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SonOfGhostDad posted:Highland Park 12 was my go-to scotch because it was nice and peaty, smooth, and was 40 USD. They rebranded as some Viking poo poo, made it sweeter, and it's 60-70 USD. Who is this for? Scotch is very popular in Asia these days.
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Professor Shark posted:Grocery chain CEO’s should be tarred and feathered and sent out of their respective towns On chips like name brand soda the manufacturer are going to set the prices I think.
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Especially as they could be anything. Two qfc stores 30 miles from each other 9 bucks for shin black at one 16 for it at the other.
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Good news the cards don’t work for “digital deals” they want one to have a freaking app.
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anonumos posted:The rate of profit, duh. Rate of profit has increased for most companies during the pandemic though. The just for the hell of it “greed” price increases that’s made up 20-25% of inflation.
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Oct 29, 2023 23:46
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MrQwerty posted:Why would the guy who brought us Honey Boo Boo and the Duggars, changed HBO to Max and said they're going to stop focusing on prestige television in favor of reality tv, and wrote off then permanently destroyed the footage of the finished Batgirl movie for an insurance payout be using this as a marketing ploy? This is also the same guy that ruined classic discovery channel and history channel and sci fi channel. He’s been destroying good movies and television as long as most of us have been alive.
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Nov 10, 2023 18:26
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:I attempted to use the self checkout at Target this morning, which now insists that I log into my store account before proceeding, by installing the app on my phone to use as a security token Yeah that’s a abandon everything I was going to buy and leave the store red line for me.
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Nov 19, 2023 19:22
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Professor Shark posted:It’s back to normal now except all the kids coming up have social issues because they stayed at home playing video games and watching YouTube and TikTok for months at a time lol The data on that has come out. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/pandemic-school-learning-loss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare 10% of high schoolers tried to kill themselves in 21-22 Chronic absenteeism is still absurdly high in high schools. “the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education.”
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Nov 25, 2023 18:10
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skooma512 posted:When I’m king I want to sit these people down and ask just what the gently caress their problem is, a full on struggle session. These are the same people that thought these fart apps would adequately replace school during remote. It’s extremely disheartening to hear anyone listens to them now that we know how bad remote was.
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Nov 25, 2023 18:14
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In the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, Congress sent $190 billion in aid to schools, stipulating that 20 percent of the funds had to be used for reversing learning setbacks. At the time, educators knew that the impact on how children learn would be significant, but the extent was not yet known. The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education. It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children. These learning losses will remain unaddressed when the federal money runs out in 2024. Economists are predicting that this generation, with such a significant educational gap, will experience diminished lifetime earnings and become a significant drag on the economy. But education administrators and elected officials who should be mobilizing the country against this threat are not. It will take a multidisciplinary approach, and at this point, all the solutions that will be needed long term can’t be known; the work of getting kids back on solid ground is just beginning. But that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be immediate action. As a first step, elected officials at every level — federal, state and local — will need to devote substantial resources to replace the federal aid that is set to expire and must begin making up lost ground. This is a bipartisan issue, and parents, teachers and leaders in education have a role to play as well, in making sure that addressing learning loss and other persistent challenges facing children receives urgent attention. The challenges have been compounded by an epidemic of absenteeism, as students who grew accustomed to missing school during the pandemic continue to do so after the resumption of in-person classes. Millions of young people have joined the ranks of the chronically absent — those who miss 10 percent or more of the days in the school year — and for whom absenteeism will translate into gaps in learning. In the early grades, these missing children are at greater risk of never mastering the comprehension skills that make education possible. The more absences these students accumulate, the more they miss out on the process of socialization through which young people learn to live and work with others. The more they lag academically, the more likely they are to drop out. This fall, The Associated Press illustrated how school attendance has cratered across the United States, using data compiled in partnership with the Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee. More than a quarter of students were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year, up from 15 percent before the pandemic. That means an additional 6.5 million students joined the ranks of the chronically absent. The problem is pronounced in poorer districts like Oakland, Calif., where the chronic absenteeism rate exceeded 61 percent. But as the policy analyst Tim Daly wrote recently, absenteeism is rampant in wealthy schools, too. Consider New Trier Township High School in Illinois, a revered and highly competitive school that serves some of the country’s most affluent communities. Last spring, The Chicago Tribune reported that New Trier’s rate of chronic absenteeism got worse by class, reaching nearly 38 percent among its seniors. The Times reported on Friday that preliminary data for 2022-23 showed a slight improvement in attendance. However, in some states, like California and New Mexico, “the rate of chronic absenteeism was still double what it was before the pandemic.” The solutions are not simple. There is extensive evidence that punitive measures don’t work, so educators may need a combination of incentives and measures to address the economic and family issues that can keep children away from school. Researchers have long known that American students grow more alienated from school the longer they attend — and that they often fall off the school engagement cliff, at which point they no longer care. This sense of disconnection stems from a feeling among high school students in particular that no one at school cares about them and that the courses they study bear no relationship to the challenges they face in the real world. These young people are also vulnerable to mental health difficulties that worsened during the pandemic. Based on survey data collected in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this year that more than 40 percent of high school students had persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness; 22 percent had seriously considered suicide; 10 percent reported that they had attempted suicide. Since the beginning of the pandemic, many parents and educators have been raising the alarm about the effects of grief, isolation and other disruptions on the mental health of their children. In addition to reconnecting these young people to school, states and localities need to create a more supportive school environment and provide the counseling services these students need to succeed. The State of Virginia took a big swing at the problem of learning loss when it announced what is being described as a statewide tutoring program. But high-impact tutoring is labor intensive and depends on high-quality instruction. It is most likely to succeed when sessions are held at least three times a week — during school hours — with well-trained, well-managed tutors working with four or fewer students at a time. Such an effort would require a massive recruitment effort, at a time when many schools are still struggling to find enough teachers. While tutoring is a step in the right direction, other measures to increase the time that students spend in school — such as after-school programs and summer school — will be required to help the students who have fallen furthest behind. In some communities, children have fallen behind by more than a year and a half in math. “It is magical thinking to expect they will make this happen without a major increase in instructional time,” as the researchers Tom Kane and Sean Reardon recently argued. A study of data from 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University shows that the most effective way to reverse learning loss is to increase the pace at which students learn. One way is by exposing them to teachers who have had an extraordinary impact on their students. The center proposes offering these excellent teachers extra compensation in exchange for taking extra students into their classes. Highly trained, dedicated teachers have long been known to be the most reliable path to better educational outcomes, but finding them at any scale has always been difficult. If creative solutions can be found, it will help reverse learning gaps from the pandemic and improve American education overall. The learning loss crisis is more consequential than many elected officials have yet acknowledged. A collective sense of urgency by all Americans will be required to avert its most devastating effects on the nation’s children.
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doctorfrog posted:As a parent I hate these apps too. Yeah I think parents are at: gently caress the administration expansion and hire more teachers and pay them all more. Taylorism and scientific management is just going to make more teachers quit.
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Lots of things are nominally sized, especially in construction.
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steinrokkan posted:Afaik it's because companies charged per plank and realized that if they planed the rough lumber down, they could transport more planks to the market and sell them at the same unit cost. No . Here’s the history of it: http://synthmind.com/miscpub_6409.pdf TLDR it was a regulatory choice.
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Time_pants posted:Let's not forget that, just because he's doing a good job now, he absolutely did try to sabotage the 2020 election at the request of the Trump administration. No matter what good he does from now until he's cold and in the ground, he tried to gently caress with an election, and if his guy had won, he'd still be loving with the USPS today. He’s doing a bad job though. The post office is being organized like XPO. That’s extremely bad and very stupid.
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buglord posted:It looks like the Targets ive been to in both the rich and the poor zip codes have gone absolutely nuts with putting everything behind security panels. Phone cases, detergents, toothpaste, underwear, every single thing. Of course you use the little summoning button and nobody shows up, and when you do flag down an employee they dont have the keys with them about half the time. It’s other shrink being conflated with theft shrink. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html A big part of it is that many retailers have bifurcated pricing now. The shelf price is high and then they deeply discount just before new inventory arrives. Think the l buy two get three free sales of twelve packs of soda with a shelf price of $10. This discounting is “merchandising” and it’s getting lumped in with other types of theft. The other thing going on is that they have severely been understaffed and have been doing things like skipping full annual inventories and they’re finally getting staffed enough to do those again. So they’re finding the real time electronic inventory tracking systems they’ve been trusting suck and finding out about several years of missed shrink all at once. There is combination of they don’t realize all this is going on (because algorithms are doing the bifurcated pricing) and looking to shift blame for years of mistakes during the pandemic.
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Mercury_Storm posted:...wait so things aren't selling until an algorithm marks it down just before it rots (to pre-pandemic prices I'm guessing) and that makes them think they're being stolen from? Because the discounting is being counted in the same categories. Think about markdown meat. They put those 50% and 75% stickers on it. That discount is a loss. That loss very often is counted in different categories of shrink depending on the type of discount. That’s dramatically expanded and it’s not a person doing it, so they don’t know why the shrink is spiking up. Be we do know that theft is staying relatively flat as the data about it comes out.
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Wilkins Micawber posted:Lobster Mobster sounds like the ghostiest of ghost kitchens. There's no way that's an actual restaurant. $40 for a cup of bagged soup from Red Lobster imo Duke’s is a real restaurant with several locations in the Seattle area.
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Vampire Panties posted:but think of the literal tens of dollars the MTA is missing out on! The pandemic caused that one. They still can’t get crews and nearly all states are way behind.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:True for a lot of jobs, maybe most, but not really for construction. Construction pays really really well. It's just hard, filthy, dangerous work with long hours and an often repellent culture. And it has a long learning curve. It's just a job that a lot of people can't do or really don't want to do. Don’t forget long term travel!
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I Miss Snausages posted:This makes no sense. Brandy old fashions are a very Wisconsin drink. Wisconsin consumes half the brandy that is sold in the states. It’s even the state cocktail. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1213008601/wisconsin-crowns-the-brandy-old-fashioned-as-the-official-state-cocktail
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:Convection functions on ovens were never more than a high-end feature for built-ins in the US, so most Americans' first exposure to a convection oven in the home is an air fryer. It's actually such a common thing that built-ins are now labeling their convection features as "air fry" so that people understand what's going on. Convection ovens have been a common counter top appliance for many decades. Often they were sized for small frozen pizzas, like totinos. They were like a hot plate, a cheap low end thing poor folks or single men had instead of a real oven/stove combination.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:and really really overcooked pork chops growing up, The recommended temps to cook pork to changed about a decade ago. Before that in the 70-80s there were more real worries about trichinellosis that basically disappeared in the mid nineties . https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/epi.html#:~:text=Over%20the%20past%2040%20years,risk%20for%20acquiring%20this%20disease. What happened is that they stopped feeding garbage to pigs in most places basically. Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Feb 25, 2024 |
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Outrail posted:They can't use reflectors anywhere it snows because the plow would wreck it. When I first moved up I wondered why they dont use them in Canada. They dig out a little dip out of the asphalt and they work just fine.
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Woolie Wool posted:Look up tons burthen (a unit of volume) for some true insanity, and once you got those "tons" or whatever off the ship you would probably have to measure them all over again This is a measurement of the ship itself, not the cargo. It’s one of several tonnage estimates that eventually turn into Gross Register Tonnage and Net Register Tonnage and then eventually into Gross and Net tonnage. It was for taxing the ships not for measuring the cargo volume.
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McSpanky posted:Abandon modernity, return to personally-curated website lists There used to be catalog/directory search engines. Yahoo used one for a long time. AARD VARKMAN posted:the most interesting thing to me is finding out someone at Google is still making changes to the algorithm for any reason other than to directly prioritize a company that is paying them money Imaging a Waterworld old guy in the tank type of job. 
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steinrokkan posted:The things you mentioned probably already exist, somewhere There are already existing entire store chains that operate on the premise.
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Zero VGS posted:Hey I got a question. Where the gently caress does Frito-Lay get off charging $5.99 United States Dollars for Tostitos? For loving 11 ounces of dried corn? That stuff the government pays farmers $2.2 billion dollars a year to grow out of the dirt? A bag was $3.50 in 2019. COVID doesn't infect maize last I checked. All the name brand chips are exorbitantly priced. Same companies as name brand soda. They go on sale intermittently for half that. Bifurcated pricing.
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Banks used to have whole departments that compared check signatures to signatures on record. As late as the seventies every single check was checked. That’s what the card signature checks came out of.
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It was dead even before that. The sheer volume killed it even before computers made it even dumber.
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The gas station fireball is a lower alcohol version. It’s different from the liquor store stuff.
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Elsbeth has been an existing character for long time, she goes back to The Good Wife.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:iirc there's a trash mountain of amphorae that still exists in rome My understanding is that the ground level of ancient cities tended to rise over time. They just built new building on the accumulation of trash and rubble of old buildings.
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Houle posted:2. Frozen meat tastes even more spongier now. It might just be that I very seldomly grab frozen meat these days, but the chicken strips I got felt like a soggy Crunchie bar. That sounds like temperature abuse. Did you notice ice crystals in the package?
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Peter Falk posted:They're one of those products where the fewer features they have the less likely they are to break. The cheapest landlord-special dishwashers have been the most hassle free for me. The 20 to 30 year old hotpoint is extremely durable and repairable until it bursts into flames. That’s not hyperbole, the timing fails, that round part one turns to set the cycle. They’ll work like that for a while until they get stuck in the dry cycle and immolate if one isn’t around and running the machine. Even then that timer is replaceable too.
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