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I get marketing material from four different "mainstream" photography outlets. This is fine.

But I'm not into generic photography; I'm into the niche that is film photography.

I have zero (0) desire to buy a DSLR or a mirrorless camera or a GoPro. On the other end, I also don't want an instant camera or other products sometimes called "hipster". I just want info on 120 and 135 film, development supplies, printing services, and used cameras.

Those four stores I get emails from all sell those things.

But none of them have any specific marketing channels to promote them, nor do they do things like sales or discounts.

I'm sure is a small portion of their profits… it doesn't make much business sense on paper to put effort into it. But surely they want to support artists and their arts? A little encouragement and community building might increase their profits after all!

@sir_rob Gotta call in the big guns when you want to damn something!

In your opinion, can Christians say "Allahu Akbar" knowing they are talking about their own concept of God?

Yes
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Y if of Arabic culture
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No"

If someone "almost got second-degree burns" does that mean they got first-degree burns or does that mean they didn't get any burns at all, but nearly got burned?

Levi the millennial finds it amazing that making something freely available online doesn't negate any legal claims to copyright.

We should make craic more common in everyday speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craic

> "Goof" (A foolish and/or silly person, also Canadian prison slang for rapist)

Never calling my kid a goof again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_slang

Is Betteridge's law of headlines lame?
https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/levis-link-list-156-160/

When you see the largest of your initials you’ve ever seen, you stop for a photo

If it ain't broke don't fix it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX

Updated my list of friend-types to include the chance they'll get a Christmas card. https://levisan.me/articles/what-is-friendship.html

Married-adult-parent life is basically going from someone else's issue to another person's issue and never having the resources to address your own issues until you snap

Empty nester life when?

Dutch band of the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-4w_YVI2v8

it me

https://xkcd.com/743/

The number of times I have said "I need first name, last name, and ___ of each person" and been given name, ___ is way too many.

Seriously, do people not understand that "first name, last name" implies some kind of delimitation between first and last?!

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Every once in a while, I think back to grade 10 and my mid-term report where the PE teacher said that I "seem to forget" my gym strip rather often, thus marking me as not present.

He never once questioned me about why I wasn't participating.

I wasn't participating because I realised that I could, if questioned, just say "I'm not feeling good" and get away with it. But I never had to use that excuse because he just marked me as delinquent, instead of caring enough to find out.

Sometimes I wouldn’t mind a bit more of that blissful ignorance

Since the Pope is now American he should ride in an American popemobile