You seem to be conflating two unrelated points. When people say “tourists need to go home” or “we need less tourists,” they aren’t referring to some philosophical argument for the existence of tourism as a gauge of economic health for the middle class.

These phrases are almost exclusively speaking in regards to tourism’s negative effects on the local environment and population. Heavy tourism has a tendency to cannibalize an areas resources and then alienate or push out the native population.

The key is to know which rules to break with which customer though. That’s the hard part.

They’re pretty loud in general so you would probably know, but they don’t tend be like to hang about indoors. Might just be house sparrows if you’re hearing them on the warehouse floor.

You should download the Merlin ornithology app. It’s built by the Cornell ornithology lab and has picture and sound ID features for birds as well as just a lot of generally useful identification information.

They’re perfectly nice birds unless you’re a farmer, leave out trash, or conveniently have an open dryer vent for them to loudly nest in like I do.

For those that don’t know, they’re a common nuisance bird because they nest in enclosed cavities like tree trucks or the siding of your house or any open vents. If you’re from the US (At least the Midwest or East Coast, not sure about the western states) and have seen very large flocks of small black birds dancing in the air like schooling fish, behavior called murmations, those are Starlings.

European Starlings were introduced in the US about 100 years ago by a misguided fool in Manhattan. They are invasive, but absolutely everywhere around the US at this point and that’s definitely a European Starling fledgling.

Honestly I guess I am kinda broken in that regard, I miss the constant fixations a lot, I feel so bored and helpless when I have nothin’ to focus on.

I wouldn’t say you’re broken, because if you are then I have to admit I’m broken in the same way 😁

Whether we like it or not, this disease is a part of us both and learning to manage and live with it is an integral part of our lives. You’ll find what works for you one of these days, but the important thing is to not give up and keep trying. To me though, what you describe in your post sounds a little more like depression (Something I also have a great deal of personal experience with).

This really resonates with me. It certainly feels like it gets harder to manage every year, but I don’t know that that’s actually the case. I think the reality is just that I’ve become much more aware of my deficiencies over time.

As a child I wouldn’t bat an eye at playing video games for 10 hours straight without eating or drinking anything, but as an adult I’m aware that I could be doing so much more productive things with my time. Now, if I ever feel the familiar urge of a new fixation setting in I also feel melancholic because I have to actively temper myself to the point I feel guilty if I indulge it.

I get this completely. I’ll never bring it up because it just sounds weird to someone who doesn’t experience it themselves. I’ll be forever chasing that feeling of being done taking a test in a classroom and hearing nothing but scratching pencils in an otherwise silent room.

It also doesn’t help that a sizable portion of the ASMR content creators use it as an avenue to dress provacatively on camera or insert overtly sexual undertones to poorly done ASMR. I feel like these are the videos people think of though when you mention it.

I’m on Jerboa and I’ve never once seen this issue. The post you linked properly loads the image and all comments. The only time I’ve come close to seeing the message you link is if it’s pointing to a banned/deleted user or comm.

You are a terrible human being. Stop victim blaming.

those other 2 weeks you can live semi-normal and thus have friends.

I don’t think you’re thinking about how hard this will absolutely fuck over your sleep. There is no way you can be a functional human being for those two weeks with this consistent and drastic of a schedule change.

There was potential legislation and a lot of congressional probes in the mid-late 2000’s in the US that essentially forced cellular carriers to publicly admit that it cost next to nothing on their end to send SMS messages(like 10^-7¢ per message) yet they charged insane premiums for them of 20¢ per message. This ended up being the catalyst for US carriers dropping most SMS charges to stay competitive while the rest of the world just changed over to alternate messaging services to avoid the fees instead like you said.

They are not being informed that their actual email account is compromised. They are simply being told that their email address and an associated password was located in some csv file somewhere.

You use your email as an identifier/username by default for numerous services so without them specifying anything further this information isn’t exceptionally meaningful. If you use the same password for your email provider as you do other services, then you’ve got bigger problems(Please don’t do this)

Well at least it’s clear you only want to know this so you can troll, I’m sorry, I mean “avoid censorship.”

I’m glad for the win, but until this is something that’s formally legislated by Congress we’re just going to be ping-ponging back and forth depending on which party has majority control of the FCC. What we really need are Congresspersons who are savvy enough to understand and address modern tech problems effectively.

This was definitely not a headline that I expected to see today given everything else that’s going on. Fuck.

one of the primary arguments against the original sales package was that C&S does not have meaningful operational experience

Your guess is as good as mine, but the section I quoted may indicate they might be trying to break more into front-end operations.

They have extraordinarily robust market channels set up already and have their hands in the vast majority of the grocery industry for grocers that aren’t large enough to have their own vertically integrated warehousing like Walmart, Kroger, etc.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they negotiate regional buyouts to their existing clients or just sell off the assets. I hope they don’t become a brick and mortar store because honestly that would just be another industry monopoly coming into the forefront.

C&S is just a fulfillment warehouse and not buying anything. They handle the logistics and provide stock behind the scenes. What you’re seeing in what you linked is just them handling the “Store brands” for that particular chain.

Whomever the owners of the new chains are will have a choice of which warehouse they choice to do business with as there are a few larger players, but that depends on the region.

I worked IT for grocery for years and have had to deal with C&S as a middleman numerous times.

I’m glad it works for you, but I always hated getting to work very sweaty and then being smelly for the rest of the day when I biked.

It seems more like they used past results when it was convenient for them for their graphic aids and not when it wasn’t. Articles like these pop up all the time and are usually attempting to sell services of some sort. There are numerous promotional links in the original Fox piece and the Debt.come survey.

Methodology: Debt.com surveyed 1,000 credit card holders about how high inflation has impacted on their debt. People responded from all 50 states and Washington, DC, and were aged 18 and above. Responses were collected through SurveyMonkey. The survey was conducted on February 27, 2024.

Surveymonkey is usually a site that’s used to solicit survey completion for a very small monetary compensation. I’d again wager that people who are filling out paid surveys online are likely a cash-strapped section of the population and contributing to the sample bias. This is all intentional though.