Seattle Crime Sends Amazon Packing. It must be nice to be rich and able to move when the crime rate goes through the roof. Meanwhile, the people who don’t have billions in the bank are stuck going out of business or putting up with it.
Sign of the times: "Citing an increase in violent crime, Amazon announced Friday it would temporarily relocate its workers from the company’s office space at 3rd Ave and Pine St in downtown Seattle."
Thousands of Amazon workers listen to recordings from Alexa: reports. There’s an Alexa joke that goes like this: “My girlfriend asked me why I carried a gun around the house all the time. I told her it was to protect against the CIA. She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. I shot Alexa. Good times.” Little did the writer know how true this was.
Amazon Drops Bid For New York. Governor Fredo has been whining about the NY wealthy moving to Florida and dropping his tax money. Were we Amazon we’d move to Florida and tell Governor Fredo to shove it.
New York lawmakers, including progressive superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocaiso-Cortez (D), for months have been drumming up resistance to Amazon’s decision to bring half of its second headquarters to Queens.
Hollywood writer-producer-director-conspicuous consumer James Cameron is starting to believe his own bullshit. After creating Avatar, he’s become a born again environmentalist.
“James, James, James of the Jungle, brave as he can be. Watch out for that treeeeeeee.”
Hollywood writer-producer-director-conspicuous consumer James Cameron is starting to believe his own bullshit. After creating Avatar, he’s become a born again environmentalist.
The New York Times dutifully traipsed after Cameron on an Avatar-ish adventure to Brazil, where the director dappled himself with facepaint and spoke like a character from one of his films.
The Times reports on the hypocritical hype:
“The snake kills by squeezing very slowly,” Mr. Cameron said to more than 70 indigenous people, some holding spears and bows and arrows, under a tree here along the Xingu River. “This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be,” he added.
As if to underscore the point, seconds later a poisonous green snake fell out of a tree, just feet from where Mr. Cameron’s wife sat on a log. Screams rang out. Villagers scattered. The snake was killed. Then indigenous leaders set off on a dance of appreciation, ending at the boat that took Mr. Cameron away. All the while, Mr. Cameron danced haltingly, shaking a spear, a chief’s feathery yellow and white headdress atop his head.
The boat pulled away and Cameron waved goodbye to his newfound forest friends.
“Can you believe that crazy American woman was afraid of a snake,” one native laughed as he waved adieu. “By the way, you owe me five bucks. I told you I could convince that moron to paint his face.”
