BromSwolligans

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[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

This is going to have an asterisk because I'm in a fairly remote area on vacation. Like, in the Upper Peninsula, not a lot of grocery competition.

But we went to get some food for the week at this grocery store today, and I was staggered by the prices, many of which were crazy out of step with what I'd pay in my home state at a random Walmart or similar chain. The smallest Lucky Charms was over $6; the largest was on sale for $4 and change but only if you had the store loyalty card. If you use the store loyalty card it doesn't auto-discount anything, you have to use the credit card reader to scroll the available coupons and try to pick the ones relevant to your cart.

Normal sized Starbucks whole bean bag was $17. Extra big one was like $27. Of course I bought neither.

Twizzlers in the big bag was two for $8. Fuck off lol.

They extrude corn syrup and artificial flavoring for pennies and will do anything to increase or maintain profit margins as people can less and less afford luxuries like sweet treats with 0 nutritional value. They're going to price us all into diets with their inflexibility and greed.

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Haha. If you go to Half Priced Books, you may find a spinning tower rack of sci-fi books with amazing covers, all of which are also in plastic sealed baggies.

Go nuts!

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I adore this kind of art...the sort of old painted and airbrushed sci-fi art that would appear in magazines and on the covers of books. Sometimes I buy old sci-fi books just for the cover art. Invariably there is smut in the opening 5 pages lol. Just a pattern I've noticed :p

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Dayton represent.

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I love looking at big cats for this reason. There's something so cute about them having people-ish (or dog-ish, as you please) eyes.

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

We have so much debt but also all the police forces have become hyper militarized and laden with the left-over military hardware of the last 30 years of American warfare.

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Jesus. Thanks for posting this.

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It's just people. The more of them you get in one place, the more shitheads crop up.

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does it have any emailing functionality? Like will a reminder come remind me through email, or is it only as valuable as I am checking it often?

[–] BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I think this is terrific. How much experience do you have programming, and what languages/frameworks did you use for this? I'm asking as a beginner who never knows where or how to really get started hobby programming, but really admires people who are out there doing cool shit.

 

Brand, thing, behavior, method, advice, mantra, etc.

I swear by Blackwing pencils.

Also, the 'two minute rule', which has really improved my life: "if it takes two minutes or less to do, just do it now; if it takes longer, schedule it." I've got untreated attention issues and it's very easy for me to notice something needing done, and overlook or procrastinate it because it seems inconvenient in the moment. Having a totally painless rule that forces me to acknowledge that thing I should pick up, that trash bag I should change, etc, or, to at least put on my calendar anything I mustn't forget in the long run has been great for me.

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