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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todaytoBooks@lemmy.worldF**k Amazon
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    7 days ago

    Goodreads is like Yelp for books.

    Find a book written by a right wing author. Hundreds of ratings, and the reviews don’t even talk about the book beyond the description. Lots of pesudo-science and bad faith arguments.

    I got scammed by a few books. And worse, call out the issues with the books and your review gets shadow banned. Amazon doesn’t have a urgency to remove these fake reviews because it’ll affect sales.




  • Lemmy feels a lot more like old reddit.

    New Reddit feels artificial. The written content posts LOOK like they’re from AI. Much of the subreddits are now curated. You can’t say Luigi.

    Here, it’s a bit of a wild west. And that’s okay.

    There isn’t much written content posts. But the comments? I’m loving it. It comes off genuine. Human. Real. Even the shitty ones that make me want to downvote but damn do I somewhat see their perspective.


  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todaytoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon gets outed
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    7 days ago

    Jobs with shitty cultures. Restaurants, bars, places where managers are like in their 20s, the owner and management team are “family”, and HR is some random woman in her 50s who chain smokes.

    Once I worked at a office job, everything was so much more chill and drama moved outside High School BS to real adult stuff, like whose doing cocaine on the boss’s desk.






  • My drinking buddy is a neuroscientist.

    Same story. Went to college uncertain what he wanted. Did liberal arts, realized he was always curious about how the brain works, and just kept pushing through.

    He’s not really sure how he was going to make a living, but he’s good at what he does and it’s the only thing that keeps him going.

    A few drinking sessions prior, we celebrated over him submitting a paper that took five years to write.


  • Yeah, They’re not going to suddenly start spending. But they’re going to plan a way to move offshores.

    How do you think America lost manufacturing jobs in the first place?

    Doesn’t matter if it gets rolled back or not. We’ve seen this over and over again and the tariffs just make it even more attractive to move ship.