Most are unionized but not all. Kroger’s union is also just not very good. I never met a union rep that wasn’t friends with management. They do very little to actually represent workers. Also, Kroger has such a high turnover rate that newer employees will usually vote to approve any contract that gives them a raise, no matter how small.

These contracts last for a few years, so as other retailers raise wages to compete with each other, Kroger workers are stuck in their old contract until it expires. If anything, Kroger’s union results in lower wages for the workers compared to other grocery retailers.

UFCW is further weakened by “right-to-work” laws that give union benefits to non-union employees. In my experience, many of the people who opt out of union membership are brainwashed by conservatism and are anti-union. They are also often the people who stay at Kroger the longest.

In addition, Kroger has dozens of “districts”, each with their own contract. These contracts are all negotiated at different times so that if there is a strike, Kroger can send managers from other districts and hire scabs until the strike is over. This prevents strikes from ever really hurting Kroger’s bottom line.

So, to answer your question, Kroger is technically unionized but it’s union is pretty ineffective. Kroger basically operates the same as Walmart or Meijer but with a handful of union policies that they have to follow or they might get fined for a union violation.

With that being said, I am still very pro union. The above is just based on my own experience, having worked there for too many years.

The Redbox Crisis

I don’t know about federated, but there is SearXNG, which is FOSS. There are plenty of public instances or you can run your own instance.

If you are willing to pay money ($5-10 USD) then I recommend Kagi. In my opinion Kagi is worth the money, as it it provides much better results and has a lot more features. Like SearXNG, it is also ad-free.

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I’ve been using Kagi and really like it so far. It’s not good for local stuff, but afaik only Google and Bing have the resources and userbase for things like maps and reviews. It’s designed to be an ad-free ‘premium’ search engine and only earns revenue from users paying for membership.

What about hair dryers?

You’ve never bought anything from Nintendo?

Free the nipple

Pircay

I mean, I’ve been rooting for the demise of social media for nearly 20 years. I don’t know why I’d be mourning.

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No, it was included when I bought my laptop.

I was finally able to get rid of the ads in Windows. I’m sure that it doesn’t block everything, but editing the ‘hosts’ file helps. At least I don’t see any ads in Windows anymore. Here is an simple tutorial that I found on how to do so:

youtu.be/IJr2DcffquI

95% seems a little low. I assume that it’s closer to 99.9%.

If Musk was worried about cringey tweets then he would just delete his account.

it feels satirical

That’s because it is satire.

Because CoD Black Ops requires internet in order to access most of the content, such as multiplayer. Undertale does not. You got any other, more relevant examples?

Because Firefox is better.

I don’t care what the CEO of a corporation is doing because most of them are conservative pieces of shit.

I thought Mastodon, Lemmy, and Kbin were all the same thing until about a week before I lost access to RIF. I’m glad I looked into all the Reddit alternatives and found Lemmy. Reddit has been shitty for years anyway.

This is why I recently switched back to Firefox.