:0 i appreciate you sharing this, because i actually had not heard this

i don't actually intend to use amazon any time soon, i just wanted to complain about The Evils

you looked at me funny.

Amazon actually is less spammy, from the emails I received, and really does have better implications in data privacy.

Amazon is definitely evil, we are agreed, but I have only so much time and energy to expend and I only have so many compromises I can make.

I think I'll ultimately just not read these books, unless they arrive on the high seas or if I find myself in a bookstore in the coming years

Amazon actually is less spammy, and has better implications in data privacy.

Amazon is definitely evil, we are agreed, but I have only so much time and energy to expend and I only have so many compromises I can make.

I think I'll ultimately just not read these books, unless they arrive on the high seas or if I find myself in a bookstore in the coming years

nu male -- thinks they're on the forefront of culture but will be considered tacky in a decade

beta male is already accounted for, they stand in opposition to alpha males

iota male -- introvert. nervous. constantly making himself as small as possible

just make sure you don't until after cyber monday. multiple orgs and unions calling for a boycott until then

baking soda paste is also great for treating bee stings!

i can see how after getting a bunch of money by hijacking a plane and parachuting out of it you would be like "damn... i could get Another bunch of money by doing that again" but it's a shame that he got brought down by hubris. c'est la vie

A paste of just baking soda and water also makes for a good abrasive to scrub tough caked in soap scum from your shower, I find. It takes kind of a lot of baking soda to do a whole shower but it works really well, like diatomacious earth kind of.

I wonder if there's another option for it that works as well.

Bookshop dot org may be an annoying site to use, I don't know. Amazon is also a spammy and junky website that sucks to use though.

I don't know who owns bookshop dot org but I do know Jeff Bezos is like, at best one step above being a modern slaver and Amazon is definitively complicit in genocide against Palestinians.

So like, yeah there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, I'm not saying bookshop dot org isn't probably also doing son shit behind the scenes, don't know much about them, but Amazon is absolutely one of the most malign forces currently extant on this planet.

That would be really fun! They're not too well studied since theres not much money in it sadly. But we can dream!

I don't teach, but I did volunteer as a tutor throughout college! I also got chosen to take part in a science writing fellowship which was focused on helping teach students science writing, reading the literature, etc. I also minored in science communications so there's that!

I'm so glad you find it engaging!!! Bacteria and archaea are my special interest so its easy to talk at length. Proper SciComm intimidates me a bit, but Just Posting about them is lower pressure. I just want to spread my love for these beings so often written off as pathogenic vermin.

I've been thinking about making a video where I talk through a bacteriology "iceberg" image I found online, but I worry about accuracy since I lack advanced degrees in the field.

oh i thought bookshop and the book depository were the same site but oh. ohhhh

to be fair, this is also how the perfect getaway would look. a perfectly spun tale

this is a very fair point

my fantasy is bookshops dot org will see this post and have a change of heart

my other fantasy is that there is any good Books Site out there (other than piracy, and my local library,) where i don't have to weigh how much my personal safety would be compromised by using their services

Other book sites I saw, selling the books I'm looking at:

• feministpress.org: No ToS, no PP, uses SquareSpace, TypeKit, Google, and what looks like Shopify?

• Barnes and Noble: cmon lol

• Macmillan: Dozen trackers includes ones from Amazon, at least there's no arbitration clause, but they do sell information including race, ethnicity, religious views, life experiences, sexuality, and gender identity and gender expression.

• IndieBound: It's just bookshop.org now

• HarperCollins: Best one I've seen so far, no arbitration in the ToS, and the Privacy Policy is pretty gross but not overtly broad. But some of the books I am looking at, I can't actually buy books from their site, they only have links to Amazon and other big bookstores.

• Penguin House Random: They do sell information including race, ethnicity, religious or philisophical belief, SSN and other identifiers, financial information, physical location, and union membership. Fucking union membership.

• Simon and Schuster: Arbitration agreement, broad privacy policy, etc. i'm going to stop giving any of these bookshops my time at this point

And... I don't actually know the "piss bottle" situation about any of these companies. They're worse on almost every metric, and a "maybe" on the metrics like "are their employees peeing in bottles"?

can't have a fair comparison here until you've touched on the "piss bottle situation"

this is good advice. thank you for just_posting

Congrats :-D

I'd also like to note that I don't live in a city; the closest library is a 1.4 mile walk away, the next is about 4 miles, and the nearest bookstore is over 10 miles away, and it's a Barnes and Noble. The nearest bookstore which isn't a Barnes and Noble is over 20 miles away.

So many barriers exist just to have barriers, wasting money for fear of exploitation. It's so wasteful.

Yoo let's go! I'm happy for you, my friend

I wonder if these guys could be utilised to make glow-in-the-dark plasters. Probably not but it would be funky! Feel free to not answer if it's too personal but do you teach at all? I find your style so engaging and refreshing

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