i'd rather see an online tool that can be accessed from everybody's phone and presents shelf prices for all items in a certain radius, and have the government mandate participation. this will take prices down.

if i want tropicana grapefruit juice in metro detroit (or windsor, on), i would enter it in the search field and it would tell me the up to date price of the item in all stores in the region.

not participating would attract heavy fines or loss of retail license.

https://thehill.com/business/4856050-vice-president-harris-proposal-ban-price-gouging/

this is utterly depressing, both because it's vapid and because it's not just sexist but because the democrats want to run on out of date gender stereotypes because they think it will help them.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kamala-harris-chef-foodie-votes-election-2024-rcna168833

i rarely take any kind of medication for anything. i really hate taking drugs. they prescribed me t2s (codeine) after the surgery to remove my testicles, and i didn't even fill the rx. i bought the over the counter tylenol with caffeine in it instead, because caffeine is more my thing. i have avoided cocaine like the plague because i know i'd like it but i hate feeling dopey and stupid. i'd rather just drink coffee like it's water and keep the effect toned down. i even take those caffeine tylenols for the brutal migraines i get (aura. aphasia. they knock me out for days.), when i've been offered narcotics for them, as well. fuck opiates; rape them and send them to hell. but, i could get an rx for a dozen habit-forming drugs with a phone call, and there's something horribly wrong with that.

i have a package of 10 capsules of normal claritin (i made sure i got normal claritin, not the creepy stuff with fucking meth in it) that i bought in 2017, which expired in 2019 and which had eight capsules left, until this morning.

it's not dangerous to take expired loratadine, right? it might not work as well. that's a good thing. i hope it works enough that it stops hurting but it's been building up for a while and i am truly a little worried. i also got some rx eye drops a few weeks ago to deal with some conjunctivitis and the fact that the drops worked indicates it was bacterial. a nasty bacterial infection that gets both your eyes and ears suggests it's potentially in your brain. i did some research on the eye drops and they're apparently toxic in your ears, but i may try to swab the outside.

i don't currently have other symptoms; my eyes were gunking up for a while, i had a sore throat a while back and now my left ear is so clogged it's wired shut, which is exactly what my eyes did. there's some strep going around, but i'm inside all of the time.

rather, i suspect i'm suffering side effects of the meth lab upstairs and i just want to document it for civil reasons. i need to get out of here, but it's very hard right now.

i have never had an earache like this.

this is actually scary. your ear is a part of your brain.

i unplug it for a few seconds and it clogs right back up. what is in there?

stages of grief:

1. denial

2. anger

3. bargaining

4. depression

5. acceptance

the israeli protesters are somewhere in stages 1-3.

from wikipedia

Bargaining – The third stage involves the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief. Usually, the negotiation for an extended life is made in exchange for a reformed lifestyle. People facing less serious trauma can bargain or seek compromise. Examples include the terminally ill person who "negotiates with God" to attend a daughter's wedding, an attempt to bargain for more time to live in exchange for a reformed lifestyle or a phrase such as "If I could trade their life for mine".

from the article:

at the service of Almog Sarusi, a 27-year-old who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, his mother said: "You were sacrificed on the altar of defeating Hamas, of Rafah, of the Philadelphi Corridor. Enough, no more. Only a deal!” 

does mommy have a proposal for hamas? what does this unelected woman want to offer to hamas to save her son, on behalf of the israeli state?

in truth, she does not. she is demanding that the israeli government wave a magic wand and save her son from death at the hand of extremist subhuman terrorists seeking to extract unrealistic concessions. her demands are unreasonable and irrational, but in fact they don't even exist. she doesn't have a plan. she is merely experiencing grief and unable to process the trauma of it. biden is, unfortunately, stringing her and those like her along, because he wants to remove netanyahu from power because he's a conservative. it's a terrible policy driven by the most cynical type of partisan politics.

the united states should be bombing gaza and helping israel to destroy hamas, itself.

hamas is the criminal and the cause of the deaths, but biden is the cause of the problem. for biden to even suggest that israel should make any concession to hamas at all is outrageous and disgusting and it really makes you wonder if he's selling weapons to iran or not.

netanyahu is on the right side of history. biden will be recorded as one of the worse presidents of all time and his disastrously stupid policy in the middle east will be a primary reason for it.

it's just a few more months before the idiot president is removed from office and while he should go directly to jail for negotiating with terrorists he certainly won't. let him die discredited and humiliated and alone, at the least.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/09/02/israel-hamas-war-general-strike-hostage-deal/75044924007/