Walmart did this with their wifi recently, you have to enter an email to get access. Of course it makes sense that mobile data doesn’t really work inside a giant steel warehouse, but I can’t seem to recall not having any mobile data signal at all until my last walmart visit.

I used to keep to myself and look up the location of the item I was looking for online. If they want me to bother a floor person for it though, doing that is highly preferable to giving walmart my email to sell along with any information they can extrapolate from my usage of their network.

Yeah they’re not talking about it nearly as much as they should cause their spokespeople are asleep at the wheel.

Huh? Quick search shows that Oliver Tree is 30 years old, so birth year ~1994 or so. The jazz design came out in 1992 and was widely available through the early 2000s, by solo cup after they purchased it from sweetheart cup in 2004… I really don’t see how he shouldn’t know where the design came from, but regardless it’s become a pop culture/nostalgia symbol because it’s just a good, widely recognizable design. What else does he need to know?

This is an excerpt from the comment I replied to:

In Germany virtually all medications are brought to the pharmacy pre-packaged and (as of this year) stamped with a batch number on the outside and on each inner container, so you can be absolutely sure what’s inside really is what it says on the outside.

Are you saying the individually dispensed medications are all sent to the pharmacy pre-filled? That sounds wildly inefficient and inflexible in terms of transport/logistics/packaging tbh.

Sorry. I thought you were talking about bulk medications that the pharmacy uses to fill prescriptions as they get them.

I’m sure there are insane repercussions to filling a prescription wrong, especially if someone is injured. There’s also usually a description on the printed label of what the pill should look like; shape, color, unique printings, etc. Though I’ve had a medication or two that came in factory packaging cause its prescribed less often and really predictably. Tbh though, it’s just not a worry that I’ve ever had cross my mind or heard of being an issue.

Pharmacy techs actually make a pretty average salary (40k median), closely supervised by a pharmacist with a doctor of pharmacy degree who makes a pretty decent salary (136k median).

Read all about it: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacy-technicians.htm https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/pharmacists.htm

I don’t work anywhere near pharmacies or healthcare but I’m sure they do all the same stuff you described. I’m not really sure what suggested to you that they didn’t tbh.

Also, why the focus on rich and middle class? Is the vast majority of america not “lower”/working class? Edit: it seems like the entire conclusion of the study is based on the influence that money has in politics.

One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

Of course if you focus only on people with money then you will come up with a conflicting result… so yeah. I also feel like I am missing something here.

We are actively being held back by companies catering exclusively to the lowest common denominator.

At 300 Watt for an A100 at full load that would 45,000 kWh. This roughly the energy neeed to drive an electric car for 180,000 miles, which is a lot, but still on a reasonable scale.

My guy. That is over 15 years of daily driving and the occasional long haul trip, 1.5x the average lifespan of an EV. Consumed in under 2 years. For ONE iteration of ONE AI model. Nevermind how many thousands of people are running that “light bulb for slightly less than 35 minutes” every second, with the vast majority of what it spits out not even being used for anything of value except to tell the prompt writer what they need to tweak in order to get their perfect anime waifu out of it.

Idk maybe I was never informed on how the fundamentals I learned in college applied to an entire electrical grid and the implications I would need to understand if I were to hypothetically own a home some day. Would have been nice if you started out by explaining this instead of insulting my intelligence but maybe that’s just not how we operate here. Edit: The only surges I had heard of happening thus far were from power returning after an outage, and I’ve never experienced one afaik.

Yep. Happens a few times yearly for me here in the midwest, in every place I’ve ever lived, usually after a storm knocks out a power line or a transformer blows. It’s generally not for longer than a day or two but a direct lightning strike did knock it out once for like a week. Given, my state ranks pretty low for electrical grid reliability.

Our power companies, being privatized, have very little incentive to invest in their infrastructure until it’s already on its last legs and they can’t avoid it anymore. So they invest in politicians that let them put it off for as long as possible instead :)

What was it they said about capitalism breeding innovation?

lol. My bachelor of science in electrical engineering begs to differ but go off I guess.

I once heard a european say we eat like we have free healthcare. No we don’t. We eat like we have a government with more accountability to monied interests than to our health, a food industry that profits from us being compelled to overeat cheaply produced foods, and a healthcare system that profits from chronic illness and sudden misfortune. Oh yeah, this onion’s got layers, and it’s rotting from the inside-out.

In fact, I think a genuine effort behind universal healthcare would involve the government suddenly caring a lot more about industry in general growing profits by running things as cheap and dirty as they have been and, in a way, passing their costs onto the general population.

Close. Cousin of dyslexia.

Yeah I don’t really care to play with strangers and none of my friends have ever asked to play so I also stick to single player games when I do play.

That’s definitely what I’ve observed. The constant whining gets pretty grating, wish they would finally just form their own instances and defederate from whoever the hell they want. Instead they sit around in the largest most entry-level instance and badmouth and whine at the mods to cut off any instance where the majority view is to the left of and critical of the status quo.

Sorry, thought you were talking about the stomach acid that came out of OP’s asshole. My mistake.

That’s not how I read it… it’s not really democracy if the guy being voted for is lying to the voters without repercussion (thus obstructing the voters’ right to make an informed decision) so they can get into office and do things they know the voters wouldn’t have voted for. That’s anti-democratic in itself. This meme isn’t saying democracy bad, it’s saying that what we have now isn’t a democracy.

This word has lost all meaning at this point.

Hydrochloric acid. Lactic acid is the one that makes your muscles sore after straining them.

Adding to this; on top of allowing bacteria to multiply, tampons also cause micro abrasions (small tears) in the vaginal wall which allows that bacteria to enter your bloodstream much more easily. This happens under any conditions but especially if you’re using a higher absorbency than is necessary for your flow (or lack thereof). Do NOT use them for any length of time if you are not actively bleeding.

Could never use them for that reason lol, damn things were so terrifying when I was just starting out that I’d literally faint putting them in and taking them out and have serious anxiety while wearing them. Don’t know why anyone would take that risk when cups are so much safer and cheaper in the long run.