[surrey-fringe]

Why is wine interesting?

[Johnny555]

Because it's one of the few products that can be legal to purchase in retail stores by both the shipper and receiver, yet illegal to ship.

[baddox]

Joining some tobacco products as the only examples I know of, other than obvious safety-related items (live animals, aerosols, etc.)

[tyingq]

I assume the interest here is the ~$60B market for selling wine in the US used to be open for shifting to e-commerce.

Now it's more difficult with 36 states banning shipments to individual buyers that cross their borders.

[rhizome]

Why have most of your comments over the past couple of months been downvoted to oblivion?

[mirimir]

That account has been shadow banned, I suspect. And only comments not vouched for are unhidden.

[grzm]

It doesn't look like it. If the account were shadowbanned the comments would be tagged "[dead]". It looks like they're often low-effort or unsubstantial comments of the type that would be downvoted anyway.

[mirimir]

OK, maybe so. The recent run of grayed out comments seemed suspicious. But yes, it's only been a couple months since that started.

Edit: That's some good stuff in your profile :)

[grzm]

Thanks :) I have it in there as much for me as for anyone else. I find myself referring to it every couple of weeks or so, just as a refresher.