Pointless Disconnected Blabs, Ramblings and Utterances

[Kaido]

Bought a box of Good&Plenty. That's still $1.25. For now...

"For now":

Dollar Tree would sell Family Dollar for $1 billion to private equity firms Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management.

 

[Kaido]

then you had a "premium" section where things were $5, and now all bets are off.

Dollar Tree Raises Max Price to $7

 

[lxskllr]

DollarGeneral is pretty big around here. Any 'dollar store' is probably gonna be them or DollarTree. DollarGeneral is mostly crap. There's one near the office, and I stop in once in a blue moon, but aside from very basic shit, they don't have anything I want, and I don't find their prices all that great. DollarTree is removing everything that made them interesting. It's the same crap it always was, but now it costs more. Worse is the variable pricing. Inflation is a thing, and the dollar is becoming the new penny, but I like everything being the same price. I'd rather have a $2 store where everything's $2 than what they're doing.

 

[Kaido]

DollarGeneral is pretty big around here. Any 'dollar store' is probably gonna be them or DollarTree. DollarGeneral is mostly crap.

Yeah, our Dollar Trees are waaaaay better than Dollar Generals:

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

DGs are OK. I buy quite a bit from them since we don't have a real grocery store close by.

 

[Kaido]

haha

https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/

 

[Kaido]

Here's a trip down memory lane:

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

OG Uber in 1994:



First Amazon order in 1995: ($638 billion in sales in 2024!)



First Youtube video in 2005:



Bonus:

ZOMBO

 

[lxskllr]

Zombo.com!

 

[Kaido]

Zombo.com!

You can do anything at Zombo Com!

 

[Kaido]

 

[Kaido]

Open a window anywhere in the world:

https://www.window-swap.com/Window

Click this button to refresh. You can click out of the popup upgrade ad FYI. This woud be pretty cool as a rotating TV screensaver!

 

[nakedfrog]

Just got my $37 check for the class action suit against Facebook, honestly more than I was expecting it to be.

 

[Kaido]

Just got my $37 check for the class action suit against Facebook, honestly more than I was expecting it to be.

Fun facts:

* 37% of the entire world’s population uses Facebook monthly

* Facebook's worldwide average advertising revenue per user (ARPU) is $13.12; the ARPU for U.S. is $68.44 per user

* Facebook made $62.36 billion in profit last year; out of 193 U.N.-recognized countries, it would place #115, making it richer than 79 countries

 

[lxskllr]

Listening to ai music on youtube. It's the atmospheric stuff, and some come with idealized and fantastic settings that are fun to look at for a little bit. Other's have people/creatures playing instruments, and it bothers me to an unreasonable degree that the character is playing cello when no cello is being played, and when it is being played, the bow work and fingering doesn't match the music. Seems like something ai should be able to handle :^/




edit:
Just looked again, and he's sometimes bowing on and *below* the bridge. You can see it in my screenshot. C'mon people. Lets have some standards here :^D

 

[Kaido]

Josh Johnson is one of my favorite comedians haha

https://imgur.com/1UXmpd7

 

[nakedfrog]

Josh Johnson is one of my favorite comedians haha

https://imgur.com/1UXmpd7

Mine usually say something about the person, like how we know each other or what (primary) instrument they play.

Listening to ai music on youtube. It's the atmospheric stuff, and some come with idealized and fantastic settings that are fun to look at for a little bit. Other's have people/creatures playing instruments, and it bothers me to an unreasonable degree that the character is playing cello when no cello is being played, and when it is being played, the bow work and fingering doesn't match the music. Seems like something ai should be able to handle :^/

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edit:
Just looked again, and he's sometimes bowing on and *below* the bridge. You can see it in my screenshot. C'mon people. Lets have some standards here :^D

I mean, it's AI music, can't expect high standards from people who generate music by typing in a prompt

 

[lxskllr]

Got an email from the radio station...

Our records indicate that your membership is coming up for renewal in January. Don't wait! Renew today, you'll be good for another year!

Ooor, I could wait til January like I always do. Pretty sure I'll be good regardless. The radio's gonna keep playing whether or not I send money :^D

 

[lxskllr]

Coffee prices are continuing upward. Wegmans is 41¢/oz when you buy the largest size. I think it was 37¢ at the beginning of the year. Worse, is my local groceryoutlet more or less stripped their shelves of coffee. They only have a small selection from RunningPump, whom they're partnered with, and a fuckload of shitty Kcups. Want to put a tariff on something, 100% on Kcups would be an excellent start. It's the worst way possible to make coffee, but it makes up for it through egregious waste of materials. That plastic isn't gonna generate itself!

Does anyone know how groceryoutlet works stock? Can stock be "borrowed", then sent back if it doesn't sell? They've had their shelves loaded with stuff, I figure "I'll have time to slowly stock up a week at a time", and the next week I go back, it's all gone. I know damned well they didn't sell it all. Back to the distributor?