Wait a bit and it’ll be remaindered and on sale at used book stores.

Is anybody really buying these books, though? 

Right, there aren’t many smoking doctors or nurses who say smoking is harmless, I would bet. They’re just addicted.

Cigarette company product placement is why.

I get your point, but smoking is a little different - the coronavirus doesn’t have a multibillion-dollar industry dedicated to infecting people before they are old enough to decide it’s a bad idea, and the virus isn’t one of the most addictive substances known to humanity. And there is no culture where people are…

You’re making the understandable mistake of thinking that most people who go into healthcare jobs do so in part to help those who need medical care. There’s a depressingly large segment of people in healthcare jobs who wanted “a good job” and do not, nor did they ever, genuinely care about the well-being of the people…

How are the hip urban residents of these apartments going to get deliveries of anything larger than a DoorDash package? Do they think that the chic little shops will get supplies brought in on scooters?

This article reads like a whole subtweet.

You’re the one going on about how it’s “retribution” if other people exercise their own free speech rights (by saying this CEO is an asshole and they don’t want to give his company money) because it harms the business, and therefore unfairly punishes Bob in the mailroom.

Well, no, that’s not why the Church opposes contraception; but it’s interesting that none of the organizations, with their oh-so-differing approaches, take the stance that a thing that could be highly effective in preventing abortion (contraception) should be promoted. Not even, this is only OK between married people,…

Partly right. It’s a big wedge issue because it’s bound up in all kinds of shame and weird attitudes about women’s sexuality and motherhood. That’s why you will hear people making the argument, with a straight face, that abortion should be OK in case of rape or even contraceptive failure, but not if the woman didn’t…

Again, the issue here isn’t that CDPR is violating Kickstarter’s rules or doing anything illegal. (KS is a public benefit corporation, btw; at least their stated mission is to help creators, especially smaller and newer creators.) CDPR’s actions are leaving a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths because they are…

Exactly. And they can cancel the project if they don’t feel like doing it - unlike a pre-order, there’s no contract to deliver the result.

The objections are that Kickstarter is really a platform for smaller companies or developers who don’t have the capital to pay for a project up front, or to take the risk of making X copies of a thing that don’t end up selling. Hence the name of the platform. Whereas here, a very well-funded, established company with…

Eh, often that’s true, but also there are a lot of people who are terribly anxious about ostracism and who don’t understand how free speech works. They’re terrified that they might say something wrong and then they’ll be canceled forever (as if we don’t ALL say dumb shit from time to time), and so the solution, in…

So CEOs of companies have special, free-speechier rights to free speech that cancels out the rest of us? CEOs get to say whatever dumb shit they like and everybody else needs to STFU and keep on spending, because gosh wouldn’t it be a shame if the poor sods in the mailroom get fired because you took your business…

This article IS celebrity gossip. It’s like those anti-pornography “reports” that ended up being chock-full of wank material, only here the author is doing it deliberately.

That’s pretty much it. It wasn’t even ‘this is a great law that will save babies’, he had a dumbfuck thought about the Supreme Court justices being useless cowards.

Why does this “freak you out”? Why do you believe that other people exercising their free speech and choice about whether to do business with a company is “retribution”?

You know as well as I do that they haven’t. Can you point me to the groups behind the Texas law that are “advocating practices that largely eliminate” abortion, like reliable access to contraception?