Reminds me of the game where you awaken as monstrous vermin Jeff Bezos: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos

Except that one you can use the money for good

When I was in elementary school, a teacher said like “I haven’t had a drink in 5 years” and I said “Wouldn’t you, like, die?”

I don’t know if he thought I was fucking with him, or my parents told me not drinking booze was lethal, or what, but he didn’t like laugh and clarify what he meant.

I think most people are so disorganized in their thinking, they can’t “prompt” well. There’s a lot of unclarified assumptions and leaps in how many people communicate

NYC, but I can’t promise I’m representative of how people talk, heh.

I went on a brief tangent trying to find what people call it by region but didn’t find a cool map of anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_store does say that it’s sometimes used as I did, though.

Legitimately aggravating. Well done.

This supermarket used to have self checkout, but they got rid of it for some reason.

They do have a line reserved for Uber eats, door dash, etc. Not a fan of that.

BJ’s does that and it’s very fast. They have a guy at the exit do a spot check, but there’s basically no line.

BJ’s does have an annual subscription though, which sucks.

I think I’ve read that it is about perception, which is up there with children thinking the tall, narrow, glass has more water after pouring the short wide glass into it.

The supermarket is a 5 minute walk from my apartment, and for the past few years didn’t have big lines. I don’t know if they changed staffing, or it got more popular, or what.

There are some smaller grocers that don’t typically have long lines nearby, but I don’t think they have the big tubs of peanut butter I lust after, or a few other things I sometimes get. I should probably check out the smaller grocers anyway

I really dislike that most groceries don’t have one big line that feeds into registers. It’s just stupid to allow me to get stuck behind someone who’s arguing about a coupon for 5 minutes while people who came after me flow through the other registers.

The grocery by me also never seems to have enough checkout staff to keep the lines short. There’s a lot of people with full carts, and no express line. I end up waiting for 10 minutes to buy some bread and bananas .

I commented at work that giving the non technical team AI would be like giving toddlers chainsaws.

I got another talking to about making people feel bad.

Bunch of ghouls and whiners here.

The courier with 10 int, charisma, luck could probably do a pretty good job.

I owe some people some apologies. Sorry Dan. I was wrong. I was acting far too immature. That time of my life really brought out the worst of me. It’s for the best we lost touch but I’m sorry for how I was.

I dislike AI. It’s like the one ring. Stop trying to use it. But all these people think they’re stronger than Boromir.

These people are horrible and I would celebrate their fall.

It seems like a lot of this comes down to “the bike and pedestrian stuff is better for everyone, even drivers. But some people just don’t believe that, despite all evidence”

We are ruled by idiots

Oh god concerts are so stupid right now. Can’t see anything because there’s always some idiot holding a phone up in front of your face.

I get annoyed when people hold the phone up high during the show. If you hold it in front of your face, no one behind you can see it. Don’t block people’s view.

I got a friend to play Path of Exile with me once. They hadn’t really played a lot of video games before. When they leveled up and it did all the sparkly lights they were like “oooh wow!!”

I was like oh, I guess I’m numb to that thrill since I’ve seen it a million times. But the sparkle reward was fresh for them and got their attention.

I remember playing some shitty free MMOs in my youth. Kill 12 foobars, kill 10 bazbots. Being legitimately excited when they overlapped so I could do more than one at the same time. Some part of the brain just gets excited seeing numbers go up and progress bars fill.

I read enough French that I didn’t notice at first, but then I was like “wait that said ride for 2 arrêtes…”, and chuckled.