SgtThunderC_nt

Time to earn some dosh.

Looks like a dope little device but at that price I think I might be more interested in a Steam Deck.

“I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.” — George Carlin

I disagree that people would somehow be more compelled to vote for issues they care about. Most people care about who the president is but that still doesn't get everyone to the polls. Forcing states to have more reasonable access to mail in ballots would be a step in the right direction but the problem in my opinion is really a out getting people to see it more as a duty than a chore. Say we used a tax credit to incentivize voting?

As for the idea of just letting political parties do what they want, they kind of already do, see DNC primaries 2016. That system already exists and is being actively exploited by the ruling class. I don't think that's a fix.

Again, we come back to term limits, people who are elected to office need to be forced out of politics after a set amount of time to prevent career politicians. And more specifically we need to make it so they cannot accept a job offer or payment for services from anyone who could have benefited from their decisions while in office. Maybe we have a pension for ex-representatives to live on for 8 years after leaving office, and make it illegal for them to have any other income? It should be a service to our country, not our country serving them.

I also work front end, I've had sooo many people give me this shit.

#1 Not advertising. Advertising is what you see before you enter the building. Some stores don't even have shelf labels.

#2 Do you think someone can walk up to your garage sale and slap their own sticker that says $1 and demand you sell them a TV for $1? No, you can refuse to sell your own shit whenever you want. It's YOUR shit. You can burn it in front of them if you felt like it.

Okay, so how do we get everyone to actually bother to vote? In the US we've been having problems trying to get equal representation at the polls and so far haven't really done a great job of fixing it.

Having a team of lawyers to draft and submit legal terms is a great idea, in fact it's kind of the point of lawyers. The issue is having the people who vote on them be able to both understand them, and to check both the writer and the representative check each other for corruption. If you give the representative the ability to remove the lawyer then the representative holds the real power, if you don't, you give the lawyer more power. We need a balance in there somewhere.

Let's also not forget that direct democracy has lead to the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the election of theocratic and fascistic leaders. How do we balance that?

Capping terms at 1 or 2 prevents people from being able to consolidate and exploit their power. But we'll still need leaders to vote on our behalf so how do we prevent corruption? What if we had a new institution whose sole job was to check the government and maintain an open forum where all opinions can be shared and argued.

More than any of this, I really think the rich just need to be scared of the poor again.

Term limits for everything. If the morons are going to pick an idiot to run their village at least there's a chance they'll elect a smart man, if only by mistake.

Google is trying to kill open source based on the assumption that their code is good enough to stand on its own, but as we've seen before, the majority of innovation that occurs on Android and it's derivatives come from third party developers.

As a hardcore leftist I agree with you, but as someone who works in retail and has for about 7 years, you're really not listening.

When I first started working the sales floor I worked at a store that made roughly 60m/yr gross profit. Our shrink was at about 3.2m/yr until we installed lockboxes which got us down to about 2.4m/yr. That was in 2018/2019. I'm now at a different retailer and we didn't have the same casual theft issue, maybe 300k/yr in shrink. Now with ORT being an issue, were up to 600k/yr in just one year at a store that makes about 35m/yr.

It's a complicates issue that's actively becoming a serious issue. At least once a week we get a communication about a new warehouse they found that was fencing stolen goods being raided with 300k-8m in product. This story is about a new type of crime, not about people stealing at self checkout.

Now to go slightly off topic, I think most customers are just being whiners when they complain about self checkout. Nobody complains about having to pump their own gas or dial their own number without an operator guiding their call. The real issue is the way people never saw actual benefits such as lower prices for the reduction in services. But that's just the American guide to shrinkflation, isn't it? Thank being said, nobody is willing to pay more to go to a store that has cashiers if Walmart is still 5% cheaper. We did this by demanding lower prices that drove out the competion that tried to compete with their "quality".

The upper class pays for lawyers and lobbyists and special interest groups to advocate on their behalf. The middle and lower classes do not have this benefit, that's why we must band together to fight for each other.

China would eat Russia for lunch and then gloat about it.

Why not? It worked didn't it? Also she didn't report it to an event organizer, she spoke to his publisher in person, she didn't even get it in writing.

This whole situation looks to me like she has a lot to gain from her special "get lots of major names and publishers together with me in the center" as opposed to just posting the screenshot and seeing that the community would take it upon themselves to speak up with their dollar.

I'm so sick of this "difficult women" lie. Men get fired too for reporting safety concerns, but you still report them to OSHA because it's the right thing to do and we have protections in place for those people. It's time to admit that when someone is using their victimhood for their benefit, that the community is ultimately who pays that price.