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 theyโve 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 theyโre slightly rattly family cars with interiors that reflect Chevroletโs 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 mensโ potencyโฆ..it makes no sense and falls into the โownership of object will make me coolโ 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 datesโฆ.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 objectโs 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 donโt live in Canada, and Loblawโs doesnโt 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.
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I make it a policy not to click on links with more than 1,000 characters.
Picture of a flagโฆ the next NATO. Primarily because we canโt 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"?
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ 22-๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ-๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ต๐ข๐ฎ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ถ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญโ๐ด ๐๐ต๐ข๐ฎ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ข ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ.
๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐-๐ต๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ต ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐, ๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐
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 theyโve 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 theyโre slightly rattly family cars with interiors that reflect Chevroletโs 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 mensโ potencyโฆ..it makes no sense and falls into the โownership of object will make me coolโ 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 datesโฆ.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 objectโs 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. Itโs 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 canโt restrain her inner psychopath
I fear for her children.
She can't even use net connections to get them cushy jobs... :(
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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.
๐๐ฃ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ 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.
๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก 2 ๐๐ 10 ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ (21%) ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ (25%) ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ด๐-๐๐๐ ๐ถ ๐ถ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐โ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐โ. ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐-๐๐ข๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐๐ฃ๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐โ.
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 โ 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 ๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ก๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐
Thank a nurse!
I do that daily. Give Mrs Land Shark my virtual hug.
Will do.
Morning all! โ๏ธ
Here is your calendar for today: https://catandcalendarlady.substack.com/p/today-is-may-6-2024-monday
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