WoodScientist

Read a damn stats book. Jesus Wept! This could literally be a question on a sophomore-level undergrad stats class, and you would fail that question.

Do you even know how to do an ANOVA?

It seems now that the genocide will be entirely on Biden's head. There's a cease fire deal that's been signed. And Trump winning probably did provide a lot of the impetus to get that deal signed.

I despise Trump for other reasons, but when he said, "finish the job," he clearly meant, "wrap this up." You can interpret it as a call for total genocide, but that's your reading of it, not an objective good-faith reading.

The truth is, in practice, Trump would have not been any worse than Biden on Gaza, even if the war had continued. Biden is already giving full US support to Israel. There's nothing that a president can give Israel that Biden isn't already giving Israel. I suppose a president could order US troops to directly participate in the fighting, but even Trump's not that stupid.

The hard truth is that both Trump and Biden are the same on Israel. There is no meaningful difference between their policies. And Harris made clear she was going to have the same stance on Israel that Trump now will - full unconditional support.

But anyway, it's most likely now that the deaths in Gaza will look something like this:

Under Biden's watch: 100,000-200,000 killed in a coordinated campaign of extermination

Under Trump's watch: a few hundred killed in random occasional spurts of violence while under a state of cease-fire.

Historically, this genocide will be entirely on Biden's head. It's his genocide. Trump won't have that stain on his record.

Did you look at your own numbers? Trump did better than he did in 2020, while Harris did substantially worse than Biden.

Yup. For whatever reason (likely regulations), most dispensaries are set up a lot like traditional general stores. Everything behind the counter.

You sound incredibly pretentious.

I'm sorry, but I'm not talking about McDonalds. I'm not talking about engineered food products. I mean a good thick slab of fresh bread made from flour, salt, a bit of sugar, and not much else. Served with a big dash of butter. That is heaven.

The healthspan stuff? Completely irrelevant to my point. What is the point of a healthspan if you deny yourself all the pleasures of life? Enjoy all things in moderation. But I firmly reject this whole, "well...have a little wheat bread if you muuust...anything else is abusive."

"Do you even know what real food tastes like?"

Well you clearly know what your own farts smell like. Jesus Wept! Your head is so far up your ass you can see the contents of your own stomach.

Wood science, I suppose.

Your hair is the roof of your mouth.

If theft is this bad, these stores should just switch back to the traditional model used by pharmacies and general stores. Consider this photo of a traditional pharmacy:

Or this old general store:

This is what these businesses used to look like. In traditional pharmacies and general stores, most goods were kept behind counters or at the very least within direct view of those behind counters. A traditional dry good store might literally just be a big counter in the front with a huge warehouse in the back. You show up with a list of goods you want, and the clerk would run into the back and grab everything you wanted.

The model of a store with aisles that customers wander through is not the historical norm. As industrialization improved, the relative costs of goods lowered, while the relative cost of labor increased. So it made sense for stores to accept a higher level of theft and shopliting by offloading the item-picking process to their customers. They got the customers to do a lot of the work for them, but in exchange they accepted a higher level of theft.

Now they're trying to have things both ways. They still want customers to do all the work of picking out their purchases from the shelves, but they've decided they don't like the level of shoplifting that level of low labor cost business inevitably produces. They want the customers to do most of the labor of clerks, but they don't want to accept the level of theft that inevitably produces.

I honestly wonder, is it illegal to simply unlock those things, if you have no intention of actually stealing from them? It's not like they use particularly high security locks. You can probably buy some simple lock raking or cylinder lock tools.

Is it actually violating a law to unlock one of those cases if you don't have any intention of actually stealing something?

You sacrifice and sacrifice, cutting everything out of your habits or diet that may bring you pleasure, only for the sake of extending your life. Then at the end of it all, you look back in dismay, in the dismal realization that despite your years, you have never lived at all...

My bugbear with Mc'D's is how they now always ask you if you are using their damned app.

I know I shouldn't, and that they're just teenagers reading from a script. But I just can't help myself. Whenever they ask if I'll be using the app, I flippantly reply, "nah, I don't want Ronald reading my email."