The two examples in the headline are dollar stores which infamously have a huge margin on their inventory. You'd think these would be the retailers who are affected the least by "shrink" but I'm no economist so what do I know.

But what if the ghost messed up their dance move and now they think you're just taunting them? Do you really want to risk pissing off the ghost?

The days of the coolest licensed games are far behind us.

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The president of the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday declared that a new revolution is already underway in the U.S., appearing to warn Liberals that violence could erupt if they tried to stop it.

Kevin Roberts, whose uber-conservative think tank is behind the highly controversial “Project 2025” blueprint for a second Donald Trump presidency, made the comment during an appearance on Real America’s Voice. “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Roberts said.

Heritage’s Project 2025 calls for a huge increase in presidential power as well as a transformation of the federal government, replacing existing staffers with an army of those loyal to Trump. Roberts has previously said he sees his organization’s role as “institutionalizing Trumpism.”

In his interview Tuesday, Roberts said that despite “all this nonsense from the left, we are going to win.” “We’re in the process of taking this country back,” he said. “No one in the audience should be despairing.”

He also opined that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling granting presidents immunity for official acts is “vital,” mentioning Alexander Hamilton’s view of the importance of a “vigorous executive.” Roberts then turned his attention to “the radical left.”

Trump's Project 2025 leader: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be” pic.twitter.com/8rk8a7fDT8 — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) July 3, 2024

“The reason that they are apoplectic right now, the reason that so many anchors on MSNBC, for example, are losing their minds daily is because our side is winning,” he said. “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Talk of bloodshed has been a disturbing seam running through conservative rhetoric during this election cycle. Trump sparked controversy in March predicting a “bloodbath” for the country if he didn’t win in November, later saying he was only referring to the auto industry. The Republican National Committee launched a “Biden Bloodbath” website the following month amid the unusually high interest in the word.

In April, Trump was also asked unambiguously if he thought there’d be political violence if he loses in November. “I think we’re going to win. And if we don’t win, you know, it depends,” Trump told Time. “It always depends on the fairness of an election.”

Thought Slime goes by Mildred.....

But they're kind of self-aware, so I think it's supposed to make them more off-putting.

At risk of looking dumb, what's up with all the posts about the JFK assassination today?

The other article I linked here in the comments says they've heard rumors it was a DDoS attack. Nothing about potential links, but I have seen the PlayStation thing all over social media posts about it.

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And down with the paywall: archive.is link

These fucking conservatives have got me about to do a book burning protest with the Bible

Fun fact: Redbox is operated by Chicken Soup for the Soul. I almost got hired by them but they screwed me over after I had already resigned from my previous position.

For whole blood, I've only ever been given a t-shirt. For plasma alone though, it was purely dependent on your weight and, therefore, how much they can take from you in the one session. I'm a tiny dude who barely weighed enough to qualify and got about $80 a couple years ago. It's honestly not worth it at all, but if you're broke it's easier than many other options. The place was full of the "undesirables" of society because of that. It drained me emotionally, seeing how blatantly exploitative it is.

Edit to add: these plasma donations can be done with a tighter window between them too, so the people who were always short on cash were in there every 2 weeks.

Edit again: I forgot that that was an introductory deal where they give you an extra $40, so it was actually $40 for me. Overweight patients could get around $70-$80.

They're only saying they're building a god in order to convince angel investors to keep pouring money into a new technology that has yet to prove that it can even so much as turn a profit on the queries they're being paid to process. Meta may not have embraced the AI hype as much as Google and Twitter, but let's not forget their stupid little stint just two years ago with the Metaverse. Maybe Zuck just has to tell himself he's not an evil antagonist from an action movie, it's those other guys!

Surely this decision will be a net positive for the average American and won't be used as part of a malicious scheme to widen the wealth gap. /s

You joke, but the people here are such zealots that they would make the church the state if given the opportunity. Yet they're such hypocrites they'd all be in line for a stoning if they did.

The power dynamic is ever present. Can a person detained by a law enforcement officer consent to sex with that officer?

This game, appropriately, is where I learned there was such a thing as uppers and downers.

Charlotte, NC has a long history of racism and played a huge role in the civil rights movement, so the location plays a large part in why this is such a big deal.

I was disappointed thinking they were gonna re-use ALTTP's map again, but the previews they showed after the trailer actually made it look like a much more diverse world this time around, so I have hope.

This honestly sounds like it could be the basis for a novella