Yes. Why else do you Chinese cars are outright banned in this country? Plenty of people on Youtube drive these cars and yes they are better quality and literally half the price. Domestic auto makers are scared shitless.

It's not just greenflation. Companies have realized that they can make more money focusing on the top 10% of consumers and just what the bottom 90 go to hell. If they had the slightest fear of competition then they wouldn't take that risk because a competitor might work their way up in the cheaper markets and then jump into the more profitable ones, but since we don't enforce antitrust law because we're busy freaking out about trans girls playing field hockey in the Midwest you can kiss that goodbye.

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...

Our cheapest EV starts at $30k for a Nissan Leaf. No wonder I've been seeing more people riding around on e-scooters lately.

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.

During incognito browser mode. So that's fun. As usual we found out as part of a lawsuit and settlement.

Only on Slashdot can you get modded down for pointing out that there are a lot of Walmart stores.

And that map is from like 6 years ago, so there's probably even more than what's shown. So my point still stands, if none of your grocery stores take credit cards, where out in BFE do you live that there isn't even a Walmart?

We're talking the same thing, I don't disagree with your overall point of the human condition but you are holding Bezos actions as virtuous and that's my disagreement. Maybe barely versus him doing nothing but from the outcome of what this company does it could be negative utility particularly because this is just another me-too bandwagon AI venture.

  Basically we should t hold Bazos on any real esteem for this decision, he risks nothing, the success or failure of this venture will not affect him meaningfully nor is he really being altruistic at all either.

Back in the '80s which kept the economy going and then we followed that with two huge economic bubbles that kept things going. There was also a lot more government assistance back then in a lot of ways that we don't think about. I'm not talking about food stamps I'm talking about heavy duty subsidies like the aforementioned infrastructure spending that made it easier to get jobs.

We were in a much better position to weather 12 years of Republican rule back then. The Republicans have been building up to this for 60 years, ever since Goldwater lost. Trump is the final form of the party. A pedophile pretending to be godly while openly admitting he will burn in hell and still somehow tremendously popular with the party.

It's not just about how terrible Trump is it's about how voters would let somebody like that have that much power. It's a sign that our civilization is near collapse. A fundamental breakdown in the institutions that have been protecting all of us for our entire lives.

It's the opposite. People here have mostly done okay for themselves. Most of us are well over 50 and we got the full benefit of the Great society and the New deal. For example the government paid for 70% of our college tuition.

I don't think anyone here believes that they are going to ever suffer any serious hardship. And that's why we have so many Trump supporters here. They keep quiet because this isn't a safe space and Trump supporters won't talk about it if they're not in a safe space. But I know they are there.

These are the same people that are learning the kind of terms typically associated with libertarians right now.

They always think they will get off scot-free and maybe some of them will. But the point is not all of them will.

We're sliding down the slippery slope.

A few states already did the age check thing with porn, and the SCOTUS ruled that was just fine by the 1A. Now comes the ID just to prove you're not a kid, in order to participate in social media.

It's never been about protecting kids, it's about being able to eliminate online anonymity.

This does not compute. You're presumably using your phone to complete this transaction? I can literally take my phone out of my pocket, unlock it with a thumb print, and wave it at the card reader to pay via my debit card. If you're ordering online the checkout process is identical enough enough using PayPal, Venmo, or a stored card. I would have to assume Klarna is the exact same number of steps?

And nobody's hand ever slips or moves slightly more / less than they want it to, especially after cramping up from writing pages of notes.

At least with a computer, I can go back and correct the mistake as if it was never there. With handwriting, not so much.

Hey, if we start doing that, then people could make informed decisions when voting.

There's a political party that loses every single time if the electorate is well informed. Strangely, they're also the ones in charge in Florida.

Both iOS and Android have built-in parental screen time limit functionality. Why is the government getting involved?