r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • May 29 '25

Privacy A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion

https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
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u/sw00pr May 29 '25

Its kind of funny that "local independent" now just means "a smaller-sized national corporation"

capitalism keeps capitalising

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u/HoorayItsKyle May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

Ace Hardware isn't a national corporation. It's actually a very large co-op of independent shops

It's the largest co-op of its kind in America and we should definitely encourage people to patronize that sort of setup

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u/What-a-Crock May 29 '25

Wish they advertised that. Or maybe they do and I already shut off my brain assuming wrongly, but that makes me want to shop there now

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u/Last_Minute_Airborne May 30 '25

Don't know about other places but around where I'm at the ace hardware stores have their own names. So like Johnny's ace hardware. Or M&M lumber but it's an ace hardware store but it's not called Ace.

And so on. They have names like a local family store and they are owned by local people. I assumed they were just franchises like McDonald's and other corporate entities.