Russian Financial Crisis Begins After Wildberries Collapse ( Jake Broe )
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As much as that's good news for anyone opposing Russia's invasion, it really should give our planers pause. Have we become just as reliant on single points of failure as well? Is there something we could do to prevent the same happening to our Amazon fulfillment centers? Would it have the same or at least similar impact on us? And sadly "us" doesn't even have to be particularly specified, as I believe it includes just about everybody except China these days. And in China's case you probably just sub in a different companies name.
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IDK these Wildberry fires seem pretty crazy, there seems to be absolutely zero fire prevention or safety in either how the buildings are designed or safety like sprinklers. If Amazon is doing the same, maybe they should plan so that an accident or attack doesn't destroy everything. But I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out those Wildberry facilities are not up to western minimum standards.
Personally I NEVER use Amazon, as I despise the company, and I don't think Amazon is nearly as relevant outside USA.
I don't think many would have a problem if Amazon didn't exist in Europe.
A college acquaintance had an Amazon job for a while. They searched his bag when he left for the day. To be clear, he worked as a dev in Seattle. Bezos is such a stingy motherfucker it’s difficult to comprehend and that’s the “Amazon management style” that other stingy motherfuckers try to emulate.
You think they have sprinklers? Not unless it’s mandatory.
Unfortunately, AWS has its tentacles into everything.
Amazon has absolutely zero safety that isn't required by law if it doesn't benefit themselves.
I've seen plenty reports about how worker safety at Amazon workplaces is way inferior to other companies.
They don't give a shit about their workers, the only thing that counts is to maximize profits.
Well, you probably do use Amazon services without realising. The only really valuable part of the company is AWS and it far from obvious which services run on that. So in our case it would be less about the warehouses and more about the data centers. But the principle should hopefully make the right people nervous and get them to do something about it.
That's something I have no power over. And that's like saying I also use Microsoft because I buy things from companies that use Microsoft.
As I see it AWS is illegal here in Europe, and all use by European companies of AWS should be terminated. The same goes for American companies selling in EU.
I wasn't trying to call you out for it, just throw it out there. It's the same for all of us. I'm especially dismayed by European state agencies and governments using AWS.
Yes I agree, fortunately especially public services are actively reducing their use of AWS in Europe.
But it is shameful to use American services at all by European public services, as they are technically illegal. Because of US intelligence practices. The illegality is just ignored because EU and USA made an agreement USA has clearly demonstrated they aren't keeping.