Readit Newsyou have to respect people, you have to care about their agency even to their detriment or else who are you saving?
as in "and the strawboss said well a-bless my soul, you load 16 tons.."
in all things. I would encourage you and everyone who reads this post to stare down this option with realistic consideration. In a society this broken, it is the solution to more and more things. To checkout, to accept the hard mode because to pick the path of convenience is to be exploited.
Again, and again, and again.
Once you've removed the dredges of society (by force), all of the good, law-abiding citizens have better lives.
It's not really a secret that retail LP generally abuses their role across the board and allows prejudace to run rampant in its ranks, giving that it is almost entirely comprised of people from backgrounds that lack any higher education and recieved a few months training at best to do what they do. Heck, step in any active American mall and you will encounter mostly white men who didn't quite have the chutzpa for the police academy, but still carry the guilty-til-proven-otherwise attitude.
Source: I was LP briefly for TJX companies and left due to the rampant and accepted bigotry I encountered with them. In their case, it was that I was repeatedly told to target black women if I wanted to meet quota each month, since their own numbers said most apprehensions were black women and not one person in the LP heirarchy knew what confirmation bias or survivor bias was. Also, yes, they have quotas. I was put on their equivalent of a PIP the second month I was there for not meeting mine. We can rest assured that Kroger, Walmart, etc, use lots of the same tactics and quiet codes.
Without snark I think we're on a site where being anti-corporate could hurt someones stock investments, naming companies is seen as rude.
The most conspicuous one recently was at one upscale grocery chain within the last year. There was what I took to be a dedicated LP person who seemed to be lurking behind the self-checkouts, to watch me specifically, and I stood there until he went away. Then, as I was checking out, this employee came up behind me and very persistently told me that I hadn't scanned something. Annoyed, I pointed on the screen where it showed I had. His eyes went wide, and he spun around, and quickly hurried away, no apology.
If I had to guess, I'd say they didn't code that intervention/confrontation as their mess-up, and I wouldn't be surprised if I still got dinged as suspicious, to cover their butts.
We do seem to have a lot of shoplifting here in recent years. And I have even recently seen a street person in a chain pharmacy here, simply tossing boxes of product off the shelves, into a dingy black trash bag, in the middle of the day. Somehow none of the usual employees around. Yet there's often employees moving to stand behind me at that same store, when I use their self-checkout. (Maybe my N95 mask is triggering some association with masked bandits, yet bearded street person with big trash bag full of product makes them think of lovable Santa? But an N95 is a good idea in a pharmacy on a college campus, where the Covid factories that are college students will go when they have symptoms.)
so you're complaining, but also defending the position of the companies and intentionally refusing to name them.
its like you dont know you're in a class war here, and you'll be sick of these increasingly authoritarian practices until you fight back.
and in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpxjuX-rDM and in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOBQGn7GzLg
tip of the iceberg. of course 95% of these are balloons, rolling shutter cameras, insects close to the lens, etc etc. like this is probably a balloon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlwvV7_6l4
But out of that misreporting rate which has remained more or less the same since Project Blue Book, there bubble up some decent evidence of worldwide, fast moving, sometimes glowing orbs. And the folks with infrared and radar sensors are more convinced of it than those with access to random cameras.
Since that comic was posted, bigfoot, ghosts and the like have fallen out of reporting by the general public. UFOs/UAPs have not.
Same logic applies to Bigfoot.
But I think we are slowly getting real scientific evidence. I'm looking forward to this paper being peer reviewed about transient contacts in pre-sputnik sky surveys that then disappeared. The "orbs" are the single most reliable phenomenon that you can find good evidence for and the point on which has captured my own belief. Beyond that I can prove nothing but am super interested in what we find out. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6347224/v1
Civilization.