Theirs suuuuck. The ones I actually enjoy using though? Home Depot. They don’t bother with the scale weighing anything, and you get a gun to scan (with green laser sight!) so I leave most of the stuff in the cart, beep beep beep and I’m out of there. Can recommend
because it was too small to take legally.
I heard the fish was pretty small too
So, I find these comparisons amusing, don’t get me wrong, but don’t they just reinforce the prejudices those anti-immigration people have? It’s essentially saying they’re right to stop people from coming in, as it’ll end poorly for them.
That was an interesting read but it’s not the math per encounter. They strangely used lifetime stats and ignored number of encounters so it doesn’t answer that question.
Some of the other commenters who point out flaws in the math seem to get their comments deleted or downvoted so that doesn’t help. It’s a controversial topic which makes it really hard to just crunch numbers without being accused of picking a side or trying to skew the results.
Coming up with the stat that 10% of men will commit a rape in their lifetimes is wild though, and super sad if true.
Alright, there’s been some decent back and forth so I’ll give it one more go as it still seems like my point is being misconstrued:
Yeah you can, because this stuff affects: the disabled, elderly, pregnant women, shift workers
Again, anger directed towards the wrong people. The bench was already not useable due to “misuse”, so removing it doesn’t change that. What it does though is reduces the other associated issues that accompany the “misuse”. Those removing it would prefer the bench or whatever was still there (it was installed for a purpose originally after all), but it becomes unsustainable so they go with the less worse option.
In my area it’s pubic washrooms becoming closed, or being for customers only and you need to get the key from staff. It sucks, but you can’t get mad at the staff or facility not wanting or being able to deal with the problems they’ve been having. Telling them they need to tackle the underlying systemic issues and getting angry at them for locking the door is just directing anger towards secondary victims on behalf of the primary ones.
These people, these spaces, are victims too. It’s not their fault it’s attractive for “misuse”, just like it’s not the their fault there are people who are desperate enough to need it, or the fault of desperate people behaving desperately. Get angry at the lack of programs or aid or other systems to help people, don’t get mad at the people who end up having to deal with the brunt of the consequences of these policies. They’re on the front lines but don’t want to be, so it’s callous to be angry with them for trying to get out of the cross fire.
Why are people downvoting you? Iced tea in Canada is sweet. Think things like Brisk or Nestea. If you order iced tea at a restaurant here, it’s coming out if the same machine as the pop (syrup+water) just not carbonated.
Wait, in that case maybe complaining is a bit justified? Different of course of it’s a place off the beaten path, but if it’s a hotbed of English-speaking tourists then having staff that speak their language seems pretty important.
Guess it’s really hard to say without more context (story of the internet).
More like “no matter how much I do to help those I can, there will be some outliers that my only recourse is to make them unwelcome because it’s actually a really complex problem that I don’t I have the resources and time to solve, unfortunately also making things worse for other people but that’s the lesser of two evils”.
My whole point is that many of these measures are done by the people who aren’t equipped or otherwise able to deal with the problem beyond just protecting themselves. It’s a shitty situation but don’t get mad at the people who deal with it the best they can with what options they have available. It’s like getting mad at someone because they locked up their bike instead of tackling the societal problems that lead to bike theft in the first place. How many bikes do you expect them to have stolen before they’ll just start locking it up?
Get mad at the ones cutting programs or refusing to create them. Get mad at a system that refuses to help people because it pretends when something bad happens that person deserved it somehow. Don’t get mad at the park maintenance staff that removes a bench because they can’t have their staff be assaulted or children finding needles anymore; they can’t stop it from happening at all, so the best they can do is try and stop it from happening there.
My point is you can’t blame these spaces from using displacement as that’s essentially all they can do. There are better places to direct that scorn than the people who essentially “end up” dealing with a very difficult to deal with group.
Do you think those that are too mentally ill, violent, or antisocial deserve to keep being displaced because they can’t function in current society?
Most of them, no. Probably one percent of one percent though can not be rehabilitated so displacement is about as good as you can do unless we bring forced asylums back.
I do understand the desire to keep folks from sleeping on benches, making things smelly.
You’re doing the thing I was referring to by using one end of the spectrum to judge the actions of people dealing with the other end. The ones who are just "smelly aren’t the reason benches get removed. It’s the ones who verbally/physically/sexually assault people, leave used needles/human waste/blood, that sort of thing. The very tiny minority of homeless people who give all the others a bad rep and ruin things for everyone. It’s not the business or train station or park’s or wider public’s responsibility to deal with that 0.1% as it essentially takes professionals, so displacement can’t be looked down on as what else are they supposed to do?
Unfortunately there are some who do. Still absolutely use a shelter/housing first model, and give money to those struggling (most homeless people are couch surfing or living out of their cars and have jobs and just need a little boost to get back on their feet) because it helps the vast majority.
For some reason through, the same people that advocate for the programs I listed above refuse to accept that there are some people they won’t work for. The ones who are too mentally ill or violent or otherwise too antisocial.
The homeless aren’t a monolith, and often people are talking past each other because they are each picturing people from opposite ends of the spectrum who have essentially nothing in common except their housing situation. The people installing spikes and removing benches are responding to the second group, and then face backlash as if they were responding to the first.
Maybe it’s just a tube of mashed potatoes
I disagree. He did the math assuming all the energy would be dissipated but that’s assuming it came to a stop which is the whole debate. Essentially a mathy begging the question.
The jet of hot gasses coming up around and with the cover could’ve provided a good bit of protection from friction for the first bit (where the atmosphere would have the greatest effect) and ablative effects and the short travel time though the atmosphere could’ve been enough for a likely slightly smaller and very hot cover to blast into space.
I’m sure you’ll find some good explanations online, but there’s an “activation” circuit on the device “listening” that then engages the rest of the system when it’s triggered. So there’s no recording or sending of data until the activation phrase has been said, and the activation phrase detection is done locally on the device.
Toasted mayo, sardine, tomato is so good though
That’s why there should also be an extension cord in the cart
My understanding is the mics aren’t “live” until the activation phrase is said, then they record and send that data for processing. If someone has proven otherwise I’d love to see their methods.
The scary thing isn’t that they’re listening, it’s that they collect so much other data that they don’t have to.
I doubt my girlfriend can scream louder than me