oh also for the public transit nerds who are on xmpp, I now technically administer a MUC:

xmpp:public-transit@muc.xmpp.earth?join

aren’t on XMPP? https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html a good guide i’d like to say by @contrapunctus

having to choose my electives for next sem, worst part is the hell of navigating the uni website to find the syllabuses, why are unis like this

Friend: So the movie ends by midnight, probably. So you’ll have to get a cab or something-

me: oh so no bus I believe, let me see if I can walk home from there

Friend: you realise it’s in Noida (scary place) yeah?

Me: oh, it’s an hour-long walk, OH! I can skateboard back home

Friend: okay, there is an earlier show we can go to

@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.