Love that conservatives still live in the COVID mind palace where during the pandemic the goverment ruled with an iron fist with the Corona-Stasi locking up free thinkers. Instead of the reality of it being a daisy chain of half-assed decisions that just got dropped anyway for the sake of
Off the bat, it's probably more that they will save on the materials and labor of having to send out reams of tags to every store in a company every week, and having employees come in, usually on 3rd shift, to swap tags. Having spent a lot of time working in a grocery store however, I can guarantee that these will malfunction regularly and most employees won't actually be trained in how to fix them.
Down the road I tho, "surge" pricing seems inevitable. Also raising prices based on inventory on hand. "Oh that item is twice the price because it's the last one left, sorry."
Taking action is when you pay lip service to the problems without changing things in any material way. Or like on student loans when you send something out there specifically to sink and then go "We'll evaluate our options and try again" and then just don't do anything else.
I got tired of the gameplay loop a few weeks ago. My diver is on on their super destroyer sipping mai tais with Eagle 1 and Pelican 1 somewhere over a planet on the old bot front.
I remember this video from Minneapolis of people standing on their porch and being yelled at and eventually shot at with paint for not being inside. 2020 was very mask off, but nothing stuck in peoples brains apparently.
So far we have the whole stimulus check debacle, no student loan forgiveness, banning TikTok, and now his steadfast determination to enable genocide in Palestine. I'm sure there is a lot more. I don't know what he has done for young people except belittle causes and issues that are important to them
I'm probably not voting at all, but Id vote 3rd party again if I did.
Woke up to a breakup text, still processing that. Was my day off so I went with a family member to watch a trial they were working on, and went to a bar afterward. Been scrolling tiktok while I should be studying ever since. Riveting day lol
Everyday is the most brazen atrocity that I can imagine. I feel terrible for dealing with shit going on in my own life. Mostly because it feels so insubstantial to the absolutely vile things that are happening to the most vulnerable people across the world from me. But it also makes me feel helpless, like I've gone out, protested, and campaigned for local issues that haven't changed things in the slightest. What is to be done about atrocities that far away?
Like the Irish rep to the EU said, this should end with Israel as a pariah state, but even if that's the case it's little solace in the face of the bloodshed in front of us.
It's funny/not funny that this is all a ripple effect of the dems being so petrified of
that they had to prop up this shambling corpse. Really they could have let Bernie run with it and worst case for them is he gets in and they stifle his agenda and get to go "See? Actually trying to do stuff doesn't work, that's why you need to set your sights lower and be ok with nothing changing."
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