@princeofhyrule https://www.brookings.edu/articles/retail-theft-in-us-cities-separating-fact-from-fiction/https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/17/business/shoplifting-retail-crime-stores/index.html CNN and Brookings saying its made up.
https://fee.org/articles/is-the-shoplifting-epidemic-fake-bad-news-yes-and-no/ here is even the Foundation of Economic Education (a right wing “free market”) article saying that and then in the last paragraph worrying on theoretical.
@princeofhyrule they would want to, they would also want to explain to their stakeholders why it is that they are loosing revenue and not say that people are moving to online shopping and that the industry overexpanded and some stores became unprofitable.
@josh undergrad here, fedi mostly because it is FOSS, How to promote it? I think just getting people to easily sign up and letting them explore the vast space should do it, thats what has kept me here
@princeofhyrule ooopss- seems someone hasn't looked up that the store closures and market lockdowns have been completely fueled by the management of profit seeking corporations, not by any real crime statistic
From what I know on the conversation around xmpp, this is the central problem, and maybe its because my usage is biased as all the places I am in are mostly just places I found through discover, but it feels physically small, I keep running into rooms and its familiar faces, sure the world feels smaller metaphorically, but xmpp has this physicality for me I feel like Im just walking around in a really big house with a lot of rooms
@jacqueline solution that requires you to sell your soul to the devil and compromise on your morals, or implying you are SOL
@sophie144p top 10 tricks to fuck with whoever repaces you in your sysadmin position
number 2. remove all the disks from fstab
number 3. rm -rf /
number 2. remove all the disks from fstab
number 3. rm -rf /
@Vonter still very fucking upset we never stayed on the trams, all of them now gone. They could have been so useful
don't feel like doing anything but just hanging out and listen to music, need to do assignments, want to use free time to contribute to shit, need to make dinner, *but what if I just procastinated and relaxed though?*
apparently they are already putting the train on the track for the #ncrtc New Ashok Nagar - Hazrat Nizamuddin portion of the track
I have succesfully transported my good monitor and harddrives (yet to be tested) 400 kilometers away to my apartment, time to use expensive equipment to shit post on fedi
@badrihippo Oh I do remember you carrying it around!
As much as I wish to switch away from JS bloated stuff, I am too scared to switch away and rely too much on all of it.
I've had beepy on my radar, and I have always wanted one / have had plans to make a personal hackable PDA more inline with what I understand as the WiPhone (just learnt of it).
Currently planning on turning my old phone into a linux device, but my laziness knows no bouds :^/
As much as I wish to switch away from JS bloated stuff, I am too scared to switch away and rely too much on all of it.
I've had beepy on my radar, and I have always wanted one / have had plans to make a personal hackable PDA more inline with what I understand as the WiPhone (just learnt of it).
Currently planning on turning my old phone into a linux device, but my laziness knows no bouds :^/
@badrihippo never thought of KaiOS as a portable hackable device in this sense? I wonder how good a deal it is
updated my blog for the first time in three months, heyo! (most certainly not just me venting onto it)
Fedi meta
@sophie144p I saw a post on ~~tumblr~~ talking (jokingly I think) about defederating from mastodon.social, I still do not know what that was about.
@sophie144p I shall bookmark this and listen to it when I ak functional, ill love to!