Unless I’ve got a lot of produce, I use self checkout. I don’t like the human interaction.

I wish more places were like Uniqlo where you can toss everything into a bin and it reads the RFID tags instead of having to scan individual items.

At this point I can only blame my broken brain.

Lemmy karma is worthless compared to Reddit.

I feel like there has to be some laws regarding using a transporter as a replicator.

There was a major effort by the government to dismantle functional far left political groups. The vacuum has been filled by a lot of people who are suspiciously unable to build a big tent and craft messages like they are designed to split communities rather than engage in effective change.

The DSA and Working Families Party seem to be building an effective political strategy to get shit done, but a lot of other groups seem to just want to argue and protest.

It was good enough for George Jetson, it is good enough for them.

This is how you get Tom Rikers.

I think the Pentagon is looking for a fall guy for the attack and they know Palantir will take it. While the Obama administration still continued bombings and assassinations, the administration required approval to go through the White House rather than trust internal DoD procedures. This went away when Trump took office.

My guess is that the DoD didn’t have the procedures in place to figure this shit out but they now need someone to blame.

Trump doesn’t have to be nice with Mamdani; Mamdani just knows how to manipulate Trump.

Lemmy the idea conflicts a lot with Lemmy as provided. Lemmy copied Reddit’s moderation system outright, including horrible design decisions like ranking mods based on tenure and not allowing for levels/powers of moderation. The devs have said outright that they won’t change this because they don’t see a problem with it.

I don’t expect the Leninists to implement moderation democracy.

The issue with cultural appropriation previously was that those from the culture were denied opportunities to make money off their own culture. There are still some economic restrictions, but the political and cultural restrictions are mostly gone.

There were some cultural appropriation complaints when the chopped cheese got big for a hot minute, but it was widely sold in bodegas already so it didn’t have a single creator and a lot of people wanting to try it went to Harlem and the South Bronx to get it. More places started selling it, but it wasn’t like the original bodega owners were barred from being a part of the dish’s expansion. It was just really easy to make.

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but trucking in America is a commodity industry where a lot of the competition is just to reduce price.

Having more truckers around pushes costs down, so the casual racism is also kind of a wish to reduce the labor pool.

Which is probably why official churches were very important in early Christianity. You can’t let the masses interpret it themselves.

I’m not surprised. I know secret bases were located from people posting their runs.

Unless they have a way to mitigate it, they don’t get oil and international demand drops.

The only large oil consumer who is acting this strategically is China. They’ve been buying dips and building out massive strategic reserves. The Iran War oil crisis would have been a lot worse if China didn’t reduce its consumption significantly.

But they can sure crank out the shit.

Only when I had a summer job at a large corporate place. Even then, I didn’t feel personally subjected to poor management.

I did have a manager who probably wanted everyone to be easily replaceable.

I just said that the sensors don’t have the range, which means they can’t be.

There also isn’t a standard sensor layout.

Dogma wasn’t available because it was controversial, but because different people claimed to own the movie.

Or blame it on Mexicans.