 years have been directly caused by police existing in the way that it does. I can’t deny that police serve as a deterrent for some people regarding some things, but I don’t think I’d live much differently. I’d probably shoplift from big box stores occasionally, but not out of greed. It’s about taking money, not making money. If everybody stole a can of food from Walmart every day to give to the hungry, there would be no more hungry and Walmart would still make billions.
the rioters wanted free jordans and TVs.
they had nothing to do with police brutality.
okay racist mcgee
That’s absurd. 250 million weekly visitors stealing a $1 item per visit would amount to $13B per year in losses, approximately equal to Walmart’s annual net income. They would love to raise prices to compensate (2% should do it) but then they would lose the equivalent in sales to competitors like Amazon that don’t face as much risk from theft losses.
False. Walmart makes about $600 BILLION per year.
Idk where you found the $13B figure, since that’s less than the amount they made OVER the previous year’s earnings.
I know what you’re thinking: “but that’s revenue, not profit!” Okay sure, and let’s not even address what qualifies as a “loss” for a massive business like Walmart because I don’t even need to get into that to make my point. Still, they profited nearly $150B in 2022, source is the same link but lower on the page.
Walmart makes over $250k per employee, and nearly 15k of those employees are on food stamps, which means that our tax dollars are being used to subsidize their exploited labor force to make them 12-figure profits.
So yeah, I think we’re kinda sorta morally obligated to steal from them in order to feed the hungry that they are responsible for making hungry in the first fucking place.
Idk where you found the $13B figure, since that’s less than the amount they made OVER the previous year’s earnings.
I pulled this from your link:
Revenue
$611.3B
Net Income
$11,680,000,000
The Internet.
That’d remove the circuses from our bread and circuses… and some of us are out of bread
I would love to see this just to see the absolute chaos it would cause. I cannot visualize it.
the internet is the first thing they shut down to control riots in authoritatian countries
but how are we supposed to organize gathering times and places to start rioting? on the paper?
Carrier pigeon.
Bridgefy
From their site:
‘Bridgefy is a free messaging app that works without the Internet. Perfect for natural disasters, large events, and at school!’
It works over Bluetooth, and lets you send messages to other users without needing an internet connection. I haven’t used it yet, but the app looks straightforward enough :)
Just wait until Google implements Web Environment Integrity.
We should already be in the streets and we’re not.
I just wish everyone would switch to Firefox.
It is because Chrome has a monopoly, is close enough to monopoly.
While I can see the plus side of being able to identify bots, I don’t think the WEI is the right way to do it, and Google definitely isn’t the right company to be handling it
Plus how do you spot the difference between a good bot and a bad bot? Web crawlers from search engines are for example inherently good, so they should still be able to operate, but if it is easy to register a good bot in WEI, it is also easy to register a bad bot. If it is hard to register a good bot, then you’re effectively gatekeeping the automated part of the internet (something that actually might be Google’s intention).
A bot that only reads your website is good, one that posts things or otherwise changes your database less so.
I was thinking the same thing about Google wanting their bots to be the only ones allowed to crawl and index the internet.
Yeah, even if the hardware can validate perfectly that it’s not running any botting software, there’s nothing stopping someone from spinning up a farm of these machines and using a central server as a hypervisor for them all. It’s impossible to determine if your user is a bot.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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Probably a lot of them. Definitely food distribution though.
The revolution is 3 meals away.
Yeah, exactly. Anything people can’t find an alternative for is bound to cause “creativity” when it disappears.
Shipping.
Gaming (specifically Steam)
laughs in GOG
Mail-in election ballots
Healthcare
Then why isn’t America rioting?
Maybe in a couple of days when Kaiser staff go on strike.
They should be. Really.
Can’t riot against something being taken away if you never had it in the first place and have convinced yourself that you don’t need it 🫠
Militarization of the police, and a extremely unfair, draconian, for profit prison system.
Because it didn’t disappear overnight
Non-US people have such an hilariously skewed view of the US healthcare system
I’m an American in my mid 30s. I’ve traveled to other countries, made friends with people in other countries, and I myself lived in Germany for a few years. I’m pretty sure my view comes from an adequately knowledgeable position.
Then why aren’t you rioting?
Because the healthcare industry is anything but gone
Alcohol. First the casual drunks get pissy, then the serious drunks get sick.
I mean, agriculture seems like an obvious answer
Grocery stores, logistics (trucking/railway), electricity, petroleum, cocaine
Huh, cocaine? I think would be more chill without it wouldn’t they? And more aggressive etc without their heroin
Yeah, you’re right. Cocaine users would be crashing hard and not feel like rioting. I had been thinking of changing it to opiates.
water/wastewater. something people dont think about, just turn on the tap/flush the terlet.
peoples places of living would back up and they wouldnt have safe water to drink
Highly recommend getting a filter jug, even if you have good water. Makes you think every time you fill it just how much water we use daily
I think any utility going down would cause that, and probably within a day or two.
Waste Management
When France extended retirement age, waste management stopped cold in solidarity with the protests and its overnight disappearance was supported by most of the population, so I don’t think that’s it.
Yes, but that’s because it motivated them to strike. That’s basically the less violent version of a riot.
Gun’s. In USA 😏
Bring it!
Food
