All the employee handbook stuff about the customer profile is pretty telling.

“From extensive surveys, we know a lot about our customers and why they shop at Trader Joe’s. They are not necessarily affluent or rich, but they are generally well educated. In fact, 80% of our customers either have attended college, graduated from college, or have post-graduate degrees. Remember this when you speak to them. When the TV networks bemoan the fact that their viewership is declining, they’re talking about Trader Joe’s customers. Our target customer is intelligent and well-educated. These are common denominators. Our customers are people who are interested in new things and new ideas. They are in an inquisitive lot. They read the New Yorker, not People magazine. They travel. We have to keep them interested and challenged. To do this, we have to run a fashion food business.”

This describes basically zero customers I know who shop at Trader Joe’s.

However, I would absolutely believe that this describes their aspirations. This is how Trader Joe’s customers want to think about themselves.

And if you’re a national grocery chain, and you don’t mind your wage slaves getting a bit of brainwashing to serve your clientele (“̆'§ †ïmê †ð §hïñê!”), teaching how to heartlessly blow smoke up somebody’s ass is a lot easier and more consistent than fostering genuine interpersonal skills. Besides, they might use those to form a union.

Aren’t warrants a matter of public record?

Where “Probing” is asking their legal LLMs to find case law that supports their horseshit crybaby tantrums against press freedoms.

In the not too distant future
Next Sunday AD…

Click-bait headline.

Actual headline: “Trump hints at demolishing Kennedy Center”

Subscribe-walled; can’t read it.

And that’s why Democrats who want to win will lean in on differentiating issues like this and do the fucking work to make cis people care about it.

Pulling out my evergreen A R Moxon quote…

The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying "we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.

You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.

https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2/

PS: The New York Times never misses an opportunity to demonize transgender people, and this instance of FUD-mongering is no exception. They can go to hell, and I wish people would stop spreading their trash editorial bias like this.

There are no gender requirements for skorts. You can just buy them and wear them.

They’re called skorts. They’re simultaneously useless, goofy-looking, playful and ridiculously fun to wear.

Everybody should try on them at least once.

And when you look at the subsequent books in the series, Dorothy’s arrival in Oz always follows some kind of deeply traumatic event.

My poisoned headcanon for this says that Dorothy is a deeply traumatized kid who regularly disassociates into fantasy as a coping mechanism, which would put the Land of Oz series more in the territory of psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator than isekai.

And when you look at the subsequent books in the series, Dorothy’s arrival in Oz always follows some kind of deeply traumatic event.

My poisoned headcanon for this says that Dorothy is a deeply traumatized kid who regularly disassociates into fantasy as a coping mechanism, which would put the Land of Oz series more in the territory of psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator than isekai.

The internet does not know how to react to Nancy Mace’s arms being covered in tattoos

I mean… are they cool?

Vindman is currently favored to beat Republican opponent Doug Ollivant in the November election, according to the Advocate. But one trans woman told the outlet that she’s frustrated that Vindman ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. She said the choice between the congressman and Ollivant feels like a choice between “callous dismissal and active hatred,” but that she felt she would “have to” vote for Vindman anyway.

That’s what you end up with when you let these fuckers slide in the primary.

The headline is a bit misleading here. I watched the video of this interaction (see below) and the only struggle the AG had was talking over the shouting protestor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52JSMv6CiN0&t=1766s

But I get the protestor’s anger. Her defense amounts to platitudes that don’t impact trans folks ability to get care. It’s hunky dory if it’s legal for patients to receive that care locally, but what happens when every hospital and doctor stops providing that care? The patients who need the care are fucked. The commonwealth is expected to take those hospitals and doctors to court to compel them to provide care under MA’s shield law… but they’re not.

Also, “give me list of names of people who aren’t getting care” is a violation of HIPAA laws (considering AG coms from the public become matters of public record), not to mention the worst kind of message to send to a persecuted population.

“Make a list of yourselves and give it to me.”

It’s not like that sort of thing has ever gone wrong.

tl;dr: You don’t get one.

Why? Several reasons:

1. The companies you purchased from aren’t legally required to,
2. The accounting would be difficult,
3. Companies can easily claim they never increased prices in the first place (eating the cost), and
4. Companies pinky-swear to “pass the savings on to you” in the future.

If you insist on being the person to play with the fire, please, for fuck’s sake, know what you’re doing.

Understand that the 2ft wide wet uncured stump you found in the woods will not burn no matter how hard you try. Smoke is not a sign of success.

Progressives are terrifically creative at coming up with new language. We’re so good at it that we freely abandon old phrases the moment the right picks them up as pejoratives.

I say stop. Woke is great. Also start marching on defund the motherfucking police again.

I don’t record my calls, but I take remarkable meticulous notes that I’m happy to call upon should the need arise. If there’s a dispute, the company can produce recorded evidence to demonstrate that the notes I’ve taken were incorrect.

I’ll use this to scrape the bottom of barrels looking for more friends.

I just want to know if I can watch movies with the Steam Frame.