Sorry, I can't remember the details after so many years, and I'm not sure how much they matter. I suspect it was mostly the recommendation engine on the website, but that's a book-specific black hole. Most product categories can't be abused that much. I vaguely remember negative reactions to the kinds of reviews that were being brought to my attention, but that's actually the opposite of a black hole problem. On that side Amazon has (for most products) collected far more reviews than you want to read and the trick (as Amazon sees it) is how to show you the reviews that will most quickly induce you to buy the product--again subject to the hidden constraint of favoring sales that help Amazon more.

However even if I could remember every detail, I shouldn't be blind to changes. It is possible that Amazon could have undergone "moral improvements" since way back then. And I should be keeping my eyes open to see signs of such changes. I think I have and have not seen them.

Side note: You might enjoy this link. The Mentour Now YT channel - 737 pilot gets to fly an EV plane. He loved it within it's limitations. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F....

The pity is that it was pretty obvious those many years ago that hydrogen wasn't going to be a solution. And I had to laugh at (FTA) "Hydrogen's main selling point is that it's faster to fill a tank with the stuff than it is to recharge a lithium-ion battery."

Heck, water would be quicker too. How many among us buy a vehicle based on how long it takes to fill the tank?

EV use is just a different paradigm. You just have to work it correctly and pay attention. And here in waterlogged PA, I see EV's from all over the country happily driving around. Every day. Somehow they figured it out how to do it (just like back in the day when I had to get from the east coast to Seattle WA in three days. I had to map out the gas stations along the route, esp since I had a Mach 1 Mustang which was a super fun cross country ride, but it enjoyed its fuel a lot.

Wut?

Are you having arguments with me in your head, where you make something up that I said, then utterly demolished my ignorance with your rapier wit and undeniable insights?

I double dare you to show where I said that these two jobs were for out of work people.

Your utter dishonesty might be fooling you, but how do I put this.

either show where I wrote thartn. to be exposed as a pathological liar, for those made up arguments are more important than the truth. Because Yoiu were the one posting that

"I have seen many people's bodies wrecked by doing a trade. I have never really seen anyone make a lot of money."

And you apparently took great umbrage when I mentioned two jobs that pay well. You didn't like that did you? Somehow in your twisted mind, you made that me saying that all out of work people should become one of those only two jobs.

That's it - Now I think we've seen enough that your truth is only the truth in your mind, actual facts are irrelevant because you are a pathological liar.

Answer if you feel like it, you're just a random troll on the internet. I have no further need to interact with liars. Keep on dissembling though, dig that hole deeper.

Yup, and always will be. 8^)

Thanks so much for that link, I watched every second of it - and it is ten years old! But it is correct, and interesting that they put stats to it.

Considering the media today, we here in the west have gone backwards, and those Chimpanzees will have a much better score. I was a bit surprised about how poorly Sweden did.

I just gave hints to see if others would watch it and perhaps get their worldview altered.

Nice fact-free rebuttal. Yeah, figures though. You sure AS FUCK don't want to debate the relative merits of your authoritarian communism, do you, Comrade ?

If you ever make a chatbot call me, you're SOOO out of my addressbook forever. Telemarketers are annoying enough to get deal with without having to deal with Google AI robocalls on top of it.

Hiding personal stupidity is not one of them.

Might be a sour grapes thing. I looked for value in Reddit for a long time. Still see it come up on some search results--but cannot recall a case where any useful information was found on Reddit, no matter what the google "thought" in recommending it.

Worse in Japan, but I don't know which fake/manufactured bands were first.

Maybe I should argue for Elvis Presley? On the grounds that he only sounded...

I'm not certain why you are fixating on machinists. Of course there are only so many machinist careers. And to become a master, you have to go through several stages, like apprentice, and journeyman before becoming a master. And that does not fit in with present day demands of getting top dollar immediately. They would also probably find the work too stressful, and not high enough on their list of socially acceptable work.

And frankly, a lot of present day college graduates simply aren't capable, they are not intelligent enough, nor have the top notch mathematical skills needed, or the ability to work calmly while dealing with a process that can destroy millions of dollars with even a tiny mistake. So the supply vs demand calculation is always going to favor the adroit.

But I don't recall me saying that there were some huge number of machinist jobs. I noted that the finish carpenters are doing over 100K per year - btw, that's around 167 percent of the US median salary.

Perhaps unlike those who have bought into the College degree is the calling card mantra of the Übermenchen, and without one, you are subnormal, I've worked with enough to know many are pretty sharp people. I also know that showing respect is a great way to ensure the job is done right.

My second and final Amazon purchase was decades ago. Both purchases were books, but the website smelled of evil. To high heaven, and I decided I wanted no part of it.

Nothing I've learned since then has improved my sentiments towards Amazon and all things Amazon.

Solutions? Can't get there from here. Sad to report that's how it looks to me.

And yet I wonder how bad it has gotten. For example, how good is Amazon at pulling the suckers' triggers? I think the biggest mind trick would be knowing when to show a negative review that will trigger a sale. Much sneakier and more sophisticated that merely putting the most profitable (for Amazon) products higher in the search results.

Why do you ask, if I called him a loser, when I most very specifically called him a loser? His mentality is what shows he is a loser.

Standards. Well homie, you can demand utter perfection if you feel that is the path forward, and anything less must be rejected. Those are perfectly legitimate standards. because a person's standards are their own.

Even when they might be so unrealistic they guarantee failure.

You cannot legislate morality. You cannot legislate love.

And can you give me a scenario of how a person who believes completely that as narcc wrote:

We're staring down a global recession, possible nuclear war, and watching the leader of the free world build concentration camps. If that wasn't enough, isolationist policies are creating a power vacuum that the most dangerous actors are best positioned to fill. Oh, and fascism and authoritarianism are making a comeback. Maybe you can find a story about a police officer not shooting a puppy when responding to a welfare check, but I doubt it.

Narcc obviously hates the USA, just as his words say. Any incident just reinforces his deep abiding hatred.

So now that the cases he focuses on his hatred, Tell me how a person with that level of hate can even start to fix the thing he hates. Hatred eliminating hatred - tell us how that works.

By the way, I work with a lot of police. Funny we live in a world where they universally love shooting puppies and are utterly evil, while my personal experience with hundreds of them is that most are a decent sort. If we are holding all police to a few problematic ones, doe it not mean we have to be holding others who hate them to those high standards?

Now get to your safe room - there are people who don't agree with you. A trigger alert for a trigger alert, and we don't want you getting traumatized.

NAK

Emotional people always just devolve into projection of their character traits onto others, don't they?

Because when your emotional circuitry shuts down your rational thinking one, that's where emotions take you. "I know how I would behave in this situation, that means those who's arguments I don't like are behaving like me".

It has always been a highly technical trade. You might sign into Wikipedia to correct their mistake of calling them tradesperson or reference it to a trade.

It is also a great trade job for women, as they perform equally to men, even better in some respects. Women certainly did good machine work in WW2. It can be a little dirty at times, which might turn some off, no matter what sex.