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  • Winn Dixie used to be a force in Kentucky, and so did the Pic Pac grocery stores. it's hilarious Aldi managed to pull off the push-cart quarter redemption strategy in the U.S. the trailer park boys would be so confused.

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  • delivered some Plan B meds the other day. you definitely get some double-looks when you pick that one up as an older man in conservative Ohio.

    well, I was on the clock, and I'll be voting yes on Issue 1.

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  • YEAH but that's just for cats.

    also rats, mice, gerbils, hamsters, birds. many birds. dogs. any non-aquatic animal that creates nests out of their environment would love it. feral humans would love it, and supposedly non-feral humans are OBSESSED with toilet paper.

  • Recommendation: Patriot / Perpetual Grace, LTD
  • i appreciate this and I agree. There is a lot there about platonic dude friendships. Patriot also in its first ten eps passed the Bechdel Test, which is a low fucking bar. Two different female leads from different angles of the story confronted and befriended each other. There was so much more story to be made from that, but it was worlds better than typical tv writing.

  • Indian politician claims that Nijjar was gay and that Trudeau liked him
  • that's interesting. i'd wager propaganda only works that way when it's winning. but that's difficult to gauge these days. propaganda is more segmented and social media is more "federated". hell, trump's social bs exists via mastodon.

  • Indian politician claims that Nijjar was gay and that Trudeau liked him
  • this story is still developing, but only badly. so far, it is not clear, but some part of India was probably involved, not sure it implicates the PM Modi or his underlings.

    but yeah, Modi looks like is a murderous tyrant, history is stacking up against him

  • Recommendation: Patriot / Perpetual Grace, LTD

    #Patriot# is a show about a covert spy dude from the u.s. who is very depressed, and a quiet folk singer, and unusually adept at violence. His task is to get hired undercover at a Milwaukee industrial piping firm so he can do spy shit in Luxembourg and Iran. They managed two 10-episode story arcs out of this, and I love it.

    Fantastic ensemble cast, fantastic writing, fantastic cinematography, fantastic soundtrack, often annoyingly quirky in silly ways, and dark because the characters' actions have consequences.

    also, Terry O'Quinn (Lost) in this is calm and weird and creepy.

    #Perpetual Grace, LTD# Classic pastiche of scammers screwing up in a silly, morbid scheme in a lot of pretentious, but well-done, acting and noir-ish cinematography.

    edit forgot to add: Jimmi Simpson, aka Liam McPoyle from It's Always Sunny, is the lead

    Cut from the same insanity as Patriot, with many of the same creators and actors. A bit more annoyingly quirky. If you don't like Patriot, you probably won't like this.

    if you remember, a criticism of Breaking Bad was that scenes in Mexico were always kinda sepia-toned... this just has weird tones, sometimes in Mexico.

    Both have Steven Conrad as one of the principal creators/writers/directors, or some combination thereof. He wrote Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which is even more silly, but not too far off.

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    Did your basic education (i.e. pre-college/university) cover proper research skills and media literacy?
  • not long before dropping out in the 90s in a conservative, backwards, rural area -- the need to cite sources and do extensive research, and have a willingness to have my ideas challenged, was something I grokked from high school. i don't expect much from from West Virginia, but I didn't then either.

  • Could an iOS app make outgoing calls at its own discretion? Why?

    sorry if there is a more relevant community. i tried on that other big forum site and was shot down by a bot and i am tired.

    let's just say a person started working for a gig-type company, through an app, such as ****** and while "on the clock" and using the app, their iPhone was spontaneously, occasionally making 3-second OUTGOING calls to different numbers coded to San Francisco, where the not-so-hypothetical company is based.

    and if you call the numbers back: "this number no longer works. please contact support"

    what are they doing?

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    Banshees of Inisherin

    Not bad, creepy and weird, i suggest you watch the whole thing before you recommend it to your Ireland obsessed folks

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    the estimated hold time is 33 minutes. when the representative comes on the line, he knows your DOB and insults you.

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