Megan MacKenzie, the more junior author (at the time a senior lecturer), received calls threatening her with consequences for her career.

Why only mention the more junior author? Did the senior authors not get targeted? Did they receive different threats? There’s definitely an implication here and I’d rather not assume… :/

And how “funny” - when “outed” (and were they?) for being biased, the reaction was to be an absolute turd? Ugh.

Suspect Sonarr users didn’t have any issues, as it wouldn’t have gone looking for an episode 9.

Ahaha that’s real cool. I had ear moulds taken professionally and what you did is pretty dang close. Nice work!

When you say you printed IEMs and ear protection, are you able to elaborate?

In my case I’ve only just gotten into FDM, and I’m having a lot more fun with it than my resin printer, but I might have made enough things for the resin printer that might make that a lot less of a chore.

So far, the FDM has been handy with quite a few functional prints around the house (certainly not yet enough that I can say it’s cheaper than just buying the items outright, but we’re getting close!), and that’s been an enjoyable process.

Persona 5. I have p4 tracks also.

Depends on the language and the content itself. I’m hunting one where all the torrents are from 2012, so… Gave up, and buying the actual media. 😂

Sometimes I paste a list of open common trackers into the details and it’ll fnd some peers that way. This is for public torrents only, ofc.

Not very kid friendly though.

Yeah, possibly. Not sure how often they are involved with funding Costco samples haha.

(And there are definitely no VC involved in the discussion I had with the person, as we were discussing small family owned businesses that only have one location)

And where did the money come from in the first place? I get that advertising increases sales (literally why anyone would do samples), but it’s not like that money isn’t from previous sales.

As a hypothetical then. Costco hands out “freebies”. Who pays for the freebies?

The members, Costco, the businesses manufacturing the items being sampled, or a combination of these?

Or would you claim Costco pays for this completely, and that the money that pays for this is completely unrelated to the members, the money just comes from somewhere?

…I encountered someone who made the latter claim. Perhaps the truth is some other third option I have not considered (which I would appreciate you pointing out, I need more practice thinking outside the box), but I highly doubt there is some money box that pays for customer “freebies” that isn’t somehow funded from customer revenue.