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Comment Re: BNPL groceries = groceries on credit cards (Score 1) 81

There's apparently only one large American supermarket chain that DOESN'T take credit cards, WinCo.

I do most of my shopping there, at Grocery Outlet, and at Costco. I actually do more shopping at grossout, because they are the closest thing that doesn't suck. We have a local market and mini-market, and I'm not a big fan of either one. (The market is somewhere around "OK", the mini market is disappointing.) I got Costco's card honestly just to get fuel quicker as the card is a membership card, and it's convenient for me to stop in there on my way to work.

Winco is an employee-owned co-op, and their pricing seems to be dynamic in general and the prices actually go back down, so I'm really happy with them. Grocery Outlet has beer I want to drink and high quality local dairy products, and an interesting and ever-changing stock of weird shit, and neither of the local ones are scuzzy. I have a chest freezer...

Comment Re: Regulations? (Score 1) 54

Just remember next time you hear about unemployment going up while you eat your burger that you're not getting food poisoning because of regulations and that it has nothing to do with jobs.

Of course it does. It doesn't have to do with just one thing. Keeping the machine spinning is the reason why even heartless fucks should be interested in workers' needs being met, if they weren't idiots. But that's the problem with such people, if you're smart then you realize that you don't want to live in a world of shit.

Comment Re: Regulations? (Score 1) 54

"I'm against AI slop as much as anyone, and in general a fan of regulation, but this really is something that should be solved by the market. If people don't want AI slop, let them not buy it"

This isn't about the slop. If you're a fan of regulation, and saving jobs isn't a good enough reason for you, wait you're not actually a fan.

Comment Re:We've seen this pattern before. (Score 5, Interesting) 81

That's only very partially true. The uptick in unpaid mortgages gave the house of cards a little tap; but it was the giant pile of increasingly exotic leverage constructed on top of the relatively boring retail debt that actually gave the situation enough punch to be systemically dangerous; along with the elaborate securitizing, slicing, and trading making it comparatively cumbersome for people to just renegotiate a mortgage headed toward delinquency and take a relatively controlled writedown; rather than just triggering a repossession that left them with a bunch of real estate they weren't well equipped to sell.

Comment Re:It's called Capitalism (Score 2) 60

Capitalism is about the Free Market (Free as in choice) not ruling.

False. Free Market is only one kind of Capitalism. Further, there has never actually been a free market of any significant size. It's an ideal which can only be approached, and ironically, it requires regulation to do so.

Comment Re:Really the trend is moving away from 3rd party (Score 2) 54

The challenge is that you have to be sure you're booking with the actual hotel. The middle men are sneaky and make the web site look like they are the real thing. The actual hotel web site is never the first on the search list. Blame the shitty SEO merchants. SEO should be renamed "FIO" Fraudulent Impersonation Optimization.

Comment Re:Electric engines are golden... (Score 1) 117

I do not understand your anger. I, personally, can not charge at home. Your numbers indicate that 70% of UK vehicles are parked out in the street, which corroborates my statement.
I am glad that some areas are trying to take this seriously and installing street charging; however, where I live, there is zero indication that anyone is even considering it; therefore, my statement about realizing that many people's needs are not being met. So why the hostility? What fake facts did I spew? It sucks that you viewed straight text as pomposity; however, I have no control over how other people interpret things.

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