“Dixie Cup” is also a brand name for a type of ice cream treat, which is apparently half vanilla ice cream, and half a different flavor, in a plastic cup (probably paper at one point).
In my Google news feed, when I hit a lot of paywalls, I tell Google to stop sending me those links.
Look, letting people read the whole newspaper for free is one thing. But letting readers check out a select few recommended articles can bring more readers. Paywalls are stupid and newspapers that use them are just making themselves less relevant.
I hit a paywall and immediately back out. Not important enough for me to pay for a bit of information.
I can usually find it somewhere else even in an abbreviated form.
I keep waiting for the day when some of them will group together and offer a subscription to several news organizations, i.e., Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, etc.
I might sign up for something like that. But I don’t think it will ever happen.
I’m way too broke to pay for everything.
I’m already paying for everything I’m going to. (Which is not nothing.)
So when I hit a paywall, I back out and go looking for the information somewhere else; or do without it.
But that isn’t “force me to avoid that website forever”; while I’m still not going to subscribe to everything, if at some point I have more money I might subscribe to something else specific.
In the UK your high-end supermarket choices are pretty much Waitrose or Marks & Spencer’s. There are Whole Foods stores but not very many.
I suppose one could include Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Fortnum & Mason as places to buy groceries but those are singular stores and beyond “high end” - to shop at any of them regularly in any substantive way you’d have to be properly wealthy.
Some paywalled sites I pay for, others I hit occasionally within their limit. Given the prevalence of ad blocking, I understand I should be paying for this relatively valuable thing if I want it to continue.
Yeah, i pay for some. I read the free allotment in others. I go looking for the same content elsewhere in other circumstances.
I’m more likely to eventually decide to pay for a site if it gives me limited access than if i hit a solid wall. But the only sites i really swear off of are ones with truly obnoxious ads. I just dropped a phone app i used to like because it started serving tiktok ads that filled the page, were hard to dismiss, and critically, would have been an easy way to “butt install” tiktok. I’m continuing to use (and thinking about upgrading to a paid subscription) a weather app that servers polite ads i can scroll past.
I want a Sunday kind of love
A love that lasts past Saturday night…
The Church, “A Month of Sundays”
Porcupine Tree, “On The Sunday Of Life”
October Project, “Sunday Morning Yellow Sky”
Favorite “high-end supermarket” is Sprouts. Second: Randalls. Maybe not “high-end” but since all my friends insist that their prices are too high (I do not agree at all) it must be “high-end”.
Whole Foods is the only high-end grocery in my area.
Glad to see this song getting some love in the poll.
Never on a Sunday comes to mind. I watched a movie @ a drive in with this song as a child.
I voted for it, though I will admit that I prefer Johnny Cash’s version.
Voted for Wegmans. That may be affected by their being the only one of the named stores that’s anywhere near me, though I don’t get even to Wegmans very often as I have very few errands that take me near any of their stores; but they do also have a reputation for being relatively good to their workers, although the stores are Very Large and Very Echoey.
One of those rare errands is to a co-op grocery about an hour’s drive from me (and about another 10 minutes from a Wegman’s, which carries some things that they don’t.) I prefer that store, but don’t know whether co-ops count, even co-ops in a relatively expensive area.
There really needed to be one more soldered category, something along the lines of:
“I -can-, but almost anyone else would do a better job, prepare for giant blobs of excess solder and me taking 2-3x as long as I should given the crappy job I do.”
Voted for Yes, but not confident in my skills, which is accurate, just if anything, an over-exaggeration of my skills.
Yeah I learned to solder from YouTube Trade School so I’m kinda the last guy you want soldering something, but I’ll fearlessly attempt it. I’ll give ample warning ahead of time if it’s not my stuff.
Just need a wire attached here? No problem. Precisely placed, delicate little dabs? I’m not your guy. I’m a wrecking ball, not a surgeon.
Voted that I cannot solder, on the grounds that I’ve never tried it, but I have the distinct impression that it requires some practice.
Possibly I could learn to solder, but as it currently stands no, I can’t do it.
Solder? That’s a hardware issue. I’m a software guy.
I can do simple soldering, but it won’t be pretty.
The other thing I know is that in the US it rhymes with “hotter” and in the UK it rhymes with “colder”.
I just realized that I say “soddering iron” but also “sotter”. Hmm.
I think I could still solder braided wires together by wicking the solder in, but I’m not sure I could make a pretty blob otherwise.