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Touting its foundational values of hard work, honesty, and integrity, drugstore giant Walgreens confirmed Wednesday it is proud of its origins as a small business that in today’s economy would absolutely never have been able to get off the ground. “Here at Walgreens, we still live by the same commitment to customer service preached by Charles Walgreen when he opened his first store back in 1901,” said company president Alex Gourlay, referring to the miniscule, independent pharmacy that, if opened in the modern era, would quickly be crushed by the present-day Walgreens and other retail chains whose outsized bargaining power allows them to squeeze out would-be competitors at will.
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we should make fun of americans more. why dont their shops include tax in the price tag. like how much does this item cost? its a surprise :)
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Honestly, tea. I’ve lived here my whole life and I have never once known what my total is gonna be at the register. Total fucking mystery.
im an ex-american living in new zealand for the past two years and it still never fails to blow my mind that i can take a $2 coin, walk up to a counter with two $1 items, and perform the expected transaction
this callout is completely deserved
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“It took a five-minute phone call to the White House and I made him pause those tariffs like a dog. He was beggin’ for mercy, so I said, ‘Okay, I’ll let you keep the tariffs on China, but no others,’ and he said, ‘Thank you, sir,’ with his tail between his legs. He was kissing my ass by the end. People from these shithole countries like America just can’t negotiate like I do, so I make them fall in line.” At press time, Trump added that he would bring America to its knees if Trump ever tried something that stupid again.
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(on a post about the switch 2 being $450)
im going to be honest i think people vastly underestimate how much it takes to emulate things for good quality and how intensive piracy & emulation are. by all means im for it but you realize building a pc that can run emulators well and safely skirt viruses with torrenting is like a pretty hefty investment both timewise and moneywise. i Get that most of this website is inclined toward doing that investment because this is a website and audience bias means more technology based people will be making opinions on this. that being said: $450 is like nowhere near enough for a good quality self built pc. what the fuck are you talking about. unless youre just incredible at refurb and finding parts for a deal.
this website has many many people who just do not understand the circumstances in which piracy is the answer as well as the fact piracy is an open secret that you should be careful about discussing OR understanding the circumstances in which it would be more beneficial to not pirate something. i had a post blow up when minecraft was having a sale last year for $15 and people kept chanting to pirate instead and open their home ports for a server to the point that i was honestly appalled at like... you realize the reason people want a legal minecraft account is to play multiplayer with friends. you realize not everyone has the safety measures in place to safely operate a multiplayer server on a home port. nor the machine able to do that. many people on this website vastly overestimate the average person's abilities to be technologically competent to the point it is legitimately dangerous for privacy concerns to be suggesting the things you may be suggesting!! and it drives me up the wall!! have some CONCERN or understanding of other people's machines and technology that not everyone is as tech literate as you!!!!!!! you CANNOT just tell people to jump straight into the fire with Just pirate! or Just open your modem's ports for a server! or Just crack the game! This shit can be dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. Teach safety with doing all of this is what I'm saying. Be careful.
I'd consider doing rehid for the Style Savvy games but those games are...
- touch focused more than button focused
- not action games
- have many different screens with different icons in different positions
it would be a lot of work just to get the screenshots, let alone fogure out button combos for it, and it'd be impossible to completely eliminate the use of the touchscreen
god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world
I could have made a killing as a psychic, but noooo I have to feel bad about lying to people ugh
I think abt this all the time because the thing is, evil rich people truly believe that they’re geniuses who have discovered a way to make money that the rest of us dummies haven’t…but the truth is that they are just willing to do evil shit that everyone else would prefer to not to because we have standards
When I attended my graduate school job fair, Raytheon (unprompted, hearing me say my degree at the next table) offered me $230,000/yr to come work for them. That was their opening offer after hearing nothing more than my degree, in a city with a very low cost of living. The only catch was that the job was working on vision systems for missiles. (i.e. those 'targeted' missiles which kill a ton of civilians as collateral or intentional damage)
I ended up taking an $85,000/yr job as an optical research scientist at Corning instead.
It is an odd feeling, having a price put on your soul. I'd be a millionaire with a house by my mid-30s if I'd accepted that. And the offer is still open, in fact I'd have an even more generous one waiting for me with the skills I have now.
In all seriousness, if you have the right skillset, you can actually sell your soul. This very week. You will live in comfort and moderate luxury for all your days. Two of my family members did that work decades ago, until they couldn't stomach it any longer, and it set up the rest of their lives.
But I promise you, it's not worth it. It's been almost 50 years for one of them and it still haunts him. He says the worst part was the way they (him included) talked about human lives as things. Numbers on a spreadsheet, sterile corporate jargon in meetings. A lifetime later and you can still see it in his eyes when he talks about it.
You can't take it back, treating humans like things.
This is such a disturbing, transparent attempt to drum up even more racist and xenophobic sentiment.
Immigrants, especially those who are racialized where they now live and who do not have official documentation, and those who are student activists, are primary targets and should never be an afterthought in conversations about what has been happening in the USA.
They are in serious immediate danger and solidarity movements to protect them do not currently have the kind of mass support that these vulnerable members of our communities need and deserve.
Please seek out groups in your local area that you can support, either financially or with volunteer work. People are being kidnapped off the streets and imprisoned or sent to places they are not safe, sometimes places they've never been. This is a crisis, and we need to treat it as one.
14 year old ahmed waleed is in gaza and has to start a new fundraiser because he is unable to contact the person who was organising his previous gofundme. he is starting a new fundraiser from scratch. he needs to buy a tent as his current one is torn and cannot protect him from the cold and winter has started in gaza.
his fundraiser has been verified and is number 167 on el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's list of verified fundraisers. you can help him by donating or sharing his fundraiser. you can read his story in his own words here.
$4,895 RAISED OF $20,000
PLEASE GUYS, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO ESCAPE THIS DANGER AND FIND SAFE PLACE TO LIVE.
Let’s get to $5,000 today
EVERY LITTLE CONTRIBUTION HELP
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(#167 on the verified fundraiser list by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi) (but we had to make a new gfm campaign cuz our old organizer stopped contacting us).
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Can y'all do us a favor and raise $65usd a day, we are behind on our campaign for medical immigration to the west, survival, and getting out of poverty. There's 109 days left (3 months) as of March 29, 2025. You can make a difference!
April 4 progress: $30 of $65 minimum goal (🚫 failed goal)
April 5 progress: 0 of $65 (🚫 failed goal)
April 6 progress: $208 of $65 (✅️ minimum goal reached)
101 days left.
April 7 progress: $70 of $65 (✅️ reached)
100 days left. Lets not have a fail streak again please (edit: yay)
April 8, 2025: $90 of $65 (✅️ reached)
April 9, 2025: 0 of $65
people talking about “forced diversity” like characters being PoC or LGBT or disabled “for no reason” like
are people in real life PoC or LGBT or disabled for a reason
do these critics run up to people on the street like WHY ARE YOU BLACK
this post is nearly ten years old and unfortunately the government is now out here asking anyone with a halfway decent job WHY ARE YOU BLACK
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Ppl will be like “end the stigma around mental illness uwu” but still judge you if you’re unemployed or single or not completely self-sufficient or healthy or perfectly groomed or still live with parents and don’t see the hypocrisy in that whatsoever