MY BRAIN BIN

As someone who has recently designed and launched a product on Amazon, I have been shocked to learn how China "owns" Amazon. There is a war on an unfathomable scale from Chinese sellers to destroy US sellers showing slight success. Their weapons are: 1) Copy successful products and sell them at a loss until the US seller is driven out of business. 2) Spend massive amounts of money on advertising to assure that competitive products never appear on the first few pages of search results. 3) Use pictures, titles, and descriptions that optimize search results to assure their products make it on the first page, irrespective of how inaccurately it represents the actual product. 4) Hire armies of fake reviewers to produce 5 star reviews (the recent Chinese seed scandal is part of this). 5) Modify listings of competitors to include trademarked language in product titles so the listing gets inactivated (yes, in most cases one can modify other seller's listings). Have y...

Source: @Publicola17 on Twitter 1/ Woke anti-racism is child abuse. My family is living the antithesis of @thomaschattwill's Self Portrait in Black and White. And I fear it may damage my children irrevocably. Let me explain… 2/ I’m white, my wife’s black. When we met, we “saw each other’s race,” but we didn’t think that was the most interesting thing about us. We foolishly thought our children would be part of a post-racial future, in which all Americans could just be human beings to one another. 3/ Then came Trump. I decided I should try to learn more about my fellow citizens, who I now realized were completely opaque to me. In contrast, my wife decided she was at war with an immutably white supremacist America. 4/ My wife began to read authors like Nikole Hannah Jones and Michael Harriot. She had a "racial awakening," concluding that she'd been "inauthentically black" all her life. 5/ My wife came to think that her mind—trained in exclusive priv...