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Rudy Rudy Rudy -- (link) - mud Apr 28, 09:22 2
- Hey, at least they all know each other. -- nm - Mop Apr 28, 09:25
- heh, just saw that and was coming to post -- nm - Beaker Apr 28, 09:23
Captain America: Storm, Shuri and others talk about Shuri making a new costume....this is hilarious... -- (link) - Remlik Apr 28, 09:14 3
- "Talcum X" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 09:23
- he's their friend and they don't want him to get killed -- nm - Beaker Apr 28, 09:18
- I admit I have spent time thinking about what kind of Iron Man suit she would come up with. -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 09:16
We have two cart lines (small/large) at Whole Foods, I hate drive thrus/fast food kiosks. McDonald's near me has 1 register line out the door 24/7 - MDH Apr 28, 09:11 3
- MickeyDs App is pretty good. Plus has deals integrated. -- nm - budice Apr 28, 09:16 1
  - I use the app at the register when I go, the deals are great! Related, local McD did say Uber/etc. has driven a huge increase in sales. -- nm - MDH Apr 28, 09:21
- The line is what makes me use the kiosk. -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 09:12
Let’s change the subject. Ever caught a 300 Yd golf drive in a moving car passenger seat? They did. -- (link*) - Volnelk Apr 28, 09:03 5
- I'm actually surprised - oblique Apr 28, 09:10
- No but the beer cart driver 2 fairways over nearly did. - Will Hunting Apr 28, 09:09 2
  - Right? I've been practicing for this my whole life and didn't know it. -- nm - Reagen Apr 28, 09:11 1
    - *looks around in shock*. Who did that?! -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 28, 09:13
- Moving? No. Parked? yes. -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 09:06
My intention was sincerly not to turn this into a grocery store/checkout board. My apologies. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 28, 08:54 13
- Aldi's has you put a quarter in when you take your cart and you have to return it to that same place to get your quarter back. -- nm - JenBro Apr 28, 09:33
- Look at these motherf**kers trying to assuage your guilt. - Will Hunting Apr 28, 09:11
- Nothing to apology, we're very good at taking a thread and running with it - ty97 Apr 28, 08:57 6
  - Indeed -- nm - landbeck May 2, 17:29
  - I mean, did we invent Tiny Type? -- nm - IAmQale Apr 28, 09:09
  - ST are vikings at talking about nothing :) -- nm - decline Apr 28, 09:02 3
    - wait, does that mean we're good at it, or we're vikings while doing it? - colin Apr 28, 09:08
    - That's true. Just killing time until the draft. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 28, 09:04 1
      - I never thought I'd be happy to hear about the draft with you guys - the Super League Discussions showed me different -- nm - Pippy Apr 28, 09:07
- not sure what the apology is for. This has been really interesting to listen to. -- nm - prayformojo Apr 28, 08:55
- You supermarket swept us away on this topic -- nm* - ty97 Apr 28, 08:55
- I mean it's been a good convo - Reagen Apr 28, 08:54 1
  - the day is young... -- nm - Diva Apr 28, 08:58
Every interview from the 70s. -- (link) - Beaker Apr 28, 08:47 5
- and here's every news report while we're at it -- (link) - LMS Apr 28, 09:04 [youtube]
- *Tom Waits noises* -- nm - Mop Apr 28, 08:49
- Can confirm. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 08:49 2
  - because you were alive in the 70s and can recall this? -- nm - mud Apr 28, 08:52 1
    - I was not and cannot. But video is a thing, so I've seen a couple examples. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 09:02
I also distrust drive-thrus. Except Chick-fil-A where they actually have people standing out there taking orders. -- nm - znufrii Apr 28, 08:42 28
- I prefer walking in also (now that I feel safe doing that again). Had a big order from Culvers the other night and walked in for a to go order. - zunk xometimes Apr 28, 09:13
- 100% disagreed. I actually prefer it, as long as they have the order screen. You can see exactly what your order is. Basically, the kiosk but *they* - Spawn Apr 28, 08:56
- We have CFA here that the drive through is so busy, I've used the curbside pickup and gotten my stuff faster by ordering after I pull into a spot -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 08:52 1
  - We do this too, if we’re all in the car for whatever reason. -- nm - znufrii Apr 28, 08:54
- But of course, if you supper Chick-fil-A, you're a monster... it's a trade-off. -- nm - Mop Apr 28, 08:47 22
  - as a wise person on twitter said "if we can't stop eating a chicken sandwich because 'it's just so good', we'll never be able to fight for real social - colin Apr 28, 09:13 5
    - Phrasing? -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 28, 09:14 4
      - i mean what i said. -- nm - colin Apr 28, 09:14 3
        
        No, he means ‘wise person on Twitter’ like that’s a thing. - IAmQale Apr 28, 09:15 2
        
        oooo! - colin Apr 28, 09:16 1
        
        I mean, I’m on Twitter so it can’t possibly be true. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 28, 09:30
  - I do not agree. There are too many gay boys that have infiltrated the herd now. -- nm - IAmQale Apr 28, 08:56
  - I consider that fraction of a cent to be an embedded cost as a moral flaw of capitalism, not a result of my choice to dine there. -- nm* - znufrii Apr 28, 08:50 14
    - those fractions add up when millions do it. -- (edited) - Andie Apr 28, 08:57
    - LOL WHAT - ty97 Apr 28, 08:54 12
      - Corporations are people? -- nm - IAmQale Apr 28, 09:04
      - Basically, I am not responsible for what other people choose to do with my money once I’ve exchanged it for goods and services, and capitalism sucks - znufrii Apr 28, 08:57 8
        
        You're not responsible for their choices, correct. You are responsible for your choices though, including the choice to give them a fraction of a cent - ty97 Apr 28, 08:59 4
        
        I don’t give them a fraction of a cent. I give them the price of my meal. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 28, 09:02 3
        
        you give them the price of the meal plus profits. -- nm - colin Apr 28, 09:05 2
        
        No, I give them the price of the meal. The price of the meal is the cost of the meal plus profits. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 28, 09:06 1
        
        you know what the profits are used for. it's one thing to get it for free and eat it, or to get it at cost, it's another to give money to an org - colin Apr 28, 09:11
        
        (a) you can not provide them the means to do it and (b) you have recourse. you don't have to eat there. -- nm - Andie Apr 28, 08:57 2
        
        Which deprives me of the benefit of their product, thus incurring a cost to me. Thanks, capitalism! -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 28, 09:09 1
        
        If you are saying "I am willing to give them a little money because i want their food", that is fine. But to pretend it's out of your hands is a bit - Andie Apr 28, 09:12
      - "We live in a society" -- nm - The Znuker Apr 28, 08:55 1
        
        L5 - znufrii Apr 28, 08:57
- Around here, I tend to go inside and order to go as that's a shorter line / faster experience that waiting in the the drive-thru -- nm - JD Apr 28, 08:44
HS pitcher has to retire due to bone cancer, comes back for one last start, meant to last an inning and... -- (link) - Reagen Apr 28, 08:42 2
- That is not what I expected. (Dravecky) -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 28, 08:53
- nee-chay -- nm - mud Apr 28, 08:46
Self-Checkouts: at least at the Walmart here, for every 4 checkouts they have to have 1 staff there. Lines are usually massive -- nm - Beaker Apr 28, 08:39 13
- I prefer to leave it to the professionals. -- nm - zunk xometimes Apr 28, 09:09 1
  - you'd be waiting here for a month most days it seems -- nm - Beaker Apr 28, 09:19
- I do Self-Checkout where I can. Grocery pickup here takes longer to coordinate than getting stuff myself. Granted Im not spending $200 at a time -- nm - budice Apr 28, 08:46
- Apu knows. That line's the longest... no chit chat. -- nm - Mop Apr 28, 08:42
- Even pre-pandemic we do maybe 1 in-store grocery run a quarter vs. the weekly pickup order. I don't understand why everyone doesn't do pickup -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 08:40 8
  - for me its cause they constantly screw up my order. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 28, 08:58
  - People like to pick out their own produce! -- nm - ty97 Apr 28, 08:56 5
    - right? I could see the store manager doing the pulls for people and going "good way to get rid of the expired milk, the week old lettuce etc" -- nm - Beaker Apr 28, 08:57 4
      - That definitely was not the case when I was working curbside. It was the opposite. We had free reign and often picked from the pallets in the cooler. - IAmQale Apr 28, 09:13 1
        
        ahh, that makes alot of sense -- nm - Beaker Apr 28, 09:13
      - I've found the produce picks to be surprisingly good. Walmart also is very good that if you don't like something you can get refunded in the app. I - oblique Apr 28, 09:01 1
        
        ...I also promptly re-ordered all the missing items from Target just to spite them (and Target does 2 hour pickup instead of next day) -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 09:15
  - We stopped doing grocery pickup orders during the pandemic, ironically. - Beryllium Apr 28, 08:43
Lutherans are like this... But CALVINISTS are like THIS! - Mop at CPAC After Dark Apr 28, 08:37 1
- It's this kind of universally relatable material that's gonna take you straight to the top! -- nm - Reagen Apr 28, 08:52
Sort-of Krusty signal - ty97 Apr 28, 08:33 4
- Eliza Orlins is running in manhattan, right? -- nm - amanda jeans Apr 28, 08:39 2
  - Yup. Interested to see how she's seen from the outside. -- nm - Dean Winchester Apr 28, 08:51
  - I have no idea who that is, but yes. Vance is not running for reelection. - ty97 Apr 28, 08:50
- Each borough DA is important, Manhattan more than others, so I'll check it out. -- nm - Krusty Apr 28, 08:36
"Karens Of The Left"?! -- (link) - mud Apr 28, 08:27 2
- damn I knew I shoulda left this for Reagen to post. By now there'd be 27 responses! -- nm - mud Apr 28, 09:05 1
  - I don't post Tucker's bullshit. -- nm - Reagen Apr 28, 09:10
The stories I've read about self-serve kiosks, at least in fast food, is that they *increase* jobs because the throughput is higher and you need more - Reagen Apr 28, 08:23 36
- My supermarket does Amazon grocery deliveries so I now see loads of staff in store doing those shopping orders - LMS Apr 28, 08:42
- Color me dubious -- nm - ty97 Apr 28, 08:30 1
  - Time to go smash some looms. -- nm - mafic Apr 28, 08:31
- Fast food outlets around here are having difficulty staffing. Some are closing early, others are running with just three employees (usually 3x that). -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 08:29 6
  - Because those were jobs high school kids used to have. High school kids don't work anymore. -- nm - amanda jeans Apr 28, 08:38 2
    - Good. High school kids are doing a lot more school work than my generation. Let them focus on education. - TWuG Apr 28, 08:43 1
      - word -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 09:21
  - I love that the (usually conservative) solution to this is foreign workers on temp visas, not pay more. - mafic Apr 28, 08:31 2
    - Capitalism is strengthened by competition, they say. Subsidies are socialism, they say. Then they say they can't hire enough people. - Beryllium Apr 28, 08:37
    - Oh yeah, the TFW visas are still a hot button issue here. -- nm - Reagen Apr 28, 08:32
- Plus people still have to build, code, install, maintain them. “Automation kills jobs” has been around for hundreds of years, and it generally makes - mafic Apr 28, 08:28 3
  - Heh, back in the 60s those of us that worked in accounting were terrified those computers would take our jobs. IT takes way more people than a - Meg Apr 28, 08:33 2
    - I don't understand what we used desks for before we had computers. What'd you put on your desk? I don't know! -- nm - Mop Apr 28, 08:48
    - I’d kill for a steno pool. -- nm - mafic Apr 28, 08:34
- Again I don’t like it because it puts the onus on my to learn their system if I want to do a custom order, for example. - znufrii Apr 28, 08:27 20
  - "No onions." "hold on...." *two minutes later* "...sorry what didn't you want?" - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:31
  - I like it because it means I'm not stuck in line behind someone who has a custom order they would like to discuss in detail. - Roger More Apr 28, 08:30 2
    - and check writers -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:35 1
      - I still remember the little old lady who wrote a check in Starbucks for a $.95 coffee -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 28, 08:36
  - Honestly custom orders are the best reason for these - Reagen Apr 28, 08:29 15
    - And I now lose the idea of fast food. For a family of three, using the McDonalds kiosk is longer than sitting in line. -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 28, 08:35 4
      - I use the app. It's great and there's almost a useful coupon. -- nm - Shaun Apr 28, 08:39 3
        
        I LOVE ordering on Dunkin Donuts app, pulling up and seeing 20 cars in the drive through and 10 people inside, and I walk in and pick up my stuff. - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:42 2
        
        Yeah man. I can't get over how many people still use regular drive thrus. I make my order ahead of time, pull into a designated parking spot... - Shaun Apr 28, 08:44 1
        
        I tried this a couple times pre-pandemic with McD. It always took longer. It was like they were ignoring the app - oblique Apr 28, 08:50
    - As long as the person reading the order gets that I am saying easy on the lettuce and heavy on the cheese, agreed. But sometimes the person that takes - Spawn Apr 28, 08:33 7
      - the McDonalds ones are great for this kind of thing, I've found. -- nm - Reagen Apr 28, 08:34 6
        
        Yeah, but they are easy. Hard to mess up a plain burger. -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 08:40
        
        Pre-pandemic, I was quite liking the kiosks. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 08:38
        
        The only downside is you have to eat at McDonald’s. -- nm - mafic Apr 28, 08:36 3
        
        They took away the Angus burgers and I've rarely been back since. -- nm - Reagen Apr 28, 08:41 2
        
        The western quarter pounder is OK -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 08:43
        
        I think Arby's is the only "burger" type fast food place I remotely frequent since going low-carb. It's just too hard to order/find options at - oblique Apr 28, 08:43
    - lol see above -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:32
    - Yeah, this is true -- nm - ty97 Apr 28, 08:30
- Those stories were paid for by the Scanner Industry. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 28, 08:26
I had a professor who used to work for the state of PA, and refused to get an EZPass because it was taking away someone’s job. - znufrii Apr 28, 08:22 1
- Having a cashier in the middle of a freeway is just puzzling in this day and age -- nm - budice Apr 28, 08:25
Regarding B2 and the shopping cart, littering is one for me. Living in a city we have trash cans on streets, I don't understand how people litter. -- nm - MDH Apr 28, 08:09 12
- our house looks across the street at some woods that lead down to a major drainage creek. people stop all the time, open a door, just shovel trash - colin Apr 28, 09:06
- Agreed. I love being on the highway and seeing small stuff blow out of the back of a pick-up truck. I always wonder if they are aware or if they - Spawn Apr 28, 08:22 1
  - "it's little and doesn't matter" - Reagen Apr 28, 08:26
- Also, regarding cart returns - what kind of monster actually returns their cart, but insists on putting the large cart in the small care row - Dean Winchester Apr 28, 08:21 5
  - You guys have different size carts? -- nm - JD Apr 28, 08:24 4
    - Yup. We have the normal sized carts. And then like a little half-cart cart for smaller orders. nm - Dean Winchester Apr 28, 08:27 3
      - We do too but don't have separate cart areas for them -- nm - oblique Apr 28, 08:30 1
        
        Y'all need to get with the times man. Our cart returns now have 2 lanes - 1 for big, 1 for small. They're clearly marked - Dean Winchester Apr 28, 08:56
      - Same. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 08:28
- This is a major thing for me...I mean, really, how hard is it... - Dean Winchester Apr 28, 08:20
- Littering in our school drives me crazy. It's unreal how much cleaning has to take place every day. -- nm - Volnelk Apr 28, 08:18
- and for cultural contrast, Japan has very few public trashcans (since 1995) and yet there's practically no litter -- nm - JD Apr 28, 08:13
"NYC jails captain stopped an officer from saving a man who had hung himself from a light fixture inside his cell" -- (link) - ty97 Apr 28, 08:06 4
- and I'll bet he just leaves the cart in the middle of the adjoining parking space -- nm - JD Apr 28, 08:08 3
  - *she*. Sexist. -- nm - ty97 Apr 28, 08:09 2
    - Indeed. I am old and jumped to gender conclusions -- nm - JD Apr 28, 08:11 1
      - (I did too) -- nm - ty97 Apr 28, 08:25
Right now? -- nm - Spawn Apr 28, 08:01 3
- There's no tomorrow? -- nm - Strongbad Apr 28, 08:22
- "Right now maybe we should pay attention to the lyrics” -- nm - znufrii Apr 28, 08:08
- Come on, its everything -- nm - ty97 Apr 28, 08:02

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