At supermarkets in my country they have a system where they will semi-randomly check what you have in your bags the moment before you’d pay.

There’s random things that make it more likely like buying meat but there’s definitely a random element to it.

What i have noticed, however is that at times of financial strife (or just before them), the regularity of me getting checked can go through the roof (25% baseline chance up to 70-80% at peak).

And so I’m beginning to see these signs as a recession indicator. Especially as it’s a massive supermarket chain with access to a lot of customer and market data.

Probably someone smarter than me could use this to make money.

I’ll take a bullet every time.

I’ve heard too many stories about prolonged and/or agonising death.

No. Give me the device humans have used millions upon millions of times to quickly and effectively end a life.

Agreed. It’s not a word-guessing machine, so that should be our first clue.

It’s technically art supplies

“Modelling dairy”

I look forward to carrying a wrench-bearing dog-robot into my crawlspace.

Or hearing:

“You’re absolutely right to push back on that, i did connect the water main to the fusebox”

Trying to get an internship around the time iPhones got popular was a nightmare.

So much scut work and entry level work (i.e. assistant and basic secretarial) just didn’t need a person any more.

I can’t imagine how bad it is right now.

I was only staying there for Furious. That’s probably it for me.

Haha maybe Picard had set it up to only say that to Data.

Everyone else was allowed to do it.

Yeah there’s plenty he does wrong without pretending he’s still got enough core strength to lean forward quickly and not fall over.

The most he can do is poke Zelenskyy’s arm over and over when he wants him to stop talking.

My small dog does the exact same thing, probably a couple of times a week (he has all 4 dew claws).

It’s just so clear to me from the video (even the clip-chimped ones) that it’s a yelp of surpise, and the offending body part is the paw she lifts up after.

Correlation vs causation

Yeah but without the benefit of fewer murders happening.

Just preventing effective dissent against a profit-first organisation.

We certainly could get rid of the servile elements of this and just have a “team”.

One partner can be stay at home (it doesn’t even have to be the same partner every day) to handle admin and support while the other does some kind of labour.

But yeah that would keep unemployment too low and is therefore not something elites want changed.

No, but if it’s not the one in the meme that sort of defeats the point of the comparison.

Same as if you compared the breakfast in this meme to a scene where he’s just eating the banana.

Isn’t one a feast and one a breakfast?

“More effort” isn’t “didn’t come for him”

Think about how much airtime national news outlets have been giving to El Sayed being friends with Hasan Piker, vs those dumb placards that Nepo baby running against Mamdani had (i forget the name).

Probably tens of millions of dollars in just anchor-person salary spent on talking nonsense on El Sayed and his ethnicity, vs making a poster with skin and beard darkening (of Zohran).

Honestly i thought they’d just be waiting, sharpening their knives so they could just tie up everything he tried to do as Mayor and then use him as an example of the failures of socialism.

But yeah all quiet on that front so far.

I get it, but i honestly think that a big reason the establishment didn’t come at him harder was that he wasn’t a threat to most establishment careers.

If he’d have been US-born, i think they’d have put more effort into coming for his reputation.

“Do you want the good news or the bad news first?”

“The good news”

“We’re going to name the disease after you”

The only way to fix this is to have us upload our IDs online constantly, perhaps to prove we are adults.

It is the only way we can we safe.