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jordanlund
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The little free library I did for under $500. 😉
Nope, I opened a full bookstore for less than $10,000. The other $40+ is operating funds. I can keep this going for some time!
I had that happen in January, I built my own bookstore.
You are comparing an immigration crisis to evil orcs in Lord of the Rings, it's not merely racist, it is FUCKING RACIST.
Your attempt at justifying it is inherently dehumanizing and the fact that you either can't see that or are apparently willfully ignorant of it proves the bans were 100% justified.
When shitpost group #1 tells you "no racist shit", that is NOT a green flag to post racist shit in another group.
Mods read your modlog and when you build a repeated history of this, yeah, you don't get leniency.
You were warned TWO WEEKS AGO and learned NOTHING.
Ban #1 2 weeks ago:
Ban #2:
Internal US news goes in News, not World.
NY Post is not a valid source for anything.
Your modlog doesn't preserve what was actually removed so I can't comment on the content:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=21980498
That being said, a shitposting community is not an excuse to put on your Klan hood. "Buh buh, I reposted from Reddit..." is NOT the defense you think it is.
They warned you, you did it anyway, you caught the ban. Learn from the experience.
While Politics doesn't have a 30 day limit the way World does, it's worth noting this is super old:
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
But it does provide context for current events such as:
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I just got an email from dBrand cancelling the Steam Machine companion cube shell.
They posted the rationale on reddit, /r/dBrand but for the good folks who don't do reddit anymore, here's their post:
"RIP Companion Cube
🚨 Announcement 🚨
As you’ve probably noticed, the Steam Machine Companion Cube was eviscerated from our website, YouTube, and other social media platforms last week.
The blunt version is that we made the Companion Cube without a license from Valve. Everyone who purchased a Companion Cube will have their refund issued by end-of-day. Everything else beyond this is just detail. If you want the full story, keep reading.
On November 12th 2025, the day the Steam Machine was announced, we put up a concept render and sign-up page to see if anyone would be interested in a Companion Cube enclosure. It went moderately viral, with over fifteen thousand people signing up to be notified in the first day. In the months that followed, we built the idea into something real without ever asking Valve if we could.
We’re going to regret that decision for a very long time.
Over the next seven months, we poured our souls into this project. More than a thousand hours went into engineering from our industrial design team. Forty-four sets of injection molding tools were developed, one for each of the cube's sub-components. The entire product was redesigned from scratch more than once, just to get the way it cradles the console exactly right. We literally rented out a university campus to film the launch video. By the end, we were losing money on every $99 Poverty Cube sold, but it didn’t matter. This had turned into a passion project for the entire organization.
Unfortunately, being proud of the thing we made did not give us the right to make it.
We launched around 3am on Monday, June 22nd. Overnight, it became the second-fastest selling product in our 15-year history, behind only the Switch 2 Killswitch.
Shortly after, Valve’s legal team reached out. They stated that the Companion Cube is Valve intellectual property, for which dbrand does not have a license. They requested we take down the product and launch film immediately. This was entirely within their rights, and they were direct, fair, and respectful throughout.
We took everything down and made an appeal. We asked Valve whether there was any way to keep the project alive: properly licensed, with their blessing, on their terms. They said no. Given our backwards approach of building first and asking permission later, it was a fair answer.
That’s basically the whole story. We made something a lot of people were excited about, then incinerated our shot at bringing it to market. It’s a hard lesson to learn publicly.
It goes without saying, but we’ll say it regardless: Valve didn’t do anything wrong here. They built a game franchise a lot of people love and they alone get to decide how it’s used.
To everyone who was as excited about this project as we were: thank you, and sorry. Refunds are being issued today. If it hasn’t landed in your account by the end of this week, you know how to reach us.
To Valve: thank you for Portal, and sorry for the headache. We should’ve asked first."
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How do you open a bookstore for under $10,000?
Well, first you find a location with $600 a month rent. LOL.
Floor was $350 and $500 to install it. Bookshelves were $1,100. UV window tint to protect the product was $500.
From there it's a matter of setting up accounts with major wholesalers and ordering product.
Most folks don't realize this, but in general, the markup on books is around 35% to 55% depending on the publisher and the service.
I bought a bunch of nice Halloween stock for $6.50 a book, retail is $28.95, which is ridiculous. I'm selling them for $12.95 and still making money on them.