EarlKing

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by EarlKing 5y ago
Honestly, I never ran into many blue badges down in logistics. Mostly all white and yellow badges, with a few exceptions... and most of the time I was in and out so fast I wouldn't have noticed any colored border on their badge. The on
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I'm genuinely not sure what those are. They appear to have been proposed at some Seattle facility: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-sleek-n... I've worked at two different facilities
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Former contractor here... blue = full-time/permanent employee white = seasonal/temp employee yellow = vendors (and DSP employees, if I remember right). It's more or less their way of tagging you with a yellow star so they kno
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Since he thought he could sue a guy for literally making a tool to help people run shit in containers?
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Only if you equate sternly worded letters from the CEO with a visit from murderous thugs who steal your stuff.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
That would result in the filing of a Suspicious Activity Report because the breakdown looks like it was done precisely to avoid the reporting threshold.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Great. So when my device suddenly torrents 10 TB of warez from the tracker at bombasswarezpimps.org I can point to Amazon when the feds come knocking, because clearly it wasn't me. Thanks, Amazon!
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by EarlKing 5y ago
There are no politically neutral labels. Every word ultimately contains within it an implicit affiliation with one group or another, and an implicit judgement upon others. I prefer to call a spade a spade no matter who it offends. In fact,
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I don't know why anyone would have a problem correctly identifying people engaged in class warfare for their own benefit. There's nothing tricky about naming people openly engaging in class warfare... except on the part of people
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by EarlKing 5y ago
The issue at hand in Syria-Palestina is who owns the land and who can be there. It's one group of bourgeoisie slugging it out with the other. That's why it doesn't look like a class issue to you.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I prefer the more apt term "class enemy". It fits their behavior quite nicely and explains why they receive so much protection from the media.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
"Proletariat" and "bourgeoisie", respectively. Identity politics becomes real easy to understand when you recognize that the supposed 'good guys' are bourgeoisie (and their apologists) trying to take self-suffi
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by EarlKing 5y ago
And customers. There's really no upside to Uber. The only reason anyone ever used it was because it was a cheap cab. Increasingly that's no longer true -- and you have to wait 15-20 minutes sometimes to get a driver. With that I m
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Oh no! Where will people post all their memes stolen from 4chan now?
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Even if there's no money involved that can still damage the market for the work it derives from. It's one thing if the derivative work consists of original characters in the same setting, or existing characters but in a what-if sc
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Actually, I have a better solution... Disallow the uploading of all content held by RIAA/MPAA-affiliated companies from the likes of YouTube, even if the owners thereof wish it to be there. Fuck them. Let them go build their own platfo
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by EarlKing 5y ago
I think misappropriating someone else's work to make a buck is a cultural disaster, but then I work for a living and expect to get paid, so what do I know? Fair Use does exist to provide an avenue for the reuse of the work of others fo
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by EarlKing 6y ago
The fleeing of scholars from Constantinople to Venice is comparable to the fleeing of scholars from Ionia to mainland Greece in the wake of the failed Ionian Revolt which kickstarted the golden age of Greek philosophy. They appeared at the
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by EarlKing 6y ago
A lot of things are illegal in life ... but lawsuits take time and money most people don't have.
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by EarlKing 6y ago
They're underpaid enough as it is? Seriously, that's usually what it comes down to: Nobody wants to give up a dime for union dues when they're already barely making ends meet.
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by EarlKing 6y ago
...only to discover that there's nobody left in Zone 1 in your LATA and polling a guy across the continent will cost you gobs of cash you'd rather not spend, so you buddy-up with a HAM buddy who's into packet-radio to see if
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by EarlKing 6y ago
If you'd ever seen the inside of an Amazon bag you'd know that's pretty much in the job description.
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by EarlKing 6y ago
Shrinkage. They're trying to point the finger at who's losing their packages. If some sorter scans a package and their tracking system says its in a certain tote number they're going to assume its there even when, in point of
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by EarlKing 6y ago
Honestly that doesn't even really save you any time. Neither does leaving the side loading door open constantly (though I've witnessed drivers from other DSPs doing that, too). That's another thing that vehicle telemetry can
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by EarlKing 6y ago
The outrage is twofold: 1. It's another example of Amazon blaming drivers for what Amazon themselves could control. 2. It's another example of Amazon doing something grossly invasive and of dubious effectiveness when simply tracki
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by EarlKing 6y ago
Yes and no. Being tired on-shift is generally only an issue for drivers with 10-hour shifts and a long commute. A lot of DSPs only service 8-hour routes partly for this reason (the other reason being, obviously, lack of desire to pay overti
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by EarlKing 6y ago
Buckling the seatbelt and sitting on it (implying that they're going to just buckle once and never bother with it) is easily detected via vehicle telemetry. They track every time you buckle and unbuckle the belt. Anyone who isn't
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by EarlKing 6y ago
So you're going to be perfectly OK with people monitoring your vehicle 24/7 for how much you actually use the public roads, right? Because that won't be abused either. And that, by the way, is a perennial suggestion that got
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by EarlKing 6y ago
Between this latest tripe and Mentor this is more or less the daily reality for amazon drivers. What's worse is the complete lack of any sort of responsibility on the part of eDriving. Even when you can prove that there is clearly a de

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