If I was him, I'd be like..
'Hey Walmart, you want me to move, you want my land and all? Sure, that'll be $10 million, how badly do you want the land?'
If I was him, I'd be like..
'Hey Walmart, you want me to move, you want my land and all? Sure, that'll be $10 million, how badly do you want the land?'
Oh no! Not traffic flow and branding! The horror!!!
What branding? Blue cheaper target? Having a single checkout employee while there’s a line of 50 waiting for self check out? Invading my privacy by checking my property after I’ve already paid? Coming into communities and pricing out all other avenues of community shopping til they close down and all that’s left is a single blue target for an entire community? That branding?
our concern is customer safety and overall experience
The first part is absolute bullshit, and the latter part is only true in the sense that Walmart wants the customer to have a horrible overall experience.
Source: Worked for Walmart once.
Do you not know how dangerous guinea pigs are, they can turn on you like that. In the wild they can turn it into guinea boars and grow tusks 10 cm long.
This is fake, and this account has created this community of literally-fake news. The way this is being posted without context makes this definitionally misinformation at best, and disinformation at worst. Check this community's sidebar.
To anyone who is reading this, adjust your blocklists or user tags accordingly.
To the OP: you need to put this somewhere in your posts, and not just the sidebar of your community. Many people come here from a feed. So, here I am, doing it for you, since you can't be bothered
Oh shit, you're right. God, that's fucking annoying, no wonder they've been flooding my feed
Yeah this needs to be flagged as satire or something. Like... I love TheOnion, but I also know TheOnion is fake. I appreciate the creativity, but you can't just post it as is. If I didn't stop and visit the comments section, it would have gotten me.
"read the sidebar" is not a great solution when I'm using Connect for Lemmy from my phone, and there is no sidebar.
I suppose you're right about people knowing The Onion is fake because of its popularity. But saying people are losing their sense of edgy satire might be a sign of how crazy things are these days. Like with what is happening in the world right now, a headline and article like this is absolutely plausable. Ice agent kills Good. Nintendo sues Bowser for piracy... Half of the real shit happening out there headlines like an onion article. There's a whole "NotTheOnion" community based on this.
Like I said, I like the creativity. I read the whole article and enjoyed it. But I hate the idea that I need to fact check every little thing that I read, especially in a community that prides themselves on separating from mainstream news media garbage.
I'm not trying to start an argument with a stranger over the internet about what is acceptable and what isn't, but I draw the line here.
I'm not entirely sure where you got this picture, or how, but what I do behind closed doors is none of your business. I am going to have to take something up with the folks over at www.animalsintheflesh.com because clearly my data has been compromised. How else would somebody I've never interacted with before get a picture of the custom order silicone sleeve that I purchased? You internet freaks need to crawl back into your caves and leave us self respecting people to our own personal lives.
So many questions. How could he afford to buy the land on that income, let alone build the house? Does it have a full set of functioning utilities (i.e. water, electric, heat, etc.)? If not, how does he meet those needs? Just how many guinea pigs does he sell in a typical month? etc., etc.
Check the comm.'s community description (sidebar, on desktop).
Ahhh, TY - might've been helpful to use the word "magazine" or some other obvious indicator in the community name. Now I feel like I just ate the onion.
Of couse. Yeah; almost every post in the comm. has a ton of comments of people clearly thinking it's a real article and the mod. just comments without ever making clear it's fake. Feels a throw away from just misinfo.
Thanks for calling this out, because as far as I'm concerned this IS misinformation. It's one thing if you come to the community for a laugh, but something else entirely when it shows up on the front page.
You could replace the name with virtually any even vaguely moderate-or-larger-sized company, and your rant would still be just as valid. Calling out Walmart specifically as if they were significantly worse than any other is just your personal bias showing itself.
BTW, I'm blocking this community so I don't fall for it again. I wouldn't be doing so had it been appropriately named because I certainly could see it being funny, but I can't rely on remembering that this is poorly named.
Well I'll be damned
his guinea pig breeding business, which he operates on a limited scale.
Guinea pigs are quite limited in scale, yes. It’s a good job he’s not trying to breed the somewhat larger Piggus Invictus.
I’m sure that sign refers to another type of meat or is a spelling mistake… like come and meet the guinea pigs! They’re lovely little creatures.
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Well done - your creative fiction has now made me sad 😢 Invoking human emotions is all part of art, right?
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