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Wish the Japanese was translated but dear God even when Islam isn't being outright evil it's such a silly little bit of nonsense.

"God told Adam that he wouldn't have created the Earth without Muhammad"

Wow. Amazing. But it's kinda crazy how literally none of the other holy books that tell the story of Adam and Eve mentioned that until Muhammad decided to write his fanfiction Koran. You'd think that would be something kind of important to fill people in on. Especially when he was telling prophets about Jesus' coming for over a thousand years before he showed up.

They can't understand humor because to them a "joke" is just a word to use when they start experiencing consequences for the things they do and say.

"We should kill all men!"

"Um. What? That's...kind of psychotic?"

"God it was just a joke! All you fragile men are getting so mad over an obvious joke."

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.

Im already seeing people treating this like the first step and saying things like "They shouldn't be able to buy soda at all because if they can afford to buy it with cash, that means they don't need help" which is just not true, snaps is only suppose to cover like half of your food budget.

And Im also seeing people argue that food that does have a nutritional value but is "too nice" like any meat that isn't ground beef and name brand food in general shouldn't be covered. And again even if you buy them with cash that means you don't "really" need help.

We need to be very firm in the idea that the N in SNAP states for nutritional and that means no to things with no nutritional value but yes to things that do, even if they are "nice" things

Like you said, SNAP was never intended to cover 100% of a household’s food costs. Families are expected to contribute what they can, and having enough money to occasionally buy a steak instead of ground beef or choose a name-brand product doesn’t mean they don’t need the assistance.