Pulse del Sol

Observations of Consumption - 10 years as a retail employee 

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Amazon Workers in Europe Look to Disrupt Black Friday By Going on Strike

Some workers are walking off the job for the very first time.

Workers at Amazon‘s main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, while they are also striking at six warehouses in Germany, threatening to disrupt one of the year’s busiest shopping days.

Like the rest of Europe, Italians in recent years have embraced the U.S. tradition of Black Friday, a day of heavy discounting by retailers on the day after Thanksgiving.

Unions said in a statement more than 500 Amazon workers at the Piacenza site in northern Italy had agreed to strike following a failure to negotiate bonuses with the company.

Workers have also decided not to do any overtime until Dec. 31, covering the peak season for the online retailer which hires temporary workers during this period.

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Family Circle What’s for Dinner? Meal-planning Cookbook  1963

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Linda Dolack

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Housewife grocery shopping, Ottawa, 1949

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In the 60 years since the launch of Sputnik I—the first artificial object placed into orbit—space agencies have managed to create hundreds of millions of pieces of orbital debris. The vast majority of this debris (nearly 200 million pieces) are smaller than one centimeter, about 670,000 pieces are between 1 and 10 centimeters, and approximately 29,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 centimeters in orbit.

While millions of specks of space trash might not sound so bad, when they’re moving at thousands of miles per hour in orbit they can do serious damage. ESA astronaut Tim Peake reminded the world of this threat earlier this year when he took a picture of a 7mm crack in the International Space Station’s cupola window that was likely caused by a rogue chip of paint only a few thousandths of a millimeter across.

via http://motherboard.vice.com/read/you-can-adopt-a-piece-of-space-junk-and-it-will-tweet-at-you 

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What Google data reveals about #blackfriday shoppers 

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Sacramento, California

by @kecorto​

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Khrushchev visits supermarket and frightens child

(Nat Farbman. 1959)

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Linda Dolack

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Shopping for Jesus

via @jennilynn

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Stop Consumerism → http://ecogreenlove.com/?p=6327

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American Apparel sparks controversy over this staff uniform

AA is in hot water again.

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Traffic this Friday in Los Angeles is going to look a lot like this 1936 litho.

Today on VERSO, curator James Glisson muses on Black Friday and Benton Murdoch Spruance’s Traffic Control, which is on view through April 5, 2016 in Glisson’s exhibition “A World of Strangers: Crowds in American Art.”

image: Benton Murdoch Spruance, Traffic Control, 1936, lithograph on woven paper. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds provided by Russel I. and Hannah S. Kully. Image courtesy of bentonspruance.com.

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Great #blackfriday deals! via @obviousplant_ @obviousplant