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Amazon sells a lot of illegal shit. That doesn’t mean it’s okay; that just means law enforcement isn’t doing its goddamn job.

Their salary depends on oppressing people, but there’s no particular reason it has to be trans people. The choice of victim is entirely arbitrary and therefore that choice can’t be motivated by money.

Nobody’s salary depends on randomly oppressing trans people, though, except to the extent that it’s a distraction tactic from grift elsewhere.

LOL, one of the Youtube comments:

HOLY FUCK THIS ONE ACTUALLY SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2yptujSQMY

(Yeah, it’s only one song, but play it loud enough and hopefully you’ll only need the one song.)

Disproven and fraudulent, not “unproven!”

I feel like we should have some sort of onboarding process then, because I’ve been a mod for a while now and this is the first I’m hearing of some kind of mod discussion space that I’m apparently missing out on.

I’m starting to feel like the rash of negative articles about Wikipedia recently seems like a coordinated smear campaign.

More importantly, it’s also potentially an excuse for insurance companies to refuse coverage for it. Money is a way bigger influence on parental behavior than upset kids are.

Is it similar to what took feddit.uk (I think) down a couple if days ago? Could it be related?

Right: so they don’t make colorful vehicles, refuse to take orders for them, and then pretend colorful vehicles don’t sell.

Watch out for them immediately contracting with Axon instead, which is just as bad.

@remindme@mstdn.social one month

Edit: I haven’t gotten a confirmation message, so maybe the bot is down? There are several other “remindme” bots to choose from, though, so at least one of them ought to work.

Yep. Also, you can tell Youtube doesn’t actually care about stopping slop because if it did, it would take the AI videos down, not just “demonetize” them.

the way people who might otherwise choose a unique car

IMO the problem with cars is that people don’t “choose” the color at all. They buy what’s available on the lot, and what’s available on the lot is almost entirely shitty neutrals because that’s what dealers/manufacturers think sells because that’s all that people could choose from because that’s what was on the lot…

I don’t normally buy new cars, but in 2019 I was going to bite the bullet and get myself a “BIFL” Toyota Tacoma. I knew exactly what I wanted: a manual transmission TRD Off-Road in Voodoo Blue – that color specifically. But guess what: I do not have a Tacoma because Toyota could not and would not sell me that car. There wasn’t a single one in that color available anywhere in the entire Southeastern US, and they would not take an order to build one for me. If I wanted to settle for some random boring color they had plenty, but not Voodoo Blue.

I ended up deciding that if I couldn’t get exactly what I wanted it defeated the point of buying new at all, and got an old 2nd-gen 4Runner instead.

Anyway, point is that Toyota tanked the sale entirely by refusing to provide a bright color^{with correct trim level and transmission}, and because I’m that stubborn. Most people are not like me and will settle instead, and that’s how all the cars end up being boring, shitty colors!

I mean, just look at the garish blue reflecting pool.

Okay, but now imagine any of those buildings you cited painted teal.

(They work because they’re the authentic color of the materials they’re made out of and people interpret authentic as “correct,” not because monochromatic is inherently good.)

Exchange it until you get one that isn’t destroyed by improper packaging.

How do you buy kitchen knives without becoming a felon?