Digitalprimate

We have had these in Europe now for nearly as long as you North Americans. I tend to do daily shopping after work, nice little 15 minute walk calms me down.

But because of this, I was using the scan thing statistically far more than people who don’t shop daily. Another important thing is I use my backpack to pack groceries, and in a former life I did a shit ton of back country hiking, so I know how to pack.

I got so fucking tired of 16 year old kids asking to unpack my carefully packed stuff to scan a random number off items (it’s not by weight most places here) then trying to pack it back - no no no don’t mess with my system - that two years ago I swore off of self check out and only go to the humans now.

Yeah I have to wait in line sometimes, but I figure that evens out for the number of times I was “randomly” checked by some teenager.

At least our check out people can sit down.

It’s got dat alliteration on its side though!

Otherwise on the current track the US will be unable to service it’s debt.

Not as long as virtually all commodities trade in USD and USD remains the world’s reserve currency. I do get your broader point about any “revenue” raised by tariffs.

Hey, if they get traction, it’s a start.

The ironic thing is that all we in Europe have done is wave a carrot in front of Turkey’s face saying “reform and join us” when the reality is once we admitted CY, there was no fucking way Turkey was getting in without giving back the land they stole (and by stole, I mean stole wholesale.)

Turkey was in Russia due to its strangle hold on the exit from the Black Sea.

We have misses now…

Unfortunately, fair point, yeah. I wish it weren’t like this. I’m here, and both those places, and I have to say that my engagement with BlueSky is far higher. That said, Lemmy and Mastodon have the potential to be something very special.

Forgot to mention his pet goblins running SCOTUS also.

Bold of you to assume there will be free and fair elections in four years.

There is one thing this orange demon gibbon could do, and OFAC knows it: make it illegal to bunker these ships. Wilbur Ross was the shit monkey’s Sec Tres for a while, and he was a major ship owner and taught OFAC how it works.

It’s a nuclear option though, and nobody actually, really, wants to cut off this much oil from the world’s supply. That would cause inflation even worse than the dickcheese asshole’s deportation plans. So, I’m betting it won’t happen.

What will happen is he will give Israel permission to go full warfare with Iran.

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Um, you know those companies can sell weapons and craft to other countries right? Trump will still be happy for Europeans to buy weapons.

…and they are BIG!

Great. Now how do I get them to delete my data and account?

This is the second thread I’ve seen today with contentious talk about sharpening knives, and I have to ask both sides: do none of you live near a knife sharpening place? I pay EUR 5 per knife two to three times a year, and my knives are always sharp.

Dull knives are dangerous and make prep real chore.

I’m in this image, and I do not like it.

Yet…

False flag crossed my mind as well, but it would require an absolutely massive conspiracy between federal, local LE, and some very dumb hicks that simply could not happen unnoticed.

They’re coming for you even then if you aren’t rich.

Yep. There’s “rich” relative to most folks, then there is couldn’t-spend-all-my-interest-income-in-a-thousand-lifetimes rich.

The real leopards know which is which.

Unless you are white, male, CIS-het, and an evangelical Xian, they are coming for you to. You’re just a bit further down the list.