@mcfate another big one is anything in-house, like house brands or anything from a company's in house farming/fishing (like my company owns an entire fishing fleet) when we buy from the fleet, we're buying from ourselves at whatever price the head office decides to set it at. So they can entirely be inflating costs artificially to maximize profits and we wouldn't be able to prove it because our seafood or fresh meats invoices are razor thin on margins.

@mcfate I will say, as someone who has worked grocery retail for almost two decades and disappointed his whole family, the margin aren't so razor thin as they would like all to believe. Many margins with shelf stable products are more like 50-70%. Major suppliers also do kick-backs on bulk buys that the store level won't see. Where we lose money is in fresh meats, produce and loss leaders. That said, price gouging is happening on all levels, from suppliers to stores and logistics costs.

Apparently a Russian fleet has deployed against Ukraine, frigates and a submarine, cruise missiles have been used. Explosion reported in Kyiv. Drones are in the sky. Sounds like Russia just threw caution to the wind. My report app is being a bit buggy. Anyone hear anything?

@th3j35t3r I won't be off work until 10:15 PST but I wish I could attend 😭

I need help losing weight. It's affecting everything from my health to my mental state. Does anyone have any advice on how to start out small?

@mcfate interesting!
I did not directly navigate to this result, first I was looking up how much Olympic athletes earn (turns out it is rather disappointing to hear!) and went through a few of those "Google search suggestions" that show up at the bottom.

It struck me as incredibly unusual.

I didn't have Google having racist accents with search results on my bingo card for today, but here we are.

@th3j35t3r if you're running for President I will find a way to vote

Has anyone been hearing what's happening on the Ukraine-Russian warfront today? I'm getting mixed reports about deep attacks within both borders. Sounds like a major offensive happened over the last 24 hours

So, my brand new MSI Pre-built got some kinda wonky windows update that messed with MSI center, and while I keep the LEDs turned off at all times, will randomly have the machine light up like HAL 9000 in the middle of the night, waking me and freaking out neighbors as it is a pulsating, flickering red. After it got me up at 3 am last night for an hour unsuccessfully trying to fix it, going to have to crack it open tonight and disconnect the LEDs manually.Any suggestions for what I'm looking for?

@mcfate while not entirely the same, but in the same vein, I am definitely one of the people who will memorize the heck out of an article or paper that interests me, but forget to bookmark or keep it in any way, then after referencing it in a story or argument, be unable to locate it to produce it 😂😅

My favorite example of this, when I was a kid I read about a Canadian astronaut who attached red mercury crystals to bacteria in space and grew it, but can't find the article archived anywhere 😭

Oh, the Iron E...

Studies find oxygen is being produced by metals on the ocean floor, studies that were funded by a Metals Mining company that now wants to dispute the findings.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/oxygen-ocean-study-conflict-1.7273929

Of COURSE conservative Christians think the opening for the OLYMPICS which is based on Greek gods and the Olympians would somehow be about them. They believe the universe is built around them.

P.S. since I am constantly scrubbing my Google adsense and Facebook advertising profiles through their available tools, this is almost 100% what they're advertising as a basic ad.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that Temu is so busy with what they can sell, never asking if they should sell it.

Also, I decided from the beginning to not trust this company, it was a gut instinct, and I'm still standing by that gut instinct.

@Liliki the problem is, we have laws about it here. We have women's shelters. Her parents were happy to have her back after she left the apartment, without knowing what she had done yet. We have a great many steps in place to protect women and give them the chance to get out of the situation.

Unfortunately for her, she told undercover police officers a bit too much information that conflicts with her story. She embellished her crime, even bragging about it.

As a slightly late follow up to a previous post a good while back, my next-door neighbor I grew up over the fence from has now been sentenced to second-degree murder as well as interfering with a body.

She killed her abusive boyfriend in his sleep, hid his body for months as she slowly dismembered him and distributed his remains to various areas of the city.

Considering how kind and polite I remember her to be, it only goes to show that anyone can have it in them.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10633653/nanaimo-murder-boyfriend-dismembered/

I am 100% down for the tag I've seen going around labeling the election as 2024 The Prosecutor vs The Felon 🤣😂 gotta make this viral