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Why Amazon Sucks Reason #928374982

Almost a year ago, I ordered a copy of Rube Goldberg: Inventions from Amazon. My mistake for supporting them in anything but an emergency. I got the book on the right:

The book on the left however is the one I ordered. To be clear, this was not from "a seller on amazon," this was from AMAZON itself.

Note that it shows and claims to be the authentic book on the left above. But it was not, it was a shit-tier print-on-demand bootleg, made by Amazon itself and not Simon and Schuster as the page claimed:

They did this to others as well. Though they refused to post my review, this one got through-

Here is the print on demand page in the back of my Amazon book-

Here is how bad the reproductions are-

Best seen on the spine where Simon and Schuster's logo is literally a blurry mess-

I tried to report this to the publisher but the only thing I could find was an email address on their site that nobody replied to.

If anyone out there knows anyone in copyright law or the publisher, please let them know about this. Amazon is literally turning the publisher trademark into unreadable crap.

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Samuel Palmer - Garten in Shoreham (1830)

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Anok Yai as the VETEMENTS runaway bride – closing Spring/Summer 2025 Show

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Webtoons girlies I need help.

I was reading suitor armor and in the recommended comics for one episode was a thumbnail for a comic that looked cool. But I hit next too quick and didn’t see what it was. I made a poorly drawn version from memory of what it looked like. A woman with green skin and black hair embraced with a white dude with a sort of honey blond strawberry blond beard and flowy hair? If anyone could point me in the right direction. I’m pretty sure it had a more western art style than a manwha/manhua art style.

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the lifetime movie in the other room that my family is watching seems to involve man and child singing some eld English lilting drone thing and they’ve been at it for roughly a half hour. I’ve zoned out, scrolled around on here, watched a video, and refocused only to realize they’ve been at it the whole time. I cannot fathom.

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the white-green gradient of a freshly chopped spring onion…. c'est magnifique

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So, you know how certain Christian missionaries are trained to act in a very obnoxious way, so that most people they preach to will reject them outright, so they feel like the world hates them for being Christian and they can only be friends with fellow Christians? You know that thing?

I think as activists, we sometimes need to stop and ask ourselves whether we're acting like those missionaries. I think this type of behavior is a little more ingrained into our society than some of us realize, and some of us have internalized it without realizing what it's actually meant to do.

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the description excludes the carving of a large green locust climbing the greenest tips of the leaves. The insect’s legs are detailed and ridged in life like patterns, exactly like a real locust, including representations of the small feathery appendages on the back of the locust’s larger back legs. There is a smaller, paler katydid visible where the tip of the leaves flick outward, blending a vein of pale green-white jadeite into the design where the shift into a brighter color might have otherwise been a flaw. The legs of the insects are very thin and the smaller katydid may be missing an antennae but the preservation of those fragile details is incredible.

sometimes you just want to look at the qing dynasty jadeite cabbage again

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what makes art special is that it's hard to make

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New look at Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller ‘SINNERS’

In theaters on March 7, 2025.

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Boy Sap

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Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

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so I’d need everyone vaxed, I’d need like color and design coded “touch level consent” wrist bands, and I’d need mods with ref whistles and squirt bottles of ice water, but I would absolutely LARP a soap opera themed larp in a HEARTBEAT. I’ve never wanted to larp so bad.