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Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place
I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore đ
Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the appâŠ. Which requires your login informationâŠ.. and also stores your card information so even if you didnât use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.
I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.
Sure. Thatâs how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:
Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.
No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.
So hereâs what weâre gonna do gang:
Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:
Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.
Express that you didnât actually want it, you just couldnât see on the shelf how much it was.
POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.
When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you donât want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)
If itâs a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If itâs a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.
In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.
Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.
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HELLO ! have you thought about Van Goghâs First Steps today ?
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sounds very similar to a radio story i heard in 2014 ago about credit card debt. the debt got sold to a collection company and a couple received a court summons. they knew they had taken on debt, but they were confused about who this new company was and where specifically the number they were supposed to owe came from.
they show up in court and just ask the lawyer for the collection company: can you prove where this number comes from? Do you have a contract showing that you purchased our debt? probably luckily for them, a reporter researching a book on the topic showed up and asked the same questions.
10 minutes later they get in front of the judge and the collection company drops the whole case and theyre free to go. story is below, it has a transcript in the link too
Ira talks to reporter Jake Halpern about a scene he saw take place in a Georgia courtroom where a couple uttered some magic words that seeme
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Link to the twitter thread for accessibility!
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Talking to friends with inept parents is crazy. No wonder theyâre like this if their parents kept fumbling
âIâm having trouble adapting to my adult responsibilitiesâ well no wonder, nobody raised you đđđ
Hot tip for future parents: you actually have to guide your kid to adulthood. Feeding them and waiting for them to grow up is not enough since they are not house plants. A little more thought and care is required.
for those lacking certain "adulting" skills, especially things around the house, check out:
mom, how do i...?
and dad, how do i...?
^ there are tons of other resources but these two will teach you some personal hygiene, home or apartment repairs, easy recipes and basic cleaning techniques, even how to schedule doctor's appointments
if youre a renter i cannot recommend the trans handyma'am enough, mercury is a lifesaver, and her channel and accounts are always accepting new questions
there are so many resources, a lot that you dont have to even ask for, just know how to look đ©· much love
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after you read the poem âthe woman diesâ a lot of media makes you mad
Excerpts from The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda
Do you think Hickory and Dickory were living among the country trolls before World Tour or were they that fast at their job?
đŸ Were Hickory & Dickory Living Among the Country Trolls?
Short answer: Yes Long answer: They werenât fast: they were patient
đ€ Country Trolls = The Perfect Place to Hide
Country isnât a closed-off, guarded tribe. Itâs open, rural, and communal. Travelers, lonely trolls, wandering musicians, thatâs normal here. New faces donât raise alarms: they get offered a spot by the fire and a harmonica.
No suspicion needed. Country culture expects passersby.
đŽThey Were Already Known, That Matters
No one reacts to Hickory like he's a newcomer. He isn't treated as a stranger. That doesnât happen overnight. If they were truly 'fast at their job,' weâd see:
Confusion
Curiosity
Instead, we see familiarity. That implies time... days, months, maybe years.
đœ The Disguise Is the Smoking Gun
Country Trolls have four legs. Yodelers donât. So Hickory and Dickory commit to a full-time horse disguise, not as a quick gag, but as a lifestyle:
Dickory gives up autonomy to be the horses... behind
Hickory gains mobility and visibility
The disguise never drops
Thatâs not a short con. Thatâs a long-term infiltration strategy. And hereâs where it gets deliciously intentional.
đ Itâs a Trojan Horse
This is almost certainly a wink to the Trojan Horse myth:
A familiar object allowed inside a safe space
Hidden agents within
Trust exploited, not forced
Collapse from the inside
They didnât smash through defenses. They walked in, because Country let them.
The safest disguise isnât flashy. Itâs boring. It blends into the background. A troll with 4 legs belongs in Country. No one questions it.
đ They Didnât Know Poppy Was Coming, And That Proves Everything
Hickory and Dickory clearly donât anticipate Poppyâs arrival. They adapt on the fly.
Which tells us:
They werenât waiting for her
They were waiting for any opportunity
Their goal wasnât Poppy, it was the country string
Poppy just cracked the door wide enough for them to get their hands on something better.
đĄ Why This Worked So Well
The strings werenât hidden behind guards or traps. They were protected by:
Distance
Trust
Isolation
Hickory and Dickory bypassed all of that by becoming part of the environment.
Thatâs why nobody knew where the where:
Barb didnât know
The other Bounty Hunters didn't know
Even the Country Trolls didnât realize what they were sitting next to them
đŹ Conclusion
Hickory and Dickory werenât fast. They were already there, singing, blending in, living as a country troll, waiting patiently. They didnât infiltrate the Country Trolls. They became part of the scenery.
And when the moment came, they proved the most dangerous villains in World Tour werenât the loud ones⊠they were the ones who smiled, blended in, and were trusted enough to never be questioned. đđ»âš
bringing this over from twitter bc this person literally gets it. watching su for the first time i was literally shocked by how wonderfully toxic the yuri was there. thank you women đ
THANK YOU WOMEN. god bles
Hyperbonkers Toxically Yuri basically drives the entire show. Pearl/Rose is 60% of Steven's Issues; the first big event episode climaxes with a paean to the power of nontoxic yuri but then ends with other characters EXTREMELY MISSING THE POINT to the point they emit nightmares; there's a whole arc about Pearl repeatedly tricking her friends into a threesome; the movie is the vengeance of a dumped manic pixie clowngirl; and the Diamonds (WD in particular) definitely have some kind of oneesama shit going on.
Pearl/Rose is enough toxic yuri (I will create a new identity for you! I will compel you to keep our secret forever! I will fuck around on you but don't worry I'll always come back to you until haha I kill myself and leave you the baby to raise!!!!!!!!!) for six shows. But it's not a show about emotionally healthy people doing healthy things! Steven repeatedly tries to kill himself!
I also want to point out the het stuff is similarly deranged. Lars/Sophie is "what if the chubby girl fixated on the bad boy who impliedly fucks her on the sly (!!!!!) but is embarrassed to be seen with her and got so frustrated she made a big-deal punk band about it (so she's completely over him when he gets a glow up to UNDEAD CAPTAIN HARLOCK(!!!))" Greg breaks up a 5000 year toxic Yuri situationship by being the scrungliest hair metal guy in history. Steven gets a somewhat-requited crush and Pearl immediately projects her "what if I was a knight and I was willing to put my life on the line for you and it was kind of sexual" deal on to them so hard she creates a child soldier. Then Steven, to prove he's NOT his mom, tries to die for her without letting her die with him and she's so mad about not being allowed to die with him they break up for a bit.
Frankly the sheer density of characters eager to die for each other is somewhat alarming.
all of this of course forgetting the one "Stable" relationship is two small lesbians who are so attached at the hip they literally fused into one person, and have their own princess/knight dynamic [wow the diamonds sure love that one, wonder what thats about] and any time they have a MINOR disagreement about a major problem they usually cope by literally exploding apart, doing a shit ton of property damage, and then tearfully fusing right back together again, which is gorgeously juxtaposed by the fact that they can literally see the branching timelines of the future and so can TELL that there is literally no reality where this doesnt happen if they're fucking paying attention. which they usually arent. because they're too busy focusing on keeping steven alive
till deactivation do us part
im so sad this is from a deactivated blog i feel like i just found a heartfelt message in an old locket at a garage sale
"Here's what we know about SARS-CoV-2: - It is airborne, floating and lingering in the air. - One infection can result in disabling damage to almost every cell in the body, from the brain and heart to the nerves and blood vessels. - Every subsequent infection increases the risk of Long Covid and places people who already have it in greater danger. Here's what we don't know: is what it does to reinfect children, over and over and over again, with no end point in sight from the day they are born. We are about to find out. As Dr. Akiko Iwasaki says, at this point the whole population is the control group, and after only five years, Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children. Five years. I am terrified for the children who do not or soon will not know a world without debilitating pain and exhaustion, who cannot trust their bodies to play, explore and imagine, and who will not know the potential of their own minds, unfettered by the cognitive damage from a Covid-19 infection. And I am furious on their behalf."
Violet Affleck, Youth Advocate Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action 23 September 2025
I would specifically like to point out the last line of the description here: 23 SEPTEMBER 2025
This is current. This is 1-2 days old (depending on where you are).
This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.
we actually know another extremely effective way to reduce covid infections in schools and it doesn't even require the willingness and ability to wear a mask all day, and it's good ventilation and air filtration. the fact that simple solutions are simply not being implemented is fucked up beyond anything. anyway I think that advocating for better air quality in schools is probably the most effective thing to do, as it's more 'normal' and comfortable, doesn't rely on kids (and teachers) actually keeping their masks on, and is less politically charged. many different people can agree that better indoor air quality is a good thing
