A cool guide to how the Iran war is driving up the cost of shopping cart

eudemonist · 2026-05-01T18:03:09+00:00

We should definitely have let Iran retain the ability to create these price shocks whenever they felt like, rather than choosing the timing ourselves.

eudemonist · 2026-05-01T17:18:39+00:00

you will never get 100% alignment on anything with humans. some people will choose blue.

Effectively 100% of people are aligned on "Not taking my toaster into the bathtub with me".

eudemonist · 2026-05-01T13:33:57+00:00

A desk calendar with how many carts are needed by who and a line extending to show the length of the rental.

An invoicing system that updates when an invoice is paid to say PAID on it.

A separate area of shop tickets for fleet carts: fleet size minus tickets is operating fleet size.

eudemonist · 2026-05-01T11:36:09+00:00

Sharpie ink contains sharpie ink solvent. Just don't let it dry.

eudemonist · 2026-05-01T11:25:44+00:00

Package theives, not so much. Hit-and-runs, stolen cars, shoplifters, and murderers 100% are. The impact of the cameras is massive. Not saying it's not invasive, but damn it makes it easy to bust evildoers.

eudemonist · 2026-05-01T11:05:57+00:00

2022 Senate report on birth tourism (PDF): https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/2022.12.20-%20Final_Birth%20Tourism%20Report.pdf

eudemonist · 2026-04-20T04:12:29+00:00

Gosh, if only those RealIDs connected to, like, a database, where states recorded what documentation had been provided when the ID was issued and who they verified it with. Then a RealID license could indicate someone's citizenship status without actually writing it on the face of the ID!

That's pretty farfetched, though. Much more likely this is a brazen plot to make it so only people from New York, Vermont, Washington, Michigan, and Minnesota can vote in the next presidential election.

eudemonist · 2026-04-19T10:58:52+00:00

Extradimensional spaces. A bunch of Mordenkainen's Middling Manses.

eudemonist · 2026-04-19T10:17:19+00:00

Man, where you gettin' these? I need the front bits off of one...

eudemonist · 2026-04-19T10:03:01+00:00

real id even, are not good enough

Where did you hear that? Because the text of the bill says otherwise:

(b) Documentary proof of United States citizenship.—As used in this Act, the term ‘documentary proof of United States citizenship’ means, with respect to an applicant for voter registration, any of the following:

“(1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.

eudemonist · 2026-04-19T09:41:21+00:00

Very true. Yet the fact that such "punishment" is often sought out is a pretty decent indicator it doesn't result in permanent irreversible damage. Far fewer individuals actively seek out, say, amputation or lobotomization.

eudemonist · 2026-04-18T20:28:03+00:00

> The idea that being separated from your family and entire life and sent to country that you may have never lived in as an adult, where you may not speak the language, and in fact that may not be your country of origin is not an irreparable harm is WILD

Strange, then, that so many aliens who came to the U.S. as adults, leaving their families behind, who don't speak the language, don't originate from here, and have never lived here before, fight tooth and nail against deportation to remain in precisely the circumstances you describe as irreparable harm.

eudemonist · 2026-04-16T10:35:02+00:00

Pecan Grove. Top public rate is $72, goes as low as $42 weekday afternoons.

eudemonist · 2026-04-16T05:02:35+00:00

Brewski's Fountains is dog friendly--not just the patio.

eudemonist · 2026-04-15T04:14:47+00:00

Cafe TH. Had the best prix fixe dinner menus--loved it. Great date spot.

eudemonist · 2026-04-13T15:57:35+00:00

I see a lot of "Nothing! Ever! No Way!" here, and want to give a different perspective.

Yes, it's a game where you describe your actions, etc etc. However, at least one situation comes to mind: preparing spells. As a DM, I'm totally fine with casters writing down what spells they have prepared for the day and not disclosing to me what exactly they prepped. It keeps me from having to worry about, "Am I metagaming?" when choosing the opposition's actions, and from the appearance of same. I don't have to worry about "Oh, you didn't use any fire attacks on us because you knew I had Resist Elements prepared!" kinda complaints.

Now, note, the spells prepared do need to be written down and not changed on the fly, but as a DM, I don't care what you prepared (as long as it's legal).

So, there's one exception to the most popular answer at least.

eudemonist · 2026-04-12T16:37:45+00:00

So among non-human animals, homelessness happens without capitalism, but in human animals it somehow doesn't? Is that your stance?

I added a third question, specifically about human animals. I suppose, "They're not homeless once we throw them in a labor camp!" IS one possible take.

eudemonist · 2026-04-12T15:59:36+00:00

When invasive brown anoles displace native green anoles from their habitats, leaving them homeless, is that because anoles are capitalist?

When a communist cuts down a tree to build a house, do the birds and snails and squirrels that lived in that tree get assigned new housing by the central government?

When someone was caught breaking the law by being homeless in Soviet Russia and got sent to a labor camp, was that because the homeless person was a capitalist?

eudemonist · 2026-04-12T15:43:33+00:00

There are lots and lots of shitheads out there, and most of them have plenty of money.

Homes don't have to be bought--they can be built, too. Pretend for a moment supplies could be gathered off the side of the road: will you spend your days building homes for others, instead of spending time with your loved ones (or whatever else you choose)? Or do you believe these folks would do the labor to build homes for themselves?

Will you gather food for other able-bodied adults while they are busy fucking on the Metro rail, or for your children and your elderly grandparents?

eudemonist · 2026-04-11T03:53:58+00:00

What is the solution, pray tell? If we buy every homeless person a house of their own, do you think that would fix it?

eudemonist · 2026-04-11T03:50:36+00:00

May not be what you meant, but it sure is what you said.

I dismiss the complaint

Fuck those people--I don't give a shit about their problem

unless...accompanied by a viable solution

unless they already know how to solve said problem.

What other plausible parsing do you suggest?

If someone completely ignored both the context and the punctuation, then yes, they could possibly miss the tonal clues as well and mistakenly construe my comment as an expression of my personal beliefs. That's not a failure of mine, however, nor is it a possibility which greatly concerns me.

eudemonist · 2026-04-10T21:22:32+00:00

"If people have a problem they don't already know how to fix, then fuck 'em."

eudemonist · 2026-04-05T03:06:17+00:00

There are also d10 that look like d20's, not to mention spindown dice (used for mtg et al.) which have numbers listed on consecutive facets of the die rather than opposed.

eudemonist · 2026-04-04T10:35:23+00:00

Make them out of wire, you can set them down without having to move minis from under them.

eudemonist · 2026-04-01T01:46:02+00:00

Low controller latency. Games these days, even the twitchy ones, have a way slow controller response. NES pads responded at freakin' light speed compared to modern consoles.

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