NOT TRUE.

I'm on GLP-1 and I am neither diabetic nor prediabetic. My A1C is slightly elevated, that's it.

I work returns in a Costco. In fact, I'm typing this on my phone in the little office we have in receiving.

Food either gets sold or gets pulled for various reasons. Pulled food goes first to the local food banks. What can't go to them goes to a farm, a local pet rescue group, and to a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation group.

Anything left over from all that goes into a bin to be turned into high grade compost, which gets sold for $5 for a 20lb bag.

It takes time and money to do this, and it gets done anyway because the will is there.

Well, before Costco I worked at Walmart. You can imagine the difference in environment

I'm not an American, so I could be incredibly wrong here, but don't you have a two party system? If you don't vote Democrat, who do you vote for?

Then why do I only ever see (R) or (D) behind names in your government? Why don't I hear about the Green party candidate for Senate, or the Libertarian in a state legislature? I mean, you say there are other parties, but if they exist surely someone from one of them has made it into the government of a state or to the federal level at some point.

Not trying to be argumentative here, just trying to understand.

Life is Feudal. It had the potential to be something great, but ended dying in a hail of bad server coding and poorly implemented monetization.

Every so often I will reinstall it, find one of the free servers and just chill for hours on end.

CBC BBC Reuters...

And it's not just them, but those tend to be my primary y news sources.

Diversion aside, can you name any examples of non Democrat or Republican legislators at the state or federal level?

Well damn. I'll look into this further later today when I'm not at work, but I honestly believed that liberals were center left with Tory conservatives being center right.

If you have any links to informative articles I'd appreciate them. Never too old to learn things.

Okay, please educate me...

Aren't liberals left wing? As in, to the left of the political center? In Canada our Liberal government is considered to be center left. Just how much is debatable, but left.

Contrast this to Trump blocking disaster relief for California and Puerto Rico when he was President.

The day I can't get around youtube ads is the day I stop using youtube. I already refuse to use it on my mobile device or my TV, due to the ads.

Good. I hope they get the book thrown at them. Their stated purpose, which they put on their website, was the overthrow of our government and it's replacement with a junta with them forming 2/3rds of it.

Costco evening employee here:

Yeah, we check those at closing time. As well as behind the mattresses, the bathrooms and anywhere else someone might reasonably hide. There are generally people stocking stuff for 3-4 hours after the store closes and from 5 hours before the store opens in the morning.

There's a small window when the place is completely empty, but it's only from about midnight to 4am.

uninstalled Chrome a looooong time ago on my Win 10 machine

I'm relatively sure that the shooter will turn out to be someone who had a loved one suffer and die because they were refused health care coverage. This may turn out to be only the first of similar incidents.

If 9/11 taught us anything it is that there is nothing a man cannot do if he no longer fears the consequences.

Absofuckinglutely not.

And I say this as a dedicated Windows user who spent a year on Ubuntu Linux a decade ago and hated it. Windows does this, and sign me up for penguin lessons.

Frankly, I don't care.

I'm going to keep using Windows 10, updates or not, until I absolutely have no other choice, hoping against hope that the cracks in the Recall/AI monolith with have spread wide enough that a future Win 12 or 13 won't have them in it. I don't run a business. I don't keep sensitive information on any internet capable devices and my work uses the AS400 system.

I know Linux is a thing, and about a dozen years ago I spent a year using Ubuntu exclusively. While appreciating the OS, I got tired of chanting magic spells at computer every time I wanted to use software I liked on it, and so went back to Windows.

These days, despite being a reasonably tech savvy person approaching 60, I'm getting to the point where I'm just not up to learning/relearning an OS unless there is a critical need, and using Windows 10 there just isn't. At least not for me.

It's also called being ready for anything. It's what you do when you aren't entirely sure what the idiot on the other side is going to do.

The world's best swordsman isn't afraid of the second best swordsman. He's afraid of the world's worst swordsman, cause he can never be sure what the idiot will do.

Same principle.