That’s pretty much what I do except for the eurail pass. Tickets are pretty cheap anyway and if you have a pass you may feel you need to use it to make it worth the expense, instead of taking a tangent to some other place that would require some other mode of travel.

I know a few people who cruise and I’ve watched some you tube videos of people who love them and say tons of nice things about them, but I gotta tell you, every nice thing they say about them makes me want to cruise less and less.  They are completely unappealing to me, and the more I learn about them, the less I want…

Point is kinda moot when you can’t even buy one unless you reserved it more than 7 months ago. I reserved mine in Dec 2021 and can’t even purchase it until October! 10 months waiting is nuts. At this point I’m not even sure if I’m going to want it when I can get it.

Station.

That won’t work.  Clark Middleton is one sexy beast.

Damn it!  I’m going to boycott their games!… *checks steam library*… ok, apparently I’ve already been doing that for at least a decade.

As others have said it’s available on just about every platform just like Netflix.  I would just like to add that if you haven’t watched Ted Lasso, you are doing yourself a huge disservice.  Severance was also good.

As others have said it’s available on just about every platform just like Netflix.  I would just like to add that if…

I hate people too. But I hate automating more and more jobs until there are only a few to go around and the corporate employers can justify playing a low wage.So I never use them. Even if i only have one item. Also if I use the app for a store I typically get the pickup option so I know there is still someone who…

That’s your prerogative. But just realize that the more they move to automation, the fewer cashiers they will have and the longer lines will get and eventually the lines will be long for everything. And the fewer cashier jobs out there the fewer over all jobs for everyone and the lower they can pay people because…

Found the Russian troll! Apparently these Russian oligarchs weren’t very nice on their way up because they are going to fall hard with no help. Hopefully Vlad the shirtless will fall the hardest.

We should rob rich people during war or peace... every fucking day of the year... and give it to the poor.  We need more robin hoods and less robber barons.

Exactly. Makes you wonder though, why would they install them here in stores where no one uses them as well as where people happen to like them. Sure makes it look like the main reason they do that is because they want to eliminate positions to save costs.  Once they force people to use them by eliminating most of…

I’m in Los Angeles. People rarely use them unless the line is huge and they only have a few items. At my local CVS they took out all but one cashier and replaced the rest with self checkout and I have never seen anyone use one there. Even when the line is 6 people deep. Add to that the vitriol I’ve heard from…

Not just salary, but benefits and all the other costs an employee entails. As for the few people who I see using them on occasion it is never many and only when the store has gone down to one cashier and the line is so long as to make it the only realistic option for someone with one or two items. Especially since…

Not saying it is a conspiracy, just a cost saving measure at the expense of workers while the companies makes record profits. It’s a broken system that needs some fixing. It’s why I don’t support the practice and hopefully they go unused and as lines get longer when they take away cashiers, they will reverse…

Yeah, never gonna use it.  Bad for workers, bad for the economy.  Self checkout devalues cashiers.  Once they take away those kinds of jobs, what’s next?  

But the economics of it are that the more you support cashier-less checkout, the less they pay the people who do those jobs. With the more automation happening the less people they will need to employ and without a universal basic income and a living minimum wage, the bigger the divide between the classes will get. …

Like I said previously… you do you. People have their own situations and I’m not here to judge you for saving money where you have to.  But, I’m not about to use any of that crap when it puts people out of work and in the process supports a company that treats its remaining workers like crap. Costco is a better…

Sure, I get that. But I can’t stand when they eliminate someone’s job with automation… especially after they were paying them minimum wage anyway. I can’t stand the lines at Costco m, but I would rather pay a little more for delivery which actually employs more people instead of less, and takes less of my time. …