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Alexandra Erin
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So, today in things I definitely didn't order from Amazon, I received: an LED Jeep headlight, three iPhone 11 cases, a bulk pack of hearing aid batteries, a pack of smoke alarm batteries, an electronic blood pressure monitor, a clamshell cord case, and a zirconium tennis bracelet
Not sure if I'm going to obey an eBay account or start an "Everything's A Dollar" section in the bookshop.
I am pretty sure the iPhone 11 isn't out yet so I'm wondering if the reason I have been getting so many cases is that someone mocked a bunch up based on speculation and they got the dimensions wrong.
Which is ultimately the thing that gives me pause here about selling it: if this stuff was good, they wouldn't be using it as ballast in boxes for fake orders.
Amazon sellers use them to generate "verified buyers" for fake reviews to inflate their store rankings, is the scuttlebutt.

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Alexandra Erin
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This is what boggles my mind: dude here wants us to believe that he spent ten years developing a craft that doesn't matter.

"I am trying to be the best comedian I can be"... why? To get on SNL? As an end in itself? Can't say "To make people laugh" if you don't care who gets hurt
So what we're left with is what we're left with for every lazy, cowardly comedian like Shane Gillis: "they're just jokes", an argument in which jokes are simultaneously sacred but also useless.

"Just jokes" assumes jokes have no impact, no power to change the world.
What kind of comedian doesn't believe jokes have the power to change the world? To make someone's day... or ruin it. To lift people's spirits, or puncture them. Jokes reflect how we see the world, and shape it.
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Alexandra Erin
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Sidenote about libraries:

You should never feel guilty about using library's resources. They are public resources, and library funding both in general and for specific things is justified by people coming in and using those resources.
I know that an anonymous online download feels less like it is bothering anybody or taking something away from others than going to a library does... but libraries are there for you.

Whoever you are.
(If your library does not have homeless people in it, it should only be because we finally recognized housing is a human right.)
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Alexandra Erin
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95% of what I write is free to read. When I publish my work for sale, I leave off any DRM the platform doesn't require.

Still don't condone book piracy. It hurts authors, hurts my friends and colleagues.

If you think you have an exception that justifies it, keep it to yourself.
Right now Seanan McGuire is getting hammered for having explained what piracy does to books and comics.

Some of it is righteousness trolls or jerks waiting for a target.

But I think a lot of it is people feeling guilty and wanting to justify themselves and receive absolution.
Nobody likes not being able to afford a book. Nobody likes feeling guilty for hurting a creator whose work they enjoy. So they turn it around, make the person who pointed it out the bad guy.
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