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The last bookstore/dvd & video game rental place in my town of 80,000 (a Hastings, I don't know if the entire chain died or not) finally shut down a few months ago. Now you have no choice but Amazon or a drive to the Barnes & Noble an hour away if you want to buy a book that isn't a Christian romance novel (there's still a Christian bookstore)
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I feel like there's a lot of qualitative difference between deciding you're going to be a rodeo bullrider and then having a bull do exactly what you chose to make the bull do on purpose, vs being a teenager taking a summer job at a theme park and then getting surprise-eaten by an orca?
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Jan 29, 2017 23:36
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Professor Shark posted:I refuse to use self checkouts and it angers me to see people using them when cashiers sit idle my local Walmart is a "Family Market" so it's more like a grocery store than a real Walmart, and they just don't have cashiers. There are no cashiers sitting idle. There are four self-checkouts and eight lanes for cashiers, but what they actually do is have one cashier lane lit up as if it's open, and then the "cashier"'s actual job is apparently restocking the grocery aisles, because if you get there in between other customers you have to wait for the cashier to come check and notice you're there. If there's a long line of customers at the single open aisle, tough poo poo, they do not open another one because they already unemployed all possible cashiers. If there's consistenly a long line of customers at the single open aisle, tough poo poo, they cannot hire another cashier because the corporate office is in charge of available hours and the store isn't given enough. The store can't even theoretically prove it's busy enough to warrant spending more on cashiers, because it's basically capped its maximum earnings by capping its flowthrough rate by having one absent cashier and four self-checks. The "moral" thing to do, in all cases, would be to not shop at Walmart at all, but that's not actually feasible for a lot of people because folks aren't just going for the lowest prices out of being cheapskates, but because a huge percentage of Americans are already so poor that food insecurity has set in because it's hard to buy groceries when you don't make enough to cover rent. The problem isn't individual consumer behavior, it's capitalism as a system
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Mar 20, 2017 07:33
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financially racist posted:this is new york's capital district in a nutshell. except while we did lose a couple malls (latham circle, clifton country and saratoga), there are still a LOT of malls in pretty close proximity and they are all doing well. it's weird. Colonie Center seems to be dying, propped up by the Christmas Tree Shop. Crossgates is doing pretty well, though.
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Jul 17, 2017 19:51
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Raldikuk posted:I've used those automated machines at walmart for at least a dozen set of keys and have never had a problem. The only thing I've been burned on is the first time it asked me if I want to do a 3 for deal and I thought I could choose a different key. But all 3 of those worked albeit 2 weren't useful. Duplicators just trace the existing key, so if the key is worn down from use the duplicate will replicate that and may, therefore, not actually work in the lock (besides which it will wear down wicked fast since it's starting out half worn down already). A good keycut will involve reading the sequence of the key (or look it up in a code book, that's what car dealerships do, for instance, there's a code tied to the vin, but if you have some experience in cutting keys you can read the sequence with your eyes pretty reliably) and cutting a new one to the original specs. If your original key is in good shape the Wal-Mart one is fine
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Sep 30, 2018 17:24
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Don Gato posted:Fixed. I've worked food service for far too much of my life, and in both high end and low end restaurants it's loving rear end. The only upside was I got food occasionally. Food assistance, as in assistance from the government to buy food. Not food service.
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Dec 1, 2018 13:22
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YggiDee posted:Back around 2007 LiveJournal decided that it would be a great idea to suspend around five hundred blogs and communities for objectional content. This included people interested in BDSM, fandom blogs, and book discussion blogs.
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Dec 5, 2018 18:54
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Sprite is a citrus soda, so grape Sprite is just grape + lemon, which was also the secret of the famous 1980s/90s Kool-Aid flavor Purplesaurus Rex, which as we all know was the best Kool-Aid flavor of all time, therefore good job op
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Dec 14, 2018 23:09
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rndmnmbr posted:But then there's very little in the middle
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Jan 18, 2019 00:59
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Will it kill you or get you hosed up?
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Mar 10, 2019 16:43
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Coal miners are manly men and regardless of the actual demographics of the service industry, the popular and especially the chud perception of retail work is that it is for children and women, gosh I wonder why the chuds care so much more about coal mining jobs than the destruction of retail work
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Apr 18, 2019 17:14
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"female presenting nipples" was literally the phrasing Tumblr used in their post listing things that they considered NSFW
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May 4, 2019 14:29
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value-brand cereal posted:They very well might be continuing to try and do this, especially considering they changed the default site colors to eye straining, migraine inducing neons
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May 5, 2019 17:39
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Strategic Tea posted:And the owners of noted for profit business Barnes and Noble are what, second against the wall? You people hate everyone Do you think people genuinely only dislike predatory equity groups like that because those people genuinely feel a personal human affection for the companies being preyed upon or do you think that perhaps people might think that those predatory equity groups are just bad in principle
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Jun 7, 2019 22:55
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butt dickus posted:It is beef, but it comes from the cow "gender" as opposed to steer, bull, heifer, etc. The real lie is saying "never frozen," because USDA considers 26° F not frozen. Heifers are female
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Jul 25, 2019 22:43
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Are you telling me that even salt-of-the-earth American farmers know that there are more than just two genders
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Jul 27, 2019 12:47
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In America the only responsibility of company has its to its shareholders so it's actually better and more responsible for them to just fire all their employees with no notice, since they don't owe any loyalty whatsoever to their employees and the employees cost their shareholders money by demanding things like wages
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Aug 21, 2019 17:30
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MarcusSA posted:Or maybe you could explain what is wrong about my statement? It’s difficult to have a reasonable debate I know. hey just fyi i see this a lot but "i'm not putting most or even all of the blame on the employee" is a stupid loving sentence. "i'm not putting most of the blame on the employee! i'm not even putting ALL of it on them!" is stupid. it goes the other way around. you say "not [bigger thing], or even [smaller thing]".
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Aug 22, 2019 23:05
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If there's anybody else reading this thread who's about to chime in with it "hi I'm a cool dude and I don't care about trans people either" well bless your loving little heart now please take your finger guns and roll on out without posting your dipshit opinions
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Sep 27, 2019 12:18
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cash crab posted:derails about trans people never end well, up to and including smoothbrains declaring that they are cool because they don't care and every other person dogpiling them after This is actually a derail about transphobia, not a derail about trans people, which is phrasing which makes it sound as if it's the existence of trans people that is actually the problem in the thread. I think that's messed up and am willing to accept whatever probation you want to throw at me for pointing this out to you.
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Sep 27, 2019 17:18
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I'm sorry you feel that way because as a trans person I do feel like you're saying that trans existence in this thread is the true source of the problem because if we trans people just wouldn't exist in public then no transphobes would ever talk about us and you wouldn't have this problem. Later!
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Sep 27, 2019 18:00
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silence_kit posted:Lol your persecution complex is showing. It’s pretty wild how you warped cash crabs post into being anti-trans. i thought this conversation was over
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Sep 27, 2019 22:28
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Mustached Demon posted:The smell of trans fats. excuse you, i smell better than that
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Oct 5, 2019 18:21
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just boil a huge pot of beans and rice once a month and eat LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE ALL MONTH -- poors can't afford to object to that, desiring anything more than the minimum necessary for survival or any form of novelty etc is immoral for a poor, know your place 
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Oct 8, 2019 18:34
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bob dobbs is dead posted:the most diverse place on earth is queens. next is brooklyn, I think. only in cities is actual coherent diversity and the possibility of not being racist a thing. the ancient native americans were great only inasmuch as they made great cities,
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Oct 11, 2019 11:52
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Lambert posted:People living in tribes sounds like a high population density situation to me, not a great counter-argument. ..... what how big do you think these tribes are and how small their territory
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Oct 14, 2019 17:25
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Traces of Death was the series that had a lot of actual snuff and gore. I still can't believe I was allowed to rent that at like thirteen years old. Faces not traces
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Oct 17, 2019 17:30
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drat, i stand corrected, i had only ever heard of the one!
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Oct 17, 2019 18:07
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Silly Newbie posted:
don't they rent Christian edits for small-town fundies
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Oct 18, 2019 02:57
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what was the place that rented Christian edits then? or was it a netflix clone
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Oct 19, 2019 02:13
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Dannywilson posted:Also add in what happened to WA when they legalized, poo poo started out at like $25/g because it was following black market pricing+tax, and is now less than $7/g because the market stabilized. lol NY and Massachusetts are discussing legislating price minimums "to prevent availability leading to increased use" aka "to prevent any future loss of tax money" (e: the former is a legit concept but lol if i believe it's the government's true motivation)
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Oct 21, 2019 11:41
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I mean a sin tax is one thing but this is "20% tax AND ALSO btw we're going to tell you how much to sell for so we can be sure that 20% is a big enough dollar amount"
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Oct 21, 2019 15:11
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vyst posted:You are certainly a more effective ally than I am if you don't.
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Nov 1, 2019 17:34
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Here's a couple protips. Marinate some chicken in pickle juice and buy waffle cut fries to make at home. There you go, now you don't have to go to Chick-fil-A and you don't have to post about how you truly do support gay rights and you feel very bad about this but their food is just so good. Now you can make it yourself.
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Nov 1, 2019 19:41
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like if you eat at chik fil a once in a while and you're posting desperately about it and arguing about how it's fine and good and you deserve absolution for it and poo poo -- why. if you don't actually care about whether the restaurant does a bad thing why are you trying to argue strangers on the internet into giving you a "still a good ally!" sticker to look at while you're at the chicken restaurant
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Nov 2, 2019 11:04
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SimplyCosmic posted:Many big retailers are have paid for the majority of their employees to stay at home for a month.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:My favorite record store closed today, speaking of music and dying industries. It was kind of just a matter of time now that everything is digital and it’s in a stupid expensive town for storefronts (gotta love New Paltz) but it still stings. Just like what I was saying with video rental places, there’s something to zoning out and flipping through music idly to have you stumble on some great stuff.
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May 2, 2020 17:20
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more like compostable income... getting paid poo poo! 
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Volcott posted:I might intentionally be missing the forest for the trees here, but you can have additional notches added to a belt at a lot of cobblers/shoe repair places. tbh if your pants are 6 inches too big for your waist cinching with a belt keeps them from falling but still leaves you with all the extra fabric bunched up at your waist like you're a clown wearing big booty clown pants with a pleat front from 1987, sadly. it's kind of demoralizing if you care at all about how you look
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