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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I have a prescription vape. Five pharmacies in my area don’t stock the device or juice. The one that had it charged me for 7 boxes of juice even though they only had 5 boxes because “we’re only allowed to sell 7 at a time”. Went to refill my prescription and they don’t have the juice and refused to order it. They told me to go to another store over an hour away.

    Noone wants smokers to quit, the government wants the taxes from cigarettes, the quit foundation openly tell you they don’t want to stop smoking (that would put them out of a job) and the pharmacies make more from all their nicotine replacement therapies than a vape setup that lasts 8 months. The black market is fantastic though. Cheap smokes sold at all convenience stores, milk bars, gift shops and independant supermarkets. They don’t ask for id either. My go to shop is opposite a police station.











  • I don’t believe that demand is solely driven by voluntary consumer choice. On the contrary, demand is manufactured by misleading and manipulative advertising and marketing. It’s driven by making cheap products that don’t last and encouraging a throwaway culture. It’s driven by planned obselesence.

    Nor is buying essential items like food and utilities voluntary. People who live in food deserts don’t have choice.

    If the thing you want is not popular with the masses then the capitalists have no incentive to make it. Endless growth and all that…


  • I’ve been reading that nobody can afforrd to buy houses for at least a decade now and the price just keeps going up so clearly people can afford it.

    In my blue collar, median wage earning workplace the vast majority are homeowners and having an investment property is seen as normal and expected., it’s the new baseline for doing ok. They have dual incomes, two cars, and overseas holidays every year. They are migrants who had no bank of mom and dad and they prefer to send their kids to private or carholic schools.

    They are not poor, but if you believe what you read on the internet they should have zero kids and be living paycheck to paycheck.