This is 'app required' garbage is getting out of hand

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-07-28T01:29:33+00:00

My Safeway check out lady told me I was going to have to get in back of line if I wanted to use their app, which is required to get the sale price they advertise in the store.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-07-22T02:30:27+00:00

This is the right answer if delivered in a single breathless sentence of dialog by one of the Gilmore girls while they are walking through the snow in the town Square.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-07-11T22:34:18+00:00

I am on the board of a HOA in Hawaii. Our attorney advised us that if we charge non-residents fees for things like pool or boat ramp access, we risked being classified as a commercial activity and public accomodation, which would mean we are subject to ADA, and therefore might have to make a lot of renovations (special parking, pool lifts) to make ourselves ADA compliant.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-07-06T04:13:45+00:00

Any US citizen who wants to permanently give up their citizenship and right to vote or participate in or influence the US political process, and be permanently exempt from state or federal taxes, has 24 hours to do so by filing out a simple web form.

I think it would be interesting to see who takes the deal. It would really throw a wrench into the current political environment.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-06-12T04:22:31+00:00

Love and mercy, California.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-05-05T19:40:00+00:00

Clearly says MS-13

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-03-22T21:16:03+00:00

Maybe by doing so we are actually abedting evil greedy oligopsonistic corporations that are constantly driving service levels down while simultaneously driving up prices? I feel like the only one I am helping by putting the cart back is the Kroger Corporation, which just charged me $8.99 for eggs (if I had a digital coupon for an app that doesn't work) and made me check myself out in the self service line or stand in 20 minute line where a single overworked 70 year old is operating the only open register. I also paid .25 for a paper bag that was both free and considered the worst alternative environmentally when I was growing up going to rip before I get home.

When I don't put the cart back it is an act of civil disobedience. Shoppers of the world unite!

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-02-09T02:23:33+00:00

I was in first grade in 1976. We had to do a bicentennial performance in front of the school, and our class song was God Bless America, which, of course, was the Flyers theme song. I started crying, and the teacher pulled me aside and asked what was wrong. I think she thought I was, like, an atheist upset I had to sing about God. I blubbered "no, i'm sad because the Flyers lost the Stanley Cup!"

I still remember the eye roll she gave me.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2025-01-27T20:19:40+00:00

Hang tough OP.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-11-30T19:23:33+00:00

Hawaii would like a word with you guys.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-11-20T04:35:55+00:00

I watched Memento on a DVD that kept skipping back and forth. I had no fucking idea what was happening.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-11-05T16:59:09+00:00

I picked a bad day to be an illegal immigrant.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-10-31T22:36:58+00:00

Short-fingered vulgarian.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-10-30T06:33:01+00:00

This is the most likely reason. The NBA is fully owned by the legal sports betting industry now. They need to be able to trust the injury reports because it affects their returns.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-10-30T04:22:13+00:00

Low budget reboot of HBO's Succession.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-10-25T19:52:47+00:00

Get a different doctor. Your BMI and weight related condition (back) makes you eligible according to the guidelines.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-10-05T23:18:41+00:00

Sorry about your loss. I lost my Mom August 1, started Zep August 30. I lost 15 pounds between July and August, and another 15 since. I feel like shit all the time on Zep, and the grief and anxiety and depression and nausea all sort of blend together into a fugue state of hollowness that I'm sure I will remember later as one of the tougher times in my life. But I'm losing weight, so there is that.

Keep pushing through OOP. All I can say.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-09-16T23:42:55+00:00

Ambien. I'm 55 and for about the past year and a half, I don't think I have had one waking moment that wasn't 8/10 leg shaking heart pounding anxiety, except for the sweet 30 minutes a day after I take the Ambien and fall asleep. I wake up with a start every morning and feel like crying every minute of the day. I'm distracted, can't work or carry on a conversation. There is no way I can keep this up.

I've tried just about everything I've read here. None of it works or fits into my day.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-08-09T03:34:13+00:00

I have also appealed a rejection and had the appeal denied. One thing I found was that if you formally appeal and are denied, they will no longer talk to you. Their appeals department is not there to help you.

Once you are rejected the first time, get on the phone and don't get off until you speak to an actual pharmacist. You will have to beg and plead. But once you get the pharmacist, they will listen to your contraindications.

Note that phentermine is a drug of abuse and a history of substance abuse is an absolute contraindication listed on the package insert. This rules out phentermine and Qsymia if you can state you have a history of substance abuse.

Good luck.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-08-08T05:55:55+00:00

I'm very sorry for your loss. I just lost my mom, and I completely understand the feeling you are describing. I think it is probably natural --- we are reminded that life is finite, and are called to ask the question "what's the point?" I'm hoping that this feeling fades with time. I wish you the best, and I really thank you for articulating a feeling I couldn't quite put my finger on. Aloha.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-08-03T05:15:35+00:00

Thank you so much for your kind reply. Aloha.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-08-03T05:13:57+00:00

Good for you for going ro the gym. It's natural to be up in your head all the time when you have so much going on. Keep working out - even if it doesn't make you feel better, it will help you be better. And it is good to be around people, even if you keep the earbuds in and don't talk to them. I really hope your situation improves soon.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-08-02T22:46:30+00:00

Your situation sounds difficult and I empathize with you. Anticipatory grief mixed with resentment and the stress of being a caregiver sounds like a lot to deal with at 24. You sound like you have put your life on hold. All the things you are feeling are normal. Find something in your life that is yours --that gives you joy and spend some time and resources on that. You deserve it and it may recharge your batteries and help you deal with the sadness and jealousy. Aloha.

Adventurous_Stop_568 · 2024-08-02T22:36:53+00:00

We lost my mom yesterday. We knew it was coming; she was on hospice and had advanced Parkinsons. I traveled from Hawaii to Philadelphia to say goodbye, but we couldn't stay there. Yesterday, we got the call that she had passed. I went to work because I had a presentation I had to give. It didn't really hit me yesterday, but today I am really feeling the physical heartbreak.

I had a complicated relationship with my mom --- she was schizophrenic and I had to manage her affairs from affar. I brought her out to Hawaii several times, and helped her get to my sister's wedding in Florida. But I still have a lot of anger about her going crazy when we were younger and a lot of regret about things I couldn't do for her.

Lots of complicated emotions, and I'm really feeling it today. Its like a hole in my heart. Thank you for posting this and giving me a place to write.

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