Buy the SFW version and gift it to a school or library.

I kind of feel like the Royal line has been nothing but manipulated. Usurpations, rule changes, and exceptions to primogeniture have been there since the beginning.

Loved the joke, and it gives me an idea that might actually make this work: rather than sending it to a random homeless shelter every day, send it to a veteran’s shelter.

If you pull some random amount off the stack every day and store it to pass along on the next day, and build up a rolling reserve before pulling from that reserve for invasion day, you could hide that tell pretty effectively.

And what is he going to do with all of those “diversion” pizzas?

Seems like that could be a good way to feed the hungry in DC: order a large and semirandom number of pizzas to the Pentagon every night, then distribute them to homeless shelters; on nights when you’re planning or executing ops, just add to the order enough for your operation and pull them off of the pile before you redirect the rest to the shelters.

But the party of “lol your poor git gud” wouldn’t dream of such a thing. More likely they’ll toss them in the dumpster.

This isn’t about the email marketers. I think you’ve got it in your head that this one guy is a scummy email marketer when he’s really just trying to let people who have opted in to getting email from him know when he has more stuff for sale.

Believe it or not, there are other uses for email lists that aren’t spam.

How is Amazon preventing customers from signing up? How even could they?

When Amazon scrapes the seller’s website for listing information and then circumvents the seller’s own storefront, they’re not giving the customer the information that (1) the seller has a website at all, or (2) the seller has a mailing list. This means that the customer will just never find out that information without looking for it, despite clearly being interested in the seller’s work (as they’re purchasing from the seller). It’s Amazon inserting themselves into the process so that they can skim some money off the top at best, or extort the seller for access to their customers at worst. And all of this while the seller has created the mailing list specifically to prevent such corporate malfeasance.

What he is saying is that he doesn’t get the customers email from the sale, to which he’d start to send marketing emails.

“customers never get to interact with my website, they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list. They have no idea who I am as an artist or what I stand for,” Montes-Tarazas said."

That’s not what he said.

You know, what pretty much every company does when you buy something.

Pretty much every big company, yes. Small businesses are pretty careful with that sort of thing, though, because unless they want to be dependent upon Facebook or Instagram or whatever for their entire lives, they have to not make their customers upset.

“Not being exposed to me, the ‘artist’” is a perfectly valid reason, and one I would agree with. But the mailing list excuse rings hollow to me.

“customers never get to interact with my website, they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list. They have no idea who I am as an artist or what I stand for,” Montes-Tarazas said."

they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list

“Mailing list” is not “marketing.” It’s all opt-in. Montes-Tarazas wants his customers to be able to interact with him directly, without going through a big tech monopoly that can pull the rug from underneath him or demand a ransom at any time.

just another capitalist

He’s working within the system that he lives in, and doing it ethically.

Quite a bummer. We’ll just have to go with “one-quarter impulse.”

Absolutely no argument from me there.

By volume of harm, yes. But by character? I’m not so sure. Trump does whatever he wants, and doesn’t realize that what he does is awful. He often has to be reminded to hide his crimes. But Epstein knew that what he was doing made him one of the worst people to have ever existed, and did it anyway; even hiding it all away on an island to keep it under wraps. His was a calculated evil. Trump is just a selfish agent of chaos by comparison.

I guess what I’m saying is that Trump doesn’t seem smart enough to have character as bad as Epstein did.

Fair point. “Epstein” and “Eichmann” even start with the same letter and have the same number of syllables.

He’s going to be a byword for “an unfathomably evil guy” soon, if he isn’t already. I would’ve thought “Trump” would be the 21st Century’s version of “Hitler,” but it honestly might turn out to be “Epstein.”

Ah, there’s room enough in the lexicon for both. All three, even.

I hope the staff spat in their food

They probably didn’t, hoping to prevent exactly what happened.

There’s a big difference between something showing up in a public space, where you’re on your guard, and something showing up in your house, where you’re not.

With everything you know about software engineering and corporate malfeasance, you still don’t think it’s at least plausible that Samsung, whether by coding incompetence or intentional tomfoolery, had a bug that accidentally or “accidentally” turned ads on for even just a few people who didn’t opt in?

You’ve got your cause and effect reversed. He says vile things, so we point out that he is a vile person.

It’s his hatred that makes him say hateful things, not ours.

This wouldn’t be a problem if they left the seats where they were from the factory instead of squashing them all as close together as possible.

The suit doesn’t say that they paid extra for a window seat, it says they paid extra to pick their seat (that is, to not have it randomly assigned). So they paid extra to select their seat, but the selection they made did not include all of the relevant information.