yea. there used to be two full doors or more in the freezer for just frozen concentrated juices. now there’s one little tiny shelf and all the variety is gone.

there’s more profit in “premium” refrigerated “ready to drink” product.

the standard size has made 1.5 quarts for as long as i can remember… at least the 1970s. there used to be smaller and larger ones in some brands, though.

it was disney channel musicals here. and i actually didn’t mind (too much). some of those are ok movies.

it hasn’t been a ‘value’ option for at least 20 years now… based on per-unit price, it’s often more expensive than the lowest cost refrigerated carton

you can actually still do that! enable the desktop icon for ‘computer’ in settings->personalisation->themes->desktop icon settings, then go to that icon on the desktop and right click it and rename. although i have gotten used to win11’s ‘user files’ one with quick access and recent and use that one instead—when it works, anyway (right now it is not)

that’s one reason, the other is that the large display coolers where those items are often located are just a wall of a large walk-in where other stock not on display is stored. those are along a side of the building, and the back wall is nearest the loading docks (usually) so those items can be rolled right from the incoming trucks to the cooler easily.

i also bring my own shopping bags. the grocery store here (the only one, a walmart) disabled the scales because they don’t have the staffing to deal with all the false positives, i guess… but anyway, i’ve gotten to just taking the wireless hand scanner (which is much quicker than the register’s scanner) and scanning stuff in the cart and then bagging it right away–all right in the cart. only produce gets put up by the register, since it needs to be weighed anyway.

mullvad also has encrypted dns that anyone (don’t need to be a vpn subscriber) can plug-in to their browser or (compatible) operating system–including optional domain-level blocking (adult, social, gambling, and ads). yes, you can use a basic ‘pihole-like’ dns without needing to actually set one up.

I am pretty set with Firefox in Android and desktop to be honest.

been using firefox since before it was called firefox, and netscape before that. while i do use ‘other’ browsers, too, their use is limited to testing and a few select sites or purposes only (for instance, i use a ‘portable’ opera for mail, and only mail).

Not long ago that would feed you McDonald dinner for a month

in the 00s, that 75 dollars would have bought SEVENTY-ONE double cheeseburgers (including a typical sales tax rate of 5.5 percent). today, it would only get you seventeen of them.

decline of about one-third of a percent

something that can be easily offset by switching that in-person meeting into an email or cutting a useless middle-management position.

the poorest are cutting back their expenses

those people have nothing else left to cut back on.

and when the hot water heater is two floors down and the pipe from there runs up unheated parts of the building, it takes a very long time to get even a hint of warmth out of the hot water faucets.

i’ve lived 3 minutes away from hot water for nearly thirty years now. it sucks. if i ever get money enough to own a house, or choose where i live with little regard to cost, it will have instant hot water (tankless water heaters).

the greedy landlords can sniff it out too.

get a raise… or even just a tax refund check or one-time ‘credit’ (like the ‘stimulus’ shit), rent goes up at home.

business has decent quarter, rent goes up there, too.

it’s basically a guarantee. if you have money, they want it all

fuck those clowns. “paying” for your raise by reducing the employer share of the premium.

they were one of my favourites.

i don’t think she has an ‘office budget’ yet. she hasn’t been sworn-in and seated because tiny mike johnson refuses to allow it since she represents the vote needed to force a house vote on the pedo files.

i haven’t watched a finale (that i knew going-in was the last episode) since seinfeld in 1998.

i don’t mind watching that kind of stuff with the little ones. heck, even when they aren’t around and the tv is just ‘on’ for noise, it’s most likely tuned to or playing “their” shows and movies.

whether the cart return kid had to return their personal cart along with the 200 other carts.

putting them in the corral, as illustrated in the comic is one thing… leaving them scattered in random spaces is another