Protip for the room: Use a password manager with a unique password for every service. Then when one leaks, it only affects that singular service, not large swaths of your digital life.

Kroger is a public company, the presented numbers are their financials. Everything you mention is part of how they squeeze out a measly 1.5% profit margin. There isn’t much to cut for the private store or the government store.

The other commenter brought up Kroger. A grocery store that operates on a 1.5% profit margin.

That’s not true

I don’t know what to tell you. 1.5% profit margin is razor thin. There isn’t anything to cut for the private stores or the government stores.

Kroger’s revenue is $150B, with a net income of $2.3B. That is a profit margin of…1.5%. One-point-five percent profit.

As I said, grocery stores operate on tiny margins. There isn’t much to cut either for the private store or the government store.

gross margin in 2024 was 22.3%

Gross margin is not profit, it only accounts for direct costs of the goods being sold. Hence why their profit is only 1.5%.

Beat out other grocery stores so prices drop to compete.

Grocery stores operate on extremely thin margins. There isn’t much to cut either for the private store or the government store.

“Dad, I don’t know how to say this, but…I’m gay”

“We know. Now, would you like some tacos?”

“What?”

“Sigh, I guess I’m eating all the tacos.”

Why did ICE arrest a US citizen?

FTA: the 32-year-old “exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at law enforcement while he had a child in his car”

“Your kid is at the station” is a pretty common way to do just that.

Were they supposed to just leave the child alone after arresting the father? If so, would they have written this same story, but lambasted the officers for leaving the toddler alone?

The Guardian for some reason is really focusing on the part that isn’t actually bad, in a story where bad things happened.

Preview updates, including this one, are offered to everyone, not just people in the Windows insider program. They show up in Windows Update with a ‘Download & install’ button. They will automatically install if “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” is enabled.

The other poster listed Canada as somewhere that is doing well. Sounds like we got a winner for that question!

Same for me and everyone I know.

It’s borne out in the stats too, SteamOS is only 27% of linux use on steam. Mint increased in proportion this month as well. People are increasingly using it on desktops and laptops.

I would agree Canada is doing well, but Canada is not a socialist country. It’s a capitalist country with good social services.

Really underlines things when the first country pointed out is capitalist.

In which country has this worked out?

Yeah, from the world’s perspective, this is a problem that solves itself in a few years. Plus, the idea of ‘doing something’ about a country is not a very common action. The most common action is to ignore the BS best you can, focus on building up allies, and focus on building up your own country.

Veritasium did a great video on it. Anything I can say about it will be 10x worse than that video.

Side rant:

To make it worse, SMS is incredibly insecure. Nothing should send you codes via SMS, and if you have the option to use an authenticator app, do that. It’s atrocious so many banks only have SMS as an option.

The really dumb part is, the SMS codes are literally the same authenticator algorithm, but running on their servers and sent to you via an insecure medium.

They also bring old games back so they work on modern computers. Like Breath of Fire IV.

This is the way. Let’s them build on existing work and goodwill, while making a solid product people want.

Yeah, I can confirm Heroic works well on Linux. Just finished up my GOG-purchased Silksong play-through this week. :)