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7 days agoYeah, with a fraction of the population, I’d be less concerned about Staten Island than the others.
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Everything starts somewhere! Hope it works!
I would hope so! I’d think with that kind of population they’d need 10 stores per borough, maybe more.
One store per borough when the populations exceed 1 to 2 million won’t achieve the goals of increasing food availability or reducing prices.
It’s a bold move, and I want it to work, but I can’t see how it does at this point.
One store per borough.
Population estimates as of 2023:
Bronx - 1,356,476
Brooklyn - 2,561,225
Manhattan - 1,597,451
Queens - 2,252,196
Staten Island - 490,687
1·8 days agoThis is not a credible news source, they’ll publish anything.
From the “About” page:
https://world-outlook.com/about/
“Written contributions are welcome. They can be submitted to [email protected], which reserves the right to decide whether to publish any submission.”
Frankly surprised it took this long:
True story:
Dead Wednesday. I was working the front by myself.
“I don’t know why I’m here, you can’t help me.”
“Well, I know a lot, and I have a computer for our inventory and one for our distributor, if you can remember 1 or 2 words, we have a good shot.”
“Yeah, but I don’t know the author, you can’t help me.”
We went round and round like that for 10 minutes, finally dragged it out of him and found it in the distributor system:
“How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People”.
“Ordinarily it would take a couple of days to get this, let me expedite that for you, it will be here tomorrow.”
He never picked it up. 😟
“It’s that book with the picture of the woman on the front.”
“The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende?”
“Yeah…”
Co-worker: “How did you do that?”
“Every time I walked by it I thought ‘oh, hey, it’s that book with the picture of the woman on the front’.”
One year, right around Black Friday, I was working registers and we had a line of people out the door… we were all just trying to get people rung up as quickly as possible.
I’m in the middle of helping someone when this woman jumps the line, interrupts me while I helping another customer, and goes “Excuse me, I just have a question?”
So I turn to my first customer, “Do you mind? She just has a question?”
Ok, fine, what’s the question?
“Where are your etiquette books?”
ಠ_ಠ
“They… they’re on the reference wall. Right hand side, about 1/2 way down.”
That night, cleaning up the store, I found a pile of 20 etiquette books just sitting on the floor.
30+ years ago, man I could tell you stories… 😉
I knew it was wrong the instant it popped up on the White House site…
https://ag.purdue.edu/cfdas/chew-on-this/the-expected-cost-of-your-thanksgiving-turkey-in-2025/
"Wholesale turkey prices have surged 75% since October 2024, reaching $1.71 per pound in October 20251. This comes after prices dipped substantially from 2023 to 2024. This year, we are seeing the continued impacts of the ongoing battle with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) that first appeared in February 2022. "
There seems to be some confusion, and rightly so.
This is “Farmer’s Almanac” which, yeah, started in 1818 and is 207 years old.
But “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” started in 1792 and is generally ‘the one’ you think of when you hear ‘Farmer’s Almanac’. That one is still running:
https://www.almanac.com/about-us
Interesting history here:
https://www.almanac.com/history-old-farmers-almanac
Edit Used to sell both and man people would get PISSED if they asked for “the farmers almanac” and you grabbed the wrong one!
Ubiquiti looks more for a commercial setup, which is cool, but it also looks like power over ethernet which isn’t an option for me in multiple camera locations. 😟 Whoof! You are right on pricing though! And getting a solar connection looks to be a bit of a kludge.
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They also apparently had another system developed by a company called Thales, and the password for it was “THALES”.
Self posts are not allowed, if you have a news article discussing this, it’s welcome.
That’s pretty slick too! Only drawback I see there is that the home hub is SD card based and maxxes out at 1 TB and other systems have 2.5" drive bays or NVME slots.
But hey, anything is better than Flock adjacent! 😉
Ring is partnering with Flock so I’m in the process of replacing my Ring cameras.
Here’s the legwork I did, feel free to add to this:
Blink is out because they’re also Amazon and if Ring is partnering with Flock, it’s only a matter of time.
TP Link Tapo - Four 4K cameras w/ local network storage. $629.95. “5BLACKFRIDAY” code drops it to under $600.
Eufy - Four 3K cameras w/ Network storage. $749.95. They have a more advanced camera that has a fixed 4K but only a 2K pan/tilt and that setup with local network storage is over $1,000.
Arlo - $18/mo. subscription. No thank you.
Wyze - No network storage, SD cards only.
Aosu is notably cheaper ($429.99 for 4 cameras + network storage), but is only a 2K camera, and in a security situation, I can’t imagine that being a good idea. 😟 The price is GREAT though, so I guess if all your footage is close up, it would work well. If you need to read a license plate at distance? Er, em…
The ARMY… yes. ICE?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/new-ice-recruits-showed-training-full-vetting-rcna238739