Combining Dressage with Clicker Training

anyone else here vehemently anti-self checkout and despise having to bag your own groceries at stores that used to hire baggers? Every time I bring this convo up with other people, its like they cant see the issue at hand here. They be like "oh I like bagging my own groceries anyway", "I'm trying to help out the workers by doing the work for them". Im lazy and inconsiderate for not doing it myself bc clearly the cashier doesn't have any help. Offloading the labor the corporation used to staff for onto the consumer and lining their pockets with the savings? Sure sign me the fuck up. Just another way to pit the working class against each other, arguing over who's being more "inconsiderate" and "lazy", instead of pointing the finger at the people in power with control over the situation.

Today I have to do the thing Ive been dreading. Bubs is moving in with another lovely gelding behind my new rental. Which means he must be separated from his darling girlfriend, whom he has become very bonded to. Weve done lots of work getting him comfortable with leaving the property by himself, grazing by himself, riding them separately, splitting off from the trail and going our separate ways. All of which Bubs does well with, but all because at the end of the day, he gets his girl back, the ultimate reward. So I'm pretty devastated by it all. Plenty of people would love to call me dramatic but id ask them what it would be like to have a best friend and then be forcibly separated from them without warning. Such is the average life of a domestic horse.