If you’re willing to pay money then Kagi is a great alternative. They claim they don’t collect or share your data. Though, Kagi isn’t very good for local search results and probably never will be.

Steak n’ Shake

With all the shit that Trump does, it makes more sense to get mad about things that actually matter.

Unfortunately, Sync for Lemmy is basically dead. Hasn’t been updated in nearly a year. I’m currently looking for a good alternative

Kagi FastGPT is okay for fact checking. You’ve just gotta put “cite sources” at the end of your query and it will add in-text citations with hyperlinks. Then you can double check its answers.

Watson and Crick are/were giant pieces of shit. We still teach about them. Many biology teachers will openly state that Watson is a terrible person

Most are unionized but not all. Kroger’s union is also just not very good. I never met a union rep that wasn’t friends with management. They do very little to actually represent workers. Also, Kroger has such a high turnover rate that newer employees will usually vote to approve any contract that gives them a raise, no matter how small.

These contracts last for a few years, so as other retailers raise wages to compete with each other, Kroger workers are stuck in their old contract until it expires. If anything, Kroger’s union results in lower wages for the workers compared to other grocery retailers.

UFCW is further weakened by “right-to-work” laws that give union benefits to non-union employees. In my experience, many of the people who opt out of union membership are brainwashed by conservatism and are anti-union. They are also often the people who stay at Kroger the longest.

In addition, Kroger has dozens of “districts”, each with their own contract. These contracts are all negotiated at different times so that if there is a strike, Kroger can send managers from other districts and hire scabs until the strike is over. This prevents strikes from ever really hurting Kroger’s bottom line.

So, to answer your question, Kroger is technically unionized but it’s union is pretty ineffective. Kroger basically operates the same as Walmart or Meijer but with a handful of union policies that they have to follow or they might get fined for a union violation.

With that being said, I am still very pro union. The above is just based on my own experience, having worked there for too many years.

The Redbox Crisis

Now I’m glad that I made disposable email addresses for most of my accounts a couple of months ago. With all the data breaches, it seems that email aliases are essential. I use SimpleLogin.

For the sake of simplicity, I also bought a domain to use for all those email addresses

Like Facebook, Reddit will probably just become a cesspool of conservative morons. I’m fine with them staying on Reddit. I don’t think it’s gonna “collapse” anytime soon.

Too humane. How about a hamster wheel with electrified nipple clamps attached to the roof. Whenever they slow down, they get electrocuted. Whenever they move too much, their nipples get tugged on.

They don’t have to make a profit if their intent is to be a propaganda machine. If they serve their purpose then wealthy people will continue donating their money to the cause

Sounds like anxiety. Mild nausea and loss of appetite are something that I deal with on a daily basis. If you are happy then it could just be nervous excitement, like having butterflies in your stomach.

Orange creamcicle flavored ice cream is pretty easy to find. But I think it’s usually vanilla ice cream with layers of orange sherbet. Strawberries are acidic and strawberry ice cream is a popular flavor.

In my experience, apples just don’t taste very good when frozen. Maybe that’s why they don’t sell frozen apples at most supermarkets?

I mean you’re not wrong. Jesus existed in some form, as the leader of a doomsday cult. His insane followers went around and preached in other places because no one took them seriously in their homeland. Jesus was just your average doomsday preacher. Christianity is basically Mormonism if the Church of LDS was started a couple of thousand years ago.

However, Jesus is/was also considered God and the son of God. Obviously, Jesus was never a god.

There are plenty of Lemmy users that don’t support Kamala. She is very pro Israel and has a far right immigration policy. Aside from those two major issues, she loves the police and keeps talking about ensuring that the US has the most “lethal” military. She also talks about deregulating housing and doing tax cuts for new parents, which does nothing to actually address the issues contributing to a high cost of living. Harris has a good stance on abortion, but that’s about all she’s got. I can’t in good conscience vote for someone so awful.

Are you really a victim if you are willfully ignorant? Tim Pool loves to brag about how uneducated he is

How so? She did the “both sides” thing during her speech, and did nothing to actually condemn Israel’s actions. She called out Hamas for the October 7 attack. It’s as if Democrats think that Palestinians are just genociding themselves. Her position on Israel-Palestine seems to be to condemn Hamas and create the most lethal military of all time.

Dude somehow looks like a more evil version of Matt Walsh.

Holy fucking shit, I wish mainstream outlets would take notes. Any time Trump talks about crime or immigration or really anything, all you have to do is bring up facts. Quit fucking meeting Republicans in the middle with their lying and bigotry.