I’ve been participating on interview panels at work. Since I am a career compliance toad, I decided to throw out the most perfect ethics question to ask a compliance candidate:
“I don’t want to hear you tell me you return the cart. I want to know when you will NOT return the cart.”
The responses have been amusing to say the least.
”But I do return it? Really I do. Okay…Maybe I don’t always, but I want to return it. Like if I had ice cream with my groceries I might leave it.”
”I shop at Trader Joe’s and they don’t have a cart return (often true), so I have take it back to the store itself. This is so funny.”
”Wha, de cart? I no, wha?” (Please note I did not interview Consuelo from Family Guy.
”Why? People do that?”
One more next week…from University of Chicago.
¡Enlaces!
Tourists find themselves dead on a beach. Weird.
Auto exports are up, people are still buying new cars?
Am I the only one not impressed with hunger strikes?
Climate change strikes Brazil.
Last week the percussion section at my son’s HS band performed this on a number of percussion instruments. Enjoy.
“When I’m adding it to my cart collection.”
You can’t just do anything you want! You don’t have cart blanche!
what if he has cart stella?
When my tent is too far away from the store.
It’s my getaway cart!
👏
Rush
MikeS. hardest hit.
I miss that guy. Notice how him and Bro vanish at exactly the same time?
Look at the way that truck was dressed.
Not according to all the videos Youtube pushes to me on my work pc.
The big 3 are still “buying” them to force on the dealer network?
I can’t really imagine how people are buying new cars (outside of the one percent, anyway). Even with a 7 year loan, a $60k, $70k or $80k car is over $1100 a month… that’s mortgage territory. Add in housing costs and general inflation…. and I’m seriously wondering who in the world can afford it.
I blame the government. Mexico was making VW Beetles for around $10K.
But was VW paying those workers a “living wage”?
They were alive when they built the cars.
LOL
Hunger Strikes are self-solving problems. They will either die or resume eating, there is no reason to do anything.
Yep, “do what I want or I’ll make myself hungry” just doesn’t hit.
::insert obligatory Blazing Saddles clip::
On this, we’re two horses in harness. You’d have to be DAMN important/have serious SECRET info for it to work. “Give me the code for the nukes!” — “No. Hunger strike until you meet my demands.” <– Other than something silly/rare like that, pointless.
Go the Reagan route and just fire and replace 'em all. Best silly example is teachers trying it: "Um. You know [insert towering, yet real-ish number here] of people are eagerly waiting to sieze your job? AND follow work standards? Um. Not sure ya thought this through! Another Red Flag! See ya! Pick up ya stuff and don't come back! Take care."
In other Latino news,
“Newly arrived illegal immigrant kidnaps an 11-year-old girl and rapes her in his white van as her mother screams for help outside”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13392175/newly-arrived-illegal-immigrant-kidnaps-girl-rapes.html
They’re not sending their best.
Deportation.
Trebuchet across the Rio Grande.
Too humane – death by slow slicing.
With the trebuchet ride, death — if it occurs — is not on US soil. So, it’s not a death penalty.
“He was alive when he arrived back in Mexico”
I want to prolong pain.
Then you need to update the constitution.
My way is a simple deportation procedure. Not a punishment per se.
It’s merely cruel, but not unusual. The Chinese used it for centuries.
Hmm. Fair point. Cruel and unusual punishment is banned, not cruel or unusual.
If he survives landing, the lifelong disability from spinal and joint damage will be plenty painful.
Not good enough.
Life in prison with a Taco Bell only diet (alternatively Chipotle).
All you can eat!
In any human population of millions you’re going to get both demons and saints. Most of them will be in the moral muddled middle. The demons are going to get the press. So they are sending their worst and their best and everything in between.
“Am I the only one not impressed with hunger strikes?”
I don’t mind stealing bread from the mouths of decadence.
Stop that.
“Judge Merchan ruled that Stormy will be able to testify about ‘sexual acts’ with Trump during her time on the stand. Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger told the judge that there would be ‘no descriptions of genitalia.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13391153/Donald-Trump-trial-live-updates-Former-president-returns-court-judge-warned-faces-jail-keeps-violating-gag-order.html
Booooo!
“Donald has the smallest hands”
/Sen Rubio
Right? What kind of meat flaps is old Stormy sporting?
Never have I wished this was more apropos. Unfortunately, I’m betting SF and some others do….
It’s my understanding that this information is easily accessible.
That’s sad. There were a bunch of journalists counting on writing 6 months of stories about Trump having a small pee-pee.
Is Truss the one who was PM for about eight weeks or whatever the hell it was? If I was Milei I wouldn’t acknowledge her praise either.
You’re generous — I thought it was like 8 days. Ridiculously short.
Agreed She literally said “Let’s cut taxes and government spending” and she was hustled out the door 48 hours later. Sad, limey commies can’t have that talk!
She shares part of the blame: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-did-trussonomics-fail-so-quickly
49 days is what the internet says.
This was a good film IIRC; haven’t seen it in ages.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091374
After they executed a silly coup to oust Boris they did an even sillier coup to oust Truss after she indicated that she thought taxes were a tad high. She was then replaced by an Indian man with the gravitas of a Walmart assistant manager.
The UK is even less of a serious country than we are.
Hunger strikes are impressive but at least they are usually self imposed.
I usually put the cart against the nearest parking bollard or planter thing to my truck. If thr cart corral is close I’ll make it over there. I feel that the store employees get to enjoy their time of strolling through the parking lot collecting the strays. Gives them fresh air and exercise.
Being a CS person, I’m admittedly anal. I not only return the cart to either the store or the corral, I tend to sort the corral and neaten it.
I hold myself to just a single corral at least.
Heheh. That’s hilarious.
How bout that Lando win on Sunday? That was the best race of the year so far. I like how the last couple at Miami have been great. That track/venue caught a lot of shit from the Euro fan base when it was added.
Fourscore: That sucks. Anyone that puts their cart where it could hit or be hit by a vehicle is an ass.
That was a nice change of pace (literally in the Red Bull case, I suppose). Max not being out for spurious / mechanical but just straight up being out-driven for once is entertaining enough. That it was Lando’s first win and that it was by a bit of a gamble on strategy made sure you couldn’t help but root for him (and dread a mechanical failure on the closing laps). I did enjoy it.
Indeed. I was thinking right before that first safety car that Piastri should have held out a few more laps in the hopes of getting one. He could have won the race if that happened. I also thought it was funny to see on the F1 Reddit forums after all the hyperventilating about Crofty making a Trump pun at the end and that McLaren had the gall to allow BOM to visit their paddock.
Yeah, I hate seeing a pull-through space, only to find someone left a cart in one half of it.
Someone once left a cart right next to my front bumper where I couldn’t see it. As I slowly pulled forward I heard the metal and metal and stopped before any damage to truck or cart. Yesterday I offered to return a cart for an older woman. She quickly told me she was taking it in to shop with, I tried to be the Nice Guy.
Have you ever asked the store employees if giving them more work to do is something they would enjoy?
They’ll take the walk and like it.
Depends on the weather.
Absolutely. If it’s rainy there’s no way in hell I’m walking across the parking lot to the cart corral.
For a couple of years I worked retail management. I was happy to go out and retrieve carts because it got me away from the customers and kept the cashiers on the registers.
I tend to use a basket, so don’t need to return a cart. When I go to Sam’s Club and use a cart, I tend to park relatively close to a corral.
I usually use an electric cart. My favorite is when someone leaves one of those right next to a parking space. But I have no problem loading my car and then returning the cart.
[Imagines TOK and friends playing adaptive hockey on Mart Carts]
[Books ticket straight to hell]
I have had people tell me I should invent wheelchair roller derby. I can’t imagine the crushed fingers. They already have wheelchair rugby and football.
Wheelchair demolition derby!
Let’s make a film about that set in a dystopian future, kind of like Death Race 2000.
This feels like something that should have already been done on South Park,
I knew someone who played wheelchair basketball.
I assume there wasn’t any dunking.
I usually park right near a cart corral to make things easier for myself. I’m also the one who’ll park the car by the exit of the big box stores rather than the entrance if I’m planning on buying things. The girlfriend questioned that until I pointed out that it’s when you’re leaving that you’ve got more stuff, and want the car close.
Hired
Thanks Mex. You get it.
Yup, I loved the rare cart duty. Got me away from the customers.
Heroes
A family of 10 American citizens who were held for years in a Syrian refugee camp and detention center for relatives of Islamic State militants are now back in the United States, the result of complex negotiations that also returned two young sons of a Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to supporting the ISIS terrorist group.
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Beyond being a humanitarian crisis, the presence of so many minors living among current and former ISIS members poses a global security threat. The camps, where children continue to be born, have been called terrorist breeding grounds, so the U.S. is pushing other countries to help shrink the camps’ numbers by bringing their citizens home.
“The longer we leave them there, the more vulnerable they are to radicalization and to exploitation by extremists,” said Ian Moss, the State Department’s deputy coordinator for counterterrorism. “And they’re vulnerable. I mean, certainly these kids are vulnerable.”
But repatriation and resettlement can be a hard sell. Many countries are reluctant or unwilling to allow people who have been in the camps to return, out of fear that they would be importing jihadists.
Will they all be given Presidential Medals of freedom?
To help them reintegrate into society, he added, government officials provide a wide range of support, including “psychosocial professionals and social workers,” as well as trauma counseling and connections to family members.
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In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: “The only durable solution to the humanitarian and security crisis in the displaced persons camps and detention facilities in northeast Syria is for countries to repatriate, rehabilitate, reintegrate, and where appropriate, ensure accountability for wrongdoing.”
Or we could give them to Syria, as a token of our fond esteem.
The Palestinians aren’t the only
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=refugee+camps+in+africa&atb=v198-1&iax=images&ia=images
You know we’re all about supporting the African nation states though, ever since the ’80s.
We bless the reigns down in Africa.
WE HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIRST
True. You be sure to write a letter to let us know when you do first.
Dear Penthouse,
I have begin firsting, but nobody seems to pay any mind. I try to explain why firsting is an essential task, and how nobody else seems to be up to it. Thus far my pleas of firsting are nothing more than the quiet echoes of vibrational anomalies that one might otherwise find in a second.
…but I am a first. Soon they will all understand.
-Anon@
🤣
+1
John Paul Jones?
Trivia: “Quien es?” was allegedly Billy the Kid’s last words.
Putting money in the pockets of labor activists
A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties and the court-ordered mandate that it no longer employs minors.
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The agreement stipulates that Fayette will hire a third-party consultant to monitor the company’s compliance with child labor laws for at least three years, as well as to facilitate trainings. The company must also establish a hotline for individuals to report concerns about child labor abuses.
That’ll learn them kids.
Funny how my entire 52 years on the planet I’ve never heard of this in the US. But immigrants are the lifeblood of the country and you’re racist if you oppose an open border.
Uffda. It is assholes all the way down.
You know you could have just declared that pot is legal and left it at that. But noooooooooooooooo. Had to create an entire bureaucracy around its sale (and of course taxing). And then you had to make it even stupider by insisting on “equity” when it came to licensing (colored folks or people who have criminal records for pot get first crack at being licensed. First dispensaries were only allowed on reservations).
Todd Thompson is a nice tribal name.
I always like White Earth Man’s comments on TOS.
“Ole Miss frat boy who made shocking racist gestures towards black female pro-Palestine protester is unmasked as finance student football jock – as chapter kicks him out
A fraternity at the University of Mississippi has booted out a member who taunted a black protester with monkey noises as the college faces calls to expel him.
Finance major James ‘JP’ Staples was named by the college chapter of the NAACP as the student who was filmed hopping from foot to foot and grunting like an ape at Jaylin Smith during an ugly clash on the college’s Oxford campus.
Staples, 21, was expelled from a college fraternity on Friday as it condemned ‘racist actions antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter’.
But black students are demanding he be stripped of his college place, along with two Kappa Alpha fraternity members who they accuse of also racially abusing protesters.
‘Those students who publicly hurled atrocious and racist rhetoric as well as exhibited disgusting and offensive behavior, NEED to be expelled from this university,’ wrote NAACP chapter president Megan Curry. ‘I said what I said, and I mean it. TRULY.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13391583/mississippi-james-staples-monkey-racist-university-frat.html
Not wanting to kill the Jews is racist.
mith was barracked with chants of ‘Lizzo’
How is it an insult to be compared to a self confident body positive woman?
Also I haven’t followed too closely, but is there more footage than just that one second clip?
Every protestor saying vile things about Jews and claiming free speech should be asked how long it should take to expel a white guy who utters the hexagrammaton.
Has anyone managed to take a photo of a college student in the last ten years where the student isn’t holding a smart phone?
So Trump is charged with financial shenanigans to hide payments to Daniels to keep her quiet. These would be state misdemeanor charges.
Supposedly this was done to change the outcome of a federal election, so this his how Trump gets charge with a federal felony.
The testimony regarding the details of their alleged sexual encounters does not seem to have any direct relevance to the actual charges. So, the prosecutor is putting this testimony out in to the public sphere to humiliate Trump and to generate campaign material for the Dems.
Am I missing something here?
You’re missing the fact that there were two ways he could have reported these payments, and that prosecutor could have easily come up with charges for either one of them.
How does the nature of any alleged sexual acts committed between Trump and Daniels relate to the reporting of the payments or failure to report the payments?
My question is limited in scope the specific testimony happening today that the judge is allowing.
It doesn’t relate. If it was a crime, it involved filing or not filing paperwork. This should be dry and boring as hell. But as you said, there’s no opportunity for sensationalist reporting that way.
It doesn’t but it properly allows the media to have their electioneering material
As I see it, nope. Although you left out that the payments took place in 2017 and the influenced election (supposedly) was in 2016… that’s a big ball of timey wimey…. stuff that if I were on the jury I’d be questioning.
And I think the statute of limitations has passed on the misdemeanors. And Hillary was guilty of something similar, disguising campaign expenses as legal fees, and only had to pay a fine.
Stormy gets to blab away, but an actual expert witness is barred from talking about relevant issues?
Yes, you’re missing Orange Man Bad and due process is reserved for the innocent, not the guilty. See also Harvey Weinstein.
“Climate change strikes Brazil.”
Hmm. Maybe there’s a reason it’s called Rio Grande.
The ladies at work were talking about the Brazilian floods today and kept sarcastically saying “But climate change isn’t real”.
Guess it never flooded before.
Brazil isn’t really known for rain.
Certainly not in the rain forest.
“Boy Scouts of America changes name after 114 years to ‘boost inclusion’
The Texas-based organization is set to become Scouting America as it hopes to improve participation amid flagging membership.
The historic change is the latest in a series designed to take the troop into the 21st century, including allowing gay youth and welcoming girls throughout its ranks.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13392279/Boy-Scouts-America-changes-inclusion.html
OFFS!
Scouting America sounds like a song written by a sex predator
Harper Lee hardest hit?
In unrelated news, BSA files for bankruptcy in 2030.
I was thinking closer to 2025 or 6.
Again? They filed in 2020 due to lawsuits about pedos.
But NYC has such strict laws…
https://nypost.com/2024/05/07/us-news/teen-shot-in-head-by-bike-riding-gunman-in-nyc-sources/
It wasn’t me.
Soho, fatally; damn.
The Citibike was a nice touch.
People ride those with no regard for anyone. This just amps it up.
Charming. Good riddance to that shithole.
Open AI will give you a tool that you have to opt in to stop stealing your work and arguably breaking copyright.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/openai-says-its-building-a-tool-to-let-content-creators-opt-out-of-ai-training
Personally, I don’t see how training an AI on work is breaking the copyright of the work.
That’s why I caveated copyright.
However, transcribing YouTube and the like and for training violates YouTube’s user agreement.
Yep, wasn’t meaning it as a an attack, just a thought. Now, violating user agreements, I’m sure of that, but that just gets your access revoked (usually).
Am I missing something here?
Politics ain’t beanbag.
MASSIVE BLOW TO BIDEN: Judge Cannon just postponed the DOJ’s documents case against Trump indefinitely.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1787952458129355176
Speaking of not filing paperwork.
deleted?
“‘Feminist fanatics’ vandalize famous 19th-century nude paintings with ‘MeToo’ scrawling
A performance artist scrawled “Me Too” in bright red paint over several works of art in a French gallery Monday — including an iconic 19th-century female nude — in a stunt ripped as a “criminal act” by “feminist fanatics.”
French-Luxembourgish artist Deborah de Robertis and a second, unidentified woman raced around the Centre Pompidou-Metz tagging at least five artworks, including Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin of the World,” which depicts the lower half of a nude woman with her vulva exposed.
Shocking video footage shared by de Robertis showed the pair running past stunned museum-goers and then chanting “Me Too” as baffled-looking staffers looked on…”
The museum also claimed that an embroidery by Annette Messager was taken during the stunt — which De Robertis later admitted taking.
“I am in possession of Annette Messager’s work which I have reappropriated and which is now mine,” she wrote on X of the 1991 embroidery titled “I Think Therefore I Suck.””
https://nypost.com/2024/05/07/world-news/famous-19th-century-nude-branded-with-me-too-in-museum-stunt/
CWABOC
Ils sont fous, les artistes.
How good can that art be if Walmart is selling it for $30? (NSFW)
I wonder if Hunter’s art will ever be worthy of being defaced?
Bill Bryson cracked me up when describing that to his travel pal (then in the Louvre?), only to be unable to find it again.
Of course a dude couldn’t find the little
manpainting in theboatmuseum.Soooo tired of leftists shitting all over everything.
What disgusting, nasty people.
Deborah was not of woman born?
There is no
cannibalismelection fraud in Wisconsin!Look you MAGA-heads need to shut up about there being questions about election integrity in Wisconsin. The elections were totes on the up and up. So honest, that we had tons of “whistleblowers” exposing vulnerabilities by getting fake absentee ballots.
Safety first
For more than a century, the Swiss army knife has been an essential piece of kit for everyone from picnickers and equestrians, to golfers and astronauts.
But now the maker of the pocket-knife, with its red or blue shell and multiple tools, has bowed to what an English judge last week called the “plague of knife crime” by designing a new range without blades.
In response to an increasing number of countries imposing bans or restrictions on carrying knives, Victorinox, the Swiss firm that produces the pocket tools, is in the early stages of developing the first range of bladeless products designed specifically for activities where a blade would not be required.
“We’re concerned about the increasing regulation of knives due to the violence in the world,” said Carl Elsener, the fourth-generation CEO of the family-run company.
The most effective way to show your concern is to surrender.
French Army knife?
OK, I laughed, thanks!
#MeToo
The French still need a knife to cut the cheese.
Everyone in that story is pathetic.
Well done. I’m stealing that line. This is fucking pathetic.
Hunger strikes…depends how your friends react: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-56937259
Every new mother knows you park closest to a cart corral. I never really stopped doing that. That said, I don’t mind carts milling about because I see old or disabled people using them to get into the store.
I try to pick the first stray cart I see in the parking lot because it saves me from a longish walk inside to fetch one – for some reason they park them nowhere near the entrance.
Yep, I’ll grab one on the way in, no problem.
I did that just today. The smaller ones can be hard to come by at my Kroger. Take ’em while ya got ’em.
Jake Shields has gone full Kayne…
Once you go Kayne you never go back?
Once you go Kanye there’s only one way.
“That the FEC dismissed the complaint against defendant and the DOJ decided against prosecuting defendant for potential FECA violations are probative of nothing,” Merchan wrote on March 18. “These matters are therefore irrelevant and defendant is precluded from eliciting testimony or introducing evidence or both.”
However, if Trump takes the stand, the prosecution will be welcome to bring up any and all third hand hearsay allegations about what a monumental rat fink he is, no matter how meaningless or irrelevant to the facts in question.
Not Returning the cart: I only don’t when 1+ have put theirs in a parking spot/similar to also save the walk. (I’m not going to return someone ELSE’S. Those’ll get picked up by an employee anyway.) I haven’t had to think about it in Carmel, IN. I used to work at a grocery store. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BIG NOTE: I don’t have children.
Fucking loose cart rolled into, and dented, my new car on a windy day.
Common sense cart control!!!
Sorry that happened – hope you were able to get it fixed with as little hassle as possible.
It’s a beautiful day north of Seattle. Had an errand this afternoon and decided not to go back to work because it’s too pretty.
Re: hunger strikes.
At a former job, a group of us would occasionally embark on a diet challenge with a former weigh in at beginning and end of a 6 week period. Money was on the line.
We called it the Bobby Sands Diet.