Just like the present incumbent to grift an hour from each of us. He’s probably pocketed them all to give himself 340 million hours!

And then of course after checking the alarm you find yourself back on Lemmy…

In fact, the only thing that works is refusing to be bullied. Look at the tariffs.

Anything a store gives you “free” (as Anon says Papa John’s garlic) has already been priced in.

I worked in a gift shop, we did “free” gift wrapping and it was beautiful. But the cost of boxes, rolls of ribbon and reams of tissue paper were factored into our markup throughout the store. We had really nice things, so a lot of our customers would come in for a gift and spend as much or more on items for themselves, which just needed to be bagged. Maybe bubble wrap for the trip home, but that was reused from things shipped to us. So we made extra profit, while also giving them and their friends ideas for their next gift. Wealthy people, so they didn’t care.