Leaked: New Amazon Worker Chat App Would Ban Words Like “Union,” “Restrooms,” “Pay Raise,” and “Plantation”

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[–]jet199 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

This is so stupid.

It's not like the english language has 10 different words for every single thing, right?

There must be 100 different words of phrases for toilets alone.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Masta ain't looking, we gonna sneak off to the water closet.

[–]Shoah_Kahn 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Just don't say that Orwell, Huxley and co. did not warn you...

"We are in the process of developing a whole series of techniques that will allow the controlling oligarchy — who exist and, presumably, will always exist — TO GET PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY LOVE THEIR SERVITUDE.

"This seems to be the ultimate 'malevolent revolution', shall we say, and is a problem that has interested me for many years; and about which I wrote a fable — Brave New World — and I have noticed, with increasing dismay, that a number of the predictions [which] were purely fantastic when I made them, thirty years ago, have come true; or seem [to be] in the process of coming true."

~ Aldous Huxley (Berkley University, 1962)

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–]SMCAB 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

My friend wanted to go get a job at Amazon, I beat him about the head with a non stick frying pan for a couple hours everytime he said it, he's all better now.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

A friend with weed is better. A friend with breasts and all the rest. A friend who's dressed in leather.

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Mittens 2 insightful - 0 fun - 6 hours ago A friend with weed is better. A friend with breasts and all the rest. A friend who's dressed in leather.

Placebo - Pure Morning Official Music Video

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Great song!

[–]Tiwaking 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Mittens 2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 hours ago Great song!

The original YouTube link is age restricted. It also has a link to an anti-suicide hotline. This future is very strange.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Oh wow, I just watched the video not that many months ago, must be a fairly recent change.