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I forgot why I had a pdf of your cookbook, have you at some point gave this out for free?
It is and afaik always has been available for free
I ended up abandoning their bookmaking service for Lulu. My books are still for sale on Amazon, but I’m not letting them do anything with the printing.
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Not all the customers. I actively avoid Amazon since quite a few years back. There are literally dozens of us!
I was up early one day getting coffee, and saw that one of the book stores in my neighborhood had a line of about 30 people of all ages outside waiting for it to open. I figured it was an event, and had nothing else to do, so I got in line, too. When the doors opened, they all scattered to different parts of the store. So, no author signing or music release. Just people who like books.
Are you British by any chance?
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I see yours (from another post) too. I'll try to stick to drab, grey language in formal communication. After all, "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down", and I've got no desire to paint a target on my back. Out of curiosity, how would we reword the verb form? Eg "Language whitewashing squicks me out"
Why would you need to? .. it relates to the act of washing white paint over something. There's no logical reason for a negative list to be known as a 'blacklist' as far as I can tell? Ultimately, I don't think adjusting language is more dull or drab that using the term blacklist. But no one likes being corrected, and no one likes being told what to do. I get that .. but I honestly didn't mean to cause offence to you.
But I am a bit lost now. I thought we were trying to avoid colour-terms-that-are-also-race-terms in language. Whitewashing ok, whitelist bad?
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Overly aggressive denials of simple requests ("please use another word") just make me wonder why you are so upset about it? Blacklist/whitelist DO reinforce the notion that black = bad and white = good, so what's the deal with using a different word? I truly don't understand why people would get upset by simple requests like that.
The counterpoint is why spend so much effort language policing others words? There is no need to force this change, and it just causes needless consternation. Use allowlist if you must but don’t force your change on me for the sake of your own sensibilities.
Our language was formed at a time where racism was more endemic.
We now live in a society that endeavours to be less racist; but language hasn't caught up.
.. what's your argument for not doing this?
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I read a lot of books. It's pretty much my main source of entertainment. Nobody else came up with something like Kindle Unlimited where you pay a flat fee and read as much as you want instantly. There's entire genres that only exist on amazon that will never appear in a bookstore.
In my areas we have puli libraries with interlinear loan. Being able to read for pleasure is a wonderful luxury!
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People need to purchase products to leave reviews, so I doubt AI will run rampant any time soon for reviews.
On Amazon? That's not true - at least on Amazon UK it definitely isn't, just tried and it lets me write a review for a product I never bought without any problem.
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How does Amazon handle warranties, especially in a year or two? Pray tell.
Amazon is the store. The manufacturer handles warranties. If your Samsung TV breaks you don’t complain to Wal-Mart, you complain to Samsung.
WTF, here in Germany (or rather Europe as a whole) it is the other way around for the mandatory 2 years - if something happens, you return the item where you bought it and the seller is completely responsible for dealing with everything, and on the hook for delivering you a working item.
Only after these two years expire and you have an "extended warranty" in place you have to deal with the manufacturer.
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The counterpoint is why spend so much effort language policing others words? There is no need to force this change, and it just causes needless consternation. Use allowlist if you must but don’t force your change on me for the sake of your own sensibilities.
There's a logical reason for this. Our language was formed at a time where racism was more endemic. We now live in a society that endeavours to be less racist; but language hasn't caught up. .. what's your argument for not doing this?
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Why would you need to? .. it relates to the act of washing white paint over something. There's no logical reason for a negative list to be known as a 'blacklist' as far as I can tell? Ultimately, I don't think adjusting language is more dull or drab that using the term blacklist. But no one likes being corrected, and no one likes being told what to do. I get that .. but I honestly didn't mean to cause offence to you.
No offence, I swear! Just a slight toothache and an overactive sense of saracsm here. But I am a bit lost now. I thought we were trying to avoid colour-terms-that-are-also-race-terms in language. Whitewashing ok, whitelist bad?
Have a great day.
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I explained my reasoning here:
> Why would you need to? .. it relates to the act of washing white paint over something.
> There's no logical reason for a negative list to be known as a 'blacklist' as far as I can tell?
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There's a logical reason for this. Our language was formed at a time where racism was more endemic. We now live in a society that endeavours to be less racist; but language hasn't caught up. .. what's your argument for not doing this?
Doesn't the term "blacklist" date back to medieval England, where it referred to the black book where the names of sinners were added?
The fact that there are more negative associations with 'black' in our language than 'white' seems more of a feature than a coincidence.