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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Growing up in a small town in the South it was kind of crazy when Aldi and Lidl set up nearby. Not only are the prices so much better on nearly everything but in general the quality of the products was much better than at existing local grocery stores.

    The only thing is they’re (especially Aldi) missing a few things that either someone in my household is fussy about the brand or sometimes some regional things. Like you’re not going to find some of the particular ingredients you might want when cooking soul food.



  • Yeah so the thing with PC parts suppliers is that every brand is going to have people who have experienced problems with their stuff.

    Gigabyte I’ve never had a problem with, but yeah during the pandemic their power supplies were fucking exploding so yeah that’s a problem.

    Asus I’ve never had a problem with, but yeah their boards on both sides have been setting voltages and power limits very aggressively, killing AM5 CPUs catastrophically, potentially causing instability on higher end Intel chips as well it seems. That’s a problem.

    Etc etc etc


  • They work fine for me. The only time I’ve had to ask for assistance is for an age check or once when I double scanned something. But then I’m not a blithering idiot and I know to look at the PLU sticker on produce and that you can usually just punch in the UPC code if an item won’t scan correctly. I’d much rather do it myself than have to make awkward small talk with a cashier. And standing in lines? You’d be standing in line waiting for a cashier too.

    On the retailer side, they’re either going to have to accept the increased theft rate or they’re going to have to go back to paying cashiers. That’s just the way it is – they can’t have their cake and eat it too in that regard.


  • How much of the Canadian drug supply is imported from the US in the first place? How many manufacturers in Canada are independent and not just local operations of international pharmaceutical companies?

    In those scenarios why would they ship more drugs to Canada to be reimported into the US or expand their manufacturing capabilities in Canada? To sell the drugs at a lower price than they can get by selling them in the US directly? They’d be losing money. Instead they’d keep the Canadian imports/manufacturing flat or on pace with existing growth in the country so that there will be shortages and export restrictions.

    If politicians in Florida of all places like the benefits of Canadian price controls then perhaps they should start adopting them here in the US.