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According to wikipedia Aldi Nord owns USA Aldi's and Trader Joes but says they operate them separately and Aldi Sud owns Winn-dixie and Harveys. They both own Aldi's in Germany which must be confusing because even their logos look similar. I've heard one of the Aldi's in Germany is considered upscale so maybe the good German Aldi's is owned by Aldi Sud.

If you feel like going on a wild ride google 'Fat Leonard'

I might have to try that. 500 100mg tabs on amazon for $9.99 and if avg cup has 100mg than 500 cups vs 30 cups for a lb of coffee

I hear that thunderfoot (don't look that up) broke his brain on Brexit and Covid so now he's back on center-left but likely still a misogynist. Dawkins, Ham Sarris, Shermer, Jillete et al. just got old and feeble or outright ded like Randii and Dennett. They only pop in now and then to say something like "more jews won nobel prizes than muslims so we should exterminate all muslims" which they've been doing since GWOT

Avoid going down the elevatorgate rabbit hole if you value your sanity. The same people involved in elevatorgate started GamerGate.

BI (before internet) being an atheist meant being in complete ideological isolation. If you tried to discuss it with anyone you would be ridiculed and sometimes even physically threatened. Theists had complete domination. Atheist = devil worshiper/commie. These people developed a persecution complex that dates back at least to Giordana Bruno but probably much earlier. The first real online social networks were newsgroups which were almost entirely academic and darpa techie nerds. I got my first internet uni account around 1997 and gnu atheist rationalists were already controlling the online (newsgroup) narrative by then. For the first time in history they had an advantage and they kinda went mad with power. Reddit and other early social forums were just the graphical web extension of newsgroups.

Iirc there were some obscure social networks BI like Center for Inquiry and James Randii foundation and they quickly took control of the atheist/rationalist online narrative. People like Michael Shermer, Penn Jillette, Richard Dawkins etc. As a 90’s kid I was initially excited because I thought I found my people but I was also becoming a baby leftist and I noticed the far right influence. I believe the right/left split was already there ( Feynman/Randii vs Carl Sagan/Steven Gould) but there was a sense that control of the internet was at stake. A massive war for control raged during the naughts (some really funny shit happened lol) and finally came to a head around 2012 with ElevatorGate. The scorched earth take no prisoners nature of ElevatorGate pretty much destroyed whatever was left of the internet atheist power structure.

Fully Cooked Ready to Eat!

$15.79 at O'hare airport concourse B last week.
Cheeseburger french fries medium coke

I bought a cheap United Airlines ticket 6 months ago for bay area maker fair and they sold my ticket out from under me 3 times. Started as a direct flight by the time I left it was 3 leg flight with 2 long layovers both ways. By the time I made it back to O'hare I was really tired and hungry just wanted something to snack on while I waited 5 hours for the last connecting flight. I got a medium coffee instead for $3.79 and it was watered down.

I'd put cash money on Z-man using this to get another round of financing from USA.

Almost out of a movie: Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, visited south Beirut today and met with the crowd. Amid a reported blockade by the IDF on Iranian planes coming into Beirut, Ghalibaf, former Air Force commander, flew the plane into Beirut himself.

Seamus Malekafzali twitter post (xcancel)