Tbh I refuse to patronize dollar general, because they are an absolute cancer of a corporate entity (yes, I know how little that narrows it down, but their business model really is unbelievably caustic, in that it specifically preys upon socioeconomically depressed areas and actively makes them worse).
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Well, when did your whole life start?
It would definitely subvert my expectations
Tangentially:
George RR Martin says he is three quarters of the way through The Winds of Winter
George RR Martin is asymptotically approaching the completion of the next book in the series, while simultaneously aging in linear time, which presents fairly obvious problems.
So cool that they’ve burnished their international image with that whole comedy festival thing 🙄
So uh… Israelis, just to be clear, this is how you make most of the rest of the world kinda hate you.
I’d even take some sabotage by enterprising Ukrainian agents that caused some sinkings
I mean… sure, but to say Russia is not involved in Belarus is akin to saying a hand is not involved in a sock puppet.
This is… not meaningful, compared to what Russia pulled with all the Boeing and Airbus airframes they just… appropriated when the sanctions sunk their teeth in.
I guess you’ve been missing the news. They’ve been going ham on that all summer and autumn.
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Aborigines/First Nation peoples in Australia
How about just arrest and prosecution and actually serious sentencing for sexual assault? Because that’s, you know, not extrajudicial.
You got an article you wanna link to, or what?
Honestly though, anyone surprised by this is a fucking idiot. This was in the plan that they wrote and made publicly available years ago. You are not allowed to be surprised by this.
Inb4 orangeboi congratulates the junta or something like that
Which is my implied point. I started coming across services offering LLM posts designed to push grassroots engagement on Reddit around the same time too - pretty obvious writing on the wall
It’s INSANE. The bot flooding started to become notably - and noticeably - bad around the time the API exodus happened. And it’s only accelerated. And most people seem to just be pretending it’s not even happening.
As a city person:
It’s not that I care about the personal impact that it has on me. It doesn’t affect me at all, to be blunt.
It may in fact be true that there are areas where there was nothing other than a DG (the company was founded in 1939, so it’s been around for a while), but in terms of the last few decades, it’s absolutely true that they’re undercutting an absolute shitload of local mom + pop general stores and driving them out of business, then exploiting their new captive audience and charging them more per unit mass/volume on everything. It’s literally their business model. That business model is predatory.
Anyways, if that’s not something that you can understand or admit, I don’t think any explanation from a random “city person” on the internet is going to convince you.