Overpromise, underdeliver. Looks good from my house!

It means people are less able to afford the current price of food and the food that they are buying is either cheap to produce or cheap to purchase (or both, I suppose), so the overall actual profit for grocery stores and food producers is less than the expected profit.

In essence, they’re upset consumers aren’t choosing to spend money they don’t have on junk they don’t need. Also worth discussion are the questions of whether or not they’re hedging their bets that this isn’t a long-term downward trend and what they will do if it doesn’t reverse course.

“Woman,” “she,” and “her,” because we apparently still can’t possibly conceive of a female individual with a male-coded gender presentation or identity despite hundreds of years of examples.

I suppose we’ll never know for sure, but it’s not even mentioned in the article as a possibility.

I actually prefer XMPP. It’s also less of a hassle to set up than Matrix and the protocol is much more mature. There are still issues, but it’s rather functional for audio and video calls (if you’re using a supported client).

Edit: For clients, I use Cheogram on Android and Profanity (which is a TUI) or DinoX (for calls) on Linux.

I am able to “visualize” the spatial distance between objects. I put it in quotes because it’s generally blurry 2D lines (top down, like a schematic) or purely based on the relationship between those objects (i.e., I don’t “see” anything, it’s based on memory and spatial awareness of an environment I experienced using all of my senses).

These “visuals” are static and can’t really be manipulated in any way except to zoom in or rotate a little, maybe 45 degrees max. This is also why, during reasoning assessments for jobs, I take forever to answer those questions where they show you a shape, then disassemble the shape and ask you to select which set of faces it’s based on. It’s excruciating.

In real life I don’t have much of a problem; in fact, I have an excellent sense of direction that my wife envies because she’s the opposite (great mental visualisation and vivid dreams, but no idea where she is most times).