You don’t have to go cold turkey. Just shop at websites that don’t say “Amazon” in the URL

That’s not a boycott. That’s waiting until payday to shop.

There needs to be a succinct way to say “Never shop Amazon again if possible. If you absolutely have no other option, don’t do it March 7-14.”

Duplicitous Orange Guy Expires

It’s the heart-shaped sunglasses that are really sending me*.

*to the hospital with an aneurysm

Yeah, that was kind of a layup.

I sincerely doubt they were “barely breaking even”. That was just trying to save face. And the email was sent to employees “this month”, and before his open display of hatred, I’d imagine, after which there has been an even bjgger Xodus.

I’d bet dollars to doorknobs that the end of the line for Twitter is just around the corner.

Yes, the EU will certainly kowtow to him and bend the knee. 🙄

The people who check receipts to make sure you’ve paid for everything you are removing from the store. OP is saying that the Costco people are hard core, but that other stores’ receipt checkers aren’t going to try to stop you, which makes those places much more hassle free to just shop and go after you’ve paid for your purchases.

L/BrandNewSentence

Cops are like a box of chocolates. They’ll kill your dog.

Same with autism. It wasn’t until I had my master’s degree in math and teaching high school at age 39 that it ever occurred to me that I was autistic. A colleague and I had a mutual student, and he told me that he thought she might be autistic and that he was going to refer her to the school’s diagnostician for testing.

So I found myself curious about the symptoms of autism, because Rain Man was my frame of reference. I researched the symptoms in the middle of a Geometry team meeting, and everything I read had my sitting up further and further in my seat, until I just blurted out “Oh my GAWD…?!” My colleagues asked what, and I said “Y’all…I think I might be autistic?” They looked at one another quizzically, like they were shocked at my personal revelation. One of them replied, “Wait…you didn’t know?!” I said, “…what, you DID know?!?” She was like “Yes! We all know that about you! You seriously didn’t know? 😂” HELL NO I DIDN’T KNOW!

I immediately called my mom on the phone to tell her that I thought I might be autistic. “Yyyyyeah…your dad and I always thought you might be.” HOLY FUCKING SHIT MOM WTF??? 😲😲😲WHY DIDN’T YOU EVER GET ME TESTED?!? "Well, you always made such good grades that we just didn’t think it mattered that much.

I have since been diagnosed with ASD Level 1, and I think back a lot on my life lived. I marvel at how much easier my life would have been if I hadn’t had to develop all of these coping mechanisms myself. I did well in school despite my autism. I earned two degrees despite my autism. I hold down teaching jobs despite my autism. The biggest problems I’ve had in my life, though, have been personal relationships. I can’t imagine how much richer my life might be right now had I known all along how to exist as a self-aware autist in a neurotypical world.

Yes, it’s safe, it’s very safe, it’s so safe you wouldn’t believe it.

…

No…it’s not safe, it’s very dangerous, so be careful.

The niche thing you just bought just two months ago and that no one would ever need two of in their life.

Is it live*

There’s also the issue of Kraft being a shite company.

Not cheese. Kraft fucking singles

“Daddy…I have a joke for your career…!”

Texas schools need $X funding. The Texas Lottery was meant to add $Y dollars to education. The lottery was sold to the public as meaning schools would be funded to the tune of $(X + Y) each year.

Instead, the state funds $(X - Y). Instead of supplementing education funds, the lottery supplants it. And it’s the exact same thing with tipping culture.

(I’d bet this is how most state lotteries which fund education operate.)

Hey, what about this…!

It ain’t gonna cost me shit because I’m spending next to nothing for the foreseeable future apart from necessities, and what little I do spend is gonna be bought as locally as possible. Fuck this country.