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Amazon Dash buttons ruled illegal in Germany

wolfliving:

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-dash-buttons-ruled-illegal-in-germany-1831673884

Amazon’s connected tokens of capitalism have been outlawed in Germany.

When Amazon started selling its Dash buttons in 2015, it seemed like an April Fools’ joke—an empire built on making everything stupidly easy to purchase somehow made it even easier and more mindless for users to get the dopamine rush of consumerism and order something with a literal touch of a button.

At first the wifi-connected buttons enabled users to quickly buy basic home goods and groceries—like detergent, paper towels, macaroni and cheese, and bottled water. But Amazon has since added dozens more, from Slim Jims to Red Bull to Calvin Kline underwear.

A German consumer advocacy group, Verbraucherzentrale NRW, believes the buttons have made it too easy to buy Amazon products, and brought a case against Amazon to the German court. The watchdog organization complained that Amazon’s terms enable the company to switch out an ordered product with something else, and the buttons break laws protecting shoppers from buying things they are not fully informed about, according to Reuters.

“We are always open to innovation. But if innovation means that the consumer is put at a disadvantage and price comparisons are made difficult then we fight that,” Wolfgang Schuldzinski, leader of Verbraucherzentrale NRW, said to in a public statement.

The Munich court has sided with the organization, and ruled that the Dash buttons break consumer protection rules….

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chopped-peace-collection:

MAD magazine #142, April 1971. Cover art by John Putnam.

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doggie-girl:

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autisticwolfesbrainisautistic:

justsomeantifas:

anyuonoy:

burnitalldownism:

justsomeantifas:

so let me get this straight

the wall we’re building is not only racist, and useless, it wont even work. 

So we’re wasting billions of dollars on something … that is literally just an idol of white supremacy. 

with no other purpose than to strike animosity in the the hearts of people.

Lmao…well I mean deal with a scam artist and you get what you pay for 🤷‍♂️

hopefully mexico will make use of this very convenient opportunity to extract very large amounts of steel for little to no cost. white fascism works in mysterious ways

😉😉😉😉😉it’s free metal. yall know what to do.

An article I read today quoted DHS and CBP people ignoring this by saying stuff along the lines of, “well, it was designed to slow people down so we can catch ‘em, it’s not meant to be impenetrable.” Because the author was a good journalist, they juxtaposed this with Trump’s quote about the wall being “beautiful, impregnable, and impenetrable” or whatever. ‘Cause it’s all about moving those goalposts.

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wilwheaton:

“As we suffer through what by this weekend will be the longest government shutdown in history, the entire country is learning an awful truth: Trump is a deal-maker of absolutely stunning ineptitude, and we’re all paying the price for it.”

— Donald Trump is the world’s worst negotiator

africanaquarian:

africanaquarian:

apparently food inspections stopped bc of the shutdown so things bout to be real fucked up for some of us

“The Food and Drug Administration has stopped routine food safety inspections of seafood, fruits, vegetables and many other foods at high risk of contamination because of the federal government’s shutdown…”

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mutantapologist:

Logan: hey scott

Scott, voice breaking: jean used to call me that

Logan: because it’s your fucking name

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