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I don't have personal experience, but from what I gather they work their employees to the bone. Everybody in there is expected to do all the jobs at a fast pace. The cashiers are expected to work incredibly fast, and if the register is slow, they close it down even for a couple of minutes and have the employees do something else. Pay (in Germany) is above average for cashiers, but there's been some serious union-busting fuckery at Aldi and Lidl that's actually quite shocking by German standards. Lidl (maybe Aldi as well?) are surprisingly in favor of a higher minimum wage, because they need less workers than the competition thanks to labor-saving procedures, and that would give them a competitive edge. It sounds alienating as fuck.

According to the founding myth, the original inspiration behind Aldi were military logistics. The whole thing was designed to be efficient.

Only stock predictably fast-selling stuff, for easier logistics and less warehousing. Don't stock wares into shelves, just dump the whole pallet or box on the floor to save on labor costs. Sell only your own generic brands so you can dump your supplier for a cheaper one. No big advertising campaigns, just print some leaflets and distribute them yourself. And then they massively expanded to benefit from economies of scale.

In Germany, in response to this, the competition created their own Aldi-style discounters with mostly identical prices and on average roughly equivalent quality, which are now everywhere. The other successful strategy is what Rewe did: This supermarket chain copied some of Aldi's approach to cost-cutting, and is now a bit of a hybrid between a traditional supermarket and a discounter. Importantly, they offer similar price and quality own-brand product for most things an Aldi would sell, while also selling more expensive alternatives and having a larger inventory. Why go to Aldi when you can get same price/quality as Aldi, but also this thing and that other thing Aldi doesn't have? No need to go to multiple stores.

Meanwhile Aldi and Lidl have expanded their inventory and become more supermarket-like themselves (my guess is computerized logistics made this easier to do cheaply, and they have to compete with Rewe).

One other thing that happened is that these very large chains can squeeze their suppliers with their massive buying power. They basically suck all the profit from the supply chain for the benefit of just a couple of superrich families (though this also happened in other markets with e.g. Walmart in the US.) Oh and they are militantly anti-union, but again the whole industry is.

Tower just broadcasts all the messages, and every beeper receives them all, then filters out the ones that are for a different number. The tower does not know if you got the message.

Motorola is originally a US Company and was bought by Lenovo. Lenovo is bit of a special case for a Chinese company, it's very international since they bought IBMs PC business. Lots of offices and employees outside of China.

I'm a bit worried they're going to strike hospitals to finish off the injured.

Pagers can receive messages without producing radio signals themselves, so are impossible to locate.

Well in theory anyway, pagers that can also send do exist.

Ukraine is now losing ground in five different sections of the front line simultaneously. In Kursk, near Kupiansk, around Chasiv Yar, near Pokrovsk and near Vuhledar.

Can't remember any source that wasn't just speculating about this. I don't think there's any evidence you could cite at him.

My own theory: If you were to blow up the dam for defensive purposes, you'd want to blow it up after the enemy had already crossed in significant numbers, but the only thing going on there in the weeks before was the occasional Ukrainian recon unit maybe doing prep work.

If, on the other hand, you were planning an offensive across the river, it might be smart to preempt this by blowing up the dam before you attempt to cross. Now, it would of course be total stupidity to do an offensive across the mouth of the Dnieper, even after the dam is blown. Nevertheless, the Ukrainians sent elite units to conquer and hold a bridgehead there after the flooding had subsided, and only gave up a couple of weeks ago.

The thing was also blown up two days before the start of the greatest Ukrainian ~~spring~~ summer counteroffensive. Coincidence?

I have actually chilled out a bit on this. Russia is winning and this escalation isn't significant enough to change that. Russia isn't desperate at the moment, and therefore the cooler heads should easily have the upper hand against any nuke-crazy maniacs.

It's still an escalation obviously, so unless someone gives in at some point, we're all going to die. It's just that right now, I don't think the Russians have any reason to even consider going nuclear.

Figure out first if this is a dwm problem. Does it work in openbox (or whatever)? What does xrandr say?

There's some bs story spreading among maga Karens about Haitain immigrants stealing people's pets to eat them.

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