reason being: thermal receipt printers have higher uptime with lower maintenance costs, they print faster, and use no consumable other than the paper.
at my office we don't print many receipts, but we use plain paper (letter, half letter or photo paper sized--as appropriate) loaded into a normal inkjet printer that uses cheap (~ $2 ea) knockoff ink cartridges that get recycled (we hope, anyway, when we drop them off at a collection point).
here it used to be an (for a single or 2 person household) overflowing banana box of stuff (sometimes two) a week, usually close or past-dated. with a lot of sad looking produce and almost always a package or two of meat (like ham, ground beef, sometimes nice steaks though).
now it's often not enough to fill a single paper grocery bag, and never any meat. they see a lot more 'business' these days than 5-10 years ago. there is not enough to go around.
there's a 'store like' pantry too (can choose a certain quantity from each 'department'). you can 'shop' every month--but it has stricter qualifications than the weekly random distributions.
it's what the (R) stands for, ain't it?
i have noticed that i get fewer results from ddg lately, and local (server-side geoip driven) and totally irrelevant shit frequently thrown in starting below the fold on page 1.
but ddg has been my go-to for years. and very rarely do i need to look elsewhere for a different 'perspective'--picking from the others configured in my browser: ecosia, startpage, qwant, mojeek. i have a couple instances of self-hostable meta engines in there too, but those are too unreliable to count on for regular use.
that was 2016. and it's been awhile in the making.
just a few of the highlights: 60s-70s goldwater/nixon and the southern strategy.. the 80s reaganomics, deregulation, abolishment of fairness doctrine.. the 90s newt & co, the rise of far-right media.. 2000 scotus stopping the count and picking the 'winner'.. 2010 citizens united.
no, this is the new migrant visa card made from compressed cheeto dust. it costs half their gross wages each month. it allows employers to treat them like slaves, they have no constitutional rights, and they can still be kicked out and banned from re-entry on a whim or a sneeze from the white house.
one summer back in 'the day' i was staying at a house that had a snes. guess what the one and only game we played all that summer was.
shouldn't need to worry about a windows product key if 10 or 11 was previously activated on the system and no significant changes were made to its internal hardware (like motherboard or nic). activation servers retain activation state and hardware hash, and that state is restored on reinstall. just choose 'i don't have a key' when prompted during install and when windows is back it will automagically reactivate itself.
i dunno which it cycled through last..
"party of your lifetime" in my ass
or
"the great despair" in my ass.
both from wf1999 ost
we already have the money for single payer, tax funded universal health care, too. currently it's referred to as 'profits' and 'shareholder value'.
the president and their family are actually responsible for their own grocery bill.. and that would include 'take out'.
harvard has a hell of a lot more than just the largest endowment of any educational institution.