Registered Democrats in like 6 states chose Hillary over Bernie by a slim margin in the middle of 2016 during the Primaries that year. The vast majority of Americans have not had the opportunity to vote for Bernie outside of Democrat Primaries and most of those votes happened after choices have been made at the party level.
Got something against English people? Dude was born in the UK and is an Oxford dropout.
Modern libraries lack the money to pay people to do the basic things to take a book as you might get from the bookstore and get it ready to go into a library’s collection. These are things from picking a way to categorize the book so it can be found in the catalog, to adding the shelf numbers and sticker telling you what library owns it, to wrapping the outside of hardback books with that clear plastic, and several other important tasks. Big University libraries still have the staff to do this to books that don’t come from the major distributors but their time is precious.
Instead, libraries purchase what are called “shelf ready” services from the companies that distribute books specifically for libraries.
There were like 4 companies that worked with most libraries. When I was a Director we had Baker & Taylor and Ingram and would order form whoever had the shortest wait time or better price. Many places worked with just 1 distributor and B&T was one of the biggest and oldest.
So B&T announced a few months ago they were in financial trouble. Then ReaderLink said they were going to buy B&T so customers shouldn’t panic.
And then ReaderLink pulled out the deal suddenly and B&T is in shutdown and never going to reopen. Their staff were immediately laid off and flocked to the r/librarians and.r/libraries to tell us.
This leaves only Ingram and Brodart as the primary source for most libraries public and school alike. The fact that ReaderLink pulled out of their buyout deal is so worrying.
That doesn’t feel like a lot of money but public library directors aren’t paid very well so that’s likely more than 10 years of salary.
A lady standing on my neighbor’s back porch smoking a cigarette cussed me out when I let the dog out. Except my neighbor had moved out last week (I had helped) and I knew it hadn’t sold yet. A girlfriend of one of the guys up the block was having a episode of some kind and had decided to squat in my neighbor’s home. I locked the door, waiting for the next morning.
I decided to call the Emergency Line to see if they would send mental health first but they sent the cops anyway. Our local cops are really delicate with mental patients so they got her back to her boyfriend and left the homeowner to cleanup.
It’s authored by the guy who coined the term originally; so however he’s using it, that’s the way it’s used.
French’s just changed their mustard recipe and my whole house rioted because it tastes “wrong now.” I don’t eat mustard but my husband and kids made me go to the discount grocery to stock up on “old French’s” before it goes away.
This was true even in the 90s I’m sad to say. It’s one of the reason I didn’t pursue fiction writing as a career 30 years ago. I don’t think AI will replace any working authors because poorly written slop and computer generated text are both a lot older than today’s LLMs craze.
The field of authorship has been in a slow decline for a long, long time. It has a lot to do with the way the book Publishing industry was run in the middle and later half of the 20th century. We stopped valuing authority and authors and it became a less valuable occupation. This happened to teachers and a lot of other thought-based fields too.
The reality is that statistically you are more likely to win $1 million in the lottery than to become an author in the US who can live on their income from writing fiction. It does still happen but the people who’s work leads them to become full time authors are extraordinarily lucky, talented, hard working, AND again, lucky.
So you have to write for the joy of writing and expect to have a day job. And if that writing makes money, that’s great and you should keep doing as much of it as you can. But please accept that it’s not going to be your income driver for the foreseeable future.
Blaming birth control for later infertility has a long history despite being absolutely unproven medically.
True, but the second part was far more important. It’s not that they think they are right, it’s that they are CONVINCED that everyone else ALSO thinks they are right and are too scared to say so. So they are thrilled to force their racist beliefs on everyone because they are sure we are just victims of the “woke mind virus” or equivalent. They are sure they are saving us from ourselves and it makes them insufferable.
We didn’t do a good job in the aftermath of the Civil War cleaning up the people who caused the problem. We were too quick to pardon everyone and try to get back to normal.
That gave the losing side the idea that it was only a temporary setback everyone secretly thought they were right or else we would have been more angry with them and it’s been a huge fucking problem ever since.
Sorry, didn’t pay my Netflix cultural tax this year. Maybe I’ll sail the sees for it.
It was almost the entirety of AM radio for the past 40 years. Sports and this right-wing trash. On in the background at every work place, hardware store, and cafe until Muzac took over. Had that ranting asshole and his friends pumping into our ears wanting it or not. Many areas of the country had only that and Country Music for hours in any direction.
When I said “if you knew what you were doing” I meant you can build an AM receiver out of literal trash with a middle school understanding of electrics but no one bothered because you had one built in to every car, every tape player, boom box, alarm clock, and anything else with a speaker. You had a radio in every room of the house and 2 in the garage even if you never turned it on. There’s no way to believe that phones have less cultural push than AM radio had pre-1990.
I want to know what method these anti-science whack jobs are going to use to determine this cause? If you didn’t like all the research the experts did into the underlying causes, WTF you gonna do differently?
Rush Limbaugh was broadcast on the free radio, you could listen to it on $1 worth of junk parts if you knew what you were doing. The ease of access is not what made republican bigotry accessible or popular.
They actually swapped which color was representing which party in election years on TV until the 2000 election. The election coverage went on until the almost the end of that year due to contested Presidential Election that went to the Supreme Court but the concept of “red states” and “blue states” was burned into the collective memory so hard they just stayed like that afterwards.
Oh there it is! Adam Conover talked about this, Rebecca Watson and others tore him up about it, and he issued a long-ass apology video for even giving them exposure. I was hoping to never hear about them again…
Rebecca Watson (Skepchick): “Adam Conover Ruins His Own Reputation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHCZCNjkgI
Adam Conover: “Why I Became a Crypto Shill” https://youtu.be/eDsSg-Xm1ms