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    riot games settles for 100 million dollars after sexually harassing its own employees.

    Male employees (developers, I think) engaged in drunken “panty raids” where they would crowd into a woman’s cubicle and take things from her while she worked.

    Riot games chose to pay these women to go away, rather than fix the problem.

    They make League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics. I will never spend another dollar on their products.

    • @[email protected]
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      I met a guy who really wanted to work at riot games and found no issue with their culture. And the longer I spent talking to him, the more I realize… Ah, you’re an edge lord. Of course you would like the company.

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      I want to add to this their absolutely egregious forced kernel-level anti-cheat. It demands full privileged access to a user’s machine, and unlike some competing systems, it doesn’t want to go away when the game is no longer being played.

      The assurance this won’t be used or exploited for ultra-malicious purposes across the globe by a corporation owned ultimately by the CCP is…

      “Just trust me, bro.”

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      They’re also 100% Chinese owned. It’s the major turnoff for me with their Path of Exile titles.

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    I think we’d compile a shorter list if we tried to name wholesome, respectable companies.

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    GNC. The vitamin stores. They knowingly sell expired merchandise and withhold commissions from their employees.

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      LuLaRoe is up there as well with the life-ruining debt. Then their clothes are so bad that they are literal pollution.

      (post from the ceo, who is honestly one of the most evil people in the world)

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    Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s foray into military hardware and an ever-present surveillance state. Some of the first hardware they rolled out were surveillance towers for the US border patrol.

    So Mark Zuckerberg officially isn’t the only giant pile of shit connected to Oculus, the original owner is a fucking pile of shit, too.


    Trader Joe’s is also thought of by many people as “progressive” and a “good company.” Go learn about the conditions in their warehouses and you’ll find out that’s not true at all. I had a friend who worked TJ’s warehouse in Lacey, WA and all he had was fucking horror stories and how the warehouse was owned and run by MAGA fucks.

    EDIT: Found the article my friend was excited about coming out that didn’t seem to get any MSM traction.

    Inside ‘Teflon Joe’s’: Why your favorite grocery store is not what you think

    How Trader Joe’s remains a beloved brand despite record product recalls, safety violations, worker misconduct complaints, and an environmental record that belies its reputation.

    So yeah fuck Trader Joe’s.


    Oh yeah and the CEO of Protonmail revealed himself to be a Trump supporter.

    So fuck Protonmail.


    The Brave browser CEO recently went on an hinged rant on that orange site about “lefties,” “glowies,” and George Soros. He also has a long history of being anti-gay, which is why he lost his job at Firefox, and Brave itself has a shady history with stuff like injecting affiliate codes into URLs.

    So fuck Brave.

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      That’s a shame about Brave, does anyone have an reccomendations for another browser that reduces digital fingerprinting in a similar way?

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      Let’s keep that surveillance state alive because nothing screams democracy like never trusting anyone!

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      Stopped shopping at Trader Joe’s after their anti union shenanigans. Shame because we love their food

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        I have found a small amount of Trader Joe’s food labelled under different brand names at WinCo. Same companies producing the food, just boxed and bagged with a different name.

        To be clear, WinCo also has it’s own issues.

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      Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s foray into military hardware and an ever-present surveillance state. Some of the first hardware they rolled out were surveillance towers for the US border patrol.

      Same vibe as Palantir by Peter Thiel, big data analytics platform used by many defense/security organizations. Far right pseudo-libertarians love abusing Tolkien’s lore, sadly.

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    If you haven’t seen documentary The Corporation, you must watch it . Amongst other things It explains how there really cannot be any non shitty corporations - so you have to look really hard to find small business that meet your needs.

    The concept of “shareholder value” from the Milton Friedman playbook coldly permits any behaviour that increase profits.

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      Side note, Milton Friedman wasn’t just an evil fuck, he was also in many ways kind of dumb as shit.

      His “four ways of spending money” is a prime example.

      He claims the fourth way (spending somebody else’s money on somebody else) is how the government works, and thus it’s wasteful, but what he fails to fucking account for is with how large most corporations are that the fourth way of spending money is effectively how corporations work, too. Some bean counter in accounting and some finance guys and a variety of middle managers are all spending somebody else’s money (the company’s money) on someone else (the whims of the CEO and the board).

      He holds this example up as showing how government spending is always bad and inefficient and how corporate spending isn’t, but he’s a dumbfuck, they’re actually the same.

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      I wish I believed in Hell, because the idea of Milton Friedman getting raked over hot coals for eternity is extremely satisfying.

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    Virtucon. It’s a large telecom that actually is just a front for a doctor who is always trying to do messed up stuff. He’s known for cruelly strapping EM radiation transmitters onto fish and then getting them really riled up.

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    For the big makers of pseudo-science based bullshit medicine, see Weleda (naturopathy, anthroposophy) and Boiron (homeopathy).

  • DasFaultier
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    Abus. Fundamental evangelical Christians who think women’s rights are optional, used forced labor from concentration camps during WW2.

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        Yup, that one. EDIT: also other stuff like bike helmets; they’ve acquired a range of other companies to broaden their portfolio. But yeah, I would say they’re best known for locks.

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    Chick-fill-A and Hobby Lobby are part of the same asshole Christian subspecies, do crazy shit like stealing/buying stolen artifacts, and being super anti-gay and anti-trans.

    Oh and Chick-fil-A’s did is trash. I tried it before I learned the company sucked, not long after it first moved into Chicagoland. Not only is the chicken bland AF - including the “spicy” chicken - but they managed to somehow make waffle fries taste bleh. How the hell do you even fuck up waffle fries? I can’t understand how these assholes stay in business in the area with chicken that’s worse than what I can get at Burger King, much less any of a million small local places and chains.

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      Chick-fil-A is actually pretty good near me. I get them once a month or once every other month or so.

      In terms of fast food, I’d definitely say there’s in the top 20% in terms of food quality.

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    DuPont. Here’s just a little tidbit:

    Between 2007 and 2014 there were 34 accidents resulting in toxic releases at DuPont plants across the U.S., with a total of eight fatalities.[93] Four employees died of suffocation in a Houston, Texas, accident involving leakage of nearly 24,000 pounds (11,000 kg) of methyl mercaptan.[94] As a result, the company became the largest of the 450 businesses placed into the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s “severe violator program” in July 2015.

    Monsanto:

    In Anniston, Alabama, plaintiffs in a 2002 lawsuit provided documentation showing that the local Monsanto factory knowingly discharged both mercury and PCB-laden waste into local creeks for over 40 years.[220] In 1969 Monsanto dumped 45 tons of PCBs into Snow Creek, a feeder for Choccolocco Creek, which supplies much of the area’s drinking water, and buried millions of pounds of PCB in open-pit landfills located on hillsides above the plant and surrounding neighborhoods.

    These are the kind of companies that inspired the cartoon villains of the 1980s that just dump pollution because.

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      DuPont is also responsible for Teflon, which is what’s typically used in “non-stick” cookware. It’s unclear what its long-term effects are (I.e. if it’s even safe to cook with), and it’s also one of those lovely forever chemicals that doesn’t break down properly.

      Bad bad bad.

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        I’ve read a bit about Teflon. My understanding is that the big health hazard is during the application process, primarily for the factory workers - you really don’t want to breath aerosolized uncured Teflon, or get it in your eyes. It’s not the most hazardous industrial chemical out there, I don’t think there’s any particular ethical issue with manufacturing products with Teflon as long as workers are provided PPE. If it’s a sweatshop product well then there are obviously a lot of ethical issues.

        Once it’s cured it’s chemically inert (which is kind of the whole point) - I’m not aware of any research showing that the human body can absorb any harmful chemicals from cured Teflon - basically your stomach acid and digestive tract bacteria can’t do anything to it. You shouldn’t worry overmuch about being harmed by cooking in a Teflon-coated pan, it’s not a heavy metal or anything like that.

        That said, a deteriorating Teflon coating can be a hazard. The material is fairly stiff and again, your digestive system can’t break it down. Any small particles should (hopefully) pass through, but larger flakes could get stuck somewhere and then… well your body can’t break it down. It’s going to be there causing a blockage until something dislodges it, it’s not going to bend very much, and it might have sharp enough edges to irritate or damage the surrounding tissue.

        And yeah, nothing breaks it down naturally, so it is just going to be in the world forever, gradually eroding into smaller and smaller particles along with all of the other plastic pollution, so yay.

        I can’t point to any specific sources on this, it’s from reading various articles over two decades, I’m definitely not an authority.

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          That said, a deteriorating Teflon coating can be a hazard

          This is my concern. I don’t know if I’m just being too rough with my cookware, but in my experience, non-stick coating (Teflon included) doesn’t tend to last longer than a few months before deteriorating. Which then requires more substantial cleaning to remove stuck-on food, which further damages the coating, and so on and so forth.

          Find it’s better to just avoid the stuff entirely, but there’s a lot of cookware that you can’t easily get in a non-non-stick format. Specifically muffin tins and air fryers. I’ll stop there before this turns into a rant…!

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      Monsanto gets so much worse than polluting. They tried (succeeded? Not sure) in hooking farmers to only buying their seeds through genetic modification to grow anything. I remember huge protests, then we all sort of moved on.

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      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1142333/

      The US chemical giant DuPont learned its lesson of Bhopal in a different way. The company attempted for a decade to export a nylon plant from Richmond, VA to Goa, India. In its early negotiations with the Indian government, DuPont had sought and won a remarkable clause in its investment agreement that absolved it from all liabilities in case of an accident.

      The Bhopal disaster was Union Carbide and then Dow Chemicals baby, but as this paper points out, companies like DuPont learned some particularly evil things from it.

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      They are the reason I think I severely underestimate that sucess rate of junk mail. They essentially mail me a phone book 5 times a year ro my home and my office and I have ordered exactly zero products from them ever.

      It can’t be cheap to send all those catalogs, so they must work.

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        They really have everything to supply an office or a warehouse. Procurement can use a single vendor for almost everything they need.

        It’s a solid business model.