jafo1989

They are stores. You go to them and buy stuff you need, and then leave. If you don't have good stores near you, you move to another place that does.

Is life really that complicated?

Point is: I enjoy my neighborhood 7-11 without caring about how it looks, who owns it, or worrying about all the capitalism trade-offs.

It's just a 7-11. The charm is the walk and the experience.

As a frequent walker to the 7-11 in my "soul-crushing suburban district", I decided to look up the 7-11 landscape in Williamsburg, Virginia using the satellite view in Google Maps. Every single one of them is walkable from residential property.

My guess is the author lives in a densely populated urban area, and doesn't understand how "soul-crushing suburban districts" really work.

I've been walking to my 7-11 for over 30 years, and have gotten to know many attendants over the years.

Cool. When it finally shows up, and someone says "No one asked for this..." I'll refer them to you.

> Leaders actually advocating for the people who are being deceived by those in power instead of helping those in power.

Who is deceiving who now? And I'm not sure who is in power here...

No Catcher in the Rye? Bold.

> In the past 20 years I've noticed a trend of companies making it harder and harder for me to give them my money.

They want your money, they are just getting stricter on how they will accept it in order to limit liability and meet compliance, and also maximize profitability.

Much, much better tools these days to address both of those than there were 20 years ago.

> there is no way they could monitor conversations in the car for commercial purposes (at least in Western countries)

Oh, you'll agree to that when you accept the terms of service.

Can't wait for the "This ride with ads: $17. Ad free: $26" choice.

Are they banned in the US?

>Zelenskyy famously stopped wearing civilian suits, and is always wearing military-style clothes in public appearances to symbolise how he's defending his nation in a time of war. It's a reminder to other leaders that it's not just another trade deal, that this is a real shooting war and people are dying.

>Trump hates this, and thinks it's disrespectful that Zelenskyy doesn't wear a suit when he comes to the US on official visits.

That's why they invited dress uniforms...the ones with the jackets and ties.

I mean...c'mon..they could have at least picked a "worst song of all time" that wasn't a Billboard Top 100 #1 hit. Ditto for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"...

>I get so tired of seeing content saying, 'Oh, if you just saved a little more, if you just invested a little more…' Like, no – people are on the edge. People cannot afford to live, to eat, to put gas in their cars," Brama says.

>That's partly why Brama now splits her time between the United States and Europe

I wish I was broke enough to split time between two continents.

> Boeing received orders for only four new planes in May

> The results released Tuesday compared unfavorably with Europe's Airbus, which reported net orders for 15 planes in May — 27 sales but 12 cancellations.

> But it is first and foremost a touching personal story

Does any recipe, cookbook, or general article about food on the internet NOT fall into this category??