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It's been done before with things like the Better Business Bureau.

These kinds of initiatives tend to start taking money from businesses so they get a better rating and oftentimes end up as basically an extortion racket. Though sometimes they're just straight up bought out by big corporation and suddenly that corporation and it's business partners get great scores.

Honestly I'm on board with the no phones TVs or kids in pubs. My favorite bars all have zero TVs.

Disagree, I wouldn't instantly say that any gay bar is bad because "it states its political views". More like, any business that supports a facist, or is clearly religous.

Conair

All my combs and brushes are made by evil? No wonder I can't feather my hair right. They're only good at keeping it straight.

There's a site called "goods unite us" that I'll check before making a big purchase or deciding to make a store a regular stop. It has the average donation history of the company and who they donated to. It sucks that we have a Home Depot in a really convenient location but they're especially egregious donators.

Minefield, you say?

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004SPIE.5441...13R/abstract

The Self Healing Minefield (SHM) is comprised of a networked system of mobile anti-tank landmines. When the mines detect a breach, each calculates an appropriate response, and some fire small rockets to "hop" into the breach path, healing the breach. The purpose of the SHM is to expand the capabilities of traditional obstacles and provide an effective anti-tank obstacle that does not require Anti-Personnel (AP) submunitions. The DARPA/ATO sponsored program started in June 2000 and culminated in a full 100-unit demonstration at Fort Leonard Wood, MO in April 2003. That program went from "a concept" to a prototype system demonstration in approximately 21 months and to a full tactically significant demonstration in approximately 33 months.

Ah yes, not self-healing as in able to be disabled after the war is over, but self-healing as automatically "hops" mines into different locations to cover gaps after a single mine explodes.

(To be fair DARPA eventually dumped money into "smart mines" which can be disabled remotely. Still....)

Also I'm reminded of military contractor KBR and Halliburton:

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jamie-leigh-jones-claims-iraq-rape-employer-held/story?id=13884264

June 21, 2011

A woman who says she was drugged and gang-raped while working for military contractor KBR in Iraq will face down an attorney for KBR in a Texas courtroom today.

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 26, was working her fourth day on the job in Baghdad in 2005 when she says she was assaulted by seven U.S. contractors and held captive by two KBR guards in a shipping container. Jones, whose story was featured in an award-winning ABC News "20/20" investigation, is one of a group of women who claim they were harassed or assaulted while working for KBR and former parent company Halliburton in Iraq. She is suing KBR, former parent company Halliburton and KBR firefighter Charles Bortz, who she claims was one of the rapists.

She never got her day in a real court, the contract to force her to take it through arbitration court stood firm.

Out here in Seattle, if you give your two weeks notice as a tech employee to Amazon, and you tell them that you're going to Oracle, they'll just send you home that day. Probably not every team/manager, but it's a thing.

Gotta love a company that will sue you if you benchmark their software...

Never forget when Oracle sued Google to try to push the idea that mere use of APIs are instances of copyright infringement.