It doesn’t have to do with what I think. That is what they do. Why don’t you put any amount of effort into verifying what I said instead of insulting me like you think I just made it up?

You don’t think that loss prevention would be doing that stuff regardless of whether they had employed cashiers at registers or not? Loss prevention has been around since long before self checkout lanes, doing the same things they’re doing now. They already pay those guys. Self checkout is still cheaper if they don’t also have to pay a dozen cashiers.

Also, you seem to be imagining a whole fbi crime scene setup in every store for a job that’s basically handled per location by 2 guys and a computer.

A “database” doesn’t have to be (and usually isn’t) centralized across stores. “Hard drives” can be a single multi-terabyte hdd in the age we’re in now. “Programming” is just out of the box software they teach their prevention guys to use. The facial recognition and knowing items part comes built into the self checkout machine.

You must not be an engineer either, because an engineer would understand that the cheaper option isn’t necessarily lower tech.

Again, take 10 minutes and learn how to utilize a search engine. It’s not something they want people to know, but it’s also not exactly a secret. Target pioneered the kind of loss prevention techniques big box stores use today.

Look up the target method. They can automatically connect your face/payment ID to items you haven’t scanned. They get you after you’ve racked up enough cumulative value that you haven’t paid for to count for a felony.

So no, they aren’t sticking you with a felony charge for a loaf of bread. They’re sticking you with a felony charge for enough loafs of bread to value a serious theft charge.

It’s not going to effect you if you only ever stole one loaf of bread. Waiting until you commit enough theft is the cutting corners part you’re talking about.

His perspective is like a kid kicking a sandcastle that he gave another kid $10 to buy because he thought it was neat.

What does he care if Twitter doesn’t make money? He is personally set for life, and the world would basically have to end for that to change.

Why does someone worth 11 digits of greenback currency have to understand what brand safe content is? He could shoot a man in the middle of the street and toss his equivalent of pennies to the witnesses and never see consequences.

All of this criticism he’s seeing on public airwaves, and his reaction, is revealing him for what he actually is: The single most richly spoiled baby in all of human history.

They don’t sue millions of people. They sue one person and make an example out of them and the chilling effect does the rest. That’s how this kind of thing goes.

People are likely to vote in someone who enacts policies they want. Politicians pander to voting blocks by introducing policy that appeals to them.

It’s not hard to connect the dots?

I like the way you think, but that sounds like a lawsuit with one of the richest companies on the planet behind the prosecution. Could work for sites based outside of US jurisdiction.

How the hell does a school board even exist that could adopt this?

Florida is a retirement state full of old white people. They are the last vestiges of racism in its old form. Of course those old assholes are pushing back against the idea that it was their families that caused racial inequality in America.

It’s like when descendants of Nazis try to say that their own grandpappy didn’t do any of the killing, he just had the swastika on his uniform he wasn’t that bad.

How long until Google starts paying sites to require chrome? The already tried rolling that concept out a few months ago. They only stopped because of the backlash that was publicly associated with it. They already pay major phone manufacturers to have google as their default or only search option.

So who’s going to stop them when we start finding that major popular sites suddenly don’t work on firefox?

A ban on drag is coming very soon. And the whole “don’t say gay in schools” thing. And writing slavery out of curriculums. And criminalizing trans operations. Oh, and gerrymandering.

These are all things our legislative branch tried to pass that our democratic governor was able to keep at bay. We’re about to turn into Florida.

We can hope. At the end of the day, if what you say is true, democracy may depend on the willpower of a relatively small number of people to do the right thing. Because Trump has already said he intends to deploy the military to the streets. If he gets elected, it’s not “if” the military gets involved it’s “when”.

That’s really optimistic. A huge chunk of our armed civilians are actively embracing fascism. Our over developed military isn’t exactly a sandcastle you can kick over either.

deleted by creator

Brilliant. Thanks for that.

if Jesus can’t manage your own House

This line is so pointed and literal. I love that even the Christians are reading the writing on the wall that their group is more akin to satanic than godly, even if they don’t realize it

We know my friend. I’m sure you can scratch up one more pointless insult though. Come on, I believe in you

Classic. Gives up when he’s tapped out. You rest little troll. There’s much more to be done

Oh so we are friends. Great. You’re possibly the worst person I know so I’m not proud of that.

Oh sure, we’re not friends. But you keep replying to me like we are.

Oh, and the replies are getting lazy. Step up your game troll

There’s no reason you have to keep responding to me except for your ego. It takes two to tango my guy

Ain’t that the truth. But this guy has managed to squeeze out ~130 comments in 9 hours. Mostly I’m just fascinated to see if he’ll burn out