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Screaming into the void.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Things are changing, and not in a good way.
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A very bad and honestly crippling way has to do with the newer restrictions from search engines.\u00a0 This doesn’t benefit the reader OR the creator.\u00a0 Only the billionaires who control the information.\u00a0 All of our good intentions (and in fairness, marketing efforts) have been swallowed up by the tech companies, and will be resold to us. In the meantime, their massive data centers will suck up the electricity, foul the air, and destroy fresh water for an eternity.<\/p>\n

For over 20 years I’ve posted on this blog, sharing information, feelings, and observations.\u00a0 At one time, you could educate yourself about anything online.\u00a0 Enter it into the search bar and up will come hundreds of blogs and websites offering the information\/recipe freely.\u00a0 From there, it was up to the reader to ascertain what information was reliable, and what other methods of information gathering would be beneficial.<\/p>\n

Now, the search default is “AI mode” which will obscure all original sources of information, giving only the AI generated conglomeration of words that have been compiled without the aid of a human being.\u00a0 \u00a0We are out of the equation.\u00a0 Some of us remember fighting for net neutrality in the last decade.\u00a0 The joke’s on us because there was never any intention of allowing us to have any say over our own work.<\/p>\n

It took centuries for the Library of Alexandria in Egypt to be destroyed, eventually burned to rubble.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\"Alexandria<\/p>\n

The vast and valuable repository of information that is the internet has been destroyed and made inaccessible in just the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n

I won’t stop, although my sharing of information has been cut back pretty much.\u00a0 This old dog isn’t going to try to learn new tricks.\u00a0 Game, set, match.<\/p>\n

A second real problem has to do with shipping.\u00a0\u00a0
The other day I was reading comments on a product advertised on Facebook.\u00a0 One comment talked about how high the shipping was, and how the company was using shipping to make money.\u00a0\u00a0
They couldn’t be more wrong.
This morning I shipped two packages and lost about $3 on each of them.\u00a0 I can’t bring myself to increase the shipping (yet), and the prices of the articles are fair, and it feels wrong to increase them to try to recoup some of the losses.
And this has been the problem for years.\u00a0 All of the prices go up, and the small business is squeezed between the big businesses and the customer.\u00a0 This was one of the biggest reasons my sister closed her soap company.\u00a0 Every single ingredient has increased, some by as much as 600%, yet the price of a bar of soap can’t go to $30.\u00a0 In fact, we first sold soap for $2 a bar in 1993, and in the end, over 30 years later, it was $5.50 a bar with the margin getting smaller and smaller.\u00a0\u00a0
Amazon trained people to expect free shipping.\u00a0 Now they don’t give it unless you’re Prime, but the mindset has already been put into play.<\/p>\n

I just want people to know that we aren’t using shipping as a profit stream.\u00a0 We aren’t gouging.\u00a0 Go onto USPS and look up some prices.\u00a0 You’ll be shocked.\u00a0 Most of us are eating some of the shipping while using the least expensive options we can find.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Small businesses really are here to share the things they love.\u00a0 I can’t speak for everyone, but the business owners I know are not ever expecting to purchase a yacht.\u00a0 Maybe braces for the kid, or a new car in 5 or 10 years, but never rich.\u00a0 I wish people knew how hard we try to make it work for everyone involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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