hentai-free Energy for this first description but for the sanctity of leather bound books

Someone explain this to me

  • VHS [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Walmart’s website is totally fucking useless. It’s like a far, far worse version of amazon or ebay. Any “marketplace seller” can list anything there including things that likely don’t exist.

    The texts listed are real reports that were published in an agriculture digest in the 1900s. The one I looked at is 24 pages long (not much of a book). I’m guessing what’s going on here is the seller has a bot that automatically pulls up public-domain texts (no licensing fees) and offers to bind them as a book to make money. This is a long-standing business model on amazon, although it usually targets public domain texts that people are actually interested in, like Dracula or Pride and Prejudice. I’ve seen some printed and they look very unprofessional with bad page layouts.

  • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Third-party sellers can set their own categorization and product metadata with absolutely zero enforcement or moderation, and the search engine is already complete ass by default. They spend all their money on suppressing labor organizing and maximizing exploitation of retail slaves, not hiring competent website admins beyond the bare minimum to keep the damn thing from crashing during peak hours.

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    imagine that meme of that one girl force feeding the other girl milk but with a farmer, a pig and skim milk

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    I suspect these “leather bound” books are so you can buy a book about a niche obsession to swag out your bookshelf with having never read it, making it look like you’ve got some deep knowledge to impress your fellow crackers with.

    There’s the white supremacy thing the other poster mentioned, and there are conspiracy rabbit holes about milk pasteurization, with overlapping audiences.

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      It would be hilarious to see fascists go from “we like milk because it represents white purity” to “we drink impure off-color milk that could kill us, but this still somehow represents white purity”.

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        I mean you can go have a look if you want cuz that is definitely a thing, but it’s not that hilarious because then you have to be exposed to the rest of their filth. Fash watching is miserable and not a great idea for most people haha. (garfield propaganda reminder dot png)

        Hopefully there’s a big mass fuckup and a bunch of them die so spectacularly that we can enjoy it from outside their sphere of cognitohazard sharing.

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    Feed through a poor categorizer that categorized it as dairy because the title contains the word “milk”.