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How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes

My least favorite task working at Circuit City was switching out the price tags, my store's managers cared a lot about it and made sure it got done. Automated solutions fix one problem but make worse things possible. Apparently dollar stores don't care.

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you’ve inspired me to grab some Rocky road, it sounds both delicious and appropriat

You want a psychologically safe culture? Don’t let people get away with making it unsafe. A high performing culture? Don’t let people get away with poor quality work. etc.

That's life expectancy at birth, the average life expectancy for a 60 year old male is ~81.

Obviously, the idea that Article II contains an unreviewable human trafficking power to send people, without charge or conviction, into indefinite involuntary servitude in any foreign land willing to receive them on those terms annihilates the remainder of the constitution.

I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank.

I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any).

We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Our biggest problem as a society is we've decided wealth is a proxy for intelligence -- when in reality, an overabundance of money causes your brain to cease functioning

4. A government where people are afraid to criticize the policies of its leaders, fearing retribution, is not characteristic of a democracy. The right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is enshrined in the Constitution.

you think hegseth is bad, one time I accidentally added the country I was about to invade to the chat and then I had to be like omg Iran no lol total typo I did not mean YOU, we're gonna invade Iraq again haha just autocorrect. it was sooo mortifying tbh and then we had to invade both?? full cringe

Snowy landscape, snow covered trees, overcast background

happy place 🏂

Kaufmann: DOGE claims to have found Social Security loans going to 11 year olds and under. It's a survivor benefit annuity to young children whose parents have passed. That's the problem billionaires without a clue doing a job they don't understand

Scientist loses their grant funding because they briefly mentioned the word "hesitancy" in their grant.

It is human trafficking.

HELP PRESERVE OUR LIMITED SUPPLY OF UUIDS! instead of generating a new UUID, try to reuse one you already have!

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After sunburns a few days in a row we realized the sunscreen we were using was defective. Switched to a new bottle and no more burns :(

He throws up a nice straw-man. Whether or not MIT considered Wikipedia as a reliable academic source or not has nothing to do with one’s responsibility to properly attribute their sources.