#corporations

guerrillatech:

Complicit®
Brent Pruitt, 2021

Each member within society is responsible for the perpetuation of institutional oppression.

To what extent do we, as an individual, or collective, acknowledge our participation? How do we hold ourselves, and each other, accountable?

Complicit® is a declaration of recrimination and confession.

Reminder to stand your ground in your workplace. It’s not ok for a job to overstep your boundaries 24/7, and ignore you. You’re a person with needs and a life, and companies should recognize that. Large corporations aren’t victims. They can withstand you calling off, and taking care of yourself.

carydorse:

gummybearattacktheworldofdespair:

You said it

This reminds me of that biotechnology that’s being developed that can be injected straight into a person’s mind, but instead of using it for like, you know, education, pleasure, medicine, etc., they’re planning on using it to torture convicts, making them believe they’ve served a 1000 year sentence.

aflo:

circusbird:

circusbird:

circusbird:

Love that the internet will tell. You mazda had to do a model recall because spiders were uncontrollably attracted to their cars in 2014 then you read more and find it happened before woth the same car company in 2011

Mazda spokesmen say “lol idk”

For those wondering apparently this breed of spiders fucking loves gasoline, mazda built anti spider springs to push them out and a software patch to. Do something with fuel pressure in case they did get in and weaved loads of webs that fucked up thr fuel capacity and no one knows why it was mazdas in particular that got infested

this is one of those problems you have to solve in a dream

mywitchcultblr:

The false equivalence in Musk is so strong, as if people anywhere should be exploited way past safe, mental and physical limitations. There are reasons for limiting work and why there are regulations about age, overtime, and compensation. Technology is already a problem where work easily bleeds into uncompensated time and leave.

This isn’t complimentary to anyone’s work ethic and falls square into the model minority myth. Many of us remember the horror of hearing about people committing suicide over work conditions or overworking themselves to death at Foxconn factories, and the reaction was to install nets and hire a PR firm. Things are outsourced to China and other “developing” countries for exploitative reasons, not because people are unwilling to do them and the safeguards against reckless profiteering in one place do not extend to corporations internationally.

This is a colonialist attitude, as if Chinese and other ethnic minorities have not been historically exploited as migrant labour–underpaid, undervalued, and put in harm’s way even as citizens of industrialized nations. People still feel the need to count how many generations their families have lived and toiled because we’re constantly reminded we are seen as foreign, discriminated against, and always a hair from being blamed for our own victimization.

Elon and his ilk can take their backhanded praise and choke on it.

wherearetheplants:

hey since pride month is coming up remember fuck disney fuck apple fuck google fuck amazon fuck walmart fuck all companies who use our flags and symbols during pride month and do nothing to support us and especially FUCK COPS

huffylemon:

get ready everyone

thebiscuiteternal:

deathtalksaboutlife:

pennie-dreadful:

guerrillatech:

She had third degree burns on her genitals, needed a skin graft to repair the damage and was permanently disfigured, and left disabled for two years. Part of her original $20,000 claim was for her daughter’s lost income while she cared for her. Also, there were 700 previous complaints of people being burned by McDonald’s coffee, which they quietly paid off. They offered Liebeck $800.

Stella Liebeck was 79 years old at the time of the incident, and the settlement helped her pay for a live-in nurse as she was partially disabled for two full years after being so badly burned she went into shock. She passed away in 2004 with little to no quality of life per her own daughter. She originally sought $20,000 dollars to cover her eight day hospital stay (including skin graphs) and compensation for her daughter’s lost wages after she spent three weeks providing round-the-clock care.

Incidently, liquids served at 190 degrees is capable of causing third degree burns–which cause severe, permanent damage all the way to the muscle layer–within 3 seconds of contact with human skin. If you have a strong stomach, you can even find photographic evidence of her wounds with a quick google search. This didn’t stop almost every major news outlet perpetuating MacDonald’s coordinated smear campaign against her. MacDonalds’ justification for this was basically, well, all fast food is hot and we have better things to worry about. Literally. This deliberately manufactured overly litigious gold digger stereotype is still remembered today via the Stella Awards, which mocks all the “frivolous” lawsuits against your favorite brands. Named after a little old lady who was permanently disfigured and handicapped from a ridiculously dangerous product.

Classy.

Never,evertake a corporation’s side over aprivate citizen when lawsuits are involved.

She eventually died under the care of a live-in nurse from infection complications due to the fact that the damage had to be treated repeatedly over multiple years. While being mocked *worldwide* and constantly hassled by the media. The last few years of this woman’s life were a miserable hell because McDonald’s was too cheap to pay her medical costs when she asked.

When you haven’t read/seen/heard your artist friends’ works, but you see the latest Disney ASAP because it’s Disney,

a) ouch

b) you’re fueling the huge inequality wherein corporations make mega money and indie artists make little.

Please give word of mouth to those who actually need it!

It’s not “philanthropy”

It’s restitution.

See the truth for what it is, and don’t thank a man for surrendering to you the remaining crumbs that were once your slice of the pie.