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This is going to have an asterisk because I'm in a fairly remote area on vacation. Like, in the Upper Peninsula, not a lot of grocery competition.

But we went to get some food for the week at this grocery store today, and I was staggered by the prices, many of which were crazy out of step with what I'd pay in my home state at a random Walmart or similar chain. The smallest Lucky Charms was over $6; the largest was on sale for $4 and change but only if you had the store loyalty card. If you use the store loyalty card it doesn't auto-discount anything, you have to use the credit card reader to scroll the available coupons and try to pick the ones relevant to your cart.

Normal sized Starbucks whole bean bag was $17. Extra big one was like $27. Of course I bought neither.

Twizzlers in the big bag was two for $8. Fuck off lol.

They extrude corn syrup and artificial flavoring for pennies and will do anything to increase or maintain profit margins as people can less and less afford luxuries like sweet treats with 0 nutritional value. They're going to price us all into diets with their inflexibility and greed.

But I did :'(

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Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing!

Haha. If you go to Half Priced Books, you may find a spinning tower rack of sci-fi books with amazing covers, all of which are also in plastic sealed baggies.

Go nuts!

I adore this kind of art...the sort of old painted and airbrushed sci-fi art that would appear in magazines and on the covers of books. Sometimes I buy old sci-fi books just for the cover art. Invariably there is smut in the opening 5 pages lol. Just a pattern I've noticed :p

Similar situation here. R5 5600X, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4, and absolutely no incentive to upgrade. I wouldn't give a shit to upgrade even if we lived in a pre-AI, pre-COVID scalping market and everything was priced fairly like it was in the GTX 10-series days. But I certainly will not be paying $700 for a fucking M.2 drive or RAM kit. Fuck alllllll the way off.

I wonder about the timing of this. I just got a backup NAS out at my mom's house some miles away and for one or two beautiful days I was sending Rsync differential backup jobs through the vendor interface for backups over Wireguard. The NAS is still on my network over WG, comes back up in that way after a reboot…but for the last week, those backup jobs just break with a useless error. I haven't had the time to look under the hood at logs but I've been assuming this was slopping config on my part cause I'm new at it. But it would almost be a relief if it was just a bad update (before the graver implications of the situation set in on my mind). I wish I had enough background in this stuff to be useful, but I'm just a bystander and a grateful, useless end user.

Dayton represent.

I love looking at big cats for this reason. There's something so cute about them having people-ish (or dog-ish, as you please) eyes.

We have so much debt but also all the police forces have become hyper militarized and laden with the left-over military hardware of the last 30 years of American warfare.

Jesus. Thanks for posting this.