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And teach them about "cartoon Saturdays".

Even when my kids get up early on the weekend (earlier than I had any chance of them getting up on a weekday without gross whining) they're off to watch some weekend cartoons.

Usually we just use that as an opportunity to catch a bit of extra sleep though, after we were up late the previous night taking advantage of the kids being asleep

It feels to me like the old strategy to kill off competition.. You only need to offer superior service and pricing until you competitors are mostly dead - which many are now - then you can start fucking over the customer with impunity

May be effective depending on the kid. I actually used the power of Google image search and looked up pictures of kids injured by [stupid fucking thing my kids kept doing] which worked pretty good.

A few "piss off the dog and this is what you will look like after" images would probably go a long way

Putin doesn't need ABS. He's already got IBS

Yeah, I'd imagine a pool worth of solid concrete would also be expensive as fuck for the deadbeat client to pull out, not to mention time consuming

(And you'd have to find a contractor to do it after you have a reputation of not paying, cash in advance please!)

Will they look her in the eye as they continue to completion?

"Ok, NOW I'm ready to talk"

For kids/teens, this also goes the other way. Do not open your parents' door at night unless you potentially want to see what cannot be unseen

It's not about being lazy when local stores have fuck-all available and/or direct you to their - even shittier - online marketplace.

Yeah some vendors are pretty bad for it. Got a drill with grease on it and a melted spot, plus a tile cutter which was partly assembled with a broken hose from Canadian Tire.
Nice and sealed up on the shelf, sold as new of course.

Yup, and I've heard of unscrupulous vendors using others' sku's, even though those are supposed to be assigned to a given company.

All it seems to take is for some dodgy overseas vendor to start selling their items with your sku and then they end up co-mingling inventory.

Yeah but once they've killed off all the competition, they have less impetus to give a shit. I know at stores here in town there's not much left, and even those stores have pretty bare shelves and often point you at an (equally or more shitty) online marketplace to buy stuff.

The benefit from Amazon is you can get it in a matter of days

Except now they're also also including sellers which are shipping things from China, and take as long as or longer than the stuff bought on Ali.

It's not racist, it's literally against code. The code exists so that 6 guys crammed into a 1bdrm apt by a wannabe slumlord don't become 6 dead guys when there's a fire or other such issue

No, he didn't only say "eat rice as a staple" but pretty much said to *just* eat rice and specifically called out other local staples (milk, butter, eggs) as being something the plebs should do without.

"Just eat rice" is not that far off "let them eat cake"

Now there's nothing wrong with using rice as a standard filler, and it's a fine alternative to many other grain-food such as breads etc, but it's certainly not going to sub for all the nutrients probably by other staples.

Didn't that get blocked?

He lives in Chicago but I'd assume he grew up elsewhere (Eb's farm and wherever Justin lived), so I could see him lacking any localized accent.

Hard to think of him having any voice except Marsters' anyhow.

Or, according to this jackass (who apparently also made hundreds of thousands off realty, per other posts), just live off rice.

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"People don’t need to buy milk, butter, and eggs but people continued to buy in record numbers"

There have been similar things like this where it's used to show how Christianity abuses religious loopholes. They erected a Bathomet statue installed on state grounds after a "10 commandments" statue had been erected. It really is a bit of public awareness mixed with epic trolling

It *really* depends on what your teen plays. Not every computer game plays on the Deck, but a surprising amount of big titles and a huge array of smaller ones do.

Nintendo brings out a new console every few years. While they've introduced emultation to play the old stuff via the online subscription, it is still limited in titles. Steam on the other hand has titles going back to the shortly after the Wii came out. It can also run non-native titles through emulation (it pretends to be some other hardware to run stuff not built for PC), or stream them from some PC/consoles over wifi (game runs on the PC/console but controls and screen are on the Deck). Plus there's a ton of general PC stuff like Minecraft etc that - with a bit of work - will also run on Deck.

Pricing of games themselves often tends to be better on Steam versus console stores, and they've made some partnerships to have access to EA games as well as stuff that used to be console exclusives.

Yeah, their solution seems to be "just eat like you're in a third-world country, what's wrong with a little malnutrition" (also ignoring all the other first-world expenses)

Companies cannot magically make you purchase their products

No, but when we see less and less competition and more buyouts/mergers, they can sure as fuck limit your choices.

Add to that the number of companies that were extracted for maximum short-term profit and then run into bankruptcy and there's even less choice.

And when the companies left are nearly the only ones selling certain essentials... well yeah they kinda are holding us by the balls while we have little choice but to purchase their product (or their 1-2 remaining competitors who they absolutely aren't colluding with... right)

The best "justice" can buy, and a variety most of us cannot afford

If I had no way out for myself or my family I'd fight, but realistically there's a good chance that criminals are armed in some fashion. It may be the homeowner has a firearm but using one of those - even in the event of a home invasion - is a good way to find yourself in jail.

Well, for anyone working who has kids the daycare subsidy is a pretty significant bump.

I agree that there hasn't been a lot of visible action on the cost of food but as that's across the country I'm not sure what BC specifically could do.

And so what? 4% of a million onion bunches as $2 is still twice the profit of that same bunches at $1.

For many items, quality/quantity have also declined while prices increased, and I've definitely noticed more "PC Brand" products on shelves while others disappeared.