nice. i love paying more for things for no reason. i love rich people and dont think they ruined the planet and should all be killed. why would anyone think that?
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god i miss shoplifting
why'd you have to stop
Walmart uses fave tracking software to track your shoplifting and they’ll wait to prosecute until the total amount sums up to felony amount. Can get kinda risky
That's so fucking evil, intentionally not giving the "shoplifter" a warning or threat, but waiting until they've stolen just enough potatoes so that it can get them serious trouble. The same fucking corporations that daily throw away an unimaginable amount of food because it wasn't profitable enough to sell at a reasonable price.
I know target has been doing that for years, when did Walmart start?
that was a small part of it but as a proud member of n95 gang i don't really have to worry as much about face tracking (i think??). i did always cover my tattoos and such before shoplifting for similar reasons though.
There are also non facial ID methods (such as gait recognition), but I don't know if they are in use.
yeah i was vaguely aware that was a thing but similarly never knew if it was a real factor. just like i can't say for sure how helpful a mask really is, though i have to assume it works to some extent. "thankfully" i actually have a p bad limp that comes and goes and affecting it to various degrees was part of my method (just in case). sort of a sidebar but i remember one of the big things i was excited for during the early days of my transition was the idea that it might help obfuscate my identity a bit
anyway stealing can honestly be kind of a lot of work! can't beat the savings though 
plus it's just a lot of fun.
unfortunately as a trans women the costs of getting caught now are sort of unacceptably high so that's another huge reason i ultimately stopped 
face tracking?
few reasons. the big stores near me started cracking down hard - cops constantly posted up outside, associates hovering around the self-checkout areas like hawks, the scanners themselves getting hyper-sensitive to even the appearance of stealing, etc. i also stopped buying semi-expensive stuff (bread etc) so it was less worth it per individual item.
i also started shopping more at some of the local asian markets and stuff and they don't usually have self-checkouts + for the ones that do it feels pretty icky (as a white person) to be stealing from them.
yeah same. my shoplifting was completely halted when i moved to an area that has security guards patrolling the dollar store and cops in the grocer and pharmacy. incredibly fucking hostile.
they're all already suspicious of me for wearing a mask too so it's definitely not worth trying my luck anymore 
it genuinely sucks so much ass. my favorite part is that other than guarding walmart like it's fort knox the cops in my city seem to do sweet fuck all. not that i'm complaining, but it's a bit 
that it seems to be their main gig
and yeah masking is absolutely a double-edged sword, since it's all but guaranteed to draw undue attention. love it here 
semi-expensive stuff (bread etc)
haha
noooo we're (presumably) in the same boat, you know gf bread is fuckin' outrageously expensive
Mmmmm... girlfriend bread
that is actually what we call it in my household
I want to grow vegetables.
I live in the woods and get only a few hours of direct sunlight a day.
🙃
Most root vegetables and leafy greens will grow in shady areas, they just generally won't get as big as if they were in full sun.
A lot of greens will grow in conditions like this
Grow mushrooms. Amazing nutrition, amazing flavor, and you can incrementally invest in them since inoculated logs last for several years. You can build a pretty solid yield over a few years with inoculated logs and by the time you're that deep into it you'll be experimenting with pulp growing and hanging bags and tons of varieties.
Doesn't meant nothing will grow, either the stuff will develop slower, or be smaller when its ready to harvest. Soil temperature and moisture content are probably a bit higher on the things to pay attention to in shaded areas than the amount of direct sunlight.
The victorian government (au) finally introduced a 10c rebate for cans and bottles in 2024, when the buying power of 10c is essentially nothing, I don't know if i could even get a head of broccoli for under $3, an can of beans is $2.99
in the early 2010s there were riots in Brazil when bus fairs were increased by something like 30c, I cant stop thinking about it. The price of a metro ticket in vic goes up more than that every year. I look around at everything chugging a long as normal. I hate living in the colonies.
Anyway, here's something I read the other day, in an anti American Colonization Society pamphlet:
men are like trees: they delight in a rude [and native] soil—they strike their roots downward with a perpetual effort, and heave their proud branches upward in perpetual strife. Are they to be removed?—you must tear up the very earth with their roots, rock and ore and impurity, or they perish. They cannot be translated with safety. Something of their home—a little of their native soil, must cling to them forever, or they die.'
I've had too much coffee ,I'm going offline so I get something (ANYTHING) done today
Ahhahaha
We don't need to do millions of surveys, and even if we did by the time we tabulated the results they would be obsolete!
I'm do glad we have the free marked to efficiently and automatically intuit the right decisions for everyone based off of market forces, no surveys required!
That's why it's good that your food is twice as expensive as a year ago
