For me it’s usually niche things and like you mentioned, ethnic foods and local restaurants. There is a tea and coffee shop near me that sells locally roasted coffee, and a plethora of loose leaf teas. The farmers market when open is a great for produce and some nick knacks. We have a co-op that has a little market in it where I’ve purchased yarn and knitting supplies.

I don’t explicitly try to shop small stores or local, but a lot of the big box options have highlighted in recent years just how shitty they are, and I avoid those places as much as I can. I am financially stable, so I do have the luxury of being able to choose where I buy groceries without breaking the bank, and that’s not lost on me. I haven’t been to Target since they caved on DEI, Walmart just a few times in the last couple of years since sometimes it’s the only option, Amazon maybe twice for the same reason as Walmart.

It’s not been the easiest transition and in some cases it’s more expensive, but I’ve also cut some things like buying PepsiCo products regularly and not replacing with an alternative.

We need to stop calling them centrists and call a spade a spade. They’re conservatives, plain and simple.

Hillary… You’re barely a has-been at best, and Bill cuck at worst. Kindly fuck off into obscurity and even more irrelevance, nobody wants to hear your dog shit, conservative opinion.

If there were any, they’d be absolved with a pardon or the sentence commuted.

It’s just too bad there wasn’t one of those responsible gun owners around to prevent terrorists from kidnapping a civilian. Speaking of, where are all of these gun toting Americans that believe they have them to defend America? Fucking cowards.

The fact that you so prominently brought up the notion that she may have voted for the actions brought upon her implies that you believe she did and this is leopards eating faces. Even if unintentional, that’s how it reads in the first place. Your response is doubling down on that and digs you a deeper hole. It sounds an awful lot like baseless victim blaming.

Why you gotta be shitty like this?

Watching vibe coders get blown up by their own ignorance and stupidity is such a great past time. Fuck AI.

Fuck AI. It’s a dog shit technology as it exists right now. It definitely has no place in decision making in politics and other decisions that effect people’s lives.

I can’t wait until this bubble pops.

I’m running a 2080ti and was able to switch to Wayland once plasma 6 was released. Prior to that it was completely unusable for me. Since then I had one issue earlier this year where multi monitor detection would hard lock my computer if I changed inputs on the monitor but didn’t update display settings first.

Pro is real Jewish people are just called Nazis.

While that’s true, I still hope it’s all set in stone well in advance. I’m tired of exciting politics.

Idk that it’s a ploy, but just a reality. The alternative would be judges approving the maps and ending it here.

My hope is that it will be resolved far enough in advance of elections that Texas can’t sneak something in last minutes, or at least not something this significant.

I don’t believe this is true. State and federal charges are completely separate and a person can be found guilty for both.

If they wanted to charge her federally, they could maybe get her moved, but she’d have to be charged with a federal crime.

Democrats shitting the bed and then not only capitulating to the Republican shutdown but further negotiating away the ACA subs, hemp, and paying over $500k-Millions to multiple GOP reps, doesn’t help the momentum gained prior to a few nights ago. I hope that further emboldens voters to get out, vote against the GOP, but also vote those turncoats out on the “left”. God I’m so fucking pissed at them…

Also booze, probably the largest competitor of THC.

It thought I read that it was on a per subpoena basis, so in reality it’s 1,000,000+ per senator.

I try to not think to deep into this shit because that implies there’s something other that nefarious intentions, but I don’t understand how this can possibly be legal or even feasible. Like, there’s a lot of heinous shit that Republicans have done on a consistent basis, but to somehow write payouts like this into a bill and then, that’s just it, is mind boggling. I hope they all choke on their tongues and die in fear.

It was a provision included in the bill by none other than that ghoul McConnell. I don’t have a good link to share, but a search for “block on hemp products” yields some relevant articles.

Effectively it will ban THC derivatives, CBD, and other hemp based products. I’m seeing numbers like 95% of the hemp industry would fucked.

That’s a very prevalent and public opinion on here. I’m not going to blanket say that all Israelis are bad. I live in the US, so while we’re not actively committing a genocide, I live in a place with a pretty bad rap, so I empathize with the Israelis not complicit in genocide.

That said, fuck Israel.

We didn’t just get nothing, we lost ACA subsidies and hemp products. It was 40+ days that gave republicans a platform to blame Dems, and then they got a royal flush when 12 Democrats across Congress ate a shit sandwich for fun.

My expectations were low, but somehow establishment Democrats proved that they aren’t just worthless, but a liability.