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Whooping Crabs posted:hell yeah I remember stuff like that
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Uranium prices have been majorly depressed since the mid nineties because of warhead recycling.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC there's still bits of Australia so naturally radioactive it's not safe to spend too long there. Unlike the rest of Australia which is super safe?
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My generics story: when I was 8 or 9, those generic brands with the white packaging were big in the grocery stores around us. My elementary school had a bake sale fundraiser, and I begged my mom to make a “generic” cake, frosted completely white with “CAKE” written in black frosting in that exact font. I thought it was the cleverest thing ever. No one got the joke. I think they just thought I was special.
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Feb 13, 2021 15:40
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letthereberock posted:My generics story: when I was 8 or 9, those generic brands with the white packaging were big in the grocery stores around us. My elementary school had a bake sale fundraiser, and I begged my mom to make a “generic” cake, frosted completely white with “CAKE” written in black frosting in that exact font. I thought it was the cleverest thing ever. I modestly chuckled.
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Feb 13, 2021 15:50
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letthereberock posted:No one got the joke. I think they just thought I was special. I was amused. I poked around a bit and it looks as though lots of stores/companies did the GENERIC LABEL thing in the late 70s and early 80s
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Feb 13, 2021 22:19
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letthereberock posted:My generics story: when I was 8 or 9, those generic brands with the white packaging were big in the grocery stores around us. My elementary school had a bake sale fundraiser, and I begged my mom to make a “generic” cake, frosted completely white with “CAKE” written in black frosting in that exact font. I thought it was the cleverest thing ever. thsi is so disappointing to me, as a child who would have laughed my rear end off even not knowing the context from the grocery store
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Feb 13, 2021 22:51
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as a kid who got endless giggles out of decorating sugar cookies with things like frowny faces and the word "crap", a cake labeled "cake" would have probably been too subtle for me
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https://twitter.com/supernovaxox/status/1361827908541509632 Really hope this tanks this company.
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Feb 17, 2021 13:53
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Anora posted:https://twitter.com/supernovaxox/status/1361827908541509632 Fred Meyer is Kroger so they're not going anywhere anytime soon.
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Feb 17, 2021 14:12
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Anora posted:https://twitter.com/supernovaxox/status/1361827908541509632 I heard ~20 years ago, that this happens because there was a lawsuit from some people who dumpster dived food from a Safeway dumpster, and got sick. You can thank America for being America.
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Feb 17, 2021 14:16
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The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act has been law since 1996, basically saying that as long as they donate food in good faith then they are not liable at all. This is just a lovely excuse that companies don't want to spend any employee time actually gathering up and taking stuff to organizations who can use it.
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Feb 17, 2021 14:18
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Iron Crowned posted:I heard ~20 years ago, that this happens because there was a lawsuit from some people who dumpster dived food from a Safeway dumpster, and got sick. You can thank America for being America. The real reason is that they don't want homeless people to congregate around their building.
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Feb 17, 2021 15:12
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If they made donating food a tax deduction then almost immediately every grocery store would have someone coming by every week to pick up expired stuff.
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I would love to boycott places that allow non-maskers to shop but the only place around here that does so is Costco and I don't always need giant containers of food. Edit: Looks like even Costco allows face shields, which are useless. Admiral Joeslop has a new favorite as of 15:25 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 15:22
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Garrand posted:Fred Meyer is Kroger so they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Which is weird as the Kroger by my house absolutely requires masks
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Feb 17, 2021 15:24
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The real reason is that they don't want homeless people to congregate around their building. This is exactly it. Living in New York City, it's depressing how often tourists will see a homeless man outside a McDonald's, then march in yelling for a manager because they were forced to look at him.
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Feb 17, 2021 15:25
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Garrand posted:The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act has been law since 1996, basically saying that as long as they donate food in good faith then they are not liable at all. This is just a lovely excuse that companies don't want to spend any employee time actually gathering up and taking stuff to organizations who can use it. They don't have to drop it off, the food shelves come pick it up. All they have to do is not throw it away in the first place and cart stuff like expiring meat into their freezer. It isn't even more work than carting stuff to the dumpster. Employees are already being paid to "gather up" the food whether the company donates it or dumps it. Even Walmart understand this.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Which is weird as the Kroger by my house absolutely requires masks Look, places "require" masks, but do you really expect the poor guy who's stocking shelves to enforce that, they're being paid $10/hr to work in the hell zone.
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Feb 17, 2021 15:34
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Iron Crowned posted:Look, places "require" masks, but do you really expect the poor guy who's stocking shelves to enforce that, they're being paid $10/hr to work in the hell zone. My Kroger has a cop in the building, at least for the morning. He hangs out by the self checkout machines I think that’s more because they keep getting robbed but it when I go in everyone is fully masked up
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Feb 17, 2021 15:37
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I would love to boycott places that allow non-maskers to shop but the only place around here that does so is Costco and I don't always need giant containers of food. It seems to depend on local city governments. I was down in Atlanta for some stuff last week and was really surprised at how vigilant all the businesses were compared to the suburbs 30 minutes away. Clerks were confronting shoppers about masks and we even got a mandatory safety lecture by a doorman at one shop. The shop that sells bongs somehow had the most comprehensive safety protocols I've seen in 11 months of this pandemic. At this stage we should be grateful as many people wear masks as they do since it's 100% voluntary with zero repercussions in most areas.
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Feb 17, 2021 15:47
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Krispy Wafer posted:At this stage we should be grateful as many people wear masks as they do since it's 100% voluntary with zero repercussions in most areas. I live in Ohio, and there are plenty of signs posting that masks (and PA announcements) are required by mandate, but once you get past the greeter, the masks come off for plenty of people. There's just no enforcement, and cops are only there to protect capital (mask compliance doesn't threaten capital at this time), no one actually cares.
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Feb 17, 2021 15:52
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Haven't seen anyone in public unmasked since April. I don't know how people don't go insane in parts of the country where going unmasked is common.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:This is exactly it. Living in New York City, it's depressing how often tourists will see a homeless man outside a McDonald's, then march in yelling for a manager because they were forced to look at him. One of my most abiding memories of travelling through Washington D.C. as a kid was the sheer number of people sleeping rough. Apparently it's the worst in the US and I can't say that surprises me. I have a really vivid memory of someone homeless just walking into a McDonalds and taking armfuls of little ketchup packets and just wandering back outside.
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Feb 17, 2021 15:59
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MisterOblivious posted:They don't have to drop it off, the food shelves come pick it up. All they have to do is not throw it away in the first place and cart stuff like expiring meat into their freezer. It isn't even more work than carting stuff to the dumpster. Employees are already being paid to "gather up" the food whether the company donates it or dumps it. Even Walmart understand this. I used to work at a pizza hut that had a full buffet and every day someone from a shelter would stop by to pick up a large plastic bin full of buffet food that would normally be thrown out. They would drop off a clean bin for us to use each time, too. Worked out pretty well and took no additional time to prepare or hand out to the shelter employees.
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Jeza posted:One of my most abiding memories of travelling through Washington D.C. as a kid was the sheer number of people sleeping rough. Apparently it's the worst in the US and I can't say that surprises me. I have a really vivid memory of someone homeless just walking into a McDonalds and taking armfuls of little ketchup packets and just wandering back outside. At some point rather than trying to find a good solution to it, places just made being homeless illegal. America is a company that is circling the drain.
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there are days when I'd gladly accept the risk of being shot to tell somebody to put the loving mask on because i got depression and don't always value my life, but if i actually tried to make a customer put a mask on I'd be fired for arguing with a customer, so lol
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Iron Crowned posted:I live in Ohio, and there are plenty of signs posting that masks (and PA announcements) are required by mandate, but once you get past the greeter, the masks come off for plenty of people. There's just no enforcement, and cops are only there to protect capital (mask compliance doesn't threaten capital at this time), no one actually cares. There's a gas station a few doors down I refuse to go to because the workers don't wear masks. The cops that should enforce the mask mandate are the same cops that meet up there several times a day to eat their donuts indoors while indoor dining is banned.
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Feb 17, 2021 16:03
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Iron Crowned posted:At some point rather than trying to find a good solution to it, places just made being homeless illegal. As well as creating an entire type of architecture meant to keep homeless people from getting a good night's sleep.
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Feb 17, 2021 16:14
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I've seen several boomers go full Karen on the manager demanding they throw maskless customers out of the store and enforce strict social distancing inside. It's weird to observe in the wild.
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Soylent Pudding posted:I've seen several boomers go full Karen on the manager demanding they throw maskless customers out of the store and enforce strict social distancing inside. It's weird to observe in the wild.
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Iron Crowned posted:I live in Ohio, and there are plenty of signs posting that masks (and PA announcements) are required by mandate, but once you get past the greeter, the masks come off for plenty of people. There's just no enforcement, and cops are only there to protect capital (mask compliance doesn't threaten capital at this time), no one actually cares. Yeah, that's the thing I see a lot when I go grocery shopping. Someone at the door who enforces wearing mask but once a person is inside they just take off the mask and nobody does anything about it.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Those people are cool and they are not Karens IMO
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muscles like this! posted:Yeah, that's the thing I see a lot when I go grocery shopping. Someone at the door who enforces wearing mask but once a person is inside they just take off the mask and nobody does anything about it. You have no idea how many times I've seen people just strolling around without masks drinking Starbucks, or talking on phones. Not to mention the number of people who just take their masks off to cough and/or sneeze 
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InediblePenguin posted:when they do it to a regular cashier who isn't a manager and has no authority they are terrible and bad, though
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My uncle is running a worksite in Texas and he had two old ladies working at a liquor store mock him for wearing a mask. He's one of the most non-confrontational guys so he lied and said he works at a hospital.
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It is kind of odd. Go into most places and mask wearing is about 90+%. Go into a gas station and it's like 20%. I get the willies every time I step into a QuickTrip these days. My brother may have gotten COVID-19 on Monday working a funeral. Rules are 50 people max, but he estimates there were 150 there that day. Lots of people in close quarters oozing bodily fluids from their eye holes while hugging one another. Like a coronavirus gangbang. Jeza posted:One of my most abiding memories of travelling through Washington D.C. as a kid was the sheer number of people sleeping rough. Apparently it's the worst in the US and I can't say that surprises me. I have a really vivid memory of someone homeless just walking into a McDonalds and taking armfuls of little ketchup packets and just wandering back outside. D.C. is bananas with homeless people. I've never seen that many in such a small space. I generally give to panhandlers, but there's no way to even get your mind around passing that many desperate people on a simple mile long walk. And it's our seat of government and probably one of the richest areas of the country when you include Northern Virginia, so sure...makes complete sense that they can't figure this poo poo out.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Those people are cool and they are not Karens IMO They are Karens, it is just that they are being pushy about a subject which you personally agree with.
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silence_kit posted:They are Karens, it is just that they are being pushy about a subject which you personally agree with. Exception: InediblePenguin posted:when they do it to a regular cashier who isn't a manager and has no authority they are terrible and bad, though
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