You needed to have a Steam account with purchases from before the announce date to preorder it. Nintendo is now doing the same with the Switch 2.

Also, Taylor Swift was successful with the Eras tour where a) fewer tix were scalped and b) those that were were from new accounts, not pro scalpers.

They also want to gaslight as if the first words out of Zelensky's mouth in the oval office meeting (after Trump stopped talking) weren't "thank you very much." youtu.be/S_YtXWVfkJE

This clip reminds me of an Alan Alda book I just listened to this week (If I understood you, would I have this look on my face? My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating) which was all about the topics of jargon and empathy.

It’s mostly people sized, with more indie restaurants than franchises compared to growing up in Winnipeg. Bacchus Books in Golden is nice too, and there’s a really great used book store (The Book Place) in downtown Kamloops that is filled to the brim with stacks of books waiting to jump out at you.

There’s a really great book store (Fable Book Parlour) in my small town (Revelstoke) which has a very full service website in terms of having just about every book (including their used books) listed, even if they can’t get it in. The price is the same as Amazon for most things.

I know it’s not the whole story, but to a very large degree, the reason the “algorithms love to encourage the worst stuff” is because people respond to it.

Some More News recently did a Climate Change vid on Jordan Peterson’s statements to buck the trend.

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