CascadianGiraffe
@CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
Working behind the scenes with retail pricing (not Walmart) I can say this is 100% how it works.
Also have been given a sheet listing all of my department’s products that were below a specific profit margin. Told that we had a sale coming in 2 weeks so make sure to raise prices on those before then so that I didn’t have a drop in my overall department sales. If the customers noticed and asked, we were to inform them the ‘sale’ was to offset the price hike that just happened because we were looking out for them.
- Comment on Perfect Christmas Gift for your boyfriend or husband 2 weeks ago:
It’s a goodwill donation. You don’t touch the incoming stuff with your bare hands.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
“I want to get off Mr Bones Wild Ride.” (Rollercoaster Tycoon - PC)
“Stay awhile… Stay FOREVER!!!” (Impossible Mission - C64)
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
The dwarf version is the one that I always quote.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
If you can grow spicy tomatoes you can grow regular ones.
- Comment on Anon remembers 7th grade 5 weeks ago:
Well yeah, how else would he get around?
- Comment on I feel this way about cinnamon. 5 weeks ago:
Vegetarian for over 20 years. Most of my chili is “leftovers chili”. It’s about the flavor more than the ingredients. I suppose it’s more of a chili flavored goulash technically.
Usually starting with black beans, chick peas, tomatoes, peppers and chili spices. Then whatever leftovers I don’t want to eat get chopped up and added. My favorite leftover is old French fries because they never reheat right anyway. Also a great way to use up produce that is going bad but not yet unsafe to eat.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
I feel exactly the same way! I was a huge book nerd in the 80s and Frank Herbert was some core sci-fi exposure for me.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
I’ll never not like Waterworld
- Comment on How can you make sure the ashes you get after a loved one dies is actually theirs? 2 months ago:
This is how it was done where I worked. If you asked for ashes, we just went and scooped out an appropriate amount of ash. Sometimes the animal was still just sitting in the burn pile (we only burned on certain days). Also the ‘cremation’ furnace was just a modified 50gal drum. So you had to cut up any of the larger dogs. Small animals (kittens or anything smaller than a regular sized cat) we just threw in the dumpster.
As you can imagine, that job sucked.
- Comment on What is the purpose of this plastic piece? 2 months ago:
Complementary cat toy
- Comment on Very thankful 2 months ago:
Everybody talking about free vs paid but nobody linking to the good ones of either…
- Comment on Cucumber 🥒 3 months ago:
How long does it take you to die?
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 3 months ago:
I’m not sure those two things are mutually exclusive
- Comment on Anon drinks milk 4 months ago:
He was milking them.
- Comment on Anon drinks milk 4 months ago:
Anon was Canadian so the milk was a gallon in an awkward plastic bag.
- Comment on Anon goes out with friends 4 months ago:
Got stopped by a rando while trying to build up the courage to jump. Told him that my car was broken down and that’s why I was stopped in the middle of the bridge in pouring down rain.
He got out and offered to help me, despite the fact that it was 3AM and the rain was coming down hard.
Awkward.
The car of course started just fine and I thanked him and continued my drive home.
I doubt he had any idea the difference he made.
- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 5 months ago:
Working on an 86 RV and hating posi drive. I swear they were designed to strip.
Also no mention of Spider drive that everyone insists is a
- Comment on Would it have made sense in the 80s to believe there were dinosaurs 40 million years ago ? 5 months ago:
I subscribed to all sorts of newsletters, and at least one was dinosaur specific. I would also write professors at local colleges with questions and usually get a response.
Also worked at the library and could order just about any book available. At that point most libraries would order books if they didn’t have them available already.
But mostly newsletters and science journals until BBS became more common and user friendly when we first started having available computers.
- Comment on Anon tries to be witty 5 months ago:
If anyone wants to understand HOW we measure calories, here’s a quick video short
- Comment on When a magazine goes out of print and/or out of business, do the original 'master files' for each issue still exist somewhere? 5 months ago:
Hoping to hear an answer to this.
As someone who saved literal cases of gaming mags from the 90s-00s I’m ready to part with them hoping someone else will go through the effort to scan them and make them available. I just don’t have the time or resources for that project and I’ve got a storage unit FULL of gaming gear that I need to empty. It’s hard enough to go through the games and hardware, I just want to get rid of the boxes and boxes ofabysls and magazines but I don’t want to trash them.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 11 months ago:
🎶 The best part of waking up…
Is chewing your Folger’s like nuts. 🎶
- Comment on Amazed these aren't real 11 months ago:
Does BK still say “Have it your way”?
Or M&Ms “Melt in your mouth, not in your hand.”
- Comment on Paypal won't let me remove by Debit card 1 year ago:
To prepare you for the future when the police stop you and ask to see your Disney papers.
After all if you don’t exist to Disney, you don’t really exist at all.
- Comment on If a vehicle were traveling through space at/near the speed of light, then what would happen if it turned its headlights on? 1 year ago:
Pretty sure you can just reverse the polarity.
- Comment on tired of everything being about america 1 year ago:
Because they’ve never lived in an actual shit country.
- Comment on This one took me a moment 1 year ago:
You could have at least put a spoiler tag on it!
- Comment on Sprinkles Rule 1 year ago:
This is a shit post community, not a shit comment community.