Same. Family owned, owners actually work at the store, and are Trump supporters. I buy as much there as I possibly can because I don't want to see my local businesses disappear.
My ACE has massive signs “one case will shut down the whole store.” “No mask no entry” “we don’t need your germs or business”. Haven’t been back. Mostly I’ve been to Lowe’s because they never put up a bouncer like HD.
Yeah, the only thing Lowe’s has done is make 1 single check out line in my home town. The butcher has been the craziest, he’s got mandatory hand sanitizer, no phone use allowed in store, he’s got some sanitation goo you have to step in to go in.
I kinda understand the precautions the butcher is taking. He's also doing covid theatre, fwiw, he'd probably lose business if he didn't show everyone the precautions he's taking.
And no phone use in stores is something that I've seen commonly in a lot of places where people are waiting in line to request orders. Really speeds up things on busy days. I can't count how many times I've been caught behind slow moving traffic, then filtered up on my motorcycle to see that it's caused by idiots on their phones sitting through green lights.
Lowes sucks tho. Place is for selling curtains and lighting and other bullshit. Walk in an ask where the rebar is (because it sure isn't where it should be...by the bags of concrete/blocks). You get a look of utter confusion. Then hike around the retarded place with your stupid cart and mask and drag 560 lbs of stuff around. Get in line behind half blind boomer woman writing a darn check for a toilet seat. Great times. Oh for the traditional lumber yard where you cound walk up to the counter which had a normal looking woman without a damn nose ring and ask for 6 bags of concrete mix, two bags of type s mortar, a box of 2 inch nails, and a dozen 2x8x8s of yellow pine and hand her a hundred and she'd make change then you drive over to the lumber yard and a teenager puts it in your truck and you drive off.
You know the Ferengi are supposed to be Jews right?
Instead of a cartoonishly large nose they swapped them for ears and hoped no one would make the connection. Hell, I watched the show for 25 years before it dawned on me.
Sorry if I just broke the glass for you on that, as that is all I could see when it came to anything dealing with the Ferengi once I made the connection.
But it isn't really surprising. I have gone back and watched TNG a couple times and the Commie underpinnings of Rodenberry's world are pretty blatant.
When you really think about their world the fantasy falls apart. Real humans don't act like they do in Star Trek. And there is no way we can "evolve" in such a short period of time to change our very nature.
Were they ever able to really invent a Holodeck, if you don't think there would be a permanent line around the block to use it, and a full time jizz mopper to clean it out in between customers, you are having a laugh.
Nailed it. It was very important for non human races, the vulcans and klingons in particular, to blow off steam. They both had intense libidos and in the case of vulcans death was a consequence of failure to mate. Even half race characters like Warf and Spock which were half human aluded to this, and their libidos were less than that of a full member of their race.
What about Barclay's little menage with Troi and Dr. Crusher they caught him getting ready to do? Which they alluded to not being the first time he had done so, when they complained about all the time he'd been spending on the Holodecks.
They were just holding hands and playing funny-face all that time?
Are you trying to tell me Riker didn't close the deal with Minuet?
As far as I can tell, there are no protections on the Holodeck to stop crew members virtually cloning other crew members, without consent, and having sex with them.
That is the conclusion the evidence in TNG leads one to reasonably believe, IMO.
The economy of dilithium crystal was by no means unbounded by the principle of scarcity. The romulans enslave and entire counter race-the Riemans-to mine the toxic shit. Dilithium is analogous to uranium or other fissile material by the way. And replicators are energy based. In Voyager they needed to cook food in order to conserve energy which was definitely finite.
They have what is essentially free energy, which eliminates resource competition.
Imagine if all our goods suddenly cost nearly nothing to make or purchase.
I think you massively overestimate the cost of electricity to produce goods. The near complete cost of an item is the material to produce the item. Then labor, THEN energy.
Look, that the Ferengi were Jews, the Klingons Russians/Soviets, and Romulans Imperial Romans is plainly obvious. Roddenbury was of Jewish background. And Picard was the ideal liberal leader. Secular, hates children, intensely committed to the ethical principles of the federation, hyper competent.
Hence why Kirk and Sysco are by far the better captains. Archer and Janeway are a close second but Picard will always be low on the totem pole because of how much his character was nothing more than a mouthpiece to spew moralism.
Kirk was a Patriot to the Federation, he understood what needed to be done and was practical in his approach. So much that he did everything to stay in the chair because he knew the politics of climbing the latter was just to saddle him nonsense. He loved and lost but his loyalty was to his friends and crew.
Benjamin Sysco was also a Patriot, he did what no other Federation Officer could or would do in the dire straits during the Dominion War and he did it while trying to keep his son safe.
What did Picard do....Opine and give speeches, he cared little for his crew often alienating himself from them. He hated family and children and cared more for regulation. The writers just wrote in his MacGuffins because they had no other choice but do do so.
It is pretty well documented but I won't attempt to "prove" it here.
I am not sure you can prove something like this, now that I think about it. Make up your own mind about it. I am not trying to push anything, just inform.
I will address your actual concern though.
I am not some anti-Semite that hates Jews. No group of people all feel or act a certain way. Anyone that makes sweeping bias statements like that is pretty juvenile, IMO, regardless of the demo in question.
However, I am also not afraid to discuss Jews as a group and think anyone trying to summarily shut down conversation on any topic is wrong and their motives should be investigated.
I think Rodenberry probably was pretty biased against Jews, based on what I've read about him. I'd say he was part of the self-hating leftist Jew phenomenon, but again I am far from an expert. I haven't read a ton about him. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people far more knowledgeable on this subject than I.
I am not so sure what about the above is so controversial.
If TD.win wants to become the Yin to the Reddit hivemind's Yang, this this seems like a pretty good way to do so.
Sorry if this ruffled some jimmies, that was not my intent.
I do remember that controversy and it was so bad that the writers had to say something about the Ferengi. However it was a pretty bad caricature, trying to create a race of Space Capitalists and inadvertently creating Space Jews .
I think we're trying to sway from 'Karen' to 'Hillary' now...considering they're mostly high and mighty liberal wenches doing the chastising. Some Pedes were discussing the other day that they're trying to stick the 'Karen' tag to conservative ladies...so we're going to turn that around and slam the left by calling them their queen bitch.
Ace is great in general. I always shop at the one in our town - I think they’re independent franchises so this bacon incident would be dealt with by the local store owner. I love our ace hardware here they would never be like that to police
Ace USED to be great, until they contracted a minor "woke" infection and changed their slogan from "helpful hardware man" to "helpful hardware FOLKS". So, yeah. Ever since then, it's been Home Depot for me.
(side note: with very few exceptions, the only places I see women working at hardware stores are the gardening section and the cash registers)
Anyone that immediately discounts someone purely because of their own perceived notions of what "knowledgeable" will look like usually can't be helped anyway. Imagine telling a grunt to listen to LTC Vindman for DA tactics because of his age and pretty medals over a 25 year old SSG. in 2nd Battalion.
Arguments based on this logic are destroyed so easily because of the old adage "to not judge the book by it's cover".
In other news, an unidentified employee at Ace Hardware was arrested on shoplifting charges. The employee insists he was framed, and is currently hospitalized with multiple blunt-force injuries to his face and head. So far no witnesses have come forward. More on the story as it develops.
All Ace Hardwares are independently owned. They are essentially small businesses, family owned and often multi-generational. The employee culture is largely determined by the owners not the corporation wich mostly operates as a warehouse. My family owns an ACE and that shit would be treated with zero tolerance. We fly the flag, we support the local police, and we openly talk about our support of Trump with like-minded employees.
Don't hate on all Ace hardwares. The local one here is good, I know most of the guys and they're America loving police supporting people. It probably depends on the owner of the store and what they'll put up with.
That's surprising. Ace usually lives up to it's name by me: extremely helpful and knowledgeable staff. I could see it coming from a cashier, which are almost exclusively high school girls, but I wouldn't expect that to be tolerated.
Well, this Ace will quickly find out what happens when you insult your customer base.
I will say that this statement sounds odd. Either they are severely downplaying what the employee did or the cop really got that testy over "I smell bacon". I realize that many cops are under stress and very demoralized, but this is still just a small insult. Disrespect for our men in blue is shameful, but c'mon man. Still it might be Ace downplaying.
Go read the comments and see how much your view aligns with these Biden supporters.
Myself will back whomever is supporting the Constitution. I will not allow myself to become so illogical that I despise someone for their occupation, race, or gender but wait to judge each cop on their merit and moral character.
I don't know if this individual cop was. I know my local police chief told the mayor he would not arrest or ticket anyone for his mask mandate. This is also the same police department that pissed everyone off when they had a Sgt. say that "frankly we aren't shooting enough black people" and dude kept his job because the media ran with their false narrative without the context of that cops are getting killed for hesitating because of race.
Officer should have looted the store and set it on fire.
Peaceful times. Peaceful protests.
Ace is the place with the hateful hardware fags.
Grossly underrated comment
Member the good ol days when John Madden was the spokesman for Ace?
Back when life was simple.
the one in my town is based. much better experience than lowes or home depot
Same. Family owned, owners actually work at the store, and are Trump supporters. I buy as much there as I possibly can because I don't want to see my local businesses disappear.
My ACE has massive signs “one case will shut down the whole store.” “No mask no entry” “we don’t need your germs or business”. Haven’t been back. Mostly I’ve been to Lowe’s because they never put up a bouncer like HD.
Yeah, the only thing Lowe’s has done is make 1 single check out line in my home town. The butcher has been the craziest, he’s got mandatory hand sanitizer, no phone use allowed in store, he’s got some sanitation goo you have to step in to go in.
I kinda understand the precautions the butcher is taking. He's also doing covid theatre, fwiw, he'd probably lose business if he didn't show everyone the precautions he's taking.
And no phone use in stores is something that I've seen commonly in a lot of places where people are waiting in line to request orders. Really speeds up things on busy days. I can't count how many times I've been caught behind slow moving traffic, then filtered up on my motorcycle to see that it's caused by idiots on their phones sitting through green lights.
Lowes sucks tho. Place is for selling curtains and lighting and other bullshit. Walk in an ask where the rebar is (because it sure isn't where it should be...by the bags of concrete/blocks). You get a look of utter confusion. Then hike around the retarded place with your stupid cart and mask and drag 560 lbs of stuff around. Get in line behind half blind boomer woman writing a darn check for a toilet seat. Great times. Oh for the traditional lumber yard where you cound walk up to the counter which had a normal looking woman without a damn nose ring and ask for 6 bags of concrete mix, two bags of type s mortar, a box of 2 inch nails, and a dozen 2x8x8s of yellow pine and hand her a hundred and she'd make change then you drive over to the lumber yard and a teenager puts it in your truck and you drive off.
I have had the same experience with the Ace Hardware stores in my town as well.
It's a franchise chain, nothing else need be said.
"Good customers are as rare as Latinum. Treasure them."
-Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #57
"It's never too late to fire the staff."
You know the Ferengi are supposed to be Jews right?
Instead of a cartoonishly large nose they swapped them for ears and hoped no one would make the connection. Hell, I watched the show for 25 years before it dawned on me.
Sorry if I just broke the glass for you on that, as that is all I could see when it came to anything dealing with the Ferengi once I made the connection.
But it isn't really surprising. I have gone back and watched TNG a couple times and the Commie underpinnings of Rodenberry's world are pretty blatant.
When you really think about their world the fantasy falls apart. Real humans don't act like they do in Star Trek. And there is no way we can "evolve" in such a short period of time to change our very nature.
Were they ever able to really invent a Holodeck, if you don't think there would be a permanent line around the block to use it, and a full time jizz mopper to clean it out in between customers, you are having a laugh.
Your Holodeck assessment was (kinda) addressed in DS9.
Holodecks are for adventures, climbing Everest, Helping Sherlock solve a mystery or battling side by side with Kaehless.
Quarks bar had Holosuites. I.E. Low rent motel complete with disease and pregnancy free hookers!
Nailed it. It was very important for non human races, the vulcans and klingons in particular, to blow off steam. They both had intense libidos and in the case of vulcans death was a consequence of failure to mate. Even half race characters like Warf and Spock which were half human aluded to this, and their libidos were less than that of a full member of their race.
What about Barclay's little menage with Troi and Dr. Crusher they caught him getting ready to do? Which they alluded to not being the first time he had done so, when they complained about all the time he'd been spending on the Holodecks.
They were just holding hands and playing funny-face all that time?
Are you trying to tell me Riker didn't close the deal with Minuet?
As far as I can tell, there are no protections on the Holodeck to stop crew members virtually cloning other crew members, without consent, and having sex with them.
That is the conclusion the evidence in TNG leads one to reasonably believe, IMO.
DSP and TNG are set in the same time frame right?
Check and back to you, Trekker.
Barkley was a mental case. Almost run out of Starfleet for shenanigans like this.
Riker (Minuet) was conceived by alien tech merged into Holodeck tech and Rikers subconscious. Drew on emotions he wasn’t really aware of.
It’s about time and place. Technically you could rent the presidential suite at Trump Hotel and sweat it up like B Clinton with a $2.00 hooker.
(How in the hell did we get to talking about hooker-bots instead of Ace hardware??)
Because we're not afraid to ask the tough questions.
Great response, btw. Touche.
The economy of dilithium crystal was by no means unbounded by the principle of scarcity. The romulans enslave and entire counter race-the Riemans-to mine the toxic shit. Dilithium is analogous to uranium or other fissile material by the way. And replicators are energy based. In Voyager they needed to cook food in order to conserve energy which was definitely finite.
I think you massively overestimate the cost of electricity to produce goods. The near complete cost of an item is the material to produce the item. Then labor, THEN energy.
Look, that the Ferengi were Jews, the Klingons Russians/Soviets, and Romulans Imperial Romans is plainly obvious. Roddenbury was of Jewish background. And Picard was the ideal liberal leader. Secular, hates children, intensely committed to the ethical principles of the federation, hyper competent.
Hence why Kirk and Sysco are by far the better captains. Archer and Janeway are a close second but Picard will always be low on the totem pole because of how much his character was nothing more than a mouthpiece to spew moralism.
Kirk was a Patriot to the Federation, he understood what needed to be done and was practical in his approach. So much that he did everything to stay in the chair because he knew the politics of climbing the latter was just to saddle him nonsense. He loved and lost but his loyalty was to his friends and crew.
Benjamin Sysco was also a Patriot, he did what no other Federation Officer could or would do in the dire straits during the Dominion War and he did it while trying to keep his son safe.
What did Picard do....Opine and give speeches, he cared little for his crew often alienating himself from them. He hated family and children and cared more for regulation. The writers just wrote in his MacGuffins because they had no other choice but do do so.
Anyone that hates children is not fit to be a leader, IMO.
I love Picard but that always came off to me like the writer's bias.
Picard is a philosopher and renaissance man but he hates kids?
That only makes sense in some ivy league leftist writer's imagination because they hate kids and want to identify with the hero.
He us s fictional character. It's ok for it to not make perfect sense.
Source? And please don’t say ‘well. it’s obvious.’
It's obvious. Roddenberry probably admitted it before he died too. Just look for it.
It is pretty well documented but I won't attempt to "prove" it here.
I am not sure you can prove something like this, now that I think about it. Make up your own mind about it. I am not trying to push anything, just inform.
I will address your actual concern though.
I am not some anti-Semite that hates Jews. No group of people all feel or act a certain way. Anyone that makes sweeping bias statements like that is pretty juvenile, IMO, regardless of the demo in question.
However, I am also not afraid to discuss Jews as a group and think anyone trying to summarily shut down conversation on any topic is wrong and their motives should be investigated.
I think Rodenberry probably was pretty biased against Jews, based on what I've read about him. I'd say he was part of the self-hating leftist Jew phenomenon, but again I am far from an expert. I haven't read a ton about him. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people far more knowledgeable on this subject than I.
I am not so sure what about the above is so controversial.
If TD.win wants to become the Yin to the Reddit hivemind's Yang, this this seems like a pretty good way to do so.
Sorry if this ruffled some jimmies, that was not my intent.
LOL, wow, you burst the bubble for a lot of newbie Trek fans.
My gf that didn't even know the Ferengi by name, only in passing, I played a video for her, and 7 seconds in, without prompt said, oh they are Jews?
I do remember that controversy and it was so bad that the writers had to say something about the Ferengi. However it was a pretty bad caricature, trying to create a race of Space Capitalists and inadvertently creating Space Jews .
Allston is part of Boston and is a liberal shit hole.
Here's the number for the store: (617) 782-5131
Give them a call and let them know how you feel
The address, in case you like sending paper mail or demanding to talk to the manager in person
22 Harvard Ave, Allston, MA 02134
Uh-oh. Speak to the manager? That sounds like something Karen would say
I think we're trying to sway from 'Karen' to 'Hillary' now...considering they're mostly high and mighty liberal wenches doing the chastising. Some Pedes were discussing the other day that they're trying to stick the 'Karen' tag to conservative ladies...so we're going to turn that around and slam the left by calling them their queen bitch.
I love this! I do think it is ridiculous how Karen is used to slander middle-aged white conservative women with a voice. Thanks for the heads up.
Hmmm 🤔 if I was a criminal this is the store for me...... imagine the response time is gonna be pretty slow 😂😂😂
Maybe they can send a mental health worker instead?
There won't be anything for the cops to investigate. When they fire that retard Antifa and BLM are going to burn it down.
Ace is great in general. I always shop at the one in our town - I think they’re independent franchises so this bacon incident would be dealt with by the local store owner. I love our ace hardware here they would never be like that to police
Ace USED to be great, until they contracted a minor "woke" infection and changed their slogan from "helpful hardware man" to "helpful hardware FOLKS". So, yeah. Ever since then, it's been Home Depot for me.
(side note: with very few exceptions, the only places I see women working at hardware stores are the gardening section and the cash registers)
I only listen to Home Depot employees that are males 65+ years old.
Faded orange apron +1
Suspenders and jeans +100
My entire work life has revolves around repair. Machines, engines, firearms, buildings etc.
Its why I use the line from Ron Swanson.
New orange apron: “Can I help you?”
Me. “I know more than you!”
Sadly this happens so rare, because when you make eye contact with an apron, most spin on a heel and sprint away!!
Here, here. Couldn't agree more.
This man depots
Anyone that immediately discounts someone purely because of their own perceived notions of what "knowledgeable" will look like usually can't be helped anyway. Imagine telling a grunt to listen to LTC Vindman for DA tactics because of his age and pretty medals over a 25 year old SSG. in 2nd Battalion. Arguments based on this logic are destroyed so easily because of the old adage "to not judge the book by it's cover".
Well that'd be awkward
yea, I was hoping this story would end with a trip to the BBQ place next door...
Aren't all Bostonians assholes, in general? I thought that was something they were kinda proud of?
I can confirm. Every Boston cop I've encountered are total domineering jerks. Power trippers. Will never do business in that city again.
They’re called Massholes for a reason...
I know nothing of Boston Police but reading the replies to that tweet seems it would be a high bar to be worse than Bostonians.
Disgusting
Next time you need the police, dial 911. They will send an ACE Harware employee to help you choose the proper pronouns for your tombstone.
In other news, an unidentified employee at Ace Hardware was arrested on shoplifting charges. The employee insists he was framed, and is currently hospitalized with multiple blunt-force injuries to his face and head. So far no witnesses have come forward. More on the story as it develops.
Oh no! That sucks!
-Fredo
All Ace Hardwares are independently owned. They are essentially small businesses, family owned and often multi-generational. The employee culture is largely determined by the owners not the corporation wich mostly operates as a warehouse. My family owns an ACE and that shit would be treated with zero tolerance. We fly the flag, we support the local police, and we openly talk about our support of Trump with like-minded employees.
Wonder if Ace HQ knows about this........ ACE hardware is in a lot of red rural areas that don't play this bullshit.
Sick little commie scumbag
Don't hate on all Ace hardwares. The local one here is good, I know most of the guys and they're America loving police supporting people. It probably depends on the owner of the store and what they'll put up with.
I work at a private hardware store that sells ace products, and WE LOVE OUR POLICE! Fuck this store! Shit those cunts down!
Talk about a chain that can't handle a boycott. Ace is holding on by the skin of their teeth.
Yeesh.
They're not a chain, google their structure.
True, I should have been more precise and said brand.
Regardless of their ownership structure, IMO, this will hurt the Ace brand universally.
Allston, right next to The People’s Republic of Cambridge a.k.a. Liberal shithole ground zero
The Twitter comments are disgusting.
Most Ace are individually owned, so, that will probably be their statement.
Contact ACE corporate. If they do not respond we know another to avoid.
Most ACE are individually owned, and corp won't care, they got their franchise fee already.
I live pretty close to that ACE. Perhaps I'll stop in, sniff like a dog, and shout "I smell MARXISM". I will refuse to apologize.
That's surprising. Ace usually lives up to it's name by me: extremely helpful and knowledgeable staff. I could see it coming from a cashier, which are almost exclusively high school girls, but I wouldn't expect that to be tolerated.
Well, this Ace will quickly find out what happens when you insult your customer base.
Don’t expect aNy cops to come if store is robbed ^_^
BOYCOTT TIME
And by doing that, you'll harm people that have no fucking affiliation with that store, because most ACE are individually and family owned.
Calm your fucking tits.
Well, there’s your problem. You were being too civil.
Rat city
Someone should go in there will a few jars of bacon grease and let loose everywhere!!!
That is a waste of bacon grease.
Still, i'd sure be funny to have that place smell like bacon for months.. ;-)
I will say that this statement sounds odd. Either they are severely downplaying what the employee did or the cop really got that testy over "I smell bacon". I realize that many cops are under stress and very demoralized, but this is still just a small insult. Disrespect for our men in blue is shameful, but c'mon man. Still it might be Ace downplaying.
Go read the comments and see how much your view aligns with these Biden supporters. Myself will back whomever is supporting the Constitution. I will not allow myself to become so illogical that I despise someone for their occupation, race, or gender but wait to judge each cop on their merit and moral character.
Were they backing the constitution when the lockdowns were in effect?
I don't know if this individual cop was. I know my local police chief told the mayor he would not arrest or ticket anyone for his mask mandate. This is also the same police department that pissed everyone off when they had a Sgt. say that "frankly we aren't shooting enough black people" and dude kept his job because the media ran with their false narrative without the context of that cops are getting killed for hesitating because of race.