#Grocery Wars

[chainreactionpodcast]

Global Trade and Retail Trends: Insights from Recent Events

Business News Edition: The Winds of Change in Global Trade and Retail The latest episode of our podcast takes listeners on a journey through the complex and evolving landscape of global supply chains. We delve into how the retail industry’s growing emphasis on health and sustainability is transforming supply chain dynamics. As consumer preferences shift towards organic, natural, and minimally…

[tony-loon]

Huxloween 2024 - Day 13 - Apocalypse -The true end of the world - Idea by @billiam-bonkarius & inspired by  @huxloween 's wonderful promptlist For all non-cat-owners: A hungry cat is as good as four apocalyptic horsemen

[relaxedstyles]

Whew .. kinda, sorta tipsy?

[jackassdemocrats]

Illegitimate president Biden along with harris and the rest of the socialist democrat party of America already have pretty well destroyed America already. Harris and Tampon Tim will finish it off.

[spock-smokes-weed]

CodyWan on tatooine AUs could be made instantly funnier (or angstier) by the fact that Boba also lives on tatooine

I know he doesn’t give enough of a shit about the clones to know who Cody is, or even be particularly bothered by seeing miscellaneous clones out there living their lives. He works for Jabba not the empire, what does he care?

That being said I still have just a vivid mental image of Boba and Cody like

In Anchorhead while Cody is trying to buy some desert melons.

[ooowyn]

return of the starwars disease

[karda]

more spideysona :3

[pierrelucstl]

Why is she always angry?

[bittercafanddatapads]

At the start of the war, after the battle of Geonosis, when the GAR was sectioned out across the galaxy alongside their jedi generals (if they were assigned to one) the Coruscant guard was welcomed with open arms.

Marshal Commander Fox alongside his fellow commanders were very renowned, idolized even. People were so welcoming, friendly, and inspired by their local clone trooper brigade. A shock trooper couldn’t go anywhere on patrol without a friendly smile being sent there way, or a box of thankful treats being pushed into their arms. (Really, it was almost a problem at first when it came to actually doing there jobs. Luckily, at the idea of the recent local army moving in, crime wasn’t at its most prominent.)

They were given gifts in the form of cards and presents and drawings, some from little kids inspired by these “tough and valiant soldiers” and others from older artistic students.

Their job wasn’t simple and it was hard knowing they had it so “easy” compared to their brothers on the frontline, but it was worth it… at first.

The opinion of Clones nowadays hasn’t been thoughtful. Kicked out of certain businesses, preyed on, insulted… Commander Fox’s house rules have been drilled into every single shiny who had the unfortunate fate of coming to Coruscant and it’s when they learn why, that they’re no longer a shiny.

Been despite all that, knowing that it’s not every household and Senator and business owner that has a fight to pick. They still have a board, set up in the hallway between the barracks and the medical bay, that’s strewn with the sketches and drawing and cards they received during their welcomed service to remind them of that.

[ofmermaidstories]

am at a psychic fair for funsies and got my cards read and now i’m a little spooked bc the guy nailed a couple of relevant issues (not the spookening itself bc they’re pretty generic) but also mentioned there was a prominent man in my life that represented romance, who’s in uniform and helps people and also has heart issues.

[chimaeras501st]

This is a meme in our house that would probably be a meme in the modern batch house too; it comes with being from a disaster family. Now to go rewatch Mr. Mom

Trying to spend less than 30 mins on my cartoon ideas bc they will never get posted otherwise, but i still end up spending 3x that amount.

Also- does anyone have any good tablet recs? built into the screen or peripheral? Ive been doing these on my phone screen 😩

[nonconstories]

Someone pissed me off a couple of days ago

So! Below are several links to programs and foundations that promote adult literacy! Hundreds of millions of adults world wide were failed by their education system and now must fend for themselves while trying to read contracts and hospital bills and infographics from the CDC. But they don't have to be alone, and it is never too late to learn!

ProLiteracy: A network of educators, researchers, and advocates which provides research reports, learning materials, and other support to adult education programs. They assist with connecting volunteers to local programs and provide guidance and support to community leaders trying to use their programs' findings to advocate for social and political change.

Adult Literacy League: An adult education program in Central Florida, which aims to provide students with one on one attention to foster growth and confidence. It also offers English Second Language courses and job skills training, and each new student receives a comprehensive assessment to determine the best plan for them.

Saint Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center's Foundational Skills Program: A 100% free adult education program aimed at adults reading below a fifth grade level. It operates year round and is either in person or remote, and they now have a GED testing center that is open to students and the public alike.

Washtenaw Literacy: A free network of trained tutors for adults in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Adult Learning Program (Las Vegas/Clark County): Free education classes to those lacking a high school diploma, those seeking to learn ESL, and adults who read below an eighth grade level. Also assists in students' search for gainful employment. Nevada got so fucked by COVID and the education/literacy numbers in the South West are grim. Please help these guys.

Hawaii Literacy: In addition to helping adult residents of Hawaii Island learn to read and write AND bridging the education gap in Hawaii's underserved children, they offer computer literacy classes, ESL classes, and a bookmobile. 1 in 6 Hawaiian adults struggle to read and write.

[nando161mando]

[blisswhimbrel]

girls don't want boyfriends, girls want well-written villians who look like boyfriend material but could not more clearly demonstrate the opposite

[bereft-of-frogs]

ugh I think I have another #Theory, this time to the solve to the 'how to kill a Jedi without a weapon' riddle, I truly must be stopped --

I think people are off-base assuming it's with the Force, because I feel like Mae would have already figured out choking/lightning or whatever, I believe the Force counts as a 'weapon', and clearly the poison was a weapon (see: Qimir after 'so you did it, you killed the Jedi without the poison) so I do think it's metaphorical rather than semantic. I believe the theories that it's about corrupting a Jedi to the dark side and 'destroying the dream' are closer than any 'it's because she's meant to do it with the Force/her bare hands' or 'it's about killing an unarmed Jedi' (though that second one has potential, why else is she grabbing for the lightsabers but leaving them after they're dead?). But another solution could be destroying the Jedi's legacy.

I think they're going to frame Sol as the rogue Jedi who trained Mae.

I have like, so little textual evidence for this. This is probably as out of thin air as the 'Vernestra/Indara is the Sith' theories so maybe I who live in a glass house shouldn't be throwing stones about how much I dislike those theories after proposing this one. But I'm really thinking that only Sol is going to make it out of the forest battle alive next episode, aside from Osha and the Sith crew, and there's going to be some kind of chase that leads them away. So Vernestra shows up on Khofar (the lightwhip scene in the trailer is almost certainly Khofar) to find the bodies killed with a lightsaber and everyone else gone.

I think they go off and unpack whatever happened the night of the fire on Brendok, there's all kinds of confrontations/fights/reveals/etc in episodes 6 & 8 (episode 7 is definitely the Jedi POV of the flashback) and the season's going to end with at least Sol dead (maybe Mae too) and Osha turning to the dark side to become the true acolyte. It was already set up last episode that the Order doesn't suspect the Sith, they're pretty convinced it's a 'rogue Jedi' who trained Mae, and Sol did some kind of shady stuff during that meeting. (Not including himself on the list of targets, keeping Mae and her survival a secret.) Even I sort of started to suspect him, but I think that's a red herring, just to set up why Vernestra might end up distrusting him. So Vern's feeling kind of weird about the secrets Sol's kept about Mae (because it's more than just 'he thought she died', Yord said even the existence of Mae didn't end up in Osha's file), but she still trusts him and there are innocent explanations for all this she writes off, so she sends him off with a bunch of other Jedi to go get Kelnacca. But now the whole crew she sent out is dead, clearly killed with a lightsaber (they know Osha doesn't have a lightsaber, and reasonably suspect Mae doesn't either considering Indara was killed with a knife, Torbin poison, and she left their lightsabers behind), and Sol's gone...I think it's fairly reasonable suspicion especially if later Osha turns up as the acolyte.

(There were a couple early things that seemed to deliberately set her physically apart from Mae, the marking on Mae's forehead and her tattoo. Why would they do that if the Jedi believed the identical twin thing right away? Why would they need some proof of their identities unless there's a second role reversal and they need some other way of telling it's Osha and not Mae?)

So yeah in this Sol -- ray of literal sunshine, good Jedi, kind person -- gets his legacy destroyed (one apprentice dead, because I'm pretty convinced Jecki doesn't live out the season, though I'll be happy to be wrong -- the other turned to the dark side) and his reputation tarnished by accusations of being a rogue Jedi training dark side assassins. There you go, you've killed a Jedi without a weapon.

And I feel like this would fit the kind of meta narrative they've got going on, as sort of a mirror of what happened to the Order as a whole at the end of the PT, heroes transformed into traitors.

I have no additional evidence for this. My theories are not spiraling at all. I love weekly releases and am being very very normal about having to wait between episodes. :) so normal *vibrates intensely*

[guinevereslancelot]

i think dave filoni was so humiliated by fans roasting him for admittting he doesn't have any idea where the mando story is going that he was desperate to change the subject so he decided to distract everyone by saying the dumbest possible thing he could think of and the first thing that came to mind was "luke isn't really a jedi" because literally what other explanation is there for that string of words