#Starbucks,

This ain't why #sales are slumping in your stores. It has fuck all to do with your #barista's #attire and everything to do with the fact that your mediocre #coffee is way #over-priced and tastes like shit.

And you know it, too.

RE: https://flipboard.com/users/Independent/statuses/W9_gTEX4RGG0ZbhA1ADVyA:a:1855170754

#TLDW:

#Piracy is a #Service Problem.

• Gabe Newell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmufgTp6EQ

Piracy will exist as long as #corporate #greed will exist.

• As long as media will be #overpriced, #delisted, #pulled from shelves or get #OutOfPrint, Piracy will be inevitable.

If it was my decision #Copyright and #patents would be contingent on the #media / #technology being produced and offered for sale.

• In fact I think every #claim for #losses should be tossed by any #judge whenever there was no #legal way to obtain a new copy of some content.

Espechally since we live in the #AgeOfAbundance and nowadays the cost for distributing even a #AAA #Game or #Movie is merely the cost of #Storage and #Bandwith, so at worst a whole Euro if we're talking #PayAsYouGo - #Akamai with no minimums to get stuff distributed.

• We'd be in the single digit cents if we use #P2P technology like #BitTorrent and #IPFS to keep stuff available.

#Ovo are sad to see us go! They will be sad when they find we've cancelled the #directdebt. After seeing what they've done to others they will need to issue a #bill if we owe anything. We'll #pay the bill (if accurate) immediately. I'm sick to death of the utterly terrible ways companies treat people now. We are not here to line companies' #pockets & put up with rotten, #overpriced #services.
#CostOfGreedCrisis #cost #energy #poverty #greed #money #customer #energytransition #privatisation #

#Fall #theater #preview: #KitConnor as #Romeo, #VanessaWilliams in ‘#TheDevilWearsPrada’ & #Alaska brings #drag to #OffBroadway

While there’s plenty of drama on the #political #front, we’re ready to settle into squashed #seats with our #sippycups full of #overpriced #wine for what’s coming down the #theater pipeline.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Theatre #Representation #Culture

https://www.queerty.com/fall-theater-preview-kit-connor-as-romeo-vanessa-williams-in-the-devil-wears-prada-alaska-brings-drag-to-off-broadway-20240822

My wife just had an altercation with a #SaveOnFoods manager who would only replace half of the spolied meat she had been sold.

She told him this was the 4th time recently she’s had to return rotten meat to this store and if he didn’t replace all the spoiled meat she’d be done with #SaveOnFoods completely. The manager just replied “fine!” and walked away from her.

The gall of these grocery chains is unreal. They jack their prices, pawn bad meat and when caught, download the losses onto the customer.

It was once said “the customer is always right”. Nowadays Managers openly insult customers because their grocery chains are stinking rich off all our backs and always have 50 more gullible consumers they can pawn their bad product onto.

Screw #SaveOnFoods. After years of frequenting this store our thousands of dollars spent meant nothing to you. Take your smug manager and regularly rotten meat and ‘eff right off.

#SaveOnRottenMeat #Overpriced #LowQualityService
#DisrespecfulManagers
#LostBusiness #BoycottSaveOnFoods