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set-271 t1_j9dgvsa wrote
Reply to comment by NickOnMars in Starlink’s “Global Roaming” promises worldwide access for $200 a month by ethereal3xp
I dunno...my whole point of getting a yacht would be to escape it all, including the internet.
set-271 t1_j5szdd7 wrote
Reply to Looks so much worse with snow by willzyx01
It's either some girl nibbling on the side of a dude's dong..
Or some girl with her legs over a guy's shoulders and he's eating her out in between.
Sorry, it looks sexual either way.
set-271 t1_j1cx0pr wrote
Reply to Florida Dominatrix Group Demands Taxpayer Money For Dungeon From Local City Council by mnorthwood13
I'm sure they quietly got their funding to build the new dungeon in a undisclosed location next to a city counselor.
set-271 t1_j0ejhgz wrote
Reply to comment by Proof-Variation7005 in Afghan refugee who resettled in Providence opens own store by Geek-Haven888
Hug a Heroin Dealer...they are so misunderstood! Hug a rapist too!
set-271 t1_j0d7eep wrote
Reply to comment by Proof-Variation7005 in Afghan refugee who resettled in Providence opens own store by Geek-Haven888
Thats like saying Heroin dealers are a symptom, not the disease. Yeah, ok! 👍
set-271 t1_j095hw7 wrote
Reply to comment by Proof-Variation7005 in Afghan refugee who resettled in Providence opens own store by Geek-Haven888
I disagree...I worked for two commercial landlords who built out stores to be rented to Dollar Store chains throughout the Northeast and MidWest. Typically they acquired dirt cheap, stand alone, distressed properties that were eye sores in the community, paid off city counselors under the table so they could obtain all approvals, and then the Dollar Store reps would come in all doe eyed proclaiming they were tasked with helping under served communities and were just trying to help.
Then, when they did open, they hired at most 15 people to run the store (a full time manager and mostly part time employees) and the landlord did the absolute bare minimum maintaining the property. Only if the community was strong enough to demand protections, did the Dollar Store hire off duty cops for securty. And most of the products they were selling were near or past expiration date, full of toxic substitutes/fillers, and considered after life shelf products repackaged as new.
It's a predatory business, targeting under served communities, designed to squeeze out their last dollar. The other retail chain my commercial landlords built stores for? Rent-A-Center...which was basically a predatory loan company designed as a simple furniture/electronics for rent store. Rent-A-Center knew what they were doing, and would often hit us up on locations. It's an egregious business model.
But man, the calls we would receive from Dollar Stores getting robbed, shot up, and people getting murdered were extremely high. And my bosses didn't give a fuck, unless the complaints got so bad. But their attorneys had a list of pre-built, template responses to counter any liability.
I know what I know because I saw it myself and I worked in the trenches. It's a shit show of greed, keeping one community sick and poor, while an Elite few got rich living comfortably in the suburbs.
set-271 t1_j08l7vo wrote
Reply to comment by Proof-Variation7005 in Afghan refugee who resettled in Providence opens own store by Geek-Haven888
Here's a good article about Dollar Stores becoming magnets for crime and killings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dollar-stores-became-magnets-for-crime-and-killing
set-271 t1_j07b9n7 wrote
Reply to comment by Cycledrome in Afghan refugee who resettled in Providence opens own store by Geek-Haven888
It's an endless list of crime at Dollar Stores...endless. And its been happening since the 90s.
set-271 t1_j07a8n8 wrote
Reply to comment by Cycledrome in Afghan refugee who resettled in Providence opens own store by Geek-Haven888
Search on Google News "Dollar Store Crime", and you'll see an endless, and I mean endless list of robberies, murders, attacks, shootings, etc all occurring at Dollar Stores across the nation.
It's a dirty little secret Dollar Stores and their landlords don't want you to know about...when they open, they economical bankrupt the area, suck in the profits, and leave communities in tatters.
Google it!
set-271 t1_j078y6u wrote
Reply to comment by Cycledrome in Afghan refugee who resettled in Providence opens own store by Geek-Haven888
Dollar Stores are category killers, like how Home Depot kills mom and pop hardware stores when they open up nearby. You can celebrate them, but I choose not to. They are killing America's economy with each store opening.
set-271 t1_j073a2h wrote
Reply to comment by Proof-Variation7005 in Afghan refugee who resettled in Providence opens own store by Geek-Haven888
Let's hope not. BTW, I wasn't slamming him...I'm just upset to see so many small delis and convenience stores go out of business when a Dollar store opens up right next to them.
set-271 t1_j06kkkb wrote
Hopefully a Dollar Store won't come in and bankrupt him. Good luck Sir!
set-271 t1_iwv42yl wrote
Reply to comment by elizabeth-cooper in Federal Monitor Who Watches Over Rikers Island Has Made $18 million from NYC Taxpayers...and counting by mattkatz00
Maybe we're taking the same thing...
https://www.nysfocus.com/2022/02/23/hochul-proposes-bringing-back-private-prison-labor/
Here's the critique of it which I agree with.
https://citylimits.org/2022/03/10/opinion-new-york-should-reject-a-return-to-private-prison-labor/
set-271 t1_iwv2zby wrote
Reply to comment by elizabeth-cooper in Federal Monitor Who Watches Over Rikers Island Has Made $18 million from NYC Taxpayers...and counting by mattkatz00
Correct...but Hochul is trying to bring them back. And its still costing tax payers billions annually.
set-271 t1_iwu5swo wrote
Reply to Federal Monitor Who Watches Over Rikers Island Has Made $18 million from NYC Taxpayers...and counting by mattkatz00
It costs American Taxpayers $2,000 per day per prisoner to keep them in incarceration. And there are over 2.3 million prisoners currently in incarceration.
You do the math, and it's no wonder why The Big Short's Michael Burry sold his entire stock portfolio and bought only one stock - Geo Group, a for-profit prison company.
When you think about it, it's very scary what's to come given recession, war, and the Fed's push for creating unemployment to tame inflation, as well as the hiring of 70,000 new IRS agents to chase delinquent American tax payers. And let's not forget they will be pushing a CBDC on us all soon, where they track your spending and take your wealthy away at the click of a button.
Feels very much like America is gearing up to become a police state.
set-271 t1_ir3753c wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek
Amen. I just don't understand TSMC and Intel building chip factories out in Arizona, when everyone knows Lake Powell is drying up. It's destined to already fail like by next year.
Hearing about this Micron investment gives me hope America will get back on its feet again. 🙏
set-271 t1_ir1h925 wrote
Reply to comment by BlueGuyBuff in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek
Water security is probably one of the primary reasons.
set-271 t1_ir0ykqm wrote
Reply to comment by pohl in Microsoft has launched a website to explain its Activision Blizzard acquisition by Zepanda66
I used to think monopolies don't have consequences, but they do. Just look at the world today, with all the poverty and despair, our laws skewed to benefit the rich only, our Healthcare costs monstrous, our food system controlled by just 5 conglomerates, our money centrally controlled and held by the big banks.
With regards to Microsoft's purchase of Activision, it again, one company controlling the vast market, thus limiting our choices, censoring ideas, sucking our pockets empty with constant new pay schemes, and deciding our choices based on what they believe is good for us.
The film The Matrix comes to mind, with the robots holding society hostage in the virtual world.
It may sound fantastical, but just look at the state of the world today, so out of sync with humanity, animals, and the planet. If monopolies continue to gobble up every valuable ip in the world, we are definitely headed toward darker times.
set-271 t1_ir0vm1d wrote
Reply to comment by Witty_Tomato666 in Microsoft has launched a website to explain its Activision Blizzard acquisition by Zepanda66
For me, very well. Watch it rise.
set-271 t1_iqzvk4k wrote
Reply to Microsoft has launched a website to explain its Activision Blizzard acquisition by Zepanda66
More shit centralizing under a monopoly, it's depressing.
Decentralize everything.
set-271 t1_iqulcb0 wrote
Reply to comment by daltonoreo in How John Deere plans to build a world of fully autonomous farming by 2030 by Shelfrock77
No Right To Repair. Murican Freedumbs
set-271 t1_j9s7e6t wrote
Reply to iPhone 15 Pro Could Come in Dark Red, With Pink and Light Blue Options for iPhone 15 by StrongInteraction594
Mind blown! They broke new ground! Once again, More Law reigns supreme! More, more, more!!!!