well to be fair, it's not like people in America are aware of where Aldi is from. This information isn't really displayed anywhere. To the American public it's just the cheap no-brand grocery store that they love.
In my experience, it started showing up in poor rural communities and was outcompeting the other large grocery chains and Walmart on prices. I don't know if the EU/UK Aldi is very comparable to the USA Aldi, though.
(also I usually see it called "Aldis". Just feels weird to say the name singular.)
Elderly citizens with limited budgets *loved* Aldi in the USA. My grandparents almost exclusively shopped there after they retired from the farm in the 1980s, and I am quite certain they didn't know it was a German grocery chain that showed up in our farming community. It's not like they fly German flags or anything.
Things are changing over the last 10 years though. Aldi is leaving lower income neighborhoods. I think they're getting pushed out by all the Mexican/Latino grocery stores which can be even cheaper.
And absolutely nobody in the USA knows what Lidl is unless they've traveled to Europe.
Coolest part of this: it somehow escaped Dutch Elm Disease and they are gathering its seeds to propagate what *may* be naturally resistant genetics. flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-sto…
One of the largest old elm trees in Toronto — possibly in all of southern Ontario — is on its last legs. But as the city finalizes plans to take down …
I've read about this before, it seemed quite promising. If I recall correctly the naturally resistant Elms were wiped out by the 1938 hurricane that decimated so much forestry in the east / northeast
I had a lot of fun talking to @richlitt about the history of GNOME, GIMP, GTK, open source infrastructure, who gets to contribute, and we end up with book recommendations. Give it a listen!
Host Richard (@richlitt) chats with Federico Mena Quintero (@federicomena) about GIMP (gimp.org/), GNOME’s (gnome.org/) history, Rust, and the social, tech, and economic forces shaping open source development.
This week, Brian Wilson became the last of the Wilson brothers to shuffle off this mortal coil. Dennis, the first of the Wilsons to go, died young in 1983 — but not before offering this memorable assessment of the family musical project: 'Brian Wilso…
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If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year. Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally. I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data. Share widely.
Ultimately I think it will be a bad look for entire Matrix ecosystem for its biggest server to basically commercialize the offering similar to how other commercial products do it.
There is a difference in how matrix.org is structured, being a non-profit and for example how commercial solution such as Discord is structured, but creatures don't really care about such difference, the point will be that both will have some kind of "better" offering for paid users and that kinda sucks.
I'm sticking to my opinion which I've already expressed in the past that instead of pouring more and more money into maintaining a single huge Matrix server (and the costs will continue to rise, maintaining a huge platform for social interactions is only getting worse the more it scales) it would be simply more efficient to focus on better UX and ecosystem experience to distribute the userbase across many public servers.
This move in a way may make some creatures decide to change servers, but that will be at the cost of Matrix reputation and is not a specific goal with which those premium accounts are created.
Matrix continues to be a massive undertaking, and while I see the value in matrix.org server, I worry that the funds going into its maintenance could be better utilized by Matrix foundation by focusing in other areas that would favor further decentralization of the network.
it is absolutely ridiculous to be doing this instead of offloading to reputable community-run servers. matrix.org is *not* a good onboarding experience; in fact it is very slow as evidenced in last week's presentation of Aurora, is the source of a huge amount of abuse even proportional to its active users, and is terrible for privacy/security/anonymity given it sits behind #Cloudflare/#NSA's MITM and requires a google captcha to sign up (along with email)
Last week, I gave a talk on web browser security research at a student-organized conference. I tried to make the talk reasonably beginner-friendly, so the slides (linked here) could hopefully be useful to someone as a learning resource. docs.google.com/presentation/d…
Anybody knows what I should do to enable push notifications on #monal? My ejabberd shows as compliant with XEP-0357: Push Notifications on compliance.conversations.im/ but the messages don't reach the phone when the app is closed
Good deed of the week: introduced a few people to Everybody Loves Eric Raymond, and specifically to the best capitalism related joke ever written: geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/page/…
Ooooh, love this already! I did this manually so many times to narrow down overly complicated API requests. Thanks to all curl-contributors and noperator!
A link in @simon's recent blog anniversary post led me to this post: simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/5/p… which contains this gem about using an LLM:
> It’s a programming activity that actually feels a lot more like spellcasting. It’s almost impossible to reason about: I imagine even the creators of GPT-3 could not explain to you why certain prompts produce great results while others do not.
I've found @simon's next sentence in that post, "It’s also absurdly good fun", to be true in some contexts. But then maybe that fun is clouding our judgment, on both the practical dangers and ethical issues. So I think I'll continue to refrain from using LLMs, as I have for a couple of weeks now.
I think the issue with accessibility is really the lack of funds at the provincial level. The STM has a programme to improve accessibility, but it has to be put on hold as the CAQ aren’t interested in funding transit.
But I agree, I wish we could bring the system forward in time.
Funny how people who applaud the REM and criticise those who don't) go on criticising STM for lacking this and that never mention that the REM was approved on the basis of being self funded and quickly turned arround to require/demand billions in government capital funding which was diverted from other transit agencies, hence work stopped on elevators, centre CANO blue line delayed "indefinitely" and working at snail's pace etc.
@jfmezei I think it would be good for someone to do a full and proper analysis on the impact the REM had on transit development in Greater Montreal. I’m still on the fence about the whole thing as I feel transit planning is so broken in North America, this model was literally the only way we could have gotten a new railway of this scope. Was it worth the negative impacts? Not sure yet, but they need to inject money into the Metro before it collapses.
Ve středu jsem byl u našich a všechno ve studni rozebral. Potřeboval jsem koupit nový sací koš a zjistit, jestli mají v Sigmě skladem i těsnění se zpětnou klapkou pod přírubu.
Jenže mezitím šla máma ven a táta to samozřejmě „rychle vyčistil a smontoval zpět“. Takže jsem neviděl, jak vypadá to velké těsnění. 🤦
Dneska tedy opět celá demontáž potrubí ve studni, nový sací koš nasazen – a jak jinak, teče to pod přírubou. Přesně tam, kde jsem to těsnění chtěl koupit. 😅
me zitra ceka drevene viko na kamene studni. Potrebuju tam pospojkovat kable, pac mi vyhorela zasuvka. Je to sranda delat elektro spojky zaklineny ve studni. Doufam ze mi nic nespande dolu :D
@Cooba13 No hlavně pozor, ať je tam dost kyslíku. Teda jestli je to hlubší studna. Jinak já pro jistotu nechal mobil a peněženku v chatě, přeci jenom ta studna je přes 8 m hluboká a vody tam 2 metry. To by byla má smrt ta studená voda. 😀
hlubsi je, ale lezu jen asi do dvou az tri metru. Mam to u baraku, takze penezenku a mobil nepotrebuju :D studena voda je to posledni, ty zelezny pricky a nadrz s cerpadlem, kameny ze kterych je udelana a trci do cesty ... no nevim jestli bych vubec nejakou vodu zaznamenal :D
no tak hlavně hodně štěstí zítra! Náš táta takhle jednou měnil těsnění pod přírubou a když ji utahoval zpátky, praskla. Prohlásil, že má v práci průmyslové lepidlo, kterým to bude držet. Nevěřil jsem, a bohužel jsem teda měl pravdu. Takže ponaučení - prasklou přírubu neslepíš, tak utahuj opatrně :).
Lasst euch von Google, YouTube & Co. nicht einreden, Werbeblocker seien illegal. Das stimmt nicht. Adblocker sind kein Rechtsbruch, sondern eine bittere Notwendigkeit im heutigen Internet – als Selbstschutz vor Überwachung, Manipulation und aufdringlicher Kommerzialisierung. Dass Konzerne sie dämonisieren, zeigt nur, wie sehr sie auf Kosten der Nutzer profitieren wollen und wie kaputt ihr datengetriebenes Geschäftsmodell ist.
So today it is Friday the 13th and apparently I should have stayed in my bed.
Just spent way too much time troubleshooting why the curl requests I got from Firefox by using "copy request to cUrl" did not work. Turns out it is a Firefox bug. For unknown reason it adds a caret "^" before each parameter separator in the query string in the curl request, breaking everything. 😞
Dúfam, že po tomto skončí #KDH pod hranicou zvoliteľnosti (viem, toľko naivity z mojej strany). Dementi. Nechápem ako dokáže niekto brať KDH ako príčetnú demokratickú stranu, a hlavne ako potenciálneho koaličného partnera. Veď táto strana je rovnako toxická ako OĽANO.
The boys are back! This time we're talking about the state of Wayland in 2025. Also we talk about how the transition is going. All with a very special guest!...
@Tutanota Hi! I have a calendar event that I created back in December, which repeats every week. Now that we've switched to summer time, I noticed that the event's time shifted by 1 hour (from 11:00 to 12:00). I'm not sure if this is intended behavior because I personally find it confusing. People normally don't move appointments when we switch from winter to summer time and vice versa. I'm reporting this just in case.
This is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.
In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.
It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".
Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden sat down with Robert Costa on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend to discuss a variety of subjects, most notably her May 8 firing by President Trump.
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![Post from the subreddit r/ShitAmericansSay "while in Germany | found an Aldi. The Aldi is nothing like an American Aldi"
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While in Germany | found an Aldi.. this Aldi is nothing like an American Aldi. | saw some of the same products.. but nothing American & or anything written in English "l was Lost"
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you know ALDI is a german store? and in any capacity... why would be something writen in english in germany?](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/676922 "Post from the subreddit r/ShitAmericansSay \"while in Germany | found an Aldi. The Aldi is nothing like an American Aldi\"
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While in Germany | found an Aldi.. this Aldi is nothing like an American Aldi. | saw some of the same products.. but nothing American & or anything written in English \"l was Lost\"
[picture of a presumably American woman standing outside an Aldi Süd store somewhere in Germany]
First response:
you know ALDI is a german store? and in any capacity... why would be something writen in english in germany?")
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