Most grocery chains use loss leaders to bring people into stores. Resetting the prices for meat and produce means people in the market for that will come in, and then they can put such items in places that have you pass by other items they haven't marked down "oh I need eggs, oh I need yogurt, oh I need a Prime Steak, since I get a 20 percent discount" and then you feel like you won, even though your bill isn't really that much lower.
Except people like me, who buy the cheap things in bulk and visit 2-5 stores a week on our way home, buying only the sale items at each venue. For most people the time element means they'll spend their whole paycheck there (hence the original nickname for Whole Foods, which is Whole Paycheck). Which is sub-optimal. It's also why you buy lottery tickets that return only 45 cents on the dollar. You think you win, but you don't. Buy raffle tickets instead.
You act is if Attorney General Barr authorized illegal wiretapping on all overseas telephone and other communication on Americans back during Iran-Contra, and never got legal authorization for any of this.
Personally, I enjoyed visiting the Yakima facility back in the day.
Now you act all shocked they upload apps designed to spy on you.
The Apple biosystem requires you replace your devices periodically. Opening them up to repair lets you buy non-Apple components, non-Apple batteries, and makes it highly likely you won't pay $10,000 for a computer or $1000 for a phone every two years.
You can still make "plastic" plates cups and cutlery that are derived from:
seaweed (in fact the basic science for this has been known for a decade) - this composts naturally, and is usually coated with a thin film that is not water soluble, but will eventually biodegrade if exposed to sunlight (will take longer if kept in landfills)
vegetable fibers (we've used these in entire countries, and at most major universities - anyplace that you see the compost bin says "university plates, utensils and food containers are compostable") - made in large scale, these are fairly close to the costs of plastic.
The early ones from around the 1990s melted too fast, the 2000s were a bit better, but the 2020 version is fairly good - the only exception is if you leave it in your hot (not warm, hot) drink for more than an hour. Why are you taking up a seat for that long? Use a biodegradable ceramic or metal or glass container if you're taking that long, slacker!
This is just an excuse to find more ways to take money away from less wealthy shoppers, by jailing them and confiscating the goods they legally purchased.
"No receipt? You must have stolen it. Give me the $45 in your pocket, you'll never get it back."
So, you seriously want me to get off my couch, where beer is like $1 and pizza is like $8, get in a car which most millenials don't even have, drive in congested roads for like a couple of hours (usually a 30 minute drive), pay $20 to $40 for parking, still have to walk 10 blocks in the rain, get barcoded and scanned while waiting in another 30 minute line, to then pay $20 easy for like 1 beer and a hotdog, all to be crowded into a box where I can't see anything, and you think I want to do that?
Never assume any communications system is not already being backed up at all the link points, and by multiple intelligence gathering agencies in multiple venues.
Can you really brand a robot a killer robot, just because it's circuitry could enable hunter killer mode?
Aren't robots entitled to trial by a jury of their peers, fellow robotic indentured servants chained to a millenia of servitude? Until you've walked a kilometer in their bouncy treads, can you truly understand their plight?
Remember, we were all created equally to suffer in this world of rust and lack of self-repair, and all should have the right to be presumed innocent of sin, unless we happen to have bought a Mark IV Beastmode modular add-on, in which case, hey, that's a different slice of pizza.
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Most grocery chains use loss leaders to bring people into stores. Resetting the prices for meat and produce means people in the market for that will come in, and then they can put such items in places that have you pass by other items they haven't marked down "oh I need eggs, oh I need yogurt, oh I need a Prime Steak, since I get a 20 percent discount" and then you feel like you won, even though your bill isn't really that much lower.
Except people like me, who buy the cheap things in bulk and visit 2-5 stores a week on our way home, buying only the sale items at each venue. For most people the time element means they'll spend their whole paycheck there (hence the original nickname for Whole Foods, which is Whole Paycheck). Which is sub-optimal. It's also why you buy lottery tickets that return only 45 cents on the dollar. You think you win, but you don't. Buy raffle tickets instead.
It's actually fairly common for Americans to sell out and work for other nation states. It's one of our primary risk factors, HUMINT wise.
News flash for you, we're not white in the US anymore. At least in the West.
But nice try.
One hand takes away, another profits.
You act is if Attorney General Barr authorized illegal wiretapping on all overseas telephone and other communication on Americans back during Iran-Contra, and never got legal authorization for any of this.
Personally, I enjoyed visiting the Yakima facility back in the day.
Now you act all shocked they upload apps designed to spy on you.
Even though G knows it's a very very bad idea, and is Evil, they are "analyzing" it, so they can pretend they understand the risks involved.
Which they don't.
No, that's because of tar sands and long commutes in low mpg trucks.
You can fix both. You can't even make a profit on tar sands below $70, of course, so massive subsidies are part of the economy.
Have you ever actually seen a recycling bin that was sorted correctly? I haven't.
I see you've never been to Japan.
The Apple biosystem requires you replace your devices periodically. Opening them up to repair lets you buy non-Apple components, non-Apple batteries, and makes it highly likely you won't pay $10,000 for a computer or $1000 for a phone every two years.
Can they do it? Sure.
They have no economic incentive to do so.
You can still make "plastic" plates cups and cutlery that are derived from:
seaweed (in fact the basic science for this has been known for a decade) - this composts naturally, and is usually coated with a thin film that is not water soluble, but will eventually biodegrade if exposed to sunlight (will take longer if kept in landfills)
vegetable fibers (we've used these in entire countries, and at most major universities - anyplace that you see the compost bin says "university plates, utensils and food containers are compostable") - made in large scale, these are fairly close to the costs of plastic.
The early ones from around the 1990s melted too fast, the 2000s were a bit better, but the 2020 version is fairly good - the only exception is if you leave it in your hot (not warm, hot) drink for more than an hour. Why are you taking up a seat for that long? Use a biodegradable ceramic or metal or glass container if you're taking that long, slacker!
What's next, not letting them keep interfacing with your cell location after you left the FB app??
This is just an excuse to find more ways to take money away from less wealthy shoppers, by jailing them and confiscating the goods they legally purchased.
"No receipt? You must have stolen it. Give me the $45 in your pocket, you'll never get it back."
None.
Fines don't work.
Also, are these only for firms actually in the US? What about all the scammers in India and China?
To you, it's medical supplies.
Just saying.
Look, give your money to the power company if you want, but you have to be crazy to be spending 4-5 times as much for electricity using old bulbs.
My electric bills are a shadow of their former self since replacing all my bulbs with modern LEDs, including dimmable ones.
Time to wake up and smell the end of DST and it's false promises
Give me PINE instead.
OMG!!!
So, you seriously want me to get off my couch, where beer is like $1 and pizza is like $8, get in a car which most millenials don't even have, drive in congested roads for like a couple of hours (usually a 30 minute drive), pay $20 to $40 for parking, still have to walk 10 blocks in the rain, get barcoded and scanned while waiting in another 30 minute line, to then pay $20 easy for like 1 beer and a hotdog, all to be crowded into a box where I can't see anything, and you think I want to do that?
Seriously?
(this has been Seriously with Will and Amy)
Look, I buy lots of Apple stuff, I've got at least three Apple computers and a couple of iPhones, but my reaction to the whole Apple TV is ... Meh.
Never assume any communications system is not already being backed up at all the link points, and by multiple intelligence gathering agencies in multiple venues.
First thing you learn about Chinese research claims is always go to the source and verify the proofs.
Just saying.
Can you really brand a robot a killer robot, just because it's circuitry could enable hunter killer mode?
Aren't robots entitled to trial by a jury of their peers, fellow robotic indentured servants chained to a millenia of servitude? Until you've walked a kilometer in their bouncy treads, can you truly understand their plight?
Remember, we were all created equally to suffer in this world of rust and lack of self-repair, and all should have the right to be presumed innocent of sin, unless we happen to have bought a Mark IV Beastmode modular add-on, in which case, hey, that's a different slice of pizza.