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We at least didn't have kids, and I'll probably accidentally drink myself to death anyway.

Exactly. "It's a shame the poors aren't winning the fight to take my wealth. Oh well..."

Sweet words are free, he's choosing to stay rich.

And if you're not murdered, you're imprisoned by the new president for not being able to afford a $500k home on a $15 an hour wage.

Show it, don't say it. Til then, stay scared.

I follow him on Insta, he's amazing!!

Got mad about this, then reread the title and saw that it did not in fact say "cats"

My what?

"I keep taking more from them and they don't like it?!"

Hate is the cost of squeezing those extra dollars. Extra profit isn't free, they're lowering another game slider for it, and that slider is how much your customers support your actions. They're only still around as a customer because all the other options have been bought out or run out of business.

Wedding rings were there to show who was married and who was available. Once you wanted to get married, you just found a friendly person who didn't have a ring, and then you asked if they'd marry you. I mean, that IS what happens I suppose, but my 8 year old brain played it out like someone asking a nice stranger for the time.

I have a successful store through Amazon Merch program (the one all these shirts are sold through) and there is some serious shit about what is and is not allowed to be sold. Each shirt is sent through an approval process that is first automated, and then any that fail will go to manual review. They base the automatic review process off the text (anything from the description or title of the shirt to the additional bullet points that help the shirt sell). The filters are based on their own list of banned phrases, a database of trademarked stuff, and some arbitrary rules. A classic one was when someone trademarked the words "hot sauce" and Amazon took down anything that used those two words in sequence. If you have a flagged word or phrase, manual review happens, and this typically means a human will look through your whole catalog of products as part of the review. And usually, you get a max of like two warnings before they remove your store. And the appeals process is non existent - all the email responses are automated. Then there's this fun part - the terms of selling on the Merch program say that profits are only realized 60 days after the shirt sells, and that termination is immediate. Basically, they keep the last 60 days of profits from your account. So, they have this really volatile review process with no clear guidelines, no way to appeal, and a flaky TOS that allows them to skim 60 days of profits from each account they terminate. Type in "orca" with your Amazon search to see all shirts in the program (I guess it's some kind of dev passcode?).

I had a friend lose $20k of profit from this nice little loophole. Amazon really have a nice racket going on.

So I guess all this to say I'm not surprised they're doing it.

Glad someone mentioned it, that was my immediate thought.

Absolutely, the only difference from sovcits is that the bogeyman we believe in is real - it's the insurance companies and billionaires.