Easy. Manufacturers pay for endcap displays and choice shelf space. It’s advertising for them. (source: I work for a brewery, and that’s how they put together the beer aisle. I’ve seen the software used to build the shelf arrangements.)
Easy. Manufacturers pay for endcap displays and choice shelf space. It’s advertising for them. (source: I work for a brewery, and that’s how they put together the beer aisle. I’ve seen the software used to build the shelf arrangements.)
Grocery chains have software for putting together shelf arrangements. Suppliers have to pay if they want their products at a quality location at eye level, or near the ends of the aisle. And of course pay more for things like endcap displays.
Yep. The only way to make progress on that front is to serve Putin some polonium tea…
Indeed! I think a lot of people here are getting wise to that.
I think we understand the other side just fine. They’re a combination of malignant narcissists and complete idiots.
Exactly. The cancer may wear a swastika or a hammer-and-sickle. Either way, it’s authoritarian cancer.
Yep, they get bored when they don’t have people to bully after the rest of the planet tells them to fuck off.
Just ignore the genocides perpetuated by the Soviets…
Damned right. Fuck nazis and tankies. Fuck the bigots and fuck the authoritarian Putin-lovers.
Having multi-communities, akin to multireddits, would be handy.
I still wonder if artificial sweeteners mess with metabolism, say by training people to ignore satiety signals, which would be why we saw that study a few days back saying artificial sweeteners are associated with weight gain.
Ah, the things we do to attempt to preserve our dignity when we think we’re getting something only entertainingly hot, but turns out to be Chicken à la Mace…
Yep, the Daily Fail. Fucking Murdoch rag.
I thought at first that’s what this was - one of those stupid Jesus tracts that look like a $20, because apparently, SaViNg YoUr SoUl Is ThE bEsT tIp Of AlL!1!
And despite security recommendations, too many IT depts still force password resets every 90 days…
And people confronted with this change their password from “p@55w0rd!1” to “p@55w0rd@2”. Yep extra-secure!
Welp, I look at Instagram maybe once a year, so there’s not much on mine.
Or for really old-school nerds, Max Headroom. There were the Zik Zak “Blipvert” ads that were hyper-accelerated until they literally made people’s heads explode (like in Scanners).
I like it! Sure, some rough edges, and a bit of technical difficulties due to the influx of Reddit refugees like me, but this seems like a much friendlier, more real community.
I think in the later dying days of the floppy disk, the manufacturers made them with really poor quality. It used to be in earlier years, say the 8-bit years when floppy disks were still floppy, that the disks could keep your data for years if you treated them like vinyl records and never touched the magnetic surface.
In the late years, I’ve seen floppy disks that failed almost immediately.