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I work at Whole Foods, so I can give some insight into ordering via Amazon Prime. Some important points:

1) The people who handle it are Amazon employees: Whole Foods employees actually have nothing to do with it. We cant help you with it, and calling the store about your order will get you referred to Amazon Support.

2) There are plenty of Amazon shoppers, but only rarely is Amazons management actually on site, so the shoppers are largely unsupervised. Some shoppers are really good, others quite clearly have no idea what theyre doing and/or dont care.

3) Whole Foods doesnt carry a lot of national brands. The ones it does carry are invariably marked up. The store brand(365) is pretty good, at least.

4) We dont really have back stock(Order to Shelf lol), so its not uncommon for us to be out of certain products. We do; however, get shipments frequently.

5) Shoppers can substitute stuff somehow: Im not sure how it works though. So that could lead to price disparities.

6) Shoppers put your order on shelves to be picked up by drivers(or you). They have fridges and freezers. An Amazon Prime Now driver comes to pick up and deliver your order. Inevitably, they sometimes screw up and leave a bag behind.
If you choose to pick up your order, there are special spots for order pick-up. Check-in is done via an app or e-mail, and a shopper brings your order out to your car.

Balrog0 posted...

I mean, I'm not directly involved in any of these conversations so I'm speculating, but the emphasis on tax credits (both the health insurance and child tax credit stuff) tells me they want to put something together that can pass through reconcilation. Which inherently limits how much you can change. Still I find it weird that so many leftists are so dismissive of biden when his plan does more to address child poverty since, well, probably ever

I, for one, will believe it will actually happen when Biden signs it into law in a socially-distanced Rose Garden ceremony. It's time for the Democrats to govern: they don't get credit for merely suggesting that we should maybe do good things, it's time to actually do good things.

Yeah, the modding here isn't the best. Really seems the mods have it out for anyone who has a history, even if they're posting stuff that would slide for most.
Still not even the worst modding I've seen on this site.

s0nicfan posted...

Democrats used the filibuster against Trump far more than any other president. if you think getting rid of the filibuster is a good idea, just imagine if they had done it during Obama and every single one of those 314 blocks made it through.

I get that a short-sighted power grab seems super appealing right now, but Democrats would be shooting themselves in the foot long-term by stripping away that power.

They won't have to worry about power at all after 2022 if they don't.

Moreover, it is, in fact, a bad thing that the Senate is a graveyard where legislation goes to die, and the fact that it is occasionally bad legislation that dies there doesn't make up for it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/biden-filibuster-schumer-mcconnell-harry-reid-barack-obama-1118110/
The following members of the Democratic Caucus are not currently on-board with removing the filibuster(and thus effectively support letting Mitch have the keys):
Jon Tester(MT), Kyrsten Sinema(AZ), Joe Manchin(WV), Chris Coons(DE), Diane Feinstein(CA), and Angus King(I-ME).

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1353734942400897025
So yeah, things are going great right now! Punting on governing would drive us right back into worst-case scenarios.

IV and IV:A both have some good-to-great moments, but yeah: they're not the best plot-wise though Hikaru being Lucifer was a great twist.
It's weak because they decided Law vs. Chaos shouldn't be some kind of trade-off where they maybe arguably make sense and just made them different flavors of genocide and stagnancy.

Duck is a richer, gamier poultry. It's also easier to screw up than chicken, because you have to render the fat right, but it's goddamned delicious as long as it's done right.

The Bills are cool and good and they need to score approximately all of the points if they want to win.

Packers deserved to lose after kicking that field goal.

Yeah, Ive heard of him saying similar things about Georgians. Stuff like this isnt uncommon in political systems like Russias, unfortunately.

She does have a ton of free time these days.

Eliza3 posted...

I'm not watching Joe Rogan, but for anyone who found something she said objectionable, can you elaborate? I'm curious now.

She thinks Narendra Modi is the best thing since sliced bread.

I've honestly just given up on discussing such matters on this site(and most others). It's just the same concern trolls making the same biased arguments, grasping at every straw they can find to justify their discomfort with transness and the authorities just shrugging it off, as though those very same arguments aren't used in the real world to justify discriminating against trans people and much worse.

I liked this topic better when it was happy, but then, it's more important to be real.

I wouldn't say they're bad, TC, just that they're a fad currently.
The strongest of the genre (and this is true even of actual roguetypes) incorporate a lot of hand-crafted elements that may or may not show up on a given run(event encounters in games like FTL are a great example of this) or could occur at different places/depths/whatever. This helps provide the experience texture and structure, even if the space between these sections or events is procedurally-generated.

With that said, yeah, lots of designers DO use it as an excuse to be lazy and/or to justify bad/unclear/blatantly unfair mechanics.

WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

So he's actually trying to work across the aisle to work together? That's what he said he was going to do.

Why are people surprised?

He also said he would actually do a ton of stuff. They're kind of mutually exclusive!

70-85% is just about perfect. Get the nibs and some sea salt in there, and you have a decadent little treat.

LastTomorrow posted...

There a reason why the us only has a two term limit.

There really arent any good ones though.

Thats a really odd misspelling of garbage.
Its oranges which are the best. Especially blood oranges.

Revnir posted...

Democrats got fucked in 2000 because the green party, so it's just poetic justice.

Blaming the Green Party is giving Jeb! ,Katherine Harris, and the Supreme Court a completely undeserved pass, just for starters.

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

That's cute. Wyoming would go bankrupt and fall apart without federal aid.

Is there really anything there *to* fall apart?

Always supervise your cat when administering catnip. Not for their benefit, but for yours.

Oh, and its fun to talk about girls with lesbians.

RustyFerret posted...

So communists can be fascists?

I mean Mussolini was a fan of Marx originally.

Yeah, but he got expelled from the Italian Socialist Party for advocating intervention in WW1, because ultimately he was more nationalist in leaning. He was inspired by Gabriele D'Annunzio's attempted seizure of Fiume for Italy after the war to seize power.

Cats are too small to be lethally dangerous, but cat bites have a great chance of getting infected, and they'll claw you up like crazy, which hurts like hell.

You can't choose freely: you can go with your alignment or the White, which is considered the bad ending.
If you're set on neutral, be careful: there are still some decisions between now and when you get locked in that affect your alignment. It's tricky to stick it in the middle.

Yeah, our institutions are breaking down, and it won't improve in the long-term without reforms that our institutions make almost impossible to accomplish.

creativerealms posted...

But prices are too high for the current minimum wage.

You're right, we should continue to allow the value of the minimum wage to depreciate, surely this will fix the problem soon!

lightwarrior78 posted...

The problem is less a minimum wage, but in how people seem to be using it to try to hang on to low skill, soon to be automated jobs.

Why isn't the question "why can't I get a higher paid job" instead of "why can't I earn a living wage ringing up groceries by computer"?

This is doubly dumb because it's the white collar jobs that are most likely to be useless, easily automated, and/or outright pernicious.

But to address the points, it's awful hard to get a "better" job when you don't have a degree, your parents don't have extensive connections nor bank accounts, and you're barely making ends meet.

Socrawheeze posted...

I live in a boring suburb, lemme check real quick if there's a craft beer place around

I think the closest places are in brooklyn. Damn. I'm down to order online tho. Watermelon cotton candy sounds dope

Brooklyn Brewery makes some really great beer. Also you're on the East Coast, so you can probably find Dogfish Head. They have a nice sour out now: https://www.dogfish.com/brewery/beer/sun-day-feels

Can't believe the Bills are actually in the AFC Championship, and the remaining AFC teams are cool.
I hope we play the Browns though, because the Browns are cool and good and Josh needs to slay Baker Mayfield to absorb his powers and become the ultimate 2018 draft QB.

Link to the Past Randomizer is fun. You can go from randomizing non-key chest items to throwing keys in(Keysanity is the way to go, IMO) to randomizing bosses, enemies, start and victory conditions, and entrances.

Trumble posted...

Don't kid yourselves. The blue states may be doing a slightly less bad job, but there is no US state that is doing a good job.

This. Our political culture prioritizes corporate profits at the expense of all else, and systematically undervalues people like teachers, social workers, service workers, nurses, EMTs, etc.

But my heart goes out to all the victims of our countrys decadence and rot.

scar the 1 posted...

He would have been so thoroughly sabotaged by the liberal media establishment that I think it would have been hard for him to win.

I mean, the media absolutely hates him and would both sides the crap out of the contest(this extremist wants to ban Muslims, and this extremist wants to RAISE M-err..YOUR TAXES!!!), but I'm not sure they could have done worse than what they actually did.
Bernie also has the benefit of being a clear, concise messenger in a way Clinton never was.

'16 Bernie would potentially do worse with black voters, especially older ones though. '20 Bernie was really leaps-and-bounds better in outreach.

Just on the basis of campaign infrastructure, it's hard to imagine Bernie repeating Hillary's mistake in terms of dropping the ball completely in the rust belt.
The variable is how invested the Democratic Party would be in him winning(or losing).

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Id also like to add, people love to talk about bad dog owners, but cat owners are huge enablers a lot of the time. They pretty much immediately give up on curving any of the cats behavior and they end up working around their bad behavior. Props to the good ones tho. I don't wanna disrespect you.

Ugh, my parents feed our new kitten everything. Just because the dumb idiot cries whenever we make food doesn't mean you give the dumb idiot food! He's going to get incredibly goddamned fat once he stops growing, and then they'll whine about the vet bills...
And probably learn nothing. Cat's a sweet, adorable little bastard though.

Cats view themselves as supreme beings, but they're actually small, stupid animals(cats are funniest when they are temporarily forced to reckon with this reality) which happen to be adorable and were seen by our ancestors brutally murdering rodents(cats evidently believe that a clean death is far more than their victims deserve). They can be very nice, but they're also territorial and capricious.

Socrawheeze posted...

^I really need to get into beer one of these days. I'll fuck with a coors or guinness, but that's literally it thus far

Well, that's a start. Which do you prefer: Coors or Guinness? That'll give insight into which side of the spectrum to explore first(in craft terms).

Amazon is so hostile to BLM they banned us from wearing more than 4 colors to prevent us from wearing rainbows, which could be construed as a political message, and that would be bad!
Not sure how floral patterns fit into that though...

I think Andy Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt have a clear upper-hand here.
JFK is ranked lower because he totally wrecked his back in WW2.

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George H.W. Bush
Lieutenant(junior grade), U.S. Navy 1943-45
He was a navy aviator and flew in combat at Wake and in the recapture of the Philippines. His plane was shot down during Wake and his crewmen died in the crash.

Having an Alesmith Speedway Stout, personally. You only really need one!

AlisLandale posted...

But yeah Im probably gonna skip D/P remakes unless there are some major expansions to the world/campaign.

Unova was a much more interesting region. Sad we probably wont get ports and will just have to settle for remakes in ten years. >_>

Like, the floor for Diamond/Pearl remakes is "they're basically Platinum", because Platinum was so, so much better.

I legit almost died on my way to work once because I was across from another car at an intersection, and it was signaling left and so, because I was turning left, I proceeded into the intersection, only to discover the other car was going straight.
That was dicey. No collision occurred, but if we hadn't been paying attention...
Really, nothing bothers me more than people not signalling. I don't pretend I'm some awesome amazing perfect driver, because I'm not, but I can at least manage correct signaling and lane discipline 99% of the time.

TheOtherMike posted...

They tried that. McConnell said no.

McConnell won't be Senate Majority Leader when they're hashing out Biden's stimulus package.
If Joe Manchin puts his foot down and utterly refuses to consider $2,000, fine. Throw him under the bus they'll never do that LOL they would sooner blame Bernie , don't try and explain you always meant it would be $1,400, because most people are going to think you lied to them (and I'll think you're an idiot, but I already think that).

Balrog0 posted...

Sucks that the electorate is so stupid

I mean, obviously? But aren't the Dems also stupid idiots for always insisting on needless complications? Just make the checks $2,000, it will literally make the aid package better anyway.

If you're explaining why you're giving people less than what you told them they would get(or that they thought you told them), you're not going to win any points.

Yeah, he eclipsed Bush Jr. with the one-two punch of a (at times deliberately) terribly handled response to COVID and an attack on our government so blatant and odious even some Republicans are condemning it.

Bears DC Chuck Pagano has announced his retirement. So, uhhh...good luck hiring a DC with a lame duck GM and HC is that Gregggg Williams' music I'm hearing!?

In any case, I'm looking forward to seeing my Bills go up against the Ravens Saturday night. I expect that the Ravens rushing attack will do a ton of damage to our garbage ass run defense, but Josh Allen *should* be able style on that secondary...

To expound on one factor: its my understanding Hillary ran an extremely top-down campaign. Nothing was done without the say-so of the Brooklyn-based HQ, which was run mostly by analysis of demographics and polling data(internal and external). They were generally dismissive of outside orgs and even local Dem parties, and insisted on running things themselves. This led to them, for example, ignoring the warnings of local party officials and organizers about Wisconsin, because their data said everything was fine.
One of the problems with their approach is that they were, essentially, always seeing the race as it was a week or more ago, rather than where it was in the here and now.

I work at Whole Foods right now.
I am extremely fortunate that I haven't gotten COVID-19.

Ugh, and Rep. Jayapal is one of the best ones too.

Really, all the Greek Gods are exceptionally awful.
It contrasts very strongly with Indra being cursed for not being able to keep it in his pants, is all.