I see. A vanishingly small capitalist class? From where I am sitting , that “class” isn;t getting smaller, just more desperate as they are running out of ways to extraxt wealth from those who work, so the attempt become more and more egregious and obvious.

Samuel L. Jackson is the first name to pop into my head upon reading the thread title.

This. When I lived in housing cooperatives in college 20 years ago we would lie in wait at various places (Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Einstein Bros., Roma Pizza, etc.) and grab ridiculous amounts of good food they would throw away at closing time. We actually got enough perfectly fine food that way that we were able to completely subsizide all of the food costs of the single parents and poor members of our community. I don’t think folks can even do this anymore as now places have locked dumpsters or even keep the entire dumpster enclosed in the building itself.

Pfft. Mosaic is where it’s at.

I agree with both statements (or I would anyway if Saudi Arabia and Israel weren’t responsible for 9/11).

As a buyer, I like this. Then I know how much of the total transit time is the actual courier and how much of it is the seller finally getting around to giving the package to the courier after printing the label.

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Can’t say as I give two fucks what happens to the kind of women who would become Southern Baptist preachers.

Nice. For me it’s an i7 7700k with 1080 ti that i upgraded a few years ago to n 8700k with a 2080 ti. Owned it since 2017 and it’s rock solid snd good enough.

Sure, but I feel like only a smaller mom and pop type of establishment is going to forgo extra profits and provide more jobs for the people in their community in this way. There is no way a Kroger or Walmart is going to do that.

Me too. Unless you are going to lay hands on me (after which you have a bigger problem) I am just going to walk right by you and ignore you if you try to force me to do anything.

FYI, it takes around 6-9 months (depending on how much larger inventory shrinkage is on the self checkouts) for a self checkout to pay for itself and begin saving money. Not that I am advocating for that.

The problem is the opposite. There are too many regular checkout lines and not enough self checkouts. Almost every grocery store I shop at has like 12 self checkouts (taking the place of 4 previously regular checkouts) and then like 10-15 regular checkouts, of which never more than 4 or 5 (sometimes less) have cashiers in them. How about turning 5 or more of those regular checkout lanes you never use into 20 more self checkouts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-nVk-ZLfr8

And what rough whataboutism, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Rurite?

Little ditty…

No, it’s the right attitude, but the language could be less harsh…like asking him if he still building their tools and a part of the problem instead of just declaring it. People need to hear it when they are are helping enshitification, it just needs to be done from a place of concern or pity and not from a pkace of anger or hostility.

Well, not technically. He had his sentence “discharged” the week of Jan 6 2025, which was technically while he was not president, but well after he had stolen his second term and it was certain he would be the president in about 2 weeks. So, he can’t be sentenced for those 34 felonies anymore, but I wonder if he would have been sentenced to time if he hadn’t stolen a second term.

Probably not, since the judge who unconditionally discharged any sentence was at the very least a Trump apologist who bent over backwards to give Trump the white glove treatment. At the very least Judge Merchan could have assessed fines equal to the value Trump stole with his crimes, or even put Trump on probation. Nope, just let him off free and clear.

I just hope some enterprising state AGs find more things to charge him with and he spends the last couple of years of his life rotting in prison.