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Dravin

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  • Should get a discount or something

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  • I won’t end up single-bagging a bunch of stuff that could be bagged together (e.g. if they scanned some window cleaner, they bag it separate, not knowing that some dishwasher detergent is coming that it could be packed with).

    Not that it is foolproof but unloading your cart in an organized manner helps with that. Though maybe you're talking about helpless baggers, I've seen plenty of both clueless baggers and customers who toss things onto the belt willy-nilly.

  • Should get a discount or something

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  • use AI cameras that lock up after every third item and require an override each time

    As a customer than once I've had those cameras trigger because I leaned in a bit too much to press a prompt on the touch screen and it flagged my head as some item I'm trying to fake scan. As an employee it is also fun to watch the cameras trigger on purses and children and grind things to a halt so it can warn me that someone's kid hasn't been scanned. Though my absolutely 'favorite' interaction with those cameras as an employee is having them trigger over me attempting to sign in using my name badge on the scanner. So it would interrupt my attempt to sign in to do something for the customer to make me sign in and reassure it I wasn't trying to steal something and then I had to sign in again to actually help the customer.

  • Should get a discount or something

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  • Are cashiers in the United States of America really required to initiate meaningless conversations? I’ve also heard of the occupation of a door greater, which sounds even crazier.

    The corporate ideal has their weird idea that everyone desperately wants to have conversations with employees. I think it comes from positive feedback often taking the form of, "Your employee was so warm and helpful and we had a delightful chat about X." and never, "Your employee was polite and didn't bother me with needless conversation." One of the trainings my employer has even includes a scenario, which is presented as ideal service, where the employee ends up chatting with a complete stranger about his dead wife including sharing pictures from his wallet.

    That said, while I'm sure corporate cares none of my in store managers cared when I was a cashier. Indeed, I had regulars who would seek me out because I specifically didn't attempt to inject small talk into the interaction. I'd still get pulled into it by customers who initiated such but otherwise it was mostly, "Morning. Coupons? That'll be $X.XX. Have a good one."

  • A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in the US

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  • Why the right still embraces Ivermectin

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  • It is a common phenomenon that many things apparently inhibit pathogens in culture but are ineffective or harmful in an intact organism.

    It brings to mind this XKCD.

  • Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car

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  • His standard for being labeled a Nazi is one Hitler fails prior to 1939. They might as well have a sign with bold print proclaiming, "I'm not to be taken seriously."

  • "Family Size" has no meaning anymore

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  • One of my personal favorites is seeing salt advertised as being non-GMO.

  • I wonder why people litter in the USA?

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  • Black people across US receive racist text messages after Trump’s win

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  • Given the state of data harvesting I imagine purchasing a list of phone numbers associated with a given demographic is trivial.

  • What do you secretly judge people for?

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  • One of my stranger experiences as a cashier was watching someone waiting to be checked out change their mind and start trying to abandon some ground beef among the candy bars at the checkout. Apparently handing it over to me didn't occur to them. At least when I pointedly offered, "If you don't want that I'll take it." they handed it over.

  • A snapshot of heaven

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  • $1 grilled cheese

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  • Meijer and Walmart store brands of cheap ass white bread are 22 slices, Kroger is 21, and for a name brand example Sunbeam is 22. Nicer bread like Pepperidge Farm or Brownberry/Oroweat tends to be in the range of 16 slices per loaf (baring the thin sliced stuff) though.

  • $1 grilled cheese

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  • Indeed. I can grab a loaf of cheap white bread from my local grocery store for under $2 which is cut into 22 slices.

  • I'd saw off my leg for my grocery store to start carrying something besides shitty IPA's and Budweiser

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  • I was so sad when I once stumbled on a limited run stout on tap and they served it ice cold in a heavy frosted mug.

  • $2 to cut a sandwich in half: The outrageous rip-offs targeting tourists in Italy

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    13-Year-Old Rape Victim Forced to Give Birth Due to Mississippi’s Abortion Ban

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  • But abortions don’t have to be performed in an abortion clinic- and seeing as it’s a 13 year old child that’s clearly dangerous enough to be performed in an OR.

    Well, that's beyond my field of knowledge so I'll bow out now. Have a good one.

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    13-Year-Old Rape Victim Forced to Give Birth Due to Mississippi’s Abortion Ban

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  • I would hope that people would take the time to investigate a topic that was relevant and so important but one of the problems with ignorance is that sometimes you are so ignorant you don't know you have a blind spot. If you've not paid attention beyond hearing that abortion is now banned the thought, "I wonder if there is a rape exception?" may just not occur. A bit like how so many people don't know how tax brackets work, assume they do, and never bother to look into the topic.

    As far as the doctors. I looked into things a bit more and apparently Mississippi's last abortion clinic closed down in July of 2022, which isn't surprising given the legal situation, so the direction to Chicago by the doctor may not have been motivated by advice to avoid persecution but rather it being the nearest qualified facility. So I think we were both erroneously assuming there were in-state options that weren't being used.

    P.S. I suspect Chicago wasn't literally the closest but probably the closest without restrictions such as requiring a separate counseling and procedure visit that creates a greater barrier than a longer drive.

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    13-Year-Old Rape Victim Forced to Give Birth Due to Mississippi’s Abortion Ban

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  • Why didn’t the mom research the law and see the rape exception?

    Miss. Code § 41-41-45 requires a formal charge of rape by law enforcement for the exception to be applicable. If you read on to the Time article linked at the end of the Daily Beast article the mother claims to have been unaware of the rape to begin with. Even if charges could, as a matter of procedure, be filed against a John Doe to satisfy the requirement you still have to convince law enforcement to file those charges. Just informing a doctor that the pregnancy was the result of rape is insufficient to satisfy the exception.

    Now you might be thinking, "Well, Mom didn't know but the kid knew what happened to her." I point to this from the Time article:

    Regina hadn’t yet explained to her daughter how a baby is made, because she didn’t think Ashley was old enough to understand. “They need to be kids,” Regina says. She doesn’t think Ashley even realized that what happened to her could lead to a pregnancy.

    It is unsurprising that she might lack the understanding and foresight required to be her own advocate on this issue.

  • We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is.

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  • What happens if, through no fault of their own, an instance that a user has been investing their time in decides to rift against the other instances?

    If Lemmy.defederated gets defederated from Lemmy.world ( (or goes offline) and now you can't participate at !coffee@lemmy.world with that account you can create a new one at Lemmy.federated and you can resume participation. If the community was !coffee@lemmy.defederated then folks can migrate to an existing community (such as one on a different instance) or recreate it on an instance that is still federated with the bulk of the network. This wouldn't be without annoyances or difficulties but moving within the network will be easier than changing systems entirely.

    In the future there could be many disconnected factions of Lemmy instances and users struggling to manage several different accounts if they want to see content across them? In that case they may also see many duplicates as people cross post across the disconnected instances?

    Unless the subsections are largely of equal size I think people will migrate to the network that is larger and contains more content. I tend to see isolated networks existing only when they are significantly different in culture or content that isn't found in the network at large and they can maintain a large enough user base to be self-sustaining. If an isolated network of 5 instances that want to be exclusively pig Latin speaking and don't want fifthly non-pig Latin speakers federated with them is able to sustain itself with the user base interested in this: more power to them. People will either decide which network they want or they'll have two accounts.

    As far as managing those accounts, I use Liftoff and it supports multiple accounts and on a browser it is as simple as multiple bookmarks. I can have accounts on instances in a different network. So if I really love discussion about coffee in pig Latin I can easily swap accounts on the fly to get access to the latest discussions about ewingbray ethay erfectpay enchfray esspray offeecay.