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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • It’s wild how digitally lost I’ve been since I left reddit. And they deleted one of my favorite subs so there is no going back…

    It’s funny you mention Facebook. I deleted mine years ago, without grabbing all the photos I had, which I regret big time.

    I had hundreds of folks I knew in real life on there, and I’ve considered going back a lot in the last few weeks.





  • PutangInaMo@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldTemu Ads
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    11 months ago

    My thoughts on TEMU: it’s a CCP astroturphing campaign to overtake Amazon et al.

    Their model fits that narrative imo.

    First exploit citizens to increase national economic growth. They then had a monopoly on outsourced production. They began stealing IP from company’s that did business with them. They flooded Amazon et al with cheap knockoff products, price wise there’s no competing with them.

    Now they’re going to cut out the middlemen. TEMU is the latest attempt to divert what little they don’t own of the marketplace to their own pockets.

    Don’t get me wrong, fuck all the big monopoly billionaire enabling companies of today. But right now it’s then vs a stronger Chinese economy (read military) and I’ll settle for the status quo until we get that dissolved.



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    I used to smash a monster recovery on the drive to work, pick up a large iced coffee from McDonald’s on the way in, finish that by lunch, and drink my second monster recovery after.

    I stopped all that cold turkey back in 2020 and now rarely have a morning cup of coffee that I never finish.

    It’s wild looking back on that, so much stress and caffeine. I’ll never go back to it though, and I don’t miss it one bit.