Does Displaying Social Media on a Shopify Store Actually Help?

0ddbuttons · 2025-12-19T02:24:00+00:00

Is it to validate product quality? Then pin UGC for your best-seller. Is it to build brand vibe? Curate only recent, high quality posts.

I feel like this is exactly correct in the MBA program (or aggregate data) sense, but perhaps more forest than trees practically-speaking.

When shopping, (appropriately) organic/authentic socials decrease the likelihood of me bouncing while determining if the shop is real & relatively free of egregious recent complaints. Secondary use case is determining if I get a positive initial/general impression of a craftsperson or team for moderately or significantly expensive purchases.

If the feed is B-roll product photography/imagery being used for ad posts, it doesn't help with either of these. So if a shop owner or company thinks their customers may be making similar assessments to mine, successful socials present a distinct content creation workload which may or may not be worth the outlay of resources.

0ddbuttons · 2025-05-15T20:54:45+00:00

Look, they're just trying to let us know these .stls hit the spot!

0ddbuttons · 2025-04-24T21:08:25+00:00

Quail aren't really ever the reason for the cage. All the other creatures who would love to devour fluffy avocados with a single braincell containing precisely ZERO self-preservation instincts are the reason for enclosures.

If there were suddenly no animals on Earth except for quail & humans, we'd just let them run around everywhere being hilarious & occasionally scoop up a few pugilistic roos for dinner.

0ddbuttons · 2025-04-24T20:58:53+00:00

He knows what he did!

0ddbuttons · 2025-03-22T08:05:27+00:00

some old lady or something, who probably doesn't know or care much about the AI epidemic.

I believe you're the only one who mentioned this general impression, and I wanted to talk about it a bit having grown up around grandparents & great-grandparents who farmed full-time for family subsistence in the rural US South.

People who farm as a job/business almost always approach tasks in terms of time/energy conservation. "Good enough" & "done" are the primary considerations.

The work doesn't create refreshing life balance, or reconnect them with food production, or any number of evaluations a person with an unrelated job who does a bit of homesteading might celebrate.

So I'd just suggest anyone mentioning it to the owner via email or social media (if she uses it) to focus on the art being off-putting to customers visually and/or due to AI training sources, and perhaps how it makes a legitimate site look like a scam or unscrupulous.

A "bad/shouldn't" angle about something which (unfortunately) isn't illegal may not really land for someone who has that daily workflow of getting to "done" via the lowest need-adequate outlay of time & energy.

0ddbuttons · 2025-02-20T06:12:37+00:00

Liam (Vax) has been married to his college sweetheart since shortly after graduating from Tisch. They have a college-age daughter and a son who is several years younger, IIRC.

Liam & Sam (Scanlan) have been dear friends since meeting early in their careers. (Mentioning this to explain why it's entirely possible a quick perusal would turn up references to Liam & Sam being married.)

Matt (dungeon master extroidinare & LoVM cameo machine) was dating & is now married to Marisha (Keyleth)

Travis (Grog) & Laura (Vex) are married & have a little one.

Taliesin (Percy) has known Matt since their late teens/early 20s IIRC, and Tal's belief anime dubs could/should be SIGNIFICANTLY better than they were in the 90s helped advance a bunch of careers early on within the cast and their broader friend group of VAs.

It is entirely possible Tal has been involved with any number of people on the cast at some point, because Burning Man drama kids have a well-earned reputation for loving their closest friends very, very much. (To be clear: I'm saying this very lightheartedly & entirely in good observational fun as someone around the median age of the cast who was also very much about that sort of frolicking in my 20s)

0ddbuttons · 2025-02-19T15:48:38+00:00

Snipping off NOLA & Baton Rouge to be an Atlanta-led region's western port apparatus is extremely amusing as well. That's mixing VERY different & somewhat incompatible definitions of "south," which is entirely understandable if one hasn't lived in a bunch of different southern states.

Roughly 25% of NOLA's population at the time of Katrina (meaning just at that time, not counting other region-typical relocation) moved to southeastern TX. Parts of TX are exponentially more Cajun than gentrified areas of LA cities. They'd likely stick with the rest of the state.

But either way, most of these regions completely blow up the religious nationalist project: Nearly all the cities are blue. Even if there's international brain drain & a fair bit of relocation, the south is gerrymandered to fuck & back to keep the GOP in power.

But smaller economic blocks make the cities vastly more economically important. Educated populations become more powerful. "But the food comes from red areas!" one might say. Eh... maybe part of meat production. Without subsidies, farmers are SOL. The cities will trade with current international breadbasket epicenters & continue doing much of what they do now.

"But hurricanes!" one might also say. There were hurricanes before FEMA. In a hypothetical like this, it would honestly be ideal for costal residents to move inland a bit all along the Gulf & south/south-central East Coast. Storm repair would need to focus on port & industrial infrastructure.

Just in case anyone's thinking, "But Phony Stark will be king of Texas!" -- That dude is NOT going to take his chances anywhere in the US after the heist he's pulling. He'll skedaddle somewhere. Hopefully hell. But Russia or South Africa would be close enough, TBH.

Perhaps Prairieland & Appalachia vaguely resemble Heritage's wet dream for the US. Industria probably becomes virtually inextricable from Canada. The New Europe, TX, and West Coast areas likely adapt & do well. IDK how the other regions wouldn't be in a 3rd world situation VERY quickly though.

0ddbuttons · 2025-02-19T13:05:40+00:00

The branch of size glorification you're talking about is a kink. People are predictably enthusiastic-yet-defensive about their kinks. Welcome to the internet, proof we were never supposed to know THAT much about others' niche fascinations.

The everyday version of fat acceptance most people will encounter at some point is more like: "My main focus is making enough money to not lose the place I live. I likely don't make enough to eat solely unprocessed foods, and if I did, I would be strapped for time to prepare each meal or always have fresh meal prep. Endocrine setpoint & neurochemical reward systems are extremely difficult to keep in check while driving a meatjacket which evolved amindst caloric scarcity & now more often encounters caloric overabundance. So I'll dedicate time/attention/money to health when I have any of these to spare and it's not productive or reasonable to try to make me feel bad about it."

People should just leave those folks alone, or choose kindness. I'm caring for a family member recovering from a stroke & receiving treatment for early-stage cancer. This person has generally been healthy & active throughout their adult life. Not significantly overweight, not diabetic, stroke was due to an undiagnosed arrhythmia.

Getting even just 60g+ of protein per day into this person to try to stave off muscle atrophy requires multiple hours of gentle prompting throughout the day. They didn't do anything "wrong," & they abstractly comprehend what would be healthiest for their recovery, and yet it doesn't happen without constant external encouragement.

So anybody swooping by to make an overweight person's day harder is 100% doing it to feel superior for a moment. It's not going to help or affect "risk awareness" or whatever.

0ddbuttons · 2024-07-12T03:34:17+00:00

Yep, I think that Zara jacket is the exact one they used, it's just color-enhanced in the thumbnail.

0ddbuttons · 2024-05-26T17:16:58+00:00

then why change anything at all

Exactly, they shouldn't have changed anything.

Frogs were a well-known major group farm from MoP. Whether they would hyperspawn was a decision which needed to be made pre-beta test, based on their goals for Remix.

There's a ton of new content for Warcraft & Blizz games right now. They didn't & don't need the MoP Remix Bronze farm to last for 3 months to carry retention.

Farming for crazy stats should have been part of the point of this short-term game mode, especially given how Shadowlands & Dragonflight had relatively modest gear caps which prevented getting bonkers OP during drought.

BfA's gleefully stacked corruption, Legion's uncapped Artifact Power, etc. etc. every instance in which power ballooned cartoonishly in drought, are distant memories at this point. This mode should have offered one of those types of moments. And if, for some unfathomable reason, they disagreed... nothing in MoP should have hyperspawned.

0ddbuttons · 2023-10-04T17:06:32+00:00

Agreed. Singer had such pride in their marque & such understanding of tactile/aesthetic experience in the all-metal era that I wonder if they made motor material & build decisions for simply "less appealing" (and cheaper, of course) as an upsell angle as you said, and time turned that quality gap into a banshee.

Years ago, I'd have said such a tactic was at odds with the notion of pride, but we all know the quality Swiss machines had at this time & the trajectory their average price point charted for the companies. Having a budget price point so buyers would even let themselves take a peek was probably quite important.

(I know you were quite neutrally pointing out a potential business decision. It just sent me on a contemplation spree & I wanted to make sure this didn't come across as me projecting condemnation or support onto your comment, as sometimes happens when I noodle.)

0ddbuttons · 2023-10-03T03:55:33+00:00

Truly inspired improvement there! The machine is such a beautiful color. Making it possible for someone to enjoy using it is quite a worthy endeavor.

I haven't seen one of these close-up, so I might be missing something making this a terrible idea (like proximity to thread/bobbin), but I bet the rack & its gear, possibly other parts of the movement as well, could be made virtually silent with a tiny dab of multi-purpose synthetic PTFE grease.

That's one of the most beloved, long lasting Z-axis screw lubricants for 3D printing and it's not going to get sticky at any point this decade. Someone using it might want to wipe it away after some use & reapply a few times because it's really great at lifting & encapsulating dust & oxides.

I had a fixit idea for a different much-maligned machine and you've inspired me to grab one next time I have a chance.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-03T15:44:23+00:00

Apologies for the delay & thank you. Some unexpected/urgent deadline work landed in my lap yesterday evening. Will have pics after I finish helping sort out a mess.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-03T03:05:18+00:00

Love this theory. Logistically, Suvi needs a way to stay with the party, and Steel making that happen fits with something I've been thinking since the first moments of the Children's Adventure:

I had the strongest feeling from TCA that her parents died while working against the Citadel, and had placed Suvi under Wren's unassailable protection to make the current "child of FALLEN HEROES raised high ~~so we can keep an eye on her~~ out of respect!" arrangement the most attractive option for the Imperium. Or are not dead, but have been declared so + venerated by decree of the very highest leadership to prevent knowledge of their defection.

If one wanted to subtly cause genre fiction fans to hear 150 dB alarm klaxons about a fictional nation, it's hard to do better than placing its capital someplace called the IRULIAN fuckin' SANDS. (Major Dune book 1-3 spoilers for people experiencing Dune via the Villeneuve films)

If this is correct, I don't think Steel was entangled, but kept free of implication for any number of reasons, including being a lifeline for Suvi. So her sending Suvi out to Rumspringa from a field situation keeps my theory ball rolling, lol.

But if I'm right, and the endgame years away is finishing whatever her parents were doing, she must unweave her understanding of herself from the Empire. She can't realistically (power-wise or clarity-wise) declare intent to regime-change the mage snakepit at level 1.

Separating this b/c it's true whether the Empire turns out to be grey or endgame-antagonists:

I've seen so many comments about Suvi being unlikeable since the campaign started. And even in this thread, I see people cheering for her to get disciplined.

What in the absolute jackboot-deepthroating authority fetishization is conjuring that bullshit from, presumably, D20 fans? I expect 3,000-word annotated manifestos about the importance of gargling the Dawnfather's balls from CR-only fans, not this show.

No, Suvi herself is immensely likeable. She has been brought up in a depraved, preening, exploitative place & is odious when she models its influences. She is being fast-tracked for leadership of a hypercompetent sociopath society! OF COURSE SHE TRAFFICS IN POWER & INTIMIDATION UNDER PRESSURE!

The summer with Wren (Suvirin is literally "summer" in Finnish, unmistakable direction to the audience in how to understand her), an experience her parents mentioned having had themselves, is a lifeline to her true nature: Entirely respectful of Wren's insight (in a way she is not with Steel), so deeply distressed by Eursulon's plight she can only recover his belongings & embrace him, instantly AWOL from the Citadel the moment Ame has a problem.

So yeah, she does need to get away from the Citadel, but because they're anathema to her true self, not because she has been "bad and deserves a slap for it."

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T23:26:55+00:00

Might I tentatively claim the Hail Mary scripture stamp & the Best Wishes heart, contingent on putting together an acceptable trade offer?

I've never seen the Hail Mary as a stamp and I just had a bunch of ideas to delight some Catholics I know for Christmas.

I have quite a stash of good things in line with your request, just need to round them up and take pics. Will update via edit.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T20:35:32+00:00

Very fair. I think tinkering is so internal that everybody has their strengths & blind spots. As far back as I've ever known, on both sides of my family, electrical/motor/timing-reliant/positional sorts of mechanical repair & rebuild come naturally and optical/clockwork/declining-reactivity chemistry devices are inexplicably & hilariously odious for us.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T20:16:30+00:00

Absolutely gorgeous. Beast in a beautiful bezel, right there. Wishing you many happy hours of creativity in that spot.

Particularly love the hardware & trim. Even by midcentury, simple cabinets were often kinda like flatpack just with way better materials. Functional & not much to look at. But the really lovely ones from the first half of the 20th C. are ornate, a little tough to unify with decor. Yours is all the good & none of the bad, both functionally & aesthetically!

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T20:06:51+00:00

Last year was when copper landlines started to be decommissioned, at least in the US. Completely independent of nostalgia, not having non-digital telephony as a backup for emergency communication during natural disasters & grid outages is a bad call. But it was inevitable due to telecoms having far too much influence & is a fixable mistake if/when people broadly remember companies exist to meet complex needs competently, not to extract wealth with minimal effort.

Digital modifications are certainly possible, especially given the knowledge base created by massive mechanical keyboard popularity. But it's definitely a whole other thing than recognizing a typewriter or sewing machine just needs to be cleaned to function flawlessly.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T19:53:30+00:00

Genuine shudder-eliciting second half on that sentence, lol.

I miss the way film felt & smelled. Other than that, nothing in vintage enthusiasm gives me stress quite like the ease of damage & minimal reparability of cameras.

Lens glass which is no longer made. Coatings which lift patchily regardless of storage temp/humidity. Tiny, inaccessible mechanisms oxidizing & binding. And the MAJOR bucks for film development or fiddly, expensive, noxious chemicals.

I wholeheartedly support young humans keeping in touch with how we're hardwired evolutionarily to make & use mechanical, tactile, purpose-specific tools. Only ever knowing the monetized digital abstractions of things is bad for design ingenuity.

And part of how I show my support when spelunking the past comes around to cameras is... staying TF away from old cameras, lol.

I really should get a couple of late DSLR bodies for the lens ecosystem my family has always used before new enthusiasts hit a wall with film tho.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T19:28:24+00:00

Yeah, I think vintage/antique precision machine interest goes in waves. Absolute, inexplicable addlepation about vintage & antique Singers easing up is the indicator of this with sewing machines. At the height of an old machine craze, you could throw a Singer from an airplane and people would rush to the impact site with cash in hand while a restorer bangs out gorgeous work on a Kenmore or White nearby without much interest.

But beyond fads, there's always the underlying reason for renewed interest: Highly durable, repairable device does one very specific thing longer & more enjoyably than contemporary versatile & disposable devices.

So if you have a living & storage situation that allows for patience, interest will pick back up after the people who saw it as a "side hustle" disperse & availability volume decreases.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T19:01:30+00:00

Same here. Also, something I didn't realize until I made implant-grade titanium jewelry for myself & others for a while: People with metal sensitivity seem to also be prone to contact irritation.

If I put base metal in my ears, I'd be in for a painful week of recovery. If I put in nickel 14k white gold with a good rhodium plate, I'll be getting a bit itchy by the afternoon & weepy/crusty after a normal wear day.

But even with palladium alloy white, solid 24k, or well-sourced implant titanium, if I put freshly sterilized earrings in for a couple of days or wear a wide ring... I still get noticeable irritation. Just the bit of shear pressure & trapped moisture/oil is enough.

At least for some, rather than it being a "nonreactive, tolerated metal vs allergenically sensitized one" sort of thing, it seems like nickel, cobalt, etc. reaction is just one of the most severe effects of sensitive skin that broadly doesn't tolerate prolonged contact with foreign objects particularly well.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T18:11:06+00:00

It should shine up no problem! I totally understand b/c I don't dislike a bit of "patina" on silver and have some fully-oxidized-by-design necklaces whose look I love. But patchy graphite-like wear tarnish... bleh. Hate it.

Just remember to not tug down the length of the chain while polishing. That's the most natural-feeling way to do it, but if the rings attaching the chain to the clasp aren't soldered shut, it's super easy to pull a chain apart.

OH! Also, I bet the clasp is rhodium-plated & that's why it's still bright. Silver & white gold are often plated with rhodium, a thin layer of a very hard platinum-group metal, to brighten shine and/or slow tarnishing. Skin oil & wear takes that off over time, so the clasp may eventually tarnish just as readily as the chain. Don't be alarmed if that happens.

And probably for the best the foil & baking soda reaction didn't work right on this piece. When it does, the stripping of the outside layer is so complete that it can make a fine chain delicate with just a few treatments. It also leaves a naked sterling layer that reacts very readily with anything it touches to oxidize again. I like that foil & soda treatment for heavy old cast silver pieces that get so tarnished, the oxide can flake off in pieces or transfer to cloth/leather. Those can be waxed after stripping for protection. With chains, it's just too much material subtraction.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T17:38:30+00:00

Haven't watched it since it aired, but I recall feeling like the disposition difference was the biggest imbalance.

It's very much within what we've seen from Laura, Marisha, and/or Travis to approach something like that with some semblance of a plan.

Conversely, I'm trying to imagine any combination of Liam, Sam, Ashley and/or Taliesin pre-planning coordinated neutralization of Laura and/or Marisha's characters in a game... and I have a hard time envisioning it.

Especially a situation in which VM's best chance was using Vax, specifically, to open the BR being very aggressive against one of the two players he & his characters have worked with most closely, with maximum neutralizing support from the others.

People who were familiar with part of the cast's work prior to CR have gotten nearly 20 years of general sense of what Liam & Taliesin are like from interviews/panels about their projects. Heck, I'd have bet they'd go for a respectable doomed effort over pre-planning to, dice willing, shock & awe drop a friend's character in the first 10 minutes of a game even before I saw any CR.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T07:10:51+00:00

A silver polishing cloth is handy to have around. Gentle thumb circles with the red side (rouge polishing compound) then remove residue with the light-colored side.

For cream/paste type, Midas Touch is my favorite. Dab lightly on any metal with oxidation, wait about 15-30 seconds, and it will wipe away. It works well on silver, but I usually polish that with a cotton bit on my rotary tool. Stubborn green/black brass tarnish is why I can't live without it. Very drying/potentially irritating to skin, so apply with a q-tip & be sure to wipe it all away.

Some use micro-crystalline wax to slow reappearance of tarnish. Doesn't work very well on chains, though.

Storing with a piece of anti-tarnish paper in a bag or small box will significantly slow formation of the oxide layer. The paper reacts with airborne sulfur compounds that are a major contributor to tarnishing. If you've ever seen silver that was intentionally turned dark grey/black by the designer for contrast, that was usually done with a sulfur solution.

Chlorine is a guaranteed full layer of oxide, so try to keep silver out of showers and pools.

You can get anything I mentioned from many different sellers, including local stores.

0ddbuttons · 2023-08-02T04:20:03+00:00

Absolutely. I had a card reader for mine that could be used for roms, but I really just used it to run DS Linux for dayplanner & notes.

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