I have worked in a field where I routinely needed to restrain people larger than myself without hurting them. These people were unwell, sometimes violent, and often paranoid and aggressive. I never once fucking bodyslammed an adult patient or punched them.

I had to restrain teenagers, many who looked a lot like this girl (who may not have been 100% compliant, but was definitely not “resisting” as I have been resisted by teenage patients). I never once fucking bodyslammed a small teenage girl or punched her. Nor did I fucking bodyslam and punch a 200+lb highschool football player with paranoid delusions and a penchant for punching nurses.

Why not? Because there is absolutely zero need to do that, it’s fucked up and mean, it could seriously hurt them, and it’s illegal besides. When I was doing this type of work, I was much smaller than the pig in the video, and again restraining teenagers up to 300+lb adults. The lack of a need to do something forceful, and doing the forceful thing anyway despite not needing to is the definition of excessive force. Bodyslamming an unarmed, small, possibly inebriated teenage girl as a 200+lb man is excessive and fucked up.

If you think this is OK, you need to take a step back and ask yourself why you think that.

I didn’t (and don’t) believe in the supernatural metaphysical claims made by any religion, and don’t like that it seems to give hateful people a reason to be more biggoted and spaces to find each other and organize behind hateful causes

There are plenty of good religious folks though. By 25 I had moved much more into a “live and let live” mindset about religion. I’d also started to look more into Buddhism and realized there was a lot of value in the Buddha’s teachings even if you set aside the supernatural claims about the nature of the soul, rebirth, etc.

Everyting gwan be irie

“I don’t have a gag reflex.”

• RF “The Throat Goat” K Jr.

Yeah this is just whack-a-mole.

Multibillion dollar business idea: shitload of shell companies that keep your data constantly in circulation, undeletable. Subscription service that just re-sends your data to companies after deletion.

“But it makes you a HYPOCRITE! We’re better because we’re HONEST about wanting people dead!”

He developed spasmodic dysphonia (involuntary larynx contractions) in 1996 at age 42.

It was caused by eating tainted hippopotamus meat. He had hit the hippo while driving a mack truck near Pablo Escobar’s compound in the middle of the night, pursued by paramilitary forces. He returned 2 days later under cover of darkness to eat its liver and testicles, which an alternative health guru told him contained antioxidants and hormones that could prevent aging. He wound up about a week later in an El Salvadoran prison after rampaging through various towns in Colombia, Panama, and El Salvador causing property damage to several farmers’ vegetable stalls, soiling himself repeatedly, and accosting locals. Eye witnesses report that he had the voice at the time of these incidents. The US had him extradited soon after agreeing that they’d try him, but they dropped the charges on administrative grounds almost immediately.

That’s probably not true - no one really knows why spasmodic dysphonia happens. Seems to be something to do with your Basal Ganglia.

But not one that relates to the thing that we’re trying to stop them from doing. Cashiers aren’t paid per item scanned, they don’t get commission. They are paid an hourly wage.

If you wanted to pay customers a rebate for their labor at the market rate for a cashier, or one set by the state, that’d make sense to eliminate the gains the company receives from automation.

So 5 minutes of work at $15/hr = $1.25. So not much, but it mitigates the benefit of not hiring people.

Though, it’s still a benefit because you pay a person whether they’re actively working or not and you have to pay tax on human labor (contributing to social security, etc) so maybe hiking it higher than whatever the typical wage is for cashiers would make sense.

But either way, 10% doesn’t make sense.

We’ve given up so much as consumers. There was a time when people would be pissed that the store was making them do unpaid labor. Now we don’t bat an eye.

Cost of labor, overhead, and profit are already accounted for in that $150 price of the goods. That’s why the store charges $150 for them - because that’s what covers the wages, overhead, and includes the maximum markup they can get away with (~3% margin for grocery stores afaik).

All I’m saying is, they do have to be able to cover costs. So because of that and their thin margins, they’d just hike prices (probably more than they’d need to take advantage of the situation).

So it makes more sense to either tax them for avoiding using human labor and passing that labor on to customers (to help pay for the drain they’re placing on the economy by not hiring people), or just ban the practice outright. Couple that with price controls to ensure they can’t unfairly inflate prices. Things they can’t avoid rather than a fee they can hike prices to avoid.

It also doesn’t really make sense to do it as a percentage. A cashier’s wage is typically hourly, and the labor market has settled on a particular wage for cashiers in this area - say $15/hr.

If I have a $150 grocery bill, a 10% discount would be $15. For maybe 5 minutes of work. Working out to an hourly wage of $180/hr (60/5 = 12, 12 * 15 = 180).

So if they’re saying “we should be compensating customers for being made to do labor”, they’d be compensating them at roughly 12x the going rate for cashiers in this example.

Now if it’s just meant to be punitive, OK. But then why not actually address the real issue: displacement of workers by technology and passing the labor burden on to unpaid consumers - either make that illegal or tax the company to help mitigate the harm it’s causing by eliminating jobs.

Frozen m&ms are great. I guess I mostly mean like nice dark chocolate, mainly

This anti-homeless architecture has really gotten out of hand

Disagree on chocolate. Texture and taste are improved at room temp.

Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

That is an extremely reddit interaction.

They’re just idiots. The Hellenic world was massive. There were all sorts of different people in it or involved with it. Just look at all the Alexandrias - they’re all over the place. The Greeks made it all the way to India and some even converted to Buddhism (e.g. King Menander I). Greek views on sexuality were very different to the heteronormative ideas RETVRN types would like to think. And they were SUPER into trade, sex, conversation & philosophizing, and general schmoozing with people of all colors creeds and persuasions. And the concept of a white race hadn’t been invented yet.

Black Greeks. “Gay” Greeks (messy, they may not have thought quite like this, but still). Buddhist Greeks. Middle Eastern Greeks. Zoroastrian Greeks. Indian Greeks. Hindu Greeks. Interracial Greek Couples (they didn’t really have the concept of “race” yet though). All totally normal.

The ancient world was much more complex and interesting than these 🤡 would like to think.

I am a Nigerian prince. I just found $0.75T in the couch: do you want it?

Funny enough given it was in Utah, that’s essentially the exact opposite of what mormons think about why people are black

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_of_Cain_and_Ham_(LDS_Church)

Yeah, like I said I’m not certain. And I have since seen random people circulating this on various social media, but I noticed it myself first. At 15%, it could just be water loss, but also it could be something more than that. Mainly it’s just an annoyance.