Vorticity

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly we need to get rid of the $1 bill generally but that’s a completely different post all together.

What do you replace them with? Coins have been tried and rejected by consumers a few times now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I carry around PowerPoint presentations that contain huge loops of satellite data. I love my 1TB USB stick.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you recommend some models to try?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

How about we steer toward better data privacy in general? Cars are collecting way too much data about us? So is everything else! We need sweeping legislation to claw back our privacy. We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to privacy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's pretty amazing to me that a company hasanagednto become so reviled that Walmart is the better and more ethical option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't know Korea's laws but this would likely be illegal in the US, too. It depends on whether it could be proven that you knew that the stocks were issued in error. And even if it wasn't a criminal act, the company would be within their rights to recover the mistakenly issued stocks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Whether they have wifi on ship or not isn't the issue. Sometimes, when a ship goes into an operation, they will turn off all signals except passive or directed signals so that they can't easily be detected. Having a communications signal that isn't under the control of the ship's officers is a huge security risk during operations.

Someone is going to be court martialed over this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ah, "buy" was a typo but it wasn't meant to be "boy". I know better than that. It was meant to be "guy".

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I've worked retail too and I don't think I would have done this, even if I did have another task to complete.

This cashier's lane light was on. They smiled at me, came to help, scanned my items, and let me pay. Then, rather than scanning the man's six items, they put up their closed sign and walked away without saying a word while leaving their lane light on. It felt hostile and rude.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Thank you, I appreciate it. It's honestly weighing on me that I didn't say something. I guess the best that I can do is to do better next time something similar happens.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Thank you. You don't think that speaking up would be more embarrassing for the man that what already happened? I feel terrible that I didn't act more appropriately in the moment, but I was too shocked to think of a good response to the situation.

 

I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.

The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.

What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?

Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.

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