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Failed Imagineer posted:"Aqua vita" translates into Irish as "uisce beatha" and then that Irish "uisce" gets translated back into English as "whiskey". Danish akvavit, which is just mangled Latin. Also compare English "spirit". Water of Life, surely it's medicinal!
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Coolness Averted posted:
personally, i love getting ripped off for low quality food and drink that has pushed out better local fare
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it owns that the facebook/twitter "this claim is unverified" badge lets you know it's true
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Plank Walker posted:it owns that the facebook/twitter "this claim is unverified" badge lets you know it's true corporation truth finders are good for understanding true, right, and good things because you can use them to establish what 180 degrees away from those things is
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Oct 21, 2022 14:34
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Here in Nova Scotia NS Power, a private company with a monopoly on power, wanted to increase rates by ~23% because of increased costs and because shareholders wanted more money. The provincial government very quickly made it so they couldn’t, so their president released a statement that said the company would not be incentivized to improve the grid in the face of future hurricanes, like Fiona. Straight up threats.
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Oct 21, 2022 16:11
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Professor Shark posted:Here in Nova Scotia NS Power, a private company with a monopoly on power, wanted to increase rates by ~23% because of increased costs and because shareholders wanted more money. The provincial government very quickly made it so they couldn’t, so their president released a statement that said the company would not be incentivized to improve the grid in the face of future hurricanes, like Fiona. Those poor job creators are fighting for their lives in socialist fascist Canada! It's self defence!!
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Oct 21, 2022 16:21
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Oh nooo what if we nationalized the utilities that were privatized for pennies on the dollar?? Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Oct 21, 2022 16:28
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Failed Imagineer posted:"Aqua vita" translates into Irish as "uisce beatha" and then that Irish "uisce" gets translated back into English as "whiskey". Call it whatever you want, it worked wonders for Tim Finnegan.
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Oct 21, 2022 16:29
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Frosted Flake posted:Oh nooo what if we nationalized the utilities that were privatized for pennies on the dollar?? That's always a sucker's game in a neoliberal framework. It just means the state will assume all the liabilities the private operator built up over the years, will spend the money rebuilding the utility and then resell and start the cycle again. Well that's the healthiest version, sometimes the market brain of the folks in charge is so bad they'll continue to run the broken and lovely infrastructure exactly the same just with a technically state owned corporation doing the gouging.
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Frosted Flake posted:Oh nooo what if we nationalized the utilities that were privatized for pennies on the dollar?? singapore renationalized all their public transport assets in the 2010s is all you need to know about the lauded efficiency of neoliberalism
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BonHair posted:Danish akvavit, which is just mangled Latin. Also compare English "spirit". For a while it was. Pouring it on a cut could stop a wound from getting infected and that saved a lot of lives before we had antibiotics, and if you had to do surgery it was a decent painkiller before they had better ways to do it.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/shares-of-albertsons-jump-on-report-of-potential-merger-with-grocery-giant-kroger.html Kroger is buying up another grocery chain here in the PNW.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/shares-of-albertsons-jump-on-report-of-potential-merger-with-grocery-giant-kroger.html Nah it's good, the Kroger guy said so. One company will control stores in 48 states, and that's great, because think of the short-term savings.
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SpacePig posted:Nah it's good, the Kroger guy said so. One company will control stores in 48 states, and that's great, because think of the short-term savings. think of the efficiency created by central planning!
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After learning that Albertsons bought Safeway a while back, that would mean that the Seattle area would end up with 4 grocery stores owned by Kroger (QFC, Fred Meyer, Albertsons, and Safeway) which is just funny to me, especially since a lot of times they rather close together, due to being competitors at one point.
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Iron Crowned posted:After learning that Albertsons bought Safeway a while back, that would mean that the Seattle area would end up with 4 grocery stores owned by Kroger (QFC, Fred Meyer, Albertsons, and Safeway) which is just funny to me, especially since a lot of times they rather close together, due to being competitors at one point. There aren't any other non-club, non-bougie grocery stores in Seattle. The other options are Whole Foods, PCC (a local co-op chain, very similar to Whole Foods), Trader Joe's, and Costco.
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Ham Equity posted:There aren't any other non-club, non-bougie grocery stores in Seattle. The other options are Whole Foods, PCC (a local co-op chain, very similar to Whole Foods), Trader Joe's, and Costco. Sorry about your luck, I left Seattle for Kansas in '03, and your options for groceries there were Dillon's (Kroger), and Walmart. Trust me, when I moved to Cincinnati 10 years ago, I was standing in awe of a good looking green bell pepper when I went to a Meijer for the first time.
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Ham Equity posted:There aren't any other non-club, non-bougie grocery stores in Seattle. The other options are Whole Foods, PCC (a local co-op chain, very similar to Whole Foods), Trader Joe's, and Costco. uwajimaya and various other ethnic stores
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BonHair posted:Danish akvavit, which is just mangled Latin. Also compare English "spirit".  Oh, Prohibition
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Professor Shark posted:Here in Nova Scotia NS Power, a private company with a monopoly on power, wanted to increase rates by ~23% because of increased costs and because shareholders wanted more money. The provincial government very quickly made it so they couldn’t, so their president released a statement that said the company would not be incentivized to improve the grid in the face of future hurricanes, like Fiona. I work for a utility company in Canada. We've had record profits for like 9 quarters in a row. We haven't had a raise in 3 years. We're hemmoraging our new engineers since they forced us all back to the office. Instead of dealing with the obvious issues they've hired 3 senior managers of "employee culture and engagement." Our power rates have gone up 50% since March too.
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Chamale posted:
Churchill, while a right bloody poo poo, certainly knew what he was doing. Alcohol obviously has medical uses still, as in disinfection for example. Ask a med student about IV drops of 100% pure ethanol too.
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Ham Equity posted:There aren't any other non-club, non-bougie grocery stores in Seattle. The other options are Whole Foods, PCC (a local co-op chain, very similar to Whole Foods), Trader Joe's, and Costco. I was going to say Haggen which is a local chain with prices comparable to Safeway but lol I guess they're owned by Albertsons now. Saars is local and still independently owned and cheaper than everything else anyway. They've usually got a huge Asian section too
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Frosted Flake posted:Oh nooo what if we nationalized the utilities that were privatized for pennies on the dollar?? What if we tricked the governing class into nationalizing if we said they could do a 90s Russia in like 20 years and make fat stacks selling it out from under all of us? And then when they went to privatize it we drive them to a pre-dug pit in the desert and w [unintelligible-interference] incredible amoun- [inteference] cover the ho- [interference] ♬SUAVEMENTEEE SUAVEMENTEEEEE  ♬
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skooma512 posted:What if we tricked the governing class into nationalizing if we said they could do a 90s Russia in like 20 years and make fat stacks selling it out from under all of us? That sounds needlessly complicated, can't we just do the second part up front?
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tokin opposition posted:uwajimaya and various other ethnic stores There is an Uwajimaya in Seattle. Like, I'm not knocking it, it is in fact my grocery store, but there's only one. HMart has started to expand into here, I suppose. What others of significant size?
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Ham Equity posted:There is an Uwajimaya in Seattle. Like, I'm not knocking it, it is in fact my grocery store, but there's only one. Whoa, I didn't realize how small of a chain Uwajimaya was. There are only 5 stores in the PNW. The only other ones I can think of are WinCo and Grocery Outlet.
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Amazon Go looked big the one time I walked by one
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tokin opposition posted:Amazon Go looked big the one time I walked by one Gross
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Ham Equity posted:There is an Uwajimaya in Seattle. Like, I'm not knocking it, it is in fact my grocery store, but there's only one. I just went there last weekend! Plus they expanded and there's a store in Kent or Renton or somewhere.
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BigHead posted:I just went there last weekend! Plus they expanded and there's a store in Kent or Renton or somewhere. It's by the Ikea in Renton unless they opened a third somewhere
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Chamale posted:
I can easily believe Churchill was medically dependant on alcohol. It's dangerous to go cold turkey if you've got a serious habit.
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starkebn posted:I can easily believe Churchill was medically dependant on alcohol. It's dangerous to go cold turkey if you've got a serious habit. intervention but in the 40s is a show i'd watch
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*a pile of woolen suit in a chair* quannity, nashurly indefinite.
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Until they absorb Costco/BJ's I'm cool. It's like being a country club member.
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Child labor is more common in the US than others think. The company I worked for a few years ago had a 12 year old working and paid them under the table. I don't even know how you report something like that
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Panfilo posted:
Lmao
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Cackling at the thought of a proudly designed in China, manufactured in California product moving production to Africa to be less exploitative. How does that globalization taste now
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Panfilo posted:
I think it came out this year that child labor was also being used to harvest onions in the US.
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