Honestly, this reads as an accurate take.

I am regularly reminded that this isn’t a chess game. These folks are chickens shitting on a checkerboard.

It'll take a village, mostly because of that. :)

Blaming poor people for being poor is totally on-brand for people who would take the side of the aliens in “They Live.”

“Even my kids know it’s wrong, but I suck ass so hard and want to be a fuckhead so hard that I DEMAND to say this.”

Nice! Well done!

If the rain doesn’t let up or it gets worse tell them “sorry James and I are having words.”

If you do this enough, your friends will believe that you are a rain god. If enough friends believe you are a rain god, you become a rain god.

Then you can start getting other things done.

Thank you! 🐠🎉

I have a little three-page notetaking arm-slate I use during my dive, and I constantly try to keep learning new species.

I fantasize about a dive where I can identify every critter I see.

Whereupon I’ll learn a NEW region! :)

I used to joke that I call it “sexuality” and those other folks practice a kind of “restrictive sexuality.”

It ain’t perfect, but it felt like putting the shoe on the other foot.

I very much appreciate your responses and insight, Amanda, and thank you!

Oh, hm. So you're making sure that the "hand out" copies are at best quality, and letting the KDP copies print however Amazon's QA process allows?

If I may ask, why split it that way?

Specifically, why not use KDP entirely? You can still order copies from there to sell/distribute physically.