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    Also see: Telegram
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    Idk if I would trust Ben Shapiro's framing on the discourse around Acolyte lol
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    As long as the ad loads, Google gets paid. Even moreso if you click the X because it's proof positive you saw the ad. AdSense survives through MASSIVE scale microtargeted ads, and through being a broker of (your) user data to anyone who's got the budget to pay for it. Damn near every page you visit has AdSense trackers embedded that are reading your cookies and reporting back your browsing history for that session. It really is nuts how much they can completely legally track. It's a good reason to be using adblockers and JavaScript blockers to stop that shit (to an extent at least), and it does measurably improve your web browsing experience with faster pageloads
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    If these entities like Kroger want to engage in monopolistic practices and take over a plurality to majority of the overall market, then yeah they should probably get some extra rules and governance and not just be allowed to extract as much as they can
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    You say that, but there's a scary number of """smart""" people that are fucking insane. A senior VP at a F500 customer of mine went from telling us an anecdote from when he was at Raytheon and had to deal with working in a SCIF, to telling us about this great colloidal silver nasal spray hes been using to stay safe from COVID. Smart people can be really REALLY fucking stupid, dude.
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    Same energy as walking into a liberal coffee house in the big city
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    When there's a number of markets where Kroger is the only option thanks to decades of consolidation, this is a less effective argument. The headline came out of the trial around their proposed merger with Albertsons, which would only intensify that dynamic if they were to merge.
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    That would be bad, even for aggy. From the linked article:
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    Ketamine abuse leads to loss of impulse control, you say?
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    What's her assisted living monthly cost, and do you anticipate her level of care increasing significantly soon? We faced the same decision for my grandmother last year (although her neighborhood near Lamar and Rundberg wouldnt entice the best renters) and decided to sell, because we didn't have enough cash on hand to feel comfortable with rolling the dice on renting and the tenant uncertainty. In a past life my grandma owned a long-gone apartment complex near Airport and Lamar and she had ZERO interest in dealing with that in any sort of way lol. If you've got the flexibility and stomach to wait, then it's really just a question if you think home prices will jump 20% in the next year in her area
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    I would avoid boars head in the future https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bugs-mold-mildew-inspection-boars-head-plant-listeria/ [Laughs in cost cutting]
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    Some extra detail: this was admitted by their senior director of pricing in court under oath yesterday during their Albertsons merger trial https://www.rawstory.com/during-antitrust-trial-exec-admits-kroger-jacked-up-milk-and-egg-prices-above-inflation/ Everyone with a brain: no shit!
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    GAWD you're such a freeloader, working 10 years of public service and making on time payments...
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    Rex/Portahouse is a master baiter, after all
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    I'm excited to check this out, I really enjoyed Jedi Survivor and it'll be fun to have a new open world sandbox to play in. Im always up to blast a few storm troopers
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    Treating the fascists as if they're acting in good faith is a good way to let the fascists get what they want. Canon is actively blocking and tackling for trumpco and further worsening the damage from trump's garage sale of our national secrets.
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    Canon did her job, checks in the mail. It's not a bribe, it's a tip for services! Absolutely wild that he has successfully delayed his trial for SELLING OUR HUMINT AND NUCLEAR SECRETS
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    Non-competes

    Captainant replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan

    Can't be giving hourly workers any sort of ability to push back on shitty bosses, now! It's critical to their business model to force sandwich artists and baristas to sign noncompetes to suppress wages amirite? It's wild how decoupled from reality the judiciary can be sometimes, noncompetes are used for waaaaay more than high level roles with trade secrets. They're regularly abused as a way to take away bargaining power from workers. Can't buck for better wages if you can't get a job anywhere else
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    3D Printing

    Captainant replied to 52-80's topic in Hobbies

    You should check your belt tension, that may help with some of the banding artifacts you're seeing. That's a nice print though! What are you using, a prusa?
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    In the sense of it's a federal crime to do business with a sanctioned individual, it's surprising that a major tech company would risk that heat. Even moreso when he's been cross pollinating Twitter tech with SpaceX, who services a bunch of highly classified NRO missions
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    Some decent legwork on ID'ing who some of mosks twatter investors were... Oops! Oligarchs again! It's surprising that twitter is partly owned by sanctioned individuals
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    I mean, no argument here lol. It has been an interesting development how the rest of the Arab world is mocking the failed attacks, even the allies of hamas.
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    Smh dude my issue is with you and NAL's continued insistence on posters saying or doing things they haven't done. Specifically, NAL accused brisket of advocating for laws that worsen racial inequality. Or your constant accusations of me using social media as an authoritative source. And yet, you and yours just repeat repeat repeat a lie until you believe it yourself. And then get all pissy and avoidant when called out on it (as displayed here) Either way, really great job derailing the discussion y'all. Great job moving the conversation off of the inequal application of state violence towards black citizens. You've always been all stars with that.
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    I browsed /r/guns and /r/firearms and the conversation was decidedly mixed. There were absolutely posts on #bothsides of the issue, everything ranging from thin blue line turds to sovereign citizens libertarian type responses. But that is specifically not the attack that you and NAL leveled against brisket of But I see you've moved your goalposts fatty, so whatever lol. You're not gonna stop making shit up and attacking people for it
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    Did they get the guy who did the Ronaldo statue for elmo? Lol

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