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hopesdead@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty AdsEnglish14·2 days agodeleted by creator
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty AdsEnglish47·2 days agoThis type of advertising isn’t new. There is that famous (although the claims from the father have been questioned) New York Times article written by Charles Duhigg in 2012. A father of a teenage girl in Minnesota got upset for receiving coupons from Target for infant care related products. As the story goes, he later learned his daughter was in fact pregnant. It turns out Target was using some predictive algorithm to identify would-be mothers and straight up sending them coupons for infant care products. It seems ever since this article was published that they stopped doing this in such a direct manner. Again, there have people who questioned the validity of the claims for this specific story, but Target did confirm they were doing this.
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•ICE Invades Wrong home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves3·5 days agoThe video states the names are pseudonymous. So the answer would be, no.
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto World News@lemmy.world•Irish woman living in US for decades detained by immigration officialsEnglish3·7 days agoI’m sure they looked at Indian government and figured since they routinely discriminate the Muslim population he was in the clear.
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto News@lemmy.world•"I’ll hook you to a f**king polygraph!": Hegseth's paranoia bubbles over as Pentagon leaks continue5·12 days agoFirst of all:
- The creator of Wonder Woman, William Marston, created the systolic blood pressure test used on modern machines.
- Less than half of the states allow this type of evidence to be admitted in criminal trials.
- Polygraphs are considered highly unreliable.
You should never take a polygraph test.
But did Arnold almost die and get severely traumatized?
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto politics @lemmy.world•Kehlani Removed From Cornell University Performance Due to Opposition to Israel’s War in Gaza71·12 days agoMight as well blame the British for this fuck fest. They started this.
In practice he would have to be celibate.
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto politics @lemmy.world•Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump1·21 days agoHarvard is still 100% in the wrong here. Treating all speech critical of the Israeli state as antisemitism is not the same as hatred for the Jewish people.
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Starbucks continues to be terrible1·2 months agoI am unable to find a news report now, but I am certain I read one back in 2018 or 2019. I believe that Conservation International (an organization that helped develop the C.A.F.E. standard the company uses) was discovered covering up the certification of one of the farms in Brazil. As I remember reading, that a farm was at the time listed somewhere as being certified but after slave labor was discovered, CI uncertified the farm and attempted to claim it failed to meet the C.A.F.E. standards, thus never was awarded certification. They weren’t saying the certification was revoked; it never had any.
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Starbucks continues to be terrible1·2 months agoHere are three different reports regarding three different instances in Brazil. https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/slave-labor-found-at-second-starbucks-certified-brazilian-coffee-farm/
https://news.mongabay.com/2018/09/slave-labor-found-at-starbucks-certified-brazil-coffee-plantation/
Here is one on the Guatemala incident. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-work-for-pittance-to-pick-coffee-beans-used-by-starbucks-and-nespresso
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Starbucks continues to be terrible1·2 months agoJust so people are aware, Starbucks was caught buying from farms in Brazil multiple times that used slave labor. In Guatemala, along with Nestle, were caught buying from farm(s?) that used child labor.
EDIT: On top of this the company partnered with Conservation International to certify the farms met the company’s standards. The incident in Brazil saw CI trying to coverup the certification of that farm. Also CI is involved with arms dealing.
EDIT 2: Their retail products have the claim “100% Ethically Sourced”. That is a lie.
EDIT: I got the slogan wrong. It is “Committed to 100% Ethical Coffee Sourcing”.
hopesdead@startrek.websiteto Work Reform@lemmy.world•Starbucks continues to be terrible1·2 months agoWant a worse number? Back in 2019, the price of commodity was at less than a $1. Starbucks, at the time made up 3% of the world’s production. They decided to give $20m to their farmers. Did it help? Well based on available financial data at the time, $20m was approximately single afternoon’s profit for the company. A SINGLE FUCKING AFTERNOON! https://sprudge.com/starbucks-would-prefer-you-dont-think-too-hard-about-that-20m-relief-fund-151839.html
You linked the same article from the post.