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I have commited the Num-Code for ™ to muscle memory.
Other interests include bicycles, bread making and DIY. I do own a 3D-printer and adore the Nintendo 3ds.
That is literally what I am talking about, though. "you doing more, the store doing less, prices increase anyway" is exactly the same thing as happened 100 years ago.
Stores where customers didn't have access to the back also don't need security cameras, so even that point is 1:1 the same (although that's way later than 1925 then).
We have lost most of the stores where a clerk will collect your items for you, they once were the only option. At this rate, we will lose most of the stores where a clerk will scan the items for you as well. Simply because 1 clerk and 20 cameras is cheaper than 15 clerks.
I'm not saying that you have to like or hate both developments equally, I just wanted to point out that we have had and lost this exact battle before.
"Don't you hate it when you walk into a grocer and they expect you to pick out the items yourself? I don't work here, I just want to say "1 pound of ham and 2 loafs of bread" at the clerk, pay and pick them up. I've been to this new Piggley Wiggly, can't find anything, spent like an hour to find beans. Imagine if I was paid for that time, I would have made 15¢!"
OP in 1925, probably.
Ich hatte dieses Jahr ein Ersatzteil fürs E-bike auf E-bay gekauft. Gab es in Zweierlei Ausführung: 24 und 36 Volt, ich brauche das 24V und bestellte das.
2 Wochen später kommt 36 Volt Teil an. Ich: "Falscher Artikel", die: "Behalten Sie das Teil, hier ist Ihr Geld zurück, bitte keine negative Bewertung". Bestelle bei wem anderen nochmal.
2 Wochen später kommt ein zweites 36 Volt Teil an. Dass die alle aus der selben Lagerhalle verschickt werden und eine falsch sortierte Box alle Anbieter betrifft, wundert einen nun doch nicht. Ich: "Falscher Artikel", die: "Behalten Sie das Teil, wir senden Ihnen Ersatz."
2 Wochen später ist kein Ersatz da. Offiziell sind es aber 6 Wochen Lieferzeit. Auf Verdacht bestelle ich ein Weiteres beim 3ten Anbieter, diesmal aber mit anderem Stecker.
2 Wochen später, Ersatz nicht da, aber das Teil mit anderem Stecker kommt an. 24 Volt, herrlich. Ich wollte eigentlich den Stecker vom 36 Volt Teil dranlöten, aber die Technik ist doch komplett anders. Da Stecker entfernt, kein Geld zurück. Upps. Bestelle, zum 4ten mal dieses Teil.
2 Wochen später, Ersatz immer noch nicht da. Rückgabefrist ist voll ausgenutzt. Ich: "Wo Artikel?", die: "Ähm. Teilweise Rückerstattung?" "Nein" "Wir senden Ersatz nochmal?" "Nein" "Behalten Sie das Teil, hier ist Ihr Geld zurück, bitte keine negative Bewertung."
Kurz darauf kommt das 4te Teil an, Plastikgehäuse sieht etwas anderes aus, ist aber 24 Volt mit der Technik die ich brauche. Noch ist 1 Monat Sommer, Ich bringe es an: fährt nicht, ein komplett anderes Teil ist auch kaputt.
Mal gucken, ob ich noch eine E-bike Tour diesen Monat machen kann. Ersatzteil ist bestellt.
Ah yes, the "it's been 3000 years" guy, genuinely one of the series best moments.
What else was there? The villain? Whack. The champ? Whack. The prof? Whack. The 5 rivals? Whack. I don't think 2 great scenes make a good story, no matter how elaborate the lore.
Thank you for your input, but I won't leave my mountain to fight you on your hill.
Well, same back to you. I never doubted you having that experience, but I asked if it's normal.
Your own source says it's only 12.8% of the US living in such areas. So it's safe to assume that OP would also be interested in the cheaper recipes that involve mostly produce. Your life experience isn't universal either.
Every supermarket I ever went to had a vegetable aisle and potato sacks for a few €. Variety in produce may be low, but that's what a Turkish supermarket is for.
Granted, I never lived in an American BestBuy town, so this might be a cultural thing. But produce being unavailable or even just being out of one's way seems insane to me. You sure that normal where you live?
I agree that how healthy something is should be put on the back burner (hah!), true, but when cost is the most important factor, produce is unbeatable. While not created equal, the means to prepare for most are 1 pot, 1 board and 1 knife, and there sure are recipes that don't take up too much time.
Someone asking for recipes can be expected to have some time to cook them, while working 2 jobs is way too common nowadays, there are still more people struggling for money with some time on their hands. If you have no money, no time and no energy for cooking, you're beyond asking for advice and should instead be asking for help.
My ultimate struggle meal:
In 1 pot:
- Rice (the good one from a sack, forget about minute rice)
- Carrots, sliced
- Whatever is cheapest between Sweet potato, Pumpkin or Eggplant at the time, cut into cubes.
- Thai Curry paste & Soy sauce
- Salt
- Cook 15 minutes
- Put into a tortilla with mayonnaise
Fast, really cheap, and has the important bonus that the only dish to clean is the 1 pot. When struggling, I also don't feel like doing a lot of housework.
Sadly, I can never remember the best ratios, so the mayonnaise is rather mandatory as it can save a rather bland filling. Sometimes, I splurge and use guacamole instead, sometimes I also put in mini-spring rolls from the same shop I buy the rice and curry.
With my "recipe" out of the way, the important thing is to find some ingredients that have a low price for lot's of weight, and then choose a recipe that's like 90% cheap ingredients by weight. (Remember that some ingredients take on a lot of water, rice taking on twice it's volume for example, so they're cheaper than the price tag implies). I personally look for food that's under 3€/kg. The other 10% of the meal can be way more expensive (curry paste in my recipe), but, because you only use so little of it, as a whole it's still cheap.
Probably the absolute cheapest meal are homemade hash browns, potatoes are ridiculously cheap, with apples being the cheapest fruit where I live. Next cheapest vegetable around here are carrots.
The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It may a 200 year old quote, but the only thing that has changed is that we have since found even worse things to be proud of.
Cycling is part of the war on cars that'll turn our country soft by promoting thick, muscular thighs.
Someone, probably
Even the simple stuff is fun.
This month, I decided to take on a rather long tour, and wouldn't you know it my tire got punctured. In my eagerness to plan for everything I never experienced, on this tour I completely forgot to pack anything to help with that.
After reaching the nearest town with a completely flat tire, asking random people got me to the local odd job man: an old grandpa who opened the door without his shirt. After explaining my problem, he asked me to push my bike to the other side of the house. There was a garage filled with loose parts stacked on high, and among them he picked out just what I needed.
I waved him good bye just a few minutes later, and all it cost me was a new mandatory stop in the area,
Yeah, we're all mad, fuck the suits and all that.
But why does the distinction between "real-world adult material" and "creative, non-realistic", "artistic, animated works" that "do no harm" matter? Last time I checked, realistic adult material can be just as artistic, and the harm done by negligently letting children watch it seems comparable.
Are they in favour of age verification for "uncreative, realistic" pornography, or is the real distinction just between real-life and online?
"Ah, but you see, dedicating 99% of the space to cars makes sense, since 99% of traffic here is personal vehicles. Aren't I smart?"
"..."
"Ok, I agree to a temporary bike lane, but if bicycle travel doesn't increase we get rid of it immediately. It will of course be just this one street, we don't want to risk a bike network succeeding."
Ich selbst beziehe Bürgergeld. Da die Behörden hier nicht ausgelastet sind und ich Unterstützung einer Hilfsorganisation bekam, war das Antragsstellen recht einfach. Meine Lebenssituation scheint aber auch einfacher als beim Studienabsolvent.
Merz ist schon ganz gewieft, die Einsparungen bei der Miete zu suchen. Denn im Regelbedarf gibt es einfach nichts mehr zu kürzen. 50€ für Verkehr? 50€ für Strom und Wohnungsinstandhaltung?
Also schiebt man es auf die Wohnungen, die Bürgergeldempfänger leben einfach zu gut. Bei ~420€ Kaltmiete in meinem Landkreis. Davon gibt es villeicht 3 Wohnungen pro Jahr, die man sich leisten kann. Ein Glück ist die CDU für den Bau von Sozialwohnungen bekannt.
Keine Ahnung über den anderen Kram, meine Vorgesetzten habe ich eventuell einmal gesehen und seitdem duzt man sich in E-mails.
Was aber "Schön, dass Sie hier sind" angeht: Das ist eine nichtssagende Floskel, ja. Genauso wie "Hallo", was ja auch nur aussagt, dass man sich gesehen und wiedererkannt hat. Als ob das durch Blickkontakt und daruffolgendes Lächeln nicht schon klar wäre. Oder "Tschüss", ist ja im Grunde auch Zeitverschwendung, geh einfach weg wenn man nichts mehr zu sagen hat (tue das nicht, war ein Scherz, hat seinen Sinn). Floskeln sind halt mehr als nur die gesprochenen Wörter.
"Schön, dass Sie hier sind" soll einfach die Stimmung des Meetings vorgeben, als Gegensatz zu einem "Wir müssen Reden".
Natürlich hat Tom Scott ein 5 minuten Einführvideo über das Thema in Englisch, wenn man will.
But the husband was called to get her off the table? Did she fall while the technician was away? Shouldn't there have been a 2nd person to supervise her, or is that too expensive? And she did help in trying to get him unstuck, so she could get up on her own then? How are there so many important details to this?
That's it, as fun as it is to speculate, I think I'll reserve my judgement until after this has gone to court.
After reading another article: nope, necklace was just a huge locket on a chain. And the wife said "Keith, Keith, come help me up" which sound to me like:
- wife was making a big fuss for no good reason (might have had a reason according to a 3rd article)
- husband obeyed as any good husband would
- technician didn't inform the husband that his wife would be carted out of the MRI room and failed to react fast enough
If I was married and a bit dumber, I could probably also be lured to my death with my name being called out twice in that fashion. Really depends how good the signage was and how well the husband was informed.
Carrying a 9kg necklace seems a bit silly. Though I suppose "for weight training" could just as well mean something medical, like needing to build up muscle mass after an operation.
What I need to know is: how is a man that was "not supposed to be in the room" specifically getting fetched by a technician to go into the room? I would have said "do not go past the antechamber" a dozen times on the way there. Did the wife calling out to him just turn off his brain, did the technician fail to inform him, or did they both not realise the metallic necklace was on him?
"Are red pandas carnivores or herbivores?" "They eat like 80% bamboo, so herbivores." "Wrong! They are taxonomically in the order carnivora, making them carnivores! Please ignore that carnivore also just means meat eater and herbivore isn't even a taxonomic clade. People only ever talk to me to get mad at this switching between casual and scientific definitions, I am nothing without it."
Ich kann da eine englische Pseudo-Quiz Show von Tom Scott empfehlen: https://youtu.be/2M-vxb_Bt3k?t=341
TL,DW: "Orgon energie, soll das eine Kraft sein, die allem Leben inne ist?" "Ja, im Grunde genommen die Macht von Star Wars."