I think it depends on their form of retail therapy. My most recent "luxury" purchases (aside from vet bills and car repairs) have been a brand new vacuum cleaner to replace my really sucky old one, and a dremel so that I can complete four projects without ruining my hands. Both purchases gave me a retail-therapy high - but being able to quickly and easily complete those projects and put everything away, and finally having a clean house, are both giving me an even longer-lasting high, when I can walk around without feeling the grime in the carpet, and I can walk into the dining area and not immediately be confronted by a table of "oh, yeah, I really need to finish those, shit".
Did I absolutely need the vacuum or the dremel? Nope, their purchase was retail therapy, I definitely did it for the high. But I justified the purchases by saying they'd be good for me - and they have been.
The attack on foreign nationals took place in Bamyan province of Afghanistan. Some foreigners visit the site with the remnants of massive Buddhist statues mostly destroyed by the Taliban in 2001....
Oh, they're being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling "gold" (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can't give is the old-style reddit "gold" (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.
I like the idea, but there doesn't seem a way for a pod to temporarily move into the other track, which raises questions. Like, how do they handle rebalancing the pods? Ideally, you want a free one at each station for the next person who comes along, but if you come into a station with pods already there, do you have to get out and move to the first pod? Or when you leave your station, do all the pods on the line automatically move one station up the line, making a new pod available for the next person and leaving you a smooth trip to your destination (but limiting energy savings)? Do the pods have to cycle all the way to the end of the line to turn around (again, energy inefficient if most of the traffic is between a lesser number of stations)?
I like the idea, I really do! I'm just curious how they handle balancing availability and traffic.
Flows from the pier to ... an area controlled by the Israeli military. The same military that's been refusing to let aid trucks through checkpoints, that let Israelis loot and burn aid trucks, that deliberately and repeatedly targeted aid trucks and murdered aid workers. I'm sure this will all be just fine.
When this was originally posted, someone noted that the job listing had been pulled, and suggested that the person entering it into the database had accidentally selected the wrong pay field.
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
lmao. I worked at FDA for about a decade, was one of the main programmers for their system that tracks approval of biologics, as well as the system that tracks and handles approvals of individual biological lots. And then the MAGAts started making up bullshit conspiracy stuff about how biologics are developed and approved ... :/
the aid trucks will be unloaded on the shore in an area secured by Israeli forces [...] Israeli forces will be in charge of security on the shore
Right ... those same Israeli forces that have refused to let aid trucks into Gaza, have refused to let aid trucks move through Gaza, who have let Israelis loot burn and destroy aid trucks, who have deliberately and repeatedly targeted aid trucks and aid workers, repeatedly killing them? Those Israeli forces? I'm sure this'll be fine ...
In response to customers' complaints about its security measures, Loblaw, Canada's largest grocer, has repeatedly said that organized crime is to blame. "This surge in organized retail crime remains a significant problem for the retail industry," said Loblaw CFO Richard Dufresne during a conference call in late 2023.
Didn't they find that there hadn't been a surge in retail theft, that the "report" it was based on combined every source of shrink - including employee theft, retail theft, writing off stuff that spoiled in the store whether due to improper storage or inability to sell, writing off stuff that the managers over-ordered or mis-ordered, stuff that was exposed to mice and rats, etc etc etc. And that basically the "surge in retail theft" was actually just a cover to make managers feel better about mis-managing their stores?
Last year, the U.S. National Retail Federation initially reported a startling statistic: Organized retail crime accounted for nearly half of the estimated $94.5 billion US that retailers lost due to missing merchandise in 2021. However, the industry group retracted the claim eight months later, after it was revealed that the report was based on erroneous data.
Ah, yes, there it is. Funny how the corpos are still leaning hard on their discredited "report".
What kinds of olives have you had? Have they been those cheap canned olives that sit on shelves for years? Then yeah, they're not great, more and at giving an olive flavor to dishes. If you've had fresh olives, those can be amazing. That said, black and green olives taste different and you may have a preference between the two (like some people prefer red or green apples), and there are a bunch of different varieties as well.
My brother-in-law always "hated olives", and then he came over for a party where we had set up an olive bar, which he vehemently and repeatedly declined. But we were hanging around afterward and, as you do when you're not really thinking and there's food hanging around, he absently ate one. He then made his way down the entire bar - I think we had like 20 different types (some were stuffed). Now he gets pouty if we have a party and there aren't any olives, lol!
Brain-machine interfaces implanted in the participants of this study in the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and primary somatosensory cortex (S1) were successfully able to decode both internally spoken and vocalized words....
This pairs nicely with the thread immediately above it in my feed, something to the effect of TIL some people don't have an internal voice in their head.
There have been decades of tensions on the archipelago between Indigenous Kanaks seeking independence and descendants of colonizers who want to remain part of France. [...] The unrest started on Monday with a protest over France’s efforts to expand voter lists that would benefit pro-France politicians on New Caledonia and further marginalize the Kanak people, who once suffered from strict segregation policies and widespread discrimination.
May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....
A letter sent earlier this month by a Tesla global-supply manager to Supercharger contractors and suppliers instructed them to [...] halt materials purchases [...] “I understand that this period of change may be challenging, and that patience is not easy when expecting to be paid!”
Why are Americans spending so much? (www.vox.com)
What vegetables and fruits do you wish were commonly available in the US?
Afghanistan: Three Spanish tourists killed in shootout (www.dw.com)
The attack on foreign nationals took place in Bamyan province of Afghanistan. Some foreigners visit the site with the remnants of massive Buddhist statues mostly destroyed by the Taliban in 2001....
Murder- Edvard Munch (1906) Norway🇳🇴 (upload.wikimedia.org)
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)
Aid for Gaza will soon flow from pier project just finished by US military, Pentagon says (apnews.com)
Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores (lemmy.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21284770...
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
Bridgeport Police Asking for Public Help in Identifying Women being Sought for Shoplifting Incident at Mall (www.connect-bridgeport.com)
#bridgeport #restore #disaster #storm
The incomprehensible, unattainable scale of Trump’s deportation plan | The former president has said he will send nearly 5 percent of U.S. residents out of the country if he is reelected. (wapo.st)
Customers are fed up with anti-theft measures at stores. Retailers say organized crime is to blame (www.cbc.ca)
Susan Dennison recently had an unsettling experience at her local grocery store, a Loblaw-owned Fortinos in Burlington, Ont....
What year is it?! (lemmy.world)
Sovcit rebukes the demons. (lemmy.world)
Do you like olives?
I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross....
Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’ (www.nature.com)
Brain-machine interfaces implanted in the participants of this study in the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and primary somatosensory cortex (S1) were successfully able to decode both internally spoken and vocalized words....
French president is considering imposing a state of emergency in the territory of New Caledonia (apnews.com)
At private donor event, Haley thanks supporters and ignores Trump (www.politico.com)
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (www.reuters.com)
May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....
Evacuations with cars are a bottleneck (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15424245...
‘No water, food, health care, toilet’: Desperation deepens in Gaza’s camps (www.theguardian.com)
Hundreds of new shelters set up near Khan Younis as Palestinians flee fighting in Rafah...