The compliment to the quote above should be “misery loves company.”

There’s a variation of this that I like better: “It’s not your fault but it is your responsibility.”

Framing it this way shifts the tone from passive to active; you have a problem, but you take responsibility. It also helps the responsible party set themself up for correcting the behavior in the future. Saying you’re late because of traffic and accepting the consequences is fine, but recognizing that you need to leave earlier to accommodate traffic is better.

I had a teacher who would ask for an explanation, not an excuse. If the explanation started to place blame on someone or something else, he’d just shake his head and say “no excuses.”

Ten years ago two-day shipping meant two days from order to delivery. It now means two-day delivery once shipped in one to five business days. Most prime eligible purchases now just mean “free shipping.”

I got attached to Prime as a student where two-day shipping and a $50 annual student subscription made it a useful service. There are Prime features on parts of the Amazon website I couldn’t find my way back to the same way twice. The site is riddled with dark patterns from customer service to Prime video.

I haven’t been able to transition my household fully off Amazon, but I have switched to alibris.com as an alternative storefront for books and other media. Used sellers like thriftbooks, half-price books, and goodwill are all Amazon booksellers on alibris for the same price. They’re all shipping via media mail anyway, so Prime is useless on both sites.

Nothing is lost when these databases are deleted from the consortium; this is effectively a cancellation of a subscription from Ebsco. What is being lost is free access to the materials collected in these databases through the Magnolia library system.

Library databases are typically subscription packages containing some combination of full-text content, indexes, or abstracts; the content is usually collected from academic publishers (some of the titles in these databases are published by groups like Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press or Taylor & Francis).

Looks like some of the titles in the Race Relations database titles are part of Academic Search Premier (which Ole Miss subscribes to, which doesn’t help anyone who isn’t a student there).

That said, those subscriptions are expensive and almost impossible to gain access to outside of a library system or research organization… which makes this an asshole move by the state legislature.

Edit: The databases in question are here:

• https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/gender-studies-database
• https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/race-relations-abstracts

There are a lot of complicated reasons why high tariff are a global problem in a global economy, but simply put:

1. High tariffs raise prices
2. High prices reduce sales
3. Fewer sales reduces profit

Reduced profit for a single company or industry isn’t usually detrimental to a national or global economy. But when an entire country’s economy is hit with reduced profits across every industry, then it creates a problem.

So in summary, Americans are going to get fucked directly, “foreign countries” are going to get fucked indirectly.

Yep. Apollo shutting down is why I created an account, deleted all my content and my Reddit account once things started getting really fucky.