Just a standard regional grocery chain. They dont have memberships but im not gonna make a scene over $40 worth of groceries i knew I had scanned properly so I just let her realize her mistake and decided not to shop there anymore.

Just saying that the lack of pay doesn’t stop people from appointing themselves as volunteer loss prevention.

Doesn’t stop some people from trying to. Lady at Smiths insisted on seeing my receipt after telling her twice that yes I was sure I correctly scanned all of the 6 items in my cart, thank you.

What’s the charge? Cooking a meal? A succulent BBQ meal?

Americans would turn this into a three day spectacle with costumes, food stands, and merch booths. Then they’d get bored, consider their civic duty fulfilled, and return home to their jobs and personalized media bubble.

Don’t worry, so are they.

They are prominent right wing political influencers. So, in a sense, yes but they’re doing it with zero self awareness.

Doing good things is a distraction from what’s really important: getting that dang cheeto out of the white house!!

I’ll believe the machines are sentient when they tell their boss to eat shit.

Well, the bots do. Like 90% of viewbotting, click farming, follower buying etc is sold by people running phone farms.

The last time this happened resulted in gun control laws as well.

Yeah I edited in the old method after I posted. Don’t want them trying to blame this all on AI.

I didn’t question whether more had insurance. I questioned the quality and utility of the insurance they were forced to purchase by penalty of fine. One of the elements the republicans stripped was that fine, which existed entirely as a handout to insurance companies who swore up and down that having to cover preexisting conditions would bankrupt them unless you forced everyone to buy their “product”. (Not that the republicans did it out of any altruism or anything, they just wanted to use that as part of a ploy to repeal the ACA entirely, which failed)

now they just deny coverage with AI generated reasons and force you to nag and beg for them to pay what they’re obligated to. much better! and before that they just paid some corrupt physician to sit on staff and make up bullshit reasons to deny coverage.

What good is insurance with a deductible I cannot afford to pay? Mandating people buy shitty insurance is not the win you think it is.

Then start burning what the republicans built or fuck off.

why are they allowed to beta test this shit on public roads

Yeah what kind of dumbass would willingly do stupidly selfish shit that will certainly bring doom to themselves and others but might, if they’re lucky, make sure they get a better outcome than everyone else?

More metaphorical than hypothetical, imo

I’ve slogged through many boring sections in otherwise good books where I experienced this.

Gender affirming truck.