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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The amount of money they get for signing on is so staggeringly huge, it is one of the drivers of the high inflation they are having.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aldi is two different companies, North and South. One owns Aldi America, the other bought Trader Jones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

All that's going to do is make people create fake social media accounts that are scrubbed of anything that might offend the regime.

Or, you know, make the students and scholars go somewhere else.

I accept that countries need latitude in determining whom they want coming in, but it's a really bad look for the Land of the Free to get upset over a post mildly critical of a public figure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

That's been happening for a long while, now. Years ago, you could get different prices on Amazon if you went with a private browsing session. Granted, the barrage of trackers online makes this a lot easier to dial in for corporations.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the rub: They are precisely the ones that lost the funding.

On Tuesday, the Trevor Project, a LGBTQ suicide prevention nonprofit that contracts with Health and Human Services to respond to the calls, received a stop-work order, effective July 17.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I personally was forced to pack up all my most important things and told I had to be ready to flee an approaching wildfire within 20 minutes. We were lucky and they stopped it before it crossed the highway, but I've been very preachy about climate change since.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And this is just the beginning. Mitigating climate change consequences is going to be one heck of an expense category from now on.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tulsi Gabbard started life as a Democrat. I am assuming they are going to kick her to the curb because she was a "crypto-Marxist" or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Americans have so much of their wealth sunk in their real estate / home that they eye any change with deep suspicion and an eye on how it affects their home value. Surely, a 5 story building next to your ranch home is going to lower your home value, so it must not happen.

I think this is a dilemma that everybody in the Bay Area faces: you can universally agree that more housing and especially more dense housing needs to be built, but you can't allow it to be built near you because that drags your home value down. Even just a 5% drop in value may be all the equity you built if you are a recent buyer.

I guess a compromise might be to give people near these new buildings a property tax rebate as counterbalance. Also, instead of mandating parking, maybe you mandate that people moving into spaces designed to be near public transit not register cars there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Very good questions. I think the primary is that some form of workout is very important to your overall health, and you should just pick which type of workout works for you in the long run.

It doesn't really matter if you get a home gym, or go to parks, or to a gym, as long as you are consistent and have fun. For many people, the gym is intimidating, they might be better off with a home gym. I find the place semi-social, which means I get distracted by people watching, but don't have to chat with anyone. Works for me.

The key, I think, is to shift from "I can do all of that at home" to "I will do all of that at home." An insane number of home treadmills and exercise bikes collect dust because the mind is willing, but the flesh lazy. I love the distraction, others love the camaraderie or the friendships you make at a gym. They push you to go even when you don't feel like it, and that's the important part.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I am not so sure this is unintentional. Mesa County is the very strange place that brought us Lauren Boebert and Tina Peters. Their respective Wikipedia pages are astounding.

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