Monday 9 March 2020

Black friday - strategy of low prices


Because "  Black Friday is one of the vectors of the strategy of low prices and sales at a loss which has enabled Amazon to become the first distributor of textiles and electronics in France ", they denounce. 

First point: the working conditions as untenable as they are unacceptable to which the giant subjects its employers. The signatories point the finger at the strategy, named "day one", adopted by the firm, which consists in maximizing the rate of preparation of orders and forcing its deliverers to an endless race, and dehumanized.
 
It is estimated that for one job created by the firm of Jeff Bezos, two jobs are destroyed in the commercial sector. Amazon employees, many of whom are temporary workers, carry out tasks timed by the algorithms of their scanners. In its new warehouses, they become auxiliaries to 100,000 order preparation robots. And, soon, the deliverymen, already numerous to be uberized, could be replaced by drones. 

In addition to representing a threat on the job market and contributing to the disintegration of the social bond, the economic system on which Amazon rests, can only be good, according to them, to increase disparities. They indeed recall the practice of tax diversion which the multinational shamelessly engages in.

But the disaster does not stop there. As the text points out, the damage caused by the vast e-commerce business has repercussions not only on society, but also on the planet. A system which, in short, poses serious problems both on an ethical and ecological level:
 
 Its low prices and its daily promotions lead to overconsumption and contribute to the increase in CO2 emissions by increasing the extraction of resources, transport by boat, plane or truck. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is also the world leader in the cloud and its data centers generated as many greenhouse gases as Portugal in 2018. AWS provides its services to Palantir, a sulfur company that helps Donald Trump identify and arrest migrants illegally crossing the border. 

With this call to end the massacre to which Amazon's practices would lead, the signatories invite everyone, including on social networks with #VendrediNoirpourAmonon, to mobilize in order to "  no longer let Amazon sweep of social and environmental rights out of hand  ”.

A mobilization that enjoins taking its own responsibilities as a consumer and a citizen.  

Sunday 9 February 2020

camp tent

The definition corresponding to a tent is a small portable cloth house that is placed in a place outdoors to house one or more people provisionally.
It is called as it is called according to the terrestrial regions and their cultures, its purpose is to accommodate people and their belongings in a place outdoors, so that they can sleep, eat and do their daily activities indoors.
A tent consists of:
-a structure that supports it and that consists of metal rods generally made of aluminum and stakes that are responsible for tensing the winds of the tent in the middle area and corners.
-the store itself that includes walls, ceiling and floor.
–The fabric walls have an opening for the entrance and some other smaller ones such as windows or vents.
–The floor is usually canvas or some other element more resistant than that of the walls.
–Overhead is a roof that is placed above that of the tent without touching it, which protects it from sun and rain.
-Packing material that is usually a bag where all the elements go.
As for the material, it is made of cloth, although synthetic materials are currently chosen because they are more resistant and durable.
There are different types of stores, among which are:
- Canadian, which is the traditional one with a gable roof. It is usually made of resistance materials and is the most sought after for its ease of transfer and installation.
-iglu that usually replaces the previous one by having lighter and easier to transport materials, as well as its resistance to winds due to the roundness of its shape. This is based on the ice constructions that have that name.
-isothermal which is a variation of the igloo designed to be used in the mountains that is why they resist wind and cold. It is formed by two separate layers that achieve excellent insulation from the cold.
-Structural that looks like a house since it has divided environments and a good interior space, as well as a high ceiling.
As for the etymology of this construction, it is:
The word "store" comes from Latin. It is born from a tenda from the verb tendo, tedis, tendere, tetendi, tentum whose meaning is to tend, extend, stretch.
While the campaign that also derives from Latin comes from campania, campaniae with the meaning of a flat field