• wuffah@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    They are major funders to groups spreading election falsehoods, including Restoration of America, which, according to an internal document obtained by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the issues and stay there” and “punish leftists.”

    Since there is no God, this obsession with punishment makes me think that rich people simply see themselves as God through some sort of schizophrenic projection. But they can’t tell people that, so instead they’re “doing God’s work” which is itself an insane statement, but somehow carries enough credibility that entire corporations, governments, and religions are centered on it.

    I wish the box industry were as boring as portrayed in The Simpsons.

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    5 hours ago

    I switched suppliers some years ago after learning about this. Switched to Global Industrial.

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    6 hours ago

    The good news is that there are plenty of other companies that make cardboard boxes. Buy from them.

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      The problem is uline is a 1 stop shop for many businesses to buy a whole range of supplies, not just boxes. At my last job basically everything in the office came from uline, including the desks, trash cans, hand soap, mops, the disposable cups in the kitchen, and many of the warning signs plastered around the machine shop. The problem was known then but we weren’t successful in convincing them to replace uline with 5-10 other separate companies.

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    They fuel election denial when they are sold. Not when they sit in your home. Not when they are reused to pack or ship something else.

    What a dumb fucking article. The last thing you want people doing is throwing out or recycling Uline boxes and then forgetting the controversy and buying more down the road.

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      When mine do, I just tell them to fuck off, then they sulk in the closet for a few hours until they’re emboldened to try pissing me off again.