Amazon Let Its Drivers' Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink
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I jest but when evil corps give you lemons...
[Edit] - I forgot to add the link to the song. It's 30 minutes but the pumps will just keep extracting.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRzxpIa6U8o [video][30 mins][metal]
Or maybe Urinade is the idea whose time has come. Finally a powerful energy drink that peak performers deserve.
And 70% of males in US very violently attacked while they were infants to have big parts of their genitals removed! Those genitals were used as a skin care product for rich!
This joke is just too real to be funny!
This is true. All those fancy ladies getting collagen injection into their lips don’t realize where the collagen came from. Allergan’s strain was cultured from the discarded foreskin from a single boy about 27 years ago.
One can be anti-capitalist without being pro-authoritarian communism.
It would seem that they don't. Their suggestions, when they exist, are based on a childlike naïveté that can be justified only with near-complete ignorance of both history and human nature.
Conflating opposition to capitalism and opposition to fascism is a good example. The sad thing is that you don't have to go very far to the right before you encounter stupidity of comparable magnitude.
Wait what?
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRzxpIa6U8o [video][30 mins][metal]
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/08/dave-m...
Did they finally allow warehouse workers actual break time? Weren't they were peeing in bottles or something for a while because they didn't have time for breaks while still making quotas?
During WWII, there was a limited supply of penicillin (discovered in 1928 but not used on humans until 1941/1942). Since ~99% is excreted in the urine, it was collected, cleaned up, and re-used.
But no free water for you; you’ll have to buy water. Perhaps you’ll be able to take it off your taxes, at least.
"...even attained number one bestseller status in the “Bitter Lemon” category..."
He didn't do this. He said he did this.
I think people may be under the misapprehension that only Amazon trucks leave bottles of urine on the side of the highway. This has been a practice for many, many decades. And not just commercial drivers, either. The word to look up is 'trucker bombs'.
The story is Amazon let him list urine in their food section AND fulfilled shipments of supposed urine for him to his friends.
The documentary this was done for is all about how Amazon is negligent in it's duties to the public. We wouldn't tolerate a grocery store putting rat poison in the food isle or selling knives to toddlers, so why are we tolerant of Amazon doing that? He had his kids order though an echo knives and rat poison. Those were delivered to his house without the mandatory in the uk age check.
The point of the article and documentary is that Amazon listed and fulfilled delivery of products described as urine. They even sold said products in their food section.
The article further goes on to describe how the guy had his toddlers order knives and rat poison with the dot and got said items delivered without the mandatory (in the uk) age verification.
It's an article about an upcoming documentary of Amazon's public negligence.
Can’t wait for Season 2 where he chronicles how to game the ratings system.
I feel 99% of the people on HN understand it but on the other hand there’s people like my 70 yr old mom who look at that and think, oh what a fantastic product. She is very susceptible to dark patterns, has no concept of sold by Amazon vs 3rd party sellers, etc.
In the US and the UK (where the interviews were conducted) Amazon deliveries are mostly contracted out to Delivery Service Partners who are small businesses that work exclusively for Amazon, drive Amazon vans, and wear Amazon uniforms. Amazon puts a lot of pressure on DSPs while giving DSPs the digital tools to apply pressure to their drivers, but there isn't a fully direct link and you can expect variation DSP-to-DSP and day-to-day.
Also, trying to calculate something as complicated as delivery routes to the maximum a human can do is bound to have outliers on either side. Eventually Amazon will figure it out and fix it, or they won't because the driver is smart enough to intentionally slow-roll it and feed them route data that validates their prediction.
https://www.protocol.com/workplace/amazon-delivery-program-t...
Maybe my driver is a corporate driver, not a DSP, and has different metrics etc. I don't know.
BTW I really like the term “partner” in delivery service partner. It’s a weasel word that covers up what’s really going on. They are not partnering in the common sense of the word like “my wife is my partner.” (Although on a long road trip she wouldn’t hesitated to make me pee in a bottle rather than stop for my baby bladder. Haha.)
That driver may not have felt rushed, but certainly other drivers do.
Amazon actually used to be the world's most customer-centric company, and Google used to try to not be evil.
Building long-term trust is good business, and I did a lot of business with both because I trusted them due to a good track record. They could charge more, and I'd still do business.
Now, they feel sleazy and evil. I've been burned enough times in the past five years that I would pick a random vendor I know nothing about over either. They need to significantly undercut on price or win on performance for me to even consider doing business.
Trust takes a long time to earn, and can be lost very quickly.
What's contradictory here? They focus on their customers at the expense of their employees.
Well, power corrupts people, and corporations are people.
- Miracles of Urine Therapy - https://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Urine-Therapy-Desai-Morarji/...
- “60 Minutes” Interview (June 4, 1978) With Former Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai - https://infiniteunknown.net/2016/12/29/60-minutes-interview-...
I'm conservative, so I can't see a huge demand for human urine. I suppose its possible, homeopathic urine drops of billionaires (Bezos, Buffet, Munger) and influencers (Kim Kardashian). NFTs exist, hard to comprehend, so, I guess this is entirely possible, with the right people at the top, like SBF, Adam Neumann. Adam Neumann would brand it MyFlow and Marc Andreessen will fund it, it fits with web3.
https://a16z.com/podcast/disrupting-the-worlds-largest-asset...
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> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Amazon (check) let (check) its drivers' urine (check) be sold (check) as energy drinks (check).
Yes, equivocating over the meaning of "let", the headline is technically true. Like so, so many other technically true but misleading headlines.
They choose not to implement sufficient checks. They bear some responsibility for what's being sold under their name on their website.
Can you think of any other retailer where this is or could be happening? Could you imagine Walmart selling cocaine? Yet somehow it's ok if Amazon does it because "we stopped after we discovered what we were doing was illegal"?