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Who do you trust to tell you the truth?
How did you decide they are trustworthy?
Sometimes the main quest is overrated.Caleb has spent his whole life trying to do what’s expected of him, trying not to let anyone down. But
This LGBTetc-and-ND-themed novel is one of my fave romcoms [Leo is my hero!]
God's Cat
So often, I feel like God's cat. If he dangles that metaphorical yarn in my face long enough, He knows that eventually I will want it and make a grab for it. And He also knows that He is never gonna allow me to actually get it. And it happens over and over and over...
beautiful skies today
When I think of all the comics characters I've created over the decades, I think that the one I have the most fun writing, and drawing, and spending time with....
...is Russ.
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place
I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭
Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.
I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.
Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:
Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.
No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.
So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:
Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:
Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.
Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.
POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.
When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)
If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.
In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.
Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.
I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.
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I don't ask for the truth unless I truly want it, which means I rarely ask for it.
Ever feel like the higher-ups are ready to Let You Eat Cake?
Me, age 12. I remember feeling at the time like my looks were a curse. I have felt that way at every step along my life.
But, always, when I look back after five or ten years, I'm like "I wasn't that bad". You'd think I'd learn, eventually, but no.
How do we know?
I've always said that I want to know the truth. And also said that reason is the greatest tool we have for knowing it.
Today, it suddenly occurred to me that any knowledge we have, contains an element of faith or belief. If nothing else, we believe that our minds and our powers of reason are functioning correctly at this time.
A family member is currently experiencing dementia, and will answer the simplest questions incorrectly, and yet he knows. In some cases, he gets angry if you try to correct or disagree with him, because he knows.
How can I be sure that my knowledge is any different? Ultimately I have to believe in my own powers of reason.
And also today, I found myself thinking [as I often do] about The Library of Babel. Somewhere in that library, there is a book that describes The Meaning Of Life in a way that will convince you, whatever that might take. There are millions of other books, some slightly different, others completely contradictory, all written in a way that will convince you. They can't all be true. But they will all seem like the truth when you read them. So, if we are presented with the truth, how can we know that's what it is?
Things like this, I have to make a conscious effort to stop thinking about, in order to get on with my day….
This came up on my playlist, and I thought, "Wow, this guy sounds as good as Bob Cooper."
Then I looked:
TIL
The birds start singing at 3:30am, this time of year.
I didn't want to learn that, but I did....
When I was in my twenties, I thought I was a better comic artist than the majority of the artists who were professionally published.
When I was in my forties, I thought I was maybe in the top third of all comic artists, and considered writing a how-to book on cartooning.
Now, almost seventy, I think I (as a cartoonist) am maybe in the top third of all people, including the vast majority who don't normally draw comics at all.
It's weird how, the older I get, the more practiced I become, and yet the less I impress myself.
ink doodles where I try out a technique I've seen recently in mid-century modern illustration: where you forgo the outline of some shapes and just let the tone hold them. I can see potential....