Just a short note: the vast majority of chaps are assless. If they weren't, they'd be a second set of pants.

Saying assless chaps is therefore fully redundant. Similar in redundancy to ignorant MagaT.

Recently, I bought 3 12-packs of 7-up Zero Sugar soda from #target , and it was available on a promotional deal that saved me something like $3/12-pack if I bought 3. They only had two in stock even know their site said 10+, so they gave me those two via drive-up and proceeded to charge me full price on each 12-pack instead of honoring the per 12-pack deal price.

Target sent me a survey asking how they did, and I let them have it. To their credit, they did get the note to the proper person at the proper store (snippet below), but they didn't offer to do anything about it without further discussion.

What could they do? Well, at a bare minimum, offer the two 12-packs at the promotional rate since they couldn't deliver the third, or maybe even throw me a $10 store credit.

I know they have been dealing with a lot due to the ongoing DEI boycott, seems to me that right now (of all times) isn't the best time to not give a fuck about existent customers.

/shrug

xxx

My name is xxx and I’m the Service and Engagement Leader at the xxx Target store. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. I'm truly sorry for the frustration caused by your recent experience with the soda promotion. I understand how disappointing it is when part of a deal falls through and you're charged full price unexpectedly.

We strive to honor promotional pricing whenever possible, and I apologize that this situation wasn't handled correctly especially after you made the effort to pick up the missing item from another location. We appreciate your feedback and are sharing it with the team to help improve future experiences.

So I am backing up my giiinnnaaa-(thanks orange blight) made Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 1** **laptop photos folder onto an T7Shield external SSD drive and the backup is going dead slow (22MB/sec or so) given an SSD and USB3 (or so I thought) connection.

I switched the USB cable to the other USB port and reran the backup and got >113MB average throughput. Neither laptop USB port is marked blue.

This really pisses me off. How much fucking time have I been wasting routing USB traffic through what appears a USB2 port?

First one that recommends switching to a Mac gets shot the death glare. Yes, I am thinking about that now but really don't want to go that route with a new laptop given my desire for next laptop to have a least a basic series 4 GPU so I can run Fallout '76 (if people are still playing that)

OK, I'm done grousing. At least I have a faster alternative now.

So nice having access to the author of the micro.blog theme I am using for my site. I am still trying to wrap my head around micro.blog/hugo but I have a ways to go before I can fully enshitify my site on my own without help.

Now if I can just figure out how to get comic sans as the default font and get blinking text to work, I'd be all set.

As a leader, is #trump wounded, or as some have suggested cornered and wounded? I've read a number of articles suggesting so, and I think they miss a very basic point.

Trump is not himself wounded. He is surrounded by a cadre of officials that continue to germinate and execute policies from the chief narcissistic imbecile himself while also acting as ablative armor as needed.

The US is wounded. Everyday under the Trump admin is another in which the US crawls into a protective shell of ignorance, jettisoning it's global position as a leader in policy and business. In terms of relevancy, the US is following the UKs playbook.