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It is 76 throughout the house. It did, finally, get down to 62 outside, about 64% humidity. But... it... just isn't cooling off in here.
Still, I'll... get to the freezertop, dishes, and probably laundry. Get a shower in. Make a call or two this morning. And... well... do what else I can. But I think I can do that. Maybe make something to eat. Then go on to bed... when I can... or must.
All but one more thing from amazon is due in. Though, one thing was canceled, so I have reordered it, and a few other things. Will see if they do any better. But, did it almost on impulse. Oh well. Will see if they can deliver somewhat on time, now. Now that they seem to have found my place again. Or... one of the drivers. Bleh.
Later.
If it wasn't for the fact that Amazon Publishing puts my books out I wouldn't use Amazon at all (an admission which, I suspect, doesn't really give me too much of a platform for moral superiority here). My online shopping habits mainly involve books, and Amazon is hardly the only place to find them.
ReplyDeleteThat's a bit different? Business is... business.
ReplyDeleteFor my part, I don't mind using amazon, if they work. Or walmart, if their prices were better, or mom and pops if they were ever fair or right with pricing (they are considered no better, and usually worse, than amazon or walmart by me).
The market is too big, minus attempts at shutdowns, and such, for sales to be manipulated too much by any operation. Walmart tried to corner the market, then amazon underbid them. And, finally, it looks like amazon is being hit by inflation, so it's going to far fewer sales, and just local... food and gas, though, even then. They are overpricing things, and doing other jerky things. Fair enough, money spends local just as well, if I have to go get it or go without... neither of which is too terrible, mostly.
Like them, don't like them, again, it's... business. If they have the best price, and their product is what it is supposed to be? Okay, we can do that. If their practices, or prices, go overboard, or delivery (which has been sliding, even before fuel prices got nose-bleed high), then I have to think.
What is your problem with amazon? The mom and pop schtick? The Goliath angle? No judgment, not my problem. But, curious.
My problem with Amazon is Jeff Bezos, who I can't personally bring myself to like or admire.
ReplyDeleteAh. I can easily see that. Though, and again, I doubt if I like most of the shop owners, larger or small, if I got to know them. Karens, kens, snooty, leftist populists, who wave whatever flag if really many of them run left to hard left because they think their income makes them... better? I just don't get the middle class and rich, these days. Ah... schooling didn't help. I fought against school, learned on my own. Most are like chicks in a nest, just taking whatever is given and going with that. That is how I deal with that. Merchants, to my eyes, start at used car salesman... and go down from there. The others just smile more pleasantly while screwing, or trying to screw, you. Once people begin to see other people as the source of their income, they learn to hate them and not want anything to do with them, and to cheat them. And, for a lot of people, they are right.
ReplyDeleteLike strippers. If you ever give one a buck, she'll never see you as human, or good, again. Something in their psyche changes. Merchants are the same, just slightly less... open about it. Something to keep in mind, when you are either side of a transaction. Odd how people really do hate the hand that feeds? To my mind, that explains most divorces as well. Women are far worse about it than men, but... men still have it. Men are slightly more, on average, to terribly cheat a customer. Women are by the pennies, men by the dollar if less hateful.