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- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 3 days ago:
They do for most Express and all Apple products (which usually come express).
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 4 days ago:
Even with FedEx it is the same. I knew I was going to miss the delivery so I tried to sign for it ahead of time like I have with other packages in the past. But it would not let me for my Apple package.
- Comment on Dune game 4 days ago:
How is it on steam deck?
- Comment on Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right. 1 week ago:
My boomer mother is anti vax, but the schools here required them. And she hated having her kids around her more than she hated having us vaccinated. The only reason her and my father got their Covid vaccines is because I told them they would never see my kids again otherwise.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
I grew up drinking well water that tastes amazing. When I moved from home I have found that every other water tastes horrid (with a few exceptions). I can drink bad water when it is really cold. I know drinking water is good for me, I do force myself to drink it, but no where near as much as that well water.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
If someone came and stole it all our parent entity would likely tell us we can no longer keep the door open to allow a breeze to come through the building. Or they would install metal bars on the doors.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
I am in contact with someone now that may be facilitating something along these lines. Not to the extent with which you propose, but I am working on something.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
I will get right on that! Thank you for letting me know something out of our hands is a problem and’s something we need to fix with no resources, only volunteers.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
I have gotten used to using the state abbreviation for New Mexico because a lot of people in the states see the “Mexico” and assume it is not a state. But they see NM and know that is a state. I forget that outside of the US people generally know our states better. Hell even our president does not realize we are a state.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
Less than a block from the food bank is an old motel that has been turned into apartments. But they have no kitchens. The place is so old most of the rooms do not have microwaves. A lot of our “customers” live there.
I worked in the movie industry for a couple years, and I lived in motel rooms with microwaves. I hardly cooked anything because it was a pain in the ass.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
I said they did not want it in large quantities. Most of the people who come through the bank are conscious of other’s and know they do not have the time or means to deal with all of the extra fresh produce while working multiple jobs, or some live in a motel room with only a microwave. So they do not take something that maybe someone else could use. We did have some people taking cases. But not everyone can deal with that.
Everyone was given, I think, 4 heads of cauliflower and a dozen tomatoes in their cart. Very few did not take them. They were also offered a case of veggies. Which most declined. Hell I did not even take a full case myself because I know I did not have time to process it.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
We are trying to find one place that will consistently take our spoilage.
We get a lot of expired stuff from Walmart and the grocery store in town. But Walmart takes forever to get it to us. Usually when we get it, it is a week expired. Where the grocery store we get it a day or two before it actually expires.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
Last year our bank’s ability to place orders was taken away from us. Now we get what we get.
Before that happened we did not have issues like this every delivery. The previous delivery we received frozen falafel in wraps, but so many that all of our freezers were full of it. Volunteers were taking it home by the case. We turned away multiple pallets of the stuff because we were out of room. My chest freezer is so full of them I have a 50 pound bag of rice sitting on top to make sure it stays closed.
We also went from not having milk for months, to having no room to place it all.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
Not everyone who comes through the food bank is homeless.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
This is what we have been telling the company that sends us food, stop sending huge shipments of fresh produce.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
North side of Main Street
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
Messaged you
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
The ones I took home on Wednesday were moldy and a mess Friday evening when I got home from work.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
The other obstacle is volunteer hours, as I mentioned in another reply, there is only so much we can do. Many of the volunteers are only there to get some extra food, others for community service (as required by a judge in restitution for a crime), others as required by their church. Most are ONLY there for the volunteer hours and do not care about anything other than getting their hours. They will not go beyond their basic duties.
There are weeks we barely have enough people to keep the doors open to give out food. I am no longer in a position to volunteer whenever they need me.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
Trying to get it to animal farmers.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
Because of bureaucracy we have to request this. If it is found out we are giving away the food to unapproved recipients we can lose all of our funding. If we give to unapproved recipients and they in turn give us prepared food to give out, that is okay.
Word got out that we were loading up my pickup with food and taking it to the homeless camps. I did get a number of them to start coming to the bank to get food. But it was easier when I could take stuff to them.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
The tomatoes I took home Wednesday were moldy and unusable by Friday. I had planned to cook them Sunday morning.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
The woman who runs the bank has been posting on Facebook. We have to be careful because we can lose our funding if it is discovered we give food to anyone And not only those in our system approved to get food.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
We have tried to work with restaurants in the past, giving them extra produce for free and they in turn have to prepare so many meals for unhoused and our volunteers and they refused.
We are looking at being able to use the community kitchen to process it ourselves. The issue then comes down to enough volunteer hours to do this.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 2 weeks ago:
Rural nm
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- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 weeks ago:
I have found that button too.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 weeks ago:
Many have been updated to make them unmuteable.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 weeks ago:
A lot of them have been updated so that no longer works.
- Comment on Do De-Transitioners validate some right wing talking points? 2 weeks ago:
