TBF if they want to move their wealth to a tax haven in the Caribbean and pay to relocate me as a customer, I wouldn’t object too much.

Me too and I’m kinda looking forward to it.

Let them go. They’ll struggle to leave with their telecommunication lines and their football clubs and their factories and their farmlands. Rich people leaving doesn’t have to mean wealth leaving.

I’m not a computer person but my understanding is that this it’s what bricked my MacBook a long time ago. It worked perfectly fine. Not the fastest at seven years old but it was fine. Then along came a Google Chrome update with uncapped the RAM usage. Suddenly 8gb ram wasn’t enough to do anything. Nothing else worked if the browser was open and I needed to multitask. Chrome was the only browser compatible with work software. Had to get another machine about a week later (not a Mac, that time).

If having an onboard computer makes it that dangerous, it shouldn’t be on the road at all!

I’ve probably complained about this on here before. But my local supermarket put these wide, low newsstands by the doors. It causes a bottleneck by the exit. I assume it’s a loss prevention measure.

Maybe it works? It didn’t prevent losing me as a customer. I can’t be bothered navigating all the people who don’t look up between the till and the obstacle, walk right up to it, and then struggle to fit through the gap.

The next place I went to stopped me twice at the self checkout store scanning thing saying that I was ‘randomly’ checked. (Mask on, sunglasses, hood up was almost certainly the issue. Either that or because I only go every three weeks, so my trolley is overflowing more than most people’s.) I said if it happens again I won’t come back.

Third time, it didn’t happen but the alarm buzzed as I left and two security guys wanted to see my receipt. While they were looking at the longest receipt they’d ever seen and saying they didn’t know how they were going to check everything, I explained that this was the third time I’d been inconvenienced on my way out and if it happened again, I wouldn’t be back. It hasn’t happened since. I suspect that someone was watching me enter with that mask, the glasses, and the hood, and pressing a big red ‘dodgy’ button as I got near the exit.

Same get up, different store, different day, I was accosted for using my own very wide open hard-to-hide-anything-in bag as a basket because the store’s baskets are rubbish and it’s hard to tell whether I’ll over fill my bag if I use the basket; and if I over fill my bag, I ain’t buying it, as I have a long walk home.

Someone comes over. Was I going to pay for that? This stuff that I haven’t yet paid for? That’s how it usually works. He clicks the walkie talkie. It crackles. He says, they say they’re going to pay for it. He tells me to make sure I do. Vaguely threatening. I needed what I went in for so I bought it but I haven’t been back. I probably should go back to give them someone to watch while people dressed incognito are stealing from another aisle and getting away with it.

I suspect this is one of the real reasons behind all the anti-mask stuff—it was getting too hard to surveil us; all that tech they had been sold as security-capable became practically useless overnight.

Maybe it’s just me but when companies make it harder to spend my money, I simply oblige them. I am a begrudging shopper at the best of times. Most people seem eager, idk.

The business genius is the security consultant charging $millions to advise them on how to prevent loss.

So we’re allowed to say that Squid Game is about capitalism now?

@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml did you say something about a curse?

It’s just one temper tantrum after another, lately. US politicians aren’t presenting themselves as the most rational actors. From the article it sounds like labelling the action ‘controversial’ means the current cabinet can’t proceed with the plan. They’d have to wait till after an election? So the US is trying to exploit a technical loophole.

The Netherlands is hardly the most radical country and still, the US won’t let it marginally cut flights to reduce noise and lower carbon emissions. Hopefully they do what they want to do and tell the US to stick it. They probably won’t. Which means this story can go in the bag marked, ‘unfortunate reasons why democratic socialism won’t work’.

Thanks for these!

Any good sources on this that you could recommend?

Lol this is the perfect way to show how capitalism is a house of cards. This guy might be accused of fraud but this stunt is bread and butter for big corps. Maybe a bit less on the nose but the principle is the same.

The mind boggles. I remember the start of the pandemic hearing people say so and so is a nurse and she says Covid is nothing to worry about. What a ****. Maybe I do hate them—these ‘medical professionals’ got people killed by their refusal to investigate and by their hubris. Society is riddled with people who are entirely unconcerned with conspiracy for gross negligence.

Damn, I don’t know what you’ve started here but the number of presumably white people coming up with all sorts of reasons to argue why black people shouldn’t have reparations is… is it a white settler moment? Then to follow this up with ‘you need to include white people or they’re not going to like it’ is… maybe Malcolm X was onto something about white liberals.

Cauliflower, cheddar, and parmesan soup with parmesan croutons mmm

Sorry for my hostility. I get upset when companies pull stunts like this. Monopoly rent on flavour is a sin.

There are so many layers to unravel before many people will trust pharmaceutical companies. It doesn’t help that Marxists (naturally the most charismatic and wise advocates, so well respected in communities and likely to be listened to) are usually the ones most critical of bourgeois governments and big pharma.

I have a rather low opinion of anti vaxxers but like you, I don’t hate them; we can’t hate them until they’ve ignored us after we’ve instigated a system of revolutionary education. But to blame them personally in the meantime? I don’t see many revolutionaries rolling out educational programs nowadays. Not near me at least. I don’t have stats but most of the anti vaxxers I know (it’s unfortunately quite a few) are not well educated.

I don’t think you know how this cheese works. The rind is edible. It has the strongest flavour, so it’s what’s used in sauces, etc. If you ever had parmesan in a sauce e.g. at a restaurant, you ate the rind. Hence the need to put an edible microchip in it – because people are expected to eat it.

Because of its world-famous reputation for quality, Parmigiano-Reggiano can be sold at a higher price point than cheese simply labeled “parmesan,”

As if a ‘business journalist’ would just echo this lie. I’m not overly surprised. Parmesan made by any other reputable blessed cheesemaker is going to be sufficient quality even if they taste slightly different. And in the context of counterfeit cheese? If it’s so good that you have to put microchips in the ‘real’ one because otherwise there’s no way to tell which is which, it’s surely an endorsement for the ‘fake’ cheese.

The parmesan in a plastic tub that’s mostly saw dust is better anyway; I’m reluctant to make lofty claims but it might just be the people’s parmesan. I wouldn’t even be surprised if it’s vegan too.

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