8 comments

  • jameshilliard 20 hours ago

    When protestors make obviously false claims in videos like this such as asserting there is a "Genocide" in Gaza or that there are "millions" of Palestinians being killed it tends to make many not take their complaints all that seriously.

  • pvaldes a day ago

    An interesting context here is that this happens coupled with the destruction of a big Wildberries store near Moscow yesterday. Wildberries is the Amazon's Russian counterpart.

    • jameshilliard 20 hours ago

      > An interesting context here is that this happens coupled with the destruction of a big Wildberries store near Moscow yesterday.

      Amazon data centers were already being attacked by terrorist groups(i.e. the IRGC) before the Wildberries strikes.[0]

      [0] https://apnews.com/article/amazon-aws-data-center-uae-iran-b...

      • pvaldes 19 hours ago

        Yep. The status has changed from 'untouchable' to 'could be next'. And it was almost too easy to destroy it so I bet that the protester action has been another startle more in a complicated week. Once the cat is out the bag you can't put it again.

        I learnt that this companies will not pay for any of the borrowed items destroyed. A lot of sellers in UAE and Russia lost a lot of money this year.

        • jameshilliard 17 hours ago

          > The status has changed from 'untouchable' to 'could be next'.

          The threats in the middle east against international shipping and regional energy infrastructure seem to have a similar threat profile to data centers and commercial warehouses. There are lots of large high value targets in the region that are hard to defend reliably against missiles/drone attacks.

          One of the big problems in dealing with those threats is that terrorist groups like the IRGC or Hamas can be very hard to deter in general.

          > I bet that the protester action has been another startle more in a complicated week.

          These sort of common and usually ineffective detached from reality protests are nothing all that new and are quite different from real military threats to infrastructure.

          > A lot of sellers in UAE and Russia lost a lot of money this year.

          Were UAE distribution warehouses hit as well or just data centers?

  • TomeveilSeeker a day ago

    Is Jeff Bezos also somehow on Epstein list to be blackmailed to do such evil things or is he a natural evil?