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I was just ID’d for Gochujang at the supermarket 😅🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

The metric system is 150 years old. The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-05-20/metre-treaty-anniversary-met…

The metre originated in the French Revolution, but its definition has changed many times since
The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

A friend of mine sent me Iceland (the UK supermarket)‘s official “fuck the management consultants” page, on their actual website.
https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/
I love it.

At a local supermarket yesterday. Someone had decided to do the MAGA-esque thing of the massive-jeep/truck/thing-with-flag-hanging-off-the-back…except instead of a US flag, it was for the Democratic Republic of Congo. 🇨🇩

Every once in a while I'm reminded of this very fine example of clerical creativity I witnessed back in '22

Percheron Driven Cart Sponsored by Wegmans Supermarket in Ithaca Festival Parade
#photo #photography #ithaca

For some reason, this does not strike as a rational act by ICE. Who do they think are responsible for getting food from the farm to the markets? (Critiquing on woke values is pointless, so I'm appealing to the self interest of those who think food comes from the supermarket)

ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County | abc7.com
Immigration%20and%20Customs%20Enforcement%20(ICE)%20targeted%20workers%20on%20produce%20farms%20in%20Ventura%20County%20Tuesday%20morning%20in%20one%20of%20the%20latest%20raids.

For some reason, this does not strike as a rational act by ICE. Who do they think are responsible for getting food from the farm to the markets? (Critiquing on woke values is pointless, so I'm appealing to the self interest of those who think food comes from the supermarket)

ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County | abc7.com
Immigration%20and%20Customs%20Enforcement%20(ICE)%20targeted%20workers%20on%20produce%20farms%20in%20Ventura%20County%20Tuesday%20morning%20in%20one%20of%20the%20latest%20raids.

As with the #Chorlton #Lidl store, given planning permission close to 4 schools and an already congested junction, #Aldi plans a supermarket in an unsuitable location in

Revised plans for new Aldi superstore next to notoriously congested roundabout
The discount grocery giant said the plans, close to the Bolton Wanderers stadium, would create up to 50 jobs

Your Asian foods destination
Taken 2 April 2025
#Retail #Supermarket

Supermarket chain Lidl is making its heavy-duty vehicle chargers at depots in the Netherlands available to other truck users by prior arrangement. This is a great way to increase charger (and on-site renewables!) utilisation and extend truck charging options!
https://corporate.lidl.nl/duurzaamheid

For those who didn't know, we are currently on holiday in the Lake District.
There is a Booths supermarket in the town.
RIP our bank balance.

"Safe and easy ways to recycle electricals – and even get money for your old gadgets"
#Electronics #Technology #Recycling

We've seen some lovely cars out and about lately. The E-type was at the supermarket today, the other two parked up at Shobdon airfield recently. There were other classic cars there too but these really stood out to me. I would cheerfully zoom off in any of these despite being an #EV bore 😄 We used to have an MGF and for years my mum had MGs. These days we drive an electric MG which is ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.