Habitually Lost

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A new global report released Monday by the U.S. Geological Survey revealed that every place on earth currently has the wrong amount of water. “New satellite data confirms that every corner of the earth has the incorrect quantity of water,” the report read in part, noting that even though the total amount of water on the planet seemed to be about right, give or take a few hundred milliliters, the distribution of that water across the globe was “way off.”

Not that the book pirates get any sympathy from me, like I 100% am down with Yo Ho Ho-ing whatever media you want. It's between you and your own conscience/your skills to keep your computer alive. BUT I thought we all agreed that you didn't talk about it? Especially not to the creators face? Why are you going up to people and just apropos of nothing talking to them about how you don't want to give them money but don't worry you really like what they do and they should do more! Not that you'll pay for new things either, but it's not like it's your priority that they can keep their lights on or feed themselves...

Just what are we doing here?

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Some authors are incredibly dumb about libraries, yeah. It makes them extremely unsympathetic.

TBH, the book pirates I see running their mouths in English often can easily afford a copy and live somewhere where the library system could lend them said book. They're entitled dicks.

We have reasonable evidence that ebook piracy affects the ability of that author to keep getting tradpub contracts. And if you're an indie author, your total potential audience is often pretty small, and word of mouth isn't that meaningful once your target demographic has heard of you. Piracy isn't an instant kiss of death, but it has a meaningful negative impact in a way that people pirating Game of Thrones probably does not. I know we're all still thinking in terms of the music piracy wars of years past. The difference, to me, is that a lot of the people going "I wasn't going to buy it anyway" about a very expensive album were probably telling the truth. The people pirating books would absolutely have bought that book, at least if we're talking Americans and the like, even if they're relatively impoverished compared to their neighbors.

Nobody should be walking up to the author and spouting this nonsense, obviously, but a lot of people I see discussing book piracy should not be doing it in the first place, and their excuses are pathetically weak. Ditto knitting patterns. Same entitled baby who's way less poor than they think energy.

Interlude

first train car: a car full of washing machines and little towel-elephants that appears in @nymphacae 's concept art for the Trainwreck a.u.

second train car: The Hanging Garden car, featured in @trojanteapot 's I'll get it right sometime fic.

third train car: The Fog Car from the fic of the same name by Aspenetta.

fourth train car: that strange car from that one Book 6 concept art.

The Monday Period: Part 1 of 6

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* I went to one this year

* it’s been a year or more since I went to a public library

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