Oh, huh. I grew up just outside of Mayville, right next door.
07.03.2026 12:07
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Oh, huh. I grew up just outside of Mayville, right next door.
To be fair, when they said these things are like PhD students now, they really were telling the truth:
Lots of anxiety, ✔️
Uncertainty about their level of consciousness, ✔️
Laugh cry in current news cycle
The two parties are not the same. But god DAMN do the Dems try to disabuse me of that notion some days.
That and he's mostly a series of Cluster B personality disorders in a trench coat.
I don't know about statewide averages, but the former Holiday around the corner from me in Duluth has shot up 60 cents in the last week. Costco is up 30 cents since last week.
People really need to stop unwittingly carrying water for these guys!
I once got threatened with arrest by the Capitol Police for chasing a squirrel outside the White House.
You know what? I'm gonna follow you harder.
Even non-imported stuff is up, but imported is anywhere from 20-40% higher than 18 months ago. Fruit snacks, olive oil, fig bars, you name it.
Costco may still be some of our cheapest options, but it ain't cheap and they passed it along to consumers as much as anyone did.
We go through a lot of sugar because one of our big drinks is lemonade with Aldi lemon juice and Costco sugar. (Ironically, even as much sugar as goes into it, it's still half the sugar as in watered down apple juice!)
I track all this pretty carefully and scan receipts.
Look, as much as I generally like Costco and support them as a company generally, can we let this idea that they held the line on prices during the tariff fight die?
I do our budgeting and meal planning. Prices for my Costco staples are up 10-20%, especially sugar.
Some subject to how much insurers let through the Strait of Hormuz. People make a big deal out of Iran "closing" it, but they really don't have the guns to back that up. Insurers, however, are like "go through there right now and we ain't covering you anymore" and that WILL stop things cold.
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When one Fetterman gets kicked out the door, another one climbs through the window.
I often come back to liberation theology that notes that we are all subjugated to some extent, and that liberation is not rescuing others, it's freeing all of us at the same time.
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The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it
we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes
We actually planned this show choir set in early 2002 (my dad was the choral director at the high school), and did it turn out to be popular and prophetic in the 2002-03 school year. (I'm mostly in the back in the band)
youtu.be/XI1TTiMEFyk?...
My parents were teachers, so we didn't get it quite so bad, but one of my friends had parents who bought a McMansion in a development in town in the late 90s at the edge of what they could afford and rented furniture. I went over one day and all they had was mattresses on the floor.
Class of '03 like me has been dealing with this shit our whole semi-conscious young adulthood on, yeah.
TBF, Bluey rips my emotional capacity to shreds and asks me to weep over the pieces...
JFC. This makes me yearn for the who-knew-they-would-be-the-good-ol-days when these companies just did performative Pride by sponsoring some floats and having some rainbow branding.
Man, when I asked to have my youth of 2003 back, I really didn't think the genie was actually just going to give me new episodes of Scrubs, Pokemon everywhere, and invading the middle east
These fucking assholes
Guess we gotta go conquer the world before the Claude subscription runs out
Honestly, I'm going to be both relieved and furious if Anthropic just says "fine" and cuts off the government and this results in the military getting screwed over and unable to launch its invasion of Iran.
You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.
Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.
