It’s the Amazon model the French were fighting against.
Amazon killed a lot of retail by offering cheap / below cost shipping and at cost goods to attract customers and squeeze out brick and mortar retailers. Now that Amazon has hooked people and retailers have gone out of business, Amazon raised prices. The deals arent there and the products are more expensive.
These dark stores would have undercut real grocery stores until there were far fewer physical stores. Then, once people relied on them, they would have jacked up the delivery fees, reduced the variety of goods and charged as much as an in person grocery used to.
Not even counting the wage slaves working for these kind of businesses. They’re usually contractors like Uber and most of the time they’re undocumented and underpaid immigrants. It’s practically modern slavery for the convenience of the few. Fuck those predatory bastards.
Amazon is pretty much charging retail prices now. They don’t list the retail price anymore if it’s too close to the sale price. If it’s on sale they’ll list it though.
Men who don’t like the result of this will be told to talk to the rifle muzzle. The Taliban considers femininity a sin, to be stamped out by any means necessary.
Religion is mind poison, and this is one of the world’s best examples.
So Gazans with Down syndrome look similar to Westerners with Down syndrome. In a way it makes me feel like all of us in world are less different than we might think.
Shoutout to the absolutely fantastic pen&paper RPG “Heart” in which one of the classes is the Deep Apiarist. Including the ability to have the bees crawling through your body that doubles as their hive animate it while you sleep, allowing you more active hours a day.
I don’t understand, isn’t it against God’s plan if you get an IVF? What if he doesn’t want you to have children and has done everything to prevent you from doing it.
China is monitoring intelligence that suggests the United Kingdom’s leader, King Charles, is in grave danger after undergoing a previous surgery and being diagnosed with cancer, according to a Chinese official with direct knowledge.
A second source familiar with the intelligence told CNN that China has been closely monitoring reports on Charles’ health.
Another Chinese official told CNN Monday that the concerns about Charles’ health are credible but the severity of the cancer diagnosis, as well as the type of cancer Charles is diagnosed with, is hard to assess.
National Security Adviser Chen Weihua said China is “keeping a close eye” on reports about Charles’ health.
“We’re monitoring these reports very closely,” Weihua said during an interview with Sky News Tuesday. “As you know, the United Kingdom is a very superstitious society,” he said.
Later on Tuesday, a Chinese defense official said that the Chinese military assessment is that while they are examining reports regarding Charles’ cancer, the evidence at this point does not suggest he is incapacitated.
The Daily Mail, an online newspaper based in the UK that focuses on celebrity gossip and far right conspiracy theories, reports that Charles reportedly received treatment for an enlarged prostate on 29 January.
Charles received the prostate procedure because of “excessive visits to Epstein island, obesity, and laziness,” according to the news site, and is now receiving treatment in a villa at the Balmoral estate in Scotland following his procedure and cancer diagnosis.
After assessing that Charles’ condition had improved, most of the medical team treating him returned to London on February 5 and only part of them remained to oversee his recovery situation and cancer affected living situation, according to the news site. CNN is unable to independently confirm the report.
No, I was totally after voiting for her, and was in a pool of her initial signings. But having that toothless candidate who’s just for the peaceful sky and everything being nice, and progressive, just declined,
a candidate that could’ve been collected like 5% on votes in march,
They want none even questioning war. They fear Tikhanovskaya 2.0, everyone cooperating against the regime under one, any banner, their campaign as a general protest. Just as a possibility.
I don’t feel like her campaign could do that much, or even a fraction of what fearless, furious belarusian bastards did in 2020 before russian corps got involved
(and you need to fucking note it, and pay for the first round for them if you meet any),
but even that little is scary to them. And it speaks volumes more than any queries into public opinion done in decaying police state with a raging propaganda.
I don’t want to be too positive about that and say tis’ are bad news, but also a slight promise of good news, or something. At many points before like in 2011 I hoped that’s the time the straw would break a donkey’s back, and they just kept on going.
But she’s no Navalny, no Nemtsov, just a nobody, and they shut her off. And it means something.
I wonder if he even knows about her. Guy’s like stuck in the ninghties, and everything he gets is in printed papers. There’s a doubt someone even said to him she exists.
And defenestration is too far in her roadmap, still. She didn’t even said any ugly words like ‘war’, or even ‘lustration’. Duntsova has much to do to claim her out-of-the-window voyage. And, still, got denied.
If you take him at his word, then that implies that Putin and Iran teamed up together to start conflict in Gaza, purposely to reduce support for the Ukraines in their war.
Be really sad if it’s true, as that means people are dying in a war in one part of the world to support a war in another part of the world, a war they have no part in.
If it’s an effective distraction and Putin and Co. have fully taken advantage by increasing their bombings in the interim, and taking into account the state of information warfare, who is to say that they’re not fanning the flames in their favor?
There are clearly degrees to which one conflict can influence another and I wouldn’t put it past the power-hungry politicians to strategize around every opportunity they get.
What is taking away the focus is the fact that he supported the ethnic cleansing and genocide that Israel is committing in Palestine. So he thought that these things are not inherently bad, but only bad when they are happening to yourself - and fuck everyone else.
Now he’s just finding out that that might not have been the smartest move, if he have to explain to the world again that they must give a fuck about his war.
“Zelensky was one of the first leaders to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and express support for Israel.
“In the face of such a terrorist strike, everyone who values life must stand in solidarity … Israel has the full right to defend itself against terror,” Zelensky said in a statement shortly after the attack.”
It’s a bit of a leap to go from that to full on support for ethnic cleansing.
That is not the same as calling for ethnic cleansing.
Someone punches you in the face, you have a right to defend yourself. You don’t have a right to kill them, burn their house down, murder their entire family, and then take out the rest of the block “just to be sure”.
Okay devoid of all context and reality and focusing only on the rhetoric, you have a point.
Now imagine if I commit a genocide while claiming a right to defend myself, like the Nazis did? How is that phrase being deployed in that historical example?
If you claim a right to defend yourself while committing a genocide, it is in fact the same as calling for genocide.
If you had asked them, they would have told you differently. They would have told you about the long and complicated history that brought them to that point and the necessity of their actions. They would have told you about the barbarism of their enemies and the atrocities they carried out.
There are heroic stories from the Warsaw ghetto and partisans who refused to be captured and took to the forests that you’d be erasing by making such a claim. Martyrs. Examples you and I could only hope to live up to if we found ourselves in their shoes. Resilience against pain and suffering the likes of which we can only read about. The human spirit will not allow itself to be extinguished without a struggle. Those who wish to extinguish it will always have examples of violence occurring against them.
Because his very political existence has been to pull Ukraine to the west and Israel is the US’s 51st state. Things are going very badly for him and he’s eager to get as much favor from the patron state as he can. He’s going to get eaten alive by his local politics.
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