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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Amazon Prime Day hasn't been interesting or novel since 2005 or so, but that's not going to stop anybody from pretending otherwise so they can get their blogspam affiliate kickbacks

I usually ignore this shit but this year I've been plugging the "deals" into CamelCamelCamel and it's clear that most of the products had their prices jacked up in the last 2-3 months and the "deal" is selling at the pre-tariff price.

Edge has a little widget built in that tells you whether a price reduction is real or fake with a little chart of price over time, people are going to figure this out some time

Not en mass, when it takes this level of attention. I’m not slamming average people for being mindless consumers. I’m saying most people don’t have the bandwidth for this in their lives; our toxic culture (of which this is part) makes / keeps it that way / makes it worse.