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Imagine seeing that message and buying another product from them.

“It’s time to artificially create waste. Don’t worry, you won’t see this message again. Our new cookers are designed to not last 10 years.”

One of the biggest success I’ve ever seen.

I grew up in a very religious conservative home. My parents love LOTR, Narnia, Marvel, Star Wars, etc.

But we weren’t allowed to read Harry Potter. The reason given was that “fictional magic is usually ok, but HP is teaching you that anyone can go to a magic school and learn witchcraft.”

Now, you have to understand that they believed in real-life witchcraft. Real people apparently draw pentagrams, contact demons, and get effective results. They had cautionary tales about Ouija boards gone wrong, and that sort of thing.

But imagine my surprise when I grew up and married someone who is a huge HP fan, and I finally watched all the movies and listened to the audiobooks. And guess what? It’s literally the fucking opposite of “anyone can learn witchcraft.” It’s literally about people who are born with or without the ability do magic and the fascist villain wants to torture, enslave, and kill non-magic people.

So where did my parents get their entirely wrong idea? From some Satanic Panic fearmongering fundamentalist/evangelical leader. Maybe it was the same one who told them that “any music with drums is basically pornography.”

So nah, I don’t think it’s about women authors - that’s probably another issue. It’s whether the works are popular enough and have enough buzz words that some religious leader is able to latch onto it and scare people into being outraged by it, banking on the assumption that they won’t actually read it.

In fact, that’s a running theme - assume people won’t think for themselves or learn any facts about anything they’re told be outraged about.

slaps roof This bad boy can fit so many fuckin Worfs in it.

That dude’s name? Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

1. You are human. Accept that imperfection is a built-in feature. No one is going make 100% of people happy. It’s not possible.

2. 95% is great. Your lessons are more successful than most, I reckon. You know if you’re doing a good job or not. You’re the expert here - not the 5%.

3. You have to accept that you can’t control how other people feel, how things affect them, or how they behave. Your lessons may just not reach certain types, and that is probably not your fault. It may not be their fault either, but they may not understand that.

4. Students (especially teenagers and often college-age) often think they know the one right way that everything should be done. They’ll find out eventually, hopefully, that their views aren’t infallible, or they’ll grow up to be insufferable. Many students are also just vindictive in reviews if they find out a class isn’t as easy as they expected or if they got a bad grade when they didn’t study. The possibilities are so endless that you’ll just drive yourself insane if you try to take every criticism at face value, when they may well be mostly fiction. (Your being upset by the negative reviews may be their intention.)

Look at other reviews of other instructors, teachers, professors, etc. and you’ll see a pattern. Grade yourself on a curve.

He might get counseling from some evangelical pastor though, and come out of it even more terrible than he already is.

PA is one of 11 states with fully closed primaries. If you aren’t registered as a Democrat or Republican in those states, then you can’t vote in your party’s primary.

In other states with open and semi-closed primaries, I agree with you. But in those 11 closed states (plus 3 more for republicans) it’s even weirder to register with a party and then be one of the majority of voters who don’t bother voting in the primary - especially when the primary is the only opportunity you have to choose someone who more closely aligns with your ideology. It’s weirder still to not vote in the primary and then complain about your party’s nominee.

Edit Tl;dr: PA voters should register with a party and participate in the primary every time. It’d be weird not to.

Google search has some features that alternative search engines don’t. I use DuckDuckGo for 99% of everything, but I occasionally use Google to see local busy hours, or sometimes any hours, reviews, phone numbers without navigating a shitty website, etc.

I think there are ways to break up Google search on its own, and make some of those features separate and accessible on other search engines.

Then there’s the matter of advertising, data collection, SEO, exclusivity with corporations like Reddit, etc.

Google is doing things with its search that seem to intentionally reduce the ability of other search engines to compete with them, and that’s really all that the antitrust laws are meant to prevent.

Whenever he’s with Elon he leaves his dentures in the car.

Oh it just means he acquired a servant that has 30+ years experience in old timey hat making. But he’s rich, so we speak as if it’s him that’s doing it.