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Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Location

Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.

The Climate Cult Reacts As Its Political Position Begins To Slip

Consistent social routines linked to better emotional well-being in older adults

Duh

Warning: Everything on Social Media Is Probably Fake

Everything is fake

Top NYT Editor Suggests White House Wants Paper To Act Like Communist Propaganda Arm For President

Abigail Shrier: There Are Two Sets of Rules for Speech. . .

Columbia Faculty Group Goes On Strike in Support of Pro-Hamas Disruptors

WE’RE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS, WE DON’T NEED SPINES

“Let 10 Million Cop Cars Burn!” – Radical Pro-Hamas Terror Group ‘Rachel Corrie’s Ghost Brigade’ Admits to Torching 15 Portland Police Cars in ‘Preemptive Attack’

Trump sounding like an idiot

UN Accuses Israel of Denying Aid as Hamas Fires on Aid Crossing. It's not that they don't know the truth, it's that they are deliberately lying.

A Hamas attack on a key aid crossing yesterday turned out to be the last straw. Even the Egyptians are blaming Hamas for that

Some of our congresspeople have gone a bit overboard in their effort to sanction all things Chinese.

A university board in Sweden is suppressing research on immigrant income.

Why?

Majority Of Germans Reject Muslim Immigration, Express Fear Of Becoming A "Minority In Germany"

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re Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Location

Imagine paying Wal-Mart $98/yr to check out your own groceries.

And Wal-Mart feels this will make customers less inclined to steal?

Meanwhile, Dollar General has removed their self-checkout from my little town due to pilferage by the locals. They are so short of help in that store that there is often nobody up front by the cash register. They are practically inviting people to walk out of the store with merchandise. Yes, they have security cameras and yes, I am given to understand that some of the shoplifters will be prosecuted.

#1 feeblemind on 2024-05-07 08:42 (Reply)

Piggly Wiggly was the first self-service grocery store: "At the time of its founding, grocery stores did not allow customers to gather their goods. Instead, a customer would give a list of items to a clerk, who would then collect them throughout the store. This created greater costs and higher prices. Piggly Wiggly introduced the innovation of allowing customers to go through the store, gathering their goods, thus cutting costs and lowering prices. Losses due to easier shoplifting were more than offset by profits from increased impulse purchasing."

I think we will be heading back to the pre-Piggly Wiggly days sometime soon, but the modern version: You order online, and go and pick it up.

No more "impulse buying" -- the prices to off set the cost of "impulse shoplifting" will go through the roof, otherwise.

It's going to really suck, the future of retail.

#1.1 Lee Also on 2024-05-07 15:24 (Reply)

re Majority Of Germans Reject Muslim Immigration, Express Fear Of Becoming A "Minority In Germany"

They should have thought of this 50 years ago and voted accordingly.

Can they save themselves from becoming a minority? Yes, I think they can but the hour is late and the solutions won't be pretty.

Will they save themselves from becoming a minority? Your guess is as good as mine.

#2 feeblemind on 2024-05-07 09:05 (Reply)

Sounds like it's time for them to dust off those ovens.

#2.1 Maniac on 2024-05-07 09:44 (Reply)

" It's not that they don't know the truth, it's that they are deliberately lying."

A perfect summation of literally everything that is wrong in the 21st century. If the NYTimes reports it then it is a lie. If the government tells us something it is a lie. Literally every facet of government lies to us to get what they want and please one special interest group or another. The MSM spend most of it's time hiding the news they don't want you to know about and finding things to support the official narrative. The world is being slow walked into nuclear Armageddon and the MSM floods our news with sports or racism or LGQTB+ or "far right" whatever just so that we don't notice everything collapsing around us. It's all fake. The stock market/DOW is fake propped up with fake money and fake reporting. The economy is fake, lies and hidden data. The employment data is fake all the new jobs going to illegal immigrants and DEI. Inflation is at least twice the official rate and in some economic measures much higher. Banks are failing, our leaders and bureaucrats are lying and/or stuttering trying to explain simple things. Everyone that comes before congress lies and prevaricates because the truth cannot be said out loud. When Trump speaks truth the media responds "Trump is sounding like an idiot". We live in a time that is like the early stage of a tsunami where the ocean has drawn back from the beach and is about to come back in a massive destructive wave but our politicians are trying to convince us that they made the beach bigger for our enjoyment. It's over! The fat lady is in the wings clearing they/their throat. Kiss your family goodbye and pour yourself a drink.

#3 OneGuy on 2024-05-07 09:16 (Reply)

Babylon Bee presents Woke Jesus.

5:37 video.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1787540804103233881

#4 feeblemind on 2024-05-07 10:10 (Reply)

Postmodernism explained?? Surely you jest. We finally traveled far enough down the 'enlightenment' trail to reach the point where the irrational and dysfunctional 'normies' are in charge of the current western insanity that will continue right up to the collapse. Then these 'normies' will again be institutionalized or marginalized in order to make survival possible.

#5 indyjonesouthere on 2024-05-07 10:10 (Reply)

Tyson Foods Warns Low-Income Consumers Are Cracking Under Inflation Storm

QUOTE:

Tyson Foods, the second-largest producer of animal protein globally, plunged the most in one year after cautioning that heightened inflation is severely impacting its working poor customers, leading them to reduce their purchases of ready-to-eat products from its brands. This ominous warning comes one week after McDonald's and Starbucks warned that low-income consumers are starting to crack.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tyson-foods-warns-low-income-consumers-are-cracking-under-inflation

#6 feeblemind on 2024-05-07 10:18 (Reply)

Hoot of the Day: Belgium’s Ports Drowning Under Glut of Chinese EVs

QUOTE:

Due to China’s overcapacity in production – as it aims to capture a quarter of the European electric vehicle market – the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge are inundated.

. . . Imported vehicles are seriously piling up at European ports, turning them into “car parks.” Automakers are distributors are struggling with a slowdown in car sales as well as logistical bottlenecks that make it hard to alleviate the buildup of new, unsold vehicles.

Some Chinese brand EVs had been sitting in European ports for up to 18 months,

. . . “It’s chaos,” said another person who had been briefed on the situation.

This is another part of the escalating trade war between China and the rest of the world.

https://mishtalk.com/economics/hoot-of-the-day-belgiums-ports-drowning-under-glut-of-chinese-evs/

#7 feeblemind on 2024-05-07 14:10 (Reply)

Deconstruction meant close reading. Derrida used it on systems that he loved, which produces quite a difference in intuition from what the academic left uses close reading for, namely destroying hated systems.

The lesson from Derrida is not that there's no truth but that truth isn't where you're looking for it.

I always recommend guys start with the short book Spurs (thin, facing French and English pages) on women; and women start with The Post Card, the key being in each case having an independent interest in produced poetic accuracy.

Skip the Preface to Spurs, written by an academic.

#8 rhhardin on 2024-05-08 06:54 (Reply)

A Derrida lecture on YouTube, listen to the answer to the first question, about minutes 5 to 28, on prayer.

See if there's the slightest trace of community destruction, or if it isn't a series of insights about what prayer is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyOWAcpIaB8

Listen from 5:50 to 27:48

It's been oublished in print but the transcription is bafflingly wrong in print ("has more than one age" is printed as "has more than one edge" for example, in a key phrase).

#9 rhhardin on 2024-05-08 07:05 (Reply)

Trump sounding like an idiot....

Perhaps since Biden is president you could post something like

"Biden sounding like a brilliant leader of the free world with is fingers on the nuclear button!"

#10 LibDis on 2024-05-08 14:21 (Reply)

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