I'm somewhat dissapointed that no one's made a "goblin these nuts" comment yet.

This thing's been trained on Reddit, hasn't it...

I wouldn’t say they’re wild and I have a big book buying habit.

A new hardback is typically in the £20-30 range, a new paperback somewhere around £10. These are bookshop prices, not Amazon prices.

As a fairly avid reader, I try to get through a book a week, so £520 a year for a hobby. Sure it’s more than a netflix sub, but books really are quite cheap, particularly once you look at cheaper retailers and second hand.

Granted if you’re collecting lettered editions from fine press publishers, that’s perhaps a different problem.

> Do you dislike people from entire countries because of things their governments did too?

You can’t choose where you’re born, you can choose who you work for.

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Or add junk to existing categories. Amazon are sending me a ton of notifications for their “Haul” shop but I have absolutely zero interest in the cheapest made shit. No way to turn off those notifications without disabling the entire category.

> Only a Zionist would call equal rights and the right to self-determination a "maximalist" position.

To be clear, this was not Hamas’ position during negotiations.

> The widespread "Facebook is listening to me" belief is my favorite proxy for this ... Because, it sorta is - just... Not in the way folks think. Don't need ears if you see everything!

Getting folks to install “like” and “share” widgets all over their websites was a genius move.

I suspect a lot of retailers simply aren’t aware that that data is being collected and sold off to their competitors (or to ad networks so their competitors can poach their audience)

> liberal arts annotator

Tell us more about this axe you appear to need to grind.

Man, I have nothing against liberal arts per se. On the contrary, I think that a tragedy of our time is that people disconnected from things like literature, history and art in the name of over-specialization and an excessively utilitarian approach towards education.

But I am very critical of what pass as the modern liberal arts academic establishment. To avoid a very long text, let's say that my view is heavily influence by Ortega y Gasset.