That’s the opinion of Times’ writer, and surely some people will say anything for free stuff, but by and large in my professional experience that’s not how most people operate. Not because there’s some moral objection, but because it’s self-defeating for someone trying to build a following. Followers figure out that…

It’s funny to me that people assume any review of a product received for free is fake. First of all, they’re often not (because most people who review product non-anonymously care about the people who read their reviews) and second, there are many industries that run on reviews of complimentary product since way…

Sure, compensation on par with the labor. In the case of “nano influencers” (not in love with that term) comped product is more than fair.

I’m not paying for it. Neither should any other companies. The cost of the goods donated for review is perfectly adequate compensation for the average reviewer — aka a person with a hobby who has a couple thousand social media followers — or does free shit not matter anymore?

Haha yes, nice Freudian/spellcheck slip! (I can spell neither commensurate or commiserate on my own, turns out.)

As a person who sometimes helps coordinate social media campaigns, the idea that everyone deserves to be paid for the nano level product promotion makes me roll my eyes. People at the level of followers in the thousands aren’t advertising, that’s just consumer reviews. And while consumer reviews are a marketing…

If it’s straight theft. Because—having known a couple people with PA’s and a couple people who are PA’s—that job trips into “paid friend/nebulous levels of responsibility” relatively quickly. Assuming the given timeline’s correct and Donaldson worked for Rowling for years, it would be very easy for a couple lattes a…

As the comments here attest, this kind of behavior isn’t unusual. I don’t know what happens to some people when they have kids, but their common decency just fails.

I was a server years ago and I witnessed a toddler shit on the floor once. Upscale place! The parents just left, didn’t even try to talk to anyone. Some parents are vile.

She’s a pro chef and has money, so it may be that this is a refrigerated pantry. It’s not that hard to install/convert a closed space like a pantry or closet into a climate-controlled room. People do it all the time for built-in wine cellars.

Yeah, he’s not one of YOU, in the parlance of the email.

I’m subscribed to Trump’s email campaign to better keep track of the nonsense coming out of the Whitehouse and occasionally take surveys that are meant solely for Republicans. I just got an email (they’re all made to look like they’re from Trump himself) which says...

Oh no. :( I’m sorry. I know they’re based in India and I thought they shipped to most of Europe.

Yes, definitely recommend. I think I have around 6 things from them, maybe more if I’m forgetting something. I’ve ordered dresses, skirts, pants, and a shirt, so the whole gamut. The shirt, in particular, is probably the best professional type blouse I’ve ever owned in terms of fit (I am plus sized and very busty, so…

Get thee to Eshakti, where *all* dresses can be made knee and/or tea length, and you can customize the sleeves and bust of most. Their whole schtick is almost custom. And as a bonus, they have an enormous size range.

I just... noped out of a Wiki synopsis.

There are circumstances where families get used to screams of terror. My little brother used to have night terrors as a kid, which involved sitting up, eyes wide open, shrieking in terror. He had no other trauma in his life; which I mention because there wasn’t a controllable outside catalyst to change or remove. We…

I don’t think it’s especially unusual for breastfeeding babies to go for strange boob... I’ve had it happen. I’ve never had it happen with a toddler, but I’ve also never known a breastfed toddler, personally... I can imagine that if a parent didn’t socialize their older toddler and breastfed them, that toddler might…

My mom did that shit way back in the 80's, but with Barbie dolls. Barbie (especially 1980's Barbie) can be problematic — she had a point.