I don't usually shop at any of those stores anyway, so boycott doesn't affect me much. I mostly buy my food at independent or small chain bakers, butchers, produce markets, etc. or Safeway.
But when I have shopped at Loblaws stores, the prices are not noticeably higher than at any other big supermarket, so I suspect the reality is not that Loblaws is terrible, but that they are all terrible.
I'm immediately reminded of the DeMoulas/Market Basket kerfuffle here in MA/NH as an example that it IS possible to push back against grocery chains successfully.
Groceries are a critical but low-margin business, so consumers really can force their hand when they get pissed off enough to do so.
All cats are idiots in that regard. I've never had a stuck cat pause and think "oh yeah, I can get myself out of this mess easily." Instead it's always a pulling/ruining motion.
Trying to get to Wonkette today and getting a "too many requests" message from my browser. Heck to the yeah, Wonkette is a popular morning stop. (Yeah, yeah, it's a Substack issue, but that ruins the joke)
I just came from putting a warm-up in my coffee and three of my cats *just happened* to be swinging by at the same time, and oh, you are near the cabinet where the treats are kept, would it be too much to ask if you put a few out for us?
A Camaro is a Malibu with bodywork, more or less. The F-body cars evolved a bit from their antecedents which were just, once again, Novas (feels funny; should it be novae?) or Chevelles with slightly different bodywork, but they’ve never behaved particularly well.
They can be made into sports cars - have a friend who has a business doing just that - but by and large they’re slightly rattly family cars with interiors that reflect Chevrolet’s conception of the owner, which is not high up on the economic scale and given to lavish and occasionally tacky displays.
Nothing wrong with a sports car. Lots is wrong with the commonly-accepted meme that cars can serve as proxies for young mens’ potency…..it makes no sense and falls into the “ownership of object will make me cool” meme bucket, which always fails to prove true.
This is why we get guys, some young, sadly many not young, who lack any social skills, trying to use their car to get dates….or the same people buying a Stratocaster and amp and thinking that ownership makes them cool (e.g., they cannot play it but they show it off in a vain attempt to be associated with the object’s perceived social cachet).
The idea of ownership - which is sort of passive - vs mastery (of a skill) pervades the culture, and represents the triumph of marketing over common sense.
"The idea of ownership - which is sort of passive - vs mastery (of a skill) pervades the culture, and represents the triumph of marketing over common sense."
I hope I remember this because it is genuinely wise.
Sports cars or even cars at all. My eldest nephews are both in their mid 20's now, both have had accidents with cars and are lucky to be alive. And they still both text while driving. Oy. There is a reason actuarial charts have young males at a higher insurance rate than all the rest of the driving population.
A tanker filled with 8,500 gallons of gasoline that caught fire. It happened in Norwalk ... about 12 miles up I-95 from us. Closed I-95 both directions until yesterday morning.
Noem is a damaged person. She's going to double-down on everything because the outside world is destroying delusions and the protective coating of lies she's put up around herself to protect her ego. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump picked her as his VP candidate, simply because the have many of the same psychological issues in common and can enable each other.
Precisely what I am thinking XD They for sure would want him to pick a POC or a woman, but he disrespects both and does not see them as equals at all.
Hence his last go round he had two Women, one in charge of education and the other a press spox, and one black guy who he dropped into Hud despite him being an actual brain surgeon.
This is not a man who picks either for his VP I figure
Not a chance. The one thing an aging pathological narcissist fears is younger narcissists that might eclipse them, both in age and popularity - any such person is a direct threat to them. No one who could pull focus and demonstrate to Drumph that he is not, in fact, the center of the universe, will be tolerated.
Enough performative assholery and she might win back some right wingers. It's a long shot, given how deep she dug her hole here, but it's the only chance she's got.
Well, my breakfast date for this morning canceled, as I expected, so I am 0/2 for May, which is still not on track to beat my worst month ever which was back in 2014 when, in one month, I had TWELVE dates cancel and/or flake in one month. I see people complain about how hard it is to get a date, but that's no problem for me, my problem is that they don't show up or (more courteously) cancel. And so thank you all for letting me whine, for dating really is as horrible as you all remember.
I don't remember hearing about being excited to vote for Jimmy Carter or for Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first presidential election I was eligible to vote. In fact, I don't remember hearing about being excited to vote for any candidate until 2016. The pollsters and the media are broken.
Bamz was the most excited I was for any candidate, but all of my votes counted just as much as mine for Bamz, that included Dukakis (I literally held my nose to vote for him).
And the fact that Donnie is losing even his core cult members must be why that blonde lady keeps printing those "rah rah" articles for him. Have to keep the toddler happy.
[I can't imagine having that job. How degrading and soul-crushing must that be]
Anecdotal: we took 1 north yesterday from VCC, because fuck 95 (It was borked, like normal) and that stretch of Hanover there the last 2 elections were ALL about Trump.
Like gigantic signs and flags and all that.
Yesterday there was 1 very very very faded tiny yard sign. And five for Nikki.
Even with 13% or whatever it is of our youngs deciding not to vote (can't say enough how overstated that thing is, it is not even most the protesters, the press as normal is blowing it out of proportion, but I digress) if 20-30% of the GOP does not bother to show up in November, we're good to go.
I want my government to be BORING. The last thing I want is excitement in government. If you want excitement, go to a sporting event or a movie or a show. Fucking idiots.
I don’t live in Canada, and Loblaw’s doesn’t carry origami paper. If I did and they did, I would definitely shoplift from them.
I don't usually shop at any of those stores anyway, so boycott doesn't affect me much. I mostly buy my food at independent or small chain bakers, butchers, produce markets, etc. or Safeway.
But when I have shopped at Loblaws stores, the prices are not noticeably higher than at any other big supermarket, so I suspect the reality is not that Loblaws is terrible, but that they are all terrible.
Security? Eventually.
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/c2bcfdde-9092-4cb1-b99d-8f6fb908bbf1/d63volt-37153fc2-2914-48da-be6f-1d9eb46795e3.jpg/v1/fill/w_1024,h_512,q_75,strp/auscanzukus_by_carpathia05_d63volt-fullview.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9NTEyIiwicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvYzJiY2ZkZGUtOTA5Mi00Y2IxLWI5OWQtOGY2ZmI5MDhiYmYxXC9kNjN2b2x0LTM3MTUzZmMyLTI5MTQtNDhkYS1iZTZmLTFkOWViNDY3OTVlMy5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTAyNCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.8vyt4TofJwPn1LSz15GQfCSGFN_wuapmz0k-EXrDqJQ
I make it a policy not to click on links with more than 1,000 characters.
Picture of a flag… the next NATO. Primarily because we can’t trust the Philippines, Thailand, France, and Pakistan since SEATO went under.
AUSCANZUKUS will be the upcoming defense against China.
I'm immediately reminded of the DeMoulas/Market Basket kerfuffle here in MA/NH as an example that it IS possible to push back against grocery chains successfully.
Groceries are a critical but low-margin business, so consumers really can force their hand when they get pissed off enough to do so.
Monday poppy little diddy that has me tapping my toes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIGIWKfbUiw
Percy was just tearing around, as one does, and skidded on one of our area rugs and got his claw stuck in it.
So when he tried to move away, he was dragging it around the floor XD
Dude, they're retractable, try it sometime
All cats are idiots in that regard. I've never had a stuck cat pause and think "oh yeah, I can get myself out of this mess easily." Instead it's always a pulling/ruining motion.
That happens to Penis every day. (Penis is a cat)
That is an amazing name for a cat XD
His name was originally Peanut, which after some years we decided was too boring.
Edit: I helped him of course. Instead of recording his distress for internet fame.
Trying to get to Wonkette today and getting a "too many requests" message from my browser. Heck to the yeah, Wonkette is a popular morning stop. (Yeah, yeah, it's a Substack issue, but that ruins the joke)
Oh, *I* got requests: MOAR SHNACKSIES FOR KITTEHS!
I just came from putting a warm-up in my coffee and three of my cats *just happened* to be swinging by at the same time, and oh, you are near the cabinet where the treats are kept, would it be too much to ask if you put a few out for us?
Kitty radar.
Were they all whistling "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"?
𝘛𝘩𝘦 22-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭’𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘴, 𝘢 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥.
𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗜-𝟵𝟱 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀, 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/csp-fiery-i-95-crash-unfolded-sports-car-tried-19439533.php
I'm hung up on someone calling a Camaro a sports car.
Well, I guess compared to a Chevy Chevette, it is?
A Camaro is a Malibu with bodywork, more or less. The F-body cars evolved a bit from their antecedents which were just, once again, Novas (feels funny; should it be novae?) or Chevelles with slightly different bodywork, but they’ve never behaved particularly well.
They can be made into sports cars - have a friend who has a business doing just that - but by and large they’re slightly rattly family cars with interiors that reflect Chevrolet’s conception of the owner, which is not high up on the economic scale and given to lavish and occasionally tacky displays.
Fuck being cowboys, mommas should not let their babies grow up to drive sports cars
At least until they are steady middle aged folks
Nothing wrong with a sports car. Lots is wrong with the commonly-accepted meme that cars can serve as proxies for young mens’ potency…..it makes no sense and falls into the “ownership of object will make me cool” meme bucket, which always fails to prove true.
This is why we get guys, some young, sadly many not young, who lack any social skills, trying to use their car to get dates….or the same people buying a Stratocaster and amp and thinking that ownership makes them cool (e.g., they cannot play it but they show it off in a vain attempt to be associated with the object’s perceived social cachet).
The idea of ownership - which is sort of passive - vs mastery (of a skill) pervades the culture, and represents the triumph of marketing over common sense.
"The idea of ownership - which is sort of passive - vs mastery (of a skill) pervades the culture, and represents the triumph of marketing over common sense."
I hope I remember this because it is genuinely wise.
Thank you kindly for the kind words!
Sports cars or even cars at all. My eldest nephews are both in their mid 20's now, both have had accidents with cars and are lucky to be alive. And they still both text while driving. Oy. There is a reason actuarial charts have young males at a higher insurance rate than all the rest of the driving population.
Mine eldest drives more safely than I do XD Should see 'er hands firmly on that wheel, eyes ahead, going 5 under at all times
Drives me bonkers
The *only* thing good about this whole situation is that no one was hurt.
holy shit, struck a tanker on 95 and no one was hurt?
Where was this, Providence?
A tanker filled with 8,500 gallons of gasoline that caught fire. It happened in Norwalk ... about 12 miles up I-95 from us. Closed I-95 both directions until yesterday morning.
I was making a providence joke and you ruined it.
It's Monday ... I get a pass.
Zoomers. Fukkin zoomers.
Oh, our generation had our fair share of issues, no doubt.
I lost people due to youthful craziness too.
Noem will not stop talking until literally everyone on earth hates her guts. It’s quite the spectacle
Noem is a damaged person. She's going to double-down on everything because the outside world is destroying delusions and the protective coating of lies she's put up around herself to protect her ego. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump picked her as his VP candidate, simply because the have many of the same psychological issues in common and can enable each other.
A spiral into a hell of their own making.
I think he's picking a white dude. The scuttlebutt is his camp already sent a gee we wanted to pick you but we can't thing already
I figure they were looking for an excuse
I was thinking more of what Trump wants personally, rather than his "handlers" who try to mitigate the damage he does to himself.
Precisely what I am thinking XD They for sure would want him to pick a POC or a woman, but he disrespects both and does not see them as equals at all.
Hence his last go round he had two Women, one in charge of education and the other a press spox, and one black guy who he dropped into Hud despite him being an actual brain surgeon.
This is not a man who picks either for his VP I figure
And plus Elaine Chao in Transportation.
That was nominally a sop to McConnell, very little more.
I think he'll pick another Casper Milquetoast. Probably extract some loyalty hoo-ha from them.
I am wondering if he'll pull a stunt and go with some (relatively young, gotta be 35) Twitter star
Not a chance. The one thing an aging pathological narcissist fears is younger narcissists that might eclipse them, both in age and popularity - any such person is a direct threat to them. No one who could pull focus and demonstrate to Drumph that he is not, in fact, the center of the universe, will be tolerated.
Chris Rufo.
Proceed, Madam.
https://i.imgflip.com/9j156.gif
Enough performative assholery and she might win back some right wingers. It's a long shot, given how deep she dug her hole here, but it's the only chance she's got.
The republican party has been reduced to appealing to the WORST in American society to succeed. How fucked up is that?
The term of art for that kind of government is "kakistocracy."
I wonder how many of them are even aware it's where they are.
From looking around and at the media, I'd say not very many.
I like how even the worst is like....shit, don't shoot puppies in the face
That is better than shooting your family dog because it embarrassed you.
What again?
which would still be a better PR move than Noem's book
I actually thought Noem was one of the smarter republicans. She is doing her damnedest to disavow me of that notion.
She is. But that's the lowest of bars.
She can’t restrain her inner psychopath
I fear for her children.
She can't even use net connections to get them cushy jobs... :(
❤️
Well, my breakfast date for this morning canceled, as I expected, so I am 0/2 for May, which is still not on track to beat my worst month ever which was back in 2014 when, in one month, I had TWELVE dates cancel and/or flake in one month. I see people complain about how hard it is to get a date, but that's no problem for me, my problem is that they don't show up or (more courteously) cancel. And so thank you all for letting me whine, for dating really is as horrible as you all remember.
Hey, I have a bowl of cinnamon Life with your name on it, any time.
To complete the modern dating experience, you have whine on Tik-Tok or Xhitter ...
I don't have either of those.
𝘖𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 you're not one of the new cool kids!
GOD DON'T ACT LIKE I AM UNAWARE!
I try to imagine dating in this age and at this point in my life. I can't.
Yeah, the ones who have their shit together are all still married. -_-
This is the week of the National Lampoon Motion for Vacation of Speakership.
as we all bow down to Moskowitz:
https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1787527088376865113
Do they have a dog hostage?
Not since the gravel pit.
So republican representatives count as dog hostages?
Real dogs would make better representatives than republicans do.
Oh just bite me.
Being excited isn't the issue here.
The US as we know it is.
𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 2 𝑖𝑛 10 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐵𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛 (21%) 𝑜𝑟 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 (25%) 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑃-𝑁𝑂𝑅𝐶 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ. 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒-𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/05/nation/denial-uncertainty-are-looming-over-biden-trump-rematch-6-months-out-election-day/
Louder just because omg: IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EXCITING.
For fuck sakes, we need to teach civics.
It is a citizen's duty to vote.
1800 — the first time Americans were convinced it was a race between the lesser of two evils.
I don't remember hearing about being excited to vote for Jimmy Carter or for Ronald Reagan in 1980, the first presidential election I was eligible to vote. In fact, I don't remember hearing about being excited to vote for any candidate until 2016. The pollsters and the media are broken.
I was VERY excited for Bamz
Though the second round it was more white knuckle hopium than excitement
Bamz was the most excited I was for any candidate, but all of my votes counted just as much as mine for Bamz, that included Dukakis (I literally held my nose to vote for him).
lol way to bury the lede, Boston Globe
That is more significant for Trump because people who vote for Biden /are not doing it for excitement/ while people who vote for Trump are.
And the fact that Donnie is losing even his core cult members must be why that blonde lady keeps printing those "rah rah" articles for him. Have to keep the toddler happy.
[I can't imagine having that job. How degrading and soul-crushing must that be]
What a jerb, attending to the world's biggest spoiled brat. She must have been hella evil in a prior life.
She was a spin instructor. Very sad.
Like the cycling kind of spinning or the spin-around-in-the-yard-until-you-fall-down kind of spinning?
Spin doctor?
I do not know, it was a joke from Schitt's Creek XD
Anecdotal: we took 1 north yesterday from VCC, because fuck 95 (It was borked, like normal) and that stretch of Hanover there the last 2 elections were ALL about Trump.
Like gigantic signs and flags and all that.
Yesterday there was 1 very very very faded tiny yard sign. And five for Nikki.
Even with 13% or whatever it is of our youngs deciding not to vote (can't say enough how overstated that thing is, it is not even most the protesters, the press as normal is blowing it out of proportion, but I digress) if 20-30% of the GOP does not bother to show up in November, we're good to go.
Sorry that a competent President is NOT giving y'all vote boners.
Obama did.
Going into his second term, we were treated to the endless polls about the enthusiasm gap also
"would you like this piece of unbuttered toast, or would you rather eat this bucket of steaming pig manure?"
"Gee, I dunno. The toast just isn't very exciting."
I want my government to be BORING. The last thing I want is excitement in government. If you want excitement, go to a sporting event or a movie or a show. Fucking idiots.
Today is 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆
Thank a nurse!
I do that daily. Give Mrs Land Shark my virtual hug.
Will do.
Morning all! ☕️
Here is your calendar for today: https://catandcalendarlady.substack.com/p/today-is-may-6-2024-monday
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You like that? I call him Queen Charles, LOL!
I love that!
Cheatmoar!
Somebody has to be the worst. : )
Someone is worse, they just won't post their grey boxes!
Good morning!
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You're not cheating.
I'm definitely cheating.
I knew right where to look on the map, I just draw a blank on names.
Same! Tried every you-know-what [damn, I miss being able to do spoilers] in that area.
I also don't know my town's street names, but I know where to turn. 🤪
Cheating, it's what's for breakfast
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