The sycophantic LLM behavior phenomenon is very real. LLMs will tell you what you want to hear, so yes, if shitty bosses want to hear how great they are, they've got a new friend (maybe their only one...)
MangoCats
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I think so... TJs has a lot more organic products than I used to buy from our big chain, in some products Organic is the only option, but even the organics aren't as expensive as the regular versions from the big chain. The selection is limited, like Aldi - but what's on offer is generally pretty good, and generally better than similar things at Aldi. TJs does have a huge selection of candies, and much more varied options in frozen foods than most places.
I have planted mint here and there around the house, in what has been described as "ideal" sunlit, well drained, regularly watered conditions. So far, it isn't growing well. Now - that's the store bought nice flavored mints which, apparently, are a lot fussier. We have some mint-related weeds that crop up here and there, and they'll grow to bushes 5' high and 6' wide if you let them, but I don't like their flavors as well. But, even after letting a couple of those get really big, they're not so fearsome to just mow down and keep in check - far less annoying than things like the Camphor trees and Green Briar vines and friends... As for desirable herbs that do grow easily here: rosemary is a big one, that bush right outside the kitchen door always grows faster than we need it to.
We used to buy specific cereals, then our local chain jacked up the prices 100% and started running "BOGO" Buy One Get One Free sales once every 3 months for a week - so: either pay 100% markup, or stock up during the BOGO when it hits... we quit shopping there. We do drop in a couple of times a year since then and last time I browsed the cereal aisle, not only are the prices higher than they were after the doubling, but the size of the boxes is down by 50% and more as well... good riddance.
The one that burns me is whipped Cream Cheese - bigger container but less product in it at the same price as solid. And damn them, I prefer it with the air in it.
Time to try a Victory Garden... good luck!
We shop at Aldi a lot, but we also have Trader Joes and I fairly consistently prefer the Trader Joes' products to the Aldi alternatives - Aldi seems to be aiming for the absolute lowest possible cost of delivery, and when that means rotting fruit in the produce section becasue they're understaffed / undermanaged... combined with high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar in most of the processed products, lines 12 customers deep at the one open checkout, etc. it gets to be a turn-off.
SEO started the day after the first search engine, with sysops begging other sysops to list their boards on the front page of links. It has evolved massively since then, but manipulation of AI results is just another form of SEO, and the AI results we have today are already heavily influenced by the SEOed content they were trained on and that they RAG from.
can mean nearly anything.
Yep. Extract of cat urine is 100% natural.
Clue: products' retail prices have almost NOTHING to do with what they cost to produce and deliver and sell to you. It's almost entirely about what people are willing to pay.
A lot of people are willing to pay more for a product they perceive as more expensive to produce, but that perception is often far from the truth.
I don't want to create a run on the fresh mint sections of the groceries, but you might try buying a package of mint (generally about $1.65 around here) rinsing it off and putting it (the mint, not the package) in a pitcher of water in the fridge. Zero sugar, fresh flavor, and I generally can refill a 1/2 gallon pitcher of water 6-10 times per package of mint. Toward "end of life" the mint will start to oxidize and make mint tea instead of mint water - slightly different but still nice IMO flavor, the brown coloring doesn't mean it's bad (unless it gets CocaCola dark, mine never has gone that far...)
Oh, they will continue to hide their stupid as un-successfully as they always have. Some get away with it for a day, some for a quarter, some for many years.