A few Albertsons stores do their own deliveries, but it's increasingly rare. I used to love my Abertsons deliveries. Always had the same guy (who was super friendly), and it came in a refrigerated truc, so cold products stayed cold.
I stopped using them when they switched to instacart -- the instacart shoppers really don't care about service, they're just trying to deliver orders as fast as possible so they can more to the next one. They'll pack ice cream with a warm rotisserie chicken so you end up with molten ice cream as it sits in their trunk for 45 minutes while they make 2 deliveries before yours. And in the half dozen or so times I used them, not a single order was correct.
Now I use Amazon Whole Foods because even though they use gig drivers for the delivery, the food is well packed (and they use foil lined bags for cold products that do a decent job of keeping cold foods cold.
Amazon/Whole Foods in our area seems consistently unable to pack bananas in a way that doesn't result in bruising. I'm beginning to think they train them to put heavy cans on top of bananas for some reason.
They do here in pennsylvania, even with an electronic touchscreen. The ballot is printed and you check that it recorded your stuff correctly and then immediately put into a lockbox for tabulation later.
This seems like a fair compromise as long as the actual ballot is on paper and human readable?
The hand-filled ballot seems safer, few people are going to check every single race to make sure the printed ballot matches -- my ballot had about 2 dozen races to vote in (it included a bunch of judges, school board positions, etc), that's a lot of double checking. Make the person fill it out by hand first, then read it by computer.
We always raked our lawn when I was a child (and I did a lot of the raking), as did my grandparents who lived in their house for 40 years before I was born, yet there were always plenty of fireflies. I don't think you can blame raking for killing them off.
>“Kids want a real tablet, not a toy,” the Jeff Bezos-founded company said in a press release
That's probably true, but kids want a lot of things they shouldn't have. I'm sure I would have loved to have a real phone as a toddler, but my sister and I got a lot of mileage out of our Fisher Price phone, making lots of pretend calls, which was probably better for our developing brains than a real phone.
> I'm sure I would have loved to have a real phone as a toddler, but my sister and I got a lot of mileage out of our Fisher Price phone, making lots of pretend calls, which was probably better for our developing brains than a real phone.
I was promised a PC at around 11 years. I think for months (or even more than a year) I fantasized about, what I could do with it. Read some books, that I had access to. Understood practically nothing, but that didn't stop me from dreaming about the bright future. The book might have been "Amiga E programming reference" and it had two chapters dedicated to the blitter and sprite programming. I reread those chapters many times, trying to imagine how to make a simple game with it.
The promised PC came, but it was a work decommissioned 486 at the time, when everyone else was upgrading to Pentiums 200 to play the latest Lara Croft. My sister was bummed out that no software from friends worked on it.
I somehow was able to make a very simple arkanoid game anyway, in C and OpenGL software renderer. Pretty sure, that the main reason I managed to do anything, was all the time spent expecting the PC and imagining possibilities.
Seconded. Screens, for some reason, have an insane magical draw to kids. I remember being in the thrall of friends who got to play on the newest consoles, magazines, movies, while we got very limited exposure, very old consoles & limited time, and no tv. Given the effort I need today to stay off feeds, and how tired & spent I feel after, I can't imagine how much "giving kids what they want" would fry kids brains. I can't compare against smb who didn't get the same restriction as I did, but I definitely don't feel like our restrictions did any harm, likely the opposite.
I've found that it's better than most service status pages -- Downdetector shows when users are reporting problems, while most service status pages only post significant confirmed outages, but there can still be service affecting issues that don't show up on the status page yet (or ever)
While the war was unnecessary (and likely illegal), I think it should still be an eye opener for the US Military (or at least their civilian overseers) that war is changing (well, has already changed) and pitting $5M long lead time interceptors against $5,000 drones is not sustainable.
And, the lesson that the USA never seems to learn is that just having air superiority doesn't win a war.
The main problem with the US military is that after George Bush, Sr. in 1991, there's been no one of either party in power who's been remotely competent at using military force as a tool of national strategy. By which I mean knowing its limitations, knowing how to use it, and most importantly when and how NOT to use it.
There seems to be this belief since Desert Storm that the US military is this invincible fighting force that's an easy button for any kind of geopolitical problem, when it's an institution with capabilities and limitations that need to be taken into account, and that has to be integrated with all the other levers of national power. We're seeing now how much the most powerful military can spin its wheels and sputter when you don't have a proper strategy or a proper logistical plan behind what you're asking of it.
There also seems to be a belief both in government and the general public that warfighting is "just bombing things." Which does not help.
As far as I can tell the military believes this and keeps telling presidents this time they can just go bomb things and win. It might need a leadership change there instead of in the white house really
No, the military doesn't tell presidents that. It gets given tasking and then gives recommendations to achieve what the civilian leadership demands of it.
You don't seem to have had any time in uniform, let alone seeing how things work on 4-star staffs. I have. The military does not tell the President what to do.
The conflict is not over yet. The only question today is one of political will. Beyond that, should the two adversaries decide (at the political level) that they will continue this conflict, it ludicrous to even pretend that IRI is coming out of this as a functioning regime.
US is doing a slow kill since the current regime in US wants to bring to a conclusion certain matters and it is running against a clock. The main goal is to get the Arabs to make peace with Israel and sign that "Abraham's Accord". Weakening EU and also putting the fear of 'Chaos' in the Chinese who are, assuredly, dependent on a functioning geopolitical order, even if 'unfair' or 'unjust', as long as it works, and it hums, since China needs that to survive.
So right now, Russia is getting all the benefits (which is why Putin gaslighted the Iranians the other day congratulating them for their stand against the USA) and US is busy busy establishing the American Hemisphere, so basically for US, if shit is breaking, that is a feature not a bug.
Yes, I know. Some "professor" and some "ex" something are saying IRI is winning. And "US has never won a war since WW2". Yet the chronic 'loser' US is somehow the superpower hegemon. Not bad for a country that hasn't won a single war for 6+ decades. Hmm.
It's likely that Iran will come out a loser, but also likely that the USA will lose too -- winning a war is more than making the other side lose which is what keeps getting the USA on the hook for multi-trillion dollar, decades long wars. Removing unwanted leadership is only effective if there's a viable plan to replace that leadership.
Yet the chronic 'loser' US is somehow the superpower hegemon
And the USA is even losing its hegemony with the Iran war that's causing global pain without global consensus that it was neccessary, but the real loser in the USA is the American taxpayer who gives up domestic social benefits to fund these wars.
It's not that puzzling: Bush the elder took over a year to position forces to get Iraq out of Kuwait. He knew enough to look at a map and figure that Iraq is on the other side of the planet, and that would stretch our logistics.
Trump was clueless that Iran is 3X to 5X the size of Iraq in whatever dimension you want to measure. Trump did as Trump does and blathered his way to defeat by being totally unprepared. He demonstrated that it is possible for the superpower hegemon to screw things up that badly.
The solution also is not complicated but it's difficult for someone like Trump to accept: unilaterally de-escalate. Then we would have all the money the missile factories would ever need to restock.
yes, but they would be able to take them down from stores
patent is already out, so that damage is done
it’s also a small damage, the issue is convenience and mass sale to consumers, it’s like disclosing meth recipes, if you want to figure it out it’s possible, but responsible companies try not to reproduce that massively
That depends on what they want to use it for, but we got an Echo Show 8 for my elderly mother in law years ago for video conferencing and she loves it. Other than video conferencing she mostly uses for voice tasks like checking the weather, setting a timer or playing music so the screen doesn't need to display any text.
If not for the need for video conferencing, she'd have been fine with an audio only device.
I stopped using them when they switched to instacart -- the instacart shoppers really don't care about service, they're just trying to deliver orders as fast as possible so they can more to the next one. They'll pack ice cream with a warm rotisserie chicken so you end up with molten ice cream as it sits in their trunk for 45 minutes while they make 2 deliveries before yours. And in the half dozen or so times I used them, not a single order was correct.
Now I use Amazon Whole Foods because even though they use gig drivers for the delivery, the food is well packed (and they use foil lined bags for cold products that do a decent job of keeping cold foods cold.
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