Behold, the fruits of AI: pretext for biometric surveillance.

Like they know people wouldn’t actually be working for their shitty asses if it wasn’t for the money, right? They won’t even be doing the “work” that they are doing if they were making $15 an hour.

That’s cool, but when you say shit like this, when you position yourself as an enemy to normal people, you certainly have no right to get upset when people say they want to treat you like an enemy.

At least Kroger has a union to be hostile to!

I guess it does depend a little bit on the grocery store. I’m more accustomed to seeing store brand price range comparable to Aldi, aka $1.50 for the bottom range for the varieties that have added sugar, and $2 and up for the “authentic” or organic varieties that don’t have it.

As for Prego, well I’m probably actually thinking of Ragu at the moment but they have “Simply” or “Kettle” or “Homemade” or authentic or organic styles that don’t have added sugar. Not sure remembering all the right names for them, but having sauce without added sugars something that people seek out a lot easier so it makes sense that brands try to varieties to accommodate that market niche.

Well good on him.

Idk, this one is pretty convincing from the one photo, at least on a small screen. If I was looking at the flag I might pick up on something being off, but nothing about the structure of modern social media drives you to look for the tells of artifice, and in fact we’ve been so conditioned to just sort of tolerate and ignore and accept as real airbrushing and Photoshop and even AI photo and video touch ups to the point where I think it’s a lot harder to pick up on.

Good twist on that one.

Great Value is Walmart and I just won’t shop there. I can say I notice little difference (in a good way) between lower end brand names like Ragu or Prego and various store brands. I just don’t see the price difference as much though. Maybe a dollar’s difference. I’m still a store brand buyer, but I’m more price sensitive than taste sensitive on the question.

There are varieties made with little or even no sugar.

I respect the DIY sauce game, but my point was that if you’re buying pre-made sauce it’s neither pricey nor necessarily loaded with sugar.

Ghoulish.

Goodbye Tim Apple, hello John Apple.

In my experience store brands are maybe 75% the price of Prego, and comparable quality. It’s not high end but it’s also not vastly overpriced. Maybe $3-4 a jar vs $2-3 for store brand, or $7-10 for the fancy brands.

Scalping is reselling goods on the secondary market for more than you bought them at the source?

It is harder if you want to resell it yourself, but that is the whole point. The right to resell a piece of paper or a code that lets you into a venue is the means by which scalpers ply their arbitrage.

It just makes more sense to allow people to have the venue refund them. Then suddenly it’s not sold out anymore.

They already do that to a degree. The problem is that scalpers buy up all the tickets and then over charge people on the secondary market.

I think that second thing is just called a refund.

“Oh no what if someone believes my hype about building a Torment Nexus and, instead of throwing more money on my money fire, tries setting me on fire instead.”

Durability I imagine. My 10+ year old MP3 players still work fine. My phones from 5 years ago don’t.

Childers is maybe the best of this generation.