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I’m always a little shocked when people ask me if my product is on Amazon. I never even considered it because I’ve known what they are for so long; it’s been a bit of a wakeup call that most people still have no idea how fucking awful Amazon is. It sucks struggling with market visibility, selling just from my own website, but it beats the hell out of being bullied like this until I’m big enough to have my product stolen and copied by Amazon Basics.

Looks like it is not:

Update: Sorry, but a commenter points out that this may just be an artifact of counting based on when most recently modified, not on original submission date.

Numbers using original, not most recent, submission dates

For 12/1 to 12/31 the numbers were
2022: 800
2023: 811
2024: 815
2025: 855

For 1/1 to 2/1
2022:510
2023:490
2024:501
2025:544
2026:617

For 2/1 to 2/15
2022:255
2023:221
2024:280
2025:276
2026:311

These do show significant increases year to year for the last couple months, but not the near doubling indicated by the other numbers. The hep-th arxiv apocalypse is not here yet.

My server auction went up by €0.94, from €31. I’m not mad; I probably would be if it had gone up by €9. Hetzner have been fantastic though, so a small increase like this after so long is not hard to swallow.

The 95% ethanol you can get at the store is typically methylated, so it will make you sick or kill you to drink it. I think that has to do with the alcohol lobby.

But anyway, it is possible to buy up to 100% pure anhydrous ethanol, it’s just a specialty item and illegal in some states like California. Probably easier to make it, if you have time on your side.

Here ya go: https://www.jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617/

Edit: Ah, sold privately, as in directly between individuals? I’m not sure about that, but they totally could. They can track the location of the car; if it starts getting parked at a different house regularly, for example, it’d be easy to tell it’d been sold.

I wanted a Tesla, until about seven or eight years ago when they switched off features after some dude bought his Tesla used, because only the original owner had paid for the features.

I knew this is what it would turn into. Fuck Tesla, and fuck Musk.