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  • I went to a grocery store in the morning that I normally go to at night and they had dimmed lights, soft music, as well as no sounds coming from the cash registers

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  • I can't answer about whether you should get checked out.

    However, I've always found shops to be a fairly hostile environment.

    They're crammed with products, and every single one is trying to convince you to buy it.

    The very lay out of the store is not designed with your interests in mind, but rather to extract money from you.

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    The brother of the White House Press Secretary had his latina ex detained by ICE in order to win a custody battle over their 11-year-old son

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  • I suspect that there's 100s of stories like this one.

    One wonders how the 11 year old feels about it.

  • What is your relationship with price haggling?

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  • I dislike haggling immensely.

    Here in Australia it's very unusual outside of specific transactions like buying a car, or buying a second hand item on facebook marketplace or something. Even in these examples it's becoming less popular - a lot of car dealers just say they don't negotiate on price.

    I don't really follow your pizza example - who ever produces value gets the money.

    Haggling disadvantages minorities or anyone who isn't on equal social footing with the vendor. If you have any intellectual disability, or language barrier, or even if you just don't want to talk to anyone on a given day, you'll end up paying more for your purchase.

    You don't seem to have offered any benefits to haggling.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • This is a dramatic generalisation.

    There are plenty of tourist destinations that people love because they are over-run with tourists - the very antithesis of your comment.

    I'm not really sure how tourists are ruining the housing market on mount everest. As an aside, I suspect the locals are generally pretty happy with the tourism industry on and around mount everest.

    Of course there are examples of tourism disaffecting locals, but these cases are really limited. In general, tourism is a great industry for regional centres.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • I'm hard pressed to think of a place which has had it's character extracted.

    Sure, tourism can change places, excessive tourism can harm the culture of a place, but in all but extreme cases I think that's a pretty hollow argument - culture is always transient. Conservatives always argue against change and external influences.

    Whataboutism is to suggest that thing A isn't really a problem because thing B has other similar characteristics. However, an assertion that A through Z all share the same characteristics is to suggest that an argument against the existence of thing A on those grounds is absurd.

  • Zero Chill

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  • What's going on here?

    Its this person controlling these devices from a laptop?

    For what purpose? Clicks and likes?

  • This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important

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  • Ladies, do you have a special towel to dry your ass crack?

  • Detained a minor at gunpoint while off duty

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  • IKR. Im sure they'll remember his support once they start running low on people to disappear.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • This comment was written by someone who doesn't like the vibe but doesn't have a rebuttal.

  • Welcome to our town :) …now leave

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  • Weird take.

    How is tourism extractive like mining? What is extracted?

    You could make the same complaints of any primary industry.

    If you think of inflows and outflows to and from a small local economy, in an era where almost every purchase is an outflow to Amazon et al, tourism is an important inflow. Locals cant just keep passing the same $1 around until someone spends it online, you need money coming in.

    You can call it "trickle down" economics if you like, but i dont think thats a fair summation. In a small coffee shop, there's no fat cat corporate owner, but a half dozen people with jobs.

    Its absolutely true that in some places airbnb has reduced the number of homes available to locals, but thats not generally true of all tourist destinations. Most jurisdictions where this is / was a significant problem have enacted appropriate laws to mitigate it.

    Its not about crooked politicians and their rich friends. A reasonable level of tourism is good for everyone, but too much can obviously cause problems.

  • "Seel professional help" but how the fuck do you know who to choose?

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  • It will vary depending on your location.

    Here in Australia you first talk to a General Practitioner, as in your local family doctor.

    They will make some suggestions about which service might be a good fit for you.

    I wouldn't read or trust reviews for clinics in this industry.

  • What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • I've been using Linux for a long time and I don't know any of this really.

    Basically, home directory is for everything, unless some instructions say some other path.

  • ‘That doesn’t exist’: Doge reportedly quietly disbanded ahead of schedule

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  • The fact that the American public doesn't care about this is pretty much what has allowed Trumpism to arise.

  • Can anyone scientists confirm?

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  • Its because the rain stimulates life outside the water, there's more food everywhere.

    The moist soil / sand means grubs & worms come to the surface. Insects are on the move looking for food / evading rain. Birds are snapping them up and discarding bits and pooping. Rain is washing all this stuff from river banks into the water.

    Et cetera.

    Same thing happens on the rising tide. High tide is the climax. Then everyone takes a break on the ebbing tide.

  • Father and son’s metal detecting trip uncovers historic artillery cache in Czech forest

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  • I'm surprised they apparently dug them out with an excavator.

  • Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’

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  • Probably not that much honestly.

    The resource intensive part is the initial training.

    Tuning later is much less so.

  • A scam call center opened in the office next door. Who do I report them to?

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  • Here they're pretty great with welfare stuff.

    Once my neighbour warned me about robots with lasers invading or something, and was talking to someone who didn't exist.

    I called the po-po, who showed up and talked him into going to the emergency department with them.

    I bumped into his mum a few weeks later and she thanked me for calling the police. She said he'd been having a psychotic break or something.

  • Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows

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  • It was definitely a thing at school in the 80s.

  • I cant even make up corruption this blatant. My imagination is not this stupid.

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  • I was listening to a podcast about this.

    Basically if things get toxic enough that the oligarcs become dissatisfied, you can unseat a dictator.

    The tariffs were initially on track to do this in May or so, but someone expressed their dissatisfaction to Trump and he listened.

    Boycotts have a potential to make a significant impact, but I don't think Americans have the collective will to implement one in the current climate.