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They’re probably lying about it, both because they know it looks bad to be fucking with kids and because being unsuccessful makes them look worse in their eyes.

Honestly you should assume all supplements are toxic and full of heavy metals, because that shit is virtually unregulated.

Sales metrics, I guess. Ikea always asks for it when you check out, and I remember having to ask people when I worked at a retail clothes store untold ages ago.

God dammit, not Frank! He was just a week away from retiring at the banana factory!

You still have REM as far as I know, you just don’t remember it.

Source: I also smoke a lot of weed, but have screaming in the middle of the night PTSD nightmares I don’t remember when I’m woken up from them.

You know the joke, if people had wings we wouldn’t fly because we’d consider it exercise? That, but with escaping the Matrix and landlines. You can still go pay your phone company to activate one… just nobody does.

I was going to say ‘didn’t they just blow up a neighborhood with fireworks the same way a few years ago?’, but that was the LAPD. Of course they learned nothing from watching someone else fuck up.

This is doubly true for the card payment terminals. The on screen options are all in different places, orders, and with random questions thrown in. What’s your phone number? Do you want to round up to donate a car to starving kittens? What’s your zip code? Debit or credit?

Also, because this system is apparently developed by a maniac: where I live (might be national and not state level, not sure) EBT cards have to be used on some terminals by swiping, not the chip that comes on the card. But to swipe, first you have to use the chip and let that fail. So if you see someone using an EBT card that looks like they have no fucking clue how to use a card, it’s probably that they’re actually using it the only way they can.

Absolutely insane design choice, especially for people who may already be facing delays like separating items into two separate transactions for non-covered items, having to remove items that seem like they should be covered but aren’t, etc.

Cuddle sized!

What is the point of shitting on someone for being working poor? Weird and gross.

Part of the reason it’s as terrible for the environment as it is is because billions are being poured into keeping it running even though it’s not as profitable (or profitable at all) as they want you to believe it is. If the users actually had to pay the cost it takes to train and run these things, nobody (except maybe propaganda mills) would pay it because it would be a wildly expensive ripoff. The corporations and venture capitalists are hoping to get everyone addicted to it before they start squeezing.

If taxes pump the brakes on this shit even faster, all the better.

I’m sure it depends to an extent on the buildings, I can’t say how they do it in super ritzy buildings. But when I lived in a lower middle class/working class neighborhood all the apartment buildings just had a row of buzzers at the building entrance with each apartment number on them, and each apartment had a speaker inside it that may or may not work to talk to whoever’s down there, and you go down to pick up your stuff. If you’re really unlucky they can’t hear you reply at all (either from street noise or one of the speakers not working) and you have to race down however many flights of stairs to meet them.

Edit: oh, I forgot you could also buzz them in, but they usually wouldn’t come up the stairs.