The source for the claim of booksales in the original article are the same sources who can’t be trusted in mine, so it’s a fair bet that influence peddling at the very least played a part. NYT wheels and deals off popular people who are authors, always has.

I’ve told users to junk everything to our proofpoint vendor, it’s not worth getting struck with a clever unsubscribe link. I think it would be a good cybersecurity test email to see how many people click it, I’d wager it’s more effective than some of the piss poor phishing attempts we get, and we’re pretty heavily targeted.

Gmail has an auto unsub feature, as do a lot of providers now. It effectively does the unsub for you if it complies to standards and then blocks the email and reports it to can-spam if it continues.

It’s a pretty commonly utilized tactic that’s especially employed by grifters who want to lend credence to the grift and political operatives who want to… lend credence to their grift. Occasionally though by people who want to gain notoriety in a field they’re new in, keep up a streak of success if they’re not sure about the book’s quality, or do a book tour and have something to sell the talkshows. In all cases it’s employed by people with more money than talent.

A source among many about NYT influence peddling: https://londondaily.com/evtepe-new-york-times-bestseller-list-exposed-fake-editorial-manipulation-not-sales-based-rankings

This other source is more specific to what the other commenter was referring to though: https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/politicians-political-groups-buying-bulk-books-reports-2f81ef

Paying money doesn’t mean you get to harass other students who also paid money… Maybe that’s your first lesson.

Usually typos are the result of multiple people having their own template form that only gets sent to their initializing accounts. It’s not an unforgivable one though if it gets the point across (it does). They probably don’t get many replies on that one since not agreeing to T9 is reason for removal from most roles including publicly funded college students.

Many churches and especially political action committees based on Christianity function as death cults. I’d say they definitionally don’t care at all about earth or the people on it. Not wanting people to go to hell stands in juxtaposition to their desire to themselves be raptured.

It also begs the question of why we allow people who yearn for the end times to be the preferred leaders of what used to be the most powerful nation, but a little out of scope for a dumb church sign.

They’re mostly German. Not sure whether to interpret that as zionist = nazis and we’ve got a nazism problem, zionist =/= nazi and we’ve got a liberalism problem, both, or the scratch a liberal and a nazi bleeds thing is real in more cases than I thought.

Schools < city < state < nation < a foreign nation.

Just as our forefathers intended. /s

This nation needs re-education camps.

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Holding my breath works for me, or maybe it just passes the time. Usually goes away in about 2 full breaths.

That’s how my wife packs the freezer.

Yeah, I know in restaurants alcohol free requires no ID. It’d be nice if those terms were a little more clear.

Seems fake. It’s also not legal AFAIK to sell non alcoholic beer to minors since it’s still got some alcohol in it. Then again I guess vanilla extract and mouth wash does too.

Serious as viewed from GameStop’s perspective, and maybe even just one man at the top. eBay has already said their offer is not remotely attractive to them. I think their current CEO unfortunately thinks the only way to run a business is to create controversy. I hope they didn’t take the wrong lesson from the Gamestop stock rally, but it seems at least one person did.

Think you’re just experiencing strawberries being a cheaper fruit by weight than raspberries, but I appreciate the diligence.

The company must report the incident to the DMV within 72 hours, or 24 hours if the officer has designated the incident a priority because of “a clear or potential danger or risk of injury to others,” the regulations said.

Nothing says imminent danger like a 24-72 hour grace period to do something about it.

There needs to be a community, “AI is fucking stupid”

That’s an excellent point. If the purpose of this community is discussion then reposts are harmful to that since for this community especially it’s going to be a lot of clarifying questions about a given picture, etc.

Reposts are pretty lame, I only care when it’s the bulk of someone’s presence on the community though, or if it’s just from one reddit user they’re trying to boost.