Using less American stuff in Poland

What do you care?Where there is a will, there is a way.
What is your offer, depending on the US goodwill?

Interesting, those who are able to do more than basic maths (i.e. more than just 8 windows at half a dollar a window = $3) have an entirely different opinion to yours. For example, the experts at the Existential Risk Laboratory at the University of Chicago have this to say:

xrisk.uchicago.edu/nuclear-risk/

Just one British submarine alone can cause the biggest change to the Earth's climate since the last Ice Age. But do keep up your chant of "USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!": it helps remind those of us about to count past ten without needing to take off our shoes that we really do need just ignore the noise that comes out of the USA.

I have not made a single Amazon order in January

And it's hitting them hard - they announce 16.000 layoffs today.

They did of course find 40 million dollars to stuff Melania's designer handbag

I have not made a single Amazon order in my live.

@Lazarus

As the Chief of NATO explained to you already"Keep Dreaming!"


Amazon didn't lay people off because someone in Europe skipped a few orders. The layoffs are from automation, AI, and restructuring, which Amazon has openly stated.

Keep Dreaming!

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All US contributions to the [not so] New Order of working life in the first half of the 21st century.

That sentence doesn't actually say anything. It's just vague buzzwords stacked together with no argument or meaning.

Did you study at the Kamala Harris Institute of Word Salad, or does this just come naturally?

You forgot about the drones LOL

Fact is people all over the US were already sick of Bezos kissing Golden Cow's ass, and his huge bribe was the final straw. That has now spread to the rest of the world

And your sentences have any more meaning merely because you're just another MAGGOT Republican, Joker??!

And there it is. When you can't defend your own word salad, you switch to insults.

Calling names doesn't magically give your sentence meaning. It just proves you had none to begin with.

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Why are you always so sour here? Is the fact that 2% of US Jery keeps you by your collective balls and squeezes, and you have to do their bidding.

What is?

Jewry.

This weeks project - Gmail

Of course migrating to a European solution needs to be a managed process but for new sign ups I will be going to Proton Mail

That will for a start get me out of Google's advertising model, stop them scraping my emails for their crappy Jen AI empire building and keep my front page more clear of spam.

Google are already noticing falling volumes and rising opt outs in Europe.

I notice the Americans are also starting to be more conciliatory to Europe on EVs and rare earths. Some of the few remaining smart people in US govt are starting to look to a future without Golden Cow and MAGA.

Jan complete - no McDonalds, no KFC, no Starbucks

Nobody cares about your little girl diary.

Switching email providers, skipping fast food, and announcing it like a victory parade isn't "pressure," it's self-importance. Amazon didn't lay off 16,000 people because you discovered Proton Mail and boycotted a cheeseburger. lol

Why not just turn off personalised ads? Their business model is based on people being too lazy to do that, so if you do turn off personalised ads, they lose money on you, as your behaviour doesn't fit what they expect you to do.


It's because he posts here: before work, when he has, at best, a day of washing windows to look forward to; and during working hours, when he doesn't have any paying work to do; and after working hours, when he's furious about how few customers he had.


And yet here you are posting about it. Is that an example of window-washer reasoning?

Turning off personalized ads doesn't meaningfully hurt Google. It just shifts how ads are targeted. Google still makes money from contextual ads, data aggregation, and services - including Gmail itself.

This idea that opting out suddenly "costs them money" is more dreaming. You're not a rebel outsmarting a trillion-dollar company, you're just changing a setting they fully anticipated and built into the model.

You're really not that bright. You couldn't hack it in the UK and ended up moving to Poland for lower pay - hardly a success story. 😂

The point that a window-washer is clear too thick to understand is that targeted adverts are far more expensive that spam adverts.
Let me try to put it in language you'll understand: would you pay more for adverts if the company displaying them could guarantee that the ads would only be seen by people who own houses with lots of windows than you'd pay for adverts which are seen by everybody? I know it's a tough question, but do try to think. Or at least to do what you can.


Again, I know this'll be hard for somebody whose business model is "Count windows I washed, divide by two and ask for half that many dollars", but if a company expects most of its customers to behave in a certain way, it plans its business on that expectation. For example, some car hire places have very low prices but require relatively large deposits on credit cards, about ten times more than the likes of Hertz, because they know most people don't have that much credit available on their credit card. Anybody who can't put down the deposit has to buy extra insurance to reduce the deposit. And that insurance costs more than the car hire. But if you know about that and you make sure you've got the deposit, you can rent a car for half what the likes of Hertz charge. It's the same with Google, they plan for a certain revenue per user and when you turn off targeted ads, they don't get that much.


I wonder exactly how many tens of thousands of windows you need to wash to earn what I got today as my bonus for 2025.

Well somebody at Amazon has noticed because they e-mail me every few days asking why I quit using them

Good idea with the personalized ads - have already done that in Meta

And yes the downturn in European business has been picked up over in San Francisco, as has the falling dollar. This is only the beginning. Big tech weird bastards though they could support fascism and imperialism with no consequences- it's not the fall in revenue that frightens them, more that ordinary joes who like me were too lazt to bother with their settings have now started to look for alternatives

Remember that spreading the news about minimising their income while not reducing their costs also really hurts them. If you use their services in ways they don't expect, you cost them money.


Please tell me that you haven't cancelled Prime. Prime is a loss leader for Amazon. Especially in Poland. Keep Prime, watch the streaming content, limit your purchases to those where the purchase price doesn't cover the shipping cost and Bezo is losing money on you.

Prime makes Amazon lose money mostly because their shows are garbage that noone wants to watch and which cost billions to make (like some kind of Lord of the Ring spin-offs) - so yeah continue subscribing to Amazon Prime and pay them the money they want - that way Amazon Prime is sure to lose money (because by unsubscribing you are actually supporting Amazon, heh)

You keep fixating on an imaginary job because you don't have a real rebuttal.

Personal income, bonuses, or invented biographies don't change the point: opting out of targeted ads doesn't meaningfully damage Google's business model. They price, plan, and profit assuming a mix of users, including opt-outs.

When the argument runs out, you switch to bragging, lies and insults. That's not confidence, it's classic deflection.


Saying that subscribing hurts Amazon while unsubscribing helps them is just Lazarus` backwards reasoning to make his silly boycott feel meaningful. lol

Their movies do stink though...


Automated emails don't mean impact. They're sent to literally everyone who stops clicking. Nobody in San Francisco cares about your inbox.

There's no Big Tech panic, no Europe-led collapse, and the dollar didn't move because you flipped a settings switch.

Pretending routine consumer behavior is shaking global power is delusional..

You didn't scare Big Tech, you triggered an automated email.Thats all:)

No panic but certainly mild concern in the Glass Onion mansions of Palo Alto. They have seen Tesla get wiped out in Europe. Amazon and Google are already flooding our Linkedin with "European" versions of their product

But anyway my intention is basically to convert 2 other people to this cause.

As for me I reckon add together all my typical household spending on US stuff and it's a good 5000 zloty a month. Cut it in half and that is 600 bucks of lost revenue, at 15 percent profit margins and 21 percent federal tax that is 22 dollars a month added to the US deficit - your kids and grandkids can enjoy paying that off LOL.

$600 a month is just statistical noise to companies that move billions per day. Your $22 to the deficit math is fantasy, not economics.

Converting two people and posting spreadsheets about it doesn't make you a movement. It makes you a rounding error with delusions of influence.

Big Tech didn't notice you. They modeled you.

Keep dreaming - there's nothing you can do that will destroy the U.S. economy.

Tell you what - I bet that by the end of this month Golden Cow is sending out a dumb tweet about European's boycotting big tech and threatening us with some new bullshit

I liked his campaign policy ideas, but I'm wondering why some of them haven't come to fruition. His personality and the way he talks to other leaders are probably why so many people dislike him. He's effective in many ways, but far from perfect. I'll admit that.

People here call me MAGA names, but I'm actually a registered Independent.

Of course and you can vote for who you want

I would say most Europeans could accept him until the ambush if Zelensky at the White House. They he started the Greenland stuff and until Vance, Musk etc started interfering in European politics. He never interferes in Chinese or North Nigerian politics.

Can it really be that the thickest of window cleaners is that too stupid to understand even what he types?
Joke: you say (well, ChatGTP says and you copy paste) that "They price, plan, and profit assuming a mix of users" but what happens when the mix of users they priced and planned for isn't achieved? Does that mean they go back in time and spend less money? Or does that fact that they assumed that in Q4 2025 they'd have 90% of users accepting targeted ads and in reality only 60% of users accepted targeted ads mean that they had less coming in in Q4 2025 than they expected and so what they spent doesn't match what they earned?


That's a racing certainty. But what is an absolute certainty is that TACO: Trump always chickens out.

No one wants to destroy the American economy because it's too important to the world. In fact, everyone wants to save it from self-destruction.

Correct - the idea is reduce dependence, find alternatives (that are usually healthier and more ethical), end the possibility of US economic and tech blackmail of Europe and stop these corporate bootlickers from rolling over to Golden Cow and paying him naked bribes to be left in peace.

2025 was a year of disgraceful corruption in US business and it's time the world brought these egomaniacs to heel.

Microsoft is a good example - you try working without excel, teams and outlook. Almost impossible for any desk based job, and yet Gates now seems a thoroughly discredited man.