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err posted:Idk how people are affording food. Staples like rice and produce are alright, but deviating to anything else is quite a bit. $5+ for a small bag of chips or cereal (shrinkflation). If you're an old like me & have the time, you good to different places for value & plan ahead. I usually only hit up 2 in a given week & some of them are good for once a month. Aldi's = cafe bustelo, chicken, gr. beef, cheese, canned goods Jewel = salmon, paper goods A local grocery = fresh fruit, fresh veggies Mideast grocery = spices, olives, baked goods, prepared foods Trader Joe's = frozen indian, frozen lasagna, frozen veggies, pet treats, shower stuff
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Aug 7, 2023 05:56
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Willa Rogers posted:
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Aug 7, 2023 05:56
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please do not seek accommodation or services from struck businesses is los angeles thank you
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Aug 7, 2023 05:58
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Xaris posted:that's because America was originally founded directly as a "Get Rich Quick!" scam built ontop the worst horrific genocides ever conducted in all of human history, no one has done as much evil against humanity as the american scam has. and it's been one genocide and get rich quick scheme after another and another for 300+ years. the amount of genocided blood and bones that lie beneath the foundation of the nation is a subtle corruption of national identity. when your own nation is a fake get-rich-scam built ontop of hundred of millions of murdered people, inherently there is no social cohesion and pride. furthermore as alienation and incoherence is good for capitalism, capitalism exploits this to further divide and isolate individuals into consumers to fill the alienated voids within their soul with treats and replaces identity-as-consumption ive noticed a trend with people in conversations lately where they just want to buy random material poo poo to fulfill a spontaneous urge but they confess that it doesnt have any affect on their happiness. its scary that one can be aware all the while acting out involuntarily. like an addiction i guess.
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Aug 7, 2023 06:00
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err posted:Idk how people are affording food. Staples like rice and produce are alright, but deviating to anything else is quite a bit. $5+ for a small bag of chips or cereal (shrinkflation). one thing most people don't know is that within any grocery chain, prices of goods vary wildly between locations, and it's almost entirely a function of how wealthy the neighborhood is
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Aug 7, 2023 06:05
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RadiRoot posted:ive noticed a trend with people in conversations lately where they just want to buy random material poo poo to fulfill a spontaneous urge but they confess that it doesnt have any affect on their happiness. its scary that one can be aware all the while acting out involuntarily. like an addiction i guess. People are isolated and lonely, at least from the friends i know. I do it with books I will never make time to read. Also probably the creeping realization things have shifted and not getting better.
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Aug 7, 2023 06:12
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Xaris posted:oh yeah safeway is more expensive than Whole Foods these days. it was always a rip-off but at least was decent enough with sales but sales are bad and base prices are up like 100%. i flat out refuse to go there even if it's convenient And their milk goes bad real fast, at least the milk at the one I stopped buying from did.
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Aug 7, 2023 06:12
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err posted:People are isolated and lonely, at least from the friends i know. I do it with books I will never make time to read. Also probably the creeping realization things have shifted and not getting better. Yeah if I didn't have my spouse I would be 100% insane. I've been working on being more outgoing with other people though. Learning what other people think is good. RadiRoot has issued a correction as of 06:27 on Aug 7, 2023 |
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Aug 7, 2023 06:24
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Thoguh posted:This is a situation where seriously wealthy people live in a world so different from us that you aren't even comprehending how different it is. Airport lounges, outside of some of the really outlandish stuff going on in Dubai and a couple other airports that have entire terminals devoted to international first class passengers, are where the slightly wealthy go. Hell, any of us could get in to a bunch of them with the right credit card or by paying like $30-$50 for a day pass. They're nicer than the terminal for sure, but they aren't where a 0.1%er type person is gonna hang out. There's been one of these at LAX for a while so there are some travel bloggers that have done trip reports of visiting it. Basically you get picked up by a limo, when you pull up it's more like checking in to a hotel, a valet takes your bags, someone gets your info and takes care of checking you in and your seats and all that while you chill in a completely private suite with full restaurant and bar service. Then a couple minutes before the boarding door closes for your flight you go through a private TSA line (that only has you in it) and a car drives you directly to your plane and you board from the stairs last the second before the door is shut. You never at any point are actually in the airport. Lmao thats it? loving boring poo poo
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Aug 7, 2023 06:47
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Shipon posted:since when did merely going to the same place as a strike become "scabbing", none of these academics are threatening to take strike breaking jobs at the hotels on strike lol A union on strike may request economic cooperation from supporters by asking them not to do business with their employer (or particular employer sites) while the strike is ongoing. This is a pretty common for hotel employee strikes in particular because it has been an effective way to inflict losses on non-cooperative hotel owners (megacorps usually). Crossing the line in those particular circumstances is bad. You can say it's not technically "scabbing" but scabbing isn't really a technical term itself, the point is that it undermines the union.
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Aug 7, 2023 08:58
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Koirhor posted:lol italian manufacturing lol American engineering FOUND ON ROAD DEAD "Chrysler" It fell down.
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Aug 7, 2023 10:23
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Abner Assington posted:A brewery/brewpub is insane profitability with markups; there's no distribution middleman in between them and a store/restaurant, so it's just right in their pockets. I used to work at one of the biggest craft breweries in the country and we'd charge $5 for a pint (pre-COVID, I think it's $7 now) and the cost of that versus how little it costs to make 16oz of beer is ludicrous. Assuming your beer isn't lovely and you aren't a raging alcoholic who gives it away, you'd have to be a goddamned idiot to fail in that industry. ok but how do you grow your business 15% per year every year with a single brewpub huh??
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Aug 7, 2023 10:55
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https://twitter.com/business/status/1688387257332375552
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Aug 7, 2023 11:00
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official legal position of Coinbase: "we are a trading platform for digital assets that are sometimes called “cryptocurrencies” or “tokens” or “crypto assets,” which despite these names are actually analogous to beanie babies or baseball cards, and are the future of global finance" https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1688221691418161152    reject modernity embrace Mt Gox link to full pdf of the memorandum
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Aug 7, 2023 11:23
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RadiRoot posted:ive noticed a trend with people in conversations lately where they just want to buy random material poo poo to fulfill a spontaneous urge but they confess that it doesnt have any affect on their happiness. its scary that one can be aware all the while acting out involuntarily. like an addiction i guess. I'd argue it's more a trauma response.
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Aug 7, 2023 11:35
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Thank you brave, disgusting beasts from the Midwest. Nothing is getting between them and that shrimp buffet.
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Aug 7, 2023 11:53
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Aug 7, 2023 12:43
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Shipon posted:since when did merely going to the same place as a strike become "scabbing", none of these academics are threatening to take strike breaking jobs at the hotels on strike lol If they're staying at the hotel on strike they're crossing the line you loving rat
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Aug 7, 2023 13:22
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in addition to revoking WFH from their own employees, Zoom updated their (US?) Terms of Service:   Zoom posted:You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content: lol at all the court proceedings, telemedicine, therapy, collective bargaining, and other very private poo poo getting used by Zoom to train AI models since a week and a half ago
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Aug 7, 2023 13:23
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Is it ethical to cross a picket line to obtain necessary medical services, say if the employees of your HMO's hospital are on strike?
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Aug 7, 2023 13:26
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boy they sure did lump a shitload of ages together for that top line and left the rest as 10 year groups
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Aug 7, 2023 13:28
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:Is it ethical to cross a picket line to obtain necessary medical services, say if the employees of your HMO's hospital are on strike? health workers who go on strike almost always have a plan to deal with this, precisely because they know that "nurses picketed while patients died" is something that would look very bad for them
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Aug 7, 2023 13:31
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webcams for christ posted:in addition to revoking WFH from their own employees, Zoom updated their (US?) Terms of Service: Tech just can't help itself but ruin whatever useful products it manages to produce
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Aug 7, 2023 13:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:health workers who go on strike almost always have a plan to deal with this, precisely because they know that "nurses picketed while patients died" is something that would look very bad for them I would think that for this, specifically, it would not hurt management one bit: the hospital bits are a cost center to an HMO. Subscribers that pay premiums without actually using the services are gravy.
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Aug 7, 2023 13:53
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:I would think that for this, specifically, it would not hurt management one bit: the hospital bits are a cost center to an HMO. Subscribers that pay premiums without actually using the services are gravy. oh you mean like, if the office drones for an HMO are on strike? huh I hadn't thought about that
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Aug 7, 2023 14:01
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LaserPrinter69 posted:For how long though... it says they netted around 1MJ. but that’s excluding the 100s of times that it took to charge the apparatus, manufacture the disposable fuel pellet, etc.
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Aug 7, 2023 14:03
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lmao he’s backing out of his fight with zuck
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Aug 7, 2023 14:04
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net work error posted:https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1688327111478538240?t=cfDnDJ38wFFUkAi6dhcnHg&s=19 I'm the empty carpark next to a discarded shipping container.
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Aug 7, 2023 14:21
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LaserPrinter69 posted:For how long though... Not long at all, but understanding how the plasma moves during/after fusion will help with stable fusion.
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Aug 7, 2023 14:25
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Thoguh posted:lmao he’s backing out of his fight with zuck lmao yep.
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Aug 7, 2023 14:33
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:Is it ethical to cross a picket line to obtain necessary medical services, say if the employees of your HMO's hospital are on strike?  whut abbt if u r starving & will die b4 u can get to an un-struck grocery store
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Aug 7, 2023 14:39
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gradenko_2000 posted:oh you mean like, if the office drones for an HMO are on strike? huh I hadn't thought about that It was the janitors, and for the record I did not cross. But I thought real hard about what would be the correct thing to do if something dire came up, and I still don't have a good answer other than stop using insurance for plebs.
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Aug 7, 2023 14:40
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Economy update: better than ever (for the wealthy) https://twitter.com/LizAnnSonders/status/1688488256898314240 https://twitter.com/LizAnnSonders/status/1688488053373861889
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Aug 7, 2023 14:47
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https://www.post-gazette.com/news/e...es/202308020105quote:A West Virginia university’s closure could have a devastating effect on the local economy — and speaks to the struggles of small schools We need to get rid of college accreditation because closing scam colleges will hurt the economy.
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Aug 7, 2023 14:51
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Beached Whale posted:Economy update: better than ever (for the wealthy) This is a great stat to know, very tellinh
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Aug 7, 2023 14:55
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Beached Whale posted:Economy update: better than ever (for the wealthy) these people just don't know how good they have it, actually
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Aug 7, 2023 14:58
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a $400 emergency like I dunno. a fast food dinner for five and a tank of gas to get there My point being that $400 doesn’t get you poo poo in an emergency!!
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Aug 7, 2023 14:59
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super sweet best pal posted:And their milk goes bad real fast, at least the milk at the one I stopped buying from did. I've noticed that so much of my fresh food has gone bad more quickly in the past year than I can remember for the rest of my life. Doesn't matter where I buy it from. Palladium posted:Lmao thats it? loving boring poo poo a good portion of the stuff that the rich use are just the same poo poo that the rest of us use, but it's hidden behind exclusivity and #branding, it's not actually any better quality. they're drinking the same tap water and eating the same food, hidden under 3 layers of hoops and people ferrying it around in fancy packages
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Aug 7, 2023 14:59
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Beached Whale posted:Economy update: better than ever (for the wealthy) lol this stat famously used to be "a $500 emergency". they shrankflated it into $400 and despite that the # of people who can handle it is still dropping
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Aug 7, 2023 15:00
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SKULL.GIF posted:a good portion of the stuff that the rich use are just the same poo poo that the rest of us use, but it's hidden behind exclusivity and #branding, it's not actually any better quality. they're drinking the same tap water and eating the same food, hidden under 3 layers of hoops and people ferrying it around in fancy packages It's fun to watch Doug Demuro review $200K+ supercars on Youtube and see how lovely they are once you get past the name on the back.
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Aug 7, 2023 15:02
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