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Cake day: February 17th, 2025

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  • Shoplifting was rife in the 90s and 2000s, and it was an acceptable business loss that most small business and retailers alike just shrugged off.

    This new narrative that shoplifting is the reason that security measures and prices have to go up is just the latest strategy in corporations once more fobbing off blame on the end-consumer (a la “carbon footprint”) for why they need to jack up prices again.

    It’s greed, plain and simple. We used to have high trust soceities and rampant shoplifting not too long ago, but we’re being distracted once again









  • Slice the pepper thin and curl each strip as a halo around some of the barley corns. Use honey or ketchup to hold shape, and then throw into the saucepan with butter, until crisp. Douse with water. Then open up a packet of crisps and dump the lot inside, shaking throughly. Don’t do this too long or the plastic/foil might melt/burn. Serve on a plate with chopsticks


  • tetris11@feddit.uktoComic Strips@lemmy.worldNormal [5ish/Crevetta]
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    19 days ago

    Learning to never be in view of the letterbox, that maybe having friends over isn’t okay and then letting them go as they quickly learn you can never reciprocate a house invite, avoiding the neighbours eyes, glancing wearily at each car that drives past, diving into books because anything else is too loud, …

    I can go on