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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.
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
I'm gonna be real. Who cares if you're mid or ugly. Any decent lover will not care about that. In fact they will fall for you based on your personality and then naturally become attracted to your appearance. That happens all the time. You're okay. You're fine.
getting new followers and especially a new mutual is so scary i gotta hit reblog extra good for a bit as to not scare them off
getting new followers and especially a new mutual is so scary i gotta hit reblog extra bad for a bit as to make them rethink this decision

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Thinking about fate in Beowulf and Lord of the Rings. How it involves taking a pagan concept of fate and applying Christianity to it. You're not a slave to a cruel and merciless universe, but your fate is still outside of your control. Your fate is now in the hands of an all-knowing, all powerful God. And knowing that, you still have to make good choices.
So now, sometimes you meet your fate, not because you can't see it coming, or because you can't escape it, but because you have to choose it. You know this course of action will lead to your death, but you can make no other choice--morality, virtue, honor, decency, dignity, and God all say that you have a duty to do the right thing, no matter what it costs you. You have to meet your fate with your eyes wide open, understanding that no man can live forever, but you can live as God wants you to live, and trust that you'll die when it's your proper time.
And this leaves open the door for hope. Instead of the tragedy of trying to escape fate and failing, the story can be about submitting to fate and being saved. Not always. Sometimes the story is that you meet your fate, but you died doing the right thing. But sometimes, refusing to take the selfish action, refusing to run means that something beyond the expectations of human reality can intervene and save you. Either way, you end the story as a hero, instead of as a victim or a villain.
I'm thinking about this again after rereading Revenge of the Sith, because when Palpatine tells Anakin about Sith defying fate vs. Jedi submitting to fate, you'd better believe that this post came to mind. It shows why the Jedi way is the right way. "Let go of attachments" is not saying, "Become an emotionless husk who doesn't care about anything bad that happens." It's, "Recognize that there are some things worse than losing someone."
You can't be willing to do anything to save people, because that means you might do things like murder dozens of children to save one woman. There has to be a line that you will not cross, no matter what, even if it's to save yourself or someone you love. You can't rely on your own power to save everyone. Even if doing the right thing seems to lead to destruction, you have to do the right thing. Submitting to fate isn't about giving up, it's about having hope. It's about refusing to do wrong and leaving open the possibility that something beyond everyday reality could save you in ways you couldn't possibly imagine. And even if you aren't saved, you haven't added to the darkness.
Rapunzel was Raised to Not Show Physical Affection
We’ve all seen that Gothel makes Rapunzel come to her for hugs, but today I realized it goes deeper than that. Gothel doesn’t want Rapunzel showing physical affection unless she has been given specific permission. Opening her arms is that unspoken permission.
For example, towards the beginning, when she’s reminding Gothel that it’s her birthday tomorrow, she grabs her arm in exuberance. Gothel is put out and then pries Rapunzel’s hands off her arm, all the while pretending she doesn’t remember (or care) that her birthday - something Rapunzel is extremely excited about - is fast approaching.
She also uses Rapunzel’s need for physical affection, deliberately taunting and “teaching” her with it by pretending to offer it, then taking it away immediately.
The first bazzilionty times I saw this movie, I always assumed Rapunzel was relieved to see Gothel towards the end of Mother Knows Best just because she was scared.
But now I realize it’s not only because she’s scared, but because Gothel is now giving Rapunzel permission to seek the creature comfort of physical contact that she so desperately needs after the gamut of fear she’s run.
Eugene, on the other hand, starts showing physical affection as soon as he starts feeling any affection for Rapunzel at all. He uses it as a comfort. Yet Rapunzel keeps her hands to herself.
It continues when he gives her the little flag, touching the small of her back in an affectionate way. But her hands (and attention) are full at this moment.
In fact, the first time she realizes she’s touching him, and he’s touching her, and there’s affection and enjoyment buzzing between them, she’s the first to pull away.
She’s alarmed at first, then apologetic and sheepish. Sorry I was touching you, Eugene. And he politely takes a step back, tuned in to her discomfort and giving her a little more space.
But that is why the moment on the boat is so important, and why Rapunzel has the reaction she does.
In taking Rapunzel’s hand, out of the blue (as far as she can tell), it’s sending her a clear message that he feels the same about her that she does about him, and that physical affection is both alright and wanted. That he will seek out her attention in a way Gothel never has. And from this moment on, she touches him often, holding hands for the rest of the song, brushing his hair from his face as he lay dying, and never letting go of his head, even after he’d died in her arms. Not to mention kissing him when he lives again, holding hands on the balcony while they wait for her parents and end-of-movie smooching.
this also gives added depth to the hug she and her real parents collapse into at the end of the movie
NOW I’M CRYING
WOW YOU REALLY CAME FOR A L L MY EMOTIONS TODAY
OH MY GOSH! This analysis is incredible!!! You really have some solid evidence as well!!! Aghhh!!!
Rapunzel now hugs everyone within a 200-mile radius, and I’m proud of her
OH MY GOSH
I always wondered why she acted that way at the end of the dance especially, this makes so much sense
The core of most religious misunderstandings I've witnessed with irreligious people is that they fundamentally misunderstand what religion is to religious people. It's not simply a matter of choosing what worldview most appeals to you or matches your own opinions. This is how you fundamentally believe the world already works, and living accordingly. It's not selecting from an array of possibilities with varying appeal, but aligning yourself with truth. You may not always like that truth, but that doesn't mean you get to throw it out or pick something else - you do the changing to match religious reality, not the other way around. I'm coming at this from a Christian experience, obviously, but this is true of any religion that claims objective, exclusive truth. "Why would you choose to follow a God who—" Because I didn't choose this God; this God, the only true one who exists, chose me; and I best get my priorities and values in order with his, because this world is here by his creative whim. He alone defines truth; he is truth.
The core of most religious misunderstandings I've witnessed with irreligious people is that they fundamentally misunderstand what religion is to religious people. It's not simply a matter of choosing what worldview most appeals to you or matches your own opinions. This is how you fundamentally believe the world already works, and living accordingly. It's not selecting from an array of possibilities with varying appeal, but aligning yourself with truth. You may not always like that truth, but that doesn't mean you get to throw it out or pick something else - you do the changing to match religious reality, not the other way around. I'm coming at this from a Christian experience, obviously, but this is true of any religion that claims objective, exclusive truth. "Why would you choose to follow a God who—" Because I didn't choose this God; this God, the only true one who exists, chose me; and I best get my priorities and values in order with his, because this world is here by his creative whim. He alone defines truth; he is truth.
"The magic system is never fully explained" yeah that's how life works. Imagine having a story set in modern day America and the characters have several pages of exposition on combustion engines and telecommunication networks before we get to the plot
i think this is absolutely correct and good writing advice but also victor hugo would like to have a word with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1832
victor hugo would like to have many words with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1831

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you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.
you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.
you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.
you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.
you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.
you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.
you have to be kind. you have to be kind.
Paintings of Mothers and Daughters (19th century) Gustave Léonard de Jonghe
always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal
No, I was told it was bad by the numerous historical accounts of mass murder and totalitarian autocracy. It failed, it lost the Cold War, and now Europe is free. Democracy and the will of the people triumphed over one-party dictatorships from Prague to Warsaw. Get over it.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Bucaco Palace, Portugal (by Jesus Moral Nuez)
This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.
Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.
As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.
this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.