Whoa, that's very impressive! The only one you missed was "p10y," which is in fact "particularly." ("Practically" would be "p9y.") But honestly that's still amazing.
Fifty years ago, it would be because a trial takes time. A trial this big, with repercussions this big and a defendant list this large, will take months or even years to play out.
Fifteen years ago, it would be because, with people this rich who have this much money to pay the best lawyers, the pre-trial work needed to get the prosecution started takes a huge amount of time to do right, because any attempt to speed it up in a way that isn't very, very careful, with every i dotted and every t crossed, could end up in a mistrial and the person walking free.
Five years ago, it would be because the DOJ was absolutely mortified by the fear of being "politically motivated."
But right now, it's because the DOJ is explicitly no longer independent, and the guy in charge of it doesn't want anyone listed in the files to be prosecuted because he's in there, and if anyone gets prosecuted, he has to be.
I am so tired of this comment. Yes, I'm also worried about it. But this tired cliche doesn't tell anyone anything they don't already know, doesn't raise any alarms or call anyone to any action, doesn't do anything but spread more doomerism into an already oversaturated doomspace. It's useless content, on the level of replying "first!" to a YouTube video circa 2013.
I'm sorry that you had to be the recipient of this tirade. But I swear, I see this comment several times every day, and I can't help wondering, "so what do you want me to do about it? What are YOU doing about it?" No. We have to assume there will be an election until there isn't, and then we have to respond. Until then, we have to help each other out and keep on doing what we can. We definitely don't have to comment the same low-effort doom every time midterm elections are mentioned; it just demoralizes people and makes the Trump fascism machine seem inevitable and unstoppable.
To be fair, that is almost exactly why I moved here. Luxon seems like a somewhat worthless lump, but his most extreme position appears to be a bit further left than Elizabeth Warren. And it's not impossible that he won't survive the year in his role.
Also reducing all politics to a left right thing is so stupid and probably the worst thing to do for political discourse
Absolutely agree. I hate that my first reaction to every conversation has to be "...but are they a fascist?"
I think it's because they're designed to look like big ol' dogs. Their characterizations are also "gentle giants," which is always an emotional gut-punch when they get weepy or show tenderness.
I've seen one of those bases on a truck, too—using an angle grinder on it would be quite impressive. They're made of very thick metal, at least anywhere a human can reach.
This isn't about the email marketers. I think you've got it in your head that this one guy is a scummy email marketer when he's really just trying to let people who have opted in to getting email from him know when he has more stuff for sale.
Believe it or not, there are other uses for email lists that aren't spam.
How is Amazon preventing customers from signing up? How even could they?
When Amazon scrapes the seller's website for listing information and then circumvents the seller's own storefront, they're not giving the customer the information that (1) the seller has a website at all, or (2) the seller has a mailing list. This means that the customer will just never find out that information without looking for it, despite clearly being interested in the seller's work (as they're purchasing from the seller). It's Amazon inserting themselves into the process so that they can skim some money off the top at best, or extort the seller for access to their customers at worst. And all of this while the seller has created the mailing list specifically to prevent such corporate malfeasance.
What he is saying is that he doesn’t get the customers email from the sale, to which he’d start to send marketing emails.
"customers never get to interact with my website, they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list. They have no idea who I am as an artist or what I stand for," Montes-Tarazas said."
That's not what he said.
You know, what pretty much every company does when you buy something.
Pretty much every big company, yes. Small businesses are pretty careful with that sort of thing, though, because unless they want to be dependent upon Facebook or Instagram or whatever for their entire lives, they have to not make their customers upset.
“Not being exposed to me, the ‘artist’” is a perfectly valid reason, and one I would agree with. But the mailing list excuse rings hollow to me.
"customers never get to interact with my website, they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list. They have no idea who I am as an artist or what I stand for," Montes-Tarazas said."
Lol. Birch trees are the most despised tree by most Minecraft players.