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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Would you rather have 2-3 lines with cashiers or 6+ self checkouts?

    I would say I would get out of the store way faster doing self checkout. I call that efficient.

    Places like Sam’s Club with their Scan and Go checkout. I can scan all my groceries with my phone as I put them into my cart. Then I just walk under an arch with cameras that scans what barcodes it can. Then I walk out the door. I don’t even have to wait in line or go to a self checkout.

    Cashiers aren’t efficient

    If the company had to pay cashiers, then the prices of goods are just going to go up. Corporate execs and board members want the money.

    So, do you let the Corporate execs and board members save money and hope not to raise prices (maybe lower them), or make them pay a cashier so they are going to raise prices.

    Even though I hate the “please place the item in the bag!” “Unscaned item in bagging area!”. Self checkouts are efficient, and the future.


  • 8 hous at $15 an hour is $120

    Two security cameras. At most $2000

    Assuming the register is basically the same price

    Do you want to pay a person to stand and scan groceries for 2 weeks for $1200?

    Or do you want to spend $1200 on cameras that will last years?

    30k+ a year vs. $1200 once

    People could steal 29k worth of stuff, and the company would still makes the same profit.

    The cameras are basically security theater anyways. No one is ever going to watch the footage unless needed.

    The efficiency is definitely there





  • Where is the extra finger? I swear I can’t find it. A disappearing pinky

    I feel like most artists would make the daughter similar to their mother. I don’t see how that’s weird.

    The characters all have different and “accurate” reactions

    Sherif is stern.

    SS is annoyed.

    ICE shows some compassion

    Native American is noble

    Jew is startled

    “Illegal Aliens” are scared

    There are a lot of details in everything.

    If it wasn’t for the comments I wouldn’t think it is AI, but I do feel like people bandwagon on it. Top comment says AI, and everyone is going to say AI.


  • I think a lot of the problem is that they cheap out to maximize profit.

    They could spend 1 million dollars and make a decent game for $70.

    Or

    They could spend 2 million and make an amazing game for $140.

    But the price of the video game has been locked around 60-70 for years.

    Even if you made star wars outlaws just a little better it’s not going to sell that much more.

    Looks like it’s already at least 50% off

    You can’t spend 2 million, sell for $70, then expect your game to go on sale anytime soon.

    Spending 1 million, and selling a ton at $70 or even $35. Turns a profit.

    TL;DR: We’d get better games if we were willing to spend more


  • “games are ridiculously expensive at full price”

    A board game with paper and plastic pieces can range from 12-45 dollars

    People will go spend $20 at the movies for 1 night

    Hell I’ll pay 100 if it’s a good game

    I have 1200 hours in Overwatch. $60 (free now). I have paid 5 cents per hour to play it. I am completely happy with my purchase even though it’s free now.

    If the game isn’t worth it, don’t get it. But to complain about it is ridiculous.

    Some N64 games were $50-$60 dollars back in the 90’s

    I feel like we are fortunate


  • Well you can start driving in US at 15

    Like I said quick Google

    Even less Germans driving, proves my point more

    Germans only really drive if they are willing and able

    Americans are forced to drive

    Car deaths in America aren’t happening because they have automatic transmissions and can’t drive as fast as they want.

    Just the seer amount of drivers, more cars on roads to crash into, and less willing and able drivers.


  • Quick Google

    In 2024 36% of Germans reported using the car daily.

    In 2023 95.3% of Americans older than 16 drive on occasions.

    83 million Germans, 63% above 16

    340 million Americans, 65% above 16

    52 million potential drivers in Germany, 17 million actually drive

    221 million potential drivers in America, 210 million drive daily

    17 million vs 210 million daily drivers

    ~12x more drivers, only 2x more death

    Per capita isn’t really a way to look at it

    Besides automatic cars or lack of a manual transmission is not causing accidents.

    Chance of death goes up significantly with speed

    No one has ever crashed because they couldn’t go over the speed limit





  • “Free”

    Nothing is free

    Someone paid for the fountain. Either you, your neighbor, your friend, or your fellow countryman. But someone.

    Why nickel and dime everyone that is probably never going to even see the fountain instead of letting the people that want/need pay for it?

    Cold filtered water at just a single park you regularly go to is probably worth 3 bucks a month.

    If extra money went to park improvements, that would be even better.

    I don’t see why everyone wants “free” when it’s just a hidden cost that you’re probably paying anyways. Yes, probably costs more for the people that use the service more, but that’s the way it should be.

    Personally I’d rather save 20 dollars on my taxes and bring water to the park. Even still tap water is just fine.

    Why would I even want to pay 5 dollars more in taxes so someone doesn’t have to bring a water bottle?

    This is a premium service that shouldn’t be the burden of the taxpayer.



  • They mean a day old chicken that has hatched. They are comparing a human embryo to a live chick.

    If it is a male chicken that is not going to lay eggs, it will get shredded

    To my knowledge they do not have an inexpensive way, let’s be honest any way that costs any money is probably not going to be used unlessed forced, to find the sex of the chicken before it is hatched.

    It’s called chick culling if your interested in reading about how 7 billion male chick’s get shredded each year worldwide.



  • I find subtiles distracting

    I read the words that pop up on the screen in my own voice in my head and basically ignore the voices because I can not understand them anyways.

    I enjoyed Death Note in dubbed

    I enjoyed Alice in Boarderlands in subbed, dubbed was bad

    I’m split on Money Heist. My friend showed me it in English and I watched the whole first episode without realizing it was dubbed. Trying to watch it subbed after that was like the characters were not speaking the language I thought they did. It was weird.

    I can see some people hating the lips not matching up, but I don’t really look at.

    Maybe if I was big into subbed shows I’d like them more and I’m sure I’d get better at enjoying subtitles.

    But I am the kind of person that would want to rewind a movie or show because I didn’t understand what a character said. I hate feeling like I am missing important information.



  • They would only be in a bad situation because minimum wage is low and they will be missing tips.

    A pizza driver in the US is guaranteed at least minimum wage while they are on the clock.

    To my knowledge, Uber style delivery services are not going to fire you for not working a night.

    The typical pizza place has managers that will force workers to work. If you are forced to work and someone calls in a pizza, you are forced to deliver.

    Im sure there are people out there that have 4x4s and enjoy the extra tips in the hazardous conditions.

    But you could also be risking some poor soul life that’s being forced to deliver in their Honda civic.

    Those people can’t say no to their managers in fear of being fired. It’s what the whole comment was about. They can’t quit, fired could be worse.