In other news
In the current news climate we see that some figures and events tend to dominate the front-pages heavily. Still, there are important, interesting or just plain weird things happening out there and a group of people can find these better than one.
I thought I would test with a thread for linking general news articles about "other news" and discussion. Perhaps it goes into the abyss that is page 2 and beyond, but it is worth a try.
Some guidelines:
- Try to find the "clean link", so that links to the news site directly and not a social media site. Avoid "amp-links" (google).
- Write some cliff notes on what it is about, especially if it is a video.
- It's not an excuse to make outlandish claims via proxy or link extremist content.
- If it's an editorial or opinion piece, it is polite to mark it as such.
- Note the language if it is not in English.
- There is no demand that such things be posted here, if you think a piece merits its own thread, then make one.
Hopefully it soemhow had some value
AJ was running the supplements grift. He was doing like 100k a week in sales.
Some pretty lol ways to try bankruptcy fraud as well in there.
When I look at Julian Assange I am like « o0 », is he really only 52 years old ?
Seem he did pay the price …
I love how the guy says "they don't publish the spot price of gold on their site so their customers don't know they're paying up to 100% mark-up". The fact that these people are too dumb to find the spot price of gold somewhere else and compare is just so obvious it's left implied.
NYTimes just did a story on this.
At a recent campaign speech, one of Dona...
In Detroit, Mr. Spellane played up his Turning Point ties, saying, “That’s why we are here for the third year in a row.” He ended with: “Give it up for Donald Trump, everybody!”
Listening with interest was Jeff Strasser, 57, a former carpenter and truck driver who had traveled more than two hours from Northern Michigan to hear Mr. Trump. Mr. Strasser said he was intrigued by Mr. Spellane’s statement that anyone who stopped by the Fisher Capital booth in the adjoining hall would be eligible for up to $10,000 in free silver.
He came away from the booth thinking a precious metal investment was a slam dunk. “You kind of have to be a fool not to want to do it,” he said, adding “I’m talking about maybe switching my whole 401(k) over to it.”
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Mr. Spellane is a relative newcomer to the Trump political world. Just 31, he never registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to trade precious metals, as required, the agency says. Its complaint, filed less than three years after Fisher Capital opened in 2020, said the operation was meant to trick older, unsophisticated investors into swapping their retirement savings for gold and silver coins priced as high as 200 percent over their market value.The company is not connected to Fisher Investments, a Texas-based firm
Targeting Christian conservatives was central to the scheme, according to the complaint. Salespeople falsely claimed that Fisher had teamed up with conservative media personalities — who were not named — to protect customers from a looming retirement crisis, it said
The US Supreme Court has struck down a part of the bankruptcy deal for Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family from future lawsuits over their role in fuelling the opioid crisis.
The Sacklers, who owned and operated the Oxycontin-maker for decades, had agreed to pay $6bn (£4.7bn) toward a wider settlement in exchange for sweeping protections against civil claims related to the addictive opioid.
But the nation's top court ruled that granting such protections to those who did not themselves declare bankruptcy was not authorised under bankruptcy law.
I believe conservatives think that since so much of the 'independent' media agrees with them they must be the majority. Instead of possibly considering that since the breitbart's etc opened up the largely untapped market there's been a feeding frenzy looking to get in on the action.
Lifelong Lefty turns Republican and immediately starts a youtube channel based around it seems to be one of the more obvious ones 😀
I went to the major grocery retailer location near my office today to discover that all of the self-checkout lanes have been removed and converted back to regular checkout lanes. A quick internet search says this has been in the works for months for a number of large retailers.
Where did self-checkout go wrong? A failure of society to behave themselves? A gross overestimation of customer competence by giant corporations?
My wife hated using them, but I'd always be more than happy to slam $400 worth of stuff through one instead of waiting in a line. I can do this faster than a low wage worker, even having to play Jenga with all my **** on the scale.
It took me an extra 20 minutes to buy a case of water and some cashews because I had to wait in a line. I was annoyed.
They gave up too soon, imo. Surely AI would've been able to assist a retail worker in policing 4-6 stations. Comparing number of items in cart vs number scanned is exactly the kind of easy thing AI should be used for. It can identify a banana with near perfect accuracy, so the well-known criminal trick of just ringing everything up as bananas should be preventable as well.
The number of grocery store trips I'm going to volunteer for has just plummeted. Hopefully this hasn't found its way to my slightly-less-ghetto neighborhood Metro Market further west.
not sure why nobody wants to talk about this, I think personally this seemed kinda a close case but it was nice to see that both red and blue judges aligned with each other one way or another.
gives me hope.
I went to the major grocery retailer location near my office today to discover that all of the self-checkout lanes have been removed and converted back to regular checkout lanes. A quick internet search says this has been in the works for months for a number of large retailers.
Where did self-checkout go wrong? A failure of society to behave themselves? A gross overestimation of customer competence by giant corporations?
My wife hated usin
maga needs jobs.
I went to the major grocery retailer location near my office today to discover that all of the self-checkout lanes have been removed and converted back to regular checkout lanes. A quick internet search says this has been in the works for months for a number of large retailers.
Where did self-checkout go wrong? A failure of society to behave themselves? A gross overestimation of customer competence by giant corporations?
My wife hated usin
i specifically drive passed a grocery store to a further one of the same brand to get to the one that ONLY has self checkouts.
I will use them if I only have a few things and there are lines at the regular checkout, but a majority of the times there is some kind of error that I need to talk to the live person about.
The stores around here encourage everyone to bring reusable bags, but the machines have even more problems when you use them. If you try to put things directly into your cart it doesn't like that, it somehow wants to go squeeze everything you bought into the area on the side. And sometimes when you put your empty bag on the side it thinks it's an item you haven't scanned.
I guess I'm a special snowflake then.
I've used a self checkout kiosk countless times at every store I can and the singular instance of me needing to get a live human involved was my accidental cheating of the system. There was a "digital coupon" deal for Diet Coke that I had taken advantage of on Sunday, and I found myself in the store on Tuesday and figured I'd grab a few more cases because of the sick deal. Took it up to the checkout and the discount wouldn't work so I flagged someone down. She took my word for it and marked them down using her override. Later, I find out that I was the ******* there and in the fine print on the app it says "weekly" digital deal with a limit that I hit on that first purchase a few days prior.
So I guess I contributed to this outcome in my own little way by getting an erroneous discount on some soda.
You are clearly a self-checkout expert. Did you by any chance work as a checker in your younger days?
Hey, you do what you gotta do to avoid that line halfway down aisle 8 waiting to be checked out by Gertrude.
I did work in a grocery store for a little while during high school in the late 90s. Men weren't allowed to work the registers, though. I was primarily a bagger, and did everything I could to find my way to the end of the belt being fed by the hottest girl in the store. 4ish years later, I married her. I had long since stopped working there, though. I got canned after about a year because a manager was looking for me to do carts and I was across the street at McDonald's with the other 3 dudes who got fired that day.
Children...
Edit: After we got fired but before we left the premesis, we loaded as many carts as could possibly fit into the back of Don's pickup truck.
They gave up too soon, imo. Surely AI would've been able to assist a retail worker in policing 4-6 stations. Comparing number of items in cart vs number scanned is exactly the kind of easy thing AI should be used for. It can identify a banana with near perfect accuracy, so the well-known criminal trick of just ringing everything up as bananas should be preventable as well.
The fact that I got the (12 year old) reference means that I probably spend way too much time on this site.
I don't do this because I'm not a dumb, poor student anymore. At the self-checkout lanes at grocery stores I'd ring up not-bananas as bananas. It started small. "**** this, I'm not paying full price for tomatoes." The hubris went up exponentially. Before long I was ringing up the best cuts of steak as bananas. Then I was doing it more than once per trip. "Why not surf and turf for $2?" Bam, steak and lobster. Once I rung up a huge plate of
Hey, you do what you gotta do to avoid that line halfway down aisle 8 waiting to be checked out by Gertrude.
I did work in a grocery store for a little while during high school in the late 90s. Men weren't allowed to work the registers, though. I was primarily a bagger, and did everything I could to find my way to the end of the belt being fed by the hottest girl in the store. 4ish years later, I married her. I had long since stopped wor
Seriously? What was the reasoning behind that? Sounds like begging for a discrimination lawsuit.
Congrats on bagging the hot checkout girl though!
No clue, but I worked there 4-5 nights a week and usually full weekends and never saw a single dude behind a register.
I will use them if I only have a few things and there are lines at the regular checkout, but a majority of the times there is some kind of error that I need to talk to the live person about.
The stores around here encourage everyone to bring reusable bags, but the machines have even more problems when you use them. If you try to put things directly into your cart it doesn't like that, it somehow wants to go squeeze everything you bought into
My experience too. I try to bring my own bag most of the time plus their paper bags are total trash lol. I love the concept. My avg experience is ~2machines always seem to be down and frequently still lines. I get flagged for god knows what then have to wait for what is always nothing but them clearing the screen then I go back to finishing up. I also hate the morons who take forever--get in and gtfo no dilly-dallying 😀
