Vorticity

joined 2 years ago
[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thank you. I really wish people would quit making things up and taking things out of context. There is enough awful stuff going on. Adding fake and out of context junk just makes it harder to get people to believe the real problems when they're shown.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Here is the actual report.

I started reading it but am out of time for now. I'm fairly sure that the 93% number is number of known shoplifting incidents and is unrelated to the value of the items. I'd need to read more to be sure.

I do wonder whether the dollar numbers are inflation adjusted or not. I'm sure that info is in the report.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately I think contracting population would result in lots of self-generated problems because the capitalistic line must keep going up. Shrinking population would make that hard.

Maybe we can let go of the idea that the line must go up, though? Hah...

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I don't get something here. How do they have a facial recognition database that is accurate enough to even begin to attempt this? Yes, most Americans have some form of photo ID but many of those IDs don't require updating the photo more than once every 10 years. Also, not everyone has a ohoto ID. How can they possibly think this database is good enough to use for determining who should be arrested?

Beyond that, ICE has stated that they are trusting the database even over actual documentation. They say the database doesn't lie, even if you have documentation saying otherwise...

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'm not trying to be snarky, actually wondering. What sources do you approve of?

And now I'm going to go research the independent because I had no idea about their relationships.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How does this idiot still have a job after the signal chat debockle?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe show them this... The supreme court is considering whether to hear a case that could be used to reverse it's gay marriage decision from 2015.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is true almost everywhere in the US.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

I always see "did not find"

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

So, escalation it is, then. I'm guessing this guy was the voice of relative calm and had pushed back on too many times.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, have they won any special elections since they took over the government? It seems like a lot of elections are flipping but maybe that's selection bias.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Have Republicans won anything recently?

 

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.

 

 

I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:

  • always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
  • allow setting different color themes for different users.
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