Amazon will be opening 2 warehouses right where I live. The mayor of the town is super happy: they are promising 1,000 jobs. Those jobs sound pretty horrible, though. I have no idea who in this town where even teenagers charge a fortune for babysitting will be tempted. And the town is pretty cut off from the rest of the region by design. The design being to keep “those people” out, of course.
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So will you now be getting free Amazon Prime 2-hr. delivery by drone?
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I can’t get rid of a suspicion that they are moving here because of me. As it is, they deliver several packages a day (I’m on Vine). The postwoman hates me. Droning the stuff in would be a kindness to her.
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??I thought Vine was a social video-sharing app — what’s that got to do with physical packages??
Are you running some type of black market? I was wondering how you finance this website.
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Vine is an Amazon program for highly-rated reviewers where they get a lot of products for free in exchange for their reviews.
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Thanks for the information — didn’t find that on my initial Google search.
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You’re welcome.
Hey Clarissa, what do you do with the vine stuff that you have reviewed but don’t need? Do you sell on ebay or something? Are you allowed to? I imagine you get high-end stuff once in a while.
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Yes, I’ve got some really expensive stuff. A laptop computer, a tablet, jewelry. It’s fun! And yes, we are now allowed to sell it because we now pay taxes on this stuff, so it’s considered our property. I’ve sold a few gadgets on ebay that are too sophisticated for me.
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And this is how I got on it: https://clarissasblog.com/2011/05/19/how-to-become-a-member-of-amazon-vine/
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It seems your wish for more immigrants may be granted. What does the design of being cut off from the region involve?
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It’s racism, pure and simple. Local residents want to keep black people from the St Louis area out of our town. This is why the crucially important metrolink line is not being built from St Louis to our town.
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Not just St. Louis, literally everywhere.
http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/politics/216905-the-lingering-effects-of-nyc-racist-city-planning
His prejudice methodically informed New York’s present-day geography, most glaringly in the case of Long Island parks like Jones Beach. “Moses was interested in maintaining these Long Island beaches as pristine places for the people he wanted to be there,” Schindler told Hopes&Fears. Moses’ solution, in Caro’s telling, was to intentionally build the Long Island Parkway overpasses with clearances as low as 7’7”, ensuring that buses would never be able to go under them. (In contrast, the minimum vertical clearance for overhead structures on the Interstate Highway is 16 feet in rural areas and 14 feet in urban areas.)
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Wow, I didn’t know this about buses. This is very disgusting.
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