They closed like half the Starbucks in my city. Every single one that considered Unionizing was shut down.
But out came a LOT of new local coffee shops, and more are opening.
Looks like you fucked up real good, Starbucks.
What's hilarious is the tariffs appear in their "Haul" storefront, which is just their version of Temu. It's pretty new like a few months old and an attempt at stealing business from those other apps.
So you're telling me that a online shopper would stumble on Amazon Haul, never ever knowing about the many other discount e-commerce stores, and won't quickly piece together WHY things are priced that way?
They read the first answer the AI gives them.
This is why Im terrified of my parents learning how to use ChatGPT.
My dad still falls for satire. It took us years to convince him the tabloids in supermarkets about Bigfoot weren't real.
He's not a smart guy. But He's still my dad though.
I watched some of the newer episodes out of boredom. I was really surprised! They're pretty good.
They're not all incredible or anything. But they have a lot more soul to them than a lot of the obvious celebrity circle jerk episodes of the mid 2000s.
My wife and I have had fights where we were so angry at each other that we leave the area.
But after we make up, we cry about how much we miss each other.
That is my life.
And one time, I saw a blimp!
It's hilarious. There's a bunch of reviews on Yelp/Google maps calling those businesses out in my city.
Want to support MAGA? Tough.
Two funny things that happened to me.
- I shared a link to a friend about an event based on their hobby. They said "See you at 9am". We then spent a strange hour texting back and forth, trying to clear up the "mixed messages" that I am not attending the event.
- At a co-working space, a guy spends 10 minutes talking about a YouTube video he saw. He then proceeds to go to the white board, and in detail, write the ENTIRE URL of the YouTube video, and whatever extra stuff. I'm talking about a 60 character link, handwritten, and requested everyone watch it themselves, so there's no confusion.
Gotta love it.
That's just an average night club. You got college kids, people doing cocaine, tech bros, tourists.
If it's illegal and all that, yes, they should be held to standard.
The past few years have eroded the meaning of illegal, and even standards. They have even chose to ignore due process.
It really is. Especially when Nintendo is in the mix.
It's like an abusive relationship, thinking that one day, Nintendo will turn around and accept them.
You can host your own WordPress. It's open-source software.
And there's hundreds of hosts who provide WordPress as a software so, while they upsell/can throttle, make money off you providing hosting services, not because you're using WordPress.
Feel like Im missing a lot of context.
It's the Far side. It never really tries to make sense.
There's a test my job does where during a interview, if the candidate doesn't address the woman at the table or answer her questions, they don't get hired.
That experience really gave insights to those subtle red flags.
Wife and I do that now to every single service we meet. We both walk up to the counter, I don't say a god damn thing and my wife starts speaking. And if they start responding only to me, we leave.
I've been neutral with Microsoft upgrades for years. Annoying, but not enough to want to change.
But after Cortana, I'm done in with upgrades. I'm sitting on Win10 forever until SteamOS fully works for every game i own. My work laptops are already off of Microsoft.
I work in marketing so I look at a LOT of stock photos. And every time I go, "Ah yeah AI garbage", i find the source date is from 1990s or something. So my paranoia is way up there now where I don't think I'm going to be able to tell in a few years.
turned out one guy who did movie reviews
something had some antisemetic social media posts.
Only if you protect it.
Pacific Northwest got some real interesting rascals.
Proud boys started in the Pacific Northwest. On the eastern side, domestic terrorist Matt Shea wants to split from WA.
It won't be hard for these weeds to sprout back up.
They changed it (uncertain when) after a lot of publicity.
"The least we can do is make sure Canadians can still afford ice cream": The CEO of Chapman's on why the company is freezing its prices
The interns complained about having to pay $18 for parking and I'm conflicted
I work downtown. I personally take the bus to work and walk.
While getting feedback from our paid intern's experience, one complained about having to pay for parking.
Because I naturally always support the interns, I pushed for that perk. Why shouldn't they get all the help they need? They're young, they have a busy life and they're trying their best.
But my coworker (who drives) said, "Theres street parking and they are complaining they have to walk 14 minutes over."
Now my internal "Fuck Cars" position is battling with my "Give the Interns everything".
I'm not the deciding factor. Just wanted to share this.
Amazon boycott: The ‘economic blackout’ movement shifts to e-commerce giant Friday
After a viral social media campaign to spend no money at big-box stores happened last week, a fresh one begins Friday targeting Amazon.
John Schwarz, the 57-year-old founder of The People's Union USA, is calling on Americans to boycott Amazon and its companies, including Zappos, Ring, Whole Foods, Twitch and Prime Video, for one week.
Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim - Ars Technica
He now faces four years in federal prison.
Summary
Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating 375 swatting incidents between August 2022 and January 2024. Operating under various aliases, Filion charged clients for making false emergency calls that prompted significant police responses. His hoaxes included threats of school shootings and bombings, targeting institutions across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Despite being questioned by the FBI in July 2023, he continued his activities until his arrest in January 2024, where he pled guilty to multiple charges.
US Housing market - where people want to buy houses
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.
Far-right users of X (formerly Twitter) are singling out individual Activision Blizzard employees for comments made in support of DEI and inclusion at the company.
Amid ’90-hours work week’ row, GenZ employees are opting ‘career catfishing’; here’s all about it
The new phenomenon involves Gen Z employees accepting job offers but not showing up on their first day without informing their employers.
Georgia reports measles case in metro Atlanta patient who’d been traveling in U.S.
An unvaccinated metro Atlanta resident has tested positive for measles, the first case in Georgia this year of one of the most contagious vaccine-preventable diseases.
